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jungkook needed to calm his tits, that much he knew. everyone was going home for a late christmas and new years with their families for a week and a bit, only ten days, before they’ll all be back practising their asses off for their next comeback. they’d been separated longer before, much, much longer and yet jungkook could feel a knot growing in his tummy.
he was going to miss them all dearly but as he gazed at taehyung digging around in his bag at the door, he felt a loneliness wash over his heart. which is ridiculous, jungkook knows. he’s there in the room with him but still ten whole days without taehyung, taetae, singer and actor, an actual living sunshine, his partner in crime, his co-pranker and disney film watcher, his daily entertainment who happens to have soft noodle arms and beautifully tanned skin and fluffy hair and cute smile and laugh and eyes and lovable personali-
my ass needs to chill, jungkook thought.
jungkook realised he zoned out and shook himself out of his daze. he was standing leaning against the wall arms crossed watching as taehyung, yoongi and hoseok were getting ready to leave for daegu and gwangju. hoseok was reading texts while taehyung was chatting happily. he realised, himself and yoongi were wearing similar jackets and cried out “daegu boys!” and yoongi didn’t even try to hide his soft smile. neither did jungkook but has he ever?
“are y'all ready to leave yet?” namjoon called out from somewhere over jungkook’s shoulder.
“why trying to get rid of us?” hoseok asked, fake offended.
“never in a million years-”
“YES!” jin called from deeper in the house.
“thanks hyung” taehyung cheered, “we’re ready i think”
“tell your moms i love them” jimin called from the kitchen, “your dogs too” he added, as an afterthought.
“will do” yoongi chuckled.
“safe trip” jin called,
jungkook pushed himself off the wall and joined in the conversation
“have fun” he smiled and “i’ll miss you”
and technically he said it to all three of them and not just taehyung, who he was standing in front, whole body angled towards him and making eye contact with. yeah all three of them. for sure.
“yeah, miss me with that gay shit” taehyung responded, pushing his hood down and doing the thing people do with their bodies (you know the thing) for added comedic wit.
jungkook wasn’t even that shocked by a sassy reply but just a little under prepared for /that/ reply, his brain was working way too hard searching for an appropriate comeback. his stupid ass best friend, putting him on the spot like this.
the rest of the members started laughing at the admittedly good joke and jungkook’s brain short circuited looking at taehyung’s eyesmile. stupid taehyung. his hand flew out and grabbed the back of taehyung’s head and with no thinking whatsoever, jungkook smashed their lips together.
the kiss lasted around three seconds before jungkook realised what the fuck he was doing and jolted, pulling away quickly. he dropped his hand and stared at the floor instantly noticing the silence and felt eyes on him, a flush crept up his cheeks.
whoops, jungkook’s brain supplied helpfully.
he slowly looked up to see taehyung staring at him in amazement? his eyes were soft and jungkook didn’t want to raise any hopes but so far no disgusted look so who can blame him?, said jungkook’s inner monologue. taehyung blinked and closed his open mouth.
“nevermind i take that back, hit me with that gay shit” taehyung giggled, flinging his arms around jungkook’s neck.
jungkook smiled a big surprised smile and wrapped his arms around taehyung, snuggling into his shoulder.
“thank fuck” he whispered loud enough for everyone to hear.
he could literally feel the tension in the room disappear and he might have even heard some sighs of relief. aww the hyungs were rooting for me, jungkook thought storing that information in his mental ‘why i love my nasty ass hyungs’ folder along with, taehyung’s lips are as soft as they look, if not softer to his ‘important facts about taehyung’ folder.
jungkook could feel taehyung smile against his neck and heartbeat against his chest and jungkook decided he was really very happy and laughed into taehyung’s shoulder. taehyung squeezed him and they both sighed, just basking in each other's warmth.
“gayyyyyy” jungkook whispered,
“you know you love it-”
“sorry to ruin the moment” yoongi’s voice cut in, “but we really have to go”
“fine” taehyung whined and reluctantly let go.
a glance to yoongi and the others showed they were all trying hard to hide their fond smiles and jungkook thought, bitch same as he looked at taehyung.
after another round of goodbyes the departing members started shuffling out the door. taehyung made it two steps before running back in and whispering “i’ll miss you too” into jungkook’s ear and placing a kiss on his cheek. taehyung retreated and jungkook made a call me signal with his hand and taehyung winked.
“oh god” namjoon groaned, “it’s going to be them non-stop flirting for the rest of our lives, isn’t it?”
“you know it” jimin said, consolingly rubbing circles on his back.
“yay” hoseok said in a monotone voice but his eyes were smiling as he pushed taehyung out and closed the door behind him with a last wave.
reality hit jungkook and he whined.
“how come i get to kiss the kim freaking taehyung on the lips and then not get to see him for the next ten whole days” he dropped to the floor in a dramatic mess, “that's like 240 hours what the fuck”
the others just laughed. consider that another thing added to jungkook’s mental ‘why i hate my nasty ass hyungs’ folder, jungkook thought, quite possibly actually pouting. stupid hyungs. except taehyung, he’s pretty chill.