Save Your Tears - The Weeknd

"This one?"

"No."

"What about this one?"

"Ew."

"You're not helping me here."

Jeongguk and Yeosang are at a flower shop, attempting to find something for Wooyoung, and to say that they've been here for a couple hours to only find nothing would be an understatement.

Yeosang wants to ask Wooyoung out tomorrow, when they all go paint balling, afterwards Yeosang wants to take him to a restaurant for a nice dinner - since they never really got to do that together.

From there he plans to take him out for a walk around the park and ask him to be official while looking out to the city. Something cute like that, for a romantic fucker like him.

And to be honest, this is the first time Jeongguk is seeing Yeosang this precautious and attentive of every single small details.

The kid looks like he's about to ask him for marriage.

Jeongguk glances to him, seeing the evident frown on his lips as he glared over the orchids flower.

He's hopeless.

So Jeongguk sighs and puts his phone away after his attempts in reaching out to Jimin - which was a lost cause, "Alright, do you know what type of flowers he likes?"

Yeosang looks over the multiple flowers in the shop, exhaling heavily, "I don't think he even likes flowers."

Are you fucking -

Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Jeongguk tried not to lose his cool.

Alright, at least Yeosang has a location in mind, made a reservation and all, but now if he wants to make this really special, he must come to terms about his feelings first.

In that way he won't regret it and sound like and idiot.

So Jeongguk took his phone, making the younger boy exclaim and chases after him for his phone while Jeongguk leaves the flower shop. Yeosang was like a little yapping puppy after Jungkook indifferently walking down the sidewalk and finally coming by a random ice cream shop.

Day is hot as hell but this agenda came with a purpose.

"What ice cream do you want?"

Yeosang glares at the ravenette, hand out, "Phone, now."

"Ice cream first."

Annoyedly Yeosang continues to glare at him before huffing and looking at the screen before muttering, "Chocolate fudge."

Jeongguk already knew that was going to be his choice. After all, he has known the kid for years.

But Jeongguk still goes up to the register with his wallet out.

"One chocolate fudge in a cup and for me....... Walnut flavored in a cup."

Jeongguk didn't have to look to know the glance Yeosang gave to him - only payed for the ice creams and received them before giving the chocolate fudge to Yeosang.

But Yeosang only looked at the walnut flavored one with eyes brewing a storm.

"Since when do you eat Walnut flavored ice cream?"

"I don't," Jeongguk responds calmly, the two finding a seat by the window of the shop, with Jeongguk putting the ice cream between them, "Might give it to Taemin, he likes that flavor right?"

"Since when are you close to Taemin?"

"Oh I'm not," And Jeongguk sits up, arms crossed on the table, "But you were."

Yeosang stares at his own ice cream with a twitching frown, taking a deep breath while glancing to his surroundings before looking at Jeongguk, "Alright, what is this about? You, Taehyung and Jimin have been off as fuck whenever the topic of Taemin comes up, what is it?"

Jeongguk stares at the boy's pointed stare and he leans back to his chair, arms crossed, "Me personally I want to know where you stand. Three years ago, you would freak out about this dude and be an annoying shit panicking whenever he would text you. Got obsessed in getting him this ice cream flavor and declare yourself that you would always wait for him and all the shit."

"Feelings change dude-"

"Not always," Jeongguk mutters, eyeing him cautiously, "Speaking from experience."

Yeosang scoffs, "Your experience wasn't the same as mines."

"Then what was your experience?"

There's a long pause between them, a very long pause. Yeosang just stayed staring at his ice cream with a deep frown.

Clearly not use to speaking openly about this in a while.

But he trusts Jeongguk.

After all, he wouldn't tell him something just to hurt him.

So setting the ice cream cup on the table, Yeosang rubs his thighs with his sweaty hands, "Taemin...... When I first met Taemin it was with the boss issue, r-remember that shit?"

Jeongguk nods briefly, listening to him.

"I went through that texting process with him about the buy, and I was a mess. I would panicky ask him for dick or sex or to talk to him through face time, you know, silly things," And a small smile twinkled his lips, "He was so annoyed by it, I could tell, but I was just happy he was responding back."

For that moment, remembering those memories and having it surface up to his heart, Yeosang for once felt like that again.

Like that kid who was so obsessed by the mafia heir.

And his smile didn't fade away from there.

"You know when I met him in person, he was getting ready for a meeting or something and he pointed a gun to my head? Just because I was doing his tie since it was undone," Yeosang chuckles to himself, squealing a little with eyes now focused on the walnut ice cream, "He was always so on edge with me, it thrilled me to get to know him and see him open up to me."

It was painful for Jeongguk to see Yeosang slowly start to let those feelings he had kept buried out, and it stung his chest greatly.

He doesn't know why, but it did.

So he took Yeosang's chocolate ice cream and just began to eat it to ease himself down.

Yeosang didn't seem to care, he was already in his cloud of memories to pay attention to anything else.

