#all of the art was done in a hurry at 5-6 am bc of a late night convo so. art quality suffered

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I was told by the bestie to post this

[tenacious-scripturient]

a run-down of / my thoughts on the novel ‘trade secrets’

so! i’ve recently finished this beautifully written novel by @bettsican​, and am anxiously anticipating for the second book in the trilogy! (seriously, give it a read. it’s a great lgbtq+ thriller and mystery story, i promise you’ll love it!! you can find trade secrets in many places, including amazon, where it’s only $6)

as i was reading it, i noted down all the thoughts i had. it was fun, interesting, and kept me on the edge of my seat!

oh, and spoiler warning, of course.

Chapter One

okay. this is interesting. why are they in paris? or rather, why are they NOT in paris?

2080. damn.

who is cooper hall and why is he important i want to knowwwwwwww

Chapter Two

HOLY FUCK

CHAPTER ONE WAS A PROLOGUE

OKAY IF I DIDNT NEED TO BEFORE I HAVE TO READ IT NOW

-ahem- anyway

nate literally everything you think of has to relate to smoking, doesnt it?

clyde you absolutely bitch raccoon

im sort of piecing together what’s happening here? either way this is a SUPER interesting concept.

i love the idea of every word being important

nate look at you being a nice guy. testing the CAPS before giving them to ur clients

or maybe it’s just good business

but whatever

okay, so credits are money in this world. but how do people get them? obviously there’s what nate’s doing but what’s the legal way to get them? ill probably find out soon

if it wasnt explicitly said by betty that nate ends up with another guy (i forget his name. cooper?) i would have thought audry was the romantic interest

audry you loving caring hypocrite

i feel like she’s gonna be one of my favourite characters

who is this young man that dares disturb nate’s slumber

cooper? cooper.

Chapter Three

nate get up

u turtle get up and hurry down the stairs

or—okay you can fall into that drywall that works too

ohhhhh so nate is a detective. that’s interesting

i also love this idea of keeping secrets (haha trade secrets)

dude are you sure that your embarrassing entrance wasn’t the ONLY reason you blushed? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE HEIG—

nate ur spending an awful lot of time looking at his features you funky little bisexual

oh damn ur smarter than u seem, just watching him take a single breath and you’re already making connections. i guess that’s why he’s a detective

im gonna assume this is cooper, even tho it never explicitly says so

i feel like we aren’t gonna get his name for a while, bc clients and whatnot and not getting attached

Chapter Four

NATE WEARS GLASSES???????

that’s kind of cute

im lowkey gay rn

anyway

NATE CALLED HIM SWEET-FACED AND PRETTY-FACED O K A Y

oh he has curly brown hair

and oh the glasses aren’t real glasses. oh. the use is actually pretty cool!

so from what im gathering civilians are people who don’t live in sanctuaries, and lemnis are people who do?

cooper sweetie why do u need so much money what have u done

nate’s pretty clever

HAH I WAS RIGHT WE AREN’T GONNA GET HIS NAME FOR A WHILE

well that’s that i guess

Chapter Five

he’s so timid awh

hehe he’s on nate’s bed

sorry

goddammit man calm down or else you’re gonna get everyone in a 5-mile radius around you arrested

wait…. zero-credit balance?? didn’t he just have a few hundred thousand credits???

OH THIS IS A FAKE PROFILE HE MADE

so cooper isn’t his real name either

oh

Chapter Six

oh we’re back to 2080

oh they’re back in the apartment??

it was obvious before but at this point it’s confirmed that they’re going to be doing some travelling together or something

Chapter Seven

this is getting really interesting i dont wanna stop reading and type everything that comes to mind

these are gonna be shorter now hehe

“i’d been a petri dish of mixed emotions and wild chemical changes for half the day” I LOVE THAT METAPHOR LMFAO

what happened with nate’s mom

i want to know

my prediction: she wanted him to either change up or completely remove the chip bc she did something horrible? or maybe she just wanted to leave idk im bad at predictions

either way it said she was crazy

o h

that’s why he’s terrified of cutting the chip

poor nate

Chapter Eight

oh this is strangely intimate

very intimate

i feel that, because cooper has such high pain tolerance (or doesn’t show pain), he has some backstory for it

Chapter Nine

lmao nate just went off didnt he

THEIR FLIRTING IS CUTE FHJKJDLSKAJDKLSJAK

also is being lgbtq+ widely accepted as the norm in this setting? bc nate considered cooper to be flirting with him

ughhhh it’s so good so far, from the character interactions to the suspense, especially in this chapter

