tired

yoongi said he would pick taehyung up after, after hearing that the restaurant taehyung would be meeting his friends at was in the same district as his business meeting. taehyung had relaxed immensely at the reassurance that all he needed was to call yoongi the moment he was uncomfortable and yoongi would be there to pick him up.

of course taehyung didn’t really expect anything to go wrong, it was just a meet up with some old vocational school classmates, but the reassurance was nice. so taehyung let jimin drag him into the crowded restaurant and over to a table of vaguely familiar waving and rose tinted faces who all cheered loudly as they sat, shots already being poured as they fell into their seats.

“so taehyung! i heard you’re going to university for something about plants?”

taehyung looked up from his half finished bossam in surprise and nodded before finally seeming to find his words.

“uh yes, i - botany…i’m going for a degree in botany, so i can become a field researcher. what -  what are you up to these days jihan hyung?”

do jihan had tutored taehyung a few times in english and they had dated for a while before jihan had graduated and left taehyung behind to pursue a career in accounting.

“i’m interning in a law firm in gyeonsang right now until i finish my last year, after that i’ll have a stable job as a defense lawyer.”

taehyung can’t keep the visible awe off his face as he congratulates his hyung on doing so well despite being just a couple years older than taehyung himself.

they speak casually as the night goes on, the occupants of the table grow more rowdy with each round of bottles with a few chose individuals, taehyung and jihan included, who stick to passing around makgeolli so they can make sure their inebriated friends make it home safe.

taehyung starts to feel a warm glow settle in his stomach and decides it’s time to stop, just before a light buzz, and just in time too as some guy on their group stands and announces with a drunken bellow that it’s time for noraebang.

taehyung glances at the time on his phone and frowns at the 23:05 shining at him from the screen. it’s definitely much later than he thought it was and he doesn’t have any missed calls or messages so he opens kakaotalk to see if yoongi is out of his meeting yet. (he knows from waiting up for the elder just how late they can run)

the noraebang the unnamed ex-classmate has suggested is less than a kilometer away so it doesn’t take nearly as long for the rowdy group to reach it as it would have taken to pile them all into someone’s car for anywhere farther.

taehyung glances at his phone every few minutes for the walk there, waiting with bitten lips for the little ‘read’ notification to pop up beside his last message.

are you out of your meeting yet? it’s cold ㅜㅜ

but even as they arrive and order even more drinks and food, the message remains unread. taehyung tries to hold back his pout.

“taehyung ah, is everything ok?”

taehyung looks up from his phone, surprised that anyone had been paying enough attention to see him sneak away from the bar and out onto the front patio.

it’s jihan. he shuts the door behind himself and smiles warmly at taehyung in the orange glow of the street lamps.

“yeah everything’s fine, i’m messaging and getting some fresh air.”

jihan’s smile seems to get softer at his words and something about it makes taehyung’s stomach knot uncomfortably. he glances back down at his phone and is more than a little relieved to see the read notification next to his message, a small grin cracking his features. a small cough brings taehyung’s attention back to jihan and he gives a polite smile, smaller than the one brought on by his glance to his phone.

“you always did get overwhelmed easily in crowded places didn’t you? at least something about you hasn’t changed.” jihan says it with a warm tone and a gentle smile and the knot in taehyung’s stomach grows tighter, more out of discomfort being so near someone he hasn’t seen in so long than anything else he assumes.

“i didn’t think much has changed. it’s only been three years,” taehyung glances back to his phone and reads over the new reply, his heart skipping a beat.

im finally out of my meeting

are you still at the same restaurant?

taehyung doesn’t bother with another response and instead just sends his location and a pouting sunflower sticker.

“you have changed though. your hair, it’s gotten longer, and you’ve dyed it since then too.”

taehyung peeks at the soft lavender locks that hang in his peripherals and runs a hand through his hair more out of habit than necessity. it’s true, since he started working at the flower shop taehyung as taken to dyeing his hair to match his favorite flower as it changes every couple months or so.

“and you’ve gotten your ears pierced.” taehyung figits with his dangling earring subconsciously and jumps a bit in surprise when jihan’s warm hand takes his, bringing it to rest between them still clasped with his. “they look nice; you look nice,”

taehyung can’t help the way his cheeks warm at the compliment and the heated look in jihan’s eyes. he glances down at his phone again and is a little surprised to see a message from jimin.

taeeeeee tae hw er did s yio go

taehyung bites his lip and gives jihan an apologetic look. “i need to go check on my friend really quick, sorry hyung.”

