The camp was filled with chants of counting as the soldiers were exercising in synchronisation, yellow and red hues of sunlight blessing the camp; bathing everything in its warm comfort. 

It was a normal winter evening in the military quarter of Seoul, South Korea. Everyone was out in the field, exercising to boost some warmth in their veins, the sunlight basking them in a comfort from the chilled weather.

Some of the soldiers were lined up in a row, waiting for their turns to access their weekly calls. It was a norm at the quarters that the soldier weren't allowed anyone outside of this camp on a daily basis. One can call only twice a week.

Jimin was sitting on a pile of woods, far away from everyone else as his eyes were darted to Seokjin, the typical head who was discussing something with his troop with passion.

It was different for Jimin to see his hyung act like that but it also gave him a feeling of proud as he smiled quietly, observing his fellow band mate complete his duty.

"He is.......... marvelous, right?"

Someone said and Jimin didn't need to turn to see who it was as he quietly nodded in response.

Jungkook settled right next to Jimin, adjusting himself and let out a heavy breath, his gaze trailing at Jimin for a moment before he sighed and looked at his Seokjin hyung; a smile adorning his face.

Nothing was spoken anymore, not a single word being exchanged as they both silently watched the practice.

Jimin puffed out a breath as he turned towards Jungkook as he found the silence very unsettling because the younger was never much quiet.

"You okay? Did....did you talk to your mother?"  He questioned as the younger shook his head.

"She didn't pick it up... It's my brother's birthday and I expected him to call me but maybe he is busy in parties."

Jimin nodded and silently placed his palm over Jungkook's shoulder , squeezing it.

"Its cool though. Since I was a teen, I've lived with y'all , so I never actually got a chance to bond with him. My mom must be out for his birthday too. I wasted my chance."

Jungkook said, waving at Seokjin who did a tiny wave at both of them with a smile.

The latter turned to the younger and then back at the elder and sighed. He was restless for days. He felt a nudge on his shoulder and the younger dragged him towards their Seokjin hyung.

"He is free. He is free. Let's go, hyung."

Jungkook practically dragged him towards the elder who motioned them towards an empty round chair. 

They both went there and settled down on chairs and sooner the elder also joined his band mates. They exchanged few talks about how the day is going and the weather is really chill today but it was mostly Jungkook and Seokjin who were talking as Jimin was simply nodding or saying a word or few in between their conversation.

"Did you guys call someone?" Seokjin asked as took a spoonful of the seasame soup.

"I called my mom but she couldn't pick it up unluckily. Last time we talked, she literally begged me to call her and not appa." The youngest of three said chuckling.

"Oh, I called my dad but it ended shortly so I called Yoongi and luckily his camp let me." Jin said with a smile of victory because he managed to use each second of the time limit provided for a call.

"Really? How is he?" Jimin asked nonchalantly as stirred his soup with a spoon.

"He has catched cold because of his own carelessness but he is taking the medicines now. He asked me to wish you both too and he wishes he could've called Taehyung too because his birthday is around the corner."

"U-uh y-yeah." Jimin replied and the youngest one looked at him with a huge doe eyes as he finally understood that why Jimin was sulking nowadays.

"Did you call anyone?"

Seokjin questioned and Jimin just shook his head silently.

"Oh, okay...there are still two days left in this week. It's about your second call right?"

Jimin stopped in his movements as he bit his bottom lip and looked at his soup for a second before shaking his head negatively.

"I've not used any of my calls." He shortly replied.

"Did no one call you?"

"Ah, I've talked to my parents last week and told them to not call me this whole week as I'll be busy and won't be available at all." Jimin said as he took a napkin and wiped off his mouth and hands.

"But w-why?—"

"Hyung...I need to use washroom immediately. You guys carry on."

Jimin abruptly excused himself and practically ran from there, leaving behind the two who were amused by his actions but not actually surprised.

"He misses Tae." Jungkook said with a sigh "I mean...we all miss each other but for Jimin hyung, it's gonna be quite tough knowing how much he was dependent on Tae hyung."

"They've never missed each other's birthday....not even in quarantine. Jimin would do a whole countdown for Taehyung's birthday a week prior. It's really heartbreaking to see them both seperated."

Seokjin said with an upset tone because he couldn't bear to see Jimin in such condition.

Taehyung and Jimin were joined by hips and clung to each other like leech almost every hour.

He has seen the excitement in Jimin's eyes each year when he would select the best cake for Taehyung and decorate it by himself.

He would give a touch of cream, cherries and tons of strawberries on top of it. No body would dare to walk to Taehyung with a cake if they don't want Jimin to murder them.

