BROMANCE | VKOOK - Chapter 14: Chapter 14

The next morning Jungkook woke up from a delicious smell coming from the kitchen, it smelled like eggs, bacon and fresh coffee. The boy tiredly stretched his arms, and still kept his eyes shut while nuzzling his head back into the pillows, getting even more comfortable in his warm, comfy bed. Today was a day off school, so he had no reason to wake up early.
It took him quite a while until he realized that someone was pulling the curtains apart to let the sunlight in, it tickled Jungkook's nose a little and made him finally open up his eyes.
His mother stood in the room with the brightest smile ever on her face, leaning against the window, "Good Morning sleepyhead", she chuckled and opened the window a bit to let fresh air in.
Jungkook's eyes firstly glanced over to the other side of his bed, letting out a sigh when he noticed that it was empty. After watching the stars last night, Taehyung had stayed over and they had talked all night. It was far after 3am when they fell asleep, tangled up onto each other with their hearts beating up to their throats, being this close made both boys equally nervous.
"He left again?", Jungkook asked his mother a little disappointed, "Goddamnit. I thought we were getting there", he murmured to himself as he sat up.
But his mother wouldn't stop grinning, "I think you should come downstairs", she said softly and then walked out of the room.
Kook's eyes went wide, she didn't seem pissed or anything-, what if Taehyung was-
Damn.
Jungkook jumped out of his bed faster than he ever did before, grabbed a pair of pants and a T-Shirt and then hurried downstairs, completely forgetting about his hair that still looked horribly after cuddling and rolling around all night.
He walked into the kitchen and his heart almost lost it at the sight he got to see. Taehyung stood there, wearing a huge pullover he had stolen from Jungkook's closet and kept cooking the bacon. "Hi", he said a little awkwardly, giving Jungkook a shy smile.
Mrs Jeon leaned in the door frame and just watched.
"You're still here", Jungkook breathed out relieved, getting heart eyes when he saw Taehyung blushing a little, eyes darting down to his feet. "Your Mom told me to stay for breakfast, so of course I'm still here", he said and Mrs Jeon grinned even brighter.
"He even came downstairs and helped me preparing it", she said, pride overcoming the woman. That was exactly what every man on this earth should have-, respect for his partner's mother and the attitude Taehyung was having; offering help and being kind towards elders.
She would lie if she'd say she didn't absolutely fall for this kid this morning-, of course not romantically but in a sense that he was just right for her son.
"Taehyung's amazing", she ended her sentence and then put the plates down on the table.
"Oh, is he?", Jungkook chuckled and then sat down at the table and waited for the food.
Taehyung finished the bacon and then walked over to the table and stopped in front of Jungkook, standing there awkwardly without an obvious reason to.
"What do you want?", Jungkook asked amused, looking up to Taehyung who seemed to be waiting for something, too shy to speak it out though. The older pouted his lips a little but then quickly turned away and sat down as well, cheeks burning red. "Nothing", he hurried to say and grabbed some egg and bacon to distract himself from the embarrassment that took over him.
Jungkook and his mother exchanged a look and laughed quietly, Taehyung was just too adorable.
"I'm still waiting for my good morning kiss tho", Jungkook then finally said to help Taehyung out of the embarrassing situation. Mrs Jeon sighed out, "Boys! Not at my table!"
"Mom", Jungkook snapped, "Be a cool Mom!"
Taehyung covered his face shyly, fully overwhelmed by just everything. Up until today he had never even met Lia's parents or had breakfast with his own parents in like-, 5 years.
This was new and it was odd, but somehow felt too good to be true.
Before anything else could happen, the door swung open and Mr Jeon entered the apartment, he was humming a song and seemed to be in a pretty good mood after just coming back from his business trip.
Well-, his mood changed when he saw Taehyung sitting at their breakfast table.
"Oh", he let out and eyed the boy for a while, "Taehyung's here."
He put his bags down and walked over, giving his wife a kiss before he looked at the boys with an all serious face. "Did he stay over?", he asked, disappointment clearly audible in his voice.
"Look, Dad-, I can explain", Jungkook squeaked out, "It's not like-"
His father shut him up with a single look, "It's okay, I don't want to hear it."
With that he sat down at the breakfast table and looked at Taehyung for a LONG time.
No one dared to say a word, even his wife didn't expect her husband to return that early in the morning, but he just couldn't bare to have breakfast with his colleagues-, wanting to go back home to eat with his family.
Five minutes passed and still no one had said a word, silence filling up the room. No one took a bite from their food, they all just waited for Mr Jeon's reaction.
After all, he let out a big sigh and massaged his forehead for another five minutes, then grabbed some of the eggs and bacon and gave Taehyung a weak smile, "Well if you're here anyway, how about we take Jungkook out for a little football practice after breakfast? I think he needs a little extra training and you're the captain, so."
Taehyung nodded instantly, "Of course, Sir", he bowed a little and gave Mr Jeon a big smile. The man didn't smile back, he just focused onto eating breakfast.
Jungkook and Mrs Jeon sat there, mouth wide open as their eyes met. They expected a whole other reaction than that.
