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Jimin and taehyung walk down the stairs to the gymnasium hand in hand. Today is the welcoming party for their new colleague. Well, relatively new, it’s already two weeks into the new school year. They planned the party only now as everybody has been busy with new students and classrooms and classes and other organizational burdens. Especially the new teacher who the party is for, having to find his footing here. ultimately his arrival is a little of an excuse to throw a party at all.
Their new music teacher, min yoongi, was so far liked by everyone. He is kind, well-spoken and dedicated to his teaching, albeit very shy. Jimin asked some of his favorite students and they all liked their first lessons with him so far, even said that he’s obviously very knowledgeable. and yoongi being very pretty isn´t a disadvantage to his image either.
Taehyung and jimin undoubtably agreed that in a ranking for the most boopable nose in the whole school, min yoongi would win unanimously. They are trying to get him to open up more and this welcome gathering creates a perfect opportunity. Only the current and retired teachers attend and there is alcohol and music and finger food, the atmosphere a decent setting for calm conversations.
Their headmaster Kim Seokjin was an old fellow student of min yoongi, but he hadn´t seen the other in years and therefore not really a well overflowing with information. He only remembered that he’d been shy back then too, and a true genius in anything to do with actually creating music. Between taking care of their own lessons and yoongi being busy with his, they hadn’t talked to him much yet. Today is their chance to make a new friend (and find out something about him), so they’d make the best of it.
Upon arriving inside, the subtly look around for him while greeting everyone, finding him at the buffet in a conversation with namjoon. They try to inconspicuously walk closer immediately and jimin grabs a plate from the table. It’s not only an excuse, he is hungry, really. Namjoon and yoongi are apparently talking about a book they both read recently and taehyung manages to jump into the conversation without ever having heard of it, the author, or having read anything similar ever. Typical for him. Jimin nods in approval and joins them in the same manner.
As the evening passes by, they circle yoongi like sharks, closing in on him every once in a while. They don´t want to push him too much, make it too obvious what they are doing. He doesn´t drink any alcohol or talks more than he usually does, but they still learn a lot. for one, the tiny white and orange hairs on his slacks are from his cats. They manage to uphold a full ten-minute-long conversation about pets with him, a record. It also makes them like yoongi even more, because having four cats is clearly proof for a wonderful personality.
Over buffet they find out he doesn´t have a sweet tooth but his cheeks bunch up cutely when he eats and that he can cook, or at least it sounds like he can. Later he mentions he took piano lessons as a kid and can play piano, the guitar and the drums. Hoseok who they recruited to help, tells them yoongi said he lives in a house in the countryside. Their school is in a quaint town, and many students and teachers are living in farmhouses or small villages surrounding it. They are relatively close to Seoul and the population here mainly works there and endures the long work-commute for the better air and meadows and fields which make quite the picturesque landscape. Jimin wonders where min yoongi, as a simple teacher, got the money to buy one of the big farmhouses but asking would be a tad too inappropriate.
As the time flies by taehyung remembers an important detail they forgot till now - relationship status. But Jimin is nothing if not a great conversationalist and manages to let it flow into the next conversation seamlessly.
“by the way, the farmhouses are so big, do you live alone there? Isn´t that lonely?”
“oh. No, I don´t live alone.”
Jimin and taehyung lean forward with suspense, but then yoongi doesn´t elaborate. After seconds of silence taehyung just gives up and asks directly, “and with who do you live? Are you married?”
Yoongis eyes get big for a moment, he scratches his neck and his eyes flit behind them, around them, searching for something.
“no, I´m not.”
Again, he stops talking without satisfying their interest. Jimin just opens his mouth to pry a bit when seokjin shows up next to them and asks yoongi how he likes the party. Yoongi enthusiastically praises his organizational skills and starts talking to jin, successfully avoiding the open question. Jimin and taehyung exchange a look, agreeing wordlessly that yoongi just had been very suspicious and that they’ll have to find out more later.
