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The next day...

Bangtan woke up at 8 am sharp thanks to human alarm clock - Jin. He even cooked a table of pipping hot dishes for breakfast. All the seven members gathered at the dining table and began their eating while chatting routine. 

V: Urghh I wasn't sleeping well yesterday.

Jin: Wae? 

V: Somebody kept going in and out of the room, constantly disturbing my beauty sleep.

Jimin: It's Hoseok hyung, he kept going to the toilet.

J-hope: Me? I just went once. 

V: Hmmm, that's weird.

J-hope: Yah, chim chim, how did you know my whereabouts??

Jimin: I...I... I was also disturbed too, that's why. 

Suga: But it's weird though. Taehyung and Jiminie, can't you both deep sleepers? You don't even know when there's a thunder storm or a tornado outside. 

Jungkook: I- I heard it too, Hoseok hyung was closing the door quite loudly, that's why it woke everybody up. 

J-hope: Oh jinja? 

Morning past in an blink of an eye and the members are back to the dance studio for practice. They were currently preparing for a special stage and thus had to make good use of every second to perfect the dance. 

"Stretching time!!" Hoseok declared, "for five minutes."

Rap Mon began to crack every possible bone in his body, while Suga was there lying down, breathing in comfort as his stretching routine. Jin was copying J-hope's every moves while Jimin was bending his body as twisted as possible. 

"Kookie, let's do it together," Taehyung suggested and pulled Jungkook to a side. 

Being extremely inflexible, Taehyung couldn't even touch his toes when putting his legs out straight. And helper Jungkook had to come to the rescue. He placed his body weight on his hyung, forcing him to stretch further. 

"Hyung, why are you so stiff?"

"I'm born like this okay."

This conversation caught Jimin's attention. Standing at another corner alone, he stared at the duo as jealousy started to overwhelm him. Jungkook was leaning so closely to Taehyung, as if they were hugging. The laughter and more intimate skinships made Jimin felt uncomfortable. At one point of time, he even clenched his fist and bit his lips out of anger. 

"Let's get started" the instruction from their choreographer managed to stop jealous Jimin from running to the duo and give them a good lecture on why they shouldn't do stretching together. 

The first song of the day was "Dope". The swift moves and required facial expression was a piece of cake for them except for the cannot-dance line. Nevertheless, they continued on and on until everybody was perfect. 

Rap Mon's part came, followed by Suga jumping out at the back, doing a special appearance in the middle of his rap. As Jungkook and Taehyung were exchanging places, they clapped their hands, a additional move that was not taught. 

Jimin saw it, not the first time, but still as unhappy as ever. 

He had already perfect the dance till the extent that he doesn't need to look at the mirror to find his position. Thus, while doing the moves, he observed the two maknaes' expression, after that clap. Taehyung was smiling happily, while Jungkook was maintaining a straight face, with his lips curving upwards slightly at the side. 

Jealousy took over Jimin once again. He glared at Taehyung and clenched his teeth. Taehyung noticed that unfriendly stare too, for which he ignored it, convincing himself that that friend of his is just having a bad mood day. 

The dance ended with everybody posing a 'thumbs up' sign. And the second right after, everybody collapsed on the floor. 'Energy level low' warning was all above their heads. Their legs were already wobbly and some don't even have the strength to grab a bottle of water. 

"Take five kids," their choreographer said. 

"Make it ten pleaseeee," J-hope bargained, "wanna go down and buy some drinks."

"Fine," Mr Son gave in, "one coke for me."

"Alright!! Any more orders?" J-hope exclaimed. He was the only energetic member, because to him, that two hours of continuous dancing was just probably warm-up. 

The others shook their heads, probably too tired to even say what they want. While Rap Mon and Jin had went out to get some fruits for the members.

Jimin was leaning against the wall, panting heavily. Without further thinking, he poured that bottle of water in his hands down his hair. He felt refreshing for that one moment, but looked down to see his black shirt looking quite pathetic. 

He turned to his right, finding Jungkook and Taehyung leaning against the mirror, sitting closely together. Although they were not talking, there were smiles on their faces, something is definitely wrong. 

"Urghh my shirt is all wet thanks to my sweat, I'm gonna change," Suga said as he stood up and went to the changing room in the studio. "Jimin ah," he called out.

"Ne?" Jimin sounded out while wiping his sweat.

"Wanna change your shirt?"

"Ani, I'm fine."

Despite being disappointed, Suga nodded his head and went into the room. Slow reaction Jimin sat down on the floor while having this ominous feeling. He recalled what happened few seconds ago and- BANG! that's what went wrong!

'Changing together' has been Suga and Jimin's secret message, hinting to spend some alone time together despite being with the members. Jimin actually forgot this important message and actually rejected his hyung. He must so too occupied staring at the two maknae. 

Still, his eyes unknowingly went back to the duo. Now, with towels in their hands, they were wiping the sweats on their body. Everything was acceptable, until when Taehyung reached out to wipe Jungkook's forehead. What made Jimin even agitated was the fact that Jungkook did not back away, he simply sat there and let his hyung do his thing. Ignoring the fact that Taehyung attempted to smell Jungkook's sweat, he even went down wipe the maknae's neck and his chest.

That's it, that move triggered the bomb inside Jimin and now, he seriously had to do something, out of the blue or not, he doesn't care. Jimin stomped towards the duo and grabbed Jungkook's hand. 

"You need to change your clothes too maknae," he said in the nicest tone possible before dragging Jungkook into another changing room. 

Although the room was filled with the members' clothes, it still had some spaces for them. 

"Wae you hyung?" innocent-looking Kookie asked.

Jimin stared hard at puppy eyes Kookie. All different emotions were taking over him but nothing came out of his mouth. Instead, he pulled Jungkook closer and gave him a tight hug. Being the shorter one, Jimin buried his face in Jungkook's neck and started to inhale steadily. 

That move took Jungkook by surprise but still managed to hug back. "Wae yo hyung?"

"I- I can't take it anymore."

"Huh?"

"Stop- stop flirting with Taehyung."

"Flirting? I'm not, we were just talking about animes."

"Just- don't. I need you Kookie, I need you 24/7."

"Okay hyung, I know."

Jimin broke the hug and looked at the maknae once again. The anger inside him had long disappeared and now, it was passion and affection. That's right, he cupped Kookie's face and pulled him for a kiss. Another sudden move which made Jungkook struggled to get away from that position. 

"Hyung!" he whispered, "what are you doing?"

"Didn't you say you like it when we kiss in secret?"

"Yes, but Yoongi hyung is just next door."

"I- I wasn't thinking that much." Jimin hung his head low.

"Aniyo hyung, I'm not blaming you. In fact, it's kinda fun isn't it?"

"Not when you're talking to Taehyung."

"Aniya, then what do I do when you're with Yoongi hyung? Talk to the air? Or be a emo Kookie?"

"Don't. Just...don't talk so happily with Taehyung, no smiling allowed or I'll get jealous."

"Arraso. But if making you jealous allows me to spend time like this with you, I don't mind!!"

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