“oh it’s no problem, i don’t mind waiting for you,”

for some reason the way jihan says it and the look in his eyes unsettles taehyung but he makes no comment on it, bowing his head slightly as he moves past jihan to duck inside.

what taehyung doesn’t notice is the muffled clack of his phone falling from where he had tried to stuff it in his pocket and it had fallen out and onto jihan’s shoe as he passed.

jihan watched taehyung until the door was shut behind him, eyes admittedly a little low on his figure, before he bent to pick up his phone. he turned the screen on and vaguely recognized jimin’s name as the pretty boy with black hair who taehyung had come with.

jihan had also been dragged to this semi-reunion tonight by a friend but what had convinced him in the end was hearing that taehyung would be here. honestly, jihan hadn’t really been in love with taehyung in vocational school but he had been incredibly infatuated with him. it was a mutual decision to break up after jihan graduated but he had definitely been sad about parting ways with the beautiful boy.

taehyung had always been one of the most sought after males in their age group. even before jihan had known him, he’d known of him. when he had asked taehyung on a date in the younger’s first year of vocational school he had been pleasantly surprised by how much taehyung really lived up to the rumors. a handsome and kind boy who had the perfect mix of artistic and gentle who liked to play sports and had a great sense of humor. the only thing that he hadn’t expected was how shy taehyung could be at first. it seems no matter how much time passed that part definitely hadn’t changed.

now though, taehyung is even more handsome, having blossomed into an almost ethereal man with a voice like dark velvet and skin like the richest honey. jihan’s has heard from a friend of a friend of taehyung’s mysterious rumored lover but what’s a rumor to a first love? he’s confident he can make taehyung his again tonight.

just as that thought crosses his mind the phone in his hand starts to vibrate and a song he doesn’t recognize starts to play from it.

someone named 'yoonie <3’ was calling and jihan glanced at the door taehyung had gone through for a moment before answering.

“tae baby where are you? i parked nearby and i’m on my way over,”

jihan frowns and looks at the contact picture, a sleepy eyed man with bleached blonde hair and bedhead with his cheek pillowed on a plush thigh and his lips pressed against the honey toned flesh. his frown deepens.

“this is do jihan, taehyung is a bit busy at the moment. can i help you?”

the man on the other end stays quiet for a few moments and jihan takes in the sounds of the bustling midnight streets of seoul in the background static of the call before the man speaks again.

“do jihan? are you a friend of taehyungs?”

jihan smirks at the tense tone the man’s voice has taken.

“we’re a bit closer than friends i’d say. who is this?”

at that moment the door creaks open and taehyung emerges from the brightly lit inside with flushed cheeks and ruffled hair, as if some had messed it. his eyes flick from jihan’s lowering smirk to the phone in his hand, the screen still lit with the caller ID and he gasps, swiping it from jihan quickly and bringing it to his ear.

“yoonie? is that you?”

yoongi gives a small sigh of relief at hearing taehyung’s voice, clearly sober and not too panicked.

“hey baby, are you ok? i’m almost there,”

“yes! i’m fine, i was just inside checking on jiminie for a -” he’s cut off by warm arms sliding around his waist and a chin on his shoulder and he yelps, jumping in surprise, his phone nearly falling from his hands and accidentally ending the call.

“j-jihan hyung-?”

“you know, i’ve missed you a lot taehyung. i know it’s been a couple years but i was hoping maybe we could revisit how things used to be,”

“jihan hyung i’m not- i moved on from y-you ah!”

jihan turns taehyung in his arms as he tries to pull away, taking the same hand he did earlier and pulling him closer when he suddenly pushed back roughly and someone else is taking taehyung’s hand.

when yoongi had heard taehyung yelp over the phone before the call suddenly ended he had increased his pace by a two hundred percent and when he had finally seen the sign for the noraebang bar that taehyung’s location placed him at he had almost relaxed slightly.

that was before he had caught sight of taehyung beautiful face twisted in discomfort and the man who had his arms around taehyung’s waist. he stormed over as taehyung clearly tried to pull away but his hand was grabbed and tugged by the man who yoongi assumed to be 'do jihan’.

he reached them in barely two seconds and smacked jihan’s hand away roughly, pushing the man back with his other arm as he moved between him and taehyung.

yoongi relaxed only slightly as taehyung’s fingers curled into his clenched fist and eased their palms together, his other sliding over yoongi’s back to rest on his shoulder blade as yoongi glared at the man in front of him.