They don´t manage at the welcome party as yoongi avoids them slightly and they don´t wanna chase him away with being too nosy. They have to be careful, wanting to stay good friends with him. and of course, they don’t want to make him uncomfortable either.
They see each other again on Monday and yoongi acts like he didn´t avoid them at all, friendly smile ready and giggling at namjoons antics. Jimin and taehyung decide to let it go with yoongi for the time being as well, but they do ask all the other teachers, and nobody knows anything. Jimin decides to turn to the student then, they always gossip about everything. Soobin is cute and reliable and won´t tell on him, so he gets chosen for the task. soobin manages to plant some questions about yoongis life in the heads of other students during lunch and they decide to just ask their teacher with that bluntness only high school students possess.
Jimin and taehyung meet up with him after school ends next to the gate, acting like they just have to talk to him about his grades or whatever but getting a report about yoongi instead. It’s not the first time they are doing something like this.
“when we brought up that we’d like to get to know him, he said we could ask a few questions. We found out he lives in a farmhouse west from here, has four cats, was bad in math in high school, his favorite musician is Jungkook, and his favorite food is lamb skewers,” soobin ratters off. “But when we asked if he is in a relationship, he just said that´s not an appropriate question. But he blushed a bit, I´m sure. Or it was the light.”
“It´s okay soobin, you did your best,” taehyung ruffles his hair happily. then he leans over to jimin and whispers: “You think we could bribe him with lamb skewers?”
“not I don´t taehyung. Thank you soobin, here is some money for ice cream, now go home and do your homework, have a nice day!”
After soobin leaves they ponder about what their next steps should be, but can’t imagine yoongi just suddenly changing his mind about keeping it a secret and telling them. Or falling for any traps, he seems quite smart. They decide to wait and ask again when they are closer than now. After all, they are practically strangers, and yoongi does act like a rather private person. In the meanwhile, they’ll just concentrate on befriending him.
The most useful thing soobin told them is probably that he’s a jungkook fan. Jeon Jungkook is currently the most popular solo idol and jimin and taehyung are quite the fans of his music themselves. They talk about some new photos his company dropped loudly in the breakroom at a perfect moment and manage to reel yoongi in easily. they all agree on liking the new concept and being excited for the new single announced for the next month.
Over talking about jungkook, other idols, yoongis cats and taehyungs dog they get closer. Many students are really soft on yoongi, even some of the problematic ones turn into poster students in his lessons just to get praised by his deep, soothing voice. Soobin reports about at least three people with crushes on him. jimin can relate, yoongi is positively adorable, polite and mindful of his students´ struggles without being condescending. The other teachers dote on yoongi more than they usually do. Their staff is a mix between rather old teachers who would leave them in the near future and ones that just started out. Jimin and taehyung are the youngest, followed by hoseok, namjoon and seokjin. The five of them are best friends now, happy to work with their favorite people every day.
Yoongi is adored by the older staff because he always offers to help them with carrying stuff or printing or explaining new technical things and terms the students use, and he talks with them about thousands of different things and somehow there is no topic he doesn´t know anything about. Even the old, grumpy janitor takes a liking to him after he helps him with changing some lightbulbs and hearing yoongi scold someone for littering. The younger staff befriends him too and they start to invite him when they hang out on weekends. It’s not only jimin and taehyung being enthusiastic about him, the other three are equally enamored.
Sadly, yoongi doesn´t often show up. He always says he has to spend his weekend with his cats as he isn´t with them during the week, but jimin has the theory he spends them with the person he lives with. Maybe they are busy during the week and only have the weekends together. Despite meeting like up seldomly out of school, they get closer, and some months later taehyung decides they are close enough that it’s appropriate to ask again. During one of their weekend hangouts, this time they play board games, taehyung brings the topic up again.
“are you sure you don´t want to come tomorrow? Aren´t you lonely with just your cats?”
Yoongi doesn´t answer at first. he has a thoughtful expression so they don´t interrupt him. luckily, he comes to the same conclusion as taehyung, seeming to trust them much more finally. jimin can already see it in his face, that he’ll reveal something they didn’t know. A secret. His heart happily thrums in his chest.
