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“But I’m not lying!” came a high-pitched voice from the living room. Jimin shook his head with a light smile on his face and walked out to see what the entire commotion was about.
“What’s happening here?” Jimin asked, humor lacing his words. “Tae here won’t believe that I have a real, loving boyfriend and not an imaginary one,” Hoseok almost screamed in indignation. “Well, when you say real, loving boyfriend, he kinda sounds made up,” Jimin replied, rubbing his neck rather sheepishly. “Even if you had a real boyfriend, you would’ve told us before, and since not a peep has come out of you, I refuse to believe the fact that you have a boyfriend.” said Tae, as if his word was the final word. “Well, I regret coming here now!” Hobi shouted and flounced on the couch dramatically.
“Okay, why don’t you describe your boyfriend to us?” asked Jimin, hoping to pacify his best friend. “Well, for starters, he’s the most handsome man in the world. And gosh, does he have the most endearing habits ever? The way he twirls his hand before adjusting his glasses, the way he blinks twice when he doesn’t understand something, his crooked fingers, the way he winks at everyone, but reserves his flying kisses only for his inner circle. He’s an introvert when you meet him for the first time, but once you get to know him, he can be the craziest person on the plane!’’ Hoseok exclaimed in one breath. Jimin and Tae just watched the sight of Hobi excitedly telling them things about his ‘imaginary boyfriend’ with a gleam in his eye. A flushed glow took over his face once he stopped to breathe.
“Okay, we believe you,” said Jimin hurriedly, before Hobi could start again. “But I can’t believe that you guys didn’t believe me when I told you I had a boyfriend!” indignantly said Hobi. “Well, I still don’t think you have an actual boyfriend, but whatever floats your boat, I guess,” said Tae, shrugging his shoulders nonchalantly.
“Oh wait! I could show you some photos we took together on our dates,” excitedly suggested Hobi while moving around the sofa to grab his phone from the table. “Convince us.” saying this, Tae leaned back against the sofa.
“Shit!” Hobi shouted after a few minutes, startling his friends. “I just realized that the photos that we took were all on his phone because the quality of his camera is better. His words, not mine.”
“Ahh, I knew this would happen. Hoba, I know you feel left out when we kiss our boyfriends while cuddling, but you don’t need to lie about having a boyfriend. If you just told us to stop when it made you uncomfortable, we would have respected your boundaries.” Jimin said while moving to stand next to hoseok and rubbing his hand over the latter’s bicep comfortingly.
“But I’m not lying. He is real, and he is dating me,” almost yelled Hoseok. “But Hobs, the man that you described doesn’t seem real.’’ pleaded Tae. “You know what? I’ll introduce you to him. When are you free?”
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The stage was on fire. Cypher, the rap trio was finishing up their last song of the evening, ‘Ddaeng’ for the local music festival. Their performance was followed by an astounding chorus of claps, and the crowd gradually dispersed, wanting to go get their food, before coming back to watch the next performance. Backstage, Jhope, RM, and Suga were wiping the sweat off, while grinning at each other, feeling the satisfaction of a good performance enveloping them whole.
“I would say that’s one of our best performances of ‘Her’ to date, while we need to rehearse Cypher 3 more,” commented Suga casually while leaning back on the loveseat upon which he was seated. Before anyone could respond to his comment, the door opened with a bang, delivering the dramatic entrance the intruders had planned. “Y’all were so amazing, I could feel the adrenaline coursing through the crowd” shouted Tae while jumping onto Joon, kissing him as though it was their first time meeting after a year of separation.
“While this passionate expression of love makes me wanna do the same thing to my lover, who was very sexy on stage tonight,” Jimin winks at Yoongi while continuing, “we should check out the duo that is performing now. They sound angelic.” “Sure why not'' says Namjoon, finally extracting himself from his boyfriend’s embrace. The five of them leave to join the crowd in front of the stage, where they hear an angelic voice floating around.
