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“We’re back!” Taehyung said hearing thumping footsteps as he took off his shoes along with his aunt. They had made the nice trek by car to the open market that morning to buy some groceries. Soo Min and Taehyung went two times a week and called it their “Aunty-nephew bonding time.” Jungkook and Chae were working on the photography business with his uncle doing the business and financial parts even if jungkook begged on his knees to stop him telling his uncle that he should just enjoy his retirement.
Jungkook rushed down the stairs quickly planting kisses on Taehyung’s cheeks before taking the bags that held some of the things they had bought, Soo Min was holding the rest of the stuff smiling at the two before walking through the hallway and into the kitchen setting the stuff down on the tables before Jungkook. From the outside any person would think they are the most functional family of four, but then they’d see the younger ones flirting and think otherwise.
“Lucky for us, we got some of the best strawberries because of tae’s wonderful connections and charm.” Soo Min held up the cartons of fruit sweetly while poking Taehyung’s cheek making him smile as he unloaded the many victuals into the fridge.
“Jimin is my master, please leave the strawberries out I want to try them.” Taehyung said hugging Jungkook from behind.
“If that means you got those horrible cheesy pickup lines from Jimin and Namjoon then we need to have a serious talk.”
“I made them myself, they weren’t that bad.” Soo Min looked at Taehyung with a a face that said otherwise as she cut up the strawberries putting them on a plate for the two boys. Taehyung pouted and pinched Jungkook’s arm making the older boy laugh.
“Tae, I hate to hurt you feelings but they were probably the worst pickup lines in the history of humanity...” jungkook said trying to dodge the radish being yeeted at him while laughing. Taehyung crossed his arms with a huff and made a quick trip up the stairs and out the house to sit on the front porch, bad habits die hard. Was it really a bad habit if it had no nicotine or weed in it? It was his stress relief, a little escape from all the many visions he gains of the artistic scenes in his head. Always in a hurry to bring them to life quick enough so they don’t slip out of his mind his room is filled with gold framed canvases and the scent of his habit mixed with drying paints.
If anything Taehyung doesn’t like to be teased, he knows they mean no harm it’s just annoying to him. Who wants to relive past embarrassing moments? Definitely not Taehyung.
Jungkook and his aunt looked at each other and without a word she pushed the plate of freshly sliced dewy strawberries towards him with a knowing look. Jungkook smiled and took the plate with him out the front door behind Taehyung.
When he stepped out he saw Taehyung and his habit sitting on the front porch swing taking in the spring sun’s rays as they flowed freely through the comfortably humid air. Taehyung had his eyes closed as he took in a puff and exhaled it in such an ethereal way Jungkook wondered if looking this good while smoking was possible. Eyes closed and surrounded by drifting smoke; the scent of frankincense, rosemary and mandarin filled the air around them only if you sniffed hard enough. They were outside.
“Which one is that one?” Jungkook asked softly setting the plate of fruit down and starling Taehyung and making him open his eyes in the process. The calming scent of Taehyung’s diffuser stick surrounded the two of them.
“This one is peace, my sexy one is in my room.”
“They have one called sexy?!” Jungkook letting out an airy laugh as he picked up a strawberry and held it up to Taehyung’s mouth for him to eat. Instead the younger boy turned his head to take in another puff of the smoke letting it out of his nose and onto the strawberry before eating the strawberry. Was it cool Jungkook thought that was cute? We may never know.
“The sexy one is new and I love it. Plus, I usually only stick to peace and sleep since they’re the only things I can’t get.” Taehyung gave Jungkook a small smile before letting his boyfriend feed him another strawberry as he lie on the very thick thighs every girl from their social class has dreamed about, take that bae ya-ri.
“You can always sleep in my room if you’re struggling, even though it’s not as comfortable as sleeping with the beautiful art staring right at you.” Jungkook ploped a fresh strawberry into his own mouth, Taehyung’s diffuser stick turned off and long forgotten on the mini table in front of them.
“Why do I have a feeling you’re implying something else in this strange offer of yours?” Taehyung squinted his eyes cutely while chewing on a strawberry.
“Hey, it could be taken both ways.” Jungkook smirked making Taehyung lift himself up and slap him on the shoulder playfully pouting before eating another one of the seemingly endless amount of strawberries. Jungkook laughed at Taehyung’s endearing behavior and kissed his bare neck on display due to the loose v-neck he was currently wearing.
“Kook, that’s not funny.”
“It wasn’t meant to, I was just saying, you could come to my room and we could go to sleep or you could come and we’d sleep together, in that way. You choose.” Jungkook shrugged stating it bluntly, making his boyfriend blush madly. They’d never talked about it, the sex of course. They’ve both been tested and are clean so they’ve gotten pretty close to doing the deed. The reason they never get farther than very steamy smooching sessions? Mr & Mrs Chae. They still live in the same house and they have human decency so why not spare them the noise? They are young elders after all...
