"We can't sleep in wet clothes." Hye shivered, her hair wet against her head and her clothes clinging to her in all the wrong places in her opinion. Judging by Taehyung's lingering eyes he had a different opinion.

"We can hang them over the embers of the fire?" He suggested as he tore his eyes from Hye's slim shivering frame.

"And warm up how? We'll be just as cold naked as we would in wet clothes. We don't have any other clothes to change into." Hye shivered, her teeth starting to chatter.

"Sleep with me-"

"Perv." She slapped his arm, wincing at the contact against the cold material against her cold hand.

"If you'd let me finish my sentence, I'll put my blanket beneath us so grass and mud doesn't stick to us and you use your blanket over us. I'll face the forest, you face the fire." He suggested. "That way I won't be some perv." He chuckled as he emphasysed the word. "I'll even turn around and sort out the blanket for us as you go first."

Hye met his eyes and hesitated a moment, part of her suspected that he had an ulterior motive. But she met his eyes and saw no kind of sign that he was wanting anything else other than to sleep and get warm at this point. "Turn around then, or do I have to call you a pervert from now on?" She raised a brow. He grinned shaking his head and turning his back towards her as he knelt down and began to spread out his blanket along the floor. "Your turn." She whispered, Taehyung stood up and turned a bit too soon, seeing her stood there with her blanket wrapped around her, the thin material only just about covering where she wanted it.

Taehyung gulped and tore his eyes from her body, he kept his eyes on the ground as she passed him to lay down on the blanket he had laid out. He took off his clothes, shivering as the cold came into contact with his skin. Once he had hung up his clothes over the fire on the contraption Namjoon had set up, his hands came down to cover his crotch as he turned.

Hye had sat up forgetting the fact she had stripped off the night prior, she had initially hoped she'd wake up before everyone else and have a chance to cover up. But Hoseok had nearly gotten a view that he probably shouldn't have when she had woken up, who laughed when Taehyung's arms had pulled her back down to lie with him and a yelp had left her lips.

Hye felt mortified. She had slept naked, risked exposure to the rest of the boys, next to a naked Taehyung. Her mother would kill her if she- Hye shook her head.

"It seems like you two made up then~" Hoseok laughed softly once she had escaped Taehyung's grasp, he had turned his back to the two before she had sat up again. "Get dressed, I won't look."

"You're an ass." She huffed, making sure Taehyung had remained with some dignity as she began to get dressed once more. Her shoes that she had rested next to the embers of the fire last night were still damp so she made her way barefooted over the grass to join Hoseok where he sat.

"I mean if you really want I can tell you every single thought you had~" He smirked, causing a blush to come back to Hye's cheeks. "I'm sure Taehyung would be thrilled to know how much you wanted to stay awake with him last night~"

Hye hid her face in her hands with a groan. "What's happening?" Taehyung's deep voice reached her ears as he came to sit next to her, he must have woken up when Hye got up and got changed not long after.

"I was just observing how you and Hye have sorted whatever happened yesterday." Hoseok chuckled softly. Taehyung looked at the blush on Hye's cheeks and chuckled softly, wrapping an arm around her waist.

"Going off her blush, you're lying Hoseok." He chuckled softly. "But I won't press further because I have no doubt that Hye will probably kill me. I'm guessing we were the last two up?" Hoseok nodded sipping on the water from his canteen.

"Everyone's already doing all the jobs that needed doing, I'm back for a moment to just catch my breath and then I'm back getting wood for the fire tonight." He stood up, placing the canteen down. "I'll leave you two lovebirds alone."

Hye lifted her head from her hands as she heard Hoseok walk off. "How can you be so casual about having your arm around me?" Hye asked, looking up at Taehyung.

"You literally slept naked with me last night, you're now asking me how I can do this?" The boxy smile came to his lips and she couldn't help but quickly lean up and kiss the corner of his lips.

~~

The group had been travelling for a while now, they occasioned taverns and Hye and Taehyung had still remained in separate rooms. There had been some tension building between the two for the last few weeks to the point as much as Hye loved to sleep in Taehyung's arms, she had recently taken up sleeping on the otherside of the crackling fire, only allowing herself to see him if she stayed awake long enough to see him over the embers that would crackle softly as the heat caused the wood to continue to expand.

