"Jimin?" Jimin lifted his head up from his phone at Taehyung but his eyes were still fixed on the screen.

"Hmm?"

"You called me in here an hour ago but you have been on the phone ever since. What the hell did you call me for, then?" Taehyung gritted out each word with annoyance at Jimin's behaviour. Jimin hadn't said one word to him in the past hour except for answering his same question with small words time and again. He was busy with his phone ever since he had called Taehyung in here meanwhile Taehyung just moved around in the room, checked his social media, took a shower and came back to sit with Jimin in all that time. But whenever he tried to leave, Jimin would spring back to life and stop him.

"Mm, yeah. Well, I had to." That has been the twelfth time he had said that.

"The fuck is that supposed to mean? You have been saying the same thing. Every. Single. Time." Now Taehyung was pretty angry since Jimin had locked them both inside without telling him anything.

"Can't say more than that. Sorry." Jimin's eyes never left the phone as he mindlessly answered him. Taehyung wondered what Jimin was so into that he couldn't even look at him while he talked.

"*sigh* Now even Sungjae would be busy." Taehyung's face dropped as his tone saddened. He gave Sungjae his number but didn't get his. Now he had to wait until the other contacted him first, to get it.

"That mother-" Before Jimin could complete the praise, he stopped himself when Taehyung's eyes flicked towards him.

"What?" Taehyung narrowed his eyes at the suspicious act of Jimin but the other shrugged it, nonchalantly.

"Nothing." After a pause, Jimin added trying to sound as casual as he could. "By the way, why do you hang out with Sungjae, so much?"

Taehyung eyed the boy in front of him at the strange question that he didn't expect.
"What do you mean 'so much'? It was only yesterday and that, too, was because he gave me a tour and- Wait, why are you asking, again?"
Taehyung looked at Jimin suspiciously, again.

"Just because." But Jimin repeated his previous gesture of shrug, again.

"Jimin?" Taehyung lowered his voice to overwhelm Jimin and for a moment he thought it worked but Jimin recovered quickly as he replied.

"What? Can't I even ask that? I was just wondering if I could hang out with him, too?" That was the dumbest lie he could have come up with and even Taehyung wished he had done a better job at it as he face palmed.

"Who do you think you are fooling?" Jimin didn't even blink at the question as he stared back at his phone.

"Fine. Fine. Keep your precious boyfriend to yourself." Jimin blurted out without thinking as his irritation grew with each word Taehyung said as if he was defending Sungjae from Jimin.

"He's not- He's not my boyfriend." Taehyung flushed deep red at the sudden outburst of Jimin but looked away to hide it as he denied the accusation, like a reflex.

Jimin glanced at him before he mumbled, quietly.
"He looks like it."

"Well he's NOT." Taehyung was louder than before as he denied it the second time and he looked angrier than before, if his reddening ears were any indication.
"He can't be." Taehyung mumbled the last part but Jimin heard him, alright.

"Oohh. Why's that?" Almost in an instant, Jimin threw his phone aside as he crawled closer to Taehyung earning a weird look from the latter at his actions.

"And I should tell you, because?" Taehyung backed away slowly not trusting Jimin's intentions at all. But Jimin only gave him deadpan look at the ridiculous question.

"For fuck's sake Tae. The whole world already knows. Just spill the beans, will ya?" And Jimin was all over Taehyung now as he soon held him in a head lock tightening his grip until Taehyung gave up.

"Okay okay. Let me breathe, first." Taehyung tapped Jimin's arm repeatedly as he tried to breathe. Once Jimin let him go, Taehyung glared at him as he took in a few deep breaths.

"Tell me tell me tell me~" Jimin was acting like a kid at carnival, now.

"*sigh* What do you want to know?" Taehyung pinched his nose bridge. Even though it was a really stupid conversation but at least Jimin was talking to him, now and not staring at his phone like before.

Jimin bounced even closer to him as he hyped.
"Okay, 1) Why are you hanging out with Sungjae so much? And 2) What did you mean by 'he can't be'?"

Taehyung took in a deep breath as he tried to not get annoyed at Jimin's investigation about Sungjae.
"He's a really cool guy. That's why. Oh and I bet you did not know this but Sungjae owns this resort."

"Do you actually think I'll believe that?" Jimin said flatly.

"I'm not making it up. Look, he gave me his card. See for yourself." Taehyung handed him the visiting card Sungjae had given him the previous day.

"Tae, he could coincidentally have the same name as the owner. That doesn't make him the owner." Taehyung's eyes widened at Jimin's speculation.

"He really does own it. Do you have any idea how much of an expensive breakfast- I mean brunch, he got me yesterday? I can't name even five of those things that were on the table. And he paid for it. In front of me. He's really rich, Chim." Taehyung defended Sungjae as strongly as he could but Jimin's poker face remained.

"Are you saying that a bartender, a bar-freaking-tender, has enough money from that job to own this entire huge ass resort? Is that what you are saying, Tae?"

But before Taehyung could answer him Jimin suddenly flared up.
"And what the hell do you mean by 'he got you brunch', huh? Who did Kookie had breakfast with, then?"

