Third Person's P. O. V.
“Okay but...this is freaking me out now. What is going on?” Seokjin whisper-yelled at Taehyung and gave another confused tight-lipped bow to another grand greeting from one among the group of uniformed personnel of the hotel. He fumbled with the bunch of gifts they had just handed him, and watched Taehyung smile and shake the man’s hand with pride bubbling in his eyes.
“Congratulations Sir, we apologize for not being there at the wedding” “We completely understand, and Mr. Jae, I have told you so many times not to call me Sir, you’re like family to me. Let that stay reserved for my father, he deserved it. I, on the other hand, have yet to earn it.”
The words pierced through Seokjin’s senses, disbelief brimming in his eyes to see who this humble and mature gentleman in front of him was.
As contrasted to the absolute jerkface that his so called husband usually was Taehyung suddenly seemed to have transformed into someone else. He didn’t realize he was staring at him till his trance was broken by the elder man’s words.
“We hope you enjoy your stay, we’ve arranged for a celebration tomorrow evening as our way of wishing you happiness for your future and would be delighted to serve you, if you let us”.
Seokjin blinked at the man before nodding and bowing in return “of course, we’d love to”.
“Did you get a chance to look around the place?” “Uh..no, he didn’t yet” Taehyung answered, eyeing him with an implying grin “we didn’t get the time to”.
And Seokjin rolled his eyes at him to see the brat resurface the moment their eyes met.
But his perplexity went sky-high when suddenly a bunch of hotel personnel gathered around them with loud hoorahs and grabbed the two in an unbreakable hug. By now Seokjin was a hair’s breadth away from having an anxiety attack, and automatically scooted closer to Taehyung, who however was too caught up in the uproar as he fondly hugged them back.
“Taehyung-ah!!” “Tae, you absolute headass! How dare you come here to flaunt being hitched and all! Go back you fuckin’ dogshit!” “Language Min-ho. Congratulations sweetie!” “We were guessing it’d take you two a couple more days to get out of the room, finished rather early huh?”
Seokjin’s ears burned and he didn’t know how to react to all of them, so kind of awkwardly stood there scratching the back of his ear or fixing his bangs, desperately avoiding to meet their eyes.
“Seriously, it’s like a huge honour to meet you!” He flinched as a guy among them snatched his hand and bowed to him, face beaming with too much excitement as he congratulated him.
“Th-Thank you...?” Seokjin tried to pull his hand away but the grip was way to forcible, he turned to Taehyung for help only to see him too engrossed in chatting and laughing with the others.
“Taehyung?” His voice was snubbed under the uproar and he called again but to no remedy, so he made sure his voice reached him this time.
“Taehyung?!” And all heads snapped at him, Seokjin stilled as the loud group of way too cheery faces now closed in on him.
“Hey! Min-ho, no touching!” “Or what?” and Seokjin felt a tug on his hand.
“Trust me Seokjin-ssi, you’re way too cool for him, wish we could meet earlier”
Seokjin's gaze flickered from side to side at the typically poor attempt at flirting and gave him a confused half smile understanding that this was only another means of playful teasing, and chuckled when he felt Taehyung slap the grip away and curse at the other.
“He’s way out of your league dude, guess you just got lucky” Taehyung glared at Min-ho, who laughed in return seeing his reaction.
They were soon surrounded by the rest.
“OMG! He’s so gorgeous!” “Can’t believe it’s really him! He has a Michelin people! Can you believe it?!” “Unbelievable! You actually got married to him!!”
“Guys, you’re making him uncomfortable...back off!”
Taehyung wrapped an arm around Seokjin squeezing him to himself, a proud grin adorning his face.
The sirens which were going off one after another in Seokjin’s head calmed a bit as he unintentionally snuggled into the embrace, and blinked at the rowdy lot watching them.
“Jin, meet my friends-aka-mentors” and Seokjin saw their faces grow brighter at the mention “you met Min-ho, the butthead, that’s Seo-joon hyung and Hyung-sik hyung, and this is Ara Noona” “Welcome, and congratulations. It’s been years idolizing you, pleasure to finally meet the man” “Man? Come on, Taehyung-ah won’t let you call him that would he? Try something higher”.
