Author's POV

Days went by but nothing changed much other than the climate.

It was now more chilly and cloudy, the leaves which were once in the colour of dark green, now slowly changed into the warm, bright colours of orangish-red predicting the coming of autumn.

One such change was visible in Kim Taehyung too.

The once, rude, cold and workaholic Kim Taehyung who never showed any signs of human emotions was slowly changing or you can say, becoming more human. While everyone witnessing this were shocked, no one knew what was the cause behind that. It was as if there was something that said male had always longed for, is now finally his, as if a missing portion of his was finally united with him. While some wondered what it was, Taehyung's friend already had their assumptions about it.

"It's Jungkook isn't it? " Jimin questioned walking beside the CEO who was on his way back home.

"Can you stop bugging me and go talk to Yoongi hyung to see if you actually stand a chance with him or not? " Taehyung retorted, irritated by the constant questions of older.

"Hey! Why are you bringing him into this matter " Jimin complained.

Taehyung just ignored him and sat in his car and drove away.

"Rude " Jimin muttered to himself.

The next morning

Taehyung was in a good mood. After weeks of getting tortured by his nightmares, yesterday night he didn't got any.

He entered his office, happily humming a tune.

He sat on his swivel chair, was about switch on his laptop when he got a call.

'Park Jimin '

"Such a boring caller ID " was the comment that Jimin passed when he first saw it.

Taehyung chuckled to that memory and picked up the call.

"Hello " he said

"Damn Tae, next time when I call, kindly use your soft voice and not your normal one. I almost got a jumpscare from your deep voice. " Jimin grumbled.

"What's the matter, why have you called? "

"Well actually I've called to inform you that today Jungkook will not come to office and neither will he come tomorrow nor the day after. "

Taehyung's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"Why? Is everything alright?" he asked, visibly concerned.

"Actually he's not well, he has a high fever and-" Jimin's voice was not audible anymore and soon the call got disconnected.

"Jimin? Jimin?? Answer me!! And what?? Is it something serious??? Is Jungkook alright???? ANSWER ME! " Taehyung was practically screaming at the phone. After a moment he tried to call again. He doesn't know why his heart is racing like that or why is he panicking but he didn't focused on his inner turmoil. All he has to know right now is that how's Jungkook health.

"Fuck! " he cussed when he couldn't contact him since Jimin's phone is switched off.

He sat down on his chair aggressively tapping the armrest while thinking what to do. He opened his phone again, searching through his call list for one particular number.

"Hello? Shua, I need your help. "

"Are you sure it wouldn't be weird for me to suddenly show up at their house? " Taehyung questioned, eyes focused on the road while he drove towards his destination.

"Of course not Taehyung, don't forget that's also your best friend's house and moreover your first priority right now should be to make sure jungkook-sshi is not severely ill. " Joshua replied from the other side of the phone.

"Also you have bought flowers right? " another voice spoke from Joshua's side, it was Jeonghan.

"Yeah I did. If I remember correctly then the shopkeeper said they are called Tulips. They look quite beautiful to be honest. " he replied. He didn't knew much about flowers so he just bought what looked the most beautiful to him.

The tulips were in the beautiful colours of pinkish-purple.

"You bought tulips for Jungkook?? " Joshua asked him, sounding astonished at his choice of flowers. Unlike him, Joshua knew quite a lot about flowers and what they meant. "Yes I did. Why? What does tulips mean? Is it something bad? " I inquired.

"No no no! It's actually pretty befitting for the situation. " he immediately answered. "Okay best of luck, bye. " with that Joshua hung up.

Joshua was behaving weird, there was something definitely wrong with the meaning. Taehyung shrugged it off, focusing on the road.

He reached their apartment, parked his car and pulled up his confidence.

"Taehyung?? " Jimin asked looking baffled by the presence of the said male.

"Is Jungkook home? " Taehyung asked ignoring his overdaramatic expression. "Yes obviously. Where else would he be in such a condition." he replied.

Taehyung immediately turned towards the older. "Is he okay? He's not got something very bad right? " he asked impatiently.

