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Jungkook: A demigod. He's about to turn 22 and in order for him to get to rule over the heavens like his godly parents have, he needs to wed first. He was supposed to take over at age 21 but Jungkook is more interested in partying and having fun that he's put it off. He has a bit of powers as his parents do too. He's very strong and can create light. He's very reckless and doesn't take things too seriously and thinks highly of himself.
Taehyung: A regular broke college student working as a server for events and just trying to get by with his friends. He's human and has no idea that even demigods exist as other humans don't know either. Gods and demigods try to keep their secret well hidden.
Jin: Jungkook's brother and also a demigod. Jin is more calm. Their parents are throwing this party too in hopes Jin finds a wife too.
Yoongi: Jungkook's best friend. He likes to party too and be reckless alongside him. Most of Jungkook's bad ideas come from Yoongi first.
Jimin: Yoongi's boyfriend and Jungkook's friend as well. He's also a demigod and joins in in causing trouble.
Namjoon: Tae's friend and works alongside Tae too.
Hoseok: Also Tae's friend and works with them too as a server.
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"Come on dude!" Yoongi nudges Jungkook "Just think about how much more fun we could have and less rules we'd have if you convince your parents to have the party on earth."
Jungkook sighs and runs his fingers through his hair as he thinks.
"Imagine it. Your birthday party on earth. All the things we could do that we can't do up here. Think about how much more alcohol we could have at the party." Yoongi chuckles.
"It's not that I don't want the party on Earth. That sounds amazing but I don't think I can convince my parents to have it there especially when they want me to be finding a goddess to marry at this party." Jungkook rolls his eyes annoyed.
He liked hook ups, partying and drinking but he didn't care for marriage and hated the thought of it and being tied down to one person. He was Jeon Jungkook after all the most powerful demigod, son of the most powerful god and demigod mother.
"Well can you convince your brother, Jin?" Yoongi asks.
"Maybe. Why do you ask?" Jungkook furrows his brows.
"Because if you can convince him, then maybe he can convince your parents and make it seem like it's his idea in the first place." Yoongi smirks.
A smirk paints Jungkook's lips too at the idea. Of course his parents will definitely go along with whatever his goody-two shoes brother suggests. It was the perfect plan. He had never been to earth but had been able to watch from above and see how much funs the humans had. He too wants to have that much fun and see how much he could do with his powers on earth but now it's a matter of convincing Jin. And convincing Jin wasn't easy but Jungkook had somehow finessed the truth and said it would be a great learning opportunity and that Jin could do research for his studies if they had this party on earth. Jin was fascinated by the idea that he pitched it to his parents.
The party was soon set. Jungkook was already planning on all the things he and his friends could do at this party. He couldn't wait.
Of course they would all have to be careful to hide the fact that they're gods and demigods from the humans but they knew how to do it.
The day of the party soon arrives. Jungkook's parents had invited all their god, demigod, and goddess friends to attend in hopes of getting their sons interested in a goddess for them to marry.
Some of the single goddesses were excited at the chance to finally have a one on one with Jungkook and the possibility of being the one he chooses to marry and rule the heavens alongside with them so they prepared their best gowns and makeup for the event.
Jungkook's father had various powers. One of them was his ability to create things out of nothing and he was able to create a beautiful, lavish, temporary home for them to have their party in and spend time at. After all, the Jeons loved the finer things in life.
"Were gonna have so much fun tonight." Jungkook says as he jumps on one of the expensive couches and lounges on it.
Yoongi and Jimin chuckle as they look around the new home Jungkook's father created out of thin air basically.
"What are you guys wearing tonight?" Jungkook then asks.
"I'm wearing my new Gucci outfit and Yoongi here is wearing a Fendi suit. How about you?" Jimin then asks.
"Probably my new Louis Vuitton outfit and new rolex." Jungkook smirks proudly as he thinks about his possessions.
Being a god or demigod automatically made you wealthy due to your powers and status, especially if your parents were powerful gods too. They were able to acquire whatever they wanted because of it.
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"Wow, what do you guys think they do for a living?" Tae asks as he enters the grand, luxurious home alongside all the other workers and his friends. He stares up at the expensive chandelier and wonders if that alone costs more than everything he's ever owned in his life.
"I don't know but we better start setting up all this food. You're supposed to be helping us carry all this stuff in remember?" Namjoon says as he carries a big heavy box and follows the rest of the workers.
