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There are times, Jungkook thinks, when unexpected changes in plan work out for the best. Giving up on the idea of Busan during winter break wasn't the easiest choice at the time — Jungkook had expected it to be the highlight of their winter, and giving into the pressure of Yeongwook's blackmailing hurt on multiple levels. But distance seemed safest. Planning, biding their time, having Jungkook carefully siphon a portion of his allowance over to Yoongi for safekeeping, every passing day made the trip feel more viable again, until the two of them suddenly realized that Yoongi's birthday would be an easy occasion to leave for, and that was that.

They've picked up memories along the way. The first night Jungkook had Yoongi stay over. The first dinner together with his mother, with her offering countless thanks for helping her youngest with his studies. A trip out to a nameless beach, all seven of them together, huddled and bracing against the last of the winter winds.

Getting to March isn't as difficult as Jungkook expected it to be, and now that they're here, the wait has made everything all the sweeter.

He takes countless pictures with his camera — of their seats together on the train, of the little box meals they buy from the lady with the cart. Of the ramyeon they buy an hour later, when it's clear that the box meals are more packaging than substance.

Of Yoongi, staring out the window of the train car, a soft smile on his face.

At first, Jungkook struggled with the idea of spending much of Yoongi's birthday on the train, but the trip to Busan takes several hours at best, which would have required missing class on Friday. Seeing Yoongi's peaceful expression on the train helps to set a little of that regret to rest, as does the stifled laughter they share as they stumble down the hall to their room in the hotel.

"Hotel Elysee," Jungkook says with a flourish as he waits for Yoongi to swipe their room key. "Is that, like, French?"
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-01-19 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The room swims a little, hazy, as Jungkook moves his ring. It's not even the real thing, not even a ring big enough to fit on his finger all the way, not quite there, and yet β€” his breath hitches and he's not sure he even realized just how much he really does want that. And Yoongi knows, because he spends a lot of time in his own head, that it's probably all tangled up in his own parents' marriage. The way that, no matter how things ended, there were times when they seemed so happy, they'd almost shine. It wasn't a perfect marriage, but it had its moments, and that's what Yoongi's found himself clinging to over the years, like proof that true love and happiness are possible. But mostly it's to do with this, the way Jungkook looks at him, the way Yoongi's heart flutters when he does.

So he leans close and kisses him, hand lifting to Jungkook's cheek, slow and tender and deep. "In my heart," he echoes, agreeing. How any of it will fall into place as they get older, he doesn't know. He doesn't think he expects the government to catch up with them any time soon, and their parents are something altogether more difficult to get around, but all of that matters less when Jungkook says things like that. In their hearts, they're as good as married, and not much else matters. "But we're still gonna do it for real someday."
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-01-20 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Three years seems like a long time to wait, but Yoongi nods anyway. Jungkook will need to turn twenty before they can really carry through and, anyway, they'll want to get settled in university and be able to find somewhere to live. They'll probably need jobs, too, on top of school, because, even here, in this quiet, contented space, he can't hide from the certainty that his father will disown him once he's out.

But that's something for future Yoongi to worry about. Now Yoongi has Jungkook's lips brushing whisper-soft against his skin as he talks, his body warm and sweet against Yoongi's, weaving dreams out of thin air. It feels good to hear Jungkook talk like this. He's never been what Yoongi would call closed off, but it's as if something has come unlatched in him now, left him swinging wide open.

"Well, we'll either have to set a time-limit for Namjoon," he muses, "or tell Seokjin that if he tells more than three terrible jokes, we're kicking him out mid-ceremony. We'll let Hoseok take over."
likedriedflowerpetals: [jungkook] (positive) so fond (take me to the feeling)

[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-01-21 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yoongi laughs, and he is soft, soft, soft, fond from his eyes to his toes, thinking of Jungkook holding his hands and kissing him the way he does, surrounded by their friends, who'll laugh at them and throw sand maybe and jeer, but all of it with so much love.

Jungkook says he didn't think his life was bad, though Yoongi disagrees, would still save him from it if he could. Yoongi knows his own isn't what it should be, that he's grieved too big a loss for his age, for any age, and that his father is no help to him. But they have their friends, this perfect little family, and they have each other, and some days β€” most days, when he's feeling alright, which is a lot lately β€” that feels like enough to call himself lucky anyway.

He leans on his side, gazing down at Jungkook, head propped on one hand as the other traces a line slowly down Jungkook's chest. They should shower, but this moment is too peaceful to disrupt. "That's all I want," he says. "To make you happy. That I get to be any part of that..." He hates ever to mention the way his brain so often betrays them, let alone at a moment like this, but he can't just pretend it away either, shrugging. "Even with the others around, I don't think I've been happy like this in years. Maybe ever."
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-01-22 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yoongi's laugh stills in his throat at the way Jungkook touches him, and he's torn between the instinct to close his eyes and wanting to keep them open to take in the way Jungkook looks at him. Lucky, lucky, lucky, how did two such unlucky kids get to be so fucking blessed? Like some bizarre fated way of tipping the scales back into balance and then some, down, down, down into fortune so good, no one else before knew the meaning of it. And he doesn't know, really, which side he'd be on, if he were outside of this, caught between bearing witness to something this profoundly beautiful and wanting to shield his eyes, whether because of its sanctity or its sappiness. Both. All of it.

