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People are born with the name of their soulmates in transparent ink. Once you find them and recognise them, the ink appears over your wrists, no matter if they had already been inked. This is a mark that can never be hidden. Some people may be born with one more soulmate than they expected. If your soulmate is to die, your wrist will appear as shattered, with the ink in a soft grey tone. Your soulmate will appear to be in pink tones, the shade adapting to his personality and your memories with them.
-o-
It was a Saturday, 6 in the morning. Everything was calm, Cath was fast asleep, you could see the sun rising in the horizon and-
“GOOD MORNING!”
Cath jerked up from where she laid in bed, startled by the sudden scream and screamed in retaliation in a high-pitched voice, scared, until she realised the owner of the voice was-
“Namjoon! What the fuck?!” Cath screamed, heart pounding out of her ribcage and fearing for her life.
A loud muffled groan came from the room next door and Cath sighed out loud, dropping her face into her hands. She was fucked.
“Morning!” Said the boy with a cute expression. “You have to get up Jagi~ Jagi~ Wakey~ I’ll spank you if you don’t wake up~”
“Kim fucking Namjoon, I swear if you pull the A.R.M.Y. card on me I’ll punch you in the dick. And for fuck’s sake stop calling me Jagi, dumbass.”
Used to the morning-angry kind of retaliation Cath always used with him when he was loud or childish, the boy only laughed softly and sat besides her in bed.
“I swear I fucking hate you guys.” A new voice said coming through Cath’s door. They probably had awakened the whole house. Cath feared for her life knowing who it belonged to.
“Hey, Juli, you know, it’s not my fault! He came and screamed for hell’s sake.” She explained, but the girl only walked to the bed and laid, face down, besides Cath, mumbling something about loud assholes before she went to sleep again.
“So~ What are the plans for today my dearest?” Namjoon asked, before he went to lay over Cath, crushing her down.
“Ugh, sleeping a little bit more.” Cath pleaded, giving up and softly sighing.
“I agree to that motion.” Suddenly said Kookie, as he came into the bedroom as well.
“What is this? Group meeting in my room?” Cath huffed
“Was looking for Juli-ah but she wasn’t in her bed.” Kookie said before laying over Juli, right besides them.
Unconsciously, since the girl was fast asleep again, Juli rolled over, laying with Jungkook with his chest against her back. Yeah, they definitely looked like a couple. ‘It’s complicated’ Juli always said, since both of them were too shy to ask the other out, and too silly to admit they technically were just fucking dating. Too bad not all of them had it that easy.
“Oh come on~ Noona~ You’re starting to become like Yoongi hyung. You resemble him too much already.” Namjoon whined
Resemble him, Cath thought, when all I really want is just to have him. Life was hard when you lived with your goddamn crush.
“Actually, Yoongi hyung is quite an active mess. He and Jimin don’t even rest. They’re too loud sometimes.” Kookie whined, sounding sleep deprived.
Something always broke inside Cath every time she heard both their names together, even if she adored both of them. Let’s add to “Life was hard when you lived with your goddamn crush.” “And harder when you also live with his soulmate.”
“Shut up dummy.” Juli said half asleep, making Jungkook laugh softly and hug her closer and tighter.
“You know, maybe it’s because I like hanging out with you better than him. You’re too loud and one of us has to dim the things down to normal.” Cath said, no harm whatsoever in her voice and patted Namjoon’s head, making him scoop closer to Cath. “But I could maybe think of somewhere we could go to, even if you’re so loud… Maybe.. ice cream?” She said, the hint of a smile in her voice.
With running footsteps and crashing through the door, Tae was suddenly bursting in, and in harmony with Juli who jerked up from where she laid, almost killing Jungkook in the process, they shouted
“I want ice cream too!”
Cath shook up, laughing loudly, not actually being able to breathe with Namjoon crushing her chest.
