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"And then I told him that I didn't know how to speak English well and he said that he didn't know Korean either. I bought him a drink and we even took a selfie. And now he has it in his restaurant for everyone to see. He's such a nice man" Jin finished his story.

"You never met him again?" Jeongguk asked.

"Nah" Jin said, taking another mouthful of rice.

The four men were gathered around the kitchen table eating the food Jin and Jeongguk made. Though Jeongguk contributed very little to making the meal.

"I could say that he was charmed by my good looks. He remembered me when I went there for the second time. I would've totally smashed if he weren't that old" Jin said, making Jeongguk chuckle. The other two men listening made little to no reaction to Jin's narcissus remarks.

The food was more than just tasty. It was obvious that Jin was really good at cooking. And also was eager to do so.

Jeongguk was about to munch on a carrot when Taehyung's phone rang. He answered it with a faint 'hello'

"Say what?" Taehyung sounded panicked.

"What happened to him...I'm going to kill that fucker....Yeah...I'll come now...Jin hyung and Namjoon hyung are here too. I'll bring them with me. What...What's Min Yoongi doing there?"

Jeongguk's head snapped up at the mention of his best friend's name.

Taehyung put his phone on the table.

"Jimin's been injured. I'm going to the hospital" Taehyung hurriedly disposed his plate to the dishwasher.

"What happened to him?" Namjoon asked. "We'll come too"

"I'll tell you on the way then" Taehyung said.

"What about Yoongi?" Jeongguk asked in a small voice.

"He's there too" Jeongguk's eyes widened. What was Yoongi doing with Jimin?

"I'll come too" Jeongguk said.

Taehyung paused with rushing around. "No, baby, you should stay"

"No, I'm coming. Yoongi is there too. Why can't I go?"

Taehyung sighed. "Then hurry up"

-

Accident and emergency, wide entrance with automatic sliding glass doors, ambulances lined up outside, people coming in and out. All around Yoongi felt like a blur as he stared into blank space, lost in thought. Paramedics rushed around and about him, voices rushed but in Yoongi's ears, they were some alien language.

He bit at his fingernail, rather impatiently as he sat on one of the metallic chairs outside the emergency room. They had taken Jimin in around twenty minutes ago and there was still no news. Yoongi was growing impatient by the minute.

He heard the faint sound of a foot tapping against the tiled floor from beside him. Hoseok too, impatiently waited with Yoongi. He remembered how traumatized Hoseok looked the moment Yoongi found him with an unconscious Jimin. Blood run out of his face, and hands bloody form both Jimin's blood and his father's.

Even right now Hoseok looked so pale. It was unusual to see him like this. Because anytime the boy seemed to have a smile etched to his face.

"Hey" Yoongi said, placing his palm on the other boy's knee.

Hoseok woke up from his daze and looked respectively at the hand on his knee and at Yoongi.

"What were you doing at Jimin's apartment?" Yoongi asked.

"Why were you there?" Hoseok snapped.

"I asked you first" Yoongi said.

"Shut up"

"Did you sleep with him?" Yoongi said.

"Yes. Problem?" Hoseok said, looking away.

Yoongi didn't know how to feel. He and Jimin didn't ever go on a date nor did they set up one. They didn't even talk after that day after deciding they should ask their bosses.

"Did you?" Hoseok asked.

"No!" Yoongi said. "I didn't think you would sleep with him though"

"Why? Just because you and I fuck when we feel like it, doesn't mean I can't sleep with other people. Besides don't tell me that you've not been wanting to fuck him too"

"I asked him on a date. He didn't say yes though" Yoongi said.

"You guys are going to date each other?" Hoseok was looking at Yoongi now. "You didn't tell me"

"I'm sorry. But like you said, it's not like the two of us can't sleep with other people" Yoongi said.

"Yeah but..." Hoseok muttered. "I kind of like Jimin too"

Yoongi chuckled. "Me too"

"But I don't want to let you go" Hoseok said in a small voice.