"You are incredibly pent up." Hoseok commented, snapping Hye out of thought as she brought the rusty scissors they had found to cut her hair.

"What do you mean?" Hye puzzled, looking in the grubby mirror above the fireplace that had died out. The warmth still radiating off it and keeping the room at a nice temperature where it wasn't overbaringly warm but it wasn't too cold either.

"Are you forgetting I can read your thoughts?" A low chuckle left the man who walked up behind her. "Lately I have really disliked having that ability, between Taehyung and yourself it's enough to drive someone insane." The heat flooded from the room all into Hye's cheeks and ears.

"Hoseok!" She turned with a light laugh, hitting the male in the arm as she shot daggers at him with her eyes. "Get out of my mind you pervert!"

"I cannot help it, trust me. I don't want to be in your mind as much as you don't want me to be in there." He raised his hands in surrender before he took a deep breath. "What's stopping you from seeing him? You clearly love and want him."

Hye hesitated in responding. She truly didn't know what was stopping her from going and sharing a room and even sharing a bed with Taehyung. Before the tension between them had gotten too much they had snuck off whilst everyone conversed between themselves to go kiss behind the seclusion of trees.

"Hye, I want an answer. Not your thoughts wandering away please." Hoseok laughed, snapping Hye out of the thought.

"I don't know." She admitted quietly. "I had never kissed anybody up until Taehyung and I know what comes next, but I don't know if that makes sense?" Hoseok nodded with a small smile as he approached the female, the scissors had been discarded on the table beside her at some point in the conversation and he cupped Hye's cheeks in both hands and brought her face up so she met his eyes.

"Whatever you do when you share a bed with that boy, he will not care." Hoseok spoke firmly. "Taehyung would not hurt you, I think you should just go see him. You love him, even if you don't take that next step at least go spend time with him alone. We all know you sneak off to the forest at night to kiss." Hye's cheeks went bright pink, and now she wished she hadn't put the scissors down so she could kill Hoseok with them out of embarassment. He let go of her face. "I can't force you, Taehyung can't force you. Nobody can force you to go see him tonight or any other night. But if you don't go soon, you're only going to regret it. Goodnight Hye." Hoseok hummed and headed to the bedroom in the tavern room. Hye sank down on the sofa with a soft sigh.

Hoseok was right and Hye knew it. Taehyung wouldn't hurt her. Even when things were getting a little hot and steamy his hands were still gentle against her, not moving to fast and always touching delicately first before taking a proper hold of her, asking for permission, and Hye had always given him it.

Hye thought she heard Hoseok laugh as she closed their room door behind herself, but she shook her head and focused on making her way down the hallway without making too many of the wooden planks creak as she stepped on them. Her heart was pounding in her ears, her fist was raised to knock on the door of Taehyung's room when she froze. She knew it was late, he'd probably be asleep. She turned around to make her way back to her room with Hoseok.

"Hye?" The deep voice froze her in her tracks. "It's nearly midnight, what's got you creeping around the hallways?"

"I..." She turned slowly, almost face to face with Taehyung who was leaning in the doorway. Bags were noticeable under his eyes and he looked like he hadn't slept a wink yet. "I came to speak to you."

"Come inside then, I don't want to wake anyone up." He smiled softly, moving out the doorway and allowing her to come inside the room. It was evident Taehyung hadn't even been trying to sleep by the book that was left cover up and open on the table, the canteen open next to it and the fire crackling gently and giving a nice warm glow to the otherwise dark room. "What's on your mind? You won't even speak to me this late in front of the guys."

Hye looked up at him, her eyes flickering down to his lips momentarily and she hoped he hadn't noticed it but when the small smirk came on his lips she knew she had been found out. "You came all this way for a kiss?" His tone was different as his hand came and took her chin to tilt her head up, he took the smallest step closer to her not that there was much of a gap to fill.

Hye was breathless, her cheeks felt like they were on fire and the usual sensation of butterflies erupted in her stomach. "I came here for you." She whispered breathlessly.