“I don´t live alone. My…. Fiancé will come home in the night.”
Namjoon and seokjin, who didn´t know anything, are pretty shocked. Jimin gives taehyung his best I-knew-it-look. They had been (playfully) discussing this, and while taehyung thought yoongi just had a new boyfriend he wasn’t sure about yet, jimin always said it’s something more. And he’s right, because yoongi has a whole fiancé.
“what´s her name?”
“he. I´m gay.”
“ah, same,” jimin sighs. The others chuckle, yoongi grins at him in relief. “sorry for assuming.”
Silence spreads, but it iss soon clear yoongi won’t reveal more. Namjoon, ever the understanding type, speaks up. “and you can´t tell us who it is, right?”
Yoongi squirms a bit in his seat, looking down at his lap. he sounds apologetic when he answers. „no, I´m sorry. you´re all really good friends and I do want to tell you but it´s simply not possible. Maybe later.”
Well that´s cryptic. They don´t pry, they have a sense of decency and after such a clear statement asking again is just asshole-behavior. The evening continues like always and yoongi leaves at ten, saying his fiancé will soon be there as well. they let him go happily this time, understanding that he wants to see his partner.
After that evening, yoongi sometimes mentions his partner, never with name or any information about his identity, but at least he talks about him now. It’s like there was an empty spot in yoongis live being filled out now with tidbits of information and suddenly lots of things make sense. The fiancé works in Seoul during the week and tries his best to spend the weekend with yoongi. which explains how yoongi is always busy during the week with work stuff and during the weekend he’s with his fiancé. The weeks he showed up to their hangouts, his fiancé couldn’t make it from Seoul.
Yoongi seems happy talking about their life together as well, now that he knows they won’t pry for things he can’t say. Apparently, the fiancé bought and named all the cats (salt, pepper, kimchi and ramyun). they know each other from high school, he is younger than taehyung and jimin and they got together right after he graduated. it ‘s pleasant to finally know something, anything, and they accept it with open arms. Of course, they are as curious as ever and wouldn´t say no if he offered to tell them who it is finally but like this it’s also okay.
When they are bored, Jimin and taehyung sometimes make up ridiculous theories why yoongi can´t tell them. His fiancé is a ninja. Or a spy. He is in a witness protection program. He is someone famous. He is a part of the mafia (they dropped that one pretty fast, yoongi is too soft and innocent to be with a criminal). It is a fun pastime, but fruitless.
Nothing new happens until September. Yoongi, who gets cold easily, is the first to change his button-downs for long pullovers. Especially the turtlenecks make him look a whole other level of handsome and if jimin hadn’t known about yoongis relationship he would have started seriously flirting with him right then and there.
They don´t think anything about the turtlenecks becoming the only thing he does wear until it’s suddenly warm for like one weekend and yoongi shows up to their hangout in a too big black sweater with a loose collar. And hickeys. All over his neck. dark purple almost, and jimin is sure that took longer than a few minutes. They all immediately draw the connection between the hickeys and the turtlenecks and start to tease him about it. not that none of them ever had hickeys before, but yoongi is just the funniest and cutest to tease ever.
“aww, is your fiancé a vampire?”
“should we cool that? I´ll get some ice!”
“if we counted how often you´re wearing a turtleneck in school and how often your fiancé came here from Seoul, would that be the same number? I wonder.”
While they dissolve into giggles at namjoons thoughtful musings, Yoongi pouts at them. He’s always patient with their antics and knows their teasing isn´t meant to be hurtful, so they don’t worry much. They tease him often because he doesn´t tease back at all, and he never manages to quite suppress his smile anyway.
“It´s so warm,” he whines. “I don´t actually like turtlenecks that much, let me be.”
“can´t you tell your fiancé to try to eat another part of you? Problem solved,” hoseok offers with raised eyebrows. His fiancé definitely knows yoongi has to hide them during school all the time.
