why me?

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"Can Yoongi hyung come over?”

Baekhyun looked up from where he had been eating his kimchi in front of the tv, a slightly surprised look on his face. “Uh, are you sure? Didn’t you want nothing to do with the others?” he asked curiously.

Jungkook nodded, but then shook his head. “Yoongi is nice, it wasn’t his fault.”

The boy pouted as everyone stared at him. He had never told them what had happened exactly, but they didn’t pressure him into telling things he wasn’t ready for.

“He can come over whenever he wants”, Suho smiled at Jungkook, making the boy beam and jump up to call his friend. His happy squeals could be heard as the boy ran to his room and called Yoongi, who picked up immediately.

“Yoonie!”

“Kookie!”

The two littles squealed at their silly greeting, both happily waving as they smiled.

“Yoonie Yoonie! Guess what!”, Jungkook giggled, his eyes shining. Yoogi frowned and tilted his head to the side in confusion.

“What?”

Jungkook smiled happily and hummed. “Noooo, guess! Yoonie guess!!”, he smiled as he waited.

Yoongi hugged his Kumamon stuffed animal tightly and pouted as he thought. “hmmm… Yoonie no know!”

Jungkook giggled sweetly. “Yoonie can come fow pwaydate! Gon have wots of fun!”

The other boy gasped and squealed. “Weawwy?! When Yoonie can come?”

The two littles giggled as they talked on the phone, happily planning their meet up.

“Kookie gon get wots of snacks, an Kookie an Yoonie can have tea pawty an watch toonies an, an-“

Jungkook stopped when he heard a door open in Yoongi's room and frowned as he heard another voice.

“Yoongi, dinner is rea- Oh, hi Jungkook!”, Seokjin tried to sound as calm and natural as possible as he waved at the phone. Jungkook yelped and abruptly threw his phone onto his bed and whimpered.

Yoongi glared at Seokjin and huffed. “Yoonie come in a minute daddy.”

The boy waited until Seokjin sighed and left the room before speaking up. “Is okay Kookie, meanie hyungie gone”, he said softly so he wouldn’t startle the poor boy.

Jungkook sniffled and rubbed his eyes as he peeked at the phone. “Pwomish?”

“Yoonie pinky pwomish!”, Yoongi smiled and held out his pinky to the camera. “See? Pinky!”

Jungkook giggled softly. “Siwwy Yoonie… Yoonie come soon, okay?”

Both of the boys didn’t notice Taehyung appearing in the doorway and leaving without saying anything.

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Jungkook nervously ran around the dorm, clumsily cleaning up any mess he saw as he scolded Baekhyun slightly. “You had cleaning duty yesterday, did you even do anything hyung?”

Baekhyun chuckled softly and ruffled his hair, ignoring the boy’s annoyed whine. “Calm down Kook, it’s just Yoongi. It’s not like the president is gonna come over or something. Besides, you two are gonna play in your room anyway, we know you.”

Jungkook smiled sheepishly and nodded with a grin, jumping up as he heard the doorbell.

The youngest nearly sprinted towards the door, opening the door so quickly it nearly bounced back against the wall.

Yoongi stared at Jungkook, a bit startled as the youngest pulled him into a tight hug. After a few moments, he hugged back, a small smile making it’s way onto his face as Jungkook pulled him inside.

“We got so much to talk about hyung! A-an pway of couwse!”, the youngest bounced around with a big smile as he pulled Yoongi through the hallway towards his room. On their way there Yoongi awkwardly waved at the members of EXO, not given any time to properly say hi.

Jungkook giggled as he closed the door behind him.  “Wewcome to Kookie’s room! Ow weww, Baekie’s woom, cuz Kookie only staying’ fow a bit. But managew say Kookie need be back in few weeks ‘cause sche-.. scheduwuwe!” Jungkook rambled as he helped Yoongi take off his coat.

Yoongi looked a bit overwhelmed as he listened and let himself slip, curiously looking around while Jungkook talked.

Jungkook noticed the change in behaviour and cooed. “Yoonie wittwe now? we gon pway!”

The little boys got to work, Yoongi watching as Jungkook set up his stuffed animals for a tea party. The smaller boy giggled as Jungkook handed him a cup, and poured some tea for him.

“Issa yummy tea, Kookie is bestest teamakew in Kowea!”, Jungkook proudly said and crossed his arms, while Yoongi stared at him in awe. "Wah... Kookie so coow!" Yoongi squealed and Jungkook giggled shyly as his cheeks heat up, happily continuing their tea party.

The two littles filled the entire afternoon with playing and watching cartoons, Suho occasionally coming in with sippy cups and some snacks for them.

Jungkook snuggled closer to Yoongi as they finished their third Paw Patrols episode in a row, softly yawning as Yoongi’s phone went off.

Yoongi whined softly but sat up as he saw the caller ID. He picked up quickly and coughed softly. “Hello?”

Wails could be hard from the phone, causing Yoongi to hold it away from his ear with a displeased frown.

“Hey Yoongi, we kind of got an emergency here. Think you can come here soon?”

Jungkook could hear Jimin’s worried voice and sighed softly, already big again. Yoongi started to protest when Jungkook laid a hand on his shoulder. “Listen to what he has to say hyung.”

“Huh? Jungkook, is that you? Hyung misses you so so much, please come back home-“, Jimin started pleading, whilst the cries in the background intensified.

“save it for later Jimin, just tell us what’s going on”, Yoongi replied coldly, not able to keep the anger out of his voice.

A sigh could be heard. “Well, it’s Taehyung. We think he’s little, but he refuses to say anything other than gibberish cries. Maybe you can calm him down and explain to him that he’s safe, and we will take care of him?”

With each word Jimin said Jungkook grew more and more irritated, and he snapped. Unable to filter his words, he lowered his voice dangerously to make it clear that he was pissed.

"Tch, you couldn't even take care of me and Yoongi hyung. What would make Taehyung different? Surely you’ll either forget about Yoongi, which I doubt since he’s Seokjin’s precious baby, or forget all about Taehyung and his feelings. Like you did to me.”

The silence that followed was suffocatingly thick. Jungkook felt heavy, but light at the same time. It had been the first time he called them out on their bad behaviour, and it felt good.

Yoongi smiled proudly and rubbed his back. “I’ll be back in 20 minutes Jimin. And just so you know, Jungkook was right. We’re all going to have a serious talk, like Sejin said.”

Jimin gulped and they could hear Taehyung’s cries die down softly as the boy started mumbling. The broken sentences made Jungkook’s heart clench painfully, but he knew he couldn’t give in yet.

He had to show them the consequences of their actions first.