accident twelve: O.J.

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Look after you by the fray

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Jungkook had to know.

He couldn't go on like this, flirting with Jimin and making him blush. It was doing weird things to his heart.

It had a major effect on his mental health as well.

The more he got attached to Jimin the more he seemed to zone out during the day. The others didn't fail to notice, specially Jimin and he was worried Jungkook would be distant again.

Jungkook had to know who Jimin liked, or he was going to lose his mind.

He was laying on the couch in the living room, earphones in and his arm slung over his face, in another world entirely when he felt a heavy weight on his torso and someone taking one earbud out of his ear.

"Kookie!" Jungkook removed his arm to look at the culprit, when he was blinded for a few seconds due to the light and Jimin's killer smile.

Jungkook groaned out loud, he still couldn't understand how someone could be this beautiful.

"What? Am I too heavy?" Jimin moved to get off Jungkook, not wanting to bother him and be clingy, but Jungkook held him in place not letting him move.

"You're light as a feather Jimin-ssi." Jungkook unconsciously rubbed at Jimin's hips gently and murmured. "It's just that damned smile." He sighed.

"What about it?" Jimin was curious now, did he have something in his teeth? He ran his tongue over his teeth to make sure.

"Nothing. Don't worry about it." Jungkook waved off, this was pure torture at this point.

"Okay Kookie." He obliviously smiled again.

Jungkook moved up from his laid down position and moved Jimin to sit on his lap instead connecting his arms around Jimin's waist. "Did you come here to tell me something?"

Jimin automatically put his arms around Jungkook's neck before answering. "Nothing specific. I just found you here all alone and wanted to keep you company." He shrugged.

"You're an angel." Jungkook leaned down and gave Jimin a kiss on the cheek, being used to their little kisses by now he did them without thinking.

But they definitely didn't get used to the butterflies in their stomachs.

"Jungkookie." Jimin started, and Jungkook hummed in response. "Is something bothering you?" Jimin frowned.

No! No! Bring the smile back.

"Why do you think that?" Jungkook mirrored the older's expression.

"It's just; you've been zoning out lately, like there's something on your mind. I'm worried about you. You know you can talk to me right?"

Was I that obvious?

"Oh my god hyung! I'm sorry I didn't mean to worry you." He said hurriedly not wanting Jimin to think he was upset with him or anything.

He knew by now how the hyung had a habit of overthinking from their lazy nights spent cuddling together and having their pillow talks, and sometimes Jungkook would feel Jimin tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep when something was bothering him.

Jungkook heaved a deep sigh. "I just- I'm gonna tell you a secret okay?" Jimin nodded, giving Jungkook his full attention, not taking his eyes off the younger's. "I can't get a certain someone out of my head." Jungkook said so quietly, pulling Jimin closer that their foreheads were touching. He was risking everything now and it frightened him. "I keep thinking. Do they like me? Do they like someone else? Do they think of me just how I think of them? And sometimes it gets hard, and it hurts hyung, because I can't control my feelings anymore, and they're right here in my arms, but they're not mine." Jungkook tightened his grip on Jimin to emphasize the fact that he was talking about him, not wanting his indirect confession to be misunderstood.

Jimin was frozen.

He couldn't believe these words were coming out of Jungkook's mouth, the words he kept saying to his best friend when he broke down.

He couldn't say or do anything.

He's talking about me right? Can someone please pinch me?

The only proof that Jimin was still alive was his rapid heartbeat. It was ringing in his ears.

Just when he was about to open his mouth to try and say something. "Jimin! Jungkook! Lunch is ready. C'mon!" Hoseok yelled after creeping up on the two. Giving them the scare of their lives.

Jimin jumped in place, his heartbeat was getting out of control now, Jungkook hugged Jimin close. If it wasn't for Hoseok interrupting their moment he would've laughed at Jimin's frightened face.

"Hyung! Why did you do that! You scared Jiminie!" Jungkook scolded, totally forgetting about the fact that Hoseok was older than him.

"Yah! Who are you yelling at you brat!" Hoseok slapped Jungkook on the back of his head bringing him back to reality.

"Jiminie, are you okay?" Jungkook looked down at Jimin in concern. He couldn't see his face, for Jimin had buried his head in Jungkook's chest, when he actually wanted to disappear from existence entirely.

