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“tae,” jeongguk mumbles, frowning a little when only taehyung hums in response, still glued to his phone.

“tae,” jeongguk repeats, growing more upset as taehyung hums yet again, although louder this time.

he blinks.

“TAEHYUNG HYUNG.”

“YEAH,” he finally says,

turning to look at at jeongguk, his phone’s screen illuminating his skin up pink and purple. “what’s up?”

jeongguk fidgets now, unsure of what to do with the attention that he previously wanted. the question he’d wanted to ask seems foolish now— childish, and he hesitates.

“you can tell hyung what’s wrong, jeongguk,” taehyung tells him, placing his phone face down on their bed, a little worried now. “it’s okay.”

“are you annoyed of me?” jeongguk blurts, regretting it the moment it leaves his mouth. “because whenever i tried to talk to you today..”

taehyung considers him for a few moments, eyes wide, completely bewildered by the question posed to him.

“baby, what— annoyed?” taehyung asks, shaking his head vigorously as he crawls on over to jeongguk, covering the short distance between them. “of course not, jeonggukie. ++

where is this coming from? have i done something?”

“no, no, i’m just being stupid again,” jeongguk laughs unsurely, tongue swollen in his mouth. “it’s cool—“

he’s cut off when taehyung cups his cheeks, squishing them together, peering into his eyes, suspicious.

“you are /not/ being stupid,” taehyung tells him firmly,not giving jeongguk a chance to say otherwise. “you’re never being stupid, okay? now tell me why you thought so. did you watch a breakup documentary again? because you know those keep you up at night, &—“

“i didn’t, hyung,”

jeongguk cuts in through squished cheeks, equal parts amused & embarrassed. “i just.”

taehyung prompts him with a raise of his brows. “you just?”

a sigh, and jeongguk couldn’t hide his red cheeks even if he wanted to. he blushes too easily.

“you haven’t talked to me all day.”

this is why he was afraid to say it. it sounds so fucking petulant and needy when it comes out and he hopes it makes sense to taehyung. he hopes he understands where jeongguk is coming from because.

jeongguk is /clingy/.

“i’ve been trying to talk to you all day, but then you ++

got mad at me in the evening &—am i trying too hard? do you need space?” jeongguk rushes to speak, getting more & more in his head as his thoughts begin to expand. “do you want to call off the wedding? because we could—“
“jeongguk, baby, what are you saying?” taehyung interrupts+

with a shake of his head, quite concerned now because this? /this/ is what had been brewing in his fiancé’s head all day? this is why jeongguk had been sulking?

“of course i don’t want to call of the wedding, what the hell? not by a far shot, and i wasn’t mad at /you/, i was—“

taehyung lets out a frustrated sigh. “i was annoyed because of the wedding planner. and i’m not supposed to be telling you this, but,” he hesitates, “i asked him if we could get any pink pansies for the wedding, because i know they’re your favourites, and he couldn’t find any.”

jeongguk blinks repeatedly, taehyung’s grip on his face loosening until he’s stroking at his cheekbones with his thumbs.

he swallows.

“...you were looking for pink pansies... for me?”

taehyung nods sagely.

“even though they’re out of season?”

another nod.

sometimes, being overly sensitive and emotional is a bad thing.

such as now, because all taehyung has said to him is that he was looking for his favourite flowers, and he’s already on the verge of fucking tears.

/tears/.

“hyung, i—“

“wait, are you crying?” taehyung asks,

then cooing, “no, baby don’t /cry/. i didn’t want for you to cry.”

he presses jeongguk’s head to his chest, scratching at his scalp as jeongguk pretends not to sniffle, a broken, ‘they’re tears of happiness’ escaping him.

“well,” taehyung grins, “as long as you’re happy.”

“so happy, tae. the happiest,” jeongguk says, though it comes out muffled when pressed into taehyung’s chest. then after a second of muted sniffling, “thank you for being understanding.”

“thank you for pointing it out. i realise i’d been a little shitty today.”

shitty isn’t the right word, /ignorant/ maybe. but according to jeongguk, he’s just too harsh of a critic. everyone’s allowed to be a little off their game once in a while.

before he can state this, however, taehyung’s tilting his face up so that they’re looking eye to eye.

“if you feel like this ever again, be sure to point it out again, okay?” he requests, gently smiling at jeongguk. “don’t get in your head too much, i don’t know what goes on in there sometimes.”

with a stabilising sigh, jeongguk manages a smile of his own.

“okay hyung,”

he concedes, “love you.”

and taehyung rubs their noses together, scrunching his eyes shut because god /dammit/ jeongguk can be absolutely fucking adorable at times.

“i love you, too.”

the scene progression in this... make it make sense anyways. engaged taekook https://curiouscat.me/highway202