“he isn’t interested,”

“and who are you to say so?”

jihan glared back just as fierce and taehyung bit his lip in worry behind yoongi, knowing this wouldn’t turn out well.

“does it matter? he said he’s not interested.” yoongi bit back a growl as jihan’s sneer deepened.

“you fuc-”

“yoonie,” taehyung’s voice cut him off and they both looked at the man, however taehyung’s attention was solely on yoongi as he anxiously bit his lip. “don’t.” it was soft, a breathed plea that yoongi understood easily. don’t let him make trouble, he’s not worth it.

“i parked in front of the cafe down the street, go start the car for me?” yoongi pressed his keys gently into taehyung’s palm and he nodded, giving one last hesitant glance at jihan before he turned and left, twisting the ring of the keys around his finger.

yoongi turned back to glare icily at jihan who returned his look with no hesitation.

“who the hell do you think you are meddling like this?”

yoongi keeps his face blank as he straightens his collar and stands at assumes his full imposing aura. jihan’s glare falters.

“i’m min yoongi, owner of min tobacco and min pharmaceuticals, and kim taehyung is mine.”

jihan’s blood runs cold and he tries to stop his hands shaking as min yoongi, CEO 'prince’  of korea looks own at him from a place he could never even hope to reach and it’s all he can do to keep his knees from buckling as the man turns and walks after taehyung. jihan was wrong, taehyung has changed a lot; from the popular but shy wall flower who was moulded easily in his hands to a delicate lily in a glass vase he could never hope to hold.

taehyung is waiting in the car by the time yoongi gets there, the heater already on to combat the cold winter night and he looks expectantly at yoongi as he enters the car. yoongi can’t keep the fond grin off his face as he leans over the console to cup taehyung’s chill flushed cheek and press their lips together in a gentle kiss.

taehyung barely pulls back to rest their foreheads together and he smiles warmly at yoongi. “you saved me again.”

yoongi’s grin grows to a smile as he presses another kiss to his favorite lips. “i’ll save you every time you need me to, forever.”

“forever? even when we’re old and i drop my spoon and can’t bend to pick it up?”

yoongi chuckles. “yes taehyung, even then.”

taehyung accidentally falls in at one point and his leg gets caught in some moss and he can’t get to the surface. right after he blacks out a smooth hand slides over his leg and untangles him and helps him to the surface

he wakes up on the bank just fine later

he ends up with a rash on his leg that gets worse and worse as time goes by and his desperate mother takes him to a woman she knows, a witch, who says she can help. she tells them he must have caught the interest of a water spirit. she boils the rock and he gets healed and taehyung on their last day, brings a gift to the pond and places it right on a rock on the shore and thanks the spirit for saving him.

yoongi is a water spirit who was interested in the small human boy playing in his pond and he accepts the gift gratefully

a year passes and on the next school break taehyung is back. he begged and begged his family to go back to jeju so they do, teasing him about the water spirit.

taehyung plays in the pond again and leaves another gift for yoongi who again accepts it. the pond looks a little more magical with everyday and taehyung keeps trying to see the water spirit until one day he gets to the pond early after sneaking past his mother and he sees yoongi lounging in a spot of sun on the shore and he gasps

yoongi hears him and dives back to the water but taehyung slowly coaxes him out with the promise that he just wants to play with the spirit

after that, yoongi doesn’t hide from taehyung anymore. he’s still a little cautious but the boy is sweet and genuinely just wants to be friends. taehyung leaves at the end of the break with the promise that he’ll be back.

taehyung ends up going back every summer and yoongi watches as taehyung grows into a man and he can’t say he’s not afraid to find himself looking at taehyung with different eyes when the 19 year old shows up, finally having grown into his features and filled out a bit, looking as if he himself were a spirit of the sun.

yoongi didn’t realize just how fond he had grown of the human until that summer when taehyung leaves him with the same promise to return in a year, and yoongi is left thinking that a year is too long a time to be by himself. he’s lived on his own for hundreds of years and yet this young human has made yoongi feel lonely for the first time in his long long life.

two more years pass and taehyung looks more and more handsome with every year and yoongi can’t help the way his heart speeds in the presence of the human. taehyung’s last visit is when he’s 21 years old. the year that taehyung tells yoongi that he won’t be visiting on the breaks anymore….because he’s got a job at the flower shop that the old witch who healed owns and she happily takes him in after seeing him grow up every break

taehyung now lives in the small apartment just above the shop and he learns about healing and plants from the woman who runs it as she happily teaches him and spends the rest of his time with yoongi at the pond.