Jimin nodded, not sure his voice was working.

"Jiminie, are you okay?" Hoseok mocked in a squeaky voice, and quickly left the room dodging the pillow thrown at him by the golden maknae.

"C'mon let's eat lunch." Jungkook stood up with Jimin still in his arms like it was nothing, carrying him to the kitchen table and putting him in an empty seat beside him.

Jimin shivered a little, feeling cold without Jungkook's embrace.

"What's wrong with Jimin-ah?" Taehyung asked looking at his best friend in worry, he noticed how Jimin was red in the face and his eyes were wide like he had seen a ghost.

Jungkook glared at Hoseok. "Nothing. It's just that Hoseok hyung scared us half to death. No big deal." Still glaring at Hoseok Jungkook reached over and rubbed Jimin's back trying to ease him back to reality.

Jin slapped Hoseok on the back of his head. "Why would you do that! Can't you see Jimin is practically a baby?" He scolded, then he looked over at Jungkook who smiled in victory and looked at Jimin, leaning over to whisper something in his ear that made the older blush.

"My baby."

"Leader! I have some news to report."

"Yes soldier Hoseok. You may proceed."

Namjoon and Hoseok had formed their own little army, consisting of only two soldiers, with one mission. As they liked to call it: Operation jikook. O.j for short.

Ever since they sensed something happening between the two they kept discussing their two dongsaengs, analyzing them from a far to share what they saw later in the evening in their little meetings.

Which, one of them was happening now.

In the kitchen.

"This afternoon sir Jungkook and sir Jimin were quite cozy on the couch when I called them for lunch, leader." Hoseok reported, giving a salute at the end.

"Cozy? In what sense soldier Hoseok? And also did you perhaps hear anything they were saying?" Namjoon frowned trying to put on a serious face, only to over do it.

He had to admit that this was fun, sure they were literally talking about two of their band mates possibly being in love with each other which might not end just as fun but he hasn't been this excited about something in a while.

You could say he shipped it.

"Sir Jungkook had sir Jimin on his lap with their foreheads touching, and no leader. I couldn't hear anything. They were whispering." Hoseok whispered the last part to visualise.

Namjoon gasped breaking out of character. "Oh my god that is so cute! Why did you interrupted them you idiot!" He fan-girled right before smacking Hoseok on the back of his head.

"Oh! That's the second time today! What the hell?" Hoseok rubbed his head scrunching his face in pain.

"Do you think they're already together?" Namjoon continued to fangirl, thinking about all the possibilities of the true relationship between the two.

"I don't think so Joon, it's been like a little more than a week since Jungkook stopped locking himself in his room." Hoseok rubbed his non existent beard trying to formulate a theory.

Namjoon put on the same thinking face. "We still don't know if that had to do with Jimin though."

"We still don't know either." Yoongi said lazily strolling through the kitchen doorway. "What's with using the kitchen as a meeting place? Aren't you scared of getting caught?" Yoongi opened the fridge and reached for a beer bottle, taking a big gulp and not paying any mind to the two gapping mouths.

"You're gonna catch some serious flies." Taehyung -who was walking into the kitchen right behind Yoongi- casually noted, motioning for them to close their mouths.

After a whole minute of Hoseok and Namjoon trying to get over the embarrassment of getting caught discussing the love lives of their two band members Namjoon spoke up. "What do you mean you don't know either? Do you discuss this too?!" Namjoon wondered out loud in disbelief, noting how Taehyung gave Yoongi a look as if to ask how much they should reveal.

"Oh yeah, with Jimin." Yoongi said, sounding as though he was discussing the weather, not what was Namjoon's current obsession possibly being real.

Was that how army felt?

"WHAT!" Hoseok and Namjoon practically yelled, waking up the entire street.

"But we stopped doing that when we realised we weren't helping that much, but actually making it worse." Taehyung clarified.

"Wait! I'm so confused. So you're meaning to say Jimin likes Jungkook and he was discussing that with you and you tried to help him but when you couldn't you stopped discussing it?" Hoseok represented that math problem meme at that moment; connecting the dots with his hands in the air, his eyes looking at imaginary numbers in front of him.

