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“HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNGKOOKIE!”
“…”
Jhope: “Um, Jungkook-ah?”
The huge lump under the sheets has yet to move since the boys barged into his room.
Jin: “Jungkookie…” Jin walked up to the side of Jungkook’s bed and gave his body a quick shake. No response.
Tae: “You don’t think-”
Yoongi: “Only one way to find out…” Yoongi went up to the curtains and threw them back before slamming the windows open, sunlight pouring inside and illuminating the dark room.
An agonizing groan was heard from the lump in the bed before shifting was heard and a ruffled hair half-awake Jungkook emerged from beneath the covers.
“He looks like death.” Namjoon said plainly, folding his arms across his chest.
Jungkook only grunted in response before doing a quick sweep of the room before his eyes clashed with Yoongi’s that was still standing by the window. Yoongi arched his eye brow at the stare off they were apparently having but it was soon disrupted by the clearing of someone’s throat.
“Hyungs…tell him to close the windows…” Jungkook’s throat sounded hoarse and scratchy to the hyungs ears.
“His eyes are red.” Yoongi proclaimed as he stepped around to stand with the others. “It’s faint but if you look properly, it is.”
“No it’s not!” Jungkook flung the covers back over his head hoping to get rid of them…it didn’t work.
“Jungkook-ah, it’s just been eight weeks. Surely you’d be okay-” “I’m fine!” The looks he got clearly showed that they didn’t believe him. “I am!”
“Are you sure?” “Yes!”
“Still doesn’t explain why your eyes are-” “Yoongi-hyung!” “Did you just yell at me?” “Sorry hyung…”
Namjoon clapped his hands loudly into the tense and silence air making everyone jump, earning a quick glare from Jin. He didn’t even looked sorry, he just shrugged his shoulders and went on coolly, “Well then, I guess we should-” He was cut off abruptly by a body flying forwards towards a wide-eyed Jungkook.
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNGKOOKIE!” Tae’s body impact sent both him and Jungkook flying across the bed almost falling off.
“Hyungggg, you’re heavy. Get off.” Instead of getting off, Tae wrapped his arms around his shoulders and his legs around his waist sticking like a koala to his back.
“Please get him off.” They all looked at each other before chorusing a ‘no’ and all turned to exit the room.
“Come into the living room so we can celebrate the starting of your birthday properly.”
They all left the room leaving the two boys in silence.
“Kookie…you sure you’re-” “I’m fineeeee.” Taehyung still wasn’t fully convinced but if the maknae said he was fine then he’ll just accept it as it is.
“…Hyung? Aren’t you gonna get off my back?”
“No. Take us to the living room.”
“But it’s my birthday; shouldn’t you be the one carrying me?”
“…You’re too heavy, now respect your hyung’s wishes and carry me.”
With a defeated groan, Jungkook got up and waddled to the living room with his ‘adult’ hyung clinging to his back.
When they entered the living room, everyone was there singing happy birthday to him…all except for one person but before he could dwell further into that thought he was dragged and pushed to sit at the table where a cake was placed in front of him.
“Make a wish and blow out the candles now kookie!”
I wish you were here with me hyung. I miss you.
Tears pricked at the corner of his eyes but he hastily brushed them away. He’s cried enough already last night.
“So…” “You know I can’t tell you hobi-hyung. It won’t come true if I do.” A pout formed on Jhope’s face as he stalked off to get a knife to cut the cake.
“And now…for the part that everyone loves except the birthday person themselves. Everyone get your phones!”
“Oh no.” Jungkook groaned as he took up the knife hobi brought before cutting a slice of the cake to eat. There was nothing he could do but succumb to his fate of watching his hyung’s post whatever they had that was funny to upload to twitter. But then he remembered…
“Wait! Wait! Everyone wait!” Everyone paused and looked at the boy, now turned adult, like he had two heads.
“We need to post my cover first.” It was silent until everyone nodded mutely and waited for him to post it before going back to being loud. Why’re they so loud anyway? Aren’t they just posting things?
