Chapter 31: Chapter 29: Late Night Stroll
"Jimin hyung, I hurt you. Don't ask me how, but know that if you stay with me, you'll end up hurting yourself."
Through loud cheers and drinking all around him, Jimin found himself drinking water with a troubled expression. The dim lights of the bar casted shadows on his features and his skin gleamed a little gold in sync with the bar's lighting. The song Wonderland by the boy group Ateez played in the background and it made the men and women raise their glasses in cheers and motivation; some staff members danced along to the song.
The writer wore a dark green dress shirt with the first two buttons undone leaving a small portion of his chest available to the visible eye of everyone, tight black jeans hugged his legs and a pair of black 'n white Nikes made his feet more comfortable for the night. His mind was completely occupied with what Jungkook had said during their shower. "You okay? Not drinking?" Christy nudged his shoulder from beside him while her boyfriend gulped a shot of what looked like Soju.
"Yeah. I'm driving tonight and I'm not in the mood for drinking." The writer sighed and glanced across the table he sat to look at Jungkook lean his head back drinking a shot and cheer loudly with Taehyung beside him. The raven haired actor's long locks were parted in the middle of his forehead and the white shirt with a few navy blue-red stripes had a few drops of Soju but he paid no attention because the black blazer seemed to cover them. And from his features, the blush on his cheeks and pink ears clearly made it known that he was at least tipsy or drunk. "Jimin-ssi, Come on! Get up and dance with me!" He looked at his boyfriend and stood up from the table to walk around it, his eyes trailing from Jimin's nose to his lips.
"You're already drunk." Jimin muttered once he complied with Jungkook's request and followed him to the crowded place where people danced and a DJ was about to change the song. "Forget what I said~" The actor laughed as he shook Jimin's shoulders before moving his head sideways to match the rhythm of the verse. "GEU IYUGA ULIN MAME DEULEO~" Jimin rolled his eyes and returned the movements by letting his feet match his boyfriend's and let his hands touch his from time to time.
"And now, the clock has striken nine! Who is brave enough to grab the mic and sing a song for our crowd?" The DJ lowered the next song that came on shuffle as he talked to everyone on the bar. Jimin's movements slowly stopped until he saw how Jungkook had completely stopped. "I accept the challenge!" The raven haired actor smirked and winked at Jimin before making his way through the bodies around him leaving his confused yet amused boyfriend to watch how he was almost making a fool out of himself drunk.
"We have our first singer of the night! Let's cheer!" The DJ applauded along with everyone on the bar until Jungkook had successfully stood up on the stage with the given mic on his hand. "What song should I sing?" Jungkook stood there, eyes looking around nothing in particular while his mind searched for a song. "Ah! I know!" He walked over to the DJ and cracked a smile once the DJ nodded searching for it. On the screen across from him, the YouTube search bar appeared and he glanced at the crowd again to introduce himself.
"I am so drunk, but let's get it!" He raised the black mic on his right hand while snorting, but he wasn't the only one high on alcohol so his actions were completely compatible with almost everyone who clapped their hands and cheered whenever he talked. "I dedicate this song to someone amongst the crowd." Thankfully he wasn't in that drunk stage where he slurred on his words, and his voice was stable, so when the music started playing through the loud speakers, his voice mixed perfectly.
(A/N: If you play 'Who' instrumental version above, it's the rhythm for this song.)
"Everything is so beautiful~
During this night and dawn
let me love you~
Lay your head on my shoulder
For now all I can see is you and I~"
Jimin stood there still on the crowd not moving a muscle of his body except his eyes that followed Jungkook's small movements like the subtle motion of his lips against the mic and his eyes almost closed as he sang. He knew Jungkook was singing this to him and may the actot be drunk but the way he sang had a meaning behind every word.
"From the first day I said I love you
Something hasn't been the same~
I have more to say but I can't~
Oh~ Oh~
So please just stay with me~
I need you more than you think~"
The bodies around the writer started to slowly dance to the song yet he still stood there observing how Jungkook was in a different world singing his heart out to him.