When all of them finally started eating again, Mr Jeon leaned back and started staring at Taehyung again, the whole time. The poor boy ate his food with red cheeks and his eyes fixed to his plate, way too shy to look up.
"Dad", Jungkook complained, "Stop staring at him! Let him live!"
"I have a gun", Mr Jeon crossed his arms, "I'm just saying."
"DAD", Jungkook squeaked out, ruffled his hair in frustration, "What the heck??"
"I'm just saying", Mr Jeon said sharply. "If I were him, I'd be careful."
Taehyung felt like crying.
"He doesn't have a gun, sweetie", Mrs Jeon assured Taehyung fondly, "Just ignore him, he never had someone joining us at breakfast, it's quite new for all of us."
"I might not have a gun", Mr Jeon inhaled deeply, "And I'm not sure what's going on here, but if it is what I think it is, which I am by the way, NOT okay with, then I surely hope you don't break his heart. 'Cuz I can easily break your neck."
Jungkook and his mother looked at each other again, questioning simply everything right now.
"I won't", Taehyung promised and bowed again, "I can leave your house if-"
"You don't have to", Mr Jeon said, "Are you doing well in school?"
Jungkook facepalmed himself, for fuck's sake his father was so weird and embarrassing right now. Taehyung however shrugged, "Yeah, kinda. I'd say I'm average-"
"You should study harder then", Mr Jeon said strictly. "My son is a straight A student", he stopped talking for a moment and furrowed his brows, "Not so straight apparently but still."
Jungkook's eyes went big. "Dad-"
"I'm not talking to you, Jeongguk", Mr Jeon grumbled towards his son, "I'm disappointed in you and you know that."
Taehyung felt so bad over all this, why couldn't he just leave Jungkook alone. Why did he always had to drag him into his mess. Why couldn't he figure out his feelings on his own without getting Jungkook in trouble with his father.
"How's your relationship with your parents?", Mr Jeon then continued asking sternly.
"They're never really there", Taehyung admitted, looking down because that was always a hard thing to speak out. Everyone had this perfect image of family in their head, having meals with family and going on trips together-, Taehyung never had all that.
Mr Jeon nodded understandingly, "That's tragic. I, personally, care a lot about family. Especially lunch on Sundays is a thing you should keep in mind if you-", he looked at Jungkook for a second and let out a deep sigh, "y'know."
Taehyung nodded, taking notes mentally.
"I don't like this", Mr Jeon reminded the whole table again, "I absolutely do not approve of it", he added. "And I hate the fact that you slept in one bed with my son who is by the way only 16 years old", Mr Jeon bit his tongue so he would not start insulting Taehyung.
"He is my son, I raised that brat for 16 years", Mr Jeon looked at Jungkook, his eyes going a little softer when he saw Jungkook completely confused and ashamed. "And I care more about his happiness then about what I personally think is right. That's all I'm going to say to this."
With that he got up from the table, "I'm going for a walk to clear my head. After that we'll go out and play football with him." The man left the table and slammed the door shut behind him.
"Oh fuck my life", Jungkook breathed out once his father left, "I'm so, so, so incredibly sorry for that, Tae. Really. I didn't think he'd-"
Mrs Jeon tiredly scratched her chin, "I have no idea if he tried to scare Taehyung off or if it's his way of saying that it's okay."
Jungkook grabbed Taehyung's hand tightly, "Was that too much? He can be a lot-, I'm so sorry for what just happened. We're not dating and I know you're not ready and I hate how much pressure he just put onto you."
Taehyung was still quiet, clinging onto Jungkook's hand while he still tried to comprehend everything that just happened. "Your Dad is so cool", that's all the boy let out after a while.
"What", Jungkook blurted out, "He's not cool, oh my god. He's embarrassing as hell and he even scared me with that speech."
"He cares so much about you", Taehyung hummed, "You're so lucky, Koo. All people close to you love you so much"
Jungkook looked at him for a while and once again realized that it wasn't the same for Taehyung. He barely had anyone close to him and most of the people he called his friends were just his friends because he was popular, good-looking and dated a pretty girl.
Not even his own brother had his back.
Taehyung must be so lonely and it was just now that Jungkook finally understood why he had never said a single bad thing about Kook's parents. Because even though they did cringey and annoying things sometimes-, it was all out of love towards her son.
"Yeah", Jungkook smiled a little, "He's not that bad, I guess."
Taehyung smiled back, his heart skipping beats when he could see Jungkook's bunny smile, "I'm just really scared that he'll break my neck if I breathe in the wrong way", he then joked to get rid off the tension surrounding the table. All three of them broke into laughter and Jungkook couldn't feel happier that very moment.
During all of that, they held hands and enjoyed just that simple, small touch.
It was the little things that made the butterflies flutter through their tummies again and again.
About an hour later, Mr Jeon came back and seemed relaxed after he came back downstairs from changing into sports clothes, "Let's see if your old man can still beat an 18 year old", he joked and then patted Taehyung's shoulders before the three left the apartment, Mrs Jeon watching after them, admiration in her eyes.
She had done everything right in life.
She married the right man, and she just realized that when Mr Jeon awkwardly tried to make conversation with Taehyung on their way to the car, Jungkook just walking along.
