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Jungkook and Namjoon have been friends since they were kids. Their parents were friends, which meant that they saw each other a lot. Eventually they became joined at the hip. You couldn’t have one without the other.
However, for Jungkook, it was torture. He had been in love with Namjoon for as long as he can remember. As kids, he followed him around, as preteens, he was by his side at every turn, as teens, he stayed with him through every breakup and even when it hurt, he never left.
At one point, it hurt so much that Jungkook went to Jimin’s house and cried in his arms for hours. When asked about it, he just said it hurt and then picked himself back up and went on with life.
Except, now, they’re in college, they’re roommates, and Jungkook is suddenly regretting every choice he’s ever made.
Namjoon is drunk and brought a boy back to their dorm, and is currently making out with him. Which means that Jungkook, who had stayed in their room to relax, is laying in bed and can hear everything that’s going on.
He tries to block out the sounds, tries to block out his moans, but it all proves futile since it’s the only sounds in the room. He lets his tears fall and lets his heart break.
He realizes that he can’t stay here, he can’t keep hearing this or else he’ll really lose any composure he has left.
baby bun: hyung please, can i stay with you for a bit, please
kitten hyung: of course kook, did something happen?
baby bun: i’ll explain later, i just need to get out of here
kitten hyung: okay, come over, the door is unlocked
Jungkook quickly looks to make sure he can escape, but realizes he shouldn’t have. Namjoon is grinding down on the other person and is moaning so loud . Jungkook’s eyes water more and he rushes out, not bothering to be quiet because clearly his roommate doesn’t care.
He walks hurriedly to Yoongi’s room and when he enters, he immediately drops to the floor as his sobs break through. Yoongi upon hearing, rushes in and cradles Jungkook into his shoulder.
“Oh bun.” he runs his fingers through Jungkook’s hair and sighs. “Stay however long you need to bun, you’re always welcome here.”
Jungkook just sobs into his shoulder, because it hurts more than anything.
Soon enough, he falls asleep because of how worn out he is after crying so much. Yoongi sends a message to his boyfriends saying something along the lines of “Kook is over and needs me right now” to which they both ask if he wants them to help. He politely declines them, only to then say to come by and check later when Jungkook is actually awake.
The next day when Jungkook wakes up, he realizes he doesn’t have his phone. I must have dropped it when I came over last night .
He quietly gets up to see where Yoongi is, and suddenly smells bacon. His stomach grumbles and he walks just a bit faster to get to the food.
“Hey bun, hungry?” Yoongi asks while holding a plate full of bacon. Jungkook smiles and goes over to grab a piece and also grabs a banana milk from the fridge. Yoongi keeps them around for anytime he’s over and Jungkook giggles at how Yoongi pays attention even though he says he never does.
A few minutes later Yoongi announces that the pancakes are done and breakfast is ready. Jungkook tries to fix his plate, but Yoongi slaps his hand away lightly saying that he’ll do it because he’s the hyung.
“Knock knock coming in!” a familiar voice says loudly.
“When will you learn to knock properly you big loser.” Yoongi says to one very happy Jin considering his boyfriend is “frowning”.
“I’ve missed you my tiny little kitten.” he says after peppering Yoongi’s entire face with kisses. He then goes over and gives Jungkook a kiss on the head and hugs him tightly. “I’ve missed you too bunny.”
Jungkook smiles at their antics, always being so happy to see them. Although he is wondering where their other boyfriend is. Which must be obvious because Jin answers his questioning eyes. “Tae had an early art class today, but he’ll be coming around afterwards.”
Jungkook nods his head and goes back to his breakfast. He listens in as Jin tells him and Yoongi about how he’s happy to be out of school and has more freedom. Yoongi rolls his eyes affectionately and smiles a very gummy smile at his boyfriend. Jungkook was the one who initially told them to go for it, because they were dancing around each other for months, but when they did, his best friend Taehyung was at his door crying. It was a confusing mix of emotions, but he’s so happy they worked out. If anyone deserves love it’s Yoongi, Seokjin, and Taehyung.
Yoongi’s phone goes off and when he answers, he’s seemingly very confused. Jungkook realizes why when Yoongi addresses the person he’s speaking to.
“Namjoon-ah, he’s fine, yes I know, I’ll come get his phone later. Yes I’ll tell him you’re worried. Okay Namjoon-ah I’ll see you in a bit.” Yoongi sighs and looks at Jungkook. A questioning look in his eyes as he thinks on how to ask him about what happened.
“He brought someone to the dorm last night.” Jungkook says as his eyes tear up thinking about it.
“Oh bunny.” Jungkook let’s his tears fall at the nickname.
“It-it's just hard, I-I can’t, I don’t kno-know how to ke-ep going.” he sobs out the words as Jin wraps his arms around him.
“Bunny, you two need to talk, you can’t keep this up, especially if it’s this painful.” Jin says while pointedly looking at his boyfriend.
Yoongi is standing there looking at Jungkook, seeing his whole face wet with tears and his heart breaks.
“I’ll be back, stay with him.” he kisses his boyfriend on the cheek and heads to Jungkook and Namjoon’s room.
He knocks and Namjoon opens the door immediately. Face dropping once he sees the look in Yoongi’s eyes.
“Hyung-“ he’s cut off by the glare his hyung sends him and guilt crashes over him.
“You told me, you promised me that you wouldn’t hurt him anymore. That you would take your fucking time figuring out how you feel about him. So tell me Namjoon-ah, tell me why he texted me last night and came over sobbing.” he says so angrily that Namjoon flinches, because Yoongi never gets angry, never raises his voice, but it seems this has pushed him to that point.
“Hyung I didn’t- I don’t know-“ Namjoon tears up trying to think of anything he could say. Anything that could remedy this.