Jimin would personally feed each strawberry to Taehyung by his own hands and keep complementing the other, silently wishing for the taller to praise him back too and the taller never disappointed him; thanking Jimin over and over again and feeding him with his own hands too.

It was heartbreaking that this year, they won't be able to even shake hands with each other, let alone cutting cakes together and celebrating.

"Jungkook, give him some time and don't disturb him. He might need some time to relieve all these years he's spent with Taehyung."

Seokjin made the younger understand who nodded understandigily before cupping Seokjin's palms in his own.

"Hyung."

He muttered and the elder felt his heart drummed vigorously inside his rib cage.

"K-kook....do you...do you want me to show you around the  northern basement?" Seokjin nervously questioned as he can feel the youngers' gaze  all over himself.

"Please" Jungkook softly said yet his eyes were passionate.

On the other hand, Jimin ran straight to his bed. They didn't have much privacy here because there were ten soldiers sharing a room with five double storey bunk beds.

Jimin had the top bunk bed which was in the corner of his room while Jungkook had a top bed which was two beds next to Jimin's.

He layed their still while his whole heart and mind was going restless. How dare they seperate him from his soulmate? He thought, cursing everyone who came in his mind.

The whole time he kept laying there and eventually slept there without taking his dinner. It was almost 11:45 PM in night when someone entered their room and walked towards Jimin's bed.

The person lightly shook Jimin's body and the latter shot up like current as if he was expecting this already.

It was the camp's manager who sat inside his cubicles each day.

"Hey, get up.. Since you wrote the application, you'll be allowed to make call at the midnight but I don't know if that person is going to pick the call or not."

Said Yeon-sun, asking the cadate to follow him towards his cubicle and made him wait near the booth before he fetched for Jimin's phone out of the lockers.

"After one week more, y'all will be permanently returned your phones."

Yeon-sun added before passing the phone to Jimin. It was a rule that anyone from inside wasn't allowed to handle access to any social media accounts except the basics in their phones.

Jimin took the phone in his hand, his hands were shaking as he clicked on the contacts icon.

"May I ask who is this person?" Yeon-sun questioned and Jimin replied with short 'my boyfriend, it's his birthday'.

And Yeon-sun made an unexpected noise which startled Jimin.

"Are...are you homophobic?" Jimin asked cautiously , scared if the man will expose him or worse not let him use his phone.

Yeon-sun quickly shook his head negatively.

"No!no, I'm not. I'm a little bit fan of yours and your band. And it's just....are y-you dating V? Like your bandmate T-Taehyung?"

He stuttered nervously and Jimin felt the land beneath his feet slip away.

"H-how? I mean...why would you conclude so. He is not my boyfriend." He tried to deny it but Yeon-sun failed him.

"It's okay. It's going to be his birthday too, right? That's how I assumed that. It's okay if you're not dating him."

Jimin relaxed a little before he called Taehyung because Taehyung was already promoted as the leader of platoon and had acess to his phone.

He felt his palms getting sweaty as his heart felt heavy and he could no longer feel anything the moment he pressed on the call. Jimin felt numbness all over his body as the call kept ringing.

He felt a flash of all those years of them both celebrating this day together; some sweet memories along with some hot ones. He could already feel his eyes stinging a little in the corners.

But the call was never picked up.

Jimin looked at Yeon-sun who smiled at him and asked him to call again and Jimin noddee, redialing the number; hoping for Taehyung to pick it up.

The call went on ringing and the line finally disconnected. He tried calling for 5-6 times more but the same thing kept happening.

Jimin looked outside and saw fog all around him and sighed, his eyes getting misty as all the strength he put in himself for days was slowly fading away. He felt himself getting weaker with each passing second.

Yeon-sun felt really bad to see Jimin like that. He had seen how much hardwork Jimin had done to get access to his phone in midnight when generally the booth closes in evening itself. He wrote an application to have the permission but unfortunately, that person isn't picking up Jimin's calls.

"Jimin"

He softly called out and the latter nodded, quickly wiping away his tears before turning at him and gave a smile  and his eyes quite didn't smile this time.

"U-umm....I guess he is s-sleeping. I've my second chance of taking my phone still left... I'll call h-him in day . Thank y-you"

Jimin said as he returned his phone back in Yeon-sun's hand and started leaving quietly with tears again pooling in his eyes.

He felt quite fragile at this moment. A single push and he'll cramble into pieces. He was missing Taehyung terribly and right now, it became worst for him.

"Jimin, wait."

He heard Yeon-sun shout but he ignored it and kept walking away until the other ran to him and stopped him.

Yeon-sun gasped after seeing Jimin's crying face. The latter had tears streaming down his whole face which was red to cold.