“You wake up for ice cream? Really?” Cath said, smiling at both the silly friends she had. “And come on Namjoon, you’re crushing me.”
With a slight push Namjoon was sitting up and Cath sighed happily, finally free.
“Free spot!” Taehyung suddenly screamed and Cath was being crushed again, but this time around it wasn’t hard like Namjoon, it was just softly laying on top of the girl, cuddling almost.
“Cathey-ah, can I get ice cream too? Please~?” Tae asked, hugging Cath tightly enough so she would surrender and say yeah, okay, we can get ice cream. She knew it too.
“God, yes, we can. Of course we can. I always get you ice cream anyway. From the store that’s really far away? Chocolate and Strawberry with sparkles and melted chocolate?”
“Cathey-ah, you’re the best ever!” Tae screamed and cuddled closer.
‘And soft mint with caramel on top for Yoongi, ‘cause it’s the only ice cream he really likes…’ A voice softly spoke inside Cath’s head, making something in her chest hurt even more. And almost as if Cath had summoned him, a scream came from the hall.
“You guys scream one more fucking time and I’ll set this fucking place on fire!” Came the voice, sleep deprived and extremely angry to what it seemed like, and Cath could only chuckle. “Sorry hyung~!” Tae shouted back, only making a scared Kookie cover his mouth to shut him up.
“He’ll kill us!” Kookie whisper-shouted dramatically.
“You know, it’s like 6 am and that’s why he’s angry?” Namjoon commented.
“6 am?!” Cath whispered-shouted, fearing for Namjoon’s life as she pictured her hands wrapping around his neck, suffocating him. She would seriously kill him. “Literally Namjoon, I adore you, but fuck off.”
Laying down on the bed again Cath made herself comfortable, a displeased sound coming from her throat, as she almost forced Taehyung to lay down besides her so they could sleep again.
“If you guys are staying,” Cath said while making Namjoon move a little so he wasn’t over her feet. “you either sleep or get on the floor. I’ll sleep for a couple more hours and if you guys wake me before nine I will murder you.”
Instantly, as if in order of a commandant, Juli and Kookie laid back and under the bedsheets and Taehyung made himself comfortable besides Cath, cuddling to her side.
“Okay, I’ll take that as a cue to leave.” Namjoon said, ruffling Cath’s hair and walking out again, peace once again filling up the room.
None of them knew exactly how it happened, but in matter of seconds, and not realising what they were doing, all of them fell asleep.
Fun fact, nobody ever came to wake them up. It was already eleven in the morning and all of them were dead asleep. But little did know Namjoon had actually came back and checked on them, but hadn’t dared to wake them up, too hurt to manage to do anything else but get out of the room. And it wasn’t because of Cath attitude, ‘cause Namjoon and Cath had always been like that with each other and it really never meant no harm. They adored each other.
But there was the problem. To Cath Namjoon was a brother, a friend.
Juli and Kookie were cuddled on the right side of the bed, Kookie with his mouth open softly and an arm thrown over the girl. On the left side, however, Cath was laying side ways, Taehyung softly pressed against her back, arm thrown over her middle, fingers softly brushing over her stomach. His lips were pressed against the back of Cath’s neck, and both looked really comfortable with each other, and just like it did to Cath when she saw Yoongi and Jimin, it did to Namjoon.
First to wake up was Cath this time around, to Tae, ‘cause everything smelt like him, and a soft pair of lips were pressed to the back of her neck. At first, she couldn’t actually understand the situation at all, where she was or how she’d ended up in this situation, but it quickly came back to her and everything made sense.
Before she could sit up to get out of her Tae trap, the bed ruffled and everything moved around.
Juli, in the panic of a second, stood up, bright red, probably awake enough to realise about her actions with Jungkook, panicking to maybe the idea of the boy realising about the huge crush she had on him. It was silly, Cath thought, ‘cause Jungkook probably already knew. And probably so did her about his crush on her, but both of them were too childish sometimes.