"What?" Yoongi couldn't believe what he was hearing.

Hoseok and Yoongi were maintaining a friends with benefits relationship. It was really benefitting to Yoongi because he was always busy. More than Hoseok. Having someone to call and take care of each other's needs and relieve stress after a stressful day, Hoseok was a luxury to Yoongi.

Yoongi knew that Hoseok always slept with other people. It wasn't a secret nor something that was talked about between them. They only interfered with each other's private lives so much. Yoongi never cared about Hoseok sleeping with other people. It wasn't his place to tell him not to, even though they were friends to some extent.

Hoseok shrugged.

"But you always sleep with other people too. I thought this relationship was just, you know..." Yoongi said.

"Well, it was. But I don't kind of want to see you with anyone else" Hoseok admitted shyly.

Yoongi was trying to process everything that he heard. Did Hoseok like Yoongi?

"Hobi!" A voice called making both men look up.

Taehyung was walking hurriedly towards them. Behind him was Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin and Jeongguk?

"How is he?" Taehyung asked Hoseok, who stood up. The others gathered around him to listen to him.

"He's still inside. They're treating him" Hoseok sounded exhausted.

"Jeongguk? What are you doing here?" Yoongi asked.

Jeongguk took one look at Yoongi and hid behind Taehyung.

What the actual fuck...

Before Yoongi could question any further, the door to the emergency room opened. Two doctors and a nurse stepped out. All the men hurried towards them.

"Doctor, how is he?" Yoongi asked.

"He's fine for now. The wound isn't deep. His skin had split open and he's lost a lot of blood. We stitched up the wound and gave him blood. He'll be fine. He could go home today evening. But he'll need to rest a few days" The doctor said.

All of them sighed in relief.

"You can go see him now" The doctor said and left.

Yoongi and Hoseok went in immediately, followed by Jin and Namjoon.

"I'll stay outside" Jeongguk said.

Taehyung nodded. He flashed a small smile at Jeongguk and stepped in to the room and closed the door behind him.

Jimin was asleep, the nurse attending to him informed the men.

She looked stunned, to be surrounded by multi-millionaires at the same time. But none of the men were focused on her.

Jimin looked so peaceful, asleep. His face showed no signs of discomfort. Yoongi took Jimin's hand and caressed it, earning suspicious looks from the Kim line. But Yoongi ignored them. His baby was fine. That's all that mattered.

-

Jeongguk sat outside the ER and silently but nervously waited for someone to come out of there. He fiddled with his hands and kept looking around the busy bodies around him, running here and there.

After what seemed like eternity, Yoongi stepped out of the ER with Namjoon and Jin. They talked a little from the outside and nodded to each other. The trio made their way over to Jeongguk.

"Jeongguk, I and Jin are going to the police station to check on what's going on with Jimin's father. See you later" Namjoon said and bid goodbye to Jeongguk, who waved back at them.

Yoongi took a seat next to Jeongguk.

"What are you doing here?" Yoongi asked. Jeongguk knew that it was inevitable. Literally everyone knows now. Well, not everyone but still...

"I just came along"

"How could you even- How did you even know....wait....unless...? You were with Taehyung when Hoseok called?"

Jeongguk hung his head low. "Jeongguk? What's going on? Tell me!" Yoongi said, grabbing Jeongguk by his shoulders.

"I'm sorry" Jeongguk whispered. "It happened" He was in tears now.

"Jeongguk look at me" Yoongi said sternly. At least he tried to sound stern but failed to as his voice shook. Jeongguk looked at him with teary eyes.

"Say it" Yoongi said.

"I slept with him"

Silence

Time seemed to have stopped. But the world went on. Voices and noises around them but all Yoongi and Jeongguk heard was a deafening silence.

"Jeonggu-"Yoongi's voice broke.

"I didn't mean to, Hyung. It just happened"

"How the fuck-"Yoongi almost shouted, startling a few people walking by. Yoongi closed his eyes and breathed in and out, trying to calm himself down.

