no regrets 。taekai 。

xxv

"man, i know i told you to get shit-faced not too long ago, but now i'm the one telling you to- PUT THE BOTTLE DOWN!" yixing surged forward to grab jongin's arm, "geez, i'm trying to.. to.. talk to you. yeah. stop the desperate drinking, dude."

jongin had took the 'downing cups all night' thought too seriously. even yixing who could barely stand was telling jongin to stop drinking.

"i'm fine! take care of yourself." jongin pulled his arm back from yixing's hold which made him a little dizzy, "shit."

he put a hand against the wall as yixing leaned his head on his shoulder, "i'm never drinking again."

lies.

jongin tried massaging his head a bit hoping the headache would subside even a bit and when it didn't, he thought of the next best idea which was numbing it with more drinks.

even with his judgement clouded as it was he could feel his morning self cursing the fuck out of his present self.

he found some random person on the bar and took one of their cups, immediately drinking all of its content before the drunken owner could notice.

he felt his headache slowly stop as his vision became blurrier, the man started to walk aimlessly through the dance floor for no reason. maybe he was trying to find yixing or something, he couldn't give a right answer.

he was suddenly held by two arms on both of his shoulders.

"jongin? you look a little pale." it was taemin's voice.

jongin could be very out of it right now, not even knowing the difference between shoes and shirts but he could recognize taemin's voice from miles away.

"taemin," he tried focusing on the other man's face, smiling a bit when he could actually see it instead of a bunch of blobs, "i think i drank too much."

"no shit, come here." taemin wrapped an arm around jongin's waist and lead them to the bar, "could i get a bottle of water please?"

after being handed what he had asked for, taemin guided jongin through the sweaty bodies dancing against each other to the balcony, where jongin for the first time that night could breathe fresh air instead of alcohol infused carbon dioxide.

"here," taemin opened the water bottle and shoved it into jongin's hand, "drink it."

jongin pouted at taemin's harshness, but obeyed the older anyway. he took a large gulp before slowing down and breathing in between gulps. after a few minutes jongin felt that he regained some control of his body, but he was still pretty drunk.

"thank you, i felt like i was dying in there." jongin smiled at taemin who just frowned.

they stayed in silence for a while, looking over the large balcony on to the city below.

"wow, i didn't even notice the house was on top of a mountain, i had my eyes closed the whole ride here." jongin chuckled and taemin just scoffed at him.

"it is a pretty nice view." taemin nodded in agreement to himself as he stretched his arms over the railing, "a nice breeze too."

jongin looked at taemin and it seemed like that had sobered him completely (not likely), taemin had just the most adorable look on his face at that moment and jongin didn't really know he was too drunk or too in love.

he continued to stare until taemin looked at him, and even then he continued staring.

"what?" taemin chuckled and jongin and his drunk self couldn't handle it, "is there something on my face-"

jongin got closer to taemin to look at his face better, they were inches apart and jongin couldn't stop looking at the older's lips.

"you have really pretty lips." jongin would probably slap himself in the morning, no doubt.

taemin blushed a very deep red as jongin continued to be oblivious at how that was affecting the other man.

"jongin..." taemin squeaked but jongin grabbed onto the other's collar and pulled them even closer together.

"you smell good..." he slightly sniffed the hair behind taemin's ears before returning back to his original position and looking into taemin's eyes.

taemin gulped, shocked and not able to do anything but wait for jongin to do something.

"i..." jongin's eyes wavered, he didn't know where to look, taemin's eyes or lips.

very smoothly the younger closed the gap between them, pressing a soft kiss onto taemin's lips, so soft the older didn't know if it was real or a fruit of his imagination.

jongin pulled back a little startled of what he had done, but not enough to make him pull all the way back.

taemin just looked at jongin, completely still.

jongin opened his mouth to say something, but no words came out. he leaned back in and brushed their lips together again.

"can i just...?" jongin whispered before pressing a proper kiss on taemin's lips.

he started to move his lips slowly while he moved his hands from taemin's chest to his waist. taemin was still shocked with what was happening and close to a million thoughts were occupying his head but it all disappeared once jongin's lips firmly pressed against his.

in a fluid movement taemin wrapped his arms around the youngers neck and started kissing him too.

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this chapter just doesn't make sense, i'm sorry ><
i was planning to make a smut chapter but i kind of gave up on the idea ;-; if any of yous expected any smut in this fanfic im sorry :/

in a better note this book was(is of right now) in number one in the #taekai and i am really happy about it :D thank you all who put up with all my procrastination in sake of this story 😔✊ i appreciate it. ❤️