“Dude, seriously?” Namjoon said while laughing and Yoongi honestly wonders why he bothers to tell him anything.

“Joon, I’m telling you this because I need your help not you laughing at me. I already feel like an idiot.” Yoongi said, hitting his roommate on the shoulder.

“Hey!” Namjoon whined and rubbed his now aching shoulder. “You should have opened your big mouth. It’s not my fault that you were too busy thinking with your to not realize that this might be a really bad idea.”

Yoong quickly countered. “It wasn’t a bad idea and I was not thinking with my but with my heart…” Yoongi trailed off on the last word because he felt himself getting vulnerable and he didn’t want to give his ty roommate more material to use against him.

“You’re so screwed.” Namjoon laughed and Yoongi groaned in frustration.

“! Where is Seokjin? You’re never helpful. I swear.”

Namjoon rolled his eyes and answered. “He’s out getting ingredients for tonight’s dinner. And trust me, he would laugh at you too.”

Yoongi scoffed. “No he wouldn’t. He would actually give me some real advice instead of laughing at me. I don’t know how he puts up with you.” Namjoon just laughed again. “Come on, Joon! I need your help.”

“Look, “Namjoon started, sobering up a bit. “I know that you’ve been crushing on Jimin for quite a bit, but I care about you and I’m just worried that this can all end in disaster.”

“Yeah right.” Yoongi said rolling his eyes.

“I’m serious. Really think about it. Jimin is giving you a week to woo him. How does that sound healthy for either of you? I know that you have this tough exterior, but I know that you feel deeply and I don’t want to see your heart crushed in a million pieces.” Namjoon said and Yoongi could tell that it wasn’t bull. Yeah he thought about it for all of these months that Jimin could break his heart, but Jimin was actually giving him a solid chance. He couldn’t it up.

“Namjoon, please. I really like Jimin. I mean I love him. I really want to do this right. I need to prove to him that I’m serious.” Yoongi begged.

Namjoon put his hands up in defeat. “Fine. I’ll help you and Seokjin is good with romance so I’ll rope him in too. And...we’ll both be here for you if hits the fan.”

“Thanks, man.”

***

The next day was the first day of the wooing process and Yoongi was nervous as all . He and Namjoon had spent all night planning what was going to happen today. Seokjin also helped between being lovey dovey with Namjoon and cooking them a delicious dinner.

Honestly, Yoongi doesn’t know how he got this whole plan in motion so quickly, but here he was sitting in his shared humanities class with the object of his affection, Jimin. His leg was bouncing up and down nervously in his second row seat. Jimin was, of course, sitting next to him. They were waiting for class to start and they still had five more minutes until the professor began his lesson. Jimin was giggling at him and Yoongi’s heart soared at the sound. Why was he so ing perfect?

“You okay, Yoongs?” Jimin asked with a smirk. It was all huge reminiscence to when they first met.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Just ready for class to start.” Yoongi said simply.

Jimin nodded. “You know today is day one of your wooing. Any plans?”

Yoongi shrugged. “I don’t know, Park Jimin.”

“Okay then, Min Yoongi.” Jimin mocked and started fiddling with his cell phone. Yoongi sighed because he didn’t want Jimin to think that he didn’t plan anything.

“Okay, I do have something planned.” Yoongi confessed. He really couldn’t hold water if his life depended on it.

Jimin turned to him and grinned. “I knew it. You always bounce your leg in the most annoying way possible when you’ve got something up your sleeve.”

Yoongi smiled. “Really, how do you know?”

Jimin reached over and squeezed Yoongi’s shoulder and holy when did he become hypersensitive to his best friend’s touches because he feels like he wants to die a little. “Yoongs, I probably know you better than anyone.”

“I like it that way.” Yoongi responded and Jimin his lips and grinned again and Yoongi really really wants to melt because his crush is just so damn hot.

If Jimin noticed Yoongi’s blushing he didn’t say anything and jumped right back to his previous question. “So...what do you have planned?”

“You’ll see in a minute.” Yoongi answered and just when Jimin was about to say something else, the door to the classroom opened and in walked a man who looked to be in his mid-twenties and he was carrying a huge fruit bouquet in one hand and a cute brown teddy bear in the other. All of the students in the class followed his every move to see where he was going and heavy chatter started when he stood in front of Jimin’s desk.

“Park Jimin?” The man asked and Jimin nodded in confusion. The man smiled and set the fruit bouquet and teddy bear on his desk. “These are for you.”

“Wow so pretty and delicious looking. I wonder who they can be from.” Jimin said and looked over to Yoongi with a knowing smile and Yoongi blushed in return. “Is there a note?” Jimin asked the delivery man and the man smiled.

“Why yes there is and the sender paid extra to get me to read it to you.” The delivery man pulled out a card from his jacket and cleared his throat.

Park Jimin, you’re really ing cute.

You’re the best dancer on campus to boot.

You make my heart feel so full.

Will you be my date to the school’s carnival?

