"Don't you like what you see?"
"Tha-that's not the point. We're drunk."
He put the glass on the table and the bottle right next to it.
"Oh you're such a gentleman. I've always liked that about you."
Wearing nothing but her underwear and a shirt, she walked towards him and put her arms around his neck.
Carefully his hands slid around her waist so he could stabilize her, just in case she would fall.
"I missed you, Namjoon. I've missed these moments with you."
"Me too. But I actually have to go back soon. I already have a missed call from Jimin."
"Just stay here. Please just- just stay."
Namjoon noticed how her voice sounded sad and he looked at her.
"Hey, hey what's wrong?" He caressed her face.
She shook her head.
"Nothing. I just don't want to be alone tonight. I understand if you have to go back, I know you have a busy schedule, but.. I felt lonely recently and now that you're here, I don't feel that way anymore. I don't want to feel lonely again", she said and hid her face in his shirt.
Namjoon wrapped his arms around her and they just stayed like that a few minutes.
Calmly going through her hair, he was thinking about what he was going to do.
Then his phone rang. Jimin, again.
"I gotta answer this."
"Hyung, where are you? Everyone is worried after you suddenly just left. Are you okay? Should someone come pick you up?"
Namjoon waited a few seconds before he replied "I'm with Jun. I'll stay the night, sorry I worried you."
Jun looked up with a warm smile on her face.
"Who's Jun?"
"She's.." he looked at her. "She's ..this woman, just ask Jungkook about it, he'll know."
With that, he hung up the phone.
"You wanted to say girlfriend, didn't you?"
"I've just gotten too used to calling you that."
"I wouldn't say that. We haven't really talked about it but to be honest- I would like to be called your girlfriend again. It's not as if we are strangers, who just started going out with each other."
"That's right", Namjoon said, "we've known each other almost a year indeed."
"Yes. Around 9 months."
"Feels like yesterday, that we exchanged numbers."
"I know. Weird."
"I like you. And I want to be your girlfriend again", Jun said.
"I like you too", Namjoon answered. They were standing closely in front of each other, both waiting for the other to make the next step.
After minutes went by and nothing happened, she turned around and said "I'll get ready for bed."
But he reached for her hand and pulled her back to him.
Then he kissed her. And she kissed him back.
The kiss was sweet and tender and also led to them stumbling into her bedroom, throwing clothing on the floor and landing on top of each other on her mattress.
Whatever they thought they would or wouldn't do, didn't matter now. They were just lost in each other's eyes, lost in the exact moment.
-at the same time at the dorm-
"Your turn hobi hyung."
"I don't have anything to put out, you're next Tae."
"I still don't understand how this game works."
Jungkook looked into Taehyung's cards. (The picture above)
"You can take that one", he pointed at the blue eight-card in Taehyung's hand.
"And what does that do?"
"Jesus Tae, we're playing Uno. It's really not that hard", Jimin said.
"I know why this game is so difficult for Taehyung", Yoongi said.
"Why?"
"Because he is so smart that the game is too easy for him and that's why he doesn't get it."
Jungkook laughs and Taehyung pouts.
"Stop making fun of me."
"Just ignore them, they're just teasing you", Jungkook said and patted his leg.
"Here I'll help you. It's really easy, trust me. Yoongi laid a red zero-card just now, right?"
Taehyung nodded.
"With your cards you can choose either this one or this one. The only things that are important, is that either the number or the color matches."
"Oh", Tae made. That didn't seem too difficult at all.
"What can I do with this one?", he pointed at the red middle one.
"You can skip a person."
"Oh. And this one?", he asked, referring to the right card in his hands.
"When the color is the same one as that card, you can put that one down, instead of a normal number and the person who's next, has to take two extra cards."
"Oh. But why?"
"Because you have to try to win."
"How do I win?"
"You get rid of all of your cards", Jungkook explains.
"And when you are at your last card, you knock on the table and say 'uno'. Then the others know that they have to hurry up", Yoongi added.
"But if I try to win, why would I warn the others?"
"Those are the rules!", Jimin groaned.
"We will play one practice round, then you'll get the hang of it."
Jungkook collected all the cards and mixed them together.
"Have you reached Namjoon by the way?", Yoongi asked Jimin.