It was like this until everyone got suspiciously quieter. The cake Jungkook had in his hand, pausing at his open mouth. Just because he turned an adult, doesn’t mean he had to start immediately eating like one.
Over all the murmuring that was going on, he managed to pick up one sentence. A sentence that sent his curiosity soaring. “Should we show him?”
“Show me what?”
They all stopped and gave Tae a pointed glare. Eventually Namjoon stepped forward, sighed deeply and lifted up his phone to show him.
It was a video he let Jimin record in the past, he didn’t know he was being recorded until his gaze landed on the phone in his hands. He didn’t complain like he usually did when others did it. Instead he just made a silly face and was rewarded by that beautiful contagious laughter of his. He loved to make him laugh. To watch his face light up, his eyes shrinking into slits as he threw his head back. The video had the caption “Happy Birthday” with a kissy face emoji at the end. He didn’t want a damn emoji; he wanted the real damn thing.
Jungkook turned to walk away. “Wait, there’s another one.”
The other video was sillier than the first. He didn’t know what he was doing to be honest. He just wanted to see him laugh. He had wanted his daily fixture of Jimin’s laugh and he had gotten it. But now…
Jungkook’s eyes watered as he came crashing back to earth to face the reality that Jimin’s not here. Not here with him on his birthday. He doesn’t get to hear him laugh, doesn’t get to see him teasing him before running off; he missed him and he doesn’t even get the birthday kissed he was promised. All because he just had to leave and go away. It was because of business but Jungkook didn’t care.
Jungkook span around quickly as the tears poured over and ran down his face.
“Kookie-ah, a-” “No!” He spun back around to face his hyung’s that were taken aback by his outburst.
“No! I’m not okay!” He rubbed furiously at his eyes, trying to get rid of tears but they just kept on coming. “It’s my damn birthday and he’s not here! He couldn’t come back for my birthday!?”
“But kookie, you kno-” “I don’t care! What good is my birthday if he isn’t here celebrating with us!? I want him here! I miss him! I miss him so much…” Jungkook’s knees gave out and he sank to the floor, still rubbing at his eyes even though the tears kept coming. Sobs after sobs racked Jungkook’s body as he fought to keep the bears at bay.
“Jungkookie…why are you crying on your birthday?”
“I can cry if I want t- hyung?...”
“You really think I’d miss your birthday kookie?”
A sob escaped him as he lept off the floor and ran straight into the awaiting arms of who he missed a lot.
“Well you took your damn time.” Namjoon chided him, huffing a sigh of relieve. He was about to crack when he saw Jungkook crying.
“Sorry.” Jimin giggled as his cheeks flushed a rosy red. Jimin went to take a seat, but found that he couldn’t because his koala of a boyfriend refuse to budge from around him, his face stuffed in the crook of his neck.
“Jungkookie-” “I missed you.” A soft smile graced Jimin’s face as he wrapped the adult child closer to him. “I know kookie. I missed you too.”
“Can I sit now?” “No. You’re forgetting something.” Like Jimin could forget. He owed his baby boy a birthday kiss and he damn well is going to give him a one.
Jimin gripped Jungkook by his hair and pulled him from his place in his neck to bring him to his awaiting lips.
A chorus of ‘ew’s and fake vomiting’ went up as everyone hurriedly left the room. The couple paid them no heed. Jimin’s tongue slipping into the hot cavern of his boyfriends mouth, his tongue sliding against Jungkook’s in a way that had his toes curling. Jungkook gripped Jimin tighter the moment Jimin started sucking on his tongue, the small whimpers and moans coming from him halting Jimin from going on any further. The hyung’s wouldn’t like that; especially after what happened last time.
“Jungkook-ah, we can finish after we are done celebrating your birthday with everyone.”
“Sure?” Jungkook was still a little dazed from the mind blowing kiss his boyfriend gave him.
“Promise.” And Jimin will fulfill that promise if it’s the last thing he does.
“Oh and,” Jimin kissed him once more, “Happy birthday Jungkookie.”