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Taehyung stands there frozen when jeongguk caught him leaving the room he'd just moved in to and jeongguk knows it's the truth, he's not dumb.
They stare at each other and sue him he can't keep it in any more, "you-you changed rooms?"
Just like that taehyung's eyes widens like a dear caught in headlights, like he has done something wrong. The look of surprise in his eyes should bother jeongguk more but it doesn't because he's feeling so much more than that.
Taehyung bites his lips before replying, "I- yeah-i was-i was about to tell you but you we're not in the living room, I- the working lady helped me and I-"
"Okay. No problem, I get it." He's cut before he can finish his sentence by a rather harsh response by jeongguk, who knows he shouldn't be this bothered but he fucking is. "I mean, it would've been nice if you have told me in the morning? When i-when i-you said you were fine. . . I-you should've told me, I'd have-i'd have. . ." He'd have what? He doesn't know.
Taehyung lowers his gaze to the floor, "I'm sorry, I was about to but-I'm sorry, do you-do you want me to move back in your room?" He speaks Softly almost close to a whisper.
It's was your room too, jeongguk wants to voice it out but doesn't. He feels like an asshole right now, he hates that even though he knows he doesn't have any right to question taehyung's choice and now taehyung has to rethink his decision because of him. He knows all well that he fucking should not be questioning him at all, not after what he had done last night. This outcome was expected but why the heck is he feeling like someone has ugly kicked him in the stomach.
"No- don't. I'm sorry, you're free to make any choices and if this is what you want i-i, it's okay, I respect your choice."
Taehyung looks up at him at that, there's an emotion unfamiliar to jeongguk but it passes in flash that he thinks he might be overthinking it. "Oh. . .um okay, Thankyou for understanding again jeongguk." Taehyung says but his face is blank when he says that and jeongguk gets the same vibe, when taehyung told him everything was fine between them this morning.
This taehyung, void of any emotion on his face, too hard to read wary eyes, scares jeongguk if he's honest and he doesn't know how to approach him when he's like this and how to comprehend what he's saying with what emotion.
He's still mad, is the only conclusion he's mentally capable to come on.
It's taehyung who speaks first to break the heavy tension that surrounds them, "I've heard, a guest is coming. . . Um jimin-ssi? Your. . .?" He asks with the same eyes and jeongguk is reluctant to answer, he's not liking this.
"Uh? Oh. Yeah he's my friend and my secretary, you remember him? The one with goofy smile and crescent eyes?"
Taehyung crosses his arms and raises one hand to tug the collar of his shirt, "Friend? And No. Maybe I'll remember when I see him." He says as he plays with the collar more.
Jeongguk eyes the movement and when he lifts his eyes to look at taehyung, he's already looking at him and those harsh eyes with so many guards up are gone now and he mentally sighs in an unknown relief.
"Yes, so shall we? He must be here by now, I don't know what'll he do if we don't greet him by the door." Jeongguk says he starts to walk towards the living room and expects taehyung to follow, who does.
"You two sound close." Taehyung says after a given thought, and it doesn't sound hesitant, it sounds like he's really curious with an underlying unknown intention.
"yeah kind of, our families are friends and eventually we were together most of the times and now he's my secretary. It eventually happened." He says with a smile.
Taehyung looks at him from the side, again with an unreadable expression and jeongguk doesn't know what to think of it when he says next, "you two seem like inseparable," And his voice doesn't sound pleased.
Jeongguk open his mouth to form any kind of a response before the bell goes off, screaming jimin's arrival.
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You know, the thing about jimin is, that he never gets awkward and by never he means literally never. Even if he's in a crowd of strangers or even if you just drop him in a different country with people talking alien or for worse, even if he's surrounded by the actual aliens, he'll know his way, he'll make his way.
He always did, But the atmosphere around the table right now is infuriatingly fuckin awkward and he doesn't know where did he went wrong making his life decisions and suddenly realises it was when he self invited himself to jeon residence.
He internally groans. Ugh fuck you karma!
"Okay so I was saying, you know the sky is blue! Amazing right?" He acts surprised and no one's even batting a lash at him. "Fuck this is awkward, um. . .Taehyungie?"
Like cmon people, you've a guest at your home, speak for the hell of a starter.
Upon hearing his name being called, taehyung looks up from his lunch plate to look at him like he's caught off guard and mutters a soft, "yes?," Perplexed.