Write down your five favorite things

Copied messily onto the paper.

Write down yuor 5 favorit things

Kim Taehyung

Tae hyung

Tae tae

Tae tae hyung

Taehyungie

Seokjin sighed again and set the paper aside.

“Jeongguk see me after class please”

The 8 year old looked up from his drawing and nodded, ever present grumpy expression on his face.

Seokjin loves his job. Truly he does. But teaching third graders can be tiring. Especially when they refuse to focus on anything except a ‘Kim Taehyung’.

As soon as the final bell rings Seokjin is smiling and waving his class goodbye, watching as little Jeon Jeongguk quickly slides his small sketchpad into his iron man bag. The little boy had seemed somewhat anxious today, bouncing his leg during the lesson and being even more quiet than usual, which is hard to notice given that he never really speaks anyways.

Seokjin knows the kid is shy and doesn’t really get along with his classmates because of it but he has also seen Jeongguk light up in the cutest bunny-like smile, his eyes scrunching up and his front teeth appearing.

But that had happened only once and it was when the class was leaving. Jeongguk had seen someone and ran off with the bright smile on his face leaving Seokjin, who had only ever seen his frowning blank face, stunned.

Jeongguk hesitantly tapped his teacher’s get his attention and Seokjin blinked, looking at the timid looking boy who stood holding his hands together in front of him and fidgeting nervously.

“Mr.Kim, a-am I in trouble?”

“No, no you’re not in trouble Jeongguk. But I do need to talk to you about your last few assignments. I’m noticing a pattern Jeongguk.”

Jeongguk blinked up at him confused and Seokjin sighed, pulling a small stack of papers out of desk and flicking through them one by one.

What do you want to do when you’re older?

I wanna marry taetae hyung

What is your dream job?

I wanna be a painter so I can draw pictures for taehyungie!

What is your favorite color and why?

Red! Tae hyung dyed his hair red yesterday!!

What is your favorite animal and why?

Bunnies! Taehyungie says I look like a bunny!! and there are bunnies on the moon!

“Jeongguk, who is this ‘Taehyung’ you keep writing about. These are meant to be serious question so you can work on your writing skills.”

Jeongguk seemed to perk up a little at that and then he frowned. “I am serious! Me n’ Taehyungie are gonna get married! He promised!! We’re gonna get six bunnies and two dogs and we’re gonna live in a biiig house!”

Seokjin blinked in surprise at how sure the 8 year old sounded and he sighed, a small smile tugging at his lips.

“Alright Jeongguk, that’s fine. But maybe write about something else once in awhile.”

Jeongguk frowned but nodded, looking at his feet. There was a sudden knock on the door and Seokjin glanced over to see a boy, maybe about ten with bright red hair and golden sun-kissed skin smiling in the doorway.

“Jeonggukie, you were taking too long! We’re going to the park today come on!”

Seokjin turned to Jeongguk and was shocked to see the little boy flushing red and smiling widely, eyes shining in a way he’d never seen before as he looked at the red haired boy.

“Taetae!!”

Jeongguk is practically vibrating with excitement and he looks over at Seokjin with eyes like a sad bunny and Seokjin realizes he thinks he’s still in trouble.

“Oh, you- you can go ahead Jeongguk, have fun at the park ok?”

Jeongguk makes this sort of high pitched chirping noise and his eyes nearly disappear in his smile as he nods quickly and runs as fast as his little legs will take him right into the red headed boys arms.

Seokjin starts forward when it looks like they’re about to fall but apparently ‘Taetae’ is used to this greeting because he lets the momentum of Jeongguk carry them as he pivots on his legs and spins around twice before setting the smaller boy down and ruffling his hair with a unique rectangular smile.

“Ready Jeonggukie?!”