Taehyung looked away at the sudden mention of Jungkook but let it slide smoothly as he answered.
"Sungjae. He had breakfast with Sungjae. And I'm really not lying, Chim. He is a bartender here because he likes that job not because he needs it. That's what he told me." Taehyung slyly changed the topic and removed Jungkook from the conversation hyping about Sungjae even more.

"Look Tae. I get that he got you a fancy brunch and acted to pay for it but that doesn't mean-" Jimin held himself back from bursting as he spoke but got cut off.

"Are you nuts? Do you even hear yourself? You just don't want to admit that you are jealous that I'm friends with a really cool and rich guy here and you are not. Isn't that right?" And that was the only thing missing.

"Tae, did you ever consider that he might have been using all those cards to hit on you?" Jimin said out each word slowly to let it all sink in for Taehyung to understand it and also because he was trying to keep his anger out of the conversation.

"He didn't hit on me." Taehyung flat out denied it without a second thought and Jimin took in a deep breath to calm himself down.

"And how are you so sure?" Jimin challenged.

"Because he didn't do anything that people usually do when they are trying to hit on someone." Jimin scoffed at Taehyung and ignored the annoyed glare the other gave him.

"Pray tell what do people usually do?" Taehyung felt his ego slowly making its way up.

"They drop cheesy lines here and there." Taehyung replied confidently.

"Did he do that?" Taehyung thought back to his time with Sungjae and his smug expression faltered a bit.

"He did. BUT only once or twice. And that was a joke too. So it doesn't count." Jimin raised his eye brows so high that they could have been misunderstood as completely missing but Taehyung didn't care. Despite his mind overflowing with things he wanted to shout out, Jimin didn't comment on it and asked for further philosophical thoughts of his dumb friend.

"What else do people do?" The sarcasm was high but Taehyung ignored it as he thought he had proven his point in the previous question and Jimin was only trying to edge him.

"They act all touchy feely and become more clingy than usual." Jimin controlled his growing frustration as he recalled the scene him and Hoseok had seen earlier today.

"And did our great Sungjae do that?" Taehyung thought about it and his smugness dropped even further but he held on tightly to his 'personality logic'.

"Yeah but that's just probably how he is with everyone. Not just me." Taehyung said that quickly because once he voiced his thoughts they didn't seem convincing to even himself.

And that was the last straw for Jimin since he was looking like he had been mummified, now.
"Taehyung." His voice came out as extremely dead making Taehyung glance at him but when he did, Taehyung decided to stick by his stupid logic because now it was a matter of his ego.

"Do you want to die?" Jimin's voice lowered to a harsh whisper and held a cold that sent chills down Taehyung's spine but he pretended to be unfazed by it as he acted like he didn't hear Jimin.

"What?"

"Do. You. Want. To. Die?" Taehyung gulped at Jimin's sudden change. It was as if he was possessed all of a sudden. But ego was much more important. So, Taehyung gave him a 'wtf' look instead of shivering.

"What? No. What do even mean by-"

"HE WAS PRACTICALLY THROWING HIMSELF AT YOU, TAE AND YOU ARE SAYING IT WAS HIS PERSONALITY? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?" Jimin was on his feet as he screamed in Taehyung's face who was now, cowering a little bit. Only a little bit.

"That's not what I meant." Taehyung sounded shocked but he knew deep in his heart that Jimin was right. But he still ignored that small voice telling him that yesterday and he was ignoring it right now, as well.

"THEN WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN? YOU CAN'T BE THAT DUMB FOR REAL UNLESS YOU HIT YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU WERE A KID. BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY LOGIC THAT I CAN ACCEPT, RIGHT NOW." Jimin's arms flew around as he paced the room while screaming all along.

"Will you stop yelling now?" Taehyung asked when Jimin stopped and the latter looked at him like Taehyung had committed a sin by asking that. Jimin stopped himself, nevertheless, before he spoke up again and tried to calm himself down, first.

"I know you know what I'm saying is right, Tae. You just won't admit it." Jimin breathed out looking away from Taehyung for a while. He missed the look of embarrassment on Taehyung's face as he said that and before he turned back, Taehyung had his poker face back on.

"Whatever. It doesn't matter. He's just a friend." Taehyung mumbled but loud enough for Jimin to hear it.

"Why not? He might be asking you out soon. Won't it matter even then?" Jimin whipped his head at the casual statement of Taehyung in disbelief as he asked but Taehyung only looked away from him.

"No. Not even then." Jimin's anger was dimmed out by now and when he saw the sad look on Taehyung's face, it disappeared completely. He could tell that whatever it was that Taehyung was hinting at was hurting him but he didn't want to say it out loud in front of Jimin.

"And why is that?" Jimin came back to his spot next to Taehyung on bed and tried to get Taehyung to look at him but the latter didn't.

"It just won't." Taehyung was getting irritated, again. Jimin was sure now that something went down between him Jungkook but it didn't seem like the right time to ask Taehyung about it so he let it drop with a long sigh.

Jimin took back his phone from where he dropped it and texted Hoseok while Taehyung sat silently. They were back to square one, again.
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