The voice slowly fades away, soulful piano music filling the air in its place. The duo seemed to have captured the attention of every single person who attended the festival. From where the five of them were standing, the musicians on stage weren’t really visible, so they started to push their way through the crowd to get to the front.
I'm the one I should love in this world
빛나는 나를 소중한 내 영혼을
The words reach their ears, and so do their visuals. Slightly to the side, a man, not older than 23, sat in front of a piano, his tattooed hands moving on top of the black and white pieces, flitting from one key to another, creating a beautiful melody that made people’s hearts melt into puddles. In the center of the stage, sits another man, who looks like he just walked out of a Disney movie. His mullet enhances that perfect neck upon which sat the most perfect face ever created. It was as if God had spent his own sweet time creating this perfect human.
Their performance ends soon after that, and all the performers go backstage; the duo to clean up, the rap trio to pack up. Hoseok grabs his friends' wrists and drags them backstage as well along with his members, mumbling something about wanting to introduce them to someone. As they stepped back into the room allotted to Cypher, voices from the next room could be heard. “...he’s a really good dancer as well Hyung!” Jimin perked up when heard a tenor speaking. “A dancer? That reminds me, Hobi Hyung, do Yoonie and Joonie Hyung know about your imaginary boyfriend?” asked Jimin, mischief lacing his tone.
“Don’t worry Jimin, I’ll be sure to introduce you to him today, because he’s here” Jhope retorted, making Taehyung chuckle lightly. Hobi then moved to sit on the couch, pulled out his phone, and started typing away furiously. On the other hand, Yoongi pulled Jimin to his side, his lips grazing the shell of the dancer’s ear, whispering, “Don't fuck with him too much Jiminie, he’s a little, umm, strung up today” making the referred rapper grumble.
After they’d packed up all their things from the room, the five of them walked to Tae's car, the car in which the group Cypher had arrived, and dumped everything in their hands in the trunk. A sudden rustling to the left of Yoongi caught his eye. He turned, only to make eye contact with the piano player from before. When he pointed out the same to his friends, they all noticed that the singer had also joined the pianist in putting their things away. A minute later, Hobi made a noise of joy, and hollered, “Jinnie Hyung!”, making the duo as well as the people surrounding him turn in surprise.
Hobi’s eyes lit up and his lips curved into that pretty heart shape as he energetically waved to the duo standing a few yards away from them. The singer almost mirrored the rapper’s excitement as he walked towards them along with the tattooed man. “Hey hobi, I was going to seek you out as soon as we finished putting away our things, but looks like you found me first, like you always do huh,” almost cooed ‘Jinnie Hyung’ at Hobi, caressessing the latter’s face with the back of his hand while pure adoration was seen in his eyes.
It was as if the world ceased to exist for them, and only the other mattered. They slowly gravitated towards each other, a tiny smile playing on their lips. Just before their lips could touch, someone coughed rather loudly, breaking that beautiful spell that had bewitched the two lovers. The man with the exotic tattoos asked, “Hyung, is this Hoseok?” There was a flicker of an unreadable emotion in the two lover’s eyes, before Hoseok turned to his friends, before beginning his introduction.
“Jinnie hyung, Jungkookie, meet my friends - Jimin, Tae, Namjoon and Yoongi hyung. Guys, this is Jin hyung, my boyfriend and his stepbrother, Jungkook.” says Hobi just as Seokjin wraps an arm around Hobi’s waist and pulls him against his side.
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The sun was slowly setting in the distance. The seven of them were standing in front of the stall that sells churros, eating them. Tae kept stealing bits of Namjoon's churros while Namjoon pretended to get mad, smiled with so much love whenever his lover put those bits in his mouth, giggling adorably. Jimin and Hobi were standing next to each other, with Jin on his other side. Suddenly the younger dancer turned to the older rapper-dancer and almost whispered, “So, is that your real boyfriend or have you paid someone to act?”, wiggling his eyebrows. Hobi was about to chew Jimin’s ear off, just as Jin whispered “I love you.”