counting change | yoonminseok

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"And there's a shark!" Jimin said jumping in place pointing to the animal as he looked at his smiling boyfriends. "It's a real shark!"

The youngest of the three didn't seem to care whether his boyfriends were acknowledging him or not and just kept going from tank to tank seeing the exotic fish. They didn't care though, they were more happy seeing how happy Jimin was instead of taking time to look around the aquarium.

"Do you think he's in little space?"

"No, he might be possibly slipping though." Yoongi said as he kept staring at Jimin. "I don't know what type of little he is but I think he'd be more attached with us. He's just excited right now cause he's never been to an aquarium."

"Well he did almost slip into little space earlier."

"What?" Yoongi replied tearing his attention away from Jimin to stare at his other boyfriend. "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"At what point was I supposed to tell you?" Hoseok said laughing at how suddenly interested Yoongi was with what he had to say. "Jimin would have heard if I told you in the car."

Yoongi simply hummed along as he looked back down at his feet before letting his eyes trail back to Jimin. Both the boys had fallen head over heels for the younger, there was no denying that. 

"What was he like?"

"Hmm nothing out of the ordinary just mispronouncing words like you said." Hoseok said grinning as he brought his hand up to the cheek that Jimin had kissed. He could tell Yoongi was waiting for him to continue talking and he couldn't stop grinning  to see what his reaction would be at his words. "And he kissed me."

"He what?!"

"He kissed me."

"That's unfair!" Yoongi said stomping his foot in response while he scowled at Hoseok. "How come you got to kiss him first, I've known him longer! You had to have bribed him to get him to initiate it-"

"You liars!"

The two boys looked up to see Jimin yelling at two guys who appeared to be sheepishly smiling as they held hands. They rushed over finding that Jimin was pouting as the two tried to appease him.

"Okay so technically we were busy since we had work today! We just ended up skipping last second and going to the aquarium!"

"You could have at least told me."  Jimin responded feeling heartbroken at how his friends had stated they had work all day and couldn't hang out with them. He knew that Taehyung had been worrying over him more than Jungkook and he did feel bad because of that but he wished his friends wouldn't have lied. "You're dating I get that I wouldn't of been offended if you guys went somewhere without me. I just don't like it when people lie."

Taehyung and Jungkook both seemed to look like they were panicking and not knowing what to say to the older. They hadn't thought much when they had told him a simple white lie about how they were busy today but they felt terrible seeing the look on Jimins face. Lying was one of the things that Jimin had always felt uncomfortable about due to his past relationship and with how his only friends had just done it to him was devastating. 

"Baby what's wrong?"

Yoongi came and placed his arm around the shorter who seemed to automatically lean into his touch as he kept his eyes on the ground. The boy would normally be a blushing mess having any contact with one of his new boyfriends but now he didn't even show a reaction.

The two younger boys couldn't help but squirm under Yoongi's glare. Taehyung had recognized the other from the pictures he saw on his profile but Jungkook had no idea who he was. It wasn't until Hoseok came over to stand besides Jimin too that he realized that these two must be who his friend was dating and they had made a terrible first impression. 

"Hi! We're Jimin's neighbors Jungkook and Taehyung-"

"You don't seem like good neighbors if you're making him feel bad."

"It's fwine, Yoonie."Jiminie mumbled as he continued staring at the ground trying to  ignore the tears in his eyes. He had accidentally slipped into little space after feeling how hurt he was by his friends betraying his trust but he couldn't care less. "Kookie and Tae didn't mean to be meanies."

The two neighbors immediately were alerted seeing their friend had slipped into little space and even more in public. They knew how he desperately didn't want Yoongi and Hoseok to know about it but how were they supposed to stop it now? They were the ones who had pushed Jimin to slip and he didn't trust them right now.

"Jiminie you know we would never leave you out on purpose, right?" Taehyung said struggling to figure out what to do in this situation. Yoongi seemed to note how Jimin had slipped and that he prefered to be called Jiminie when he was in little space. "We didn't mean to lie to you."

"We can make it up to you! We'll go home and color all you want! Or we can make you some chocolate cake since you love it so much!"

He quickly shook his head after hearing about the chocolate cake and clung closer to Yoongi. The older would be happy that his boyfriend was being so clingy if it wasn't for the circumstances. 

"Jiminie do you want to go back to my apartment with me and Hoseok?" He questioned to the little who seemed to be choking back on sobs. "We can just take you back to your apartment if you prefer that."

"Wanna go with you guys."

Yoongi ushered Hoseok to come over and Jimin went to cling to his other boyfriend that led him outside the aquarium. Taehyung and Jungkook both stood shocked not knowing what to do. They wouldn't be able to get Jiminie to go with them as he was upset but Jimin would get even more angry at them for not doing anything to stop him becoming a little in front of his boyfriends. 

But wasn't it for the best that his boyfriends could figure out that he was  a little now? They both didn't seem taken back by the fact that Jimin was acting childish, Yoongi had even called him Jiminie. Besides they couldn't do anything to change the fact Jiminie had already left with Hoseok and the intimidating glare Yoongi was giving them wasn't helping.

"Don't act too harsh on him, okay?"

"You're telling me not to act too harsh?" Yoongi said scoffing as he looked at the two in disgust. "You're the two that made him cry! You lied to him? Just to go the aquarium by yourselves? Do you know he's never been to an aquarium before? Do you realize how happy he was until you two ruined his day? This was our first date and you two ruined it because you just lied to him to go on a date of your own!"

"I know, we messed up." Taehyung said his deep voice starting to waver thinking through what Yoongi had said. Jungkook quickly grasped his boyfriends hand trying to calm him down. "Just make sure Jimin doesn't stay sad for too long, okay? And make sure he feels safe when he gets out of little space he tends to only have hazy memories from it and he didn't really want you guys to figure out about it."

"He didn't plan to tell Hoseok or I about it?"

"He's ashamed of it." Jungkook said continuing with what his boyfriend had said. "He's had stuff happen in the past and he hates being a little because of it. So please just make sure not to make him feel too bad, okay?"

Yoongi seemed to nod, not knowing what to say back to the two guys. He looked back seeing the one with the deeper voice appeared to be on the verge of tears and he couldn't help but feel bad for being the cause of it. Jimin was angry of course but it was a white lie that didn't really impact him that much, he was just upset because it had triggered something in him about his last relationship and he already had been having a tough day thinking about how many calories he had the previous day.

"I'm sure Jimin won't be angry at you guys for long." Yoongi said smiling trying to break the tense atmosphere between the three of them. "I've got to go and check on him."

The other two seemed slightly relived at what Yoongi had said and nodded as he walked away leaving them in the aquarium.

I don't really like this chapter but it at least somewhat fits in with the story line