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jeongguk really loved taehyung- his love for taehyung had grown so big that at this point jeongguk was pretty sure he would literally die if taehyung decided to leave him some day.
taehyung was like a living sun. he had the cutest and biggest smile whenever he saw puppies, kids or ladybugs, or even when he just heard a good song. jeongguk would do everything to see taehyung's big boxy grin forever. but it wasn't just taehyung's boxy smile that jeongguk completely adored.
he loved how the elder was very generous, funny, energetic, optimistic and just genuinely cute. he was the cutest person that jeongguk had ever laid his eyes on.
so taehyung was perfect in jeongguk's opinion. his tanned skin was always glowing and his brown eyes were always shining. obviously jeongguk thought that taehyung was the most perfect human being ever.
but taehyung's perfection is what made jeongguk really anxious now and then. he had the opportunity to love and cherish the most beautiful human being everyday, and don't get him wrong, he was so glad that it was him, who taehyung had chosen to be with, but sometimes jeongguk still thought that taehyung deserved someone much better than jeongguk.
he and taehyung had talked about it before. the first time when jeongguk told taehyung about his thoughts, that taehyung was too good for jeongguk, taehyung, much to jeongguk's surprise, had started crying, and that's when jeongguk promised to himself that he would never make taehyung cry again. but that still didn't stop jeongguk from having these kind of thoughts, he just couldn't help it.
how could he, when their groups twitter account would get hundreds of tweets everyday, saying that taehyung should be with jimin instead or jeongguk should just leave BTS. jeongguk knew that the people saying these things weren't their real fans and he shouldn't take them seriously, but jeongguk sometimes still felt like a little kid, vulnerable and too pure for this world, who got hurt really easily.
his hyungs would always tell him to not let these tweets get to him, but right now it was late at night, he was tired from the long dance practice and taehyung was still taking a bath, which left jeongguk alone in his dark room, with a computer on his lap.
he was usually glad that he, amongst the hyungs, had his own room, because that meant taehyung could sleep in his bed next to him every night. even before they officially started dating, taehyung would sometimes step into jeongguk's room in the night with a big grin on his face, and he would just slip under jeongguk's blankets, without any words.
taehyung was supposed to join jeongguk in his room today too, but before that could happen and they could finally cuddle, taehyung had said "i need to take a bath jeongguk. the dance practice took my strawberry scent completely away! i need to get it back before i turn into a human with a boring scent. could you even imagine that?" and with that, taehyung had ran to their dorm's bathroom.
so yeah, jeongguk was alone in his bedroom, lying on his bed with a laptop on his legs and scrolling down twitter. jeongguk was just reading army's tweets when he saw a tweet that linked to a newspage. the article said: "BTS jungkook has acne problems?" he clicked on the article quickly and started reading it, already feeling anxiety pooling at the pit of his stomach.
the article wasn't even that bad. yeah, jeongguk knows he has acne, but every normal teenager has acne, so what was the problem? he closed the article and started reading the tweets under the tweet that had linked to the article. there were many nice tweets protecting him and saying that it has nothing to do with anyone besides jeongguk. jeongguk was happy to see those tweets, but what caught his eyes was a tweet that said: "see, he has so much money and he can't even spend it on treating his skin. he's probably wasting all his money on hookers and cheating on taehyung."
okay, that hurt a little, jeongguk is not gonna a lie. but as said before, he was getting used to the rude tweets about him. but what he could never get used to, was when people would say something bad about his precious taehyung. "jeongguk used to be so hot but the alien boy has changed him into a weirdo. now jeongguk is perfect for that alien boy taehyung lol."
what does an alien boy even mean? jeongguk was getting mad. taehyung might be a little weird, different from the ordinary, basic people, but he would never hurt anyone and his weirdness just made him more perfect. some mean tweets more and jeongguk found himself cracking his knuckles. jeongguk was furious, to say the least. he was just about to tweet from their bts_twt account, to say some shit to antis, when his room door opened and taehyung stepped in, wearing only a big white sweater and black boxers on his thin frame.
jeongguk could smell the strawberry scent right away. it was sweet and it matched taehyung so well. he loved it. and taehyung looked absolutely stunning wearing just a sweater and boxers, his left shoulder and his collarbones being exposed because the sweater was just a little too big for his taehyung. he looked stunning.
