painting the town red 

february 2012

"Hyung?" Jungkook spoke up, wondering if he should voice out his silly wish or not.

"Yeah?" Taehyung answered, looking up from his phone when the younger boy fell silent.

The pair had decided to go to the ice-cream parlour near the office after work ended, and were currently enjoying their cold desserts, even though the temperature outside was well below zero degrees and it was snowing too.

"Do you think I'd look good with red hair?" Jungkook asked in a small voice, focusing all his attention onto his ice-cream.

"Woah, what?" Taehyung said, putting his phone down and sitting up straighter, wondering if he'd heard correctly.

"I think I want to dye my hair red," Jungkook mumbled gingerly, rubbing his neck.

Taehyung wordlessly looked at the younger boy before a grin spread across his lips, "I'm such a bad influence on you," he said jokingly with a chuckle.

"It's not because of you," Jungkook clarified with a roll of his eyes, "I've wanted to dye my hair red for ages," he said, unconsciously running his hand through his hair as he thought about it.

"Then why didn't you do it?" Taehyung asked, digging his spoon into Jungkook's cup to take a bite of the younger boy's cookie dough ice-cream.

Jungkook looked at his ice-cream cup that had just been attacked by the older boy, before mildly glaring at Taehyung. Taehyung laughed, because Jungkook looked like a ferocious bunny right now and it was just too cute. Jungkook firmly took hold of his ice-cream cup and pulled it towards himself, where it would be out of Taehyung's reach, "I don't know, I just knew that Dad wouldn't like it," he continued, a small frown on his face.

"And what's changed now?" Taehyung asked, leaning over the table and lunging towards Jungkook's cup, managing to dig his spoon into the cup.

"Hyung!" Jungkook cried out as Taehyung gleefully his spoon, "Eat your own ice-cream," he grumbled, guarding his ice-cream cup against his chest.

"Yours tastes better," Taehyung pouted.

"Then just swap with me," Jungkook said without even batting an eyelid, sliding his ice-cream cup across the table and pulling the older boy's ice cream cup.

Taehyung smiled happily, feeling his heart swell as he gratefully accepted the ice-cream cup. The younger boy was opening up to him, his real personality coming out of his shell a little bit mor