prepare yourselves

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chapter fifty-two ;; one night
third person
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"T-Taehyung..." Jeongguk whimpers, making his lower body conflict with the older's. He's not sure what had caused this sudden moment between the two of them, but the younger wasn't complaining one bit.

The latter tried to pull out of Jeongguk's surprisingly tight grasp, staring down at him with dilated eyes. All that Taehyung was met with was the younger's eyelids. Long eyelashes were on display, back arched and lips parted, "Baby," he firmly begins, continuing to pull away, "we still have to go-." They were in their clothes for that night already, fabrics beginning to wrinkle.

"Alright." Jeongguk huffs with a loud whine, falling back into an almost limp position.

Eyes still closed and not truly wanting to deal with anything except for Taehyung, he slowly sits up, eyelids fluttering open and eye contact sharp with the elder. Their lips slowly met together, sharing a sweet kiss before crawling off of the bed. Although, it was more of Taehyung walking while tiny Jeongguk was cradled in his arms. Walking down so many flights of stairs was already tiring for the seventeen year old, causing Taehyung's poor heart to crack just a little more.

"It's your birthday tomorrow." A low voice announces, earning a nod against a toned chest. They were slowly walking down the second flight of stairs, this one much shorter than the first. Taehyung lightly smiles, "Can I give you your birthday present tonight?"

Jeongguk looks up with furrowed eyes, not understanding any of this. He was only met with a soft smile and light kiss to the cheek. Even though he felt like a child, wrapped up in the elder's arms and carefully taken cared of, the look flashing through brown eyes didn't seem childish at all. A tone of seriousness harbored in the back of Taehyung's mind, and that was loud and clear for the latter. That's why a smaller's heart beat had begun to race.

"Y-Yeah." Jeongguk stutters, voice faint and almost distant. His pastel pink socks were slowly touching the ground, starting with a soft graze to his toes before finally being balanced. His arm remained around broad shoulders and gazes remained locked, "What are you planning?"

Dainty fingers begin to run through Taehyung's soft hair. Even with the trip to the hair salon to get green highlights once more, there was no haircut, and it aloud Jeongguk to easily run his fingers through the smooth brown, "You'll see." Taehyung smiles for barely a second before it suddenly falls again, lips suddenly reconnecting with Jeongguk's soft and rosy ones.

The two were like magnets, unimaginably impossible to separate. Sweater covered hands reached up and cupped Taehyung's jawline, pulling him down in order to kiss him easier. The elder's hands rested nicely onto the back of the almost eighteen year old. Pulling apart to only reattach seemed to play out for minutes upon minutes, heads tilting to opposite sides and eyes fluttered shut.

"You're blocking the stairs," A deep voice drones, annoyed with the idea of not being able to go to his bedroom. There was a shorter boy with orange hair next to him, looking clingy, "so if you could please scoot over just two more feet, Jimin and I will gladly be on our way."

The older couple move over, Jeongguk's cheeks going aflame in embarrassment. Jimin's did the same, not exactly wanting people to know about his and Yoongi's sex life.

"Now come on," Taehyung chuckles, dragging Jeongguk out of the front door and to his car, "kinda glad that we're leaving the house now." He comments, earning a slap to the arm, which was only followed by shared laughs.

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Jeongguk's breath hitches in the back of his throat. A familiar parking lot light stood up from the asphalt ground. Newly painted and bright lines of white broke up parking spots, and Taehyung slowly took the younger's hand. The skin contact pulled him out of his shocked and welled up state. A fancy restaurant used to seem so intimidating now looked like a sentimental way to scream 'I love you'.

Taehyung could only stare down at his lover with a loving gaze, smiling at the widened eyes, "You- I-" Jeongguk couldn't even form words.

Upon opening up the fancy and heavy oak doors, Jeongguk and Taehyung had been brought to the past, almost. Dark wood flew through the restaurant and white flowers were scattered in just the right amount and just enough places. Brass, gold, and navy blue menus were placed on each dark oak table with matching tablecloths. Soft lighting illuminated the faces of different age groups and different generations, creating a stunning plethora of something more than just formal.

A kind lady asked Taehyung for the reservation name, and this time he knew exactly how to do it, remembering to announce a first and last name. She smiled at the two of them, noticing their intertwined hands and guiding the young couple to a table in the corner. Dim lighting sent a faded and pale mood that incased Jeongguk in a sweet state of ease.

They both sat without exchanging words, only smiles. Taehyung pulled out Jeongguk's chair for him, just like the first time and Taehyung did his own. The pretty yet aged woman placed down their menus, asking for drinks. Jeongguk decided to get a Cherry-Lemon Sun Drop and the latter, a pure lemonade.

"You're not gonna freak out over the price this time?" Taehyung mocks, remembering the younger's freak out when they first came along.

