It's No Joke

 

"I'm tired, I think I'll just go straight to bed", Taehyung sighed as the seven exhausted boys got finally back to their dorm. Today had been the last promotion performance of their new song, and they were all tired but still happy. It had been great promoting the song, their performances had been mostly successful and they had no regrets.

 

Taehyung did like he said and walked to his and Hoseok's shared room to change his clothes and to take a little nap. The others stayed in the small living room, sitting down and resting a bit.

"The performances have all been great. I think we should celebrate it a little", said Namjoon, who laid down on the couch, taking all the space so no one else fit to sit there.

"Celebrate? Like... a party?" Jimin gazed excitedly at Namjoon from the floor he sat on, next to Jungkook. The two younger members were forced to sit on the floor, since the leader took all the space on one couch and the two others, Jin and Yoongi took the possession of the other, smaller couch.

"Well, actually I was just thinking about going shopping and eating well tonight", the leader cleared.

"I think that sounds pretty good", Yoongi admitted. Jin and Jungkook nodded their heads, agreeing with Yoongi.

"So who's in?" Namjoon asked while grinning and clapped his hands in excitement.

"I'm in!" Jimin raised his hand immediately. Even though he would have wanted to have an actual party, shopping and eating well didn't sound bad either.

"Count me in too!" Jungkook shouted right after Jimin.

"Me three", said Yoongi, grinning widely.

"Of course I'll come too", Jin stated. He was actually relieved that he wouldn't have to cook tonight. Sure, he liked cooking, but having to do it every day for seven people was rather exhausting.

"Great. By the way, where did Hoseok go?" Namjoon then wondered, sitting up on the couch and glancing around, looking for the missing boy. And as soon as he sat up, not taking all of the space on the couch anymore, Jimin and Jungkook realized their opportunity and immediately moved from the floor to sit on the couch before the leader would lie down again. Namjoon looked at the two younger boys who almost jumped onto the couch, and chuckled at them amusedly.

"Hoseok's probably in his room", Yoongi then answered to the question.

Namjoon looked at the direction of Hoseok and Taehyung's room and stood up. "I'll go ask him if he's coming with us. Taehyung seemed to be so tired, so he probably isn't coming." Although he knew that if Taehyung wasn't coming, Hoseok very likely wasn't coming either, but he still decided to go to ask. Namjoon walked to Taehyung and Hoseok's room and found Taehyung lying on his bed, sleeping, and Hoseok sitting on his own bed, headphones on and listening to music. Hoseok noticed Namjoon standing in the doorway and raised his gaze from his phone to the leader.

"To celebrate the successful ending of the promotions, we decided to spend time shopping and stuff. Are you two coming?" Namjoon asked.

Hoseok thought about it for a short while, gazed then at the peacefully sleeping Taehyung and shook his head. "Nah, Taehyung's probably not gonna wake up very soon, and I'd rather stay here with him."

"Okay then", the leader said and left the room, closing the door behind him. He was maybe slightly disappointed because it would have been more fun if all the seven members could have spent the time together, but on the other hand it was the best to let Taehyung sleep if he was tired, and at least they didn't have to leave him all alone since Hoseok wanted to stay with him.

 

When Namjoon left, leaving Hoseok and the sleeping Taehyung alone again, Hoseok couldn't help but to smile a little. Finally, when the others would leave, he could spend some time alone with Taehyung. Well, if the sleepyhead would even wake up first before the others would come back... But still, Hoseok was happy about the thought of being alone with Taehyung, because he really wanted to spend some time alone with him. And well, was there another reason too, even though he didn't want to admit it; Hoseok had feelings towards the younger boy. He wasn't really sure how serious his feelings were though, so maybe being alone with the boy would help him to sort out his feelings even a little. Hoseok glanced at the still peacefully sleeping Taehyung once more before turning his gaze back to his phone and concentrating on the music again, patiently waiting for the younger one to wake up.
 