Taehyung can't help but stare at it all and look at the pretty art on the walls.
"I don't know what these guys do for a living but if I were you, I wouldn't touch anything. What if you break something and have to spend the rest of your life paying for it." Hoseok adds.
"Yeah, remember, we can also make tips tonight so I suggest you guys start prepping the platters huh?" Namjoon chuckles as he hands Tae a box of stuff and shakes his head.
Tae takes the box and realizes Namjoon is right. He's 21 and it's his final year in college. he could use all the money he could get to pay for his student loans and rent.
He had been working really hard for as long as he could remember. Tae never met his parents. They had died in a car accident. His grandma had been taking care of him since he was little and she herself could barely make ends meet so Tae had to rely on working 2 to 3 jobs to save up for his tuition.
"Ok, let's get set up then." Tae sighs as he looks at the expensive statue in the corner. That statue alone could've probably paid off his entire student loans. He knows he's gonna have to work hard all night to get paid and possibly get good tips.
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Jungkook smirks as he looks at himself in the mirror. He looked expensive and knew he looked good. His jacket was adorned with many diamonds and he liked the confidence boost all his expensive things made him feel.
He then hears a knock at the door. He goes to answer it and sees that it's Yoongi and Jimin.
"I can't believe you pulled it off." Yoongi chuckles. "We're finally here on earth."
"Yeah, I'm ready to drink so much without any restrictions." Jungkook smirks.
Up at the heavens, gods and demigods could only consume alcohol in the form of wine and you could only drink a certain amount of it before it disappeared. They could thank Dionysus for that.
There was so many rules up there and Jungkook hated them as it limited him and his friends to partying the way they wanted to. But tonight that would all change.
Later in the evening, Jungkook and his friends are outside in the backyard consuming their weight in alcohol, breaking bottles, and dancing to music that even Apollo himself hasn't even heard of.
The party has been going on inside the grand home but the house was so big that Jungkook and his friends were able to sneak away from it and have a party of their own outside.
"Jungkook! This is where you've been?"
Jungkook and his friends suddenly hear and turn to see Jin standing there looking furious.
"Mom and dad have been looking for you and asking where you've been. They want you to dance with some of the goddesses." Jin says.
"Well dance with them for me." Jungkook chuckles as he smashes another empty beer bottle against the nearby concrete wall.
Jin sighs. "I see you're inebriated. This is why you wanted the party here on Earth huh?"
"Who cares, Jin. Have some fun and don't be a party pooper for once." Jungkook laughs along with his friends.
"Our parents are gonna find out and you're gonna be in big trouble, Jungkook." Jin crosses his arms annoyed.
Jungkook only mocks him and repeats what Jin said in mocking tone.
Jin rolls his eyes and scoffs. "You're unbelievable."
"I know I am." Jungkook runs his fingers through his hair as he smirks.
"So immature." Jin shakes his head and leaves.
"Ugh come on guys lets go find another party spot inside. Jinnie over here is probably gonna tell on me and it won't be long before my parents come out here." Jungkook scoffs.
The friends nod in agreement as they sloppily grab their alcohol and snacks and follow behind Jungkook. Jungkook and the group of friends stumble through the party. Thankfully there's a lot of people that they can hide in between to get to there desired location within the enormous home. They bump into different people as their semi drunken state has them almost stumbling.
"Deviled egg?" Jungkook hears someone next to him.
He then stumbles and accidently crashes onto the source of the voice.
"Ow!"
He then realizes it was one of the servers offering him an orderb.
Jungkook quickly gets up as he doesn't want to draw any attention to himself. He sees the server still on the floor, the deviled eggs all over his shirt and pants now smearing his uniform.
"Oh my god." He hears the server say as he quickly too tries to get up and collect the remnants of the deviled eggs onto his tray.
Jungkook stills for a bit for some reason watching him pout as he kneels on the floor quickly trying to gather it all onto his tray. He smiles for a millisecond before realizing his parents or other people are gonna come over and be aware of his inebriated state.
"W-Watch where you're going will ya?" Jungkook says to the pretty server that pouts even more and looks up at Jungkook.
"Tae! What are you doing?" He hears another server come over and help up the cute server that's still collecting the deviled eggs and trying to clean off the mess with his hands off the marble floor.
