"so... this is your favorite show?" jimin asked, staring at the screen.

the two boys were sitting in namjoon's living room, watching joon's favorite anime and chowing down on popcorn.

"yeah. you don't like it?"

"no, i love it. i have since i was little. you just... you didn't strike me as someone who would like watching sailor moon."

namjoon just blushed a little, laughing slightly, with a shrug of his shoulders.

"kim namjoon, you are full of surprises. every day you fascinate me," jimin said.

"do i?" namjoon asked, almost in a teasing way.

jimin nodded.

"you're so cool. so... unapologetically yourself."

namjoon just laughed, looking down, not believing how far off jimin was from the truth.

he hated who he was, actually. he hid the things he liked from almost everyone, only opening up if he really trusted someone.

"what? you think i'm wrong?" jimin asked, smiling, leaning over, and trying to make eye contact with the man who had his face looking down in his lap.

namjoon just blushed even further, a slight smile still painted on his face, finally looking up.

"no... i just. i'm surprised you see me like that, that's all," he said, "i'm just so awkward and... shy and stuff. i've never really been... confident."

jimin immediately spoke up.

"i think you're confident," he said, "you're shy, so what? can you not be confident in being shy?" jimin asked, smiling.

"i suppose you can," namjoon said, with a laugh.

the boys just joked around a bit more, eventually letting the comfortable silence fall over them as they watched the show that was on.

jimin yawned, letting his head fall over to rest on joon's shoulder.

and namjoon couldn't help but think about how he had found someone so perfect, so beautiful.

but yet, so unobtainable.

with a sigh, he brought his focus back on the show.

-

"joon!" jimin exclaimed, shaking him, "wake up!"

namjoon blinked just eyes open, seeing it was now light out.

"w-what? did we fall asleep?"

"just a little," jimin said, with a laugh, "it's ten in the morning. we must have been tired last night."

namjoon just sat up quickly, a little sad that his fun night with jimin was now wasted.

"darn it. i...i wanted to hang out more."

jimin just nodded in agreement.

"what are doing today?"

namjoon tried to think if he had any plans, his eyes still feeling heavy from sleepiness.

he really needed a cup of coffee.

suddenly, he remembered what he was doing for the day.

"i... ugh... i'm going to areums place."

jimin just looked away, with a slow nod.

"oh. okay. well... we can hang out again soon, then."

namjoon wasn't sure why the vibes got so weird around them whenever areum was brought up. namjoon always just assumed it was in his head. he was the one who liked jimin, after all. of course, his brain would make the interactions seem awkward. 

"yeah. i told her i would head over around twelve so we can still hang out a little bit if you want," namjoon said.

jimin sighed, standing up from the couch.

"i should probably just head out. i've got a bunch of homework that i've been procrastinating on... and my dorms a mess."

namjoon nodded.

"well, okay. i'll see you on monday, then."

jimin grabbed his bag from the floor and slipped on his slippers.

"see you."

jimin left and namjoon was immediately hit with a realization.

the awkwardness whenever areum was brought up definitely wasn't just in his head.

-

namjoon had been over at areum's dorm for a few hours. he was thankful that areum hadn't brought up their last awkward encounter and that she wasn't making any more advances towards him. they were just watching a bunch of random movies and namjoon was honestly bored out of his mind.

he could watch shows with jimin for hours, but something about watching things with aruem just wasn't the same.

it wasn't fun in the slightest.

so, out of pure boredom, namjoon pulled out his phone to check the time, catching aruem's attention.

she glanced at namjoon's phone, looking at the texts he got from jimin at the same time joon was looking at them.

they weren't fully visible from the lock screen, but once namjoon clicked on one of the text, it was easy to see jimin had sent the boy an abundance of funny sailor moon memes.

namjoon couldn't help but smile down at his phone screen, not realizing areum had been watching the whole thing.

as soon as joon realized her eyes were on his phone, he turned it off and put his eyes back on the movie.

areum wasn't completely satisfied, grabbing namjoon's phone and turning it on, staring at his lock screen.

it was a picture of him and jimin. jimin had his arms wrapped around joon's neck, jumping on his back from behind, while namjoon captured the selfie, big smiles on both of their faces.

"that's cute," areum said.

namjoon just smiled nervously, reaching over and taking his phone back.

"it's sweet how close you guys are. i've never had a friendship like that before."

namjoon just gulped and stared back at the tv, praying the conversation would end if he just stayed quiet.

"maybe i'll be your lock screen someday, yeah? we've taken some cute photos, too," she said.

namjoon just nodded, knowing deep down that he wouldn't be changing his wallpaper any time soon.

"one day," areum mumbled, with a sigh, bringing her focus back to the movie.

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