[a week later]
"Woah, you're not crying this time"
Jimin turned his head to see Yoongi at the doorway.
"You're funny" Jimin saying sarcastically while rolling his eyes.
"Thanks" the corners of Yoongis mouth tugged up into a smile and he walked up to the boy's desk, taking a seat by the side of him like usual. Jimin watched him do so, waiting for what Yoongi's next lines.
"I need your help"
"Looks like the tables have turned"
"Shut up its urgent" Yoongi pulled out his maths book from his backpack and placed it in front of Jimin.
Jimin put his phone away and looked at the maths in front of him. There were a few scribbles beside a few of the problem questions where Yoongi had obviously tried to solve it.
He went through each one and helped the older to figure it out. They finished all the questions relatively quickly and when they did Yoongi took back his book before leaning back on the chair.
"Why are you in here anyway?"
The younger sighed. "Same as usual. Trying to stay out the way of the love birds"
Yoongi laughed, showing his gums. Wow, I've never seen that before, Jimin thought. That's kinda cute, what the hell.
"Love birds" Yoongi repeated, still with a chuckle in his voice.
Jimin forced a little laugh and diverted his gaze that seemed to be lingering on Yoongis lips. "It's true though." He said. "They just feed each other all the time, and buy lunch for the two of them, and Jungkooks always clinging to Tae and Tae is always being touchy with him— like did you know Taehyung keeps playing with his hair! Who does that! It's so... so- so strange?" Jimin didn't realise how much he had to say, he kept going. "Like im not even sure if it's cute or not, you know what I mean? And! I only just found out this morning that they went out for a date! A date! At some BBQ place! What happened to inviting me out for food? Not to mention that was, what? 3, 4 days ago. So basically neither of them bothered to tell me, how lovely is that. Taehy—"
"-Jimin"
Jimins mouth automatically shut and to be slightly honest, he was quite thankful that Yoongi stopped him. The younger smiled weakly, looking guilty as though talking about the pairing was bad. And I guess it was, For Jimin at least.
"Sorry" Jimin mumbled and looked down to his hands in his lap.
"S'okay." Yoongi replied. "But forget about them being lovey dovey and come with me."
When Jimin lifted his head he saw Yoongi already getting up from his seat. He was grinning but Jimin couldn't tell what the smile meant. What does he want to show me?
Although his head desperately wanted to question Yoongi, curious to where and what the older was going to show him, Jimin kept his mouth shut for now and followed Yoongi's actions.
Jimin trailed behind Yoongi as he lead him down the halls of their school until they stopped at one of the classrooms. Jimin must have not been looking where he was going as he bumped straight into Yoongi as he stood still. The younger mouthed a sorry before straightening himself up and focusing on the classroom in front of them.
"Why are we here?" Jimin questioned, scrunching up his face after realising the classroom was in fact the schools music room.
"Come on" Yoongi said, completely ignoring his question like he had never even asked it. Jimin watched the boys face as he pushed open the door and urged him to follow too. Yoongi looked so full of excitement and delight and Jimin had no idea what was going on but he definitely knew seeing Yoongi like this gave him a strange burst of happiness himself.
Yoongi then led him through the sea of instruments until they reached right of the back of the room, in the centre, with the most perfect lighting hitting that very spot as though the instrument had its own spotlight, where a sole grand piano stood confidently, shiny and new.
"Isn't it beautiful"
Jimin blinked away from the piano and faced Yoongi who happened to be staring at the instrument as though it was the most precious thing.
Jimin smiled, so he likes pianos, that's cool.
"You could say that I guess" Jimin said. He liked music, no loved music but he couldn't say piano was his go to instrument. His mother always tried to force him into playing the piano when he was young, probably hoping he'd take interest and become a great musician some day. However, Jimin was never that bothered about it and always struggled to remember what keys he needed to press and after a good few years of trying, his mother gave up, allowing Jimin to drop it.
Jimin preferred the voice as his favourite instrument.
"It's new." Yoongi carried on. "They got rid of the last one because it was too old and kept slipping out of tune every five minutes."
"Do you play?" The younger asked. He was intrigued to know if this strange Min Yoongi that every suspected to be some kind of hardcore school thug that spoke to nobody but his friends was actually a secret Mozart junior behind doors.
Yoongi finally pulled his eyes away from the piano and nodded. "A bit. I practise now and then. I mostly come in here because I don't have one at home"
"Show me?"
Yoongi hesitated before he shrugged and said "okay". Jimin made a small 'woo!' Sound before leaning up to the piano so he had the perfect view of Yoongi sat in front of him. Yoongi had entered the spotlight.
I bet he's good.
There was complete silence for a moment while Yoongi aligned his fingers onto the keyboard and breathed out a long deep breathe.
Then he started playing. And Jimin had never expected what his ears were blessed with. His eyes widened and mouth dropped, staring at the boy with astonishment and pure amazement.
Sure, he seemed a little shaky at the start but the notes soon flowed into the most beautiful melody Jimin had ever heard. Yoongi seemed to be able to make art with just his fingers and the keys of a piano. Jimin wondered where Yoongi found such a beautiful song and how many times he had practiced this!
Once the boy stopped ( or Jimin thinks maybe he should call him a pianist, a musician, an artist ) he lifts his head to see Jimins reaction.
All he could do was blink in disbelief. Wait, I didn't imagine that did i?
"It still needs a bit of work, it's not quite finished yet.." Yoongi chuckled lowly, hiding a bit of shyness.
"Oh my god hyung! That was amazing! I never even knew you played the piano let alone play it like–like some genius?!" Jimin began to applaud Yoongi, clapping his hands vigorously.
"I want to listen to it again! It was that good!"
"Well maybe another day" Yoongi scratched his head and moves away from the piano. "But thank you"
"Hyung, you should seriously join the school band or something– no, an orchestra! But you'd probably overpower all the other musicians because you're so good... you know you could probably make a career out of that! I'll be waiting to see you on tv—"
"-yah, Jimin"
"Oh" he giggled "I'm sorry, I got carried away again."
Yoongi rolled his eyes, lips curled into a smile.
Suddenly, the older took a seat on the carpeted floor, leading to a strange look from Jimin. "Out of all the places" he laughed under his breath but still found himself getting down on to the floor and sitting opposite Yoongi.
"So, do you play any instrument?"
Jimin felt extremely untalented against Yoongi now, he wasn't very good at any instruments at all—sure hes tried
Plenty but doesn't mean he can play them. "No.." he shook his head.
"Too bad. We could have played together"
Jimin tilted his head to the side a bit, unsure whether Yoongi was joking. After all, Jimin would have never expected Yoongi to come out with a statement like that. He was tempted to tell him he likes to sing but he was too nervous just incase the boy asked him. What if He was actually the worst singer in the world but he didn't even know it? Jimin didn't want to embarrass himself like that.
Before he could say anything else, the bell rang and the two exchanged the same look. They sighed at the same time and rose to their feet. Time to head back.
As they walked back together side by side, Jimin nudged Yoongi's arm. "How many people know you can play the piano?"
"Hmm" the older thought for no more than a few seconds. "Three—well no, four now, counting you."
Jimin smiled. Wow, I'm one of the very few people who knows about this.
"I feel Honoured!"