road trip.

[17] styrofoam

"im gonna fucking sue you for—" he yells, kicking jungkook with his 'damn long and lanky' legs.

jungkook focus
"fuck, get off me, you brat." jungkook hisses when he tastes blood on his lip. he pushes taehyung away violently, and the latter lands on his back besides jungkook. before taehyung could throw another punch at jungkook, jungkook hastily climbs to his feet, wobbling slightly on the moving pickup truck.

to his surprise taehyung doesn't jump up and lug another fist or aim another kick at him, instead the older lies on his back, silent and breathing heavily as sudden tears spring into his eyes. when the first tear escapes, taehyung turns on to his side, back facing jungkook, and wraps his arms around his head, shielding his face from jungkook's eyes.

jungkook stands there for a second, watching over taehyung who curls into a ball and starts to cry softly.

feeling bad, (did i hurt him? why should you care? why should you feel bad? he came on to you first – he deserves it. . . but he's crying.) and not knowing what to do, jungkook sits down cross legged, facing away from taehyung, and rakes a hair through his sawdust covered hair.

he hears a sniff, "i-i hate you, jeon."

jungkook looks over his shoulder at taehyung's back which trembles slightly. scoffing, jungkook replies, "glad to know the feeling's mutual."

taehyung focus
five–eight minutes later, taehyung slowly sits up, cheeks streaked with wet tears, eyes red and nose sniffling. he looks at jungkook who sits silently, facing away from him, busy watching the scenery pass by as whoever was driving the pickup truck trundles down the road.

taehyung wipes his tears with the back of his hand and looks away, willing himself not to cry or lob jungkook over the truck and on to the road below.

just as he finishes wiping his tears, taehyung spots something in the corner of his eye — a greasy looking plastic bag sitting besides jungkook's backpack captures his attention; the fried chicken takeaway.

without another thought, taehyung leans over and pulls the first box out of the bag, cranking open the styrofoam lid to reveal cold fries and chicken.

he eats quickly, hunger overwhelming him as he looks over the food he was demolishing. soon enough, he finishes the junk food and with a growl from his insatiable stomach, he eyes the enticing second box with shiny eyes.

it's probably jungkook's.
he takes the second box and immediately starts on the food, fuck him, he's starved me for one whole day — im allowed to eat his food, taehyung thinks as he munches viciously on a couple of fries and shoots daggers at jungkook's back.

"are you eating my food?" a voice cuts through the silence settled between jungkook and taehyung. taehyung looks up and through a mouthful of chicken, grunting out a "yesh."

taehyung waits for the curses, the insults to be spitted at him but jungkook just mutters out a quiet, "enjoy it."

taehyung feels a small amount of . . .guilt? yes, guilt settle into the pit of his stomach but then he remembers jungkook kidnapping him, knocking him unconscious twice, putting him in his car boot, starving him for a day, and  the other things the younger has done and the guilt inside taehyung transforms into loathing immediately.

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after twenty minutes of silence, driving and simply sitting there in a bundle of hay, taehyung speaks up.
"who's driving this truck?"

jungkook doesn't turn around when he answers, "the truck drivers from inside the chicken shop thought you fainted and wanted to help. i said our car was dead so they're giving us a lift to the next town."

taehyung digests the information for a second before replying, "the next town?"

"the driver's taken a different road than the one we're meant to take —we've gone completely off route and because we've ditched the car," jungkook grumbles at this, "we're gonna be extra slow getting to our destination."

taehyung looks down at his lap, thinking about the situation he was in, i don't know if that's a good thing or not; it means i won't be handed over to strangers anytime soon but it also means being stuck with jungkook for a little longer.

he leans back on to the straw and looks up at the beautiful sky above.
sigh.