A gurgle of laughter and teasing erupted anew but Seokjin found his focus slip as his eyes jumped from the ones called Seo-joon and Hyung-sik to follow Minho’s hand as it set on Taehyung’s shoulder, and suddenly he felt a clench in his gut.
They kept teasing but Seokjin couldn’t really concentrate on anything as his eyes bore on to each of their hands whenever they touched Taehyung, patting his back, rubbing at his nape, petting his head, squeezing his cheeks!
He couldn’t tolerate it any longer when Min-ho set his palm against Tae’s chest and leaned close to whisper something into his ear, Seokjin’s teeth grit and his nails dug into his palms to see both of them grinning at each other.
Seokjin was dead-ass pissed by now.
These assholes were actually flirting with each other right in front of him!
“Excuse me but it’s rude to whisper while in a group, it’s rather bad manners”.
Seokjin’s ears registered the words slowly, as he realized with passing seconds how awfully weird he was being. But it was too late to take it back so he just gaped at Min-ho who gaped back at him.
“I..I was just..” Min-ho stuttered and Seokjin saw all their eyes turn to him, including Taehyung’s.
“I mean, you could just tell it to all of us” and that was the first time Seokjin managed to pull a smile for them, too forced and his jaw tight as he desperately tried to hide away the curses he was piling on himself for acting so creepy.
Hyung-sik and Ara came to the rescue as they tried to brush off the tension and led them to the breakfast lounge that opened out to the sea.
Seokjin broke away from Taehyung’s arms immediately, being agitated with himself but surely the blame would fall on the other. He wouldn’t have said anything if they weren’t being that clingy, so of course it was Taehyung’s fault!
He was sure he was acting like this because of being too much around the weirdo.
Taehyung edged nearer, snaking an arm around him “you want to know what he was whispering about” “Why didn’t you tell me you own this place?”
“And why does that matter?” “Because I feel like some trophy you brought to show-off to your friends, and I don’t like it”
Seokjin leaned as far away as he could from him, he was pissed with how the other was completely ok with being so touchy with his friends, if you could even call them that, what kind of friends are so touchy-feely! Naturally his dislike took a shape of spite against the other, and he pushed him away keeping his eyes to the strict search of a table to settle down and finding one tried to hurry ahead but felt a grip on his wrist restrain him.
“Tsk..tsk..no running” and Seokjin was guided through the large room to a different table than the one he had chosen “accusing others about being rude huh? You top the list you know”
“Well, I don’t think I was wrong” “Of course you don’t” Taehyung chuckled, pulling a chair out as they took their seats.
“I thought you’d like meeting my friends, why are you angry?”
Well, Seokjin wasn’t sure either why he was angry, he wasn’t supposed to feel like this. Why Taehyung being all cuddly with his friends was agitating him so much?! Why should it even matter? What they have is just a convenient tying of knots to have both of their dreams and ambitions safe, it wasn’t like they were a couple or anything. But then what is this burn that’s raging in his veins?
“I..nothing..you’re such a jerk..ugh!” He was jittery as fuck and tried his best not to curse at the other.
“What is it baby? Why are you upset? About me owning the place? You own it too, you know”
Seokjin’s eyes snapped at the other.
“Don’t be so surprised Jin, I brought you here because I need your help.”
“What help?” His brows furrowed this time, as he watched Taehyung gaze at him as he leaned back into his chair.
“Not now, I’ll tell you later” he said a soft smile curving at his lips “and about the trophy thing, you do belong to me” the smile now turned to a smirk as he leaned close to the other, making Seokjin’s brow rise “I won’t deny that I love showing off my gorgeous husband, what’s so wrong in that?”
Seokjin flinched a bit when he felt his palm set on his upper thigh.
They were soon surrounded by the group again as they joined the couple for breakfast, and Seokjin tried to shove the hand away but to his distress the grip tightened. He glared at Taehyung, who answered with his signature smirk as he pushed his fingers to caress Seokjin’s inner thighs over the fabric of his breathable cotton pants and softly pinched. Loving how the other squeaked being unprepared and tried to hide it away with loud fake coughs.
