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[Oct 28, 6:24PM] taehyung: hey kookie hobi's coming pls dont come home till 9 pm if u dont want to scar ur virgin mind thx bye love u
Jungkook stared at the text message on his phone, unimpressed. He's pretty sure it's been the fourth time he's been sexiled from their apartment this week. And it's only Monday. He doesn't even know if he's supposed to be happy that someone's been banging Kim Taehyung's dorky ass (or is it Taehyung who's banging Hoseok hyung's ass? Oh gods, Jungkook, you need to stop.) or pissed because of the constant kicking outs which is like, not cool, because the #2 rule in the roommate code they both signed is "Never sexile thy roommate." and obviously, Taehyung has broken that. Jungkook tried to bring that up lots of times but Taehyung insists that it's only fair because Jungkook has broken the #1 rule, the Ultimate Rule™, which is "Never steal thy roommate's food." (Jungkook had tried to defend himself, but Taehyung only ignored him, saying, "Do you hear that, Kookie? That's the sound of a traitor begging for forgiveness.")
And this was how Jungkook found himself in front of Big Hit Candies after hours of aimless walking. The candy store is a small one, not really hidden, but it's the kind of shop you'll pass by without a second thought. Maybe it's the dull lighting that kinda makes it hidden under plain sight, but it's also the reason why this shop seemed really cozy.
As Jungkook opens the glass door, he hears the soft sounds of the wind chimes.
A List of Things Jeon Jungkook Expects Seeing in a Candy Store:
1.) Candies. (Lots of candies. Like, really. Nerds, Starbursts, jawbreakers, Beanboozles, lots! Also Sugar Daddies. And Sugar Babies. Jungkook's talking about the candies, of course.)
2.) Lots of kids. Kids of different kinds. Screaming kids, laughing kids, jumping kids, bouncing kids, scene kids (and by that, Jungkook means kids who make a scene, but he can't help but snicker at his own joke)
3.) Parents. (Oh gods, Jungkook pities the parents.)
A List of Things Jeon Jungkook Does Not Expect Seeing in a Candy Store:
1.) Suga.
2.) Min Yoongi.
3.) Min fucking Yoongi. Min fucking Yoongi who's the talk of the college he's studying at. Min fucking Yoongi, also known as Suga in the underground. Min fucking Yoongi who has a sharp, skillful tongue that can probably send you to Hong Kong. (Jungkook doesn't really understand why people say that, but he's heard it so many times like it's a big deal. Like, what, is his tongue secretly a plane ticket?)
When Jungkook entered, he saw Yoongi shot up from behind the counters, eyes half-lidded and obviously disturbed from his almost-sleeping state. Jungkook wondered how he could sleep when there are kids chattering around like crickets.
Yoongi raises an eyebrow at him, and Jungkook averts his gaze to the glass containers where the candies lie. His mouth is watering and his eyes are probably twinkling but Jungkook has to keep up his Cool Emo Kid Aesthetic™ so he saunters casually and coolly to the counter, hands resting at the pocket in front of his hoodie.
"Small, medium, or large?" Yoongi drawls lazily, his voice somewhat smooth and scratchy at the same time.
"Uh, wha- what?" Jungkook splutters out, breaking his previously established Cool Emo Kid Aesthetic™.
Jungkook then learns that there are small, medium, or large cups for you to fill with whatever candies you want, and you'll have to pay depending on how much it weighs.
Jungkook tried, he really tried to fight the smile that managed to show up on his face as he exclaimed, "For real?!" because, wow, he can't wait to fill his cup with sour tapes until it overflows.
And fill a small cup with sour tapes, he does.
/ / /
Jungkook decides that Big Hit Candies is not so bad after all, even with noisy kids and a cashier sleeping behind the counter, because he finds himself just lounging on a pink couch with sprinkle designs. And the wifi is a huge plus too.
He feels a tap on his shoulder, and Jungkook turns to see Yoongi behind him, light pink hair fluffed up to one side. That's when he notices that he's the only one left in the store.
"Sorry, but I'm closing up now. It's past 8:30 already, which is the closing time. Well, if you'd like to help me clean up, you're free to stay."
Jungkook looks at his watch and true enough, it's already 8:37. Taehyung and Hoseok are probably still fucking, and Jungkook visibly grimaces at the thought.