"Calm down, he's only got cough and cold. Nothing serious. " Jimin assured.

"Come, that way, it's his room. Let me take you there so you can see yourself. " he said and led him to a room in the corner. Jimin knocked twice on the door and heard a "You can come hyung, the door's open. "

He then took Taehyung inside. Inside there was a small room with a single bed in the bed the middle, cupboard beside the door and a table and chair on the opposite side of the bed. The rest of the room was filled with basket of dirty clothes and some mattreses lying on the floor. There was a small book shelf from which the books were almost falling. Everything in the room was painted in white from the mattress to walls and even the floor and cupboard. The room was small and messy but it gave comfortable and cozy vibes to Taehyung unlike his own room which only gave loneliness to him.

His eyes went towards the bed where Jungkook sat.

His nose has got a bit red due to cold. A handkerchief lay on his hand which was also white.

"Mr Kim? " his eyes widened in surprise.

Taehyung walked inside and sat on a chair beside the bed.

"Jimin called this morning, saying that you won't be able to come office because you were sick but he didn't clearly told me what had happened so it made me a bit worried, that's why I decided to come and see you myself " he explained giving the tulips to him.

"For you. Hope you get well soon. " he wished and smiled

"Thank you so much and I'm sorry because of hyung's stupidness you have to come all over from your office to here. I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble " he apologized.

"No no. It's completely fine. It was my choice to come here. You don't need to be sorry. " he assured.

"It was my mistake as well. It's been more than a month that I have been working with you but it never crossed my mind to take your number or else I would've called you only. " he added.

"Oh Mr Kim! You should've told me before. Give me your phone, let me save my number so that such inconvenience won't happen again. " he said, holding the tulips in one hand and the other extended towards Taehyung.

Taehyung was a bit surprised at the younger's straightforwardness.

"Huh? " he asked.

"Your phone? " Jungkook asked again.

"Oh yeah! " Taehyung said and immediately handed him his phone.

Jimin was watching all these events as well as the soft red hue on both of their cheeks. He made a mental note to inform their friends in their group chat and tease Taehyung uncontrollably.

"Here! " Jungkook said handing Taehyung his phone back.

Taehyung took it back with a small smile and thanked the other. "I-I'll be get going then " Taehyung mentally smacked himself for stammering in front of Jungkook again.

"This early? Why don't you stay for a bit longer. Let me go and make some coffee for you " Jimin offered.

Taehyung furrowed his eyebrows at him. He was acting weird, he definitely knew that Taehyung don't drink coffee but still offered it to him.

Taehyung was about to remind him that he doesn't like coffee but Jungkook was faster.

"Mr Kim doesn't like coffees " he said which made both the other males in the room look at him in surprise. "Also there's no need for it. I just came to see that Jungkook is alright. I should be going now. Bye and get well soon. " he said to Jungkook with a caring smile.

Jimin offered to accompany him to downstairs.

Once Jungkook made sure he'd heard the front door closing, he looks at the flowers again and let out a squeal.

"Get a hold of yourself! You are squealing like a highschool girl who just got noticed by her crush. " he scolded himself and lightly slapped himself. Once he's gained his composure, he looked at the flowers again and giggled. He can feel his heart beating faster than ever since the moment his boss was here. Not to mention he was so embarrassed and regretted not tidying up his room. "Mr Kim must be thinking how lazy I am to not even clean my room. " he thought. Nevertheless he was beyond happy to have received these flowers from him. "I'm going to cherish each one of you " he said to the flowers.

He didn't knew why was he acting like all lovesick and whipped for Taehyung, he'll find out eventually but for now he wanted to live this moment and feeling to the fullest so he shrugged these thoughts off.

He hugged the flowers tightly and lay back on his bed, closing his eyes and going to sleep with a wide smile plastered on his face.

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That's it for today's chapter, hope you liked.

Also for those who don't know, tulips signifies "declaration of love or perfect love " (I definitely didn't saw it on Pinterest) Also there would be more flowers and their meanings in further chapters especially in the flashbacks one.

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