"We're disgusting," he agrees, quietly wry, nuzzling into Jungkook's touch. "And yeah. I mean, not to be an asshole, just..." He huffs, cheeks coloring in the soft light, fingertips tracing idly back along Jungkook's skin as he speaks half into Jungkook's palm. "When you look at me... the way you look at me... like you've never seen anything so beautiful." He trusts Jungkook too much not to think there's some truth to what he sees in his expression, that pure, unguarded adoration. Even if Jungkook is (and he is) enormously biased, Yoongi must be a work of fucking art to deserve the kind of gaze leveled at him now. Like, he knows he's relatively attractive, but there's a difference between being reasonably hot and being someone who gets looked at like that.
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-01-23 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
If Yoongi were the kind to cry much, he'd cry now, probably, overcome by the sheer loveliness of being so loved. As it is, he closes his eyes and lets it sweep over him, waves of warmth and gratitude β€” toward whom, he doesn't know. Toward Jungkook, for loving him, mostly. Toward whatever brought them ineffably together. He drapes his arm across Jungkook's waist and tilts his head in search of Jungkook's lips, rolling halfway onto him as they kiss.

Some other time, he might actually ask how and why, but right now, it doesn't matter, all those edges and fears worn down by a day of basking in the feeling of being adored. Instead, he just kisses him, sweet and deep as if that in itself could be enough to convey all the things he feels.

"Never," he says, half-agreement, half-plea. "Not allowed to stop. I'll never love anyone but you."
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-01-28 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It takes a lot of work to convince Yoongi of his internal beauty β€” much more than his external, most days β€” but at times like this, it's easier to feel it's true that there's something in him worth loving. Jungkook wouldn't if there weren't. No matter how soft his heart, he couldn't just invent someone to love and then ignore everything real about Yoongi; some part of those things he loves must be there.

Even if he wanted to protest, any thought of it falls by the wayside with Jungkook's next words. Yoongi's mouth opens for him to speak, but his words tumble over themselves so quickly that, at first, nothing comes out. He just shakes his head. "No," he says, "no." It's not like it bothers him that the others chose that for themselves β€” the arrangement, anyway, not the emotions. If they're happy, he really doesn't give a fuck what that takes, as long as they're all on the same page. But for himself, it's so hard to imagine. He has a lot of love to give, if he's honest with himself, his heart bigger, softer, than he'd like, too easily bruised. But nothing else has felt like this, and he finds he hopes nothing else ever does. He doesn't want another love. He wants this, forever. "I don't think I could. I don't β€” the way I feel about you β€” I don't think I could."
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-01-30 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Even so, Yoongi's heart squeezes tight in his chest with fear at the very thought of it. He's lost too much already. And he knows, some people lose more. Some people, the world takes so much, like Hoseok, without any parents at all, abandoned, alone except for them. He only lost one person, but when she left, part of him did, too. He's never going to be the same without his mother. He can only imagine for a fractured instant how lost, how broken, he'd be if anything happened to Jungkook. He's not sure he could survive another loss like that.

He hates that, hates how fragile he's become since she died. Even if he's decent at hiding it, he breaks more easily than he used to, cries more readily, pulls away too fast, afraid of everything.

Except Jungkook, Jungkook can see it. He knows and he stays.

"It better not," he whispers, gaze lowering briefly, lashes fluttering as he tries to steady himself against the very idea of it. "I need you too much. I don't ever want to be without you. Not ever again."
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-01-31 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yoongi laughs, the creeping edge of melancholy ebbing away again. Jungkook is good for him, he thinks, a balm for his worries, soothing to his heart. He's better off with him, happier than he used to be. Kinder, he thinks, to himself than he once was. He leans close, pressing a kiss to Jungkook's hollowed cheek. "Definitely," he teases. "Very mature." He doubts Jungkook could pass for anything above seventeen, but the idea of it is cute, Jungkook trying to sneak into places he's not allowed just to keep an eye on him. Jealousy is oddly flattering, when it's mostly in jest.