"I'll just help with the cleaning." Jungkook mumbles. Yoongi raises an eyebrow, as if questioning him, and wordlessly hands him a blue broomstick. After all, who was he to refuse a little help?
Jungkook stands up and starts sweeping the floor obediently. "Wow, this place is completely trashed."
Completely trashed is an understatement. Nerds littered the whole place as if kids had an impromptu Nerd-throwing war, and Jungkook is sure they probably did. There are cups everywhere too, and Jungkook sighs as he swept another pitiful squashed cup into the dustpan.
"So," Yoongi breaks the silence. "What made you willingly stay with me and help me clean up this shit of a place?"
Jungkook sighs again. "You don't want to know."
"I do want to know," Yoongi says, as the cloth squeaked against the table he's cleaning.
"Well, I've been sexiled by my one hell of a roommate."
Yoongi huffs out a laugh. "Tell me about it."
And Jungkook did.
Jungkook is a little but of a rambler, his mouth unstoppable as he complains about Taehyung. Screw the confidentiality, Jungkook thinks.
"His name is Kim Taehyung, and--"
"Hold up... What?" Yoongi stops him from his rambling. "Kim Taehyung, isn't he Hoseok's boyfriend?"
"Wait, you know Hoseok hyung?"
Yoongi sighs. "He's... my roommate."
And that's how their conversation went from an awkward silence to "my-roommate-is-more-annoying--" "NO-YOU-DON'T-UNDERSTAND-MY-ROOMMATE-LEAVES-HIS-BOXERS-IN-THE-KITCHEN-SINK."
They finished cleaning at 9:16, and before they locked the place up, Yoongi gave Jungkook three pieces of green apple sour tapes.
"Take it, kid." He had said. "Thanks for the help."
"I'm not a kid."
"Says the one who grumbles like a seven-year-old."
"At least my height isn't like one's." Jungkook barely registered what he had said and once he did, he slapped his hand against his mouth.
Jungkook should really, really control what he says.
A List of Things Jeon Jungkook Expects Min Yoongi to Do to Him After Jungkook Accidentally Calls Him Short:
1.) Take back the green apple sour tapes he gave to Jungkook.
2.) Punch him square in the jaw.
3.) Spit a diss rap he made on the spot at Jungkook's face.
4.) Glare at him until he withers and dies, leaving his life horribly unaccomplished. (Out of the four options, this is the one Jungkook preferred the most.)
A List of Things Min Yoongi did After Jungkook Accidentally Calls Him Short:
1.) Let out an amused chuckle.
2.) Actually not kill him.
Yoongi elbows him in the ribs and it takes all of Jungkook's willpower to not groan in pain because damn, Yoongi's elbows are so pointy, what the actual fuck.
"You've got guts, kid." Yoongi says mid-chuckles, ruffling Jungkook's hair as he walks past him. "See ya."
(Jungkook returns to their apartment at 9:39 PM with a smile, and barges through the kitchen with no care. "You wouldn't guess what happened today Tae--"
That night, Jungkook learns that Taehyung is the one getting his ass fucked.)
/ / /
It has become a routine for Jungkook to stop by and help Yoongi with the candy store. And by help, he meant poking Yoongi's sides or cheeks whenever he almost falls asleep and constantly annoying him. Jungkook could say that they've gotten really close for him to call Yoongi hyung. Yoongi learns his name the second time he stops by.
("Jeon Jungkook? Wait, you're that cute freshman girls are yapping about. What do they even see in you?"
"Hmph, I'll have you know that I'm good at many things, hyung.")
They are even close enough to talk about Very Important Things™.
A List of Things Jeon Jungkook and Min Yoongi Has Talked About:
1.) Jungkook's secrets.
("There was this one time Taehyung sneaked in beer bottles and we got drunk. He caught a video of me dancing to Up & Down by EXID and that was how I vowed to myself that I will never ever get drunk again.")
2.) Yoongi's secrets.
("Hoseok's told me that I'm a really emotional drunk. He told me that I willingly engaged Namjoon into a conversation that mostly consisted of me crying about my purpose in life and all that existential crisis while Namjoon comforted me with drunkenly slurred babbling about philosophy shit. I woke up in the morning hearing echoes of his voice talking about free will. Sometimes, I can still hear his voice.")