The girl stumbled out of the room, in a rush and all of them were awake now, Kookie groaning softly in pain and maybe irritation of being awaken, since Juli had probably pushed him away and not so softly.
Thinking it was the best idea, and once Tae was softly moving away, Cath played asleep, softly groaning and moving a bit, laying on her back and looking at Tae, who was rubbing his eye behind her and Kookie, who was sitting up, looking confused and sad.
“Auch.” Kookie murmured, looking at the empty spot besides himself. “Morning mood.”
Cath looked at him and thought to herself, people only know one Jungkook. The either sweet or super sexy boy. Thank god they didn’t know annoyed Jungkook, ‘cause it wasn’t his best aspect.
“Mmm, what’s wrong?” Cath asked, even if she knew Juli had run away. From her feelings, of course. Cath wished she would one day stop her running.
“Dunno, she stumbled off and pushed against me.” Kookie complained, his face a mixture of hurt and annoyance.
“Why, what happened?” Tae asked, sitting up as well.
“Maybe she went to the bathroom?” Cath tried to cover, sitting up as well. “Who knows, maybe she got her period.”
“Yah, gross.” Kookie complained.
“At least it sounds legit to me.” Tae said. “Don’t go hard on yourself Kookie-ah~”
“Hmm, I guess so.” He sighed, passing a hand over his face.
“Okay, enough of this. You guys wanted ice cream, right? First to finish showering and dressing gets the special double as a treat.” Cath said, looking playfully at the boys, who were now fully awake.
“I choose Cathey’s bathroom!” Tae said, jumping out of the bed and rushing to the bathroom, only to be answered by an angry Kookie screaming he had a head start and demanding his own bathroom, running down the hall.
Cath laughed softly in relief, stood up and walked out of her room, walking to the one next door.
She knocked softly on the door.
“May I come in?” She asked quietly, only to be answered by a muffled yes. She was probably hiding underneath her bedsheets.
Opening the door Cath found the expected lump under the sheets.
“You okay?” Cath asked, closing the door behind herself, to be answered by a groan and Juli uncovering, with a frustrated face.
“Why didn’t you stop me?! I didn’t know what I was doing and I woke up inside his arms and UGH!” She complained, earning a laugh from Cath. “Hey! Fuck you! Don’t laugh at me!”
“Hey, hey, it’s not a bad laugh, don’t be mad.” Cath said as the girl was red with frustration.
“But you knew! Didn’t you? Ugh! What will I do now? What if he knows?”
“I’m pretty sure he knows by now with you screaming, he’s next door.” Cath said, making Juli’s face morph into panic and her laugh bubble up again. “I’m kidding, I’m kidding, he’s showering, down the hall.”
“You bitch!” Juli screamed, throwing one of her pillows at Cath, who couldn’t stop laughing and made Juli laugh as well, nervous like. “You almost gave me a heart attack.”
“Sorry, sorry, your face is priceless.” Cath explained, sitting besides her. Juli softly punched her shoulder. “Hey, how about we go make some breakfast and forget about this incident? I’m sure he thinks you went to the bathroom.”
“Really?!” Juli asked surprised.
“Yep, you’re welcome.” Cath said with a smirk. “Now come on, let’s cool our heads down.”
Cath stood up, offering Juli a hand to stand up, which she eventually took after blabbering incoherent words out and a “dumbass” in the mid way.
“Come on you paranoid one, let’s eat something. I’m sure Kookie’s much more scared about you being possibly ruler than anything that has happened.” She added softly, Juli’s face morphing again, Cath going for the run.
“You’re so fucking death I swear to god!” Juli screamed, running behind the girl and she entered the kitchen, closing the door and holding it tight so Juli wouldn’t be able to enter.
“Yah, you two, no fights in my kitchen.” Jin complained, Cath turning around suddenly, looking at the boy inside the kitchen.
