Only Fools | Jikook | Omegaverse

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Jimin was only in elementary school when he met Jungkook for the first time. It was late summer and he was playing tag with some of his omega and beta classmates on the playground near the forest, when he had that sixth sense feeling of being watched.

Attentively he let his eyes scan over the place and noticed a boy sitting alone on the swing. Even though the boy quickly looked away when he was caught, and even though he was all across the playground from where Jimin and his friends were playing, he could see that he had been crying.

»Where are you going?«, his friend Taehyung called after him, when he slowly moved at the stranger boy's direction without thinking twice.

»Just...— wait a second,« he called back and then began to run towards the boy, his curiosity growing with every step. The closer he got to him, the more he could smell his distress and anxiety, mixed with a very pleasant scent he couldn't really identify yet.

Jimin slowed down until he stood right in front of the boy who was looking at him with big, round doe-eyes. They were glistening from all the tears he had been crying and Jimin felt uneasy seeing him like that, wanting to comfort him and cheer him up, like the caring omega that he was. 

The boy was a bit younger than Jimin and he hadn't seen him around before, so he figured he must be new to his school.

»Hi. I'm Park Jimin. What's your name?« Jimin was panting a little but his voice was still soft. He sat down on the swing next to him, doe-eyes never leaving him when Jimin repositioned himself so he was facing him.

»Jungkook. J-Jeon Jungkook,« he eventually answered, his words coming out a bit hoarse, so he quickly cleared his throat.

A sudden breeze came up and blew in Jimin's direction, filling his nostrils with Jungkook's scent. Jimin instinctively inhaled because the smell that hit him was so pleasing - but at the very same moment he also realized that his scent undoubtedly had that faint but distinctive note of an alpha. He decided to ignore that fact, as if he hadn't noticed, even though he should have ignored Jungkook, now that he knew his rank.

But for some reason he couldn't find it in himself to walk away. Even though his father's words rang at the back of his mind, warning him to be careful around alphas, and especially to keep his distance from male alphas, for they were boastful and rude and always looking down on omegas because they were the "weakest rank".

Jimin knew these type of alphas. In elementary school, omegas and alphas were separated in different classes (consisting of either betas and alphas or betas and omegas), but of course they couldn't entirely avoid each other. Sometimes they crossed paths. And the majority of them were exactly like his father had said.

But Jungkook wasn't like that. His demeanor was anything but boastful, rather shy. And he looked at Jimin with stars in his big eyes, almost admirable. That, and this pleasant, unique scent, made Jimin feel warm and safe.

So instead of walking away again, Jimin stayed and asked: »Why were you crying?«

With the back of his hand, Jungkook hastily wiped the dried tears from his cheeks and looked down. »I was not.«

Jimin couldn't help but giggle, thinking that was such an alpha thing to say, and Jungkook lifted his gaze at the melodic sound, wondering why his heart had just skipped a beat.

»One shouldn't tell lies. Especially not to older people,« Jimin teased with a smile and started swinging sideways in Jungkook's direction. »How old are you anyway?«

»Six. You?«

»I'm your hyung then. Turning eight in a month,« Jimin said proudly. He was now almost bumping into Jungkook with his swing, unconsciously wanting to be closer to him, closer to this scent. Jungkook had started swinging in Jimin's direction too.