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"Relax hyung! My viewers aren't gonna eat you. Plus I can always edit things out later."
"I never agreed to post the video you brat, I just said I'd give the recording a try."
The younger, Jimin, giggles anyway, running to start the recording. It's been months since Jimin brought up the idea of filming the Boyfriend Tag with Yoongi, and since then, the rapper has always been adamant not to do it. Jimin's boyfriend was a rapper-in-the-making, he's always gladly announced it to everyone he meets, ever so proud of saying he's in between jobs right now but just you wait till the whole world screams his name.
Presently, Jimin was the only one shouldering their financial situation solely from his Youtube channel (which has hacked up an impressive count of eight million subscribers), filming beauty tutorials, weekly vlogs and first impressions of anything under the sun - he even filmed the first impression on monster dildos, although he wisely chose to hold off on posting it. His boyfriend has always been guilty, regretful for not being able to provide for his younger boyfriend. Maybe that's why he finally relented on filming the 'damn thing'.
"Right ok, first we have to film the intro. I'm gonna say hello, talk about the concept of the video and then you're going to introduce yourself. Sound alright?"
His boyfriend merely nods, already exasperated by the whole process.
Play Video
"Hey, guys! So today we are doing the boyfriend tag! I got the idea from my fellow vlogger and dear friend Taehyung- TaTaBeauty here on Youtube..." Yoongi watches his boyfriend make cute faces and overly exaggerated hand gestures before finally addressing him. "This is my boyfriend Yoongi."
Yoongi stares at the camera.
"Hyung!" Jimin elbows him in the ribs, pouting.
"Oh sorry, babe. Hello~" He forces himself to act cute, mimicking Jimin by pulling up his shoulders and squinting his eyes.
"Right, that was bad. Stop putting on a front. Act natural."
They both steel himself for his next attempt.
"'Sup Youtube."
Jimin facepalms himself.
Cut to next scene
"So this is my boyfriend Yoongi... He's a little shy so please be nice!"
After a handful of attempts at Yoongi's introduction, they just opt for letting Jimin do the honors. Filming never really was Yoongi's strong suit.
"Right, so I'm just going to jump straight into the questions- I will link the questions down below if you are interested by the way. Ok, so Yoongi." Yoongi scrunches his nose at hearing Jimin say his name but let it slide. He knows that his boyfriend had international fans that just won't understand Hangul honorifics so he forces himself not to be bothered by it. Besides, the way Jimin said his name anyway, soft and lilting, he thinks he could get used to that...
He doesn't realize the question had already been asked when Jimin just looks at him expectantly, laughing when he realizes the older has spaced out.
"Ahh this hyung really..."
Cut to next scene
"How did we meet..." Jimin looks at the other, continuing when he realizes he wasn't gonna say anything. "Five years ago, I had just moved to Seoul from Busan. My apartment was in a building with two other apartments." Yoongi grins, remembering the story," The key that the landlord gave me was actually the duplicate to Yoongi's apartment with his apartment number, so I ended up breaking into his apartment. There was him, dumbly standing there with his dog when the landlord clearly said he didn't want any pets in the building-"
"-Immediately I begged him not to snitch. It was the only place I could afford at the time and I wasn't planning on giving Holly up either - Holly, my dog. We ended up really hitting it off, it was actually thanks to Holly, he loved Jimin even at the beginning."
Jimin smiles, happy that Yoongi 1- remembers the story and 2- is actually starting to talk.
"Was that ok?"
Jimin lunges for him.
Cut to next scene
Three minutes later, after Jimin reapplies his lipstick and re-buttons Yoongi's shirt, the couple continues on with the video.
"Where was our first date?" It was Yoongi that asks the question this time.
Jimin clears his throat, already tearing up at the mention of their first date.
"It was actually Valentine's day. After treating me to an amazing dinner, we went to the beach and he pulled out his old walkman. Yoongi made me a rap song that his friend rapped, Namjoon, who is actually Taehyung's boyfriend as well." Jimin pauses, not wanting to sob there and then, "Only the old thing skipped and ate the recording. Instead of just brushing it off, he rapped it in front of me. He never rapped in front of anyone before."
Yoongi continues for him, seeing as his boyfriend looks about two seconds away from bawling.
"Jimin discovered the hidden hobby that I kept from anyone else. He's the reason why I actually wanted to pursue a career in rap..."
That sends Jimin right off.
Cut to next scene
"Sorry about that guys. I've just been really emotional."
"You have to apologize for things like that to your viewers?"
Yoongi raises his brows.
"It's an expression babe. Anyway, what was your first impression of me?"
"Well, I thought you were a burglar so..."