“Hyung! She’s going to kill me! Protect me!” Cath urged, rushing behind Jin as the girl entered the kitchen area, a smile spread over her lips even though she somehow wanted to murder Cath.
“Yah!” Jin shouted, Juli stopping her pushing against the boy, trying to catch Cath. He took them both by their ears as if they were four years old toddlers. “You both! What are you fighting over?”
“Eomma, she wants to kill me!” Cath said, looking at Jin as she moved as far away from Juli as she could with Jin pulling at her ear.
“Why? What did you do now Cath?”
“Eomma she told Kookie I was with my period when I ran from bed ‘cause I was embarrassed of having slept besides him and-“ Mid sentence, Juli realised all she had let out, a hand clasping over her mouth. “Shit!”
“No swearing! Now, Cath, why did you do that?” It was almost as if Jin had ignored the confession on purpose.
“I was covering her up! If it wasn’t for me Kookie would still be making assumptions about your feelings for him as you ran from his hold just now-“
“Shut up!” Juli screamed, drowning her voice.
“YAH!” Jin’s voice was angry now, looking at the two. “No more talking about Kookie and feelings and all. Now you both, make up. Cath, apologise to Juli and Juli say thank you for her at least trying to cover up when she could’ve left the maknae to his owns wonders.”
The girls looked at each other pouting, childish anger in their eyes. Juli was the first to speak.
“Thanks for what you did… This morning… Even if saying I had my period was totally unnecessary but yeah, thanks.” Juli said, looking down.
“Sorry about the period thing… Tae was frozen almost as if he had been thinking and Jungkook looked mad and it was the first thing that came from my mouth to make up for the fact of you going to the bathroom and make it sound realistic.” Cath said back, looking at the floor as well.
“Now, that’s better.” Jin had let go of their ears, the girls free once again. “How about some breakfast and then you girls can take a shower when the bathrooms are free?”
In the house, they were three bathrooms. One was in Cath’s room, the other in Jungkook and Namjoon’s and the last one was one they all shared and it was in the end of the hall, in front of Yoongi and Jimin’s room.
The shower in the shared bathroom had been going for a while, Yoongi and Jimin probably inside and it was better to let them use it calmly before anyone erupted in, they had all learned in not the best way. But Cath and Juli had decided to share the bathroom in Cath’s room, making it the only “girl bathroom” in the house, which was why it made Tae so fond of it ‘cause things were always in their place, since none of the girls could stand having the bathroom a mess. Plus, their mirror had lights on it, that Cath had installed one day saying they needed good lighting for make up, which was also why Tae was so fond of it, being able to get his eyeliner and foundation the right way when their make up artist didn’t come, which was every day they didn’t have to do anything too important. But it still mattered for Tae for going out and dance practices and everything, so he put a lot of time in the bathroom just doing that. Not to mention his cleansing session, because the boy loved to take care of his skin.
Jungkook was a different case, since he didn’t put much but coverage for his eye bags. Cath sometimes felt annoyed for how pretty the boy was, but then again, it wasn’t like she could do something about it. Sometimes Cath, Juli and Tae all had to stand in front of the mirror at the same time, as they got ready for something they had planned, and they didn’t do much either, just took their time so it looked the best, and it had made Namjoon annoyed more than once when they had to stay behind waiting for the three of them. Of course, Jin was always doing pretty much the same, but that boy got up before any of the other, so he was always ready before any of the others even had showered.
“Yes eomma.” Both of the girls had said before softly punching each other when Jin had turned around, stopping when he looked back at them.
“Okay, sit down on the table, let’s have a normal breakfast.”
Jin hadn’t been really up as in for cooking something elaborated today, so he had served the girls a bowl with cereal each and milk, and when Cath had decided to go smart saying how elaborated it was Jin had answered with a “This is the most elaborated bowl of cereal you’ll ever get so quiet and eat!”
