| part 23

As Jin got roped down, his other two members ran towards him.

"Please tell me someone recorded that", he said.

Taehyung held his phone up and smiled brightly.

"Hyung where did even you get that idea? For a sceond, I was seriously worried!"

"Oh well, I just stood there and this woman came up to me asking if I was interested."

"So you thought you'd just say yes?"

"Yes."

"You're sick, how did you do that?", Jimin asked.

Jin laughed.

"It's good to be back on my feet again. Where are we going now?"

"We only have half an hour left. I'd say we're going to the airport", Taehyung said in a sad voice.

Even though they stayed for some days, they barely got to see anything from the city.

"Okay. But I want to get snacks on the way there", Jin responded.

In a grocery store at the airport, with sunglasses and hats on, their bodyguards close to them, the three members looked for their favorite snacks and drinks to take into the airplane.

Taehyung was standing in front of a long shelf. Maybe he should get something for Jungkook too? But what would he want? Something spicy could be good.

But then Taehyung's eyes lit up as he saw a box of cookies. Perfect! He grabbed three of them and continued looking.

Maybe he'd find some banana chips or something chocolate related.

He also grabbed a packing of chips with extra spice and looked at it.

How does Jungkook even eat those?

Taehyung was against everything that had the slightest spice in it. The burn on the tongue was uncomfortable, he thought. And it hurt  sometimes too.

Taehyung kept thinking and looking for more snacks as a hand grabbed his.

He immediately turned around ready to knock someone out but the human standing there surprised him.

"Jungkook, you scared me!"

"Sorry. I've been standing here a few seconds but you seemed to be so deeply in your thoughts that you didn't notice me", the maknae said grinning.

"It looked kinda cute."

Tae didn't say anything to that.

"Why are you buying spicy food anyway? Last time that I checked, you hated it."

Taehyung's face gained color.

"They're for you."

"Oh. Thank you."

Taehyung just nodded and turned around again.

"What else have you got?", Jungkook asked and took one after the other pack out of Taehyung's hand.

"Cookies?", he gasped. "I love these!"

"I- I know. I was thinking we could share them", the older said and scratched his ear.

Jungkook smiled. Since when was his hyung so easy to get flustered?

And the fact that he was planning on bringing snacks for him too, warmed his heart.

"Jimin? Do you want something?", Taehyung yelled through the store.

"No, I'm good."

Tae heard his footsteps coming around the corner and he quickly let go of Jungkook's hand.

"Really? I'll pay."

"No but thank you, Tae."

"We'll make him eat something don't worry, love", Jungkook said after Jimin left again.

Love? Did he say love??

Where did those nicknames come from?

And why love? He could have chosen from so many different names!

Jungkook's hand traveled to his waist-

"Don't, someone could hear or see us easily", Taehyung whispered outraged.

Jungkook let go of his hyung's waist.

"Sorry."

"It's okay, just be careful, we're still in public."

After Taehyung and Jin bought their snacks, the four of them walked out of the store and over to their other bandmembers, Jhope and Yoongi.

Yoongi's head was on Jhope's lap. They've probably been here a while already.

"Didn't you meet Namjoon on the way?", Hobi asked.

"No? We thought he was with you."

This was not good, Jungkook thought.

"At least he has a bodyguard with him, that's something right?"

"We should go looking for him", Yoongi said and sat up.

"We don't have enough time! We need to go in in twenty and new york city is big! Where should we even look?"

"I got it", Jungkook said and started running out of the airport, his bodyguard on the run after him.

"Don't get lost!"

"And hurry!"

"Be careful!"

A lot of blocks later in quick pace, thanks to an uber, Jungkook turned to a street, with a standing museum. He jumped out of the car, and ran into it. His bodyguard had trouble keeping up because he still had to buy a ticket for allowance of visiting the inside of the museum.

Jungkook ran through the hallways taking a look at every sitting place he came by.

And then finally after the 8th bank, he saw his leader sitting, deep in his thoughts, looking at a piece of art on the big wall in front of him.

"Hyung!", Jungkook panted.

Namjoon looked up visually confused.

"What are you doing here?"

"What are YOU doing here?", Jungkook countered. "We need to check in in a few minutes!"

"Did you run all the way here?"

"Not all the way, I had some help from an uber who is waiting for us outside the door, now come on!"

Namjoon grabbed his things, took a last look at the painting and ran with Jungkook to the uber car.