"umm...are you sure that it's not Kim Taehyung you want to talk to? Cause if yes, then I've some contacts and I'll arrange a call with him." He offered as Jimin's tears didn't stop falling.

"He m-must be asleep already. Good night." Jimin muttered, trying to keep in his choked sob.

"I've already called at his camp and asked my friend to wake him up. He is awake, just not in his bed....... the call is still on line. So, do you want to....umm... wait for a while until my friend searches him?"

Yeon-sun said, showing his own military's official phone which had a call going on for five minutes now. Jimin looked at him and suddenly crashed him into a hug.

The officer was quite shocked and didn't know what to do as Jimin silently sniffled into his arms.

"hello? Officer Yeon-sun?.... hello?"

A voice rung through the phone as Jimin immediately pulled away from the hug, wiping off his tears.

"Yes, Mr Choi. Did you find him?"

"uh..huh... I've to search for him on the rooftop. Some love case ig going on with him, I see. He was sitting alone in cold, shivering and all."

Jimin bit his lips as he coughed to clear his throat so that Taehyung won't be able to catch his crying voice.

"Ha ha ha...Love case...hahaha... Just give him the call and I'm afraid it might take long *looks at Jimin* so you should better leave him alone for half an hour."

"Oh okay...."

Yeon-sun nudged Jimin to take the phone and left saying, he needs to check some registers.

Jimin took the phone and placed it near his ear.

"Hello?....." Taehyung's deep voice rung in his ears and Jimin felt his whole body going numb after hearing his voice.

He couldn't reply at all, his breathing getting heavy and he swears that Taehyung couldn't hear anything but the sound of  desperate breathings.

"Who?....Hello?" Taehyung again spoke in the call but Jimin felt his hand shivering as he opened his mouth to speak few words but nothing came out of it.

Fuck it! Jimin tried to encourage himself but he couldn't speak anything. He was afraid that he might cry just by hearing his voice.

".........Jimin-ah?"

Taehyung spoke desperately and Jimin sucked out a deep breath.

"Baby? Is that y-you?" The voice rang through the phone and Jimin clutched the phone tightly, tears building in his eyes again.

Taehyung took the phone and looked at the number again before speaking. This was the phone of a military officer who just gave it to Taehyung, saying someone needs to talk to him.

Certainly, Taehyung knows that doesn't matter how much socially awkward Jimin gets, for Taehyung he could go to any lengths and this person had to be Jimin.

"Jimin, I know it's you. Aren't you gonna wish me on my birthday, hun?"

After that all Taehyung could hear was the painful sound of Jimin breaking down on the call. His sobs painfully piercing Taehyung's heart as he felt like running back to his small fluff ball at this moment.

"Shhhh..... d-don't cry. Jimin, stop crying else you'll ruin my birthday. Do you want that?" Taehyung tried to soothe his soulmate while he himself felt his heart tearing at this distance between them.

Jimin was still sniffling when Yeon-sun looked at him and shook his head, this reminded him of his own wife who is really sick nowadays.

"T-tae"

Taehyung felt warmth spread all over his heart after hearing Jimin speak. How much he misses Jimin everyday could never be explained in plain words.

"Happy b-birthday, my love." Jimin wished, sniffling till now.

"Thank you....thank you...so much , baby. I was waiting for you. I've not looked at my phone, knowing you couldn't call me. I was going to ask Seokjin hyung for help." 

Taehyung said, trying to divert Jimin's attention.

"Oh, I-I have been saving my calls for y-you this week. I tried calling you..... but you did.... did n-not pic—"

"I'm really sorry. Forgive me. I'm so dumb. I should've expected this already. I'm sorry... You cried.... didn't you? Oh, you're still crying.... Stop crying else I'll cry too."

Taehyung said, he can't imagine his tiny boyfriend's crying face when Taehyung didn't pick the call. Hell, he can relate it too.

From the day, they've seperated, all Taehyung felt was pain. He put all this pain in his training and tried to fill the void in his heart by working. He had been missing Jimin like crazy.

Several nights, he'd shedded few tears for his dear soulmate from whom he couldn't part away for day without face times and several late night calls which went on until both of them slept. Whenever they were free from projects, they would cuddle or make love  together until the sunrise.

Oh, how he is going to survive without Jimin for such a long time. He knew he needed to be the stronger one here but it was getting hard for him, knowing that Jimin has Jungkook and Seokjin to console him but he was alone here. He didn't even try making friends because he wanted to focus on his duty and stay busy because if he makes new friends, it'll remind him of his doofoos, especially his Jimin.