While eating their elaborated bowl of cereal, and after Jin and Jimin had left for their morning jog, Jimin having his lips incredibly swollen and red, the two girls almost jumped out of their own skin when the two boys came from the showers.
“I won! I won! I get the ice cream!” Tae screamed down the hall, pushing Kookie aside, to get the boy not to get to Cath and Juli in time.
“He’s lying! Cathey-ah! I swear he’s lying! Look at him!” Jungkook shouted in retaliation, taking the boy in his arms and holding him back.
Cath, deciding she was not to get in their little argument, just laughed, letting the boys harass each other. If anything, and with the shouting, the problem was to end in 3, 2, 1…
“You both shut the fuck up now or I will smack your heads together and I won’t even feel bad about it.” Yoongi said, walking in between the boys and into the kitchen, looking at the girls int he table. “Morning.” He had greeted them both. “Anything to eat?”
“Nope,” Juli instantly answered, laughing underneath her voice. “Jin only made us these incredibly elaborated bowls of cereal and Cath’s too lazy to cook something now.”
Yoongi sighed, sitting down.
“I’ll get you a bowl hyung.” Cath said, standing and putting the water to boil to make him his usual morning coffee. She then walked over to the counter, taking another bowl out and filing it with Yoongi’s cereal, that he killed them if they ate, and mixed it up with milk, handing it then to Yoongi with a spoon, as she walked back to the water, making him his coffee, as Tae and Jungkook wrestled in the door. Yoongi took it black, like his soul, Hoseok had once said, and it somehow made Cath want to shove a spoonful of sugar down his throat because how could anyone take black coffee? Then again, it was Yoongi and no one was going to actually complain about it. Once it was done, she had settled it down in front of the boy, him smiling and giving her a soft kiss in the cheek as a thank you and please make them stop.
Cath, understanding the deal and trying to not let the blush over her cheeks show that much, walked over to both of the boys.
“Juli-ah, who do you think won?” Cath asked her, a grin plastered on her face.
“Hm, I think Kookie did.” The girl said, getting where Cath wanted to go, Kookie softly screaming a “Yes!”, Tae making a horrified face.
“Cathey-ah! That’s a lie!” He had pleaded.
Cath, completely ignoring the boy, looked at Juli.
“Really? ‘Cause I think Tae did.”
The boy’s face lit up then, Kookie looking hopelessly at her as the oldest threw himself at Cath, kissing all over her cheeks.
“Hey, hey. Not because I’m a little biased by you it means Kookie loses.” Tae looked uncertainly at her, his movements coming to a stop. Cath smiled, looking at both of the boys. “You both won. You both get the ice cream, dummies. Like any of you ever won when it comes to things like this.”
Before she knew it the girl had two boys over herself, as they hugged her softly, thanking her.
“Yah! Sit down and eat breakfast before I change my mind.” Cath said, trying not to sound as happy as she was.
Both of the boys obediently did as Cath took out two more of the bowls, settling them down to fill them up with cereal, before another voice came from the door.
“Make that three Cathey-ah, please.” Said a sleepy Hoseok, smiling brightly as he entered the kitchen, passing by Yoongi’s side, greeting him with a soft “Morning hyung” before he went over to Juli and placed a kiss on her cheek, making her blush brightly, to walk over to where Cath was. If Cath had to lie to herself, she would say she saw nothing when Hoseok kissed Juli on the cheek, but truth to be told, the only thing she had been able to focus on was the way Jungkook’s face had scrunched up, looking somehow angrily at Hoseok, before he had looked over at everybody, noticing his own face, to make sure no one had seen. Of course, it was no secret to Cath the way Kookie felt. The boy had made a surprised face, seeing Cath looking at him, but the girl had only smiled at the boy, making a zipper over her lips as if “I’ll keep your secret safe Kookie!”
Hoseok made his way to Cath, who had just taken out the third bowl the boy had asked for, as she filled them with milk.
