친구 (friends) | vmin

Del 1 - "Jimin's different."

2013 - Jimin

I glance over at Taehyung. He's staring right into thin air shaking like never before. I put my hand on his arm and he looks up at me.

"How can you be so calm?" he asks confused.

"I'm not calm," I say. "I want to throw up."

He laughs and a smile spreads on my face.

"Whatever happens," I say. "I don't regret joining this group with you, Tae."

"Me neither," Taehyung says and grabs my hand.

With our hands tied together the spotlights turn on and we run out on stage with the rest of the members.

We perform "No More Dream" just like we practiced. All the nervousness I've felt the whole day disappears and I feel myself emerging with the music and the energy around me. When the music dies out and we stand in our final poses everyone cheers for us. A few seconds later we can't contain our excitement anymore. Hoseok lifts up Yoongi and spins around with him and Seokjin puts his arms around Namjoon and Jungkook who both have tears in their eyes. But I turn toward Taehyung and throw my arms around him.

"We did it, Tae!" I yell while we jump around.

"I know, Jimin-ah!" he yells happily.

At last, the seven of us line up and grab each other's hands, Jungkook on my right and Taehyung on my left, and we all bow.

"I want to do this forever," I say and look over at Taehyung.

"Me too," he says. "What if this is the start of something big, Jimin-ah?"

"Whatever it is..." I say and squeeze his hand. "We're in this together now."

"Together?"

"Together."

I think deep down our seventeen-year-old selves didn't believe that it'd be anything more than that. But who could blame us? We could've never prepared for what was coming next.

Now - Taehyung

I look out over the stage of the Melon Music Awards from backstage, according to Namjoon it's almost 16.000 people here. It's not the first time we're here but for some reason, I always get extra nervous when we're about to perform here, it's like I get back the feelings I had 2016 when we won our first Daesang.

"Taehyung," Seokjin says as he walks up to me. "C'mon now, we've got to do the last sound check."

He puts his arm around me and we walk down from the stage to the backstage area. I see Soobin and Yeonjun from TXT and I give them both a little wave. They blink a few times at me before composing themselves and wave back.

At last, we reach the soundcheck area where Jungkook is doing some push-ups with Jimin next to him trying to keep up with his pace. A few feet away Hoseok is practicing some dance moves with Yoongi. As we enter the area Jimin jumps to his feet and I give him a little smile. Then Namjoon walks up from behind us and we all gather around.

"Okay, so we're performing ON, Boy with Luv and Dionysus, so let's go through the chorus for those."

"We are?" I ask.

"Yeah, that's the setlist we decided on," Namjoon says sounding a little unsure.

"No, it's right, apparently someone..." Yoongi says and glances at me. "Didn't read through the setlist as I asked him to last night."

I glance at Jungkook who doesn't seem bothered by the accusation. How he found the energy to read through the setlist after our Overwatch game last night I don't get but I guess he isn't the Golden Maknae for nothing.