When Taehyung finally woke up, he rubbed his eyes, sat up on his bed and yawned. He blinked a few times, trying to wake up completely. He then looked at the clock on his bedside table, and noticed that it was 8:30pm already. Ruffling his hair, he wondered why was it so quiet. There was no one except for him in the room, and there were no other sounds in the dorm either. It was pretty odd - where were the others?

 

After a short moment of wondering where the other members would be, Taehyung heard slight footsteps just from the outside of the room. The door was then opened, and the still a little confused boy noticed Hoseok behind it.

"Oh, you're awake", Hoseok said and walked to his bed and sat on it, leaving the door behind him open.

"Yeah", Taehyung mumbled. "Where are the others?" he then asked.

"Huh? Oh, they left." Hoseok shrugged and picked his book up from the table, lying comfortably on his bed and starting to read the first chapter of the book. However he couldn't concentrate, because he felt like someone was staring at him. Hoseok moved his gaze from the book to Taehyung, who was the one to cause the uncomfortable feeling.

"What?" Hoseok asked from the boy who stared at him with a confused look on his face.

"They left? Where? Why?" Taehyung sounded kind of worried.

Hoseok chuckled at Taehyung's confused expression. "Calm down, they're just spending the night downtown, shopping and stuff."

"Oh. You just said it like they had left like... Like they had ran away or something."

"Well, that was the purpose actually."

"Why?" Taehyung tilted his head a little to the right and lifted his left eyebrow. Hoseok thought Taehyung looked extremely cute like that, so he couldn't help but smile a little.

"Because you're always joking with me, so I took my opportunity and tricked you instead", he explained.

"Aish, really...", Taehyung scoffed playfully.

Hoseok stuck his tongue out, just to irritate the other a little, playfully of course.
 

But just as Hoseok was about to continue reading his book, Taehyung interrupted him.

"Hoseok? By the way, umm..", he started, "Do you remember when you couldn't find your favorite underwear a few days ago?"

The older one slowly lifted his gaze from the book to the younger one, who looked at him sincerely, with that poker face of his on. Hoseok lifted his eyebrow and looked at the other one rather suspiciously.

"Yes... Why?" he hesitatingly asked, although he wasn't sure if he really wanted to know.

"Because... I accidentally took them then. Sorry, we were in a hurry and I didn't even notice it at first... They were quite comfortable by the way", Taehyung confessed, scratching the back of his neck and seeming a little embarrassed.

Hoseok's face was priceless. His eyes were as wide as possible, his mouth was slightly open and his expression was shocked. "You... What? Really?!"

Taehyung looked at Hoseok, chuckled slightly, and then bursted into laughter. He laughed so hard his eyes got watery and he almost fell from his bed.

"N-no", he managed to say. "Of course not, you fool!"

Hoseok looked confusedly at the hysterically laughing Taehyung, and realized then that he had been fooled again. It had just been one of Taehyung's stupid jokes again.

"Aish", Hoseok shook his head. "What should I do with you?" Even though he was kind of irritated at Taehyung, he couldn't really get mad at the other. Actually, watching how much fun the younger one had, he couldn't help but to smile amusedly too.
 

A little later, after lying down on his bed again and playing with his phone in boredom, Hoseok suddenly sat up as he remembered something. "Oh! I almost forgot!" He then turned his gaze to Taehyung, who was lying on his own bed, his eyes closed. "Yah, Taehyung, I'm talking to you!"

"Mm-mh?" Taehyung mumbled and sat up, looking at Hoseok. "What?"

"Namjoon told me to tell you that he found out that it was you who broke his phone."

"What?" Taehyung sounded shocked. He still remembered how a few days ago he had secretly "borrowed" Namjoon's phone for a while to take a funny selca of himself and to set it as the phone's wallpaper just to surprise Namjoon, but Hoseok had then sneaked behind him and surprised him, so he had accidentally dropped the phone and of course, with his luck, it had broken down. Taehyung had lifted it back to the table he took it from and then left it there, hoping that Namjoon wouldn't blame any of the members. Namjoon was known to be the "king of destruction", so Taehyung had hoped that the leader would think that it had just been he himself who had broken the phone and just left it onto the table carelessly. But now that Namjoon had figured out who really had broken it, Taehyung was afraid he was in trouble.