Fuck finally!, "So taehyungie can I call you taetae? Or taebear? Or tata? Because you're too cute and taehyungie is a too long of a name to call you." He chirps and the way taehyung's cheeks went crimson is a sight to be hold honestly and he preens on it.
"Uh. . . Um. . . Yeah anything's fine." Taehyung replies shyly and looks at jimin, who's smiling blindly and his eyes disappear into small crecents and he realises jeongguk wasn't wrong when he said he's the guy with crecent eyes. He looks at jimin with a new light in his eyes and a new perspective than before. Something is about him that feels, familiar, like they just unknowingly really click in.
Upon hearing taehyung's approval, "Okay. Taebear it is! Right gguk?" Jimin asks and looks at the raven head who hadn't utter a single word after he had introduced him to taehyung and jimin isn't sure why he's been silently stabbing eye daggers at him whenever he tries to talk to taehyung, for no reason.
"Mhmm." Jeongguk hums half heartedly with a part response part grunt and side eyes the boy sitting beside him with pink cheeks either because of a nickname or being called cute by that midget jimin.
Huh!
He's regretting inviting him, he really does.
"So taebear, tell me what do you like?" Jimin asks as he takes a sip of water from his glass.
Jeongguk mentally scoffs at the question and Archs his perfectly shaped eyebrow at jimin, giving him a big fat 'as if he'd really share' but jimin just smirks back at him and mouths, "just wait, watch and burn."
It irks him that stupid creepy smile on jimin screams that he's not up to something good but when jeongguk looks at taehyung again, who's silent at the question, the small selfish part of him thinks that it's good that taehyung's not opening up to jimin, which is not good, just because he selfishly wants taehyung to open up and share his everything with him first before everyone else, doesn't mean it's good to think that way, it's wrong and unfair to taehyung he knows, and yet he can't help but wish, but the other major part of him really wants to hear the answer to the question jimin had asked even if it means that taehyung feels more comfortable with jimin because it definitely looks like that as taehyung finally mumbles an answer.
He hesitates at first but he starts with, "I-i. . .like art."
"Really!? I like art too. What do you like in it? I love dancing, if It wasn't for this well paying job of being his secretary, I'd have definitely been a dancer and I love music!" Jimin perks up with shining stars in his eyes and jeongguk is well. . . He feels like he's intruding or. . . Or being a third wheel and the way taehyung's face has lit up like he's reincarnated just now, it shouldn't but it does, it tugs something in his heart and it's not good.
Jeongguk looks at taehyung and his bright smile and he's unable to look away.
"You do!? I love music too and I'd love to dance but I don't know how to and I paint, I love painting." Taehyung replies enthusiastically, lunch long forgotten.
As much as jeongguk would love to, he doesn't interrupt their conversation. He looks down at hands, plays with his wedding band without any reason. His ears are perked up, he's listening Intently to their conversation, sucks in every detail taehyung let's out of his mouth and jeongguk smiles sad but content.
It wasn't that bad of an idea, actually it was the best idea, jimin coming here.
He looks up at jimin, who really looks like he's having the time of his life with one hand under his chin and he's smiling like crazy and taehyung, don't ask, he looks. . . He looks beautiful if you ask jeongguk. The way he's smiling, the way his eyebrows rise up curiously and his lips form a pout whenever he speaks.
Jeongguk looks at them with content heart but sad eyes, sad because he's not the receiving end of those small, cute deep giggles.
Lunch is long forgotten, so is jeongguk.
He looks at jimin again, who's showing something to taehyung from his cell phone, and then at taehyung who's watching whatever it is with great amusement.
He sighs and stands up finally interrupting their small bubble, he feels bad to be in that spot but he has to.
Both are looking at him expectantly and he doesn't know why he's saying this, "um I've just got an email, it's important, work realted. I-i'll go out for a bit, so. . . You two enjoy, I'll be back later." He didn't want to say this, it was the opposite of this, he wanted to slam his hands on the table and shout, 'I'm sitting here too, talk with me too,' and 'tae why would you never talk to me like that, I want to know you too,' or worse like, 'stop behaving like boyfriends in front me, I don't like it.' But instead he says, "jimin keep him company till I come back okay?"
He steps back from the table and turns around and leaves the two of them, before anyone could question anything.
He doesn't look back when taehyung's brows crunch in worry looking at departing jeongguk with those same sad eyes.
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