Chapter Ten

rude cooper is rude, rude nate is even more rude

F E D O R A

“coop”

Chapter Eleven

aw i love jimmy already—

WHAT THE FUCK COOPER

EXCUSE ME

JIMMY

WHAT

HOW COULD YOU

goddammit

what the fuck is cooper hiding

cooper oh my god

you

you’re playing a dangerous game, mate

are you really that heartless

“deceptively innocent eyes” you got that right

this chapter hurted

thanks a lot jess

Chapter Twelve

“like a weeping wound on the canvas of my home” this has got to be one of my favourite similes ever omg

the way nate’s describing cooper makes my heart hurt awh

i feel like butterflies have some sort of symbolism

maybe being ugly on the outside and beautiful on the inside, or vice versa? the vice versa was basically cooper lol

aye we finally get to meet audry!!

PEANUT BUTTER AND TRICYCLE I WANNA HEAR ABOUT THAT

i love audry omg

IT’S NATE’S BIRTHDAY?? HAPPY BIRTHDAY YA SMOKEY CONMAN

“bright eyes” is the cutest nickname ever

Chapter Thirteen

oh we’re back to 2080

wait what they’re trapped together

is this story gonna have a sad ending

please no

Chapter Fourteen

OH IT’S THE LINE ON THE COVER

i like that

nate’s back to where he left cooper

also if it wasn’t obvious before, it’s definitely obvious now that nate and cooper or gonna find each other again. hm. not sure how i feel about that

kind of pissed at cooper but also we need him for the story to progress

O H

COOPER IM ONLY KIND OF PISSED AT YOU NOW

IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE

NATE IVE SAID IT BEFORE BUT YOU’RE PRETTY CLEVER

also who is ‘her’?

COOPER WANTS TO BECOME A?? LEMNIS?? GODDAMMIT MAN

I CAN FEEL THE PRESSURE RISING

nate’s in danger

wow this chapter is

a lot

i need a break

-cue a break-

Chapter Fifteen

i’m back

eisley is a cool last name

oh wait so even people outside of sanctuaries can become a lemniscate

i’m still not 100% sure what a lemniscate is

it’s so ironic elijah’s last name is king, but i assume you did that on purpose. i also like the slight nod to royalty by his first name

OH

COOPER’S BACK

why hello there

Chapter Sixteen

they’re

competing

to become a lemniscate

and one of them dies

do they fight back?? is that why they end up in prison??? so many thoughts are going through my head right now

nate, your fantasy about becoming a lemniscate is surprisingly dark. i’m totally down for it

Chapter Seventeen

oh wait so joshua is cooper’s blackmailer?? Interesting that it’s a lemniscate

i keep forgetting nate is wearing glasses

cooper, my dude, calm the fuck down. you’re gonna get yourself and nate killed

it’s the return of soft™ nate

Chapter Eighteen

oh there’s another one

oh this is very ominous i don’t like

Chapter Nineteen – Twenty-One

okay i was eating while i read so i couldn’t type here but just know that these chapters were really really good

Chapter Twenty-Two

wait fuck what’s happening this is all happening so fast

cooper brought out his gun,,,, it’s aimed at ivonne,,,,,,, they’re walking,,,

OH IT WAS A FAKE KIDNAPPING

nice

i like ivonne a lot

Chapter Twenty-Three

the entire story just changed course

this isn’t just about cooper and nate anymore, it’s about a corrupt government

NATE AND COOPER ARE HOLDING HANDS AS THEY RUN THROUGH THE BARRIER THAT’S SO ROMANTIC

also the line “only the dead are ever truly free” is beautiful

THAT’S WHERE PARIS COMES IN

THEY ALL GO TO FRANCE DON’T THEY

I’m so curious to find out where this story is going

Chapter Twenty-Four

this is doin me a confusion

but tbh these hints/ visions of the future, if you could call them that, are giving just enough information to keep me super interested. props to you