"How did he find it out? When? Why did he tell you to tell me?" Taehyung asked, eyes still wide.

"He actually got it working for a while before they left, and he saw your stupid selca as the wallpaper. And he told me to tell you when you would wake up", Hoseok explained.

Taehyung stared at Hoseok with an astonished expression. "Was he... mad?"

Hoseok shrugged. "Dunno."

Taehyung lowered his head and ruffled his hair nervously while muttering something quietly.

"I think you should apologize. Call Yoongi-hyung's phone and tell him to give it to Namjoon."

Taehyung raised his gaze back to Hoseok. "Now?"

"Well, if you'd rather face him later and apologize just then... Do what you want."

Hoseok was right. It would be easier to just call and apologize immediately than to face him later. Taehyung rose from his bed, walked towards the little table (which was all messy because he and Hoseok were too lazy to clean it up), picked up his phone from the middle of the mess and dialed Yoongi's number. Yoongi answered almost immediately.

"Hello? Taehyung, what's the matter? Don't say you burned down the whole dorm and--"

"No, hyung! Everything's fine. Um, could you give it to Namjoon? I need to... talk to him."

After a short moment Taehyung heard Namjoon's voice. "Hello?"

"Namjoon-hyung. Um, do you have a moment?" Taehyung asked nervously.

"Sure. Why?"

"I... I think I should apologize. I'm sorry, hyung, I really am. I didn't mean to, it was just an accident!"

There was a short silence, until Namjoon broke it. "...What are you talking about?"

Taehyung's eyes widened. What did he mean? Of course he knew what he was talking about! "Your phone that I broke, of course."

"Oh", he then heard Namjoon say. "Wait.. You broke it? ...How?"

Taehyung was confused. "Uh... You didn't know it was me?"

Things started to get a little awkward now.

"No, I thought I had broken it myself somehow."

Taehyung stood there, mouth open as he was about to say something, but then he heard a bursting laughter behind him. Taehyung turned around, mouth still open, and saw Hoseok lying on the floor, laughing and holding his stomach.

And now Taehyung understood. Namjoon never found out that it was him who had broken the phone, it was all just Hoseok's prank. Finally Taehyung closed his mouth, ended the call without saying anything anymore and stared at Hoseok, who was still laughing so hard his stomach hurt.

"Aish, you little.." at first he was a little mad at the other, but seeing how much fun the older one had, Taehyung couldn't even keep being angry at him. "Aish", he chuckled. "So you really seem to like revenges, huh?"

 

It was actually quite rare that they got to be alone, just the two of them. All the seven boys were almost always together, wherever they went or wherever they were. Taehyung sat quietly on his bed, secretly once in a while glancing at Hoseok, who was again reading his book after he had calmed down and stopped laughing (which had taken at least fifteen minutes). Even though Hoseok could be pretty annoying sometimes, Taehyung really liked him. Well, actually, more than just liked him. He loved him. And this rare moment, when they were all alone, would be pretty much the only chance to tell it to him, Taehyung thought.

 

"Hoseok?" Taehyung called Hoseok's name.

"Yeah?" Hoseok answered and raised his gaze to Taehyung from his book.

"I want to talk to you."

"You're already doing it."

Taehyung pouted playfully. "Seriously."

"Okay okay, go ahead. I'm listening."

Taehyung rose up from his bed and walked across the room to Hoseok and sat next to him. Hoseok looked curiously at Taehyung. He was aware that this might be just another revenge to his prank, even though the younger boy looked quite serious now.

"Hoseok..." Taehyung started.

"Yep, that's my name."

"Aish, stop that!"

"Okay, okay."

"Hyung..." Taehyung started, "I really like you. I think I... Love you", he then suddenly said, looking straight and sincerely at Hoseok, with a serious expression on his face.

Hoseok looked at Taehyung with an astonished face, but his expression then turned into a wide grin. "Oh, a good one", he chuckled, "but I'm not gonna fall for that."

"No, it's not a joke. Seriously, I love you."

Hoseok's grin faded away. Was the boy serious?