"I w-was just trying to clean up. I dropp-"
"Tae, you should've grabbed a wet towel and not used your hands. Gross you're covered in eggs. Go take a break for now by the bar. I'll clean this up." The other server says.
"Ok." Tae pouts before glancing over at Jungkook and blushing as he see other people from the party looking at him and what a mess he is. He looked embarrassed as he made his way to the bar to sit down and take a break.
Jungkook just stands there following this pretty server's every move with his eyes.
He watches him sit over by the bar, pout and sigh as he crosses his arms and rests his head on them, looking defeated and tired.
The pretty server soon seems to feel Jungkook's eyes on him as he looks over and makes eye contact with Jungkook.
Jungkook suddenly feels like the wind's been knocked out of him and he can't understand why he can't look away and if this fluttering feeling in his chest is normal.
He notices the pretty server seems to blush again and look away, paying attention to the mess of deviled egg on his uniform and white button up shirt instead now, but Jungkook still stares. It's like a force is keeping his vision towards this lowly human server.
"Jeon Jungkook?"
Jungkook's attention towards the cute being is suddenly interrupted and he seems to come back down to earth at seeing what seems to be a goddess right in front of him now.
"Hi, I'm Yeji, goddess of flowers. I was wondering if you'd like to dance?" She smiles at Jungkook.
Jungkook is a little tipsy and glances over to where that server was but he's not over by the bar anymore. He seems to have disappeared. He doesn't feel like dancing right now.
He's about to decline her offer but then he notices his father approach.
"Son, a lovely goddess is asking you for a dance. I have yet to see you mingle with any of the eligible goddesses here tonight so why not take her up on her offer?" His father suggests.
"S-Sure." Jungkook smiles at Yeji as he tries to compose himself and put up a façade to hide the fact that he's somewhat intoxicated and his breath reeks of alcohol.
He bows towards the goddess as he takes her hand but still glances towards the bar and still seeing it empty.
Jungkook stumbles a bit as he leads the dance. He slow dances with the goddess as she talks but his mind seems to be somewhere else as he looks around. For some reason he wanted to see if he could spot that server again. He still has that weird fluttering in his chest but it seems to be going away now. Maybe he shouldn't have drank so much. Maybe that's why he's having these feelings he's not used to.
Still the prospect of seeing that server again has a weird fluttering feeling in his stomach now as he still glances around and lifts his head a bit to look over Yeji's head to see if he spots the server again.
"Looking for someone?" Yeji lightly giggles.
Jungkook suddenly stops looking around as he remembers he's supposed to be dancing with this goddess and hasn't even been paying attention to a word she's been saying.
"Oh uh... no j-just not feeling too good." Jungkook half lies. He really doesn't know what these weird feelings are and he thinks he might've had some bad alcohol and that's what's been causing it.
"Oh I'm sorry to hear that." Yeji replies as they still slow dance.
"My parents really wanted me to dance with you so give me 30 more seconds before you run off to the bathroom and puke." Yeji laughs.
"The bathroom..." Jungkook mumbles as suddenly he gets an idea as to where the server might be.
He doesn't know why he feels the need to see him again but he figures these weird feelings will go away if he just runs into him again. He just has to prove to himself that the server indeed is actually human and not some diety that might've put a curse on him to feel this way.
"I h-have to go now." Jungkook says as he lets go of the goddess and backs away.
"Oh... well it was nice to meet you I guess." Yeji's voice fades as Jungkook pushes through the crowd of dancing people and makes his way to the nearest restroom.
He usually loves luxury but right now he curses as he doesn't know how many restrooms this house has but he figures the chances of the server being in the nearest one are way better
He finally makes it to the door where the nearest restroom is and notices a slight line to get in. He doesn't see the server there in queue and is about to walk to look somewhere else but hears that familiar voice nearby the restroom by some couches.
"It was so embarrassing."
Jungkook looks over to see the server sitting there wiping at his shirt with a damp cloth as 2 other servers sit there helping and listening.
"Tae, it's ok. Not a lot of people saw." One server says.
"Still, you heard our supervisor, he was so mad." Tae pouts.
"It's ok, we'll have you all cleaned up in no time and I can cover your side and you can take over mine so people won't remember it was you." One server says as he helps the cute server wipe his shirt clean.