Chapter Twenty-Five

AUDRY STOP TEASING NATE

just joking keep doing it, this might actually get their relationship somewhere

ivonne is definitely my favourite character so far. she reminds a little of melia from xenoblade chronicles, in that they’re both ‘royalty’ that rebel. also they’re badass and smart

oh fuck the brother is here

okay thank god he’s not an asshole

oh god things are happening again

Chapter Twenty-Six

nate stop ogling at cooper when you’re in a life-or-death situation

holy shit the lemniscate are messed up

this crew is pretty great, it sucks that it’s almost the end of the book

WAIT I FORGOT THERE’S A SECOND COMING SOON HECK YEAH

anyway

YES COOPER PULL THROUGH

awwww yiss

Chapter Twenty-Seven

oh

oh

O H

oh my god i ship them so hard

THEY KISSED

THIS IS SO STEAMY

this chapter was art thank you so much for this

Chapter Twenty-Eight

AHAHAH AUDRY

once again, i’d like to state how much i love her

oh the tension just grew twentyfold

this is… great

oh god nate what are you planning, you just got together with cooper and now you want to leave him?

Chapter Twenty-Nine

what’s with all the dancing?

Chapter Thirty

oh god the description

so he’s going around and giving people credits, all the while confessing things that would help the lemniscate track him down. i assume this means he’s going to die, but why?

just what are you planning?

oh we’re back to clyde, the guy who started it all. it feels full circle

Chapter Thirty-One

OH

HE’S MAKING HIS CHIP SHOW THAT HE’S DEAD

that’s much smarter

FUCK

NATE YOU IDIOT—COOPER’S REAL NAME

SHIT NOW KING IS HERE

everything’s going downhill now isn’t it

Chapter Thirty-Two

wait that took an even darker turn

there’s so much happening right now i can’thandlethis

cooper and nate are couple goals

Chapter Thirty-Three

king isn’t as horrible as i thought

still horrible, but not a monster

NEVER MIND YOU’RE A FUCKING MONSTER WHAT IS THIS BS

cooper

actually

shot

nate

Chapter Thirty-Four

OH MY GOD

WHAT

THIS IS HOW YOU END IT

I CAN’T

HOW DARE YOU

NO

NO

NO

NO

i need the next book

like right now

what the hell

Final Thoughts

okay so this book was SO good, and so well written. like damn

aside from that horrible ending how could you do this to me

i’m joking, it was an incredible and emotional ending, i loved it and hated it at the same time

it very rarely felt static, and especially in the first half, there was a good mix of action and backstory/description. it was never boring

the story is just,,, so unique. i seriously haven’t read anything like it, EVER

the world-building?? Is?? so vast?? and insane??

the increasing tension and speed as the story progressed is perfect, i felt my heart beating faster the more i read

anyway that’s all from me

this book was amazing i cannot wait for the next

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Dialog/Spoken Line Prompts! 1. Claire "Right now, I'm not sure if I want to kiss you or shove you off a bridge." Jamie: "Can I choose?" 2. "I'm sorry I stabbed you. I love you." 3. "Hurry up, I'm running out of secrets here." 4. Claire: "I'd agree with you, but we'd both be wrong." 5. "The sun hasn't even come up yet and you want me to do WHAT?" 6. J: "Technically, it wasn't on fire." C: "Of course, it wasn't on fire! You completely blew it up!" Bonus points if you use all six. In any order.

Mr. & Mrs. James Fraser Bond

this is honestly just a stupid thing that I wanted to write bc honestly, who doesn’t want to see a james-bond-ish version of jamie and claire?

i hope you enjoy! x

“The sun hasn’t even come up yet, and you want me to do what?”

Jamie sighed exasperatedly at his wife, adjusting his cummerbund once more before pulling his jacket over his shoulders. “Come with me, Sassenach.”

“On one of your silly missions? I don’t think so.” She rolled her eyes, “You’re going to get yourself hurt.”

“But if you’re wi’ me then you’ll be able to help, if the need arises.”

Claire’s eyebrows rose as she sat up in bed, crossing her arms. “From the stories I’ve heard, I don’t really think that’s a good idea.”

“You’d be missing out on all the fun,” he teased, putting on his cufflinks and brushing his hair back once more with his hand.

“If by fun you mean ‘killing people and setting buildings on fire’, I think I’ll pass.”

“Well, technically, it wasn’t on fire—“

“Ah, of course, it wasn’t on fire! You completely blew it up!”

Having nothing to add, Jamie awkwardly stood in front of the mirror as he attempted to fix his very crooked bow-tie. Eventually, Claire got annoyed at watching him try—and epically fail—to fix the garment, and moved from her perch on the couch to re-tie it for him. He down smiled at her.

“Do you not remember where you came from, Sassenach?” he asked, wrapping a curled piece of hair around his finger. “Where we met?”