"You want me to prove it?" Taehyung inched closer to Hoseok, looking straight into his eyes, then grabbed him by his shoulders and slowly leaned forward. He closed his eyes as his lips met the other's. Hoseok was shocked as he felt Taehyung's soft lips on his owns. He stayed still, not answering the kiss but not pushing him away either. Taehyung then pulled away, opened his eyes and looked at Hoseok, smiling softly. He couldn't help but to chuckle quietly at Hoseok's adorable, astonished and shocked expression.

"I love you", Taehyung repeated. His hands were still on Hoseok's shoulders.

"I-I..." Hoseok stuttered and turned his head away. He needed to sort out his feelings first.

 

Did Hoseok love Taehyung? Yes he did, he was now sure about it. Then why did he turn his head away, looking like he had just rejected Taehyung's confession? Because Hoseok still wasn't sure if Taehyung was serious. Sure, Taehyung had said it seriously, and even kissed him, but you can never really be sure about that boy's intentions. It could just be another stupid joke as a stupid revenge. Hoseok thought that if he had kissed the boy back and said that he loved him too, Taehyung would just probably have bursted into laughter and told him it was a joke and of course he didn't have any serious feelings towards the older boy. And it would've hurt Hoseok so much. But he also loved Taehyung so much, and if Taehyung really was serious, Hoseok couldn't just make him feel like he was rejected. So Hoseok had to do something. He decided to take the risk.

 

Taehyung's smile faded as Hoseok turned his head away. He had been so sure that the boy had feelings towards him, too. The way Hoseok always looked at him so caringly, the way he always touched him and wanted to be close to him... Taehyung really though Hoseok loved him too. He bit his lip and took his hands off of Hoseok's shoulders, lowering his gaze to the floor.

 

Then suddenly, Taehyung felt someone's hands grab his owns. Just as he was about to turn his head, a certain boy's lips crashed to his owns.

Hoseok.

That boy just liked to play hard to get, huh?

Taehyung's hands wandered to grab Hoseok's waist, as he felt the other's hands move up his body to his shoulders, and then around his neck. Taehyung pulled the older boy's body closer to his own and pressed his lips even more intensely against the other's. He really enjoyed this kiss, he really did. It wasn't just a soft, innocent peck anymore, but a passionate, intense one.

 

As Taehyung pulled him closer and rubbed his back with his strong fingers, Hoseok let a little moan escape from his throat. Hoseok then tightened his hold on Taehyung and teasingly the other's lower lip and on it softly. Taehyung slightly parted his lips, allowing Hoseok to his tongue into his mouth. Hoseok caressed Taehyung's teeth gently with his tongue, before moving to and nibble his lower lip again, and then slowly separating their lips, panting slightly.

"I love you too, Kim Taehyung."

 

An hour later, the five other boys finally returned to the dorm. They had had a lot of fun shopping and spending time together.

"Well, the dorm seems to be okay", Yoongi said, glancing around the dorm, "at least the two didn't burn it down."

Jin chuckled at Yoongi's comment. "Speaking of the two, it's oddly quiet here."

"Yeah", Jungkook agreed. "Maybe they're sleeping?" he then shrugged.

Jimin curiously walked to the door of Hoseok and Taehyung's room and opened it slightly, peeking inside.

"Aww", he mumbled quietly. "Yeah, they're sleeping."

The other four members walked to where Jimin was and peeked inside the room as well to see why Jimin had just "awwed" so cutely.

Hoseok and Taehyung were indeed sleeping, but both on Hoseok's bed, adorably pressed against each other. Taehyung's hands were wrapped around Hoseok's body and his head was resting on his chest, while Hoseok's arms were on Taehyung's waist.

"Aww, they're so cute together", Jin said.

"I knew it", Jungkook grinned, "I always knew there was something going on between those two."

"So this is what happens when you leave two of the members alone in an empty dorm", Namjoon chuckled.

"Maybe then me and Yoongi should be left alone next?" Jimin grinned while he looked at Yoongi.

"Yah!" Yoongi looked at the younger one, shocked.

"Just kidding, hyung!"

 

 

 

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