"For how long?" Yoongi said.

"Almost two months" Jeongguk sniffed.

Yoongi let go of Jeongguk's shoulders. He bend over and ran his hands through his hair.

"What the fuck did you get yourself in to, Jeongguk?!" Yoongi said after a few moments of suffocating silence.

"Hyung, no one knows. Well, except Jin, Namjoon and you and maybe Hobi now. So it's fine. No one else should know. We'll keep this a secret. You'll keep this a secret. Right, Hyung?"

"Jeongguk..." Yoongi whispered.

He let out a exasperate sigh. "It's not about whether or not I'll keep this a secret. It's about your future!"

"But it doesn't matter! We just fuck. No feelings!"

Yoongi sighed again. It unnerved Jeongguk. "No feelings? Can you promise me that you don't have feelings for him?"

Jeongguk gulped.

No, Hyung. I'm in love with him.

Jeongguk wanted to cry. And he was. Tear after tear cascaded down his cheeks, wetting the material of Taehyung's turtleneck.

He shook his head no.

"I didn't want to, Hyung" He whispered.

"Oh Jeongguk, what a mess you've put yourself in to" Yoongi whispered. He reached out to the crying boy and wrapped his arms around him. Jeongguk immediately leaned in, burying his head into Yoongi's shoulders. He let his tears run freely as Yoongi's hand comfortingly caressed his back.

"I can't say it's fine, Jeongguk. Because it's not. But hey, we'll figure something out, 'kay?"

Jeongguk nodded against Yoongi's shoulder.

"Does he know? Does he like you back?" Yoongi asked after a while.

"No" Jeongguk whispered.

"Don't let him know, then. Try to stay away from him. Maybe your feelings will go away" Yoongi tried. Though he knew it won't work out that way.

"I'll only miss him more. I can hardly go a single week without him, Hyung" Jeongguk whined.

"Don't mistake lust for love" Yoongi said, now looking at Jeongguk's eyes.

"Don't you think you just want him? Physically? Because he fulfills your physical needs?" Yoongi asked.

Jeongguk thought for a while. He does carve for Taehyung physically. But beside that, the emotional need is there too. He makes Jeongguk so happy.

"I don't' think so, Hyung. I really like him" Jeongguk whispered.

"Gguk, I don't want you to get hurt. I don't know much about him. But he's a fuck boy. He might break your heart"

"I know, Hyung. But it's okay. If he does, I'll be able to move on from him, right?" Jeongguk said.

"Oh Gguk' Yoongi smiled faintly and brushed off a tear from Jeongguk's cheek.

"Both of you are the oldest of your families. Eventually you'd have to marry someone and inherit your companies. Not to mention that your parents had been rivals since ages. I mean...I don't have to tell you, right? ....that you guys don't have a future together?"

"Yes, Hyung, I know that" Jeongguk said. "I'm such a fool for falling for him"

"Don't say that. For now, do what you think is right. I don't know about love either, Gguk, but whatever you do, keep in your mind that what you're doing is temporary. Make yourself ready to move on. Don't float too further away from the ground"

"Thank you hyung" Jeongguk sniffled.

"I just want you to be happy, Gguk" Yoongi said.

Yoongi ended up telling him about Jimin and him. And also about Hoseok. He seemed to be in a mess too.

"I'll ask about what Jimin wants do with this when he wakes up" Yoongi said.

Jeongguk nodded. "Final decision is his"

"Yup" Yoongi smiles.

"The power of bottoms" Jeongguk chuckled.

"What makes you so sure he's a bottom?" Yoongi smirked.

"Wha- isn't he?"

Yoongi shrugged. "He can be whatever he wants". Yoongi winked at Jeongguk. Jeongguk was going to comment on that but Taehyung stepped out of the ER.

"He's awake" He told Yoongi. Yoongi stood up shakily and with one look at Jeongguk, he bolted into Jimin's room.

~*~

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Lobe ya all,Sara💋