"Exactly. So we don't know if they're together yet, but I don't think so. Jimin would tell me for sure if that happened." Taehyung confidently stated.

"And we also don't know if Jungkook acting like that had anything to do with Jimin." Yoongi finished for Taehyung.

Namjoon was quiet now trying to process all of this information. Hoseok just laughed. "So we're not delusional after all, Joon."

"No. You're not." Jin walked into the kitchen scratching his head, tired from the Sherlock marathon he just finished.

This time they were four gapping mouths.

"Plot twist!" Hoseok.

"You know too?!" Namjoon.

"Are Jimin and Jungkook the only two who don't know at this point?!" Taehyung.

"Is this some sort of k-drama?" Yoongi.

"Yah! Stop yelling! You're giving me a headache!" Jin yelled successfully shutting them all up.

He walked to the nearest seat which was beside Namjoon and laid his upper body on the kitchen isle, enjoying the feeling of the cold marble against his cheek.

"I can literally hear you all think shut up." Maybe the main character was rubbing off on him. Namjoon reached over to scratch at Jin's scalp trying to lessen his hyung's headache.

"So we all know these two are in love with each other. What now?" Yoongi asked quietly, actually scared Jin would snap at him.

"We still don't know if Jungkook likes Jimin, or what happened that made him isolate himself in his room like that." Taehyung reminded sassily crossing his arms and looking at Yoongi.

Jin raised his head a little at that, with a guilty look on his face.

"Are you giving me attitude tiger?" Yoongi challenged.

"Okay you two stop flirting. Jin, do you have something to tell us?" Namjoon didn't miss the look on Jin's face, which told him he knew more than he let on.

"I actually know the answer to these two questions."

Jimin spent the whole day recording at the studio, after Jungkook's sort of confession he tried to distract himself as much as he could, trying not to think about it.

Because if he did that he may ruin it for himself with his overthinking.

In the few minutes break he took to rest his vocal cords, he tried to discipline his thoughts.

It doesn't mean anything.

He might really have been talking about someone else.

Not while holding me like that though..

Shut up!

He got up again to resume recording. Disciplining his thoughts certainly did not work.

Overworking it is.

Even when his vocal coach kept telling him it was enough for today he couldn't just go home.

He wanted to exhaust himselt to the point that he would just sleep once his head hit the pillow.

I don't want another night of overthinking I beg of you.

Jungkook too had spent the whole day at the gym.

As much as he was confident in front of Jimin; always the one flirting and making a move, he was actually pretty worried this time.

He felt as if he crossed a line and he couldn't retract his steps now. It was a new territory for his relationship with Jimin.

It had always been innocent flirting, that could be passed off as just that in case someone confronted him, but now he wasn't sure about that anymore.

His confession was indirect, that was for sure, but all that was left for it to not be, was the older's name.

It would be stupid to think Jungkook was talking about one person when he was holding another one in his arms. Jungkook wasn't the type to do that, and Jimin knew his dongsaeng enough to know that.

It was like the pair switched now. Jungkook was the one overthinking while Jimin was preventing himself from doing so.

He went to the gym for a reason and that reason was to collect himself, sort his thoughts and try to be not so awkward around Jimin after his bold move.

Nonetheless, Jungkook was the first to walk through the door, out of the two of them.

He slammed the door unintentionally looking at the clock that read it was a little before midnight.

Jimin is definitely home by now.

He walked into the kitchen to get himself some water, planning on gulping the whole bottle and taking a shower, throwing himself on the bed beside Jimin right after.

"Are we having a party hyungs?" Jungkook raised his eyebrows in surprised upon finding all his band members except Jimin in the kitchen sitting together and forming a circle like football players before a match.

"Oh Jungkook you're back!" Jin exclaimed, trying not to act weird and let the younger know what they were plotting, or the fact that he had just spilled his secret to the rest of the members.

"Yeah I'm so tired just wanna sleep. Oh? Where's Jimin-ssi?" Jungkook was expecting the shorter male to just pop up out of nowhere and give him a hug. It was only this afternoon when they last saw each other but Jungkook had missed him.

