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"You don't think other couples in love are just gonna take over the beach?" Jungkook muses as they start to make their way back to the shore, keeping his eyes peeled and examining every group they pass with interest, trying to determine which are the couples and which are simply groups of friends making a brief getaway. Some are more obvious about their affections than others, Jungkook thinks, and it makes him wonder how many people have completely seen through the two of them already. It's not every day that a boy lifts another and spins them around above the water.

They don't exactly look related, either.

"I'd be down for coming back to watch the sun set. Maybe even staying after that... seeing if I can change your mind about how willing you are to get, mm, affectionate? Out in the open," Jungkook remarks with a grin. The reality's probably a lot less romantic than what he's picturing.

Doesn't stop him from wanting to try, anyway.

Yoongi rolls his eyes. The idea of it is very romantic and all, but sand is almost as insidious as glitter. He has a feeling that, if he agrees, he'll regret doing so.

On the other hand, the idea of messing around out in the open is more appealing than he cares to admit, and he never likes to say no to Jungkook as long as the request is remotely reasonable.

"We'll see," he says, and he knows he's just going to give in, but he doesn't have to make it easy. Maybe they should get a blanket from somewhere. "And so what if they do? Other couples in love will be too tangled up in each other to care about us."

"Oh yeah, I don't think they'll give a shit about us, but — will they be quiet?" Jungkook snickers, can't help himself even if it's childish to do so, imagining how mortified they'd be if there was a couple getting audibly hot and heavy on the beach. Would others dare? It seems like it would put them at risk for being reprimanded by any staff or police nearby.

But Jungkook's also seen just how many liberties straight couples are able to get away with. The double standard is pretty unfair, really.

"Maybe that'd be better for us in a way, though. More cover." Jungkook bites at his lower lip, already taking a mental catalog of all the things he'd like to bring to the beach with them. Probably most importantly of all, a spare blanket from their room.

Given what they're talking about doing, Yoongi figures it's probably unfair of him to judge anyone else for doing the same, but that isn't actually stopping him.

"Isn't the real question whether or not you can be quiet?" he teases. Jungkook is perfectly capable of keeping it down when necessary, but Yoongi likes all the noises he makes. Still, that's part of the appeal of being in public, the need to be careful, the risk of getting caught. They could get in a lot of trouble if they're not cautious, but that hasn't stopped him from doing things in the past. Why would it stop him now?

"Oh wow. Wow. Challenge issued, gauntlet thrown — Min Yoongi, questioning whether or not I, Jeon Jungkook, am capable of being quiet during intimacy. Wow. Okay," Jungkook says, feigning offense as he kicks up one of his feet, splashing water over Yoongi's calves. Both of them know perfectly well how capable Jungkook is of keeping silent, particularly when Yoongi is in a more domineering mood — there's little that Jungkook enjoys more than taking Yoongi's direction.

Doubly so if there's a challenge that rests in the balance.

"Well, that decides it for us, right? We're coming back here tonight. To watch the sunset, and then for some pregaming before we get back to the hotel room." Jungkook reaches around to give Yoongi's butt a sharp pat for emphasis.

Yoongi laughs, stepping sideways and still failing to get out of the way fast enough. "I brought this on myself," he admits. "Alright, fine, we'll come back." The sand can't be that bad if they put down a blanket or something first, right? There aren't a lot of places he can see being particularly private, but once night falls, they might be okay.

"I have no idea where you think we can get away with this, though," he says, nodding to the shore as they start to emerge from the water. But then, isn't that just another challenge? They're both a little too stubborn not to figure out how to overcome a challenge.

Jungkook purses his lips, glancing down the length of the beach. His initial thought was to stay near the end of the beach, where few people were likely to roam by choice, but there are some businesses that appear to have set up shop on either side, and with the waterfront view, Jungkook's guessing that most of them aren't corporate in nature. Much more likely that they're hostels or restaurants, where customers are likely to linger even into the night.

But there are a few middling sections of beach that are slightly obscured by plant life, or otherwise interrupted by rocks and boulders.