Jeongguk jumps in place with excited little ‘uh!’s and Seokjin has literally never seen him so excited before. To think the shy little boy in the back of his classroom could be like this, it warms Seokjin’s heart and he thinks, maybe he doesn’t have to worry after all.

ok so yoongi calls up taehyung who agrees because hey it’s practically a vacation from his busy work schedule with a really hot guy and maybe yoongi also agreed to announce a fake relationship with taehyung so taehyung’s manager would stop bothering him to go on dates for publicity stunts.

so they trade numbers and meet up a few times in the two months they have before the wedding and over more games of twenty questions than either can count they learn enough about each other to pass off their fake five month relationship.

the day to leave arrives and seokjin’s face when kim taehyung himself appears through a crowd of photographers and body guards at their gate ten minutes before their flight only to push his gucci sunglasses back and lean down to place a shimmering kiss on min yoongi’s chapped grinning lips is priceless.

the plane ride to hawaii, because of course seokjin wouldn’t settle for less than paradise as the place he gets married, is eight hours and fifteen minutes, almost all of which taehyung spends with his head pillowed on yoongi’s shoulder sleeping comfortable as the older man worked on his laptop with both headphones in. seokjin spends about four hours of the flight glancing across the aisle at the two incredulously, not only at kim taehyung’s sheer presence but also at how comfortable yoongi looks next to him, easily brushing the hair back from taehyung’s face when it tickles the sleeping man’s nose and even ordering two waters naturally when the drink cart comes by and gently waking taehyung to drink some before letting him drift back off.

it’s nothing like the snappy and the skinship hating yoongi that seokjin had been with. even namjoon, who had been yoongi’s closest friend before it happened, was shocked by how comfortable yoongi seemed being affectionate with anyone that wasn’t his own puppy holly.

anyways they land and go to the hotel and there’s a bunch of events planned for the groomsmen and their guests before the actual wedding because hey its my au and i want drama and plot and the first one is a boat tour around maui, the island they’d chosen.

and of course taehyung can’t let his man wear some shitty $8 swim trunks from the abc store so yoongi and taehyung show up in matching dolce and gabanna swim trunks with equally expensive sunglasses and matching necklaces (bought at the airport gift shop for $1 each because taehyung thought they were cute) and they show up at the dock looking like a million bucks (literally)

the tour itself goes well, taehyung has the incredible ability to get along with almost anyone and him and namjoon spend a good amount of time speaking in english with the tour guide about something yoongi doesn’t understand (give him a break he knows some english he’s just not fluent like his american exchange student ex-best friend or his international actor and model ‘boyfriend’) so yoongi is left hanging out with seokjin and his friend jimin while the rest of seokjin’s family and close friends hung out in the main cabin.

yoongi doesn’t know why seokjin even invited him to his wedding to be honest, after what happened with them he thought they would never talk again, what with seokjin stealing his best friend and ripping his heart out in the same horrible night and all. but now here he is talking with seokjin and his bakery co-owner/best friend jimin about how their business is going.

soon enough though jimin brings up the topic of taehyung and asks how yoongi, not very well known music producer and part time underground yoongi, ended up dating international heartthrob, actor and model, kim taehyung.

yoongi and taehyung had agreed on a story of them meeting. he had been auditioning at taehyung’s agency, bighit entertainment, to be a producer, and had run into taehyung in the halls. they hadn’t hit it off very well at first because taehyung had knocked yoongi’s laptop to the floor but taehyung had offered to pay for any damages or a complete replacement if need be and they had sat down together and checked the laptop for any damage. taehyung had heard yoongi’s music and fallen in love with it. after that they had kept meeting up and getting to know each other as taehyung encouraged yoongi to keep trying at his company and somewhere along the lines they had fallen in love.

it was a completely believable story, especially since most of it was true since taehyung had accidentally knocked yoongi’s laptop over, but it had been in his own apartment when they were learning more about each other for their fake relationship, and he had insisted on yoongi sending in an application for one of the open studio positions.

jimin had asked him question after question about taehyung after that. ‘what’s his favorite brand? does he have a favorite movie he’s been in? what’s his skin care routine?’ yoongi answered as well as he could but couldn’t hold back his relieved smile when taehyung appeared at his side, hands sliding over his shoulders so his arms could loop around yoongi’s neck as taehyung pressed a chaste kiss on yoongi’s jaw.

jimin went pink immediately and introduced himself to taehyung with a shy smile to which taehyung responded with a blinding grin and a warm hug before going back to link arms with yoongi, smiling at the two men and asking to borrow his boyfriend for a bit.

yoongi thanked taehyung with a gentle squeeze to his hip as they walked away and taehyung responded with a wink and a kiss to his cheek as they went to lie down in the shade of the back deck.