“ah, he´s a brat, that wouldn´t work.”
Jin suggests a more direct approach. „get revenge and show him how it is!”
Yoongi laughs at seokjins idea but shakes his head. “don´t wanna cause a scandal.”
They all get big eyes, hickeys causing a scandal just like that? jimin and taehyung exchange a look. Maybe the famous-person theory is still in the run. But what are the odds, in reality? Not that yoongi isn´t pretty and cool enough to pull some celebrity, but just the probability that one of them even knows a celebrity is pretty much zero. They tease him a little more and jimin offers to get him some make up for school. Them, as fellow teachers, teasing yoongi is all fun, but the students catching their beloved teacher looking like he got eaten? Not a good idea. When he comes to school in a turtleneck they always wiggle his eyebrows at him now and make kiss-faces when no one is looking. yoongi takes it good-natured with the tiniest pout, not being bothered that much.
One Sunday during a late November grill-evening yoongi gets a call. When taehyung picks up the phone, the contact is just a single, red heart. He has to stop himself from answering it to find out who the caller is and instead calls in yoongi from the porch where he’d been grilling with seokjin. at the sight yoongis eyes light up and his cute gummy smile appears. It’s adorable how obvious he is. Answering the phone without hesitation, yoongi sits down on the couch, smiling dumbly into nothing while talking to the mysterious guy.
“hey baby!
Yeah, I´m at namjoons right now.
In an hour?
Okay, I´ll be there. Did you eat?
I´ll make something then. I love you, see you later!”
Yoongi puts the phone down and turns back to them, immediately facing ten curious eyes. Even seokjin abandoned the meat outside. A light blush spreads on his cheeks and he chuckles at them.
“you look like meerkats,” he dryly opens with. “My fiancé is getting home earlier than we thought, I´ll drive back.”
Jimin playfully shakes his head. “one call and he’s ditching us ruthlessly. Really puts into perspective what we mean to him.”
With a grin, taehyung joins him, his arm around jimin as he dramatically sniffs. “and I thought we meant something to you!”
Yoongi looked shocked for a second, but when he understands they are teasing once again he giggles. Seokjin pats his back jovially. “ignore them. I’ll give you some of the meat, you didn’t eat yet either. send our regards!”
They say goodbye quickly and watch as yoongi practically runs to his car. He seems pretty euphoric. Now that taehyung thinks about it, he hasn´t shown up in turtlenecks the whole last two weeks. He must have missed his fiancé a lot. he can’t imagine being separated from his loved ones for that long all the time.
In the middle of December, yoongi shows up at school with a scratch right across his face. everyone worries and flits around him, asking what happened and if he’s okay. The students seem to think he’s really badass and soobin shows taehyung and jimin hilarious fanart of yoongi as a pirate. They can only shake their heads about their students’ antics.
It turns out that yoongis fiancé brough in another stray cat with him, completely white. He called it sugar and left yoongi to deal with the tiny beast, who scratched him as soon as they were alone.
“it’s still half feral, I don’t know what he was thinking!”, yoongi complains in the teachers lounge. Hoseok, also the school nurse, inspects his cut but deems it shallow.
“is it cute at least?”
Yoongi nods reluctantly. “wait, I can show you a photo.”
Everyone bends over his shoulder when he found a good one. It’s a completely white, fluffy kitten hanging in the grasp of two hands holding it to a muscular chest. jimin knows that is not yoongis. Everyone else also seems distracted by it.
“that’s a-“, taehyung starts, interrupts himself and leans even closer. “is that your fiancé?”
“oh, yes,” yoongi says, as if he’s only noticing now. “it’s unfair, sugar likes only him! she doesn’t let me pick her up.”
“maybe she has the same taste in men as you and is jealous?”, taehyung offers. While yoongi clicks his tongue and turns off his phone, the rest of them laugh. When jimin asks if he could send that photo into their group chat he tells them to stop ogle his fiancé and leaves to his classes five minutes early with a cute huff. In the afternoon they get a photo of yoongis lap filled with his four cats and sugar standing by his feet with squinted eyes. it’s pretty funny. Yoongis scratch heals the week after and he lets it slip that his fiancé gave him a whole-body massage to make up for it.