"Hyuuung~" The younger whines, Yoongi just chuckles. "Next question then. When did you meet my fam- Actually no let's no-"
Yoongi was already laughing his head off.
"Stop laughing! Stop-hyung my mum might watch this video you know."
That does the trick.
"So about two weeks after we started dating, Jimin's mother came in for a visit. Jimin wasn't home yet at the time so I figured since we were neighbors and I couldn't let my boyfriend's mother freeze outside, I invited her into my apartment. I wasn’t really looking to meet her yet but I said whatever, let’s get it over with. She was polite for most of it but after about 15 minutes of conversation, she then proceeded to graphically describe what she would do to me if I hurt her son. Turns out she purposelessly flew out to threaten me after Jimin announced our relationship."
"And I'm still so sorry about that! I didn't know she was going to get bat shit crazy after finding out."
"Babe I thought your mum might watch this video..."
"Oh shit-"
Cut to next scene
"Do I have any weird obsessions if so what? Ooh, I wanna do this for Yoongi as well, he has this obsession I wanna share."
"Hey!" Yoongi playfully slaps his shoulder, "Well for some reason, Jimin is obsessed with working out."
"I'm not really obsessed though."
Yoongi gives him that look, "Babe, how often do you go to the gym."
"Well technically since I installed a gym here in our house- oh."
"Yeah..."
"Well, you're obsessed with lamb skewers!"
"Not even gonna deny. Jungkook, if you're watching this hit me up." He nods at the camera then his eyes flashed, signaling an idea. "Babe, can I get some lamb skewers with Jungkook after filming?"
Jimin can only sigh as Yoongi grabs his phone, no doubt already texting his friend.
Cut to next scene
"How long have we been together? 5 years. Boring," Jimin feigns a yawn, "Next question... Ooh! Do we have any traditions!" He smiles at Yoongi, already spotting the post-it notes at the top of his desktop screen. "So Yoongi and I, even though we both work from home, don't really see each other a lot. We're such workaholics that we end up holing ourselves in our own offices. We thought it wouldn't be ideal sharing offices since my aesthetics for this channel doesn't really go with the whole teenage-emo-vibe thing he got going on in his-ow!" The younger pouts, rubbing the spot Yoongi lightly hit. "Right, so I always wake up earlier than him, just because I know I have to catch the sunlight to film things before I spend hours editing videos and responding to emails and so on. And Yoongi always stays later, purely because he gets so caught up in his projects that he loses track of time and I don't really want to disturb him when he's got his creative juices flowing."
"Anyway, getting to the point Jimin." Yoongi playfully eyes his boyfriend. He's getting a lot better at playing up in front of the camera, or maybe he's just forgetting there was a camera at all, acting completely natural now, "We leave each other post-it notes. He leaves mine in the morning before he works so I could see it later and I leave him before I join him in bed, usually, he's already sleeping by this point, so he could see it in the morning."
"It started when we had this petty argument. It was at the start of our relationship and Yoongi was just too shy to apologize in front of my face, so he left a post-it note on my computer saying sorry. I did the same, leaving a post-it note on his saying I forgave him... It just kinda escalated from then on..."
They smile at each other for a few beats before leaning in for a kiss. Those post-it notes sometimes are the only thing that keeps each other going, reminding themselves who they were really working hard for.
Yoongi looks away, however, remembering that millions of viewers could potentially see his love through his eyes - something he only means for Jimin to see.
"Ok, so the next question is, Jiminah can you lean your phone towards me so I can see, thanks... What was our first road trip?"
"Hmm. We've never really gone on a road trip before. It's something that we've talked about already with our friends though. If you have any ideas for a fun road trip please comment down below and I may vlog the whole thing if it turns out well." Jimin points downwards cutely, Yoongi just pretends he knew what Jimin was doing. "So next question... What was the first thing you noticed about me?"
Shit. Yoongi freezes, not knowing how to tell his boyfriend of five years that he can't remember... Is it his lips? Jimin's lips look like something that someone would notice first right?
"You forgot didn't you?" Jimin doesn't even seem angry, just rolling his eyes in faux irritation.
"No actually! I was mesmerized by your lips!"
"Well, the first thing I noticed about you was actually not you, it was your dog so you just played yourself."
Yoongi sputter before shouting at his already running boyfriend.
"Yah Park Jimin!"
Cut to next scene
They both catch their breaths, Jimin still laughing from the tickles he got.
"Ok-so... Shit, I can't breathe" The vlogger giggles, "It says here, what's my favorite restaurant?"
Yoongi raises his hand, signaling a timeout while clutching his stomach with the other.
