yoonmin au—
after all those years without seeing each other, the last way jimin thought he would meet his childhood best friend again was while watching yoongi perform a song he wrote for him.
> this is a commission out of my drafts. it’s an original idea and the commissioner picked it up for me to finish writing it.
> angst with a happy ending
> childhood friends to strangers to lovers
> mentions of past homophobia
> the song yoongi performs:
open.spotify.com/track/01DLQFYb…
> angst with a happy ending
> childhood friends to strangers to lovers
> mentions of past homophobia
> the song yoongi performs:
open.spotify.com/track/01DLQFYb…
Jimin has been going on some dates with this guy for a couple of weeks now but he’s not really into it.
It’s nothing official, only some dates even though he knows the man likes him. Jimin can’t bring himself to talk to him about being an actual couple. He doesn't want to.
It’s nothing official, only some dates even though he knows the man likes him. Jimin can’t bring himself to talk to him about being an actual couple. He doesn't want to.
He thinks he should be happier, he thinks he should want to make things official, because Seokwoo is a good man, and he cares for Jimin. But Jimin doesn’t like him the way he should and he doesn’t think he can. However he likes him enough to be out on a date with him right now.
Seokwoo was getting together with some colleagues from his job, so he asked Jimin over since everybody was bringing dates. Jimin likes that from the man, how when he has to bring a date he doesn’t doubt about bringing another man, he’s fine with it. Jimin admires that.
They go to a cozy bar, it’s expensive since it’s in a nice district and Seokwoo asks Jimin to dress nicely. Jimin is excited because there will be expensive drinks and it’s a bar popular because of its live music, so at least Jimin will have something to distract himself with.
Once they are all sitting in one of the tables Jimin remembers he has to make a good impression on Seokwoo’s colleagues. Sometimes this dates feels like a burden to him.
He’s softly giggling though, all smiles and whispers to please Seokwoo’s friend and the man as well.
He’s softly giggling though, all smiles and whispers to please Seokwoo’s friend and the man as well.
He’s way too into a conversation to notice some people from the bar staff preparing the stage. Seokwoo's friends are retelling a funny story so Jimin doesn't catch the performers moving towards the stage. He doesn't even turn when the lights around the stage change.
The live music is about start soon because the boring elevator song gradually stop, Jimin was excited to see the performers when he arrived since they are the main attraction of the bar but now he's more interested in what everyone from the table is discussing about.
There's no introduction from the musicians, they just start playing. And it doesn’t take too long for Jimin to cut off abruptly what he was saying. He stops when he hears it. The piano. Ten seconds of it.
The familiar tune of the piano, from a song he thinks it’s familiar.
The familiar tune of the piano, from a song he thinks it’s familiar.
A beat that runs through his skin. A sound he thought he would never listen to again. He stops talking as soon as it reaches his ears because there’s only one man who Jimin has heard play this tune before. Jimin tenses, his whole body goes rigid as different keys come to place.
Seokwoo looks at him concerned because Jimin just cut himself off in the middle of an anecdote, “Jimin ah?”.
Jimin ignores him, he turns cautiously the other way round, gives his back to everyone on the table and faces towards the stage and of course, he sees him. On the piano.
Jimin ignores him, he turns cautiously the other way round, gives his back to everyone on the table and faces towards the stage and of course, he sees him. On the piano.
Min Yoongi sits in front of the the piano. He's playing a song Jimin has heard before and Jimin sees him and it's as if not a single year has passed because that's Yoongi and a piano. But it’s been ten years. Ten years since Jimin left home and with it, Yoongi too.
He looks the same as he used to when he plays the piano, the same posture and the same expression. But it's different too and Jimin studies his every feature because he thought he wasn't ever going to see him again. He wants to make sure it's actually him on that stage.
He’s no longer a teenager and it’s clear. Yoongi should be twenty eight years old by now, he’s all grown up. Jimin think he looks very different but at the same time he looks exactly the same. With pale skin and pouty pink lips, his dark brown hair that covers his forehead.
His gentle and soft features, they're all the same. Jimin can't believe it, it can't be true. The tune doesn't stop, and Jimin remembers it, every sound that comes next he knows it. It has to be true because of his expression, the loving expression which with he plays the piano.
Looking at him, it’s as if Jimin is fifteen again, and he’s sitting in the music room of Yoongi’s house watching him play, falling in love for the first and last time. Jimin feels a lump forming at his chest, he knows that if someone asked him to talk right now he couldn’t.
It’s really been ten years, and in all this time Jimin thought he would never see Yoongi again. He had believed this so intensely, he didn't let himself even dream of the possibility of seeing the man again. Jimin isn't prepared to see him, the sight in front is almost surreal.
And at that moment when a million memories are running through Jimin’s head, Yoongi opens his mouth. His raspy and low voice fill the whole bar, the microphone making it resonate on Jimin's ear. Yoongi always loved rapping. He always had such a deep voice for it.
He sometimes liked singing too. He was embarrassed because he couldn't reach high notes but sometimes he liked singing to Jimin in a low note. Jimin remembers, in Yoongi’s room. Yoongi would sing to him. In whispers that would leave Jimin’s skin burning the rest of the day.
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