Jungkook doesn't know why he feels a bit irritated now. He blames the alcohol. But he approaches them and crosses his arms.
"You would be clean right now if you were less of a klutz and were wearing a better fabric." Jungkook chimes in with a smug look.
The trio freezes.
Tae pouts and knits his brows as he realizes who saying this. "Hey it was you. You were the one who bumped into me and made me cause this mess."
"Tae..." One of the server mumbles.
"Hah! Me?" Jungkook chuckles. "Maybe if you had better shoes, you wouldn't have slipped."
"Hey, I just work here. I'm not gonna bedazzle myself like you to serve eggs to rich, pompous, people." Tae says looking Jungkook up and down.
Jungkook gasps, his brows furrowing as he stares down at the cute server. How dare a lowly human servant make sly remarks and talk ill about his expensive suit.
His heart is beating so fast and he feels like he's about to throw up for some reason as he stares down at the server.
"For your information, this his an exclusive louis vuitton suit. Each diamond hand placed on this suit. This jacket alone costs 80k." Jungkook huffs.
"Ok... and?" Tae shrugs.
What? Jungkook is confused. Usually when Jungkook tells people the price of things, people start groveling and apologizing at his feet or wanting to seduce him due to how rich he is but this server looks indifferent. What the heck are these feelings he's feeling right now?
"Y-You..." Jungkook points to Tae and stutters. He's at a loss of words and doesn't know how to process his response and how he's feeling right now.
"Tae, that's the owner's son. They own this house." One server leans over and whisper yells to him.
Tae's face goes blank and turns pale. He's so fired now.
"Uh... I- I gotta go." Tae quickly gets up and runs away at realizing he just offended the owner's son.
Jungkook is left frozen and stunned as he stands there watching the cute boy run away.
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That night when the party's over and everyone's left and gone, Jungkook fully sobers up but still has these weird feelings. He lays in his bed and stares up at the ceiling. He can't seem to fall asleep. He feels scared. He's never experienced any feelings like this.
He keeps thinking back to that server and his cute pout and even when he tries to close his eyes to sleep, all he sees is him, his soft plush lips, his golden curls and those pretty piercing eyes.
Jungkook takes a deep breath and wonders if he should tell someone about this and maybe they can tell him what's wrong or maybe this is a one time thing and it will pass. He closes his eyes as he thinks it might be the latter.
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The next day Jungkook wakes up. He showers and puts on his favorite expensive clothes and does his hair. Smirking to himself as he picks out and expensive watch to wear. He wants to go out and have fun with his friends today and forget yesterday.
But as gussies up and looks at himself in the mirror he doesn't feel that confidence he usually feels when wearing expensive things. He doesn't feel important or rich and his smirk soon fades.
The sudden image of that server shrugging and saying "ok... and?" replays in his mind and he frowns. He can't believe some insignificant human's words have affected him this much. What was wrong with him?
Jungkook ponders a bit more. He knows he was probably attracted to the human but he usually never feels like this when he's attracted to someone. He just gets them in bed once and then they're out of his mind.
Jungkook's smirk returns as he begins to get an idea. An idea that will surely get that server out of his mind for good. He just needed to hook up with him like all the rest and he would be over it.
He then quickly goes to find his father. He's gonna need something in order to pull this off.
"Can we have another party this weekend?" Jungkook quickly asks as soon as he finds his father in the dinning room with his mother having lunch.
"What? Jungkook, why?" His mother questions.
"Oh he probably wants to see that goddess Yeji again." His father says to his mother.
"Oh... uh yeah." Jungkook says. "I feel like another party where we can have some more time to get to know eachother will be good."
"Ok son, we'll set everything up." His father winks at him.
"Good. Great. Thank you father." Jungkook smiles. "But one more thing..."
"What is it, son?" His father asks.
"Can we hire the same staff as yesterday? They had the best orderbs and kept everyone fed all night." Jungkook asks.
"Oh well sure son. We'll get right on it." His father replies.
Jungkook smiles but he tries to not let that smile turn into a smirk.
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The weekend soon arrives and Jungkook feels excited for some reason. He bought himself a new expensive outfit, shoes, accessories, and even got his hair done. He smirks as he continues to get ready in front of the mirror. This ought to impress that server, he thinks.
He even makes sure his father buys the most expensive food to be served and hires people to decorate the house even more for the party. He wants this party to be way better than last weekend's and leave that server with his mouth hanging open.