Time flows by, soon it is as if yoongi always was a part of their group, including the mystery fiancé. They all got used to not knowing much about him. Christmas passes with little snow and postcards from yoongi because he went to Seoul for a week. They all celebrate New Year´s Eve together though.
Yoongi doesn´t try to hide the hickeys he collected during the last week or his upbeat mood. It is chaotic, they all drink more or less and to their best to keep namjoon and the fireworks separated at all times. The evening is a whole mess without him trying to light one up.
Taehyung, a true fanboy, also turns on the tv to watch jungkook and the other idols celebrate. Yoongi and jimin join him, while the others continue to watch fireworks outside. The show is incredible, jungkook performing the single he revealed previously. They are all pretty wasted by now. When jungkook says some greetings for the new year, sending out his love to his family and friends, yoongi sits up and raises his glass.
“I love you too!”, he slurs with intense conviction, then sinks back down again. Jimin and taehyung giggle at his antics, they didn´t expect that. Then yoongi turns to them and tries to whisper with much effort and less success. His voice is at a totally normal volume, but he’s pouting and his big eyes shine in the tv light adorably.
“you wanna know my fiancé, right? I trust you, so promise me to keep it a secret!”
Jimin and taehyung laugh and pinky promise yoongi to say nothing. jimin is feeling giddy, the alcohol and the party, the thrill of a new year and now yoongi being all cute while finally revealing his fiancé. they all huddle together on the couch and yoongi takes a deep breath.
“my fiancé,“ yoongi stops dramatically, jimin and taehyung hold their breath, “my fiancé, is he.” Yoongi lifts his arm and points at jungkook, whose face is big on the screen right now, smiling with tears in his eyes as confetti falls around him prettily. yoongi grins dumbly and falls back into the cushioning. “jeon jungkook, the love of my life.”
Jimin blinks, totally flashed. Then he laughs out loud, taehyung joining in. with the alcohol in his blood yoongis joke is too funny and he throws himself in yoongis lap, clutching his stomach.
“ah, I didn´t know you would make such a joke. My stomach hurts, tae stop laughing!” jimin gasps for air. When one of them calms down a bit they look at each other and start to laugh again. They are so loud even that the others come back in and demand to know what’s up. Yoongi is sitting there, pouting, sulking even, while taehyung retells everything between giggles and snorts. The others start laughing too and nobody hears yoongi murmuring an angry ´but it´s true!` to himself.
Month later it’s yoongis birthday, a rather sunny Thursday. They bring some cake to their lunchbreak and sing for him. yoongi had complained about his fiancé being on a business trip the whole week before, but this time not playfully but really gloomy and sad. They all felt deeply sorry for him and planned to spend the day with him so he wouldn´t be as lonely. They do make some jokes because of the new year´s eve jungkook incident, but no matter who his fiancé is actually it’s obviously hard for yoongi to be alone so often, especially when it’s his birthday.
The small gathering in seokjins house is calm and mostly eventless. Seokjin decided to host, so yoongi won’t have to cook and then clean up alone. They play some board games, nobody drinks much and yoongi gets mostly cat-themed presents from them, they watch some tv (an Indonesian live show with jungkook about which they tease yoongi again) and eat cake. They stay up way to late, and the next day at school all of them are tired. But somehow the students know about the small party they had and don’t say much about it.
When they all leave school a surprise awaits them. outside the building there’s a car parked, black and sleek with tinted windows. A driver in uniform stands next to it, and when he spots yoongi he waves and greets him with a bow. Yoongi is obviously surprised as well, but when the driver opens the backdoor for him he gets in without hesitation. Everyone stares after the car in muted shock.
They explode their group chat with questions right away, but yoongi only answers late in the evening that he’ll spend his weekend in Seoul and that he’s fine. He’s not online on his phone once until he shows up Monday to work, looking positively glowing. He reveals that he and his fiancé went to a spa and avoids any questions about the expensive car. During lunch break soobin runs up to jimin and taehyung with another clue.