"Wait." They both just giggle heartily until Yoongi finally recovers enough to answer the question. "You don't like eating out though. You prefer Namjoon's brother's cooking-"
"Oh my gosh! Jin-Hyung if you're watching, I love you and your food. Guys also please subscribe to EatJin, I promise you, you would be filled just by watching him cook! I'll link his channel below, actually, I'll link all their channels below- Tae's and Namjoon hyung's as well. As for Yoongi's favorite restaurant, he doesn't like fancy food places. He loves the lamb skewer joint just down in 6th avenue though!"
Yoongi reads the next question, which was now on Jimin's laptop screen. He was tempted to omit the next question and move on to a different one but he thought Jimin's viewers would already know the questions by heart. "What do we argue about the most."
Jimin looks up, knowing that Yoongi wasn't the type of person to share things like these to the internet. "Babe, can I say something?"
The older nods, subconsciously reaching out for his boyfriend's hand.
"Well, the thing with me and Yoongi is that we don't do anything half-way. We go full on in everything. And that also, unfortunately, includes misunderstandings, and most of it actually stems from our love from each other." Jimin flails his arms, at a loss to explain further.
"What he means is that for example, I remember last Summer Jimin went on a crazy diet because he saw some hate calling him fat or some bullshit like that-"
"Language babe-"
"Sorry. Anyway, I asked him to quit Youtube since at the time I saw the internet as this ugly thing that was slowly chipping away his confidence. He obviously loved his channel- loved you guys that he didn't wanna give it up. We got into a fight. Our other arguments are like that, just trying to look after each other but going about it in the wrong way."
"That was actually how the Love Yourself Campaign launched. The one TataFashion, MoniStudios, EatJin, HopeWorld and my channel collaborated on. I will link the skits below, and please spread the word. Self-love is always under-estimated and its something that should get promoted more, especially here online..."
Yoongi's heart swells with pride. Yoongi loves Jimin every second of every day, always. But there are times where Jimin does something that squeezes his love, squeezes Yoongi until it was too much. And right then, with Jimin passionately taking care of other people and using a platform that's usually milked for greed to do so... Yoongi feels like the luckiest man in the world.
"I love you-"
He ends up blurting.
"Oh hyung... I love you too."
Cut to next scene
"Right." Jimin wipes his eyes, mentally focusing himself back to the video. "Who wears the pants in the relationship? I do. Next."
Jimin laughs when Yoongi scolds him with his catchphrase Yah Park Jimin.
"Don't listen to him. Equality is a big thing in this relationship. And as for the next question, we don't really watch tv because we don't have that much free time and when we do, we prefer giving each other our undivided attention instead of a box with moving pictures."
Jimin nods at that, mentally reminding himself to edit the question - What do you like watching on TV - later.
"What is one food I do not like?"
"Well, Jimin used to dislike seafood until I forced him to try out my mum's Jorim."
"For those of you who don't know, Jorim is a simmered Korean dish and it's got a lot of seafood in it. It's orgasmic. I will link Jin's video down below when he cooked it. Honestly, try it and tag me on insta if you decide to."
Yoongi's heart swells once more knowing that he only added the latter part to encourage more viewers to head to Jin's channel. Jimin never boasts about his large online presence but he knows that he has quite a big influence.
"Yoongi actually is not much of a food lover in general. He would live off instant noodles and coffee if I wasn't around." Said boy smiles sheepishly, not bothering to defend himself as he knows it's all true. "so, next... What drink do I like drinking when we go out?"
"Well, these days we don't really go out to eat anymore. We usually just go visit Jin-Hyung or something. And he usually keeps lots of Pear Juice in stock for whenever Jimin comes round." He pauses so he knows Jimin's subscribers definitely heard that. No doubt a steady supply of said beverage would pile in their PO box after the video's release. It was amusing how dedicated his online fans are, going as far as to send Jimin things he mentions he liked.
"And for Yoongi, no kidding, like eight shots of espresso in a cup. He's crazy about caffeine."
Yoongi's phone dings.
Yoongi dashes for the phone before Jimin could tell him to stay put for the video. He grins when he saw Jungkook's text.
Sure hyung. Just finished class. Pick me up at mine then we can head down.
"Jiminahhhh~"
"What is it? You only call me that when you want something" Jimin eyes him warily.
"Jungkook asked me to pick him to go out for skewers."
"Hyung I will kill you-"
"Please my Jiminie. We can continue after?"
Yoongi pouts about to go on his knees when Jimin just relents.
"Ok. But only because you agreed to film the video!"
"Love you!"
His boyfriend shouts, already scrambling around to find his keys.
"Ahh this hyung really..."