Yours Truly,

Yoongi.

Once the poem was read, the entire class was giggling with a few “aww, how sweet” comments thrown in. Yoongi blushed even harder because why did he think that was a good idea again? He then looked over at Jimin’s expression and then he remembered why. His crush was a total sap and loved stuff like that. Jimin was smiling from ear to ear.

“Yoongi! That’s so sweet. Of course I’ll go with you.” Jimin said to him, rubbing a hand lightly on Yoongi’s thigh.

“ yes.” Yoongi cheered quietly.

After class had ended, Yoongi helped Jimin carry his fruit out of the classroom and Jimin grabbed the bear, holding it close to his chest. The two walked in the direction of Jimin’s dorm and made conversation on the way.

“So how did I do?” Yoongi asked, balancing the fruit in his hands.

Jimin looked over and at him and smiled, still squeezing the bear close to his chest. “That’s was pretty cool, Yoongs. I didn’t know you could be such a romantic. But you know the whole school is going to gossip and I’m pretty sure there will be a video online somewhere.”

Yoongi scoffed. “I don’t give a what people at the school think. I’m a man on a mission. I only care about making you fall in love with me.”

Jimin quirked an eyebrow. “Fall in love? I thought you just wanted me to give you a real chance at dating.”

“I-well...I meant…”Yoongi stuttered and Jimin laughed.

“I’m just teasing. A lot can happen in a week, Yoongs. But we’re just on day one and you’re off to a great start.”

“I know I’ve said this already,” Yoongi started, “but I really like you. Like love you and I know it’s overwhelming for you and believe me this is overwhelming for me me too, but I’m really excited to be taking you out tomorrow night.”

Jimin stopped walking and Yoongi stopped along with him. “I’m excited too. You know, I thought about all of this a lot last night and talked to Taehyung about it…”

“Of course you talked to Taehyung.”

“Hey! He’s my best friend and I know you told Namjoon and Seokjin. Besides, I’m sure they both helped you with this.” Jimin said motioning between his gifts.

Yoongi didn’t protest.

“Like I was saying, I think we’ll have a lot of fun tomorrow. I don’t know how this week will turn out and  I still think you see me as a convenience, but I willing let you try without giving you grief. Okay?”

“Okay. Hey, we should get this to your dorm quickly so it doesn’t spoil. It has all of your favorites!” Yoongi said, changing the subject.

“Yes! So many strawberries!” Jimin said excitedly as he continued in the direction of his dorm and Yoongi smiled for the billionth time that day.

***

Yoongi was pacing back and forth in front of Jimin’s room door. He was ing nervous, as he had been for the last two and half days. He really wanted the date or whatever to go well. His ing feelings were on the line and possibly his friendship. He spent nearly an hour with Seokjin picking out an outfit to wear tonight because he wanted to look good. After flinging through many options, the pair decided on him wearing a pair of dark wash skinny jeans, a grey loose t-shirt and an army green jacket. He decided on wearing a simple pair of black vans because they were going to be walking quite a bit around the carnival.

“You look hot, Yoongi.” Seokjin had said towards the completed outfit. “Jimin is going to be all over you. You probably won’t even have to worry about the next five days.”

“I don’t think I’ll be that lucky, but I guess that would be nice.” Yoongi said checking himself again in the mirror.

“Hey, even if my stubborn boyfriend won’t say it, if all goes to , which I’m sure it won’t, you can come hang with us. We’ll hitting up every ride they have.” Seokjin said with a friendly smile.

“And watch you guys face all night? No thanks. I get enough of that here.”

It was nearing six o’clock, the time he had agreed to pick up Jimin and it was taking everything in him to not knock on the door, but he didn’t want to seem desperate. So he waited until, two minutes after six when he knocked.

When the door opened, Yoongi nearly fell over.

Jimin was wearing black skinny jeans that hugged him in all of the right ways. He had on a white v-neck shirt that showed too much collarbone (too much for Yoongi, but holy ), a red plaid button up that was opened all of the way with the sleeves rolled up to three-quarter length. He wore a black choker and his blonde hair was styled perfectly.

He looked ing good and my gosh did Yoongi want to pass out.

“You look fantastic.” Yoongi said when he found words.

Jimin sighed in relief. “Really? The way you were looking at me, I assumed that I looked terrible.”

Yoongi wasn’t sure if Jimin was being sarcastic, but he didn’t ask.

“No, you look really good.” Yoongi repeated.

“You do too.” Jimin said smiling and stepped out into the hall and locking the door behind him.

“Is Taehyung coming?” Yoongi asked making small talk as they walked. The carnival was being held at a park just a few minutes walk from their campus.

“Yeah, “Jimin answered. “He met up at Jungkook’s dorm and they went together. Kookie didn’t want to go, but Tae said that he wore him down on the idea and gave in and decided to go with him. I don’t even want to think about what Tae did to get him to go.”

“Knowing your roommate I’m sure it involved several s.” Yoongi quipped and Jimin laughed and nodded in agreement.

