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it rains often in andong— at least it has for the past week— despite the dropping temperatures that are starting to make taehyung sleep with layered clothes. him and jeongguk stroll down the street, under the same umbrella, careful not to step in big puddles. "taehyung i'm gonna leave your ass if you don't speed up," jeongguk threatens, lips lifting as he grins, bunny teeth in display.
"hey, i'm tired," taehyung whines, gripping jeongguk's arm as he tries to make his legs work faster.
jeongguk laughs, "we've been walking for five minutes tae."
"long enough," taehyung huffs, mood lightening up as the store comes into view, "oh finally. i'm gonna get some fuzzy slippers and socks and. . . gguk?"
jeongguk hums. "can we get- if you think it's dumb please tell me- but should we get matching pajamas? or color coordinated ones?"
the raven smiles, cheeks heating up at such an innocent act. "only if i can take them off later," he replies smoothly, ignoring the way his heart speeds up at what he just said. but watching taehyung's eye widen and lips part as a blush spreads across his now thinning cheeks, makes up for it.
"y-you c-can't say that s-so casually," taehyung stutters, brain still trying to comprehend what he just heard.
jeongguk gives him a push, "i'm teasing kim. i won't do anything without your permission."
taehyung takes the umbrella and closes it, stepping inside supermart with jeongguk.
the duo walk into the food isle, picking up a few bags of chips and banana milk for jeongguk. "you're such a baby," taehyung smiles, watching jeongguk open up a carton and gulp it down.
"jeongguk! you can't do that!" taehyung looks around for any workers that could've seen.
"it's fine, we're paying for it anyways."
everything is going fine, with jeongguk teasing taehyung about never having basic candies and junk food. that is until jeongguk spots their classmates, the ones that he would harass taehyung with. he panics, not sure what to do. "hey tae? why don't you uh, why don't you go look for the pajamas? i'll be here ok?"
luckily for him, taehyung doesn't say nothing as he nods and makes his way into the clothing section, away from sight.
"jeon! what's up man, finally get to see you alone," it's some senior named eundong and a small group of other boys.
jeongguk shifts on his feet, "oh, hey. how are you guys?"
"glad to be alive. eric almost got his face eaten, before the military found us. lost a finger," eundong holds his hand up, and in fact, half of his middle finger is gone.
jeongguk grimaces, "shit."
"so, who're you here with?" someone else asks.
jeongguk blinks, eyes subtly looking around for any sign of taehyung, "just jimin and a hyung of his."
"park jimin? the bisexual one?"
"yeah."
"ah, he's cool. it's nice that he also likes girls, but him liking boys kinda throws me off. it's weird isn't it?" eundong laughs, though there's nothing funny.
jeongguk purses his lips, nodding. "someone said they saw kim taehyung here. he's probably in the big residences on the other side of town, can you believe that? that fucker is so selfish."
shut the fuck up! the raven digs his nails into his palms.
on the other side of the store, taehyung rummages through the different pajama sets there are. he's found one for jeongguk, a blue checkered button up and pants with white highlights of a soft material. his are white, but there's blue highlights instead. i hope gguk likes them.
happy with his findings, taehyung goes back to where jeongguk is, about to babble his mouth when he sees eundong and the rest of his minions. taehyung stops in his tracks and goes behind the isle.
"it's too bad kim didn't turn into one of those freaks, would've bashed his brains in," someone laughs.
but that's not what makes taehyung drop the items in his hands.
jeongguk laughs too.
oh.
taehyung's throat tightens up, and he doesn't want to hear more as he leaves the pajamas behind and storms out of the store, knocking over some items on the way out. jeongguk's eyes trail to the scene, and he feels his stomach twist. taehyung.
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