Taehyung and Jungkook - Nothing like us

3.

Jungkook POV

We were already sitting in the minibus to go home when Namjoon and Tae finally came. Tae looked a bit, well, sad. What did Joon tell him? This time I was sitting in the middle row at the left window with Jimin right next to me. On the other side was the big door in which Tae was coming through. He seated himself next to Jimin and didn't say a word. He seemed angry at him for some reason. Maybe he would tell me later. Sometimes we get to have a chat right before bed. We'll see.
Namjoon was sitting shotgun this time. After I finished my thought, he turned around and asked the band: "So who wants to stay at home with Taehyung tomorrow?" Wait what? Tae isn't coming to practice? "I do", I immediately said. "No, Jungkook. Practice tomorrow is vocal remember?"
"Do you even know our schedule, Kookie?", Hoseok asked jokingly. "Yes. Of course I do."
"We will stay with him, it'll be fine", Yoongi said pointing at him and Hobi. "Thank you, hyungs. I really appreciate it", Tae said nodding. "No need to thank us. This should be natural", Yoongs said back. I admired how much hyung cared for us even when he didn't show it that much. He was like an older brother for everyone. Even for Jin sometimes. "Okay, good. Now that that's done, let's go."
The driver started the minibus and we drove onto the road. I looked around and saw that everyone except Tae, Jimin and me decided to take a quick nap, even Namjoon fell asleep. I looked at Tae. He noticed and looked right at me. Then Jimin looked at him and Tae's eyes went from mine to Jimin's. When their eyes met, Tae's face suddenly went cold.
"Tae can we talk, please?", Jimin whispered just loud enough so that Tae and I could hear him. "About what? You told me you would keep it a secr-" "I was worried okay? Your mood has been really bad lately and you don't have enough energy to practice, you should get enough rest and take care of yourself", Jimin said while interrupting Taehyung. "Wait, does this mean, you told Namjoon to cut me off practice? Why would you do that?!", Taehyung's voice was starting to get louder.
"Tae, shhhh-" "Don't 'Tae' me." "I'm sorry, Tae- I mean Taehyung. I didn't know what to do!" "So you decide to cut me off practice??", Tae was furious. "You haven't been sleeping properly for the past days. Your body has needs, Tae! You need to rest, don't you understand?"
"I am FINE hyung. Thank you for worrying but I'm okay! Really!" "No, you're not. Stop lying, I've known you long enough to see through your lies." Tae didn't say anything to that. "It is okay, not to be okay Tae. You can admit it, everyone else is sleeping", Jimin said calmly. "Fine. I am not okay. Just don't ask, please."
Jimin nodded. He then turned his face to my side. Before he closed his eyes he looked at me. Since I've had my eyes open the whole time, he now knew that I've heard everything they talked about. After a few seconds I heard silent sleeping noises coming from Jimin. How do people fall asleep that fast? Was Tae sleeping too? I carefully looked over to him. He was just making a tired face and soon noticed my gaze on him.

I put my arm on the back rest and tried to reach his left shoulder with my right hand. When I got there, I slowly massaged his shoulder and worked my way up to his neck carefully caressing it. Then I messaged his neck with my hand. He leaned his head back and sighed in relief. His neck felt really tense. I continued until I realized that he was fast asleep with his head hanging from his neck. It looked quite uncomfortable. I tried to put his head in position by leaning over Jimin's chest. Maybe I could make him lean on the right window. After I finally got him to do that, without waking up, I sat back down and immediately froze when I saw Namjoon's eyes on me.
"I- I thought you were sleeping", I said as I felt my cheeks starting to get hot. "I was... what were you doing there with Taehyung?", he asked. "I um- he just looked uncomfortable- and I- I thought- I could help him to be, you know, less uncomfortable?", I said, barely finishing the sentence because I stuttered so much. Damn.
"Um, okay", he replied and turned forward again. Oh man, that was embarrassing. I'm just glad no one else saw or heard that. I looked around to make sure that every member was sleeping. Yes, okay, good. I slowly exhaled. For the rest of the way I just watched the road or looked out the window. I mean, it wasn't like I wasn't tired but I didn't want to sleep, I got time for that later. I was just thinking about Tae and why it would be such a problem for him to share his negative feelings when we arrived at the dorm.
"Guys, we're here. Wake up everyone!", I said so loud that the others would hear me. After everyone was awake, we left the minibus and got into the apartment. We waved goodbye to the staff and I closed the door behind me. "Listen up!", Namjoon said, "because we didn't do that much today, we will spend the rest of the day writing on our solo songs. Everyone except Yoongi, Hobi and Taehyung got a full schedule tomorrow so we won't have time to write. You all did great today, keep up the good work!"
The members nodded after Joonie's short speech and left into their rooms. I followed Tae and knocked on his door.
"Come in."
"Hey Tae", I said.
"What's up?"
"Nothing I just wanted to hang", I replied still standing in the doorway.
"Joon said, you guys have to write today because the schedule for tomorrow is packed."
"Do you want me to leave?", I asked.
"No God no, I don't mind you staying. At all. It's fine, sit down", he quickly said back.
"I just don't want to keep you from working, that's all", he said so quietly that I almost didn't hear him.
I smiled and sat myself down on his small sofa.
"What was earlier about?", I asked.
"You mean me crying? Ahh that was nothing, I was just-", Taehyung starting talking.
"It wasn't nothing. I never see you cry, what happened?", I interrupted him.