When I'm with you :: TaeJin

Chapter 2: On my path to you

"Say it.... Out loud." Taehyung clenches his jaw and gets closer to Seokjin's as much as the table will allow. "Say it." He whispers.

Seokjin gulps and hides the shiver at the purring in Taehyung's deep voice.

"Vampire."

The air was still between them until an alarm on Seokjin's phone startles them out of their scene. They erupt in giggles and Taehyung shakes his head in disbelief.

"Ahh I can't believe people thought I was a vampire. Must have added to my mystique though, right?" Taehyung smirks and Seokjin almost couldn't look away. Instead, he drinks from the hot chocolate from the rather large mug that sort of covers the blush on his face.

"So, back to what I was saying, I wanted to take you somewhere, but I want to keep it a surprise. Are you free?"

Seokjin wanted to ask if this was like a date, but he knew better. They were just hanging out as friends. Taehyung has even started hanging out with other people from town and the office. He still doesn't smile much around others, but he spends more time talking with them.

Seokjin agrees and Taehyung smiles his beautiful boxy smile. He tells Seokjin that he will pick him up from his place at 9 am. And to bring his swimmers. Seokjin doesn't sleep well that night.

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Taehyung drives past all the popular beaches and heads towards a secluded reserve. Seokjin craned his neck to look up the tall trees and the sunlight peeking through the leafy canopy. They come to stop at a small carpark, still surrounded by bush and trees with only a few other cars parked.

Seokjin follows Taehyung through a path in the trees and after a few minutes the path opens up to a beautiful white, sandy beach with waters so perfectly blue and turquoise.

"My family and I used to come to this beach because it's a bit further away from the crowds during summer." Taehyung says. Seokjin breathes in the sea air and is blown away by the pristine beach.

Seokjin walks to a spot shaded by a tree and puts their belongings on a huge mat. He is excited to go into the water, his initial panic at having to swim with a half-naked Taehyung momentarily out of his mind as the sea sparkles in his eyes.

After finishing putting his sunscreen while his swimming shirt covered the rest of him, he turns around to see if Taehyung was ready. Taehyung was ready, but Seokjin was not.

Taehyung looked hot. Simply said. Seokjin almost drooled and went cross eyed at the sight of the tanned skin stretched over the lean muscles, sculpted biceps leading down to veiny forearms, large hands and long fingers. The skin had a slight sheen of sweat, like someone had rubbed baby oil on him.

Seokjin bit his lip as his eyes halted at a tattoo sitting dangerously low on the front of Taehyung's left hip. The tattoo looked like a small 7. His eyes slowly traced the v-line of the hip bone down-

Seokjin blinked hard and looked down at his feet. He took a deep breath and clenched his fists behind his back and finally brought his gaze straight up to Taehyung's face. His jaw fell. Taehyung hadn't rubbed the sunscreen in enough and was startingly white. Seokjin's face squeezed out a grin before torrents of giggles escaped from him.

Taehyung whined in protest, telling Seokjin to stop laughing and that he just didn't want his face to get burnt. Seokjin was endeared and he went up to Taehyung to rub the rest of the sunscreen in his face. He didn't quite register what he was doing until his finger slipped a little on Taehyung's lips. He froze in place and slowly looked up to meet Taehyung's eyes, which locked intensely with his. Taehyung looked at Seokjin's lips and instinctively Seokjin licked them, feeling further mortified and seduced when Taehyung licked his own lips, slowly.