Jeongguk had once gone to a firework shop with his father to buy a few for someone's wedding.
He was too young to remember the wedding, but he did remember watching the firework show and he remembered wondering what it would feel like to watch them up close.
By standing right in front of the rockets that burst up in the sky.
Maybe by having them behind his own eyelids so that he could see them burst into the darkness every time he closed his eyes.
He didn't have to wonder anymore.
Not after Taehyung pressed his lips to his own, leading the kiss as messily as an inexperienced teenager could. Jeongguk being just as inexperienced, tried his very best to respond.
It was messy and sloppy, lips slipping without the right amount of force, but it was full of adrenaline and excitement that made fireworks burst in the background. And in its own way, it was perfect for the two of them.
When they pulled away from each other, Jeongguk redder than he was before the kiss and Taehyung red with pride for what he had done, it was like everything fell in place for them. They didn't care if the earth suddenly revolved the other way around. Or if the moon decided to take a random leave. It would still be perfect for them.
"How was that?" Taehyung asked, smirking proudly. Jeongguk whined and moved away from Taehyung. Not that there was much space on that slab, to begin with, but a boy could try.
"Come on, don't get shyer now!!" Taehyung chuckled and tried to pull Jeongguk closer, but Jeongguk remained adamant about staying away from him. "It was fab," he mumbled in tiny instead.
"What was that?" Taehyung grinned, bending forward to get his face in front of Jeongguk's face. "I couldn't hear you," he teased, earning another whine from the boy, who turned more on the slab, facing totally away from him.
Taehyung guffawed at that. He was not going to leave Jeongguk alone. Not after the kiss. "Come on, how was it!!" he asked with a chuckle, still trying to get his face in front of Jeongguk's.
Out of the blue, Jeongguk shot up from the slab, slapped Taehyung on his chest, squeaked an 'I loved it!!' and sprinted back into the house. It took a couple of seconds for Taehyung to understand what just happened, but when he did, he burst out laughing, almost falling off the slab in the process.
He got up and broke into a jog to catch up with Jeongguk, who tried his best to avoid Taehyung. Taehyung took pity on the boy and let him be. He didn't want the guy to be too overwhelmed, after all.
Yoongi and Jeongyeon stayed back after all the guests left. They knew something was up and they needed tea. His absence along with Taehyung earlier and his bright red face when he returned back told them the tea was going to be interesting.
Jeongguk could hardly form words when he finally settled in his bedroom along with Yoongi, Jeongyeon and Seokjin to spill his tea.
"I-...he...he just...I mean, he...oh god," he covered his face with his hands and plummeted into the pillow out of embarrassment, squealing 'oww!! He kissed me!!' when Jeongyeon gave him a sharp spank.
"AnD iT wAs So gOoD!!"
Seokjin rolled his eyes, but his grin said otherwise. He was truly happy for his cousin. He had seen the poor boy pine after Taehyung for two long years, after all. "Of course it was," he chuckled.
"So you are boyfriends now?" Yoongi asked and just like that, all attitude left Jeongguk, leaving him poker-faced and confused. "I don't know. He kept asking me how the kiss was, and then I just ran off. He did say he wanted to give it a chance, though," he said, carefully avoiding a particular girl's eyes that he was sure was glaring at him by now. He knew Jeongyeon always got beyond frustrated whenever he let his shyness take over his legs.
"Give me your phone," she growled. He threw a hesitant glance at her, not liking her tone. "Why? What are you gonna do?" he asked, albeit fearfully. "Don't ask questions. Gimme your phone," she said and Jeongguk handed his phone over without even thinking about it. He wasn't keen on another Jeongyeonian lecture.
All three humans of the 'man' and 'boy' categories watched warily as Jeongyeon opened the phone and typed something furiously.
Jeongguk had a feeling he knew what she was doing, and he had a very strong urge to yank the phone out of her hands, but as he said, he wasn't keen on another Jeongyeonian lecture. It was night already and he didn't want to have nightmares when he slept. He only wanted dreams of his kiss with Taehyung.
Jeongyeon finished typing pretty quick and put the phone down, slapping Jeongguk's hand away when he tried to reach for it. Yoongi chuckled at it, but let it be. He knew how violent she could get to get her way.
They spent another couple of minutes interrogating Jeongguk when his phone buzzed. Before he could even reach for it, Jeongyeon was already opening the message, throwing her head back in a loud burst of laughter a couple of seconds later. She laughed so hard that she even fell off the bed that all of them were sitting on, but it still didn't stop her from wheezing.
It had the rest of them frowning. They had thought she had texted Taehyung about Jeongguk's relationship status. But her reaction now had them backtracking. It somehow didn't fit the situation, but they knew better than to take the phone from her to see what was killing her.
It took her three solid minutes to calm down and get back up on the bed, her face bright red from all the laughter that had squeezed out of her. Even her eyes leaked a few tears from the corners from how hard she laughed.
Purposely excluding Jeongguk, she showed Jeongguk's phone screen to Yoongi and Seokjin, who had similar reactions, making Jeongyeon burst into laughter again.
This time, Jeongguk had enough and yanked his phone out of her hand, feeling anxious about what she could have done with it.
It didn't take him long to find out, though, but instead of making him burst out in laughter like his best friends and cousin, it had him plummeting into his pillow once again, whining loud in utter embarrassment.
It seemed like Taehyung had no plan in letting it go his entire life.
Jeongguk
Hey sunbae
So...
What are we now?
Taehyung sunbae 💘💕💖💝💞💓😍😘💋
First of all, call me hyung, not sunbae.
Second - we like each other + we kissed = we are boyfriends.
LHS equals RHS 😏😏
