Title: Falling Like Cigarette Ashes

Song: Only One- Yellowcard

Pairing: VMin

Genre: Angst

Taehyung is Jimin’s only one. Best friend, that is.

(A/N: I felt productive, so yeah, enjoy!)

Taehyung looks down from where he is sitting. It’s a long way down, he thinks.

Taehyung knows Jimin is never going to love him more than as a friend.

Taehyung knows this as a fact. He looks at Jimin the way someone would look at a beautiful garden of roses in full bloom, lovingly. Every time he sees himself reflected by Jimin’s dazzling eyes, he sees the image of Taehyung, the best friend. Taehyung looks at Jimin the way Jimin looks at Yoongi.

And it hurts so much.

Taehyung knows Jimin is never going to love him more than as a friend.

Jimin proclaims his love for Taehyung every single time they meet, whether it’s for the cameras or just at home playing Mario Kart when Taehyung intentionally loses to Jimin after a hard day at the recording studio, or while at dance practice when Jimin frustrates himself over a choregraphy he couldn’t get and Taehyung offers him a bottle of water, staying behind to replay the track over and over again for Jimin. Even when Jimin falls asleep on the couch waiting for his Yoongi hyung to finish laying their new track and Taehyung takes one of Seokjin’s blankets to cover him so he doesn’t get sick.

And it hurts so badly.

Taehyung knows Jimin is never going to love him more than as a friend.

Taehyung prides himself in knowing what Jimin likes and dislikes. He knows t