"I figured we could, like, put a blanket over ourselves, and if anyone gets close enough then it looks, y'know," Jungkook muses, "not that scandalous. Otherwise, maybe around the bushes? Isn't that a thing in The Sims?"

Yoongi almost chokes on a surprised laugh, his hand gripping Jungkook's a little tighter. "The Sims?" he echoes. "I really hope that's not your point of comparison for our love life." Then again, compared to a computer game, he's probably doing really well in that department.

"I was thinking about lying on top of a blanket," he adds, "because of the sand, but... that could work." He's not entirely sure it would be enough to disguise exactly what they're doing underneath, but at least they'll be covered up. They can't get them for indecent exposure when nothing's exposed.

"What, like porn's any better?" Jungkook asks, shaking his head at the thought. However instructive porn was when he was first learning about his own sexuality, Jungkook finds that he's not always comfortable watching real, live people engage in such activity — not when he doesn't have any idea whether or not they want to be there, whether or not they have any true attachment to their partners. Watching characters in a game is much easier.

(Not that he played The Sims for that reason.)

"Ah, on top of the blanket would make sense... or we could take some towels for that? I don't know. How mortified would you be if someone came across us and it was all — out there?"

"Yah, very," Yoongi says, cheeks heating at the very idea of it. Just because there's a certain appeal to the idea of being caught doesn't mean he actually wants anyone to catch them. It wouldn't be worth the trouble or the embarrassment when they could much more easily, safely, and cleanly have sex in their hotel room.

"Towels would work, I think," he says, shaking his head at Jungkook. "Something to lie on and something to cover us." That they're even discussing the logistics of this is bizarre. Still, now he's committed to it, and he'd be lying if he said it wasn't kind of exciting. "And let's at least try to avoid being seen."

"What, you don't like the idea of being found even a little?" Jungkook teases, though he knows that he would also be pretty traumatized if they were. This wouldn't be as innocuous as being found by one of their friends — Jungkook's no stranger to how vitriolic people can be over matters of sexuality, and he can't imagine that Busan's any friendlier to the queer community than Seoul is.

Maybe only around the most tourist-heavy areas.

"Towels and a blanket, then. And yes, finding someplace with at least a little bit of cover. Though I guess we could always say that we're going skinny-dipping if things get desperate," Jungkook snickers, making his way back to where their shoes still lie, lined up next to one another under an umbrella. "What should we do to pass the time before then?"

"Maybe a little," Yoongi admits, nonchalant, though even saying that much makes him blush, which is, as far as he's concerned, pretty dumb. At this point, they've been sleeping together for so long that being embarrassed by sexual confessions seems pointless. But there's a difference between empty bathrooms and classrooms and being actually out in public, and if he has a slight exhibitionist streak, it's not something he's really thought much about.

"I don't know what to do now, though. Isn't the aquarium nearby?" It's a little too soon to suggest food and they have quite a bit of time to kill now. They might as well do a little sightseeing.

"I knew it," Jungkook snickers, leaning in to bump his nose against Yoongi's flushed cheek, wishing he could kiss it — but there are too many people milling nearby now for them to get away with it without drawing notice. Maybe later. Maybe in another alley, or once they've returned to their hotel. But it's easy enough to keep his voice pitched low, murmurs only meant for their ears as he leans by Yoongi's ear. "I always did think you liked our bathroom trysts a lot."

Jungkook straightens, grinning to himself as he considers the aquarium. For all his love of the zoo, he's never thought as much about going somewhere devoted only to marine wildlife, but in Busan, it makes sense. "The aquarium sounds good," he agrees, pulling out his phone to get directions. "I wonder if they have big sharks here."

"I'm sure they do," Yoongi says, lips twisting into a smirk, though his cheeks are still flushed. "What, you don't enjoy those trysts?" He's not sure if they hold the same particular thrill for Jungkook that they hold for him, but he knows they both like it, scattered chances to be together. There's an excitement in the hurry of it, knowing they have only limited time before they have to go back to class or risk getting in trouble.

Out here, though, surrounded by too many people for them to do anything, there's a different kind of thrill in the quiet longing between them, Yoongi's desire to kiss Jungkook properly making him wish for somewhere quiet and hidden. But that's part of the fun, having to wait, letting the tension build.