“Morning sunshine~” Hoseok had said, before he had wrapped his arms around Cath as he always did. Both Cath and Hoseok were fond of skin ship and they never made anything to hide it. They got along really well for the same reason. Little did know it was now turn for Juli to be looking around, as she saw Taehyung’s face scrunch up, little like Jungkook’s face had. It was almost usual for Juli to see the boy around like that whenever anyone stepped close to his best friend, then again, Juli made sure to not let know she knew. But damn did she know.
“Morning bubbles~” Cath has answered, the boy kissing her cheek and taking the bowl that was ready, to help her serve the boys, going and coming, pouring the sugar onto Tae’s bowl the way he liked it and proceeding to come back for Jungkook’s, serving it to him. “And… Here you go.” Cath said, finishing mixing up Hoseok’s bowl and handing it to him, the boy thanking her with a smile as she sat down again, finishing up her own cereal.
“So you guys are coming with us for the ice cream?” Juli asked Yoongi and Hoseok.
“Yup!” Hoseok answered, smiling softly. “Where’s Namjoon by the way?"
“He said he had to go to the studio, asked if you guys could bring him ice cream. I guess I’ll stay behind too. Could you guys bring me ice cream too? I have some things I’d like to finish today, before I get too wrapped around them.” Yoongi explained.
“No problem hyung.” Hoseok answered. “Cath knows what you like right?”
“Yeah, I do.” Cath said, showing off a smile when something inside her broke a little. “We’ll bring you ice cream hyung, no worries. Just hope the boys don’t eat it before we get back.”
A soft laugh erupted from Tae, as he looked at Kookie. “Remember the time we ate it and Cathey wanted to kill us and we had to go back all the way to get a new one?” He said, Cath laughing softly at the memory. It had really been a good day.
Kookie erupted into laughter then, remembering the day and Yoongi giving a confused face to them.
“It’s nothing hyung, don’t worry.” Cath had assured, laughing softly as well.
It was then the boys had entered the room.
“You all decided to not wait for me and just eat cereal?” Jin asked, sweaty, as he smiled at the boys, Jimin coming in from behind him, but the later boy had nothing waist up, drying his face with his shirt. Juli protested to him, telling him to get dressed for once, that how could he not have money for t-shirts. "Be decent hyung." But damn, the boy was good looking.
“Yay! Mommy’s home!” Cath and Juli screamed in unison, jumping onto Jin and each kissing one of his cheeks. “How was morning run?” Asked Cath.
“Good, relaxing as always. I see you girls are behaving now.” Jin giggled a little. “Where’s Namjoon-ah?”
“Studio. You know how he is, that kid.” Yoongi said, looking back at Jimin, sparing him a smile and coming back to his cereal.
“Hey, no love for me?” Jimin huffed, looking at everyone in the table, Yoongi still too focused on his cereal.
Being ignored by his boyfriend and receiving only a couple of smiles, Jimin walked over to Yoongi, forcing himself onto him to give him a kiss.
“Hey, no, you’re sweaty and gross, take a shower before you get sweat onto my cereal.” The boy said, protecting his food, like a grumpy five years old toddler. “I’ll kiss you then.” Yoongi pushed the boy away, looking at him with a done face. Still, everybody knew Yoongi meant no harm to his boyfriend, and once Jimin had forced himself into him enough, Yoongi gave him a peck and finally pushed him away, the boy walking down the hall to shower.
“So! About the ice cream!” Juli suddenly commented and from down the all came a scream of “You guys have to wait for me! I want ice cream too!” from Jimin, which everybody would, of course. It’s not like they were starving from ice cream and instantly needed to have a taste or else they’d die. Plus, Cath and Juli needed to take a shower too.
“What about it?” Tae asked suddenly worried about his future ice cream. “We’re still going right? Cathey said we would! What’s happening?!”
