the new kid

.17.

namjoon arrives at the school's lacrosse field, seeing taemin releasing his steam by shooting the ball into the goal as hard as he can. the reason namjoon knew where to go was only because he's been best friends with taemin since they were in diapers. they've always had that best friend connection, kind of like him and jungkook.

he walks onto the field, his hands in his pockets of his sweatpants. he stops behind taemin, watching the boy take all of his anger out. "taemin." he says, trying to get the boy to stop. but he keeps shooting the ball, getting more aggressive as he continues to shoot. "tae." he says, again trying to receive his friends attention.

"lee taemin, turn around." he says strictly, the boy still not turning around. namjoon decides to go up to the boy. he grabs the boys stick as he cocks his back before shooting, ripping it out of his hands. taemin turns around and namjoon throws it to the side. "taemin, don't go get it." he tells the boy who just gives him a glare.

taemin tries to throw a punch at namjoon, namjoon ducking in time and tackling the boy to the ground. taemin tries to fight the boy off of him, namjoon's grip too strong. "get off me! let me go!" taemin attempts to fight back, a stream of tears running down his face.

namjoon just holds the boy, waiting for him to stop resisting. taemin finally breaks down after minutes of yelling and screaming. he relaxes in namjoon's touch and sobs. namjoon shushes the boy, keeping him close in his arms. "you're okay, i'm here." he reassures the boy.

taemin shakes his head. "i-i, he l-left. j-j-jimin probably hate-hates me right n-now." the boy croaks out, sobbing uncontrollably. namjoon shakes his head. "he doesn't. he was worried sick about you." namjoon tells the boy.

after about 10 minutes, the boys tears slow down and his breathing gets back to normal. "can i sleep at your place?" taemin asks, namjoon nodding. "text jimin and tell him your okay. he probably thinks your dead in a ditch somewhere." namjoon jokes with his friend who smiles sadly at him.

•••

friday morning has arrived, jungkook and taehyung tired from the previous nights events. from hoseok's collision, to jimin and taemin's fight, it was a lot to take in all in one night. the boys are walking to lunch while talking, both clearly tired.

"tonight can we just hang out?" taehyung asks, throwing his head up whining. jungkook chuckles and nods. "sure, but i have somewhere to take you tonight." he tells the boy. taehyung looks at him confused. "where?" he asks. "now that's a secret i'll never tell." he says while walking into the cafeteria and to the lunch table.

the boys sit down in their usual spots, noticing the still very obvious tension between jimin and taemin. the boys are still sitting together, but there is soace between them and of course hoseok is gone, so the table is just dead. seokjin suddenly speaks up.

"okay, i've had enough of this. you two need to make up and stop being stubborn. yoongi, hoseok is okay and he's not dying. anything else i need to cover?" he says irritated. the table shakes their heads, taken back by seokjin's fatherly tone. seokjin smiles and nods his head once. "good." he says.

taehyung looks at his brother confused. "why is nobody making sense today?" he asks, not particularly to anyone specific. the table giggles at the boys statement. jimin looks at his boyfriend and hugs him abruptly, taking the other boy by surprise but hugging back.

"i'm sorry for not listening to you more. i'll work on that, but only if you promise to tell me when serious stuff like this happens, okay?" he asks his partner. taemin smiles at the smaller boy. "i promise, i'm sorry for being so inconsiderate." he apologizes. jimin smiles. "i love you." he says.

taemin smiles wider. "i love you, too." he says, kissing the boys head and cuddling him. seokjin watched the couple interact. "well now that that's out of the way, what's going on tonight? any plans?" he asks the table. yoongi shakes his head. "i'm gonna go help hoseok out of the hospital while his family is there." he tells everyone.

"you're handling this well, yoongs. not everyone can handle so much stress when stuff like that happens." jungkook says. yoongi smiles at the younger. "thanks, kook." he thanks the boy. taehyung chose to move the topic to something less sappy.

"so. what're you two doing for the date tonight?" taehyung asks, raising his eyebrows and putting his head on his hand. namjoon's face flushes, seokjin's doing the same. "well, that's a question for him. he planned it." seokjin says, embarrassing namjoon even more.

the table ooh's while bombarding him with questions, seokjin finding it amusing. "geez guys, settle down! i'll text you all afterwards and tell you what i did!" he says, laughing at his friends. jimin whined. "but i wanna know what you planned!" he says.

namjoon rolls his eyes playfully and smiles, his dimple showing off like it always does. areum leans over to her best friend's brother. "you should tell him. he's not gonna stop asking until you do, it's jimin." she says. namjoon looks at her and shakes his head.

taehyung leans to whisper to jungkook. "can i get a hint of where we're going tonight?" he asks. jungkook shakes his head. "you'll find out." he tells the boy who pouts. taehyung begins to think and leans back over to jungkook. "can you at least tell me what he planned for jin?" he questions, jungkook laughing at the boy's question.

"i'll text it to you." he says, taking his phone out and going to taehyung's contact. taehyung notices his contact name. 'tae🥰' he points at the boys phone. "that's cute." he comments as if it's nothing. jungkook freezes for a moment before going back to texting namjoon's plan.

'you have no idea what's in store, taehyung.'