He slips on his shoes once they reach the spot where they left them and holds out his hand for Jungkook again.

"Oh, I do," Jungkook says lightly, wagging his head slightly. "You don't want to know how many times I've asked myself what else I can do in those five minutes." Sometimes, Jungkook thinks that they'd be all too obvious to anyone who might come across them in the bathroom, the way their slippers squeak against the floor, the way Jungkook sometimes pushes Yoongi up against the stall wall. Thankfully, the walls of the stall run fairly low, the odds of anyone ducking to check being pretty low.

Low enough that the risk lends their visits a reasonable amount of allure.

Jungkook takes Yoongi's hand without pause, giving it a squeeze and tracing over Yoongi's knuckle with his index finger. He's always loved how easily their hands fit together — even with Yoongi being a couple of inches shorter, their hands are comparable in size. Yoongi's knuckles and joints are a little more pronounced than Jungkook's own, and it's always felt particularly masculine to Jungkook, matching the low timbre of his voice.

"Aquarium's this way," he grins, tilting his head in the direction of the path they came from.

Yoongi snorts, casting a sidelong glance at Jungkook as he heads in the indicated direction. "If you think I haven't imagined what else you could do," he says, letting it trail off. They'll probably never have enough time to do any of the things they've thought of, but that doesn't make the fantasy of it any less appealing. If anything, it sends him thinking back to Jungkook's comment about public restrooms here. At school, the actual risk that comes from people knowing who they are is a little too much to allow him ever to give in to his imagination. That doesn't have to be the case here.

But then, they're coming back to the beach tonight, so maybe that'll have to wait for another time, another trip maybe.

"Alright," he says, in lieu of continuing, "let's see if they have sharks."

Jungkook can't help the way his gaze rakes over Yoongi at the admission, wondering whether or not he should take a few more liberties the next time they're together in a stall. The trouble isn't so much whether or not they can keep quiet as much as it is about the limited time, and both of them not wanting to head back to their respective classrooms with visible evidence of having been so aroused. (Not that, Jungkook thinks, he's always escaped walking back to his classroom with a little tenting. Even kisses can be heady.)

But Yoongi pushes the topic forward, and Jungkook decides that letting their imaginations roam freely doesn't hurt for the time being.

"Do you have anything that you'd really like to see at the aquarium? Considering it was your idea." Jungkook grins. "Or is this basically zoo, part two, where Jungkook dictates what animals are worth seeing?"

"Would that be such a bad thing?" Yoongi asks, grinning. "I like hearing you talk about the animals." Nothing will ever beat the penguins, but that doesn't mean it isn't still adorable when Jungkook gets excited about animals. About anything, really — his enthusiasm is surprisingly contagious, considering that Yoongi rarely gets visibly excited about much of anything when it isn't just them and maybe their friends.

Still, he's not about to fob off the whole thing onto Jungkook. "Ah, I wonder if they have sting rays," he adds after a moment. "Sometimes they let you touch them."

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"I'm not the biggest expert on marine life... I'll just have to read from the displays and pretend like I knew things all along," Jungkook suggests, taking some time to quietly muse on what little he knows about sea life. He knows that whales and dolphins are actually mammals, not fish. That dolphins are supposedly more mean and mischievous than they look. But that's about it — he can't think of anything that's particularly noteworthy, nothing that stood out to him as much as stories about penguins did.

But maybe they'll discover something fun together while wandering the halls of the aquarium.

"Ah, sting rays?" he asks, perking up at Yoongi's suggestion. "The really flat ones with the long tails? I always wondered how they actually sting stuff, like — it's probably with the tails, right? Let's hope they don't sting us if we pet them."

"Yeah, those ones," Yoongi says, pleased both with having come up with something and with how pleased Jungkook seems in turn. "I think they take the stinger away before they let people touch them, but yeah, it's their tails, I think." He huffs out a laugh and shrugs. "I don't know that much about marine life either. We'll learn about it, I guess."

