kiss me now [taekook] ✓

three²: the past

Note: underlined and italicized text is to indicate that text is being read or spoken in english.

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8 YEARS AGO

AUGUST

"Hello? Is it working? Can you hear me?" Jeongguk spoke loud, adjusting his webcam so it fit into his view.

After a second of lag, Taehyung smiled wide and nodded. "Loud and clear, baby."

Jeongguk clapped his hand excitedly. "How's America? Your roommates? Tell me everything!"

"Well it's a lot different from Korea of course, but I got two roommates and one of them, Kyle, is Korean-American! He knows how to speak Korean so he's been helping me improve my English. And the other is Isaac who's sitting over there," Taehyung said with just as much enthusiasm.

He moved his laptop screen over to point at Isaac who was sitting on the bottom bed of the bunk typing away on his own.

"Isaac, this is Jungkook," Taehyung said.

Isaac looked up from his laptop screen. Once he processed what was going on, he smiled and waved. "Your boyfriend?" he asked, and Taehyung nodded in response.

"Hi Jungkook!" Isaac spoke again. Jeongguk smiled and waved back.

"Hello I-Isaac?" Jeongguk replied, doing his best to speak without too much of his accent showing through, which in the end sounded more like a question than greeting.

Isaac cooed at the boy's attempt. Taehyung giggled and turned the camera back to him.

"Your english is so good, Taehyungie!" Jeongguk beamed.

Taehyung bit his lip to hold back the smile. "It was just a few words, I still need to improve a lot."

"You will!! You're Kim Taehyung–"

"Jeongguk's boyfriend, afterall," Taehyung finished the sentence for him, both laughing in the end.

SEPTEMBER

The two had finally been able to videos call each other after what seemed like forever (actually 5 days), catching up on everything and anything. Jeongguk went on and on about one of his "rude" lecturers and Taehyung just listened with his chin propped in his hand, nodding along with a soft smile dancing on his lips the entire time.

"And that's all," Jeongguk concluded.

Taehyung nodded, but then suddenly remembered something he forgot to mention earlier. "Oh! Kyle's interning at this company. Apparently it's a clothing brand that came from Korea and just opened up here."

"Which brand?"

"Lee's."

Jeongguk gasped. "Lee's!?"

Taehyung nodded as he had the same reaction. Taehyung knew them for how successful they were in Korean and Jeongguk knew the company for all its juicy family drama.

"He said that they're really biased and hire mostly Koreans. I might have a chance of getting an internship there as well," Taehyung explained.

"Wow, that's so cool. I hope you do," Jeongguk cheered.

"Jeongguk-ah, come eat," Yoongi disrupted the two as he came into the room. "Oh, hi Taehyung-sshi."

Taehyung greeted the older back and turned his attention to Jeongguk with a frown. "You haven't eaten dinner yet?"