“Yah!, you paranoid kid. Juli just meant to clarify we’ll go take a shower now so you guys seat for a while and wait for us until we’re ready. Dummy, nobody’s taking your ice cream away.” Cath explained, motioning for Hoseok then. “You too, shower and we’ll go for ice cream.”
It was settled then, and Juli and Cath headed onto Cath’s room, Juli taking the shower first as Cath took out something to wear from her wardrobe. It was a nice and warm day, but everybody knew how was Korea when it came to weather and being it Autumn, nobody wanted to risk themselves to catch a cold.
A few minutes later they were switching, Juli putting on her clothes she had brought before she showered and dressed as Cath showered. Once both of them had finally finished showering and dressing they stood in front of the mirror, looking at their morning faces.
“Ugh, I look gross.” Cath protested, passing a hand over her face.
“You do not Cathey-ah.” Taehyung said, startling Juli in the process.
“Taehyung I swear you’ll give Juli a heart attack one day and you won’t be able to do anything about it.” Cath said, pinning her hair up and moisturising her face.
“Agree to the motion.” Juli said, looking at the boy and smacking his head softly, with no real harm. “Warn us next time hyung.”
They always said the same thing, and Taehyung would always burst inside without having to be told otherwise. It was something Cath was already used to, and even if Juli didn’t get scared anymore it still startled her every time. She remembered the chance Taehyung had talked from the door and Juli had literally threw him a brush on the face, thinking the boy was some kind of phantom. It was dumb to think about it, but then again, all of them were silly enough.
“I will little dongsaeng~” Tae answered, smiling at Juli and doing his make up and making that alien face again as he lined his waterline, Cath softly giggling at him as she did her foundation and contouring and Juli her lashes.
In little time, thank god because Kookie was already tired of waiting, they were all done and walking over to the living room, seeing Hoseok and Jungkook laying down on the couch and floor, cellphones in hand.
“Okay! Let’s go!” Came a Jimin from behind the three, smiling softly, his hair styled, make up on point. Cath wanted to feel less jealous than she did, she really wanted to.
“Fuck you for being so cute Park Jimin. I took like an hour to get this done and in the same time you did such a better job, I am so offended.” Cath complained.
“Aw~ Cathey-ah, you want the Jimin magic?” Jimin smiled. “You just need to ask~ I can play with your tiny little face and make you look like a doll~”
“Yah! Stop it, I’m literally just a year younger than you Jimin.” Cath complained, punching lightly at his shoulder.
“Aww but you’re still so small Cathey~ It’s so cute sometimes as we grew you out so easily in high school~” Something inside Juli broke a little, remembering her friend coming over during high school to Seoul, Cath and the rest of the boys had been studying in the same school, except Jin who had already graduated.
“Jimin, remember even Kookie grew you out, and that you’re only a couple inches taller than me.” Cath said, Kookie coming into the conversation with a smug smile.
“True~ Our Jiminnie is so cute right~? He has such cute cheeks I want to pinch all day~” Kookie said, pinching at Jimin’s cheeks, the boy pushing him away.
“Jungkook-ah!” Jimin protested. “Respect your hyung!”
“Aw~ But I am~ Just saying what a cute hyung I have~” Jungkook kept teasing.
“Okay, okay, break it up, let’s just go get our ice cream before we lose the day.” Juli reasoned, splitting Jungkook and Jimin apart, pushing them all towards the door.
“Yay ice cream!” Taehyung shouted, jumping onto Jungkook’s back, his legs and arms wrapping around the younger. Thankfully, Jungkook didn’t have so much of a problem holding the elder up as they got out of the house.
“Hobi drives!” Jimin said, smiling as he handed the eldest the keys.
“Wait, Jin’s not coming either?” Cath asked stunned.
“Jin hyung said he’ll stay to make us lunch for when we come back, and that we don’t have to fit our bellies too much.” Kookie said.
