Red Carnations

warnings: (unintended but possible) implied self harm 

“red carnations” ; my heart aches for you

The first night Yoongi brings Jung Hoseok back to their shared apartment, Jungkook thinks nothing of it - it’s not the first time the older has brought a boy home, and it’s probably not the last. Hoseok will maybe stay for one night, maybe one week, before he’ll be gone. Another notch on Yoongi’s headboard because, for as long as Jungkook’s has known his hyung, not once has he seen him in a relationship that lasted more than a week.

Jungkook fills up his canvas with orange and yellow calendulas, and leaves it on the easel to dry.

A week passes and there’s a smile that hasn’t left Yoongi’s face since the morning after, when Hoseok leant down to place a chaste kiss on the side of his mouth. Jungkook does his best not to notice how his hyung’s face brightens up as soon as Jung Hoseok enters his line of vision but fails miserably. Instead, he splashes more yellow across his canvas and paints a field of hyacinths, the colour of the sun, and a powder-blue sky.

Three months later, Yoongi moves out and Jungkook has the two-bedroom apartment to himself for the first time since he started college and Yoongi had adopted him as a fellow art major. He trades the yellows in his palette for crimson reds, covers his canvas in carnations the colour of blood.