"T-tae... I'm feeling so bad right now. This feeling is so heavy. My h-heart is uneasy. Every year, I'd accompanied you and gave you your favourite smile on your birthday b-but.... It's m-my right... Only, only I can wish you first and then kiss your face no body else."

"No body else, baby. No-one else could do what's your right to me. I've imagined you wishing me...and I know that how you're feeling. Trust me, I know how it hurts but we need to be stronger, hmm? Will my love do that for his Taehyungie as a birthday gift?"

Taehyung said chuckling.

But to Jimin, his chuckle sounded broken as if he was trying to conceal his shaky voice with laughing, as if Taehyung was gonna cry soon and Jimin would rather die than hear his soulmate cry when they both couldn't even hug to comfort each other.

"You're right, Tae. My captain, I'm so proud of you. I c-can't believe that my Taehyungie who was afraid of height *chuckles* is going to do such tough tasks but you proved me wrong. Be safe... d-don't hurt yourself, hmm."

Jimin spoke softly, later on clutching the phone tightly as he placed his palm on his throat, trying to lessen the pain due to holding on a sob for so long.

"Thanks, love. I've kept my pinterest on, waiting for your pictures and edits. Even my gallery is a huge help. I feel like this distance just proves how much we are in love and according to me, this distance of miles could never lessen the craziness I've for you. I'm getting mad for you. I'm falling too deep in you, Jimin. You do things to me even when you're not aroun—"

"S-stop.... don't speak please." Jimin quickly interrupted his boyfriend as he sat down on wooden stairs.

His heart was beating crazily, all the stress from  one week was finally fading away as a red blush coated his cheeks.

He smiled happily and this time, his eyes smiled along with his lips. Taehyung's heavy breathing could be heard through the phone and from Jimin's side too, no words were spoken as he clung the phone to his chest, his heartbeat drumming loud.

There was silence all around them, only the sounds of shaky breathings and drumming heart were exchanged along with tons of unspoken feeling and unexpressed emotions.

They felt peace after a long time, the peace of being able to feel each other heartbeat just over the call. It meant everything to them.

"Jimin-ah, say something. You've already given my birthday gift but at least say something lovely. I'm going to record it."

Taehyung spoke, finally breaking the silence, his voice sounding desperate to hear Jimin say anything like literally anything.

"Taehyung, I love you.... a lot. I've been going crazy this whole week and I think t-that if I couldn't talk to you today then I would have d-done somethin—" Just as Jimin was pouring down his emotions too, Yeon-sun came and interrupted him with an apologetic look.

"Sorry but you need to return the phone else it can cost me some punishment, you know." He politely said and Jimin nodded understandigily.

"—bye, Tae. I'll call you in the morning and keep your phone with you. Please sleep properly and make sure you're warm enough. Bye, I love you."

Jimin wished, getting a bit shy due to the officer but any how managed to blow a little kiss to Taehyung on the kiss with pink cheeks as the officer next to him chuckled.

He returned the phone and bowed multiple times to him as a huge thanks.

"So, you're dating him?" Yeon-sun asked with a smile and Jimin nodded positively.

"We are in a relationship not just dating." He added, making sure that officer knows the right label.

"Good."

"Umm...so this call counted from my account?" Jimin asked and the officer smiled.

"Well, I'm the one who manages everything so what do you think?" He said with a playful wink and Jimin bowed again to thank him.

"Jimin-ssi, you know what.... Its still midnight and you have two accounts of calls pending and a permission too. So do you wanna spend your next two hours talking to V? With your phone though and this time it'll be counted."

As soon as Jimin heard this he literally fell to the officer's feet to express his gratitude. This day couldn't get any better.

He took his phone from the officer and ran to his room as the counting has already begun. Climbing on his bunk bed, he pulled the quilt over himself as he rung up his boyfriend.

This time was he determined to at least send tones of voice chats along with few pictures of himself and maybe of sleeping Jungkook too, maybe.

"Oh my god! Jimin?" He heard Taehyung's surprised voice as he giggled.

"The officer is just too kind for we both because he is our fan and a really good human. Ahhhhhhh." Jimin was going crazy as he sent a request to switch the call into a video call and Taehyung accepted it.

"You look stunning" "you look too cute"

Both of them said at the same time and chuckled. Jimin was looking really cute after crying. His face was glowing as his cheeks were coated with natural pink blush while Taehyung looked more buff yet had a sweet smile and cute mischievous sparkling eyes.

"First of all, let me finish my confession." Jimin demanded and Taehyung nodded, biting his lip in excitement and Jimin's gaze lingered there for a moment before Taehyung had to fake cough and looked at the smaller with a cocky smirk and Jimin just blushed.