“did you see Mr. Min´s shirt?”, the boy opens with, still breathless from his sprint.
“yeah?”, jimin is confused, of course he had seen yoongis shirt. It’s green today, he thinks. Taehyung tilts his head, he didn’t notice anything about it either.
“It´s Gucci! One of the girls is obsessed with those brands and recognized it, she asked him if it´s new and he said it´s a birthday present. She showed us the shirt on her phone, it´s worth like, what my dad earns in four months!”
Their eyes get big. They’d been already talking about the possibility of the fiancé being filthy rich because of the big farm house, then the car last Friday and now a Gucci shirt? They thank soobin for his information and stick their heads together to talk.
“so his fiancé is rich.”
“okay, listen. I know it sounds ridiculous, but think about it carefully.”, taehyung grabs jimins shoulder and looks him deep in the eye. “what if yoongi didn´t joke? What if his fiancé is Jeon jungkook.”
Jimin stares back. Doesn’t more, thinks like taehyung told him too. Really thinks about it, contemplating it. yoongi did sounded really serious. He hadn´t laughed with them at all. The house, the car, the Gucci shirt. The business trips. Hickeys causing a scandal. Jungkook being younger than them. yoongi being very knowledgeable about anything regarding the idols’ life.
“okay, wait. Let’s- let’s compare what we know. Technically jungkook could totally be in a relationship without his fans knowing, right?”
Taehyung nods like an overexcited puppy, hair flopping around. “that’s what I thought! And in a vlive he even said he has cats at home!”
“at yoongis birthday he was in Indonesia! And New Year’s eve in Seoul!”
“We can find out to which high school they went! and compare jungkooks future schedule we know of to yoongis fiancé showing up here,” taehyung decides.
“roger that! We´ll find it out, Watson!”
“it´s my idea, you´re Watson and I´m Holmes!”
The next weeks they learn everything they can about jungkooks schedule, and what they know fits perfectly to yoongis fiancé. They don´t tell the others for now. Jimin is still doubting it a bit, because jungkook is jeon jungkook. Not just an idol, the idol. Korea´s golden boy. The youngest to do a lot of things, singer and dancer and song writer. That jeon jungkook. Taehyung is convinced already and enthusiastically imagines a life where he can accompany yoongi to jungkooks (hellishly expensive) concerts for free.
A month later they decide to confront yoongi about it. There is no use keeping it a secret. He already one told them anyway, although that didn’t really work out. at a Wednesday picked randomly, they invite him over sit him down in the living room. the mood is weird, because they’d been extremely cryptic about what they want from him. Taehyung takes his phone and plays a love song by jungkook loudly, swaying his hips left and right while staring at yoongi searching for a reaction. It’s entirely too dramatic and jimin has to keep in his giggles. Yoongi looks funny, first he's only confused and looks at them questioning, but the longer taehyung stares like he knows all his secrets, the more he gets nervous. He even blushes a little, and after half the song they take mercy on him and start talking.
“so, yoongi. on New Year’s Eve you told us your fiancé is our dear jeon jungkookie. And we thought it´s a joke.”
Yoongi swallows.
“but the new theory we have, is that you were just really drunk and did accidentally tell us…. The truth!”
Jimin and Taehyung stare at yoongi, yoongi looks at the floor. They can’t see his expression that way. Taehyung sits down next to jimin now and they wait for the time yoongi needs. But him not denying it right away is already a pretty obvious sign. The silence stretches out until yoongi suddenly stands up and grabs his phone with white knuckles.
“I need a second,” he presses out and starts tipping furiously on his phone. He’s looking neither very panicked nor entirely comfortable. Jimin and taehyung wait patiently for once. it takes three minutes, but suddenly yoongis phone rings and he answers. it’s a video call, and he holds the phone in front of his face with a sheepish smile.
“Hey baby.”
