7) eat lunch together

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jungkook woke up early, around 7 am, and even though he would usually groan and complain about waking up so early, this time, it's not the case though.

so when he went down to eat breakfast, his mom was shocked to see her own son, jeon jungkook, walking down from his room, with a freaking smile on his face at 7 am in the goddamn morning.

noticing her son's weird mood and aura, she cleared his throat. "jungkook..."

jungkook, who was in the middle of biting into an apple, stopped midway, his teeth on the skin of the fruit. "ne?"

"are you sick?" his mom moved closer to him and brought her hand up against his forehead.

jungkook rolled his eyes and smiled a little. "im okay, eomma. dont worry."

even though she's not convinced, she just nodded. "okay then. get a plate and i'll serve you breakfast."

taehyung, who slept over at the jeons, went down half an hour later, his hair sticking out everywhere, and his pyjamas disarray. he went straight to the fridge and grabbed the milk carton he bought last night and chugged it down.

jungkook, who rarely sees this scene because he always skips breakfasts on weekends (because sleep is life), giggled and laughed, making tae stop and glare at the younger.

"you're up early. who are you and where did you take my friend, alien." tae said, cupping jungkook's face harshly, tilting it from side to side.

jungkook swatted his hands away before resuming to eating his breakfast. "aiyaa, hajima!"

he quickly went up to his room after breakfast, getting ready for his study session with yoongi in a few hours. he threw on a powder blue sweater and some jeans to go with it, not wanting to under dress or overdress. by the time he was done, it was already 9, which gave him enough time to go over the notes he wrote last night and to go to the coffee shop.

while in the middle of reading about the dna replication, jungkook's phone dinged, making him sit up from his bed.

my turtii
gmorning :) 11 @ coffee cheoreom 101~

jungkook
good morning, hyung! see you later :)))))

after going through the notes one last time, he went down, his backpack slinging on his left shoulder. he quickly slipped on his sneakers before shouting an "im going out!" and out of the house, he went.

since the said coffee shop they'll be going isnt that far anyway, he decided to take a bus and walk midway there, wanting to savor the seoul air. somehow, even though it's the most crowded place in south korea, the surroundings are still pretty and it's not that polluted, unlike all the other cities around the world.

he stopped by the stoplight with the other passersby who are waiting for the light to turn red so they could cross the road. the coffee shop is across the road from where jungkook is, so he had to walk to the other side.

suddenly, he felt a tap on his shoulder and was shocked to see a familiar, whom he havent talked to outside of their school before.

"j-jin-sunbaenim?!"

jin, even though smiling, obviously cringed and grimaced at the formality that came from the younger. he wrinkled his nose. "hyung is okay, jungkook-ah. no need to call me by that cringey word."

jungkook nodded, although he's still curious and confused why jin's here and why he suddenly approached jungkook.

"are you perhaps meeting yoongi?" jin asked, making jungkook nod. jin pursed his lips and suddenly grinned, coming up with a plan. he hooked his arm with jungkook and dragged the boy towards the other direction.

"w-where are you taking me, hyung?" jungkook asked, not out of fear, but of shock. jin looked back at him and gave him a reassuring smile.

"dont worry, you guys are planning to go to coffee cheoreom 101, right? why not just here at our cafe, it's on the house." jin said with a wink before he pulled jungkook inside a coffee shop called espresseok. he was immediately greeted with the aroma of burnt coffee beans and brewed coffee, and it made him relax.

no one could deny that he's indeed nervous, because one, he's not good at teaching people, and two, it's yoongi he's going to meet and teach, who wouldnt get nervous, right?

jin made jungkook sit on a booth at the deeper part of the shop and told him to wait while he gets drinks and food for yoongi and him. jungkook asked jin if he could text yoongi about the sudden change of meeting place, but jin told him not to because it's a surprise.

whilst waiting for jin to come back, jungkook received a message from yoongi.

my turtii
where r u

my turtii
im almost there

my turtii
u better not ditch me

my turtii
i gave up my sleep for u

jungkook
i didnt ditch you, hyung, i swear!!!

my turtii
u better not

my turtii
ugh

my turtii
can u hang in there for a while, hyung's asking me to pick up sometng from their shop

jungkook
okay :)

a few minutes after, an all-too-familiar black haired male entered the shop and sauntered over to the counter, straight up asking for jin. jin emerged from behind the counter with a tray on his hands and told yoongi to come follow him. yoongi had no choice but to follow.

he was about to protest and tell jin that someone's waiting for him somewhere when he saw jungkook sitting on a booth, a notebook in his hand and some nerd glasses in front of his eyes. the boy looked up just in time to see yoongi put his phone down on the table, and jin put the drinks and food he got for them on the table.

"h-how did you...?" yoongi trailed off, his eyes scrunched up in confusion.

jin threw an arm around jungkook's shoulder. "oh! we bumped into each other and so i invited him here, turns out he's meeting you so i told you to come here."

yoongi lowkey glared at jin and gave him the finger, but of course, without jungkook noticing. the eldest left them to get on with their stuff, not wanting to keep them from studying.

"so, pyrimidines and purines go along with each other, but not pyrimidine to another pyrimidine, and purine to another purine?" yoongi asked as he pushed up his specs that kept falling off because of his oily nose. jungkook found it cute, actually, scratch that, everything yoongi does, he finds it cute. like whenever yoongi's eyebrows scrunch up whenever he tries to read jungkook's messy handwriting, how he would occasionally puff air in his cheeks and release it with a frustrated sigh and will pout afterwards, and even the lip biting, a habit yoongi cant really control that it drove jungkook crazy.

jungkook nodded and pointed at the illustration. "guanine and cytosine go along, same as adenine with thymine. thus why they're called complementary. but if it's rna, thymine will be replaced by uracil, but it's still the same pairing." jungkook explained, pointing at the figures he made on the notebook to further explain the lesson.

"i give up!" yoongi sighed and put his head down on the notebook, groaning profanities like a whining baby.

well, jungkook's baby, aye ;")

jungkook nodded and sighed. he figured it would be okay to take a break, genetics really is undeniably hard to understand and would definitely take a toll on anyone tries studying it.

"then i guess we should eat first?"

yoongi perked up and grinned. "i like the way you think, kook. im famished."

'oh, but would you still like the way i think if all im thinking about is you, hyung?'

'or cant you just like me and not the way i think, instead???'

jungkook rolled his eyes at the side comments he made in his head before he called up someone to get them cake again because somehow, while they're studying, they ate the food jin brought them.

once their food arrived (blueberry cheesecake for jungkook and a choco mousse for yoongi), both dug in, excited to satisy and calm down the hungry monsters inside their stomachs.

jungkook somehow got some cream cheese at the corner of his lips while he ate a spoonful of cheesecake. yoongi looked up and saw the boy looking like an adorable kid enjoying his cake and he grinned. he caught the boy's attention and pointed at his lip.

"huh?" jungkook asked. yoongi sighed and leaned over the table, reaching out to jungkook's cheek and removing the cream cheese himself.

jungkook's eyes widened at the closeness and the act that yoongi did, and when he looked up and met his eyes, the older smirked down at him.

"you could be such a kid, you know, jeon jungkook. you're too precious."

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i dozed off lmao bye