"And when he saved me by paying for the money that I owed to them - I swore I knew I felt a connection between us and he felt it too. He saved my fucking life," Yeosang is smiling from ear to ear now, now looking at Jeongguk with glittering eyes, "He just made my heart go through it, I'm not even kidding. I felt so gittery and geeked up around him, it was contagious to just always try to make him happy - Let me not even get started the first time he smiled at me."

Jeongguk took bigger bites of the ice cream, Yeosang now sighing to himself with a hiccuped giggle before looking back at the walnut ice cream, his smile growing softer and tender.

"I remember when I stayed at his place, and he would take care of me with my injury and the withdrawals, I was the happiest person ever at that moment," He says quietly to himself, "All because I got to be beside him. I knew, I just knew, that I wouldn't find anyone like him. I wanted to be with him whenever he was ready for it, and I would've waited no matter how long that took. My precious Taemin."

And it was as thought Yeosang in that moment slowly realized what he has been saying for the past fifteen minutes, digesting the time that did pass and how he's not that boy anymore who would do anything just to make Taemin feel wanted.

It's all different now.

Taemin was right, he was going to find someone else and move on.

Yeosang didn't want to believe him, he really didn't because he was so sure he would wait for him no matter what.

And be there in a heart beat.

But he didn't know he was going to grow closer to Wooyoung. He didn't know that this once in a while fucking around would lead to them to actually grow a thick and deep bond for each other.

They went through a lot together.

And so did him and Taemin.

Yeosang slowly looks out the window, hands now fiddling on his lap, "I.... I miss that person I was before, not going to lie."

Jeongguk furrows his eyebrows to this, "Like what? You're still an annoying brat-"

"Not like that," Yeosang rolls his eyes, lips pulling to a frown, "The person I was when I was around Taemin. I felt like I..... I was healing a lot. From withdrawals, being a better person, wanting to be a better person and partner for Taemin whenever he was ready."

Putting the cup of chocolate fudge ice cream on the table, half full, Jeongguk hums, "What about Wooyoung?"

"I," Yeosang got a bit loss of words, thinking about it for a moment, before nodding to himself, "I think I already became the person I wanted to be with him. All those things I tried building up for Taemin, I ended up becoming that for Wooyoung. Taemin in some way taught me how to love, and I used it to give love to Wooyoung......... That sounds so fucked up."

"No it doesn't," Jeongguk tries to tell him, shaking his head, "That's just part of life."

"You don't get it, I feel bad," Yeosang admits, huffing, "Taemin never has been lucky when it came to love. First with Jimin, who fucked him over - no offense since he's my best friend. And then me, who promised him I'd be there when he came back. No doubt he's tired of constantly being disappointed when it comes to love."

Looking at it from that perspective, Jeongguk could see where Yeosang is coming from and unable to help but also feel a bit of pity for him too.

Taemin always wanted to be loved. From Jimin's perspective, he was like how Yeosang was with him but to Jimin.

He was softer.

Delicate.

Gentle.

Bubbly.

And so very happy when he would speak to Jimin.

But after what Jimin did, he wasn't the same anymore. He was more cold, had trust issues, and didn't give a shit about anymore.

Until Yeosang showed up.

Despite being stubborn and brushing him off, no doubt Taemin did develop the hope that he could finally rely one someone to stay and not leave him. To feel something genuine and it'll be okay.

But when he came back, the same person promising him the world moved on.

Leaving him possibly disappointed and giving up on love.

That it pretty tragic.

"But, I can't leave Wooyoung," Jeongguk slowly flickers his eyes to Yeosang's certain expression, "I care about Taemin, of course I do, but me and Wooyoung just..... There's just -"

"A bond, I know," Jeongguk finishes quietly, looking at the walnut ice cream, "Feel the same way too."

"With Taehyung and Jimin?"

Jeongguk nods, "Me and Woosung went through a lot back then, and now that he's back.... I just can't leave Taehyung and Jimin now that he's here. The three of us grew a bond and..... Shit, I can't imagine my life without them now that they're in it."

Yeosang looks at Jeongguk carefully, studying him with every twitch and flicker of his eyes, and sighs with a small nod, "Me neither dude...... But then why does it feel like we can't move on?"

Jeongguk didn't respond back to this, mainly because he didn't know how to.

He only looks at the walnut ice cream, that's now slightly melting in the cup, and takes the spoon before taking a bite.

And that seem to have spoke out to both of them, leaving them in this silent.

With Yeosang knowing the answer to that question.

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A/N:
I just discovered this song called Renegade by Aaryan Shah and I'm definitely going to play it with a chapter :') just don't know who should be the characters for that scene.

Recommendations?

By the way, I want to set something clear since I've seen this question in a bit of the previous chapters, this story is endgame Vminkook. But as mentioned on the first chapter in the disclaimer, the characters may experience or go through something with another character, but end game is only Vminkook.

I'm sorry for those who wanted poly six :') Maybe I'll make another story where they're a poly six, who knows lol

But these incoming chapters, their interactions with each other is soooo important, that's why we're seeing scenes from them. It's what going to make Vminkook more mature and give each other more insight on their relationship to be stronger.

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