A muffled voice answers him. “hey yoongi!”
“so as I texted, they figured it out.” yoongi looks up from his phone then, fixes jimin and taehyung with a single glare, now talking with them. “But they won´t tell anyone, right?”
Jimin barely manages a scared nod. Is that really jungkook on the phone? it can’t be.
“well, say hi to my friends!”, yoongi thrills already and walks up to them. They easily make space when he squishes himself between them on the couch, not even noticing it really. their eyes are fixed on the phone in his hand, showing the three of them in a small square at the bottom. But the rest of the phone, the whole screen, is a moving video of a boy in a black shirt, with blue hair and twinkling eyes and a bunny grin.
It’s definitely Jungkook. Jeon jungkook. Just there, on yoongis screen, smiling without a care. he opens his mouth. He talks. He seems real. But this must be a video. This is prerecorded, surely.
“Hi! You’re jimin and taehyung, right? I heard a lot about you, it’s nice to finally meet!”
Jeon jungkook on yoongis hands smiles when he says their names. Jeon jungkook seems happy to meet them. yoongi grins as well, looking between the screen and them. Jimin and taehyung are staring at the idol, not moving. They technically did know, but seeing it is different. very different, and it does not feel real. That’s jeon jungkook, for god’s sake. Yoongi nudges them both with his elbows.
“sorry, they´re starstruck.”
Jungkook giggles and blushes and he’s beautiful, and this particular giggle is very familiar as well. the sound finally pulls taehyung out of his trance. He blinks.
“Hi. Jeon Jungkook. Hi.”
Yoongi has the audacity to laugh at him. jimin finally breathes again and manages to greet jungkook. yoongi explains how they’ve always been together somehow, attached at the hips, and that the agency had no choice but accept their relationship if they wanted to keep jungkook as a trainee. It was difficult for them because of jungkooks schedule but they managed and have been engaged now for about two years. Jimin and taehyung calm down a lot while yoongi speaks calmy and pets their backs, but they still stare at jungkook more than not, sometimes stuttering and forgetting what they wanted to say.
Jungkook is polite and smiley, a bit less confident than his public image but not in a bad way. Jimin and taehyung enjoy seeing yoongi and jungkook interact, they are absolutely the cutest and obviously very much in love. Yoongi is gigglier and more affectionate than usual. Jungkook is mostly like he is on tv, just cheekier and more open with his emotions. Namely, his love for yoongi. As much as jimin and taehyung stare at him, as much does he look at yoongi with heart eyes. nobody who’d see them together would take their relationship for anything less than what it is.
Jungkook soon has to leave for dance training, promising yoongi to call him tomorrow. They exchange soft I-love-you’s and end the call.
Silence spreads for a moment, before jimin breaks it with a dramatically serious voice, “yoongi, you´re going home now. Tae and I have to talk about you and your famous, rich, handsome idol boyfriend. see you tomorrow.”
“and you better introduce us to him in real life soon!”
Yoongi only laughs at them and leaves happily. Taehyung and jimin do talk about jungkook for a long time and conclude they are equally envious of yoongi for having snatched jungkook away and of jungkook for getting yoongi. they are both just real catches.
Thursday in school they act like nothing happened but do a kind of bad job apparently because jin asks them what’s going on with them three sperate times. Yoongi ignores it mostly but he’s obviously amused by them.
A few weeks later he invites all five of them over to his house on a Saturday, saying he would introduce his fiancé to them if they all promised to keep it a secret. Excited to finally see his house and cats and especially the fiancé for the first time, everybody shows up early.
The house is truly huge, modern and still cozy. It’s mostly kept in light pastel colors, tasteful furniture only interrupted by colorful cat toys lying around everywhere. they all sit down in the living room, where two of the cats nap on the windowsill. Jimin and taehyung are practically vibrating in their seats, the only ones who know they are about to meet jungkook. jimin brought his CD to get it signed. Hoseok teases yoongi about the jungkook poster on the wall and asks if his fiancé isn’t jealous. Taehyung laughs at him. he has no idea what’s coming.