"You sure you don't wanna drink with us tonight?" Yoongi asks as he watches Jungkook finish getting ready.
"No, you guys can drink. I'll hang out with you guys but I have another thing to do tonight." Jungkook replies.
He was actually scared to get too drunk again, fearing that those fluttering feelings from last time were because of him drinking too much.
"So what, you're gonna look for this guy tonight and hook up?" Yoongi scoffs.
Jungkook had told him about his potential hookup but left out some details like how he felt and that this hookup was a human and not a demigod, god, or goddess.
"That's the plan." Jungkook says as he fixes his expensive cufflinks. Jungkook's plan was actually to impress this server, hookup with him, and never see or think of him again. He thinks that by hooking up he'll rid of these constant thoughts about the server.
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The party soon begins, the overly decorated home lights up the night and Jungkook makes sure to be at a spot where he knows that server will be again and wanders around the kitchen area. He stands tall and waits by the kitchen feeling so debonair as he watches servers pile out one by one with trays of food. His heart feels like it stops briefly when he finally spots him walking out of the kitchen with a tray of champagne flutes and begin offering them to guests.
Jungkook smirks. His hubris has him puffing up his chest as he slowly approaches the cute server who's oblivious to Jungkook's presence.
"I'll take one of those." Jungkook says in a haughty manner as he takes a champagne flute from his tray.
Jungkook stands in front of the server and almost flexes as he drinks, showing off his new expensive clothes and stylish hair as he takes a sip of the champagne putting on his best show to impress him. But he chokes on the champagne as he watches the cute server barely glance at him and move on to other people.
Jungkook feels stunned that the server barely batted an eyelash as him. He was the best dressed and most powerful demigod there and he acts like he's nothing.
Jungkook stares, mouth agape as he watches him get further and further away and offer champagne to other people. He groans a bit annoyed and follows behind when he sees he's around less people now and his tray is almost empty.
Jungkook practically huffs and stomps over to him.
Tae's startled when he's met with the angry looking demigod.
"You!" Jungkook points.
Tae suddenly remembers who this guy is and gasps. "Look, sorry, I didn't know who you were the other weekend but you were being a jerk."
"What's your name?" Jungkook asks like he's angry but he really wants to know.
"Uhm... Taehyung. Look, please don't tell my boss. I really need this job." Tae begs.
"Taehyung." Jungkook smiles finally putting a name to the pretty face.
And pretty Taehyung is indeed Jungkook comes to find out as he is close now and can see all his pretty features like the mole under his eye, the tip of his nose, the side of his lip, the soft looking lips, the golden honey skintone, and those pretty alluring almond-shaped eyes.
"Am I in trouble?" Tae asks as he sees Jungkook's been spacing out but truly the demigod had been stunned by his beauty.
"What? No, not yet at least." Jungkook quickly shakes it away and replies.
Tae whines and pouts.
Jungkook finds it ridiculously cute.
"Look..." Jungkook sighs cooling his temper at the fact that Tae didn't seem to be impressed by him but also remembering his plan. "I'm Jeon Jungkook. My parents own this home and anything I say goes. So if I want you fired, I can say the word and it'll happen and so far you haven't done anything to get me to that point quite yet, although you were close last weekend." Jungkook says.
Tae whines a little again. "I'm sorry Jungkook sir but you were being mean to me for no reason so I kinda snapped but I promise it won't happen again."
"it's ok, just make sure to do a good job tonight." Jungkook says feeling nervous for some reason the more he interacts with Tae.
"I will. I'll go serve up some more champagne." Tae nods as he hurries back to the kitchen with a now empty tray.
Jungkook smiles as he watches him bump and stumble his way there. He suddenly realizes he's been standing there smiling and clears his throat as he walks away.
He starts walking over to the kitchen area too hoping to catch Tae again and interact with him some more but he's suddenly stopped by a familiar face.
"Jungkook, hi." Yeji smiles blocking Jungkook's field of vision to where Tae went.
"Yeji, I-"
"Your parents told my parents that you threw this party in hopes of talking to me again." She giggles.
Jungkook wants to groan. Of course he forgot his parents were probably gonna do this.
"Oh, yeah well I wanted to get to know more people too." Jungkook says thinking about one specific cute person.