"oh my god, come here," jeongguk said, while putting the laptop from his legs to the table, right next to his bed.
"i need to mark your beautiful neck with a hickey like right now or i'll die." jeongguk said while rushing over to taehyung.
taehyung just chuckled while saying "it's a love bite, not a hickey." his grin turned into a scowl quickly. "but did you know, i'm running out of my strawberry shampoo."
"i'll buy you a new one, baby, don't worry. now will you please let me kiss you on your beautiful pink lips, thank you." jeongguk said while grabbing taehyung by his thin waist to place a peck on taehyung's lips.
"honey, you need to eat more," jeongguk muttered, while burying his face into the crook of taehyung's neck, so he could mark it with a beautiful hickey. or like taehyung insisted, a love bite.
taehyung giggled. "did you just call me honey?" taehyung asked, while blushing, because of the just heard petname. taehyung completely adored petnames. especially honey. it made him feel all lovey dovey.
"yeah, i did. do you like it, honey?" jeongguk said while looking into taehyung's hazelnut brown eyes. "taking all the blushing, i'm pretty sure you like it."
"w-well, yeah, of course i do. you know i adore petnames," taehyung answered while kissing jeongguk's right cheek. "but i adore you and your bunny cheecks even more."
"uh, guess that makes you the only one." jeongguk said while letting go of taehyung and sitting back on the bed. jeongguk quickly remembered all the mean tweets about him and taehyung, but then again, it's not like they could spend the whole night standing in front of the bed anyway.
"what is that supposed to mean?" taehyung asked curiously. he sat next to jeongguk on the bed and took jeongguk's hands into his. his hands were bigger and he knew jeongguk loved that about his hands. jeongguk kinda had a hand-holding kink, even if jeongguk would never admit that to taehyung.
"we- ugh, well i stumbled across some rude tweets on twitter." jeongguk said quietly.
"jeongguk, baby, you need to stop reading tho-"
"i know, i know," jeongguk quickly started again, "they weren't talking shit only about me. you know i don't let these kinda tweets bother me so much anymore, but they talked shit about you too. i never feel good enough for you, but that doesn't mean i'm not gonna be offended when people talk shit about you! how can they!".
"jeongguk, it's okay. their opinion doesn't matter to me. what matters to me is that you understand that you're the best thing that has ever happened to me. i need you to believe me, bunny."
"yeah, but maybe they are right. maybe jimin hyung is better for you." jeongguk said, while looking away.
taehyung grabbed jeongguk's both shoulders and made jeongguk face him. "look into my eyes." jeongguk did. "you gotta stop lying to yourself. first of all, you know jimin is madly in love with yoongi hyung. second of all, jimin is my best friend. he'll never be better for me than you, gukkie. i love you. forever. please, i need you to trust me," taehyung said desperately.
"okay. o-okay. if you say so. i-i'm sorry." jeongguk said and squeezed taehyung's hand on his shoulder. "you'll just never understand how much you mean to me, and how pretty you are, and how much i adore you, and how mad i get when people talk bad things about you, and, and yeah".
"i love you, jeongguk. let's go to bed, so i can cuddle all the insecurity out of you." taehyung said.
"and thanks for protecting me from the bad comments. you're such a cute muscle bunny." taehyung added and cuddled even closer to jeongguk. that made jeongguk chuckle a little.
when taehyung was already asleep in jeongguk's arms, jeongguk breathed in the strawberry scent from taehyung's hair and whispered quietly: "i love you too."
and jeongguk meant it. he really did.