Perplexing Simplicities

episode⓾

Taehyung rolled over in bed to find Jimin right next to him. Shirtless.

"Oh my god." Taehyung muttered a few curses as he checked that he was still wearing pants.

He was.

This wouldn't have been anything unusual except Tae couldn't remember a lot from the night before. It was fine, he would remember. Everything until right after he talked to Namjoon was pretty clear... When he had been telling them about Jin and what happened and they had been drinking...

He glanced around the room.

Shit.

Curled up on the small window seat was Jungkook. In their home. In the morning. Passed out drunk.

Taehyung nudged Jimin awake. "Jimin. Jimin."

Jimin snorted and turned over, suddenly shooting awake. "W-what!" He looked around, at himself, at Tae, "Did... Did we do something last night...?" Taehyung thought for a minute.

"I don't think so."

Jimin bit his lip, "I didn't... take advantage of you... Did I?"

Taehyung frowned, momentarily forgetting about Kookie and everything with Namjoon. "Why would you think something like that?"

Jimin rubbed his face through his hand. "I'm so sorry Tae, I should have told you... I've kind of been majorly crushing on you lately.... and if I was drunk...?"

Taehyung grinned goofily which threw Jimin off. It was something they did.

One would crush on the other for a while, they would do some stupid things, then one of them, usually Jimin, would have a few flings for a while and they would go back to just being friends. It was just something they did because Jimin didn't want relationships and it took Taehyung a really long time to feel comfortable around people. He already felt comfortable around Jimin, and Jimin around him, so it was just nice that way. They were the poster couple for "friends with benefits".

"Don't worry Jimin, you definitely didn't do anything I didn't want to do, and while I think it's sweet times a million that you like me, we have bigger problems."

Jimin raised an eyebrow but was able to piece enough of his memories together before Tae could respond. His eyes widened and he looked to Taehyung determined. "Reconnaissance?"

Taehyung nodded and pointed to the still unnoticed Jungkook.

"Major reconnaissance."

+ + +

"Yoongi!" Namjoon was pounding on his door for the third time that morning.

Yoongi was finally too awake to ignore it. "What?!" Namjoon jumped at his sudden appearance. Yoongi probably looked like he could weld metal with his eyes right now.

"Uh... Yoongi what happened last night?"

He took a deep breath and met Namjoon's eyes. "I don't know, why don't you tell me?"

Namjoon shrunk under that gaze. It was pure, pain inflicting, bitter, resentment.

"Yoongi I know something happened with you-" Yoongi slammed the door shut and Namjoon's muffled voice just barely carried through, "Why won't you tell me?!"

Yoongi groaned and face planted back into his bed. He felt like crying. He felt pathetic. He felt like utter ~shit~.

For the first time in literally two years, he had actually liked a guy.