Stigma Love's Algorithm [ A BTS x Reader Poly ]

Chapter 83: Obedience and Desire 🔥

"Yoongi-hyung looks like he’s trying not to combust, and Joon-hyung looks like he’s ready to break something."

"Maybe they’re mad at each other but not saying it?"

Oppa guessed.

"Like, passive-aggressive tension?"

I frowned, watching them carefully.

“If they were mad, wouldn’t they at least look at each other?”

Jin oppa nodded.

“Good point. Maybe it’s not anger.”

"Maybe one of them said something dumb and the other won’t let it go?"

Taehyung mused.

Jin oppa hummed, considering.

“Or maybe… maybe one of them confessed something, and the other didn’t react the way they wanted.”

"Or maybe," I interjected,

"one of them accidentally walked in on the other naked, and now they’re trying to pretend it never happened."

Tae lets out an exaggerated gasp.

"Oh my God, did that happen?!"

Jin oppa smacked him.

"Use your brain, Cub. If that happened, Joon would be looking at Yoongi way more, not pretending he doesn’t exist."

Tae rubbed his arm.

“Okay, okay. What if it’s the opposite? What if one of them saw the other naked on purpose?”

Oppa wrinkled his nose. “That’s worse.”

Tae threw up his hands.

“I’m just trying to think of things that make people act like this!”

I chewed on my lip, scanning them again.

The tension between them was insane.

Even when they weren’t looking at each other, they were too aware of the other’s presence, too stiff, too strained, as if the air itself was pressing in on them.

"...This isn’t just some random tension,"

I murmured.

"It’s charged."

Jin oppa raised a brow. "Charged how?"

"Like..." I struggled to find the words.

"Like something was about to happen, something big, and then it got cut off."

Taehyung suddenly sat up straight.

"Oh!"

He snapped his fingers.

"I did find them in the kitchen while Yoongi hyung was cooking."

Jin oppa and I turned to him in sync. “And?”

Tae hesitated. “Well…”

He glanced at Namjoon and Yoongi, then back at us, suddenly aware of the weight of our attention.

Jin oppa waved his spoon impatiently.

“Spit it out!”

Tae lowered his voice dramatically.

“I walked in, and…”

He leaned in closer.

“Yoongi-hyung was caged against the counter by Joon-hyung.”