"Hey, I didn't know you were insanely rich back then." Jeongguk responds, pointing his finger at the elder's face. Taehyung snaps forward to bite his finger, and Jeongguk's pulls back with a playful grimace, "I should have you castrated." He jokes, causing Taehyung to laugh.

They go back to a happy quiet, and Jeongguk's distracted by the faint music in the background and the ice cubes swirling in his red soda. Taehyung decided to stare for the moments, still thinking out everything. There were many blank spots in his mind on what to do. All of this was rather rushed and it all needed to go with the flow. It couldn't come off as too planned and set, but then it couldn't come off as loose and messy. Too many things were rushing through the elder's head, coming over hurdles in his train of thoughts.

He didn't notice the small hand holding around his own. A mixture of tan and extreme pale looking nice against one another, and the sight seemed to look more prettier that way, "What's wrong?" Jeongguk worriedly asks, running his thumb along the back of Taehyung's coarse hand.

"Nothing." He smiles and looks at Jeongguk with newly found animation. Even with clammy hands and a nervous mind, there was no way to hold back the happiness and excitement.

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"How does it feel so be eighteen in only," Taehyung looks at his phone to check the time once again, "nineteen minutes?"

The two were walking along a nice and large pond. Late night ducks swam along the somewhat rippled water with peace. Hand in hand, they both mindlessly strolled along the perimeter. Taehyung had told the other he wanted to stay out till at least midnight. All of this seemed to be a much bigger deal to the already eighteen year old than the one who was actually aging.

"I don't feel any different, really." Jeongguk sadly explains, already becoming tired. The wind slightly picked up and tousled their hair about. Crickets had begun to form duets with lousy frogs, ribbets and cricks heard like a surround sound speaker, "I just- I feel like I should feel something different, y'know? I'm going to be eighteen in only minutes- that's huge! But I still feel the same like always..."

"But that's good," Taehyung explains, "it means you won't become one of those cocky senior assholes." He laughs at himself.

"You were a cocky senior asshole." Jeongguk mumbles and accepts the chaste kiss to his chubby cheek.

Taehyung continues, hesitantly, "...I- I also won't have to adjust to a new you, because I don't want to fall in love with someone that isn't there anymore. I don't...wanna marry someone that isn't there anymore."

Jeongguk's eyes widen and his head whips from the tall tree branches up above to the latter's nervous face, "T-Tae-" but his own words were cut off by his own dainty hand, clamping it around his mouth. Tears were already somehow beginning to form, and he closely watched as his boyfriend got down on one knee. His other hand was firmly pressed onto his chest, feeling a speedy heart and chills running across pale skin. A spinning atmosphere had left only Taehyung in focus at the moment.

A deep and smooth voice crept into his ears, for it was the same voice that he's heard since day one. Kim Taehyung, the football playing lady's man was asking a mere boy to be his, "Jeon Jeongguk," he slowly begins, taking out a black velvet box from his back pocket, "I know that we've been together for only five months, but I can't help but feel like we have something that can last, something that is strong and pure."

"Taehyung." Jeongguk couldn't say anything else, completely taken aback.

Taehyung took ahold of his dainty hands before continuing. The elder's looked straight into the other's eyes, trying not to crack up at the sight held in front. Seeing Jeongguk's teary eyes matched up against a beautiful smile almost had him in tears, "I don't know what it is or what you do, but goddamnit Jeongguk, everything about you has me unbelievably in love. You've turned me into a complete sop, with every flick of those pretty eyes of yours and those deep words that leave your gorgeous mouth at two in the morning. The blush that creeps on your cheeks every time I praise you- the same one you have right now -just makes me want to hold your face in my hands for the rest of time."

"T-T-" Jeongguk couldn't even say anything at this point, practically sobbing.

"I, Kim Taehyung, am completely and wholly in love with this boy named Jeon Jeongguk and everything he does. The only thing I want is to spend the rest of my teenage years and up with him by my side as my husband, as Kim Jeongguk." The velvet box was picked up off of the lush green grass once their hands broke apart. He slowly opened up the box, showcasing a beautiful golden band. Swirls were etched into it, a beautiful sight, even through teary eyes. All Jeongguk could do was stare with adoration and a hand clamped over his mouth once more, "Please say yes to marrying me- er, please say yes to promising so we can get engaged later on," Taehyung laughs lightly and sniffs. It sounds much easier to call this a promise ring, but an engagement ring still feels just as right, "because I don't think you realize how uncomfortable it was to sit on this box all night long." Taehyung smiles, his own salty dew drops beginning to form.

Jeongguk vigorously nods while lightly laughing himself. A wide smile was showing through the tears falling from his eyelashes and to the ground. The cold band is slowly slipped onto the ring finger on his left hand, the only finger connected to your heart. It was always Jeongguk's dream to be married with the one he loves, and that dream always seemed to stay stagnant and unreachable, until tonight.