He has vague memories of going to an aquarium when he was younger, but if he learned anything particularly interesting, he's forgotten it. He just remembers it being a cool, dark space with lots of fascinating creatures. There might be a crowd, since it's a weekend, but even if that's true, he'll just keep a tight hold on Jungkook's hand. No one really notices them in a crowd and the mass of people tends to be easier for him to handle if Jungkook is with him.

"They take the stinger away?" Jungkook asks, surprised by the thought. He blinks to himself a couple of times, tilting his head. It's a little harder to imagine when he doesn't know exactly how attached the stinger is to the body, or how deeply embedded it is in the tail. From the sting rays he's seen in pictures and tanks before, Jungkook has to imagine that the zoo doesn't do anything too mutilating. "I hope it's not painful for them, like when you declaw a cat or something. Did you know that the claws are actually attached to bones? So that if you declaw them, it's actually removing the bone and it makes a lot of trouble for those cats."

He puffs out his cheeks. "I hope taking the stinger away isn't something like that. I'd rather risk getting stung, in that case," he admits, before smiling off to the side and squeezing Yoongi's hand. "But it'll be fun to learn about that stuff either way. I really like learning things with you."

"Poor cats," Yoongi says. "I didn't know that." It seems unnecessarily cruel to remove a creature's bone. He can understand Jungkook's perspective on the stingers; he'd rather risk getting scratched than hurt a helpless cat. He's more of a dog person, and he wonders if it's the same for them, but it just doesn't seem fair to cats.

"I guess we'll find out. If they have them, we can ask." It's cute, how much Jungkook likes new things, learning and exploring. Yoongi's much more introverted, more likely to self-isolate. Jungkook is good for him in that way, he thinks, pulling him out of his shell and into the world. On his own, he doubts he'd ask any questions of staff, no matter how curious he was, but he wants to learn things, to find answers for Jungkook.

Jungkook stares out into midair for a few seconds, piecing together what bits he can picture about sting rays, and what else seems to follow with logic. It seems unlikely that the entirety of the tail is a stinger, in part because he's pretty sure he's seen sting ray tails whip around flexibly before, which can't make for a great sting. He's guessing that the flexible nature of the tail also probably helps with the swimming thing. So at the very least, a sting ray with its stinger removed should still be able to swim freely. Also, Jungkook's pretty sure that lots of stingers on other animals break off to make sure the venom fully sinks into the enemy — like bees and stuff.

So maybe a sting ray's stinger breaks off pretty cleanly and without major injury to the animal. That seems pretty ideal.

By the time he reaches his conclusion, Jungkook blinks, realizing that he isn't sure exactly how much time has passed since he zoned out. He glances sheepishly in Yoongi's direction.

"Sorry. Was thinking about stingers."

It’s all Yoongi can do not to back Jungkook up against the nearest wall and kiss him. He’s so utterly ridiculous, but so earnest in it that it’s utterly charming as well. But they’re still in pubic, too many people around to take such risks. He settles instead for reaching out to wrap his arms around Jungkook’s neck, laughing. “You’re so fucking weird sometimes,” he says. He loves it, though. It’s cute to watch the way Jungkook gets lost in his own thoughts. Sometimes he wonders what exactly goes on in there.

“Did you come to any conclusion about them?”

Jungkook lets himself get dragged a little to the side under the weight of Yoongi's arms, pursing his lips only in a brief pout. Maybe being called fucking weird isn't the biggest compliment out there, but the way Yoongi's smile shines now, Jungkook finds himself unable to regret the mental tangent in its entirety, the little musings that he's probably picked up after spending so much time around Namjoon.

There's just a whole lot of world to ponder, Jungkook figures. He may not be patient enough to learn all the facts, all the time, but the bits and pieces he picks up give his life more color.

"I think they probably break off. Wouldn't that make sense?" Jungkook asks with a small raise of his brow. "Stingers are supposed to have some kind of venom in them, right? And like, what if the first stick doesn't work? I bet most stingers have some kind of way to break off so that they get stuck in the enemy's body and do more damage. Make it easier to run away. Wouldn't that make sense? And then it'd be less terrible if the aquarium broke off some of the stingers."

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