Young and Free | BTS [√]

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HOSEOK felt warm.

The sun shone gallantly, the atmosphere inside the cafe, tranquil. He could feel the tingles of sunbeams falling on the back of his neck from the glass walls, and his lips curved upward when he felt Serim beside him tuck a lock of his curls behind his ear.

"And here you were crying about not having a girlfriend," Jimin sighed as he averted his eyes from the opposite side of the table.

"Well, I'm glad we've gotten introduced now. At least one of us in the dorm is dating." Jin snickered with a playful look on his face.

"What girlfriend?" Hoseok glanced at Serim from his peripheral before he spoke. He saw how the girl immediately stopped swirling the iced coffee in her hand and he felt amused knowing an outburst was to be coming soon. "She's not."

"Asshole, do I need to show you my fist?" The girl snarled flicking her left braid behind her shoulder, her piercing gaze eyeing Hoseok.

"She curses just like the drunk Hoseok hyung!" Taehyung exclaimed, the rest of the table bursted out into laughter.

While Serim flushed in red, Hoseok laughed it off too. He was feeling warm, so warm to be around his friends, to be normal, and not be worrying about anything else.

Was this really him? He wasn't lying to anyone, right?

It astonished Hoseok how he felt like a part of this circle as if he really belonged here, as if there wasn't anything to be afraid of.

"You should visit our dorm someday, Jin hyung can cook for us and we can have dinner together," Jungkook spoke with joy. Hoseok scrunched up his eyebrows noticing how the youngest wasn't nervous around Serim unlike how he'd usually act around girls.

"He does," Yoongi added, a small smile on his lips, afternoon sunbeams reflecting on his porcelain skin. Hoseok was glad to see him look healthier than before.

But Yoongi never smiled before, did he?

"Only if you guys help me out," Jin said in a haughty manner. "At this point I can only rely on Taehyung and Jimin in the kitchen but even they finish everything up faster than I'm done cooking."

The said duo laughed mischievously, Serim joined too. Hoseok mentally noted that next time he would bring more of his university peers and merge his friend groups.

"I'm sorry, but if I try to assist in the kitchen I might cause a massive distraction to your tools," Namjoon piped in a low voice.

"Oh yes, you. No, you should be just sitting in the back," Jin responded.

While Serim started to tell them that she could be helping out too since she had a few knowledge on the cooking part, Hoseok almost commented that the last time he tried Serim's homemade kimbap he got an upset stomach. He was going to get cursed at again.