And while the rest enjoyed their breakfast, passing food and happy giggles over the table, Seokjin was battling through the most awkward situation he has ever faced in his life.
“Enjoying baby?” Taehyung licked his lips eyeing Seokjin’s red face, pursed lips and jittery movements who tried his best to appear composed while he moved his hand pressing onto Jin’s crotch. Instantly he felt nails dig on his wrist, as he watched Seokjin biting on his lips.
“What’s wrong baby? You haven’t touched your food at all” Taehyung teased, smiling at the white-knuckled grip Seokjin had on his spoon “want me to feed you?”
“Great! You’re gonna make us watch all this cuddly stuff knowing we’re deadass singles here?” Hyung-sik complained and Minho turned to him “bro, I’m here for you, I’ll feed you” “Fuck off!”
The rest shared a laugh watching them wrestling against each other while Seokjin dug his teeth harder into his lip feeling the hand palm him at a greater pace. It was completely beyond him how Taehyung could be this obscene and so casually at that, his friends were right there!
“The face you’re making right now makes me want to fuck you right here, show everyone who you belong to” Taehyung’s lips ghosted over Jin’s ear.
“Will y-you s-stop this..” Seokjin whispered pressing his eyes shut and bit down a whimper as the other got more forceful with the ‘touching’.
“Open your mouth babe” and Seokjin tried his best to glare at him but sadly could only manage to look like an angry little hamster with his cheeks puffed out.
A soft grunt escaped his lips and he felt Taehyung push the spoon inside his mouth.
“Are you okay?” Seokjin felt a hand on his shoulder and his head snapped towards the voice to see Ara looking at him with concern.
“What’s wrong Seokjin? I can call you Seokjin right?”
Seokjin felt the hand on him pause and found his voice to speak “y-yeah Im-fi-fine” he stuttered out, getting embarrassed beyond belief and tried his best to get the naughty hand off of his crotch.
“You look uncomfortable” Seokjin cursed at Taehyung under his breath as Ara kept watching him.
And he stumbled onto the best solution to get out of his difficult situation “yeah, a-a bit, excuse me for a while, will you?” He fought against Taehyung’s forceful grip on his thigh, who obviously wasn’t happy as he figured Jin was trying to flee and gripped harder.
“Babe, I’ll be back in a moment, enjoy your food” “No” Taehyung grumbled lowly “where are you going? I’ll come with”.
“No!” Seokjin freaked out knowing why Taehyung wanted to come along and what would inevitably happen if he did. “I mean, you just got to meet your friends after such a long time, enjoy your time.”
Taehyung bit into the inside of his cheek, his grip tightening further to hint the other that this defiance is going to cost him but he had to loosen his grip. Seokjin saw his best chance and took it as he pressed a kiss on the other’s cheek and he winked “don’t miss me too much, I’ll be back before you know it”. With that he jumped out of his seat and hurried away, desperately trying to make sure nobody saw the bulge under his belt.
There was no way he was going to let sex do away with the rage that burned in him right now.
That fucking bastard had dared to call him a trophy that belonged to him!!
BELONG!!!
And to top that he had even dared to embarrass him like that, how dare he?!
Anger surged in him further when he had managed to calm his hormones down.
That’s it, Seokjin decided that he was being too easy on Taehyung and the fucker was taking it to ridiculous levels now.
No more.
No more was he going to let himself fall weak to Taehyung’s charms. The only problem was, it was very.. very... very hard to do so.
He was trying his best to overlook the fact of how good it felt to have Taehyung’s hands on him and how easy his reactions came when the other dominated. It would be a sheer lie if he said that he doesn’t have a thing for Taehyung’s relentless actions, a lie if he said that thrill didn’t surge within him when he palmed him under the table knowing that other eyes could catch their actions.
But it’d probably take Seokjin ages and a parallel universe to accept that out loud.
By the time his frustration lessened he found himself in the middle of an unfamiliar hallway with no idea how he reached there. He was sure he had taken a left after stepping out of the restroom, but then his mind had kind of wandered and suddenly here he was.
“Oh Sir, I just sent the gifts to your suite” Seokjin turned around to see a young hotel personnel in a tailored gray suit address him with a smile.
