"chim!" taehyung squealed loudly as soon as the bell rung, jumping out of his seat and leaping into the arms of the particular short figure stood outside the door of the classroom. the slightly shorter male giggled at his best friend's behavior and instinctively wrapped his own arms around the other, returning the embrace and ignoring all the judgmental looks thrown at them.

"taetae!" taehyung's longtime close friend from childhood, park jimin, exclaimed after pulling away from the hug, ruffling the taller's locks affectionately. "how was class, tae?"

jungkook was still taking his sweet time getting up from his desk and packing away his belongings when he caught the two males happily conversing in the doorway and rolled his eyes. slinging his bag over his shoulder, he approached them with the most deadpan expression he could muster.

creeping up to the lavender-haired lad, who still hasn't noticed jungkook walking towards him, he leaned in exceptionally close to the back of his ear, whispering a soft, "taehyung." he allowed the name to roll off his tongue while successfully catching the attention of a startled taehyung and his unamused friend, the latter narrowing his eyes skeptically at jungkook.

"j-jungkook?" taehyung spun around quicker than the speed of light, back colliding with jimin's chest as he tripped over his own foot clumsily. thankfully, jimin immediately stabilizes and prevents taehyung from falling further.

right after taehyung soon regained his balance, jimin's eyebrows shot up. "you're jeon jungkook? the new student? the kid who skipped two grades in a row to get here?" he asked, finally realizing who the ravenette was.

"that's correct," jungkook answered proudly. "and you are?" he questioned in a rather mocking tone, staring down at the shorter yet older boy with flaming orange hair.

however, jimin smirked at this and proceeded to throw an arm around the shoulders of a still-oblivious taehyung. "allow me to introduce myself then. i am park jimin, kim taehyung's best friend since diaper days and might i add, the only person he trusts and will probably ever trust."

"jiminie!" taehyung hit his friend playfully, cheeks starting to flush a deep red that jungkook found to beautifully suit him.

jungkook hummed after a short moment. "anyways—assuming you'd want to know —well, i'm taehyung seatmate and partner. it's nice to meet you, park jimin. i hope we get along well," he declares, smiling smugly. any ordinary person who saw this would think that it was just a fairly normal introduction exchange. but as jungkook finishes talking, he reaches out and gently pulls taehyung towards him, surprising both of the older students.

"well, park jimin," the youngest continues, eyes mischievously glinting at the mentioned male. "i may or may not have asked taehyung out for lunch," pausing, he glances down to notice the absolutely astounded purple-haired beauty in his hold. "so if you'll excuse us now," he says, not waiting for a reply before running off with taehyung's hand in his.

as they're running down the hallway in the opposite direction of the cafeteria, they both hear a loud cry of, "he didn't call me hyung!" from none other than jimin, resonating through the corridor. when taehyung hears this, instead of stopping in his tracks and scolding jungkook, he breaks out into a laugh whilst his fingers curled tighter around jungkook's larger hand. 

and right at that instance, jungkook knows that he wants nothing more than to hear taehyung's laugh again.