"Please," he adds, wry, brushing a kiss against Jungkook's lips. "Like I have eyes for anyone but you." No matter how hot someone else might be, acknowledging it isn't enough to distract him from what they have. Why would he trade away the surest thing he's ever felt? Fingers brushing through Jungkook's hair, he shifts closer, lifting his chin to press a kiss to Jungkook's forehead. Yeah, other people might be objectively hotter, but it doesn't take a genius to see that Jungkook is only going to get more and more beautiful as he grows older, or that he's ridiculously lovely now. "Doesn't matter how hot these people are."
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-02-01 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe he should have, but the small realization is enough to make Yoongi laugh again, chasing another kiss with laughter still on his lips. "I don't know," he teases, "the fucking's a pretty big deal." And it's not like it's only a joke. It didn't take much time for him to know he wanted to have sex with Jungkook, well before he should have let himself think about it, before it felt anything less than shameful. But actually sleeping with him was something else entirely β€” not just desire, but something built on love and trust, a forging of their souls into one.

He runs his hand down Jungkook's side to the small of his back, tugging him closer, hip to hip. "I mean," he says, a little slower, more serious, if still light, "it's not like it's just sex. When we're together like that..." He brushes his nose against Jungkook's cheek, presses a soft kiss to his lips. "I don't know. It's special. Right." It's just a way to express how deeply in love they've fallen, a way to make each other feel good. Love expresses itself physically in so many ways, from the way his heart races when he sees Jungkook to the way he can't get enough of how he smells. Sex is part of that. "Like I'm a part of you. Gets so I can't tell us apart."
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-02-02 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not the first time Jungkook's said something to that effect, this idea that his world revolves around Yoongi. It's vaguely alarming, if only because Yoongi isn't sure he deserves that level of adoration. Mostly, though, it's flattering. Sweet. Whether he deserves it or not, he likes it. Maybe that makes him a little egotistical but he doesn't really care. Besides, it's not like the feeling isn't mutual.

"Sleep better when I can feel you breathe," he says softly. "Your chest against my back." It's like the slow, steady rhythm of his breath helps to keep Yoongi's heart and racing thoughts in check. "And when we're together β€” when I'm inside you β€”" He lifts a hand to Jungkook's hair, traces his fingertips lower until he can cup his cheek. "It's just... right. Feels like home, being with you." More, by far, than his house has felt in years. As long as he's with Jungkook, he knows he's where he's supposed to be. Other things should matter, he knows that, but not much really does. He brushes his thumb along Jungkook's cheekbone, heart aching fondly at how bright the younger boy's eyes have become, at the soft flush on his cheeks.
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-02-03 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
It hurts a little, if Yoongi's honest with himself, to know that Jungkook has the same problem he does. On nights when they're apart, or back before they were together at all, he could barely sleep for thinking, too much running through his head. It leaves him cracked open, emptied out, his heart aching, stomach twisted, until he can hardly breathe. The thoughts sweep over him so fast, he can't stop them, drowning under their dark weight. All that pain and loss and regret, all that fear that the future only holds more of the same, that he's as worthless as his father seems to think, it's like the only thing that can contain it is the gentle weight of Jungkook's arms around him. And as much as he likes knowing he can provide the same comfort for Jungkook, he hates knowing it's needed. There isn't anything Yoongi wouldn't do to protect Jungkook, even from his own mind.

He kisses Jungkook's cheek, hips shifting instinctively closer at the soft brush of Jungkook's hand. "Yeah," he breathes. He likes being on top; he doesn't know how anyone could ever get enough of fucking Jungkook, though, then again, no one else ever will. (They're young, people break up, he gets that. Not them.) But the idea of Jungkook hovering over him, pressing inside of him, filling him up β€” it gets under his skin, cock twitching with faint interest between them. "Eventually. Really want that."
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[personal profile] likedriedflowerpetals 2020-02-11 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's only the slightest touch, but Yoongi lets out a soft, shaking breath, eyes going dark and liquid as he resists the urge to press back against Jungkook's finger. It's impossible not to wonder, not to want to know how it feels β€” both out of desire and from the longing to share everything, to know how it feels for Jungkook, too. He leans forward instead, steadying a hand against Jungkook's chest as he seeks out a kiss. "Soon," he promises. It seems like a fitting reward for a job well done and, anyway, anticipation, he's found, only makes things sweeter. When the time is right, he knows he'll yield to Jungkook entirely, in a way he hasn't done even now. It's too easy, with how things are for them, to want to be the strong one, to control and, in so doing, to shield. It gives him a sense of purpose he finds difficult to maintain outside of their relationship.

But being with Jungkook is a learning process, not just about the nature of dating someone, but about himself, and he's finding there's strength in vulnerability too. Jungkook's shown him that, with all his sweet trust, his willingness to depend on Yoongi when Yoongi had long since stopped seeing himself as dependable. It makes him want to be that person, the best version of himself.

And in the meanwhile, if he can't stop imagining what Jungkook's going to do to him eventually, well, he can hardly be faulted.

"I want that," he mumbles against Jungkook's lips, hand sliding to his shoulder as he gives in, pressing into Jungkook's touch. "Want you to fill me completely."

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