She raised her eyebrows at his answer, but didn’t look him in the eyes. “Of course I remember, you brute.”

“And how hard would it be to just… do the same thing you did then, but now?”

Meeting his eyes, she sighed and said, “I really don’t know if I want to kiss you or shove you off a bridge.”

He raised his eyebrows sardonically. “Can I choose?”

Smiling, she chose the former, but warned, “If we pass by any bridges on our way there, you better watch your back.”

Jamie filled Claire in on their way to the gala, sitting in the backseat of the large, black Escalade. She rolled her eyes multiple times at the absurdity of the ordeal they were seeing themselves in—an art thief, a priceless artifact, the people trying to steal it—but this was Jamie’s job, and he had asked her to help him. And, being the dutiful wife that she was, had given him her word she’d help him.

“So what, exactly, do you need me to do?”

“Distract the thief. Keep his eyes on you and not on the piece.”

“But doesn’t that counteract what you’re trying to do? If you take the piece, doesn’t that make you the thief?”

He shook his head, “No’ exactly, Sassenach. At least, not when the government is yer employer.”

“How on Earth am I, of all people, going to distract him?”

“Ye ken how to do that, fine enough,” Jamie smiled, leaning close enough to his wife that their foreheads met. “Especially dressed as ye are. Christ, it would be hard for you not to distract him, Sassenach.”

She smiled, leaning closer until their lips met.

A moment later, Jamie leaned back and asked, “I guess you changed yer mind, then?”

Claire hummed once before saying, through a few chuckles, “I’d say yes, but I can’t say the same for my future self.”

Have ye found him yet, Sassenach? Jamie asked, distorted through the earpiece.

Claire, a bit peeved, sighed loudly before murmuring, “Not yet. Quite frustrated right now, to be honest.”

Jamie made a tsk noise on the other end of the line. Maybe he skipped out; figured it wasna worth the risk.

“I would agree with you, but then we would both end up being wrong.”

Not a moment after she said this, she spotted him across the way. The lines of his face were deep and dark, as if he was always frowning. His hairline, slightly receding from his forehead, didn’t take away from the attractiveness of his tanned face. Claire had thought she’d seen him somewhere before, but then it clicked.

“Jamie, have you seen his face before?” She murmured, turning her face away from the man.

I havena. No’ yet, anyway. Why?

Claire swallowed, her voice thick. “It’s him.”

Despite Jamie’s best efforts—there are only so many times he could say Stay away from him, Claire to make her actually do such a thing—Claire had approached the man with little hesitation. She had confronted him once before, and was more than able to handle herself around him.

One thing she did know, however: he was more than just an art thief.

Don’t tell him anything, Claire. Jamie had said, as if Claire didn’t already know how to handle herself.

She spent the next few hours talking to the man. Fortunately, she had done enough to herself that he hadn’t recognized her completely, but by reading his facial expressions and analyzing his word choice, she knew there was at least something about her that he could sense.

As he turned away to get a drink, she murmured to her earpiece, “Hurry up, you bloody Scot, I’m running out of secrets here.”

In the middle of a skirmish with the thieves, Claire had accidentally stabbed Jamie.

It had all happened so quickly, but the moment that it happened, she knew that there was a reason she shouldn’t have come.

Thankfully, they had other agents in the same area, and they could escape without blowing the entire operation. She had taken him into a spare room, pulled her make-shift medical kit from her clutch and went to start on his wound.

It wasn’t anything more than a deep cut—more of a scrape than an actual stab—but it was still painful for them both.

“I’m so sorry I stabbed you,” she murmured over her work, watching Jamie’s chest heaving up and down as he gulped down some more whiskey.

Jamie shrugged, smiling at her, “If ye want the truth, I’d rather you stab and kill me more than anyone else. That way, I can look at your face as I die.”

“Rather dramatic tonight, aren’t you?” She teased, trimming the last stitch carefully and applying the bandages to the wound. Every once in a while, his breath would catch, and her heart would clench just a bit.

When she was done with her handiwork, she pulled herself up to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. “I love you.”

He smiled, “I love ye, too, mo chride.”

She placed a soft kiss to his temple. A moment later, he laughed quietly to himself before murmuring, “How is my wife more badass than I am?”

“Because you try way too hard, darling.”

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Weather You of All Arts (It’s Enough to Have You Here) - Chapter 1

Genre               : Fluff, Angst, Psychological Terms, AU

Characters       : Kim Taehyung, Park Jimin, The rest of BTS.