"Yes, oh and I meant to mention that, Jungkookssi, Namjoon hyung said he's with Jun. Do you know who that is? He said to ask you."
"Jun? It's his ex girlfriend, I think."
"How do you know that?", Hobi asked.
"Jin hyung knows it too!"
"Jin hyung knows everything, especially about Joon", Taehyung said.
"Where actually is hyung?", Jimin said.
"Taking a shower."
"Ready for this round?", Jungkook asked and split the cards.
"Someone is calling you", Tae said.
"Who is it?"
Taehyung looked at the display of the phone.
'Lucas' it said.
He pressed the red button.
"No one important. Let's play."
They played round after round with a few calls from Lucas in between, which all got declined by Taehyung, because Jungkook's phone was laying on the floor next to him. They all sat on the floor, around the table.
What could be so important that he desperately needed to call Jungkook?
"Okay y'all, I'm done for today, I'm going to bed."
"Night kook", Hobi said.
"Are you coming later?", Jungkook asked Tae. The said man nodded.
"Now that I finally know how this game goes, I will play a few more rounds", he said proudly.
Jungkook agreed smiling, picked his phone from the ground and left the room.
What was this? Three missed calls from Lucas and two text messages.
Jungkook pressed the button and waited for his voice to appear through the line.
"Hey, Jungkook, I'm sorry that I called so many times. I wasn't sure if you declined or if you just weren't there but after the third call got declined almost immediately, I thought I'd leave you alone."
"Yeah sorry about that, I was playing cards with the band."
Jungkook didn't mention that it wasn't him who had declined all the calls. He figured, he'd talk to Tae about it later.
"What's up?"
Then he heard Lucas sobbing.
"Something happened", he said
"Oh- oh. Are you okay? What happened?Should I come over?"
He knew that Lucas had wanted to move to South Korea, to his best friend, for a while because he mentioned it one time in a text. And Lucas did move in with her, even in Seoul, just last week. Otherwise of course Jungkook wouldn't have offered to come by.
Lucas tried to stop his crying.
"I might actually come over to yours, if that's okay? I don't want to be in this apartment right now. There are too many memories here."
Jungkook bit his lip. He probably wasn't allowed to invite friends over. But under these circumstances?
"Alright I'll send you my address. But don't ring the bell, just call me when you're there."
With those words he hung up and Taehyung walked in, right in that moment.
"Hi", he said, "you should get this treatment, this lotion for the burning on your back done again."
"And you think, you're the perfect candidate?", Jungkook asked.
"Absolutely", Tae grinned.
"Will you give me the honor of taking your shirt off?", he asked.
Jungkook laughed. "Sure."
-
"If your back is still this red tomorrow, then we're going to a doctor."
"Is it that bad? It doesn't even hurt that much anymore."
"Well it's not red red, you know? Not tomato like-"
Jungkook smiled. Tomato-like was especially a way of mixing words as Taehyung did. He always made up new words when he described things. In this case 'tomato-like'.
"-but it does look like a good crappy sunburn", he finished his sentence.
"Maybe this last time of applying lotion will do the trick", Jungkook said.
"Yeah maybe."
Massaging him a little during, he distributed the cream on JKs back.
"Ooh, you're tense."
Jungkook didn't answer to that.
"Tae did you decline all of Lucas' calls?"
"No?"
Jungkook sighed.
"Why?", he asked.
"We were busy playing Uno."
"Yes, but you could have mentioned, that he called multiple times. And that he texted me
a few minutes later, it's obvious that something wasn't right."
Taehyung closed the cap and said "done".
"I'm serious, Tae. Are you listening? You should have told me."
"Noted. I'll tell you next time."
"Really?"
"No."
"Tae!", Jungkook turned around and looked at him.
Taehyung stood in front of him with crossed arms and a straight mouth-line.
"I don't like him."
"He's not for you to like! He's my friend and in a bad mood and called me. To talk to me! Not for you to dislike him."
Tae pouted.
"He's coming over now by the way."
"What?"
"I invited him."
Silence.
"I'm going back to my room-"
"Wait. Maybe this could be a good time for you two to get to know each other. Lucas needs distraction and you need to get over your jealousy."
"I'm not jealous."
"Yeah right", Jungkook smirked.
"Just stay. You'll like him, I'm sure", he said.
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New chapter 🎉
And right uh, happy new year! 🎆