tattoo couple | yoonmin

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-imagination-

as jimin brushed his teeth that night, yoongi wouldn't stop staring.

even if he didn't want to admit it, even if his eyes shifted from jimin in the mirror to the jimin actually standing there even to the floor. he would stare.

"what?" jimin mouthed out around his toothbrush, smiling at yoongis agape face. his little mouth hung open like a triangle.

yoongi shakes his head, hair around his eyes brushing with the movement, "i can't tell if this is real or if i'm lucid dreaming..." he stops and stares again, mouth still open but words about to drop, "i've been practicing!" he announces happily. hopping up onto the bathroom counter.

"oh yeah?" jimin says, putting his tooth brush away. he loves to stand in front of yoongi, not touching him.

"yeah!" yoongi grins, the triangle mouth gone and now all jimin sees are teeth and gums.

"i've missed that smile yoon..." jimin sighs, eyes gazing with adoration. "i missed you," he pokes yoongis collarbone. in response he gets a giggle.

"missed you too..." yoongi says, little hands bundled up in a hoodie. the cuffs of the overlong sleeves being jammed together in an anxious way.

"i still don't believe this is real," yoongi speaks once jimin is quiet.

"really? how come?" jimins a little bit shocked if he's being honest. he really thought by now yoongi would be all over him, hands clinging and legs anywhere they could be. yet, he's different somehow like he's grown up again.

"dunno... you were gone for so long, i learned to not rely on you and now that your back, it feels like you were never here." yoongi speaks with hesitance as if he's never processed these thoughts before like as he speaks, it's the first times he's thinking this consciously. his eyes are glued to his sleeves as the words tumble.

"i see..." jimins not sure what to say... he's proud though, after all they've been through with his own parents. he's happy, over joyed to see that yoongi benefited from his own disappearance but there's still apart of him that misses the clingy yoongi already, "are you happy to see me?" he asks.

yoongi snaps his head up to meet jimins eyes, "yes !! yes of course! i love you, having you back makes me so unbelievably happy!" yoongis panicking and all jimin can do is laugh. he's like a tiny little skittish kitty.

there's a soft meow and he stops laughing in an instant. he's not sure if that was yoongi, his mind or if his boyfriend replaced him.

he picks the third option, with how the panic seems to rise on yoongis face. he's sweating almost.

"...yoongi? is there something you want to tell me?" he smirks, his fingers slowly walking up yoongis leg making him jerk tinnily.

he shakes his head, lips pursed.

there's another meow from outside the bathroom door, this time louder and accompanied by small scratching.

"are you sure..."

he nods.

jimin walks slowly to the bathroom door a hand around the handle. "so... if i open this door, there won't be a cat on the other side," he asks with a mischievous smile, his tone playful.

yoongi should have thought the cat through.

the pull of the door handle breaks yoongi panic into two as gloomy cat pads through the door and straight to jimins leg to circle it. jimin giggles.

he giggles. and yoongis heart explodes, reincarnates and then implodes.

jimin picks gloomy up and runs his face it the cats fur. he's delighted, like a happy sunflower facing the sun on the brightest day.

yoongis not sure what's going on.

"what's their name!!" he asks with glee, a hand running through her fur softly. her little nose nudging at his hand.

"...gloomy cat..."

"well she's not very gloomy!" jimin says in the weird voice people use to talk to small things. like babies and dogs.

"...it's a play on gloomy bear but okay." he's really not sure what to say. he's tired.

"this is all in my head..." he murmurs, padding off to flop onto his - once again - shared bed.

"is yoonie grumpy?" jimin baby talks to gloomy, she meows. "i dunno either!" he shrugs. literally skipping to bed.

"she's cute yoongi," he says now curled up next to yoongis half asleep body. gloomy sat on top of yoongis head.

"u-uh... huh," he mumbles.

"better than a child," jimin jokes, snorting himself.

"HUH?!" yoongi screeches, sat up fully. gloomy slipping into his lap. she doesn't care, she sleep where there is warmth.

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p sure next chapter is epilogue.

this has become ,,, weirdly anticlimactic and idk how to feeeeel