Main Pairing      : vmin

Summary         :

It’s human nature to instinctively fall for an object, without any exceptions, people too. Indeed flowery and jittery when catching it at first. However, as time goes by tons of consideration blow minds up then coming to realisation that the famous legendary certain feeling called love could only kill you.

-too few isn’t good, too much is never better-

Writer’s Notes  :

Yup it’s my first time officially writing a fanfiction and post it somewhere bcs I suck in expressing word termly but since I’ve been reading loads of fics these few months, I could finally create the complete part of this prompt I made in my second year of Junior High School which was 4 years ago. Fully inspired by the cycle in this life and it’s filled with cry, cry, cry, snorts, and back to cry- ok jk. Sorry not sorry I’m making Taehyung as the crybaby here.

-marlygins-

Chapter 1: First Impression

Waking up to his mom’s anger was the least Taehyung wanted to face on any morning. No matter if it was a cursed or a blessed one. He rubbed his eyes roughly at the sound of glass scattering to the ground and got up immediately to search the center of the terrifying sound. It was certainly a final turn when he found his parents staring at each other with such indescribable glares. He could almost see a thunderbolt between the two (which he didn’t in reality though).

Didn’t have the gut to say a word, Taehyung hopped soundlessly back into his room, wrapping himself a burrito with his blankie, and started to sob repeatedly.

  Kim Taehyung was 5 years old, alone, and lonely.

  He was quite adored by his friends in the neighborhood but most practically had the opinion that he was kind of weird. His mom once corrected him while letting out a muffled sigh that he was stunningly weird. Being the loud and hyper toddler was what he could do at best. He could never stay still without rustling out a word and it was his nature to do so.

  Time went by, he was about to encounter his first day at school. Looking excited as ever, he put on his sling bag on his shoulder and smiled widely. After having breakfast and pecked her mom on her cheek, he said farewell and jumped on his way to school. First time knowing what school like was rather abstract for Taehyung. Even though he was still considered as a child, the obligations attired at the school were very strict that nobody could say a single thing to any of it, including doing any rebellion things.

  The day went well despite Taehyung having no idea about behaving well at the classroom. The teacher kept on shouting at him for being so talkative but it didn’t stop him for doing things he passioned about. The bell rang, he let out his boxy smile and looked at the watch on his wrist. The other kids went out from the room in a hurry and most of them talked to each other while giggling loudly.

It was actually easy for Taehyung to do so but he chose not to since he wanted to observe his sorroundings.

  After the class got emptied, he stood up until a soft-sounding, almost resembled a whisper calling him by his name, “Kim Taehyung”. Taehyung abruptly looked to his sides in fright, he was thinking that it was one of his illusions but he found himself looking at a pair of chubby cheeks, a sweet smile, and a pair of eyes that got crinkled up to form a crescent owned by a shorter boy than him afterwards.

  “Cute”, he thought.

“Am I?” Taehyung widened his already-big-eyes, stunned to find out that he had said it loudly and the boy in front of him was literally looking at him in the eye while tilting his head.

“U-uh I mean....” He hated himself for stuttering and looked down, too shy to look back at the boy.

The latter broke his glance from the floor to the boy in front of him as he felt a pair of hands were holding his shoulders.

“I’m Park Jimin!” the cute boy indirectly enchanted Taehyung, he blinked and stepped closer. It was unexpected to straightly see an excitement, high expectation, and such a wide smile package meant for him.

  And without him realizing, it was the first time he had his heart stopped beating for a second.

  Kim Taehyung was 6 years old, alone, but he was starting to feel the existence of a company.

  The second time Taehyung met Jimin was the very next day.

Taehyung, strictly bounded on his unfortunate lucks, got up late and arrived at school right a minute after the bell rang. He panted loudly as he reached the school gate to see the school guard was half-about to close the gate, he panicked and tried to stop the guard by setting up his ever puppy faced begging which he always gave to his mom whenever she got angry to him. It succeeded so he sprinted to his classroom as the teacher was right on the corner of the hallway. He sighed in relief and searched for an empty chair.

  Suddenly, he saw a pair of hands were waving towards him. The tiny cute hands belonged to no other than Park Jimin. The latter was smiling at him and he didn’t know how to react towards his first friend who introduced himself ever.

  Taehyung sat beside Jimin, knowing the latter seemed to be very excited in the morning, he assumed that Park Jimin was a morning person. Taehyung was never a morning person though. He even still had his hair ruffled like he had just woken up from his deep sleep.