"He's still out." Taehyung stated, eyeing Jungkook suspiciously. He had texted Jimin half an hour ago asking about his whereabouts when Jimin told him he was in the studio and was going to come home late, but Jimin had never spent this much time recording by his own choice, so it must have had something to do with Jungkook.

"Okay then I'm gonna take a shower and head to bed." Jungkook waved and left the kitchen heading to his bathroom.

"Which bed Jungkook-ah?!" Hoseok yelled after the younger, teasing him and only getting a laugh in return from Jungkook and a smack on the back of his head by Yoongi. "Oh! C'mon!" He whined.

A few minutes later Jimin walked through the door, throat itching and eyes not fully opened. The members had finished their meeting by then, each one of them had gone to their room to sleep, except for Taehyung that was waiting for Jimin on the living room couch to make sure he got home safely.

"Hey Jimin-ah, are you okay?" Taehyung got up and met Jimin by the door putting his hand on his best friend's shoulder.

Jimin nodded, too tired to speak. He wasn't sure his voice was even working.

"Okay, go to sleep now. Don't stay up you hear me? You look like you need a good night of sleep." Taehyung eyed Jimin, trying to control his worry and curiousity about the reason why Jimin was overworking himself, still with a deep sigh he left to his room, going to his cuddle buddy who was waiting for him in bed.

I'm a cuddly person okay?

Jimin tiredly walked to his room, dumping his things on his bedside table, when Jungkook walked into the room at that same moment. "Jimin-ssi!" Jungkook smiled, walking over to Jimin and engulfing him in a hug, breathing in his fruity scent. "I missed you hyung." Jimin lazily leaned his body weight on Jungkook depending on the younger to steady him, not replying and instead just closed his eyes.

Jungkook pulled away, still keeping his arms around his hyung, afraid he would drop if he didn't.

"Is something wrong Jimin?" Jungkook looked at Jimin in concern, Jimin didn't say anything but just pointed at his own neck. "Vocal cords?" Jimin nodded, glad Jungkook understood without having to explain that much. "I'll make you a hot drink to soothe your throat. Go and wash up." Jungkook patted Jimin on his butt urging him to go to the bathroom.

When Jimin came back, Jungkook was under the covers scrolling through his phone, what had caught Jimin's attention -other than the steaming cup of hot beverage on his bedside table and his things being sorted each item put back in it's place- was Jungkook's lack of clothing. As far as Jimin could see Jungkook wasn't wearing a shirt, but he wasn't sure about what was under the covers though.

"Hyung! Come here you must be tired." Jungkook patted the space on the bed next to him, and Jimin walked over. "You didn't even dry you hair! Give me this towel." When Jimin handed it over, Jungkook moved from under the covers and got in a kneeling position behind Jimin, the older noticing Jungkook's grey sweatpants.

He couldn't decide if that was better or worse.

"You still can't talk hyung?" Jimin nodded. He had already tried to do it in the bathroom not wanting to embarrass himself in front of the younger.

He reached over for the hot cup and took a sip, letting out a satisfied moan at the feeling of the hot beverage going down his dry throat. Once he had drank more than five sips and Jungkook had finished drying his hair he was able to let out a quiet "Thank you Jungkookie." His voice was still hoarse and it hurt a little to speak, so he decided that was all he was going to say that night.

Without spelling Jimin's drink Jungkook moved to rest on the headboard, pulling Jimin by the waist with him and settling him between his legs so Jimin's back was leaning on Jungkook's bare chest.

Jimin leaned back comfortably, sipping his drink and letting out a satisfied sigh, feeling Jungkook arms around his waist and his head on his shoulder, Jungkook's hair tickling Jimin's neck.

Jimin tried not to laugh, because that would hurt his throat even more. But that didn't prevent his face from breaking into that smile, which was Jungkook's enemy by now.

When Jimin was finished with his drink he put it back on the bedside table before both of them slid down from their previous position, now with Jungkook laying on his back, his arms still around Jimin and Jimin laying down entirely on top of the younger using his bare chest as a pillow.

"Get some sleep Jimin-ssi." Jungkook whispered softly, kissing Jimin on the crown of his head, playing with Jimin's semi dry hair, and that was Jimin's cue to drift off to sleep.

His wish was granted, he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Well.. a human pillow.