Their bodyguard had five seconds to sit down and put their seatbelts on until the driver gave all of his potential. Without risking any lives though.

Just when they entered the airport they heard someone on speaker saying their last call.

As their names were spoken out aloud, it almost seemed as if every one turned their heads on them.

Some people tried getting through to them, to touch them. Jungkook felt hands everywhere and they only had two bodyguards. One for each.

Namjoon then walked in front of the maknae and kept him close behind him, with one bodyguard in front of the leader and one walking after Jungkook, struggling to keep the fans in line, they rushed through halls and arrived at the final spot.

The rest of the band had already been waiting on the other side of the luggage control.

After the other bodyguards were able to guide BTS into the plane, they all flopped on their seats.

Jungkook was still breathing strongly.

"You okay?", Taehyung asked, sitting beside him.

Jungkook just nodded and closed his eyes to calm down for a moment.

"You want something to drink?"

"Some water would be nice."

"Of course, wait."

Taehyung looked through his backpack and picked a bottle of water to give to the younger.

Jungkook immediately started drinking and emptied half of it.

Then he handed the bottle back to his hyung.

"Thank you."

"No worries."

"Where did you look for Namjoon hyung?"

"A museum. By the way did you know that he has had a girlfriend until recently?"

"No. Seems as if he didn't really share that information with anyone. I had no idea."

"Me neither."

"He's told me some stuff about her. He even showed me pictures. She seemed genuinely nice. Anyway, he told me, that that was what they'd do. Hang out at museums. So I just hoped to guess right in finding him there."

"You did. You pay a lot of attention to the people around you."

"Certainly not enough", Jungkook replied.

"I didn't know that he had a relationship nor that they broke up."

"It's not your fault that you didn't know. We're idols, we're used to keeping all of that to ourselves so of course he'd be good at hiding it", Taehyung said in a comforting tone.

"He probably didn't want us to worry", he said.

"Now go to sleep. I know you've been tired since morning. You've been yawning every few minutes, the whole day through."

Jungkook nodded and didn't say anything. He just turned his back to the hallway and laid his head onto Taehyung's shoulder.

"Please tell me if you mind", Jungkook whispered.

"I don't", Taehyung whispered back. "Don't overthink so much."

Maybe it would be wise that if those make out moments happened again, to do them at daytime and not to keep him up at night, Taehyung thought. He didn't want to be the reason for this boy to be that sleepy.

He would love to look at him. With his closed eyes and puffy cheeks, he'd look so cute. But Tae couldn't see him, since he was barely able to move his head. He pulled out his phone and opened the selfie camera.

Jungkook's cheeks had a slight pink touch to it, his lips were closed, his eyes too.

Even his eyelashes looked beautiful. They were long and brushed his skin. His hair was a little bit messy from all that running but to the older, it looked flawless in every way.

Jungkook's legs were curled up, his feet on the seat, his shoes taken off.

He looked like a kid. Like a little fluffy bunny.

Taehyung carefully pressed on the button to take a picture but almost dropped his phone because of the loud sound.

Hopefully Jungkook didn't hear that? No he didn't respond to it.

Taehyung sighed in relief.

Once Jungkook was fully asleep there probably wasn't anything that could wake him up.

Instead he just snuggled closer. Like he did last night in the hotel bed too.

When they used to cuddle, when they were younger, it was a whole different story. Of course it was sweet and lovely and all but...

It wasn't this.

Taehyung felt like this meant something.

Something romantic.

Something more than just.. friendship.

"I think, I like you", Taehyung whispered.

"I thought you'd never admit", Jimin said from behind him.

"Stop eavesdropping!"

Jimin laughed.

"Hobi is next to me, so you should be careful with what you say."

"What??"

"He's sleeping right now, but I mean for the rest of the flight", Jimin explained.

"O-okay, that's good to know thank you."

Jimin just nodded silenty and continued flipping through his porn magazine.

The rest of the flight went pretty normal. Maybe three of four times the boys were asked for an autograph or a group photo with a fan but that was it. Jungkook and Tae shared one of these little screens together, ate their snacks and laughed. When they started watching a movie and the main characters (two boys) started kissing, they looked at each other and stayed quiet for a few seconds but then concentrated on the movie again.

Neither of them saw that the other one was smiling afterwards.

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(Damn this is cheesy)