“Yah, you’re sitting on my jacket.” Jimin pouted as he tapped roughly on the younger’s shoulder.

Taehyung groaned, he stood for a brief so Jimin could pull his jacket away. “Who wears Jacket in such a humid day like this though? I’m sweating here, yet you seem to be freezing.” Jimin blinked a few times, looking at Taehyung while pouting.

Jimin chuckled as he looked at Taehyung in the eye, with his typical eye smile, he nodded right then. “Hmm I easily get cold, I guess it’s just my nature to feel so. I can’t even stand properly in winter. It’s too cold for me to do activities.”

There was an ‘O’ formed on Taehyung’s mouth and there’s a guilt in his heart.

Hearing no further response from the latter, Jimin opened his mouth again,

“Why are you late anyways?”

“Mom woke me up late this morning, I didn’t even get to eat my breakkie.” This time, Taehyung pouted and knitted his eyebrows while looking at the floor.

“Did you bring packed lunch though?” Taehyung shook his head at this. “Then we can just share mine later, how about that?” Jimin set his sweetest smile ever which made Taehyung blinked a few times after his interlocutor’s offer.

Taehyung could never agree more in his life for someone’s kindness, especially towards himself.

  It was always hard for Taehyung to open up his sincere boxy smile to random people but the cute boy in front of him was likely to be assuring him to trust him openly only through some conversation. Taehyung could feel a certain feeling he had never felt before since no kids the same age as him has ever drawn such attention to him.

  Later in the afternoon, they ate together and talked about random things or nothing. Taehyung was in awe the whole time for having someone like Jimin who popped out of nowhere on his first day of school. “I guess I can trust him,” Taehyung thought to himself but for the nth time,

“Of course you can.” He didn’t know how to hate himself more because he just realised that he had said that loudly and not only in his mind.

“M-mianhae, I...” Taehyung stuttered, again.

“S’okay, bro. My mom said that everybody has their right to not explaining things to people.So I think it applies for you just now.” Jimin cut him while smiling with his ever angelic smile.

Taehyung could only nod and smiled, the smile didn’t even reach his eyes because he was desperate. For some reason he was, but he couldn’t tell what was the reason. He was also curious, but the things was rather vague. After a minute of consideration, he gaped his mouth and started to let out a soft voice which Jimin thought it was cute to see the younger’s serious face.

“Chim..” Jimin widened his eyes at the nickname, smile becoming even wider afterwards.

“Is that a nickname for me, Tae? I like it” Jimin giggled.

“Um, I like how Tae sounds too.” Taehyung reached for his own hands and licked his lips before saying out something more. “Chim, are you my friend?” He abruptly looked at the older who was sitting right beside him.

“Of course Taetae, I am. We can be best friends too if possible, which is not impossible either.” There was a twinkle on Taehyung’s eyes.

“Best friends?”

“Yes best friends. I’ll accompany you wherever you go, whatever you do, I’ll always disturb you despite you saying no to me, in case. I’ll always be there for you. And it’s a promise.” Jimin assured.

“R-really? You’d do that? To me?” Taehyung widened his big eyes. Jimin nodded a few times at the latter and smiled again.

“Thank you chimchim!” Taehyung felt there was a droplet of tears fell and he still leaned closer to hug his new best friend. “Oof,” Jimin groaned jokingly but he hugged his friend back tightly.

“I haven’t done anything yet, Taetae.”

“No no no, to have someone promised me such things is already a blessing for me. Assa! My mom will be delighted to hear that I have a best friend now. Chimchim, would you like to visit my house? I have so many sweets there, you don’t have to be scared of my mom or even yours scolding us because there is no limit for us to eat as much sweets as we want. Oh oh I also have cookies, loads of cookies, we can buy ice cream on our way back too. My mom gave me money last night for helping her with the house chores.”

Taehyung was excessively excited yet he paid no attention to his friend who was giggling at his antics.

“Tae, I didn’t know you can be so excited....?” Jimin was still giggling. Taehyung’s face reddened at this and smiled shyly.

“What do you say, Chim?”

“That would be my honor, my best friend.” Jimin’s eyes were crinkled to crescents and his giggle were echoing through Taehyung’s mind. Taehyung straightly named it as, The Angel’s Laugh which bursted Jimin out when he told him about it.

  Kim Taehyung was 6 years old but he acknowledged that he wasn’t alone or even lonely anymore.