3.) Very Important Things™
("What kind of sane person prefers vanilla over chocolate? What the fuck, hyung? Your life must be so sad."
"Shut up, Jungkook. You like salad. That's hands down the saddest thing I've ever heard in my life.")
/ / /
An Actual Conversation Between Kim Taehyung and Jeon Jungkook:
TH: Jungkook?
JK: Yes, hyung?
TH: You're aware that you've been spending, like, 97% of your life in that candy store, right?
JK: ...ninety-seven percent?
TH: Oh, sorry, my bad. There has been a miscalculation. Final data says ninety-eight.
JK: Shut up, hyung.
TH: What do you even do with Yoongi hyung? Hoseok told me all he does is laze off and sleep.
JK: . . .so?
TH: You watch him sleep, don't you?
JK: I don't! I help him clean and he gives me candies! For free!
TH: So in short...
JK: Hyung—
TH: ...you do favors for him...
JK: Hyung, why are you smiling like that—
TH: ...and he repays you...
JK: . . .
TH: Isn't he like...
JK: Hyung, no—
TH : ...your suga daddy?
JK: Sometimes, I just want to plug a cork into your mouth so I don't have to listen to you speak.
TH: Thanks for the offer, Kookie, but I'd rather have Hobi do that to me.
/ / /
Another Actual Conversation Between Jeon Jungkook and Kim Taehyung (A Serious One):
TH: You like him, don't you?
JK: . . .Why would you say that?
TH: Whenever I try to talk to you, you always manage to divert the topic to how Yoongi hyung looks so good with almost fading pink hair and swirly lollipop patterned apron. And don't get me started on how cute his droopy eyes are and how flushed his cheeks are whenever he—
JK: Oh my god.
TH: Yes, Jungkookie. Oh my god.
/ / /
One Thing Min Yoongi Tries to Hide From Jeon Jungkook:
1.) His smiles. (But Jungkook always catches the ghosts of a smile whenever they talk about the most trivial things. No matter how much Yoongi forces himself not to smile, Jungkook knows that Yoongi is happy. He is somewhat making Yoongi happy, and he feels his heart warming.)
One Thing Jeon Jungkook Tries to Hide From Min Yoongi:
1.) His feelings for him. (Like, love, like, love. He doesn't know, but he wants to go on dates with him and hold his hand and do stupid things for Yoongi's lips to quirk up in the corners. Hell, maybe Jungkook even wants to kiss those lips. He's honestly so fucking whipped.)
/ / /
"Hyung." Jungkook pokes Yoongi's cheeks repeatedly. "Hyung, hey."
Yoongi opens his eyes and tries to glare at Jungkook. "What do you want, brat?"
Jungkook bites his lip. A sign of nervousness. "I-If I hypothetically happen to like-like you, in a romantic way, hypothetically, and ask you out by kneeling down in front of you and offering you a bowl of salad, would you accept?"
Yoongi raises his eyebrows and smirks. "Well, hypothetically, I'd reject."
Jungkook tried to hide how hurt he looked.
"I'd reject the salad and take you out on a greasy fast food date to show you what good food is all about."
/ / /
A List of What Jeon Jungkook Wished to be After He Finishes College:
1.) A chef. (But mainly because that's the only fancy-sounding job he knows when he was eight years old.)
2.) A singer.
3.) A dancer.
4.) Fuck it, I just want to be successful. (This was his college self speaking to him.)
A List of What Actually Happened to Jeon Jungkook After He Finished College:
1.) He did not become a chef.
2.) He became a singer, though. (and a famous one, at that.)
3.) A dancer, too. (
who also dances for Yoongi. Privately.)4.) He's also an owner of two cats. (One being a ragdoll named Starburst and the other, a grumpy, sleepy one named Min Yoongi.
5.) He is currently Min Yoongi's boyfriend. And he has zero plans of letting him go. (Through this, he finally knew what people meant when they say that Yoongi's tongue can take you to Hong Kong. Damn.)
6.) One thing is for sure. He is hella fucking successful. (
especially at the fact that he gets free privileges to Yoongi's skillful tongue)