“Taehyung.”

Sungjae approaches him as soon as the class ends, going in the opposite direction of the other students. Taehyung who was packing his stuff, stops and looking at his friend.

“Yeah?”

“We need to talk.”

Sungjae sounded serious and it is weird. Taehyung worries.

“What is it?”

“Is Jimin your boyfriend for real?”

Taehyung tries hard to not choke on his saliva or showing his surprised expression or else he will be too obvious.

‘Did he find out?’, Taehyung wondered.

“Why?”

Taehyung asked, controlling his voice not to waver.

“Just asking. Is he?”

“He is. You met him before.”

“Yeah… Do you perhaps, having a problem, Tae?”

“What do you mean?”

“I just want to make sure you are okay because people are talking about you.”

“About me? About what?”

“… Something different than you.”

Taehyung does not know what it is but as long as no one knows about Jimin and his 5 brothers (Taehyung should make a name for them. Hexateers sounds good too. 6 Musketeers.), it is fine.

“Well, you know me better than other, Jae.”

“Yeah… Just confirming.”

“Whatever it is, it mustn’t be true. Ignore it. C’mon, let’s eat!”

Taehyung said, dragging worried looking Sungjae out from the lecture hall. Along the way to the cafeteria, he heard a few people are whispering and judging from the look, Taehyung assumes they are talking about him. Taehyung believes it is the same thing that Sungjae worries about but it has happened before so Taehyung does not bother much by it.

In fact, he found out last year that he has a stalker and a fan account dedicated to him. It is kind of creep him off but there is nothing he can do since he could not point out the person is. It is still creepy that he got a few pictures of him taken and few love letters. At least, there is no a picture of him , showering then he is fine.

Since Taehyung knows about Seokjin wants to take him out for dinner, he is quite expecting the message from the older. He keeps checking on his phone under the table without getting caught by his lecturer (thank God). So he is very happy, accidentally jumps on his seat (quietly) when he received a message from Jin during the class.

From Seokjin hyung : Let’s have a candlelight dinner tonight. I’ll pick you up. When does your class end?

To Seokjin hyung: at 6pm. You don’t have to pick me up, I’ve bicycle to bring home.

From Seokjin hyung: if you said so. I’ll send you my restaurant’s address.

Taehyung squeals internally because he has never been to Seokjin’s restaurant and from the list he saw yesterday from Jungkook, it will be a great meal to have tonight. He walks sprints out from the class and rides his bicycle all the way to the address given by the older.

His bicycle slides into the parking area and literally jumps off his bicycle, does not care about his bicycle fall onto the ground hard and runs into the restaurant. He leans into the nearest table he could find to catch his breath that he dropped all way to the restaurant. He could sense the eyes of the waiters there looking at him with a lot of questions.

“Did you run all the way here?”

Taehyung scrunches his face, still breathing hard as he looks up to find Seokjin standing in front of him. Seokjin calls one of the waiters to bring him a glass of water before he makes his way to the younger, helping him to take off his winter coat.

“I… bicycle… haa…”

Seokjin laughs.

“That’s fast. 10 minutes, not bad.”

Taehyung could not answer that and just nods, his index finger on the lips, silently asking the older to stop talking about him losing his breath. The waiter puts down the water and a split of seconds, Taehyung had it all down his throat.

“Oh my God, that’s refreshing …”

Seokjin laughs to see Taehyung’s relief face.

“C’mon, I’ll take you to the open kitchen area.”

Seokjin leads the way back to the kitchen, hand in hand with Taehyung as they are walking. The restaurant seems to close earlier today and Taehyung guesses it is because of him. Seokjin gestures the younger to have a seat near the counter, fa