Those dew drops falling from Jeongguk's happy eyes were now staining the shoulder of Taehyung's fancy sweater. It seeped through the soft fabric, as the tan boy's body heat seeped outwards and onto the smaller's shivering one, "I love you." The younger happily cries into his shoulder. They both stayed like that for the longest time, pushed together and in pure ecstasy.

"I'm engaged." Taehyung whispers to himself, the truth finally settling in, "I-I'm engaged." He repeats breaking away from their tight grasp on one another, "I'm engaged to you." A bright beam for a smile shows, "You're my fiancé- or a promise fiancé? I don't know how promise rings work, just- fuck, you're mine." He continues, completely taken aback by his own actions, "Jeon Jeongguk is my fucking fiancé." Taehyung says, grasping the boy's smal waist before easily lifting him up with a quick spin.

Jeongguk squeals, hitting his shoulders in protest, "Put me down!" The small boy laughs, grasping around Taehyung's neck once he got what he wanted.

"I love you too." Taehyung sweetly whispers, breath casting along Jeongguk's neck, as the said boy twists the band around his little finger, "How does it feel to be eighteen?" He asks afterwards, being met with a joyful gaze.

"Pretty damn good." His lips were swept into a quick kiss, something to somewhat seal the whole night together.

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"I'm engaged motherfuckers!" Taehyung cheers once they enter the large mansion. His animated voice bounces through the easily echoed house, and Jeongguk could only follow by a somewhat tipsy giggle. The newly engaged pair had shared a bottle of champaign together and drank it on the hood of Taehyung's car, watching stars and sharing conversation under the casting moonlight.

Jimin came shooting down the stairs, almost tripping over multiple times, "Let me see the ring!" He squeals, proud of his best friend who was now engaged and seemed to find true happiness for once, "God, it's so pretty." Jimin eye smiles up at the two while grasping Jeongguk's left hand, and Yoongi sleepily trudges down the last flight of stairs, "Yoongi, I want a ring this pretty when we get engaged." The younger jokes, looking over at his boyfriend.

"Can do." Yoongi smiles, rubbing his eyes, "I'm proud of you two, seriously. I never knew my little brother would end up as happy as he is now. I'm just surprised he actually had the balls to ask you." Yoongi had to add the low blow in, and Taehyung protests in response.

"Shut up." Jimin scolds. Yoongi only smirks, "I'm glad to see Jeongguk so happy for once, and I'm so glad that we've all gotten over a bunch of stuff in this span of time, a-and I'm pleased that we've all found what we've always wanted and needed." Jimin lifts his stubby hands to quickly wipe his eyes, "I need to stop blubbering before I really do cry." He laughs.

"We'll leave you two to do whatever you please." Yoongi says, hugging Taehyung, as Jimin hugs Jeongguk and vice versa.

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"I'm yours and you're mine." Jeongguk coos, and Taehyung closes the bedroom door, making sure to lock it.

Taehyung giggles while walking over, quickly crawling on top of the now eighteen year old boy, "We are." He whispers before firmly kissing the younger.

Once again, Taehyung pushes Jeongguk down softly, delicately. They slowly undress and take time to appreciate each other's presence and their higher status together. Their hands don't shake with anxiety and uncertainty like the first time. This is assured love and comfort. Assured affection between two damaged souls bonding together in one of the most intimate ways possible.

Jeongguk's neck is bruised but he takes it with opened arms and soft moans. Love tattoos of spilled purple ink litter pale and tan expanses, heartbeats elevated in long moments of beautiful bliss and serenity. Taehyung tastes like lemonade and lavender, but he breathes like burnt umber. Jeongguk feels like blossoming flower buds against Taehyung's skin and glowing peach sunsets.

It's different. A good different. A growing difference of maturity and understanding. Taehyung seems to gaze into Jeongguk's eyes a little longer and the younger boy seems a little less curled up and clammy. He lets himself go more and absolutely gives himself to the elder boy and can only wish for the same in return. He receives it undoubtedly and can't ask for anything more through whimpers and moans beyond searing pleasure where your eyelids can't seem to open and white's constantly framing your vision.

They're in love.

Both slept peacefully that night, worn out and tired, dirty comforter thrown onto the floor haphazardly. Taehyung spent hours watching Jeongguk's fluttered eyes and his pouty lips while spooning the boy into his body's warmth. Soft snores resonated from the boy's throat and calmly filled the room, as Taehyung ran his hands softly through sweaty raven hair.

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well...be thankful for this book getting 100k cus that smut was hard to write xx

[april 2018] YEET i got rid of that smut cus i wasn't abt to write another 6k smut chapter LOLOLOL

bUT HOLY FUCK 100K THAT'S AMAZING LIKE HOW DID I GO FROM THINKING THAT NO ONE WOULD READ THIS TO HAVING 100K??? WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE ALL OF THIS???