“But does he want us to bring him ice cream or?” Juli added
“Yup! I’m bringing him ice cream~” Tae said from above Jungkook
Having that settled the guys walked over to the car, Jimin calling dibs on the front seat and running before Tae could catch him up as he made Jungkook run faster, to no avail.
“Wait, guys, one of us has to seat on top of the other, we only have five seats…” Jungkook commented.
“Maknaes get their own seats!” Juli screamed in panic, rushing inside the car and fastening her seatbelt in the middle seat.
Jungkook, dropping Taehyung from his back, rushed as well, sitting on Juli’s right side.
Cath blushed brightly for some reason she somehow didn’t understand and Taehyung smirked at her.
“Seems like you’re stuck with your favourite hyung Cathey-ah~” Tae said and took Cath’s hand, sitting on the available sit and patting his lap. “Come on Cathey.” He pulled her arm softly and eventually pulled her in, Cath landing straight on his lap, a smile displaying over his face, closing the door once he made sure her feet were also inside.
“Everybody seat belts on!” Hobi said, starting the car as Taehyung suddenly sat Cath up straight in his lap, putting the seatbelt around the two of them.
“To make sure we’re safe~” He said, smiling softly as he looked at Cath.
The girl had been ice cold for a while since Taehyung had pulled her in but somehow his company now made Cath feel much more comfortable, the blush dying a little bit, as she turned around and looked at Tae, smiling softly at the boy and poking his cheek.
“Cute weird boy.” She said, looking at Tae, smiling softly and the boy made a cute face while putting his hands all over his face.
“Not fair~ I want somebody to play with me too~” Hobi protested, pouting so loudly he could be literally seen from all the way to the back.
“Aw, Bubbles~ But we all adore you~” Cath said smiling as she leaned in and poked his cheeks too, then laying back softly onto Tae. It was not only something that seemed so much like something she had done for a lifetime, but something completely loving and comfortable, that freed her from all her worries as the boy wrapped his arms around her waist, holding her close.
Out of the corner of his eye Jimin could see Tae smiling brightly, as he closed his eyes and his head dropped onto Cath’s shoulder softly. Jungkook and Juli for some reason Jimin still couldn't picture were mad red, refusing to look at each other. He could sense hesitance, though, in their hands. Juli’s eyes twitched and she kept looking at Jungkook’s thigh, then his hand, then the floor, her fingers twitching, almost as if wanting to touch Jungkook’s. Jungkook was pretty much the same, but with his shoulders, as if he wanted to bring the girl closer, pretending to look at the window in Tae’s way, but actually looking at Juli when the girl wasn’t aware of it. It was something they had kept doing, and Jimin was the only to notice this time around, Cath being to deep down in her own Tae world.
And it didn’t seem wrong to none of them, how close they were or were trying to be, back there in the back seats. It wasn’t a surprise to Hoseok finding a look of frustration in Jungkook’s face whenever he glanced at the mirror. It wasn’t a surprise that soon enough Tae had fallen asleep, the company too comforting, and Cath had done the same at one moment, her head falling back to softly rest against Tae’s.
The trip was quite a thing, for all of them, as they had to take the highway to get to the city next door. It was something they would only do whenever it came to something as important as going for their favourite ice cream. And it was a good thing, since nobody would really bother them there, not knowing the boys got off town just to eat ice cream. And it was something so pleasant that the owner was Cath’s friend, ‘cause it meant it was a safe place for the boys, and only once they had found an A.R.M.Y. in their trip, which hadn’t really been so much of a fuss, the owner, Dani, sighing a fake soft “Yah, hope they’ll come back one day~ Too bad they only had to stop for their trip.” As a way to cover it up. The A.R.M.Y. thanks to their luck, had never came back looking for them after, which made Dani much more comfortable.
To Dani: Dani-ah~ We’re coming over to see you~ Be cute and ready~
Hoseok had texted her when they had reached a red light and instantly put his phone back down when it had turned into green.