Taehyung was so cute how he tried to impress Mr Jeon with his successes in football and how many good seasons he already had played as captain, and it was even cuter to see how his own father tried to brag with his scores in football back in the days when he went to college.
They started talking about college then, discussing which university held the best football program and then ended joking about how annoying it was that you had to have good grades in general to get an internship.
"Hello", Jungkook interrupted them after a while, "Can I get attention too? Jesus-"
Mr Jeon and Taehyung turned around and looked at the boy for a while, "I'm mad at you", Mr Jeon explained softly but then ruffled his son's hair.
"Seriously? You're literally talking to Taehyung, how can you be mad at me then if he's the reason why you're-, ugh. Men."
Jungkook let out the biggest sigh.
Taehyung wanted to take Jungkook's hand and give him kisses, but he didn't. First, well because of his father. And secondly, because they just crossed school campus and made their way to the football field where they'd play.
"I'm bad at football", Jungkook complained, "Can't we just go and have ice cream or something-"
"No", Mr Jeon said strictly. "Now both of you run at least three laps to warm up."
Taehyung nodded, "Aye Aye Sir", he grinned and grabbed Jungkook by his hand to make him start running too because the younger was too lazy to move his ass any faster.
Jungkook complained a little but then let Taehyung drag him along.
Mr Jeon watched them for a while and then shook his head in disbelief, how on earth was he not even that mad over all that right now? The old man didn't get it at all, he should feel angry.
But instead it made him smile when he saw Jungkook speeding up, intertwining his fingers with Taehyung's as he let the other motivate him to actually run.
Taehyung had the brightest smile on his face and Mr Jeon had to admit to himself that this guy looked good next to his son.
He let out another grunt and then sat down on a bench and tried to be calm about all this.
They continued warming up with stretching and doing a little workout.
But in the end, Jungkook had no choice but to actually play football with the two of them.
Taehyung was fast and he was strong, always rushing past Jungkook when he tried to grab the ball from him. Well, Mr Jeon wasn't that fast but he always caught the ball without a single miss and always scored goals from a huge distance, making Taehyung cheer out loud.
Kook spent an hour running after the ball but never quite getting it but as long as his Dad and Taehyung had fun, he just kept going along.
He knew that Lyza, Johnny and Mark had planned to go shopping today and honestly, he wished he was there right now. Just going through pretty clothes and try them on, chat with his friends which suited him best.
But well. Instead he had to run after a fucking ball while his father and Taehyung had the time of their life.
Luckily, all suffering has an end sometime.
And so had football for this morning.
Jungkook fell down on the ground, exhausted as he spread his arms and legs wide away from his body and breathed out. He had not caught a single ball but no one really had expected him to do that anyway, so it was fine.
Taehyung sat down next to Jungkook and looked at him fondly, "I like it when you're sweating", he said and thought that this was a romantic thing to say.
But Jungkook only scrunched his nose, "Bro why", he whined out and pulled Taehyung closer to him but before they could kiss they realized that Mr Jeon was still not far away so they stopped halfway and pulled back away from each other.
"Stop calling me bro", Taehyung argued, "Or am I your bro?"
"Have you never heard of bromances? It's when you do romantic things with your bro."
"That's gay", Taehyung chuckled.
"No, it's not gay if it's with a bro", Jungkook winked but Taehyung didn't like that, so he shook his had again. "I'm not your bro though, so it is gay."
Jungkook smirked a little, this was the first time Taehyung had spoken the word out loud without taking it back.
"Just two days ago you said I'm your favorite bro and now I'm nothing at all?", Kook teased and intertwined their hands once again, "That's rude."
"You could be my boyf-", Taehyung flinched at that when he realized what he was saying, "Never mind, that'd be weird."
Kook sighed but he nodded understandingly. They already made great steps forwards today, he didn't want to push it, so he just agreed to it. "Totally weird. Us being boyfriends? Ugh. Weird. We're bros", Jungkook chuckled and earned a soft slap onto his chest by the older.
"Stop calling us bros!", he let out shyly.
"Or what?", Kook wiggled his brows.
"I- I'll kiss you!"
"Oh no, how threatening", Jungkook laughed out. "Go ahead, bro."
"We're in public", Taehyung said, "Your Dad is waiting in the car but he could come back any moment."
"So?", Kook chuckled, "You're the only one who cares about those things."
Well, he shouldn't have said that because that just made Taehyung want to prove it even more. He leaned forwards and pressed their lips together, hands going into Jungkook's hair, brushing through the wet strains and once more he got aroused by Kook sweating like that-, fuck that boy was way too hot.
Their kiss lasted for a while, Kook pulled Taehyung on top of him and kissed him even more longingly, their bodies moving with each other a bit until Taehyung pulled away to catch his breath. He got up from Jungkook and pulled him up with him, "We can't just kiss like that right here", he whined. "My dick does things-"
"Mhm", Jungkook grinned and then pulled him over to his father's car. Luckily the old man was busy reading the local news on his phone and hadn't noticed their heated kiss in the middle of the football field. He looked at them when they got onto the backseats together and kept giggling with the other.
But he let them.