"I know how much I've hurt you~
But I need your help understanding~
Teach me the way to your heart~
Show me how beautiful our love is~
Oh~ I've been caught up in the trap and
I don't know how to escape~"
Jungkook slowly opened his eyes and with his left hand he combed his hair back, a few drops of sweat from the earlier dancing had formed in his forehead, but he felt good. Aside from feeling the small tinging sensation of nerves while standing on a stage, he was calm.
"From the first day I said I love you
Something hasn't been the same~
I have more to say but I can't~
Oh~ Oh~
So please just stay with me~
I need you more than you think~"
Christy and her boyfriend Jaebum had made their way to the dance floor and with accordance to the slow rhythm they held each other close in a slow dance a little far from where Jimin was frozen staring at his boyfriend.
"Oh~ I've been caught up in a trap
and I~" Jungkook made a vocal transition from a lower note to a high note.
"I don't know how to escape~"
Jimin gulped and he took every single word to heart. The beat of the song continued on for a few seconds until his energy returned and he took a step forward.
"And now that the dawn has broken~
There's one more thing I have to say
I have fallen
but I'm scared of this
Oh~ so beautiful love~"
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After bidding everyone goodbyes and letting a tipsy Taehyung mount a cab, Jimin balanced Jungkook's left arm on his shoulder and his waist with his right hand. The walk to the parking lot was a few minutes long but he didn't mind helping his boyfriend out given how he was now tipsy after forcing him to drink a whole bottle of water in order to avoid a déjà vu the next morning. "Babe~ I don't want to fuck you." Jungkook giggled against Jimin's ear and his voice cracked a higher pitch making continuous "Kkkhh! Ah~Hahaha!" resonate against the writer's sensitive earlobe.
"Jungkook, I don't understand you." The writer bowed his head in apology to the few bystanders that walked by them with weird glances. "Jimin-ssi, I said I don't want to fuuuuck you!" Jungkook said louder and unwrapped his arm from his boyfriend's shoulder to intertwine their hands instead. "Kook! Lower down your voice." Jimin's eyes almost popped out of his face and he worriedly took a look around to check who might have heard that until his intertwined fingers forced him down.
"What are you doing?" Jimin blinked as he asked Jungkook a question. The actor was crouching down in the middle of the pavement with big doe eyes staring straight into his boyfriend's. "I'm lowering down my voice." He whispered as he continued crouching down to the dirty floor. "Babe, no! Geez, I'm dealing with a baby in a grown up's body."
"Oh shut up, you like it. I'm only submissive when it comes to you and right now, I don't give a fuck about it." Jungkook straightened himself back up and continued walking, dragging a confused Jimin to begin questioning his boyfriend's drunk moodswings. "You know what, let's not go home yet. I want to have a midnight stroll in Seoul with you." Jungkook's soberness was taking over his mind slowly, but not over his whole body. And he really wanted to at least have a small date with Jimin, even if he still was under the influence of alcohol.
"But Jungkook- Fine. But let's not go too far because you're still drunk." Jimin complied with his boyfriend's request. The sole reason was because he couldn't get the song Jungkook sang to him out of his mind, and he knew how much the actor wanted the walk because of how his words made an effect on his heart. "You're the best!" Jungkook's toothy grin made an appearance as he excitedly dragged Jimin's body to his in order to let their closeness provide warmth, and not just physically but emotionally too.
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It wasn't all laughs now, not when he was still sober enough to buy a cupcake at a convenience store when the moon was at it's peak at night, and certaintly not when he stood in front of a closed apartment door. Taehyung knew he was under the influence of alcohol, but his heart wanted to do this. That's how he left the Bar at eleven thirty and after taking two cabs (one to a convenience store and one to his current location), he stood there biting his lower lip about to knock on the door. With the vanilla cupcake on his left hand, he sighed and slowly knocked on the door.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Taehyung's cheek formed dimples when he pressed his lips together gently biting the wet inner lip. He knew the inevitable change was going to happen once the door was opened and given his state, he wanted it again.