“I don’t even know what to say.” Taehyung reached for his diffuser and a strawberry.
“All you have to do is give me the call. I’m ready when you are.” Jungkook said with a cocky grin. Taehyung rolled his eyes as he turned towards his lover with an idea.
“Whatever, here.” Taehyung placed the strawberry in Jungkook’s mouth using his own and blowing the smoke in his mouth along with a blush that rose quietly up his face. Jungkook smiled as he pecked Taehyung on the lips with the strawberry in his mouth. There was no coughing with these as they weren’t toxic. Jungkook has tried the diffuser out before while Taehyung wasn’t watching because he was curious.
“Where’d you get that from?” Jungkook looked as Taehyung took another puff of smoke, blowing it out his nose as the scent of the oils once again filled the air.
“Why do you need to know?”
“Because, that was sexy and cute. Except it would be sexier if you had the sexy diffuser thing with you.”
“We can try it again... in my room... without clothes-” Taehyung’s eyes widened as he set the rose gold tube back on the table and looked at Jungkook’s red face. He knew these things made you kind of lightheaded but maybe he was a bit too relaxed or they each had a tendency to have words slip out like a stream of uncontrollable water flowing in different directions.
“We could... like, right now.” Jungkook grabbed both the peace stick and Taehyung as they both quickly made their way inside the house and up the stairs. Unknowingly passing their aunt as she got up from her seat in the first living room and made her way into her husband’s study.
“Honey, it seems like a very good time to take a walk in the garden.” She softly knocked on his desk 3 times as he got up from his seat taking his reading glasses off, maybe it was their code but we would never know.
“Where’s my money Minnie?” Chae playfully stated as they made their way into the backyard.
“I’m not giving you any money, we both knew it was bound to happen any time soon. We both know that.” Chae made his way towards one of the rose bushes and plucked one for his dear wife.
“A rose for milady.” He bowed as he presented the beautiful flower to the smiling lady.
“I do!”
“We’re married-“
“Shhh, let me enjoy this moment as the sun beautifully hits my face as you look at me with your lovely brown eyes as the petals fall around us with the help of the beautiful spring breeze.” The old lady said while posing in the sun with a smile on her face as her husband took out his phone to snap the beautiful photo to remember this beautiful moment.
Meanwhile the young lovers were having a staring contest in their post intimacy haze.
“We should get married.”
“That was random.” Taehyung said putting his head on jungkook’s bare chest.
“No I really mean it. I meant to make it more romantic and propose since our 2nd anniversary is coming up... but whatever. As long as I get my message across it’s cool.”
“You’re not serious.” Taehyung sat up in disbelief as Jungkook smiled and reached inside his night table grabbing the trademark black velvet box.
“You think I’m kidding?” Jungkook opened the box revealing the two titanium wedding bands. One with a sapphire gem in the middle and the other with a topaz gem in the middle, both of their birthstones.
“Oh my, kook, those are so beautiful. Goodness, I don’t even have anything to give you.” Taehyung said with a watery voice as he was holding back happy tears.
“You don’t have to give me anything all I want is an answer. Will you marry me?”
“I you already know my answer.” Jungkook’s bright face automatically did a 180 and the façade of fake sadness. Cue the acting. He looked so crestfallen and poor Taehyung didn’t know what was going on, everything was going perfectly before. He was completely fooled.
“So, I- I guess I asked at the wrong time if you were going to say no to me. I.. I though what we had was real and... and- and we were both ready for the next step on our relationship. I- I guess it was just me.... it’s ok Taehyung we can always take some steps back if this was too fast, we don’t have to get married quickly like Hobi and Yoongi. It’s fine if you also want some space, I- I am sorry tae.“ And now, cue the fake waterworks. Jungkook had tears running down his face and Taehyung was so confused. Honestly, Jungkook is very evil for this. Taehyung stared in horror as Jungkook’s fake tears continued to flow.
“What? Kook, why would I say no? You are literally the best thing that could happen to me! Of course I would marry you why would you think otherwise?!” Taehyung said cupping his now fiancé’s face and kissing the tears away but soon enough the fake tears stopped and jungkook was grinning like a madman before pecking Taehyung on the lips and wiping the tears away.
“Great! Wait, hehe were engaged!” Jungkook laughed as Taehyung yanked the ring box from his hands and slapped him hard on the shoulder.
“I actually thought I did something wrong, you assumed the worst! Now, give me ring before I say no.” Taehyung stuck his left hand out and infront of Jungkook who slipped the sapphire ring onto his ring finger.
“That one has my birth stone and mine has yours to represent us being together or each other’s. Whichever way you want to think.” Jungkook said before Taehyung pounced on him and pushed him into the bed leaving kisses upon kisses on his lips.