“Thank you” both bid a bow and the other was about to walk away “umm hey Ji-han-ssi?” Seokjin read the name-tag on his well-pressed suit jacket “could you, maybe show me around the place, I’m kinda lost”. He chuckled to himself and saw the other watch him with charmed eyes “sure Sir”
“Please call me Seokjin”
“Okay” he smiled with a nod and they strolled through the grand corridors, the elegant lounge-rooms which gave a bountiful view of the seascape and ambled over the gravelled path that narrowed to meet the golden sands of the beach.
“This is such a beautiful resort” Seokjin thought out loud “although, sea sides are just not my thing but can’t deny the beauty the place actually is”
“It’s one of the grandest places at Amalfi but we lost a couple stars over the years” Seokjin could hear the remorse in his voice “that was also the reason why Taehyung was sent to work here but there was not-"
“Jin!”
Both of their heads snapped at the gruff enraged call, and Seokjin instantly turned away deciding to ignore the glare and clenched jaw Taehyung was flaunting right now.
“Yes Ji-han-ssi, you were saying” he casually strolled ahead, trying to act as if he did not hear anything.
Seokjin could see the man’s eyes apprehensively jump between Taehyung and him.
“For some reason Seokjin-ssi, I think you should hear him out” “I don’t want to, I was rather enjoying our conversation, carry on will you?”
“He looks pissed” Ji-han tried again to warn him.
“Good for him” Seokjin spoke through gritted teeth.
“Jin!!”
He heard the loud holler approaching nearer, and turned around with an eye roll to bump right into the other.
“You were supposed to come back to have your breakfast, what the hell are you doing here?”
“Didn’t feel like it, someone ruined my appetite” he crossed his arms over his chest, damn ready for a combat.
“Everyone was waiting for you, aren’t you being a bit too rude?” Taehyung’s hands turned to fists trying to find ways to overpower Seokjin’s snide comments.
“Ok, Seokjin-ssi I’ll be taking my leave now” Ji-han slowly edged away wanting no part in the drama.
“But Ji-han-ssi you agreed to show me around the place” Seokjin whined, blatantly ignoring Taehyung the first chance he got, he really didn’t want to be left alone with the super duper jerk right in front of him more so now because Taehyung looked really furious.
A pounding pain on his hand caught Seokjin’s attention and before he could realize Taehyung was dragging him by the arm.
“H-Hey! Let go!” “You made a friend I see” Seokjin couldn’t see his face but his rough gait and angry grip told him that he wasn’t happy about it.
“I know you’re quite the exhibitionist but don’t create a scene here Taehyung, let go of my hand” he spoke, voice dead serious while he squirmed, trying to pull away.
Taehyung stopped and abruptly turned about, jerking the other to bring him face to face with him and for a moment Seokjin was actually scared to see the look in his eyes.
“I introduce you to my friends and you accuse me of treating you like a trophy, and then feel free to befriend anyone you want to, and roam around having the time of your life while I am waiting for you to come back to me!! What are you trying to prove huh?”
“N-Nothing” Seokjin gulped, but then remembered why he had been angry in the first place “don’t you d-dare act all high and mighty now, you know damn well why I had to leave the table”
Seokjin countered his glare this time, shooting daggers at the other.
“Now, let go of my hand”
“No”
He vehemently fought against the grip to get free “stop acting like a child Taehyung!”
“Should have thought about it earlier, I warned you about being rude to me, didn’t I?” “Hah! So what? You want me to act like a scared little puppy for you?!”
“Oh no no, you don’t have to act. I rather enjoy making you go weak with my own hands and...” he gave a wicked implying smirk and pulled Seokjin closer, grip tightening in a challenge.
“Fuck You!!”
Seokjin stomped on Taehyung’s foot, his anger reaching the limit at the other’s mean mockery and he was glad to see it resulting in exactly what he had wanted.
Taehyung instantly let go of his hand, a loud groan leaving his mouth as pain shot up his foot “arrghh! What the fuck Jin!!”
Seokjin grimaced at the others’ over-acting, scoffing to see him lean against a wall with his eyes pressed close.
