(morning glory: love in vain)

a prologue

"Under the flower petals raining down
I run, so lost in this maze"
[forever young - BTS]

The dorm is quiet. Taehyung and Hoseok are out to meet their respective families. Jimin and Jungkook are out playing somewhere and Namjoon and Seokjin are busy preparing for Show Champion. They are the MCs for the week. And, he, Min Yoongi is lying on his bed refusing to come out of his blanket and see the morning light. He could sleep in. He has the whole dorm to himself. The kids wouldn’t be returning anytime soon. He snuggles into the warm blanket.

Hmmm.

When he wakes up next, it is because there is a ruckus outside and Yoongi wants nothing more than to shut them up. Whoever it is. Who the is it anyway? The dorm should have been empty. He throws off the blanket cursing when he hears pots banging and something else falling. Again. The sound is pretty loud for his sensitive ears. He drags himself out, not bothering to pull on his sweats. They are used to the lack of clothes on his person. It is a struggle even to walk those few yards between his room and the kitchen. He hopes it is not Namjoon again, but, nothing else would explain the tornado hitting the kitchen. His right foot bumps on a glass after it comes rolling on the carpet. What the ? What is Namjoon doing? He is going to ban the clumsy leader from entering their kitchen. He doesn’t get why Seokjin makes him his assistant and gives him all these.. hopes of being a better cook someday.

He is opening his mouth to let out a string of curses at the fellow rapper but, they get stuck in his throat. It is not the tall man he was expecting. It is the taller-than-him dongsaeng Taehyung’s back greeting him. He is hunched over the kitchen counter.

“Taehyung?”

The younger man swivels on his heels, standing erect and gives him his usual bright grin. “Hey, hyung.”

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