kiss on t h e…

{cheek}

taehyung is a weird kid, but jungkook doesn’t mind. he’s two years older than jungkook, but taehyung still plays with him on the playground regardless of what the other kids say. taehyung talks about aliens and unicorns and mermaids and even at only six years old jungkook knows those aren’t real. but, taehyung speaks of them with such conviction that jungkook wonders if maybe his parents and teachers were wrong. 

taehyung sometimes makes flower crowns out of random flowers in the park and bestows them on jungkook’s head with reverence. he calls jungkook ‘king kookie’ and spends the rest of their playtime doing jungkook’s bidding. if jungkook says ‘die!’ taehyung plays dead, but he always gives himself away by his wide smile that appears seconds after he hits the ground, looking up at jungkook happily. 

one day taehyung declares jungkook to be his bestest friend, and jungkook’s more than okay with that. they spit shake on it and jungkook feels an overwhelming urge to kiss taehyung on the cheek. he’s seen his mom kiss her best friend on the cheek all the time, so he does it. taehyung blinks, laughs then kisses jungkook’s cheek in return. jungkook doesn’t think he’s ever been this happy. 

{eyelids}

when jungkook is ten years old, he sleeps over at taehyung’s house for the first time. they play games that taehyung invented and jungkook suspects taehyung lets him win because jungkook has no idea how to play ‘cow teaches a guitar’. but taehyung smiles so bright and so wide at jungkook whenever he “wins” that jungkook lets it slide.

jungkook thinks that ten years old is a bit too old for bedtime stories, he banned his mom from reading him bedtimes stories unless he’s sick because he’s “nearly a man, mom.” but taehyung insists and jungkook has found it hard to deny taehyung anything since he met him. so that’s how taehyung ends up in the sleeping bag his parents prepared for jungkook on the floor next to taehyung’s bed with jungkook and weaving a brilliant tale of knights in shining armor and dragons. with his eyes closed, he can visualize everything from taehyung’s imagination and  jungkook thinks that he could get used to this.

when taehyung finishes his story, they bid each other goodnight. jungkook feels light pressure on his eyelids, like butterfly kisses but he can also feel warm breath on his face. realization dawns on him. “did you just kiss my eyelids?” he says incredulously as he opens his eyes just in time to see taehyung dart away and leap onto his bed.

he can hear the older boy giggle and he says into the darkness. “just kissing you goodnight, kookie.”

jungkook blushes, glad that taehyung can’t see it.

{ear}

stretching his ears probably wasn’t the greatest idea. jungkook’s fourteen years old now, practically a man of course, and he’s saved up enough money to turn his piercings into gauges.  it makes him look really ing cool, but it also hurts like hell. obviously, the ear lobe wasn’t made to be stretched to get an eight millimeter hole in it. he’s just glad he decided to do it during the summer because he’s got to keep ice on his ear most hours out of the day, and walking to school with ice packs attached to his face will take away all the cool points that the gauges gave him in the first place.

part of it is taehyung’s fault. he’d convinced jungkook that he’d look “y” with them in. and like always, jungkook finds it hard to say no to taehyung. and even though taehyung was probably joking, jungkook would never pass up an opportunity for taehyung to find him attractive. so that’s how he ended up in some sketchy tattoo parlour that didn’t care about ID, getting his ears stretched.

it becomes worth it, though, when taehyung talks about how good  jungkook looks now to all of his friends. they happen to be older and cooler than jungkook,  and taehyung’s praise makes jungkook blush bright red and try to hide his face behind his hands. taehyung’s friends laugh at him and taehyung just throws him arms around jungkook and hugs him until he comes out from hiding. it becomes even more worth it when taehyung, the crazy guy that he is, kisses jungkook’s ears on a regular basis to stop them from hurting.

jungkook thinks it kind of works.

jungkook also thinks he likes taehyung more than he should.

{lips - cute}

jungkook performs in the school singing competition when he’s sixteen years old. like almost every potentially bad decision in his life, it was mostly taehyung’s fault. the older boy heard jungkook singing in the shower one day and was completely enthralled with jungkook’s voice for some reason and pestered for months to get jungkook in the competition. finally, just to get taehyung to shut up. he agrees to audition, simply because it doesn’t guarantee him a spot in the actual competition. taehyung’s smile is the brightest and widest he’s ever seen, his eyes almost completely disappearing and that’s the only warning jungkook has before taehyung’s leaping on him and pressing his cheeks together. “you’re going to do so good, kookie!”

of course, because the universe completely hates him, jungkook aces the audition and gets into the competition. the night of the competition he’s so ing nervous he throws up in the bathroom but taehyung is there, he’s always there, and helps wash jungkook’s face with a damp cloth and rubs his back soothingly. he holds jungkook and they stay in the bathroom, ignoring curious stares from people who walk in, until jungkook is called to perform.

jungkook comes in third place and taehyung screams “that’s my kookie! my kookie!” loud enough that there is no way anyone in the crowd missed that and it makes jungkook blush. when jungkook makes his way off stage, taehyung grabs his face and presses a loud smacking kiss right onto jungkook’s mouth. taehyung’s subsequent words of praise are lost to the terribly loud thumping of jungkook’s heart in his ears.

{lips - passionate}

jungkook is tired of lying. he’s eighteen now and  he’s tired of hiding. he’s tired of pretending to be okay when taehyung goes out with guys who treat him like . he’s tired of playing the role of concerned best friend. and now that taehyung is leaving in three months  to study in america for two years jungkook needs to come clean.

due to schedules, jungkook and school; taehyung and work, they don’t get to see each other as often as they used to. but they make a point to chat on kkt as much as they can, and hang out every friday evening. taehyung calls it ‘taekook date night’. jungkook kind of feels like dying.

even though jungkook’s planning to confess, he doesn’t know how or when. should he just blurt it out? should he build up to it? in the end, it doesn’t matter because taehyung beats him to it. taehyung admits to being in love with jungkook for years, but not wanting to act on it because jungkook was so young. but he couldn’t risk leaving korea for two years without letting jungkook know how he feels.

“i’m not a kid anymore, hyung.” jungkook says to him. “and the feeling is more than mutual.”

jungkook leans over and kisses him, tentatively at first but then taehyung’s kissing him back. the kiss is deep and slow, and it feels like that first kiss on the cheek he gave taehyung all those years ago was just a precursor to this moment. jungkook’s never felt a love this intense. taehyungs fingers are curling into his hair, pulling jungkook close as he deepens the kiss and jungkook wraps his arms around taehyung’s waist.

“we’re so stupid.” taehyung murmurs, breaking the kiss and smiling at him. “we could have been doing this years ago.”

jungkook wants to say something like well let’s make up for lost time or you were trying to be a good person or you didn’t want to end up in jail.  but he doesn’t. he just pulls taehyung in for another fierce kiss, swallowing the soft sound taehyung makes and nipping at his lower lip. he tugs lightly, pleased when he hears taehyung whimper then soothes over the bite with his tongue before kissing him passionately once more.