Yoongi leaves them for a minute, retrieving jungkook from the studio upstairs. They don’t talk while waiting. Jimin is sure if someone said anything to him right now he’d just tell them that jungkook is here. it doesn’t take long before yoongi walks down the stairs with jungkook in tow. They come to a halt at the end of the staircase, jungkook winding an arm around yoongis waist naturally. They definitely make a cute couple. Yoongi is a little shorter, but right now they are both dressed comfortably in jeans and simple shirts. They look like every other happy (and overly handsome) couple, although they aren’t.
Hoseok jumps up from his seat once his brain catches up that this is real, namjoons mouth falls open and seokjin does both and also points at jungkook. embarrassing, jimin thinks, fully disregarding how he was a few weeks ago. He and taehyung just wave at jungkook happily.
“Hello, I´m jeon jungkook. It´s nice to meet you all!”
Hoseok seems almost angry when he yells: “We know who you are!”
“I´m… sorry?”
Yoongi laughs at them and pushes jungkook towards the last free seat on the couch next to jimin. jungkook sits down, causing jimin to almost choke on nothing, but he gets a grip on himself quickly. Before yoongi can go get a chair, jungkook pulls yoongi on his lap by his waist and wraps his arms around him. jimin tries not to stare at his arms.
The whole reveal was pretty funny, seokjin and hoseok always have great reactions. After they all calmed down yoongi tells them the same things he told jimin and taehyung last time. After that jimin admits that they already knew and seokjin jumps up again totally offended and tackles taehyung on the couch, yelling about feeling betrayed and threatening to fire them both. Jimin is safe, sitting next to jungkook. It will probably fade soon, but today jungkook is still the famous idol first before he’s their friend’s fiancé, and therefore not a person you want to accidently hit while tackling someone.
They keep talking about different topics from then on, jungkook fits right into their group just like yoongi had. The weirdness only subsides slowly, but it’s not very bad as it comes out mostly as a little too much politeness and being absolutely silent whenever jungkook speaks. yoongi and he are glued together, even when yoongi goes to get some snacks for them jungkook follows him to the kitchen. The evening is long and funny, all of them promising to meet again soon. Although jungkook honestly admits he has no idea when exactly he’s free to spend more than an evening here.
They all drive home late in the night, leaving jungkook and yoongi alone in their living room. It’s the first time someone besides their close family came over and yoongi knew that jungkook was a little worried about meeting his new friends. they thought long about moving here, but yoongi was alone in Seoul often as well, and here he and the cats have a much better place. Also jungkook can get out of the house without a mask when he’s over.
“That wasn´t so bad, right? they love you!”, yoongi says, snuggling more into jungkooks body. even now that they have the whole couch for themselves he’s still rather in jungkooks lap.
“I wasn´t scared about that,” jungkook states, like the liar he is. Yoongi pinches his side. “ouch! Okay, okay, but only a bit. They are nice.”
“chaotic you mean. And evil, do you know how bad they teased me about those hickeys?”
“I know, you only complained to me about it like a hundred times,” jungkook sighs. He’s grinning happily, can’t really stop. Everything went well today and it feels nice to meet new people that aren’t in the industry. “But it´s not like you don´t want them, right kitten?”
Yoongi scrunches up his nose at the teasing and tries pinching jungkook again, but his wrists get caught promptly. While struggling against jungkooks grip playfully, yoongi laments pitifully. “I thought they taught you manners at that company! The audacity!”
“They also didn’t want me to date anyone, aren’t you glad I don’t listen to them?”
Yoongi giggles and presses a quick kiss to jungkooks lips. “I am. I love you.”
Like predicted, the words make jungkook let him go. It’s all part of yoongis plan. Jungkook hugs him even closer, fingers curling into the back of yoongis shirt when he whispers into his ear. “I love you too cutie-pie.”
Yoongi uses his newfound freedom to try and teach jungkook some manners.
“hey, don´t punch me, my face pays for this house!”