“I fucking love you with all my heart.”
“I love you too. But I’m feeling hungry so let’s show off these rings uncle helped me choose, let’s have a family date. We should invite the others and tell them.”
“Already, are you sure?”
“If you want to of course, we can just wait if you want to.”
“No, we can. We need to tie this knot and get this bread as fast as possible!”
***
+6 months
They were standing at the front of the airport hand in hand and sad looks on their faces. The elderly couple had decided that it would be best for them to move to Malta and enjoy the rest of their lives together visiting both Jin in London and Taehyung and Jungkook back in Korea.
“Uncle, are you sure you and Auntie want to leave the estate? Me and kookie can just move out and leave it to you guys, the house is going to be half empty.” Taehyung pouted with tears in his eyes, he dreaded goodbyes. Jungkook also looked down as they made their way to the check in area with Soo Min reminding them of how to take care of themselves since they’ll be alone.
“No, we’re fine with Malta for now. Plus, you guys also deserve some alone time, you’re married, you deserve it.”
“We’ll be alone in the house. Whenever Jungkookie goes to the studio then it’ll be quiet.” Taehyung complained and Chae looked at him with a smile.
“Then it’s either you follow him to the studio or go to a café with jimin.”
“Jimin is a very busy manger at Prada Korea and whenever he has time it’s mainly with Namjoon.” The youngest huffed and crossed his arms as they continued their journey which was taking longer since they had stopped for awhile.
“Not always though, you guys still have dinner together on Thursdays. Travel around and gain new ideas Tae, you too Jungkook. Now, we have to get going.” Chae said looking at Soo Min and then the boys. They were about to walk away before Soo Min turned around and looked at the two lovers with a soft smile.
“Are you guys not going to give us one last bigass family hug?”
“Say less.” Jungkook said before enveloping the two young elders in a very tight embrace along with Taehyung. After a few moments they all let go and Taehyung wiped a stray tear from his eye.
“I’ll miss you guys, make sure you guys call at least once a week.”
“Don’t worry and we’ll miss you even more.”
They said their final goodbyes and the young couple exited the airport and got in their car that was a very unneeded wedding gift from their dear aunt eui. It was one of the most recent Lexus models, again, they didn’t need it but she insisted. They drove away from the airport and Taehyung stared at Jungkook’s tattooed right arm on the steering wheel, the titanium band on his ring finger really stood out and he smiled to himself. He really secured the bag.
“What song do we sing to forget the fact that we are just now leaving the airport without our aunt and uncle?”
“Sadderday.”
“No sad songs.”
“Ok then, We’re listening to nice colors by Khai dreams and Atwood?”
“Well, what are you waiting for?” Jungkook said keeping his eyes on the road as a good driver should. Taehyung shook his head and connected his phone to the car, ready to play some music and sing like the *nonexitent* rent is due. So yeah, without questions the two lovers sang nice colors and other songs to their heart’s content and as loud as they safely could before reaching their home. They quickly made it inside the welcoming structure as they were to celebrate their newfound alone time with intimacy.
***
+1 year
It was raining but not as hard as the day before. It wasn’t hard enough for Taehyung to stay inside. He loved times like this: rain, wine, the beautiful view of the lush greens in the small estate he has called home for 27 years now and also his caring husband; Jungkook. They haven’t gone through much except for a few arguments here and there but it’s all ok.
It’s the best it could ever be. Especially since Jungkook has become one of the most sought out photographers and Taehyung secured a good deal with an art gallery and became well known, well known enough that they were invited to many galas they had politely declined. He was even working on a collaboration with Uniqlo.
Jungkook walked onto the balcony and behind his husband wrapping his hands around his waist. He didn’t care that they were both getting soaked with rain. He cared about his one and only love.
“Oh, you’re back early.” Taehyung placed a soft hand on Jungkook’s cheek and tilted his head to the side allowing Jungkook to place chaste kisses on his neck. They enjoyed the time as soft drops of rain and Jungkook continued his ministrations on Taehyung’s neck leaving him breathless on the balcony. It wasn’t sexual per se, but rather loving and intimate.
The older of the two placed one last kiss on his lover’s neck before just placing his head on Taehyung’s shoulder. He had looked for Taehyung to tell him about what he found but he got carried away in Taehyung’s ethereal beauty.
“I got us two puppies.” Jungkook lifted his head when Taehyung turned around to hug him tightly. He was radiating brightness on a day that was meant to be gloomy with shades of dark olive and rain.
“I fucking love you, you know that right?”
“Of course I do. I also know that I love you very much.” Jungkook placed a kiss on Taehyung’s cheek.
“We’re calling our children Gureum and Yeontan ok?”
“Those are very cute names my love.”
It was at times like these when Taehyung enjoyed life with Jungkook. He already knows what his next piece of art will be called:
“My Honey is Sweet Like Sugar.”