Out With A Bang | JiKook

twenty two.

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"Oh, I don't know if we should play this one."

Jimin fiddled with the strings of his guitar as he stood in front of his microphone, eyebrows furrowed as he stared down at the lyrics on the page of the book in front of him.

He currently stood in the basement of the house Taehyung and Namjoon rented together. He could've lived here with them as well, but as much as he loved his bandmates, Taehyung was... to put it lightly, not the best roommate. He was too messy for Jimin's liking, and he used to throw one too many parties for Jimin to be alright with. He wasn't as bad now, but Jimin still didn't want to move out of the place he had made into his home.

They barely lived five minutes away, and their basement was the perfect place to practice, in comparison to Jimin's apartment - surrounded by neighbours on all sides.

"C'mon Jimin, please?" Taehyung whined, picking up the music sheet he had placed in front of him and scanning his eyes across the notes. "This is like, one of the best songs we've put together to date. You really gonna hide it just because of who it's about?"

Jimin shrugged, eyes not leaving the page as he scrutinized every single lyric on the page. He had written this song when him and Jungkook weren't exactly on the best terms, and those feelings definitely shone through the words he wrote.

"It's just like, kind of mean?" He cringed, loosely strumming the melody on his guitar strings nonetheless. "I don't know, I love the melody...Maybe let me change the lyrics?"

"No!" Namjoon complained, twirling one of his drumsticks around the fingers of his left hand. "They're really good! Like, poetry level type shit." Jimin turned around to look at Namjoon, who was at behind his drum set. "Besides, who cares if it's a little harsh, I doubt he'll even clue in to the fact that it's about him."

"Ha!" Jimin laughed, strumming his guitar. "Oh, he'll clue in alright. I didn't exactly make it subtle."

Taehyung groaned, setting the music sheet back onto the floor below him and adjusting the strap of his bass guitar.

"Okay, and so what?" He countered. "He toyed with the heart of a musician, he'd be stupid to think that in the time you guys were apart you weren't shit talking him in your lyric book." Jimin pursed his lips, trying to think of any possible way to convince his bandmates to cut him some slack with this.

"Yeah, but we're good now." He sighed. "Playing a song I wrote when we weren't is kind of a slap in the face." Jimin had written this song literally two days after his and Jungkook's falling out, the wounds were still fresh then and the lyrics were bleeding every emotion he had felt at that time. It was the only way he could really think of to make sense of all of his thoughts, finding it much easier to organize them on paper.

Sure, the words were a little exaggerated, but it was pretty obvious who they were about.

"Not our fault you made some of your best work when you were heartbroken." Namjoon shrugged, producing a quick drumroll with his beat up drumsticks. "This songs so fun to play too, it would be such a waste to save it in your drafts."

Jimin thought for a moment, nervously tapping his fingers against the neck of his guitar. It was really good, he knew it was. The melody was extremely satisfying to pluck on his guitar, and Namjoon and Taehyung's accompaniment brought it together into a catchy, well rounded piece.

Why did it have to be about him?

"Fine." He finally sighed, rolling his eyes when his two bandmates cheered in response. Jimin knew that they wouldn't let up, ever since he had shared what he wrote they had been pretty obsessed with the track. "But we've still got a week! Maybe I'll write a new one to replace it."