One. Time. Thing

Chapter 8

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Nearly a week had passed since the little 'incident' in the game room.

Few words had been spoken, mostly just death glares and middle fingers erecting from clenched fists when one of the two left a room. But thankfully no more punches had been thrown. And of course no one apologised.

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"One more day you guys have to get along." Jimin said walking into the empty locker room.

"Yeah no breaking each other's faces, save that shit for after the game." Namjoon added dropping his kit bag to the floor.

Taehyung let out a little snigger. "No breaking each other's faces periot!" Jimin snapped towards Namjoon.

"Yeah cause we need both of you!" Namjoon agreed, just as the door burst open.

"I'm assuming you are talking about me." Jungkook smirked walking past the small group, Yoongi by his side who glanced ever so briefly making split second eye contact with Jimin.

"In which case you probably only need me." Opening his locker with an obnoxious click.

"Fuck up Jungkook," Jimin hissed, "we need you both for tomorrow and you can't be working against each other."

Taehyung didn't even dignify Jungkook's presence with a look, he knew his smug face would be too hard not to slam against a locker.

Yoongi gave Jungkook a subtle, impressionistic look, "K." Jungkook stated.

Jimin turned to Taehyung and give him a wordless glare, to which Taehyung gave a knowing eyebrow raise of agreement.

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"PIVOT JACKSON!
JIMIN GET OPEN!
HOSEOK DON'T JUST STAND THERE BLOCK JAEBUM!
PASS THE BALL BAEKHYUN!"

Coach was often tense the day before a big match, and shouting much have been his ventilation process.

There was no completely fair way to practice, the team had to obviously split for a match. Sometimes they played the junior team, but there was basically no competition the seniors were leaps and bounds ahead of them.

But the players showed great skill in the practise match, and coach seemed pleased in his own way, and thank goodness everyone shown up this time. There were also no behavioural issues much to a lot of the teammates surprise, but Jungkook and Taehyung were far enough away from each other in their positions that they very rarely interacted.

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"Weeeeee areee the CHAMPIONSSS my freieieieieindsss~~" Hoseok sang returning to the locker rooms.

"You realise we haven't won yet?" Jungkook chuckled following Hoseok.

"We basically have, that was awesome!" Hoseok exclaimed a tad over enthusiastically.

The boys discussed their impending victory as the showered and changed all hyped up over how well their practise went, and how much favour they could earn by winning the matches tomorrow.