“OMG, will you stop whining?” Hoseok finally scolds.

Jungkook chuckles, praising his boyfriend secretly for lasting through his diatribe. He’s been ranting for the last thirty minutes or so about his Dance Theory paper and purposely wondering out loud ‘what use is it to date the TA if there’re no perks.’

“Seriously, I mean, are you sure there’s nothing I can do to persuade you to just let me skip writing this?” Jungkook asks, leaning into the man’s side and tracing his index finger along Hoseok’s neck suggestively.

He knows the answer, but watching Hoseok sigh dramatically and get flustered is more fun than it should be.

“Free snuggles and unlimited kisses are not enough? Is that what you’re saying, Jeon Jungkook?” Hoseok asks, eyebrows arched inquisitively.

“I am most definitely a fan of unlimited kisses and snuggles, but what I’m proposing is a business deal of sorts. You see, Jung Hoseok, my plan is to make you an offer you can’t refuse,” Jungkook informs the man, stealing a line from The Godfather.

Plucking the book Hoseok’s reading out of his hand, Jungkook can’t help his pleased grin at the look of utter mortification on his boyfriend’s face. He has no real intention of making Hoseok choose between him and his grade, but he can’t lie; he enjoys the game they play. It’s become a bit of a routine, like Abbot and Castello’s Who’s On First. Where he whines about dating a TA but having no benefits, then he pushes all the right buttons until Hoseok breaks.

The game doesn’t change anything, Hoseok’s an upstanding guy, it’s one of the things Jungkook likes most about him. Professor So is the one that grades all of Jungkook’s tests and papers. It was one of two things he had to agree to before they could start dating the second being that they don’t play with each other’s emotions and are always honest about how they feel.

How Jungkook feels right now is safe, happy, complete, and very, very .

“Did I mention...my leg is forty-four inches from hip to toe, so basically we’re talking about eighty-eight inches of therapy wrapped around you for the bargain price of-” Jungkook repeats the movie line, as he the str