"Taehyung?" Hoseok opened the door of his apartment with a pastel colored bathrobe around his body. Once the model heard the knock, he paused the movie playing on his flat screen and rushed to the unexpected visitor awaiting outside his door. He was perplexed when he peeked through the peep hole on the door and saw Taehyung outside. Moreover, he was surprised by how his appearance gave away, especially his flustered cheeks, how he was between drunk and sober.
"Happy late birthday Hobi hyung." Taehyung giggled and awkwardly showed the cupcake on his left hand. "My birthday was three days ago Tae." Hoseok felt his heartbeat increase, hoping for the next words that would come out of the actor's lips would be a remedy to his suffering. "I know... that's why I said late. I bought you this cupcake." The actor forced the cupcake on his hand and without stumbling he took a step forward.
"Thank you..." The model stepped aside with the cupcake on hand and let the actor step inside his apartment. "You're drunk Taehyung." He added and closed the door once the actor laughed inside the apartment. "I'm sober enough to be here." Taehyung slid off his Gucci Leather Horsebit Slippers and warmed his feet with his old pair of comfy brown slippers. "Then why are you here?" Hoseok opened his mouth and took a small bite of the cupcake, savoring the sweet chocolate frosting mix with the moist vanilla flavor.
"To talk." Taehyung walked over to the couch a few feet away and slid the red coat he wore off his shoulder to lean it on a chair midway. "You came to my apartment drunk at midnight to talk?" Hoseok gulped another chewed bite of the cupcake and followed behind the actor.
"Exactly. I came here to tell you how I feel about us." Taehyung threw himself up on the couch and nuzzled his face on one of the comfortable green cushions. "Shouldn't you be completely sober for that?" The model licked his right thumb from some frosting that got onto it from holding the cupcake as he continued the conversation knowing it should be done when both parties were completely sober.
"I'm sober enough! I drank a bottle of water before coming here! Jimin forced Jungkook and I to drink one before leaving the Cypher Bar." The male burying his face on the cushion rolled his eyes and raised his face to face the other. "I just want to know something..." Taehyung pointed his right index finger at the male seated beside him. "I'll answer anything and everything you ask, but you need to be completely sober for this conversation Tae, I told you."
"And I told you I'm sober!" Taehyung pouted and retracted his right index finger when Hoseok defeatedly sighed.
"Why did you hide everything from me?" Hoseok licked his bottom lip from any remnants of frosting and gave him a smile that said everything. "At that time, I didn't want to lose both of you. But after you found out, I realized my mistake. I shouldn't have kept the secrets from you because you made me feel loved again. You can say I was a coward for doing that, but you're my everything Tae. That was my stupid mistake because I feared losing you the most." He didn't cry, instead he slowly leaned towards Taehyung and with his free hand, cupped both of their hands.
"Thank you for apologizing to Beomgyu." Taehyung locked eyes with him. Hoseok didn't expect the word to get that fast, but as surprised as he was, the actor had their fingers intertwined. "I love you." Those words from Taehyung made his vision become glazed with somber and affection. "I forgive you, I'm sober enough to know that." The actor chuckled as he added.
"Fuck, Tae... I love you too." Hoseok leaned their foreheads together and the scars over his heart were once again protected by the band aid controlled by Taehyung, only this time it was stuck there for good. "I want to do this right, so tomorrow after I come back from work, I'm taking you out on a date." The model chuckled and flinched back when Taehyung suddenly jolted up from the couch after his stomach made force on him.
"Okay, but first I have to take a dump in your bathroom." As Hoseok watched how the love of his life ran towards the bathroom down the hall, he cleaned the tears over his eyes. "Some things just never change, you're one of them Taehyung. Thank you for forgiving me, I'll be the best boyfriend you could ever ask for, and soon you'll be showing us off to the world just how you wanted to." He talked to himself and continued eating the last piece of the cupcake before realizing a small detail.