“Jungkook is so whipped for Tae. It’s super nauseating at times, but they love each other, so I can’t judge.”

When they got to the park, the carnival was in full swing. There were students everywhere and screams could be heard from the “thrill” rides that were available. The smell of popcorn and cotton candy were in the air. The carnival lights illuminated the entire park and Yoongi was getting really excited.

“I’ll buy our tickets. Do you think you’ll want to ride a lot of rides or play a lot of games?” Yoongi asked Jimin as they stood in line.

“Yes to both, but I can pay you know.” Jimin said.

Yoongi scrunched his eyebrows and pulled out his wallet. “Oh no. I’m doing the wooing right? So I pay.”

Jimin put his hands up in surrender and let Yoongi pay.

After the left the ticket booth with a roll of game and ride tickets to share between them, they set off for some fun.

Jimin wanted to ride the tilt-a-whirl before he ate and Yoongi agreed. He didn’t need the date ruined from one of them throwing up. Everything had to be perfect. Next, they found themselves stuffing their faces with hotdogs and french fries. Jimin complained that it wasn’t good for him to eat that stuff because of his dance classes, but Yoongi refused to let him leave a carnival without having greasy carnival food. Jimin gave in and his reaction to it brought a smile to Yoongi’s face. He had said that it’d been forever since he had indulged like that and Yoongi ended up buying him another hot dog to eat as the explored the carnival some more.

They had bumped into Seokjin and Namjoon and Jungkook and Taehyung on two separate occasions and made small talk with both couples before moving on to play some games. Jimin saw a one of those games where the gun shoots out water and the player has to shoot water into the bullseye and the first to reach the top won a prize. Jimin looked up at him with cute grin and asked him to win him something.

“You want something from here?” Yoongi said, eyeing the prizes. Nothing looked appealing to him.

“Yeah, I’ve always wanted someone to win me something at a carnival. It’d be cute.” Jimin said standing on his tippy toes and resting his chin on Yoongi’s shoulder and looked at him with puppy dog eyes.

“Okay, fine. Let’s do this.” Yoongi was so ing whipped and they weren’t even dating.

It took Yoongi five tries to beat the game and he let Jimin choose the prize. He ended up choosing a cute medium sized stuffed dog. Jimin said it was cute and Yoongi had to agree.

They played more games and indulged in cotton candy and slushies. Jimin practically dragged Yoongi into the fun house where they had fun looking at their distorted bodies in the mirrors and such.

Yoongi was having a blast and from the looks of it Jimin was too.

Their time at the carnival was coming to an end and Yoongi wanted to do anything to make the night go longer.

“Do you want to do the ferris wheel?” Yoongi asked.

“That’s really romantic don’t you think?” Jimin said slyly.

Yoongi playfully rolled his eyes. “This is a date, right?”

“I suppose.” Jimin said in sing-song tone and then grabbed his date by the hand and led them to the ferris wheel. It wasn’t a long wait and before they knew it, they were seated in one of the two seaters and the ride began.

It was peaceful, quiet and like Jimin had said only minutes before, romantic. Jimin was serenely looking out at the scenery before them with a light smile on his face. His face profile was absolutely gorgeous under the moonlight and carnival lights.

“You can practically see the entire city from this here.” Jimin said as they were stopped at the top. “It’s so beautiful.”

“You’re beautiful.” Yoongi said before he could catch himself. Jimin turned to him and laughed.

“You’re so corny, Yoongs.” Yoongi was glad that Jimin made a joke out of it because he was super ing embarrassed. “But thank you.”

The two stayed silent until they touched the ground and unboarded to ride. They started making their way back to Jimin’s dorm, with his stuffed puppy in tow. Yoongi didn’t know what he was doing, but maybe it was the romance of the ferris wheel or the way Jimin smiled during everything they did, but he held his hand out to stop Jimin from walking and looked at the boy.

“What’s wrong, Yoongs?” Jimin asked with concern.

Yoongi didn’t say anything and just leaned forward. He wanted to kiss him.

Jimin sensed that and move his head away.

“Yoongi…”Jimin said softly.

Yoongi shook his head and blushed. “Sorry...I got ahead of myself. . I’m so stupid.”

Jimin his teeth. “No you’re not. Trust me.”

“I tried to kiss you, Jimin.” Yoongi cursed himself.

“Yeah and that’s fine, it’s just too fast okay? But trust me, I had an awesome time tonight.”

Yoongi frowned and stared at the ground. Jimin reached over and gently lifted his chin up. “Don’t pout, okay. We still have five days.”

“Yeah…” Yoongi said giving a tight smile.

“You are too much, Min Yoongi.” Jimin laughed lightly and gave Yoongi a short, comforting hug before letting go. “Now finish walking me home. It’s getting chilly.”

“I know ways I can warm you up.” Yoongi joked, getting his confidence back.

“Oh, Yoongs.” Jimin laughed and continued walking.

Even though it was only day two, Yoongi could feel he was almost there.