Yoongi sighs and goes over to Namjoon, “Namjoon-ah, I love you, but you can’t expect me to keep watching you hurt Kook, accidentally or not. You’ve confided in me how hard it is to understand your feelings for him, but you’re hurting him by not giving him any sort of answer.” Yoongi places a hand on Namjoon’s back and rubs up and down.
Namjoon cries because the weight of his guilt is overwhelming him. He mumbles out so many apologies that he eventually slurs his words together. Yoongi manages to calm him down enough so that he’s only sniffling.
“Last ni-ight, I got re-really drunk and in my ha-haste to forget all these con-confusing feelings, I brought some-one home and after a bit I-I told him to st-stop and to leave-“ he sobs, the feelings inside of him making themself know
“Oh my god hyu-hyung, what ha-have I do-ne?” he breaks down feeling so horrible for causing his best friend so much pain.
Yoongi rubs his back soothingly, grabbing tissues for him to use once he calms down.
“Just talk to him Joon-ah, it’ll be okay.” he says affectionately.
Yoongi gets a text from Jin.
- fluffy: the bunny is asleep and Tae is on his way
- fluffy: how is Joonie?
grumpy kitten: let’s just say, I think everything will be okay soon :]
- fluffy: alright loser, now come over for kisses
grumpy kitten: okay loser <333
- fluffy: <333333
Yoongi sees that Namjoon has fallen asleep and lays him down and covers him up. He feels proud to know that his friends will be okay. He gets up and heads back to his room after grabbing Jungkook’s phone.
Once he’s back, he is swarmed by his boyfriends, receiving so many kisses that he almost cries. They both hold him close and whisper praises in his ear just because they can. “Get off of me.” he whines and pouts, but soon is moaning because of his boyfriends’ nonstop kisses. Taehyung is kissing up his neck and Jin is kissing him so breathless that his knees go weak.
Once he manages to push them off, he goes to put Jungkook’s phone by him so he knows it’s there. Once he does that, he sits on the couch waiting for his boyfriends to come and sit with him. He’s sleepy from all the emotions he’s been surrounded with and right before he sleeps, his boyfriends adjust him so that he’s laying on Jin and has kisses pressed to his head with Taehyung snuggling close and peppering his shoulder with kisses. He falls asleep a little too warm, but happy.
When Jungkook wakes up, he sees his phone lighting up. He’s almost too scared to check, but he does anyway, sees Jimin and Hoseok both messaging him, saying if he needs them to come over. He smiles at how kind his friends are. They take such good care of him, he can only hope he helps them just as much.
He sees a message from Namjoon.
koala man: kookie? Can we talk? Please? I don't know if I deserve it, but please come home
He takes a deep breath and makes his way to his room.
The walk feels like an eternity and he’s terrified of what’s gonna happen.
When he gets there, he slowly opens the door and walks in. He looks down at the floor to avoid eye contact, but when he hears a sniffle he swears his head shoots up so fast it should hurt.
He looks up and sees Namjoon, beautiful, stunning Namjoon, with tear stains running down his cheeks, eyes red and puffy and nose a slight pink, indicating how hard he was crying.
“Namj-“ he’s cut off by Namjoon tearing up. He blinks, eyes wide with concern.
“Kookie, I’m so, I’m so, so, unbelievably sorry. This whole time, I’ve, I’ve known about your feelings for a few months, but I needed time. I was trying to sort things out, I hadn’t been with anyone since because I-I-“ he sobs out the last words, but keeps trying. “I was try-trying to fig-figure out my feelings, but las-st night I me-essed up so bad-ly. I kept think-thinking of you and because of h-how drunk I was I did something stupid. I’m so s-sorry Kookie.” he breaks down, obviously still wanting to continue, but unable to.
“Joonie hyung-“ he tries, but the elder is persistent.
“I-I lo-love y-you, ‘m s-sorry it t-took me so-o long bu-but I lo-ve you so mu-much, last ni-ght was a mis-stake and if i cou-ld take it back, I wou-ld.'' After he gets the last word out he fully breaks down. Sobbing with so much guilt that it overwhelms Jungkook. He doesn’t know what to do or say.
He does know however, that the love of his life, his longtime crush, has just confessed and all Jungkook wants to do is kiss him.
He walks over to Namjoon, gets on his knees in front of the elder and brings his hands up to cup Namjoon’s cheeks.
“Hyung, you’re such an idiot, but you’re mine aren’t you.” he says lovingly and then gently brings their lips together.
Namjoon lets out a sob, but then pushes into the kiss, grasping onto Jungkook’s sides like he’ll slip away if he doesn’t hold on tight. Jungkook pulls back to wipe off his tears and Namjoon has never, ever been more in love. Jungkook’s eyes are shining so bright and full of love that Namjoon can only hide his face in his shoulder to not be overwhelmed.
“I love you Joonie, we’ll be okay, we’re okay.” Jungkook peppers Namjoon’s shoulder and neck with kisses, and finds his way back to the elder’s lips, he keeps it very gentle until he hears Namjoon whimper, and the. deepens the kiss and runs his hands all over Namjoon. Feeling so happy and giddy because he can finally do this.
Namjoon moans and goes limp in Jungkook’s hold and before anything more can happen, they pull away, not wanting to move too fast, but also just wanting to hold each other.
Namjoon lays back and brings Jungkook with him. They slot their legs together and get comfy. Both of them are happy to have each other like this. Namjoon runs his fingers through Jungkook’s hair and Jungkook runs his hand over Namjoon’s stomach and sides.
They also decide that another nap seems much more appealing than anything else, so after sharing more soft kisses, they doze off, deciding to tell their friends that everything will be just fine after they wake up from their nap.
They fall asleep wrapped up in each other's arms, happy to be together after so long.