"Wait Taehyung! If you're spending the night here, what about Yeontan?!"
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"I love this." Jungkook laughed as he swung back and forth his intertwined fingers with Jimin. "You act like a little kid when you're drunk. Has anyone told you that?" Jimin returned the laugh enjoying himself with his boyfriend during their late night stroll not really caring anymore if their secret relationship could be exposed. "First, agree with me that you love hanging out with me and second, no. I only act like a little kid around you when I'm" Jungkook hiccuped. "-drunk because you are the only one who has ever made me submit and you're my boyfriend." When he said boyfriend, he saw the sparkles over Jimin's eyes and completely enjoyed the view of the writer lovingly smiling during their late night stroll / date.
"Do you smell that?" Jimin suddenly stopped walking and began sniffing around the empty air. Jungkook, he only smelled the chill night air, nothing else. But the writer continued sniffing for a good fifteen seconds before his eyes widened. "Baby, come on!" He dragged the taller male with him down the street and thankfully the actor didn't stumble at the sudden movement.
Jimin continued sniffing while walking fast and at the end of the street he turned a right and his mouth opened. "Kkwabaegi?" Jungkook furrowed his eyebrows when he noticed his boyfriend practically drooling before entering the small shop that gave off a sweet nutty oil scent mixed with cinnamon and fresh baked doughnuts. Okay, the actor was now drooling as well once he smelled the tempting freshly baked doughnuts. "Let's go in." Surprisingly, the shop was open and they had from what the couple could see, a few customers inside and working girls over the counter. Jimin gulped on his saliva once he saw the twisted doughnuts over the glass as he walked inside the small shop dragging his boyfriend along.
"Welcome to The Stars, what could I offer you gentlemen?" A girl with black round glasses over her nose cheerfuly greeted the couple. "I want four Kkwabaegi and a bottle of water. Do you want anything Jungkook-ah?" The writer released their intertwined fingers to search for his wallet while the actor furrowed his eyebrows taken aback. "Four? Just for you? I thought you included at least two for me...?" Jungkook was confused but he brushed it off and added two more twisted doughnuts to the order and the girl completed writing down their order.
"That'll be a total of 31,878.33 won."
"Oh, no. I'm kind of hungry for them. They smell really good." Jimin opened his wallet and took out a black (Hana card) Visa Platinum Card 1200 and gave it to the girl with a smile. "Aren't you exaggerating a bit, Jiminie hyung." The girl bit her lip as he processed the payment while trying not to blush and let out a squeal from witnessing the exchanged words between the couple.
"Here you go... I'll bring your order shortly. To go?" After cutting the receipt, she returned the card back to the writer along with his part of the receipt and began organizing the order. "Yes please." Jungkook answered instead and wrapped his arm around the older's waist. "I'm not exaggerating. I'm hungry, period. Can't I eat some delicious doughnuts?"
"Fine by me, their smell is making me drool." At least by now, the alcohol on Jungkook's system was slowly lowering down; he enjoyed the small date with his boyfriend. This was one of those moments where he doubted whatever he was taught by Min Woo, not because he was under the influence of alcohol, but because whenever he shared a laugh with Jimin, an exchange of even a small glance, his heart sped up and he wanted more of this.
Maybe love and fucking aren't the same.
"Jungkook, these are the best Kkwabaegi I've had." Jimin's cheeks were full as he chewed while they returned back to the parking lot where his car was. "How could I know? You haven't let me try them because you're too busy eating them." The actor rolled his eyes in a pout but it ended as the wind comes and goes because the writer pressed a piece of the doughnut against his lips. The sugary soft texture and taste of cinnamon entered his lips and he hummed in delight. "You'we wigh!" He said between chews. Their night stroll in Seoul became a fond memory, but their date didn't end there. The couple arrived at the writer's apartment later on, and let's just say, Jungkook was beginning doubt what he was about to do next because he had completely sobered up.
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