“I can’t feel my toes, I think you broke something” “Serves you right asshole, look what you did to my hand” he put his wrist up to show the dark red marks Taehyung’s grip had left.
“Ok..ok, I understand, sorry...now help me, com’ere” Taehyung gestured him to come nearer and shoulder him inside, while Seokjin crossed his arms over his chest safely standing a couple feet away.
“Promise me first, you won’t do any weird embarrassing stuff in public ever again” Seokjin put forth his first demand.
“Are you seriously going to do this in such a situation? It’s your fault that I need help” “Of course, what better opportunity than this?” Seokjin smiled his sweetest.
“You are pure evil” “Look who’s talking”
“Okay, but no promises if you tempt me or piss me off” Taehyung warned ahead “now, come here and help me”.
Seokjin took a step closer but still not too close “second, don’t ever shout at me. I don’t like it and how dare you? I am older than you”
Taehyung watched him straight in the eye, he was still not sure how he was going to ensure his dominance with Seokjin being this controlling.
“Don’t push it too much sweetheart” Taehyung smiled trying to straighten and put pressure on his leg as he felt the pain lessen reasonably by now but he hobbled a bit, intentionally.
He beamed and had to tone down the grin when Seokjin instantly stepped closer to help, grabbing his arm to steady him discarding all his hatred.
Taehyung coiled an arm around his shoulder, pulling him close as he leaned on him, wincing as he took each step.
“Hurts bad” he fake groaned as he limped through the corridor, loving the look of tender guilt on Seokjin’s face and the way he had suddenly fallen silent “how could you hurt your husband like this? You’re so mean”.
“Not like you didn’t deserve it but I didn’t think it’ll get this bad” Seokjin mumbled, truly feeling guilty this time, he hadn’t intended to cripple him but Taehyung just had a way of pushing all his buttons!
“I’m hurt and you’re still being rude”
“Sorry...fine? I didn’t mean to, I was just really angry”
“So you can even take your rage out on me and I can’t even touch you when I want?”
Seokjin rolled his eyes choosing not to argue any more.
He felt Taehyung pull him closer as the hand around his neck tightened “since you forbade me to take my anger out on you in public, I’m gonna do it when we’re naked and in bed. Okay baby?”
Seokjin stilled, eyes flying wide as he felt the warning whisper at his ear and instinctively pushed him away. He watched Taehyung wobble a bit but soon found his footing and victoriously grinned back at him.
“It’s only fair, right?”
"You know what, I hope you have a fracture!"
"Even better, imagine you'll have to do this all the time for a month...my sweet loving husband will be helping me do every single thing! Yayy me!" He flashed his infamous box smile and stole a peck from Seokjin.
Anger brewed inside Seokjin again, there was no way to deal with this man, absolutely none!
He turned away and headed inside, he was sure of only one thing, Taehyung is going to be a nuisance for him forever!
“Jin! Baby...come on...don’t run off!”
Seokjin went straight to shut himself in the suite and despite a thousand and one pleadings denied access to let Taehyung inside, who after awhile finally decided to give him some time to cool off and went to find his buddies.
A few hours later Taehyung stepped out of the elevator with a smug smile on his face as he fiddled with the keycard in his hand, telling himself that his beloved husband was lucky that he had chosen to give him some alone time but now it was time for some payback for how rudely he had treated him in the morning.
“Jin?” He shut the door and shuffled out of his blazer, mindlessly leaving it on the head of a seat as he crossed the room to head into the bedroom. It was still evening so he guessed Seokjin wouldn’t be asleep but as he cracked open the door and the room lit up confusion gripped his heart.
“Jin?” The room was empty and he looked about, checking the washroom and walk-in closet, the balcony and the terrace as worry rose in his blood.
He checked the entire place twice and by this time his worry had dragged in a significant amount of anger as well.
Seokjin wasn’t there.
And he had no clue where he was.
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[A/N] For the sake of the story let's just say that Min-ho and Taehyung are the same age and they were best buddies when Tae used to work there, I hope their characters bring that out. While Seo-Joon, Hyung-sik and Ara are elder than them but all of them share a very amiable bond.
Hope you are all enjoying the story
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