How he wanted to let Taehyung touch him right now and do dirty sinful things to him and fuck Jimin as you in form of his birthday present... Aish! He needed to be focused on the confession part first though.

"Taehyung, you know why you were born at the end of the year?!"

The aforementioned smiled at the question before humming and nodding.

"To accompany you?" He guessed and Jimin smiled at him.

"It's partially true. But the reality is something else. You were born at the end of the year because god put all the warmth and love; worth of the whole year in you. You, Kim Taehyung, were born with all the happiness of a year combined in you. And you make me happy none ever did."

As Jimin was saying, Taehyung felt his heart beat unusually faster as he kept staring at the smaller lovingly.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great. And Taehyung felt it right now when he spotted a whole galaxy in Jimin's misty eyes as he spoke how he felt towards Taehyung.

Love knows no distance; It hath no continent; Its eyes are for the stars. Jimin is his everything and the more he heard Jimin speak about how he loved the taller, Taehyung felt closer to crying.

"— Every sunrise I see reminds me of the warmth I feel despite the miles between us." Jimin said breathlessly as noticed how Taehyung was staring at him.

That stare.

It was doing a lot to Jimin. He remembers how Taehyung used to just sit and simply watch whatever Jimin did in their free time; be it doing chores to writing songs , simply because he loved to stare Jimin.

"Jimin... Don't stop. I want to hear more. Tell me how much you love me.. Assure me that everything is going to be fine even though we are miles apart."

Taehyung didn't plan it but his voice came out really desperate and breathless.

Jimin smiled at him, tears starting to form in his own eyes as he saw his boyfriend struggling with his own tears.

"T-the miles between us can never diminish the love I have for you, Tae. Nothing will change in between this time. I assure you that the next time you're out of this camp and celebrating your birthday, you'll find m-me right in your arms....with my special strawberry cake for you, feeding you each piece of it. And there'll come a day, when we'll cut our marriage cake together. We'll never change, Tae; neither will our love, it'll just grow. Though distance apart, in my heart, we're dancing to the same beat. I love you to infinity."

Jimin said as he saw tears streaming down Taehyung's face as he made foul tries to blink it away.

"I-I.." Taehyung wasn't able to speak anything as a choked sob left his mouth. He'd been trying to control it for so long.

Jimin let his tears fall freely too. He covered his mouth with his palm and shoved his face in his own shoulder, sobbing hard while trying to be as quiet as possible.

It hurts, so fucking much.

This wasn't going to be easier as it seemed but they needed to pass through without letting it damage a single shred.

"Jimin, b-baby..... shhh.. Stop crying. We can't plan my b-birthday like this, could we? Do you wanna just cry or talk to me? Hmm? Look at me... c'mon wipe y-your tears." Taehyung said as Jimin pouted, telling him to do the same.

They both wiped their tears while soft sniffles were still there.

Jimin coughed a little and got off from the bunk bed and grabbed a water bottle and climbed back, drinking some water while Taehyung drank some water too.

"Jimin-ah, open the window. Its snowing." Taehyung said and Jimin immediately climbed off his bed and looked outside.

It was indeed snowing. This year it didn't even snow on Christmas properly due to which, it made it more special because they both were virtually experiencing the first snowfall of this year together; that too on Taehyung's birthday.

They both talked for almost two hours when Yeon-sun came to knock on the door and Jimin looked at his phone to see his sleeping boyfriend. Taehyung had fallen asleep almost fifteen minutes ago while talking to Jimin because he felt peace and comfort after so long. He was finally getting love after so many days of yearning.

Just as Jimin cut the call, a notification from Taehyung popped up. It was a text message and Jimin immediately clicked on it as Yeon-sun was standing there for the phone.

Dear Captain<3 :

Jimin-ah, it felt so nice to have you for such a long time. You made my birthday a thousand times better. I love you. Distance has given me a reason to love harder, deeper, and more fiercely.

Jimin felt all giddy as he locked his phone and passed it Yeon-sun and waved bye to him.

He immediately took the blanket and covered himself with it. A warm smile spreading over his face. Taehyung was pretending to sleep just because he wanted to see that soft look on Jimin's face whenever he stares at his sleeping boyfriend. Aish! He felt millions of butterflies dancing in his tummy.

"Maybe we could make it together" Jimin whispered to himself as he recalled what Taehyung texted him.

Distance has given me a reason to love harder, deeper, and more fiercely.

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I hope y'all enjoyed it. I tried to do my best because I really suck with feelings and I had to take bff's help asking if you were Jimin's place how would you react. Lmao—😺😂

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Date- 1st Jan 2024
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