Chapped Lips and Strawberry Balms // Jikook Fic

Job from Nivea

"Ow." Jimin muttered under his breath as he felt his lips splitting. Again. His hand naturally reached out for his smart phone, switching it to camera mode to check the new wound on his lips. Red slowly oozed out from the crack, and Jimin simply licked it, tasting the iron. It tasted terrible, but it happened one too many times that he was used to the taste.

He went back to the book on his lap, words not really sinking in. He had borrowed this book from Namjoon because he didn't felt like switching on the monitor in front of him - it felt kinda like a book day.

But this book - Philosophies and whatnot. It just wasn't Jimin's cup of tea. He prefers... romance; the kind that talks about the sweet fluffy moments between two lovers, the kind that talks about the sad and cruel side of love, the kind that ends with a happy ending. They are a lot easier to read with the flow of events, and also a lot easier to relate. And so he gave up on the book in front of him, closing it shut and tugging it into his bag.

There was still another 6 hours left before they touched down to Korea. How was he going to kill time now?

He turned to his left, Jungkook sleeping in his hoodie, and mask on. Jimin didn't really like to sleep. He thinks that sleep was a waste of time, and if anything, he wished that there wasn't a need to sleep. But now, on the airplane, without anything better to do, guess sleep was a good option. So he turned off the reading lamp and adjust the seat so that it was in sleeping position, and slept.

6 hours really do fly when you are sleeping. Jimin was woken up by the sound of the passengers rustling - a sign that they were about to land. So he propped up his chair into sitting position, still feeling the after effects of premature awakening. Jungkook, on the other hand, was awake and ready to go. He clearly had a nice long sleep throughout the journey.

"Hyung!" Jungkook suddenly called out to Jimin. Jimin turned to look at him, brain not quite registering what was going on.

"I told you to put lip balm! Especially when we are on the plane. It's all chapped now." Jungkook used his lecturing tone, as if playing the Mother hen.

Jimin simply pout at that. How many times has he heard Jungkook telling him to use lip balm. But Jimin just didn't like the feeling of it. He'd rather his lips crack than the feeling of grease on his lips.

Jimin reached out for his smartphone to examine the damage. Pretty bad. You could see the blood clot in between the cracks. He couldn't go out like this; there would be tons of fans and reporters there at the airport waiting for BTS's return back to Korea, and they got to be at least presentable, and blooded lips was not presentable.

"Jungkook-ah, do you have extra masks?"

In the car, on the way back to their dorm, their handphones went off one after another, and even without looking, Jimin could tell that it was one of their group chats. Probably from Bang PD-nim given the timing. But Jimin doesn't bother looking at his phone, and simply just prop his neck back in a comfortable position, waiting for someone else to check it.

Jungkook looked at his phone, checking the message. "Nivea wants us to do advertisement for their new product."

Yoongi, the other member who sat in the same car as the 2, sat up in surprise. "Lip balm?!"

"Oh yeah, what product?" Jimin said without changing his position.

"Their new range of lip balms."

In one of their BTS Bomb videos, Jungkook went viral for putting his lip balm in a funny way. It was one of their usual jokes, but the comment section was bursting with ARMYs that wished for a Nivea and Bangtan collaboration. It seems that Nivea has heard the pleads of the fans, because now they are going to get one, and Jimin wasn't liking a single bit of this.

Yoongi may be surprised, but at least he didn't have chapped lips like Jimin's. Yoongi's lips are pink and soft - the perfect kind for advertisement. Despite his personality, Yoongi suited best to do cosmetics advertisements in the group. His skin is smooth, fair and flawless - and this was without him doing all those complex facial routines that Hoseok does. But if this was a group thing, then Jimin didn't have a choice - he has to do it.

Jimin felt eyes on him, and turned to look to the source, tiling his head up, asking 'what'.

"Looks like Jiminie-hyung has to start looking after his lips." Jungkook said in a teasing tone, one that he always uses when he makes fun of Jimin, one that always makes Jimin laugh, but not this time, this time Jimin squinted his eyes at Jungkook and hit him in the chest, with the back of his hand lightly, before going back to his comfortable position as he tried not to think too much about it.