"Oh, I see." Yeji replies. Well, shall we dance? "I think your parents might be happy with that." She says as she smiles over to where Jungkook's parents are watching.
Jungkook looks between his parents and Yeji. From the corner of his eye he sees Tae's out of the kitchen with a new tray of champagne flutes and disappearing into the crowd.
Jungkook whines a little. This is not how he planned this night to go. "Sure just a quick dance."
Jungkook dances with the flower goddess. He gets frustrated as more goddesses come up and ask for a chance to dance with the demigod but his attention is still on trying to see if he can see Tae still but notices he's nowhere in sight anymore.
"Jeon Jungkook, may I have the next dance?" Another goddess approaches.
"I'm sorry, I have to use the restroom." Jungkook says practically running away fearing he's wasted too much time on these people when he had a specific goal for tonight in mind.
Jungkook looks around. He can't seem to find Tae anywhere. He feels desperate to find him for some reason and even resorts to going into the kitchen to look for him as he gets weird looks from all the chefs and servers in there.
"Hi, is there a Taehyung around in here. Do you know where he might be?" Jungkook asks a server.
"Oh, uh he went to go take his break out on the balcony." A server replies.
"Thanks." Jungkook hurries out.
Jungkook hurries out to the nearest balcony.
He finds Tae there eating a dumpling as he stares out into the night sky. The server sighs before taking another bite.
Jungkook finds it weird that Tae is out here taking his break when he could be inside looking at all the pretty and expensive things inside his home. He slowly approaches Tae and the cute server almost chokes on the dumpling.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir. I was taking my break." Tae says with a mouth full of food fearing he's in trouble for something. He really doesn't wanna get fired. He really needed the money for his student loan.
"It's fine." Jungkook chuckles as he finds the server's big cheeks full of food cute. "I just came to uh... make sure you were truly taking your break." He clears his throat as that was the best lie he could come up with.
"Oh? Y-Yes I am." Tae says as he finally swallows the mouthful of food.
"Why are you out here instead of inside to take your break?" Jungkook genuinely wants to know.
"Oh... uh I don't know. There's just too much people inside." Tae begins. "Figured I could get some peace and quiet out here. Plus, I work 12 hours a day and so any chance I get to be outside and look at the stars relaxes me." Tae shrugs.
Jungkook pouts as he thinks. The thought of working for 12 hours sounds horrible and ridiculous. He himself has never had to work but there were people up in the heavens that worked but those jobs weren't too long of labor and were actually fun.
So when he watches Tae sigh again as he looks up at the stars he feels something flutter in his chest again. It was the same feeling as last time and it scares him a little again but he too decides to look up at the stars and smiles as he never noticed how amazing the view was and can understand now why Tae liked looking at the view.
Tae looks over at Jungkook and Jungkook makes eye contact with the pretty human.
"It's pretty isn't it?" Tae asks smiling.
Jungkook had never seen Tae smile but it has his heart and stomach fluttering even more now and he feels like he needs to gasp for air.
"I-It is." Jungkook find himself nervously stuttering as he stares at Tae and oh god he wants to know what the hell this feeling is but one thing he knows for sure is Taehyung is unlike anyone he's ever met before.
"Tae!"
Both Jungkook and turn around to find one of the servers coming outside.
Jungkook recognizes the guy from last time and how he was helping clean up Tae.
"Hyungsik hyung?"
"You're break was over five minutes ago. Our supervisor is looking for you." Hyungsik says.
Jungkook is annoyed. This Hyungsik guy interrupted his time with Tae and now Tae has to go back to work.
Tae gasps as he looks down at the time on his phone. "Oh my gosh! I'll be right there."
"Do you want me to cover for you and say you were in the restroom?" Hyungsik asks.
"No thank you Hyungsik. I don't want you getting in trouble." Tae sighs and pouts as he starts walking towards the door.
"Wait!" Jungkook suddenly exclaims. Both Tae and Hyungsik freeze in their tracks.
"Can you tell your supervisor that you were helping me?" Jungkook suddenly asks. He really wanted to spend more time with the pretty human.
Both Tae and Hyungsik stare not knowing how to reply.
"I mean... I'm technically your boss after all and..." Jungkook clears his throat. "...and I uhhh... I would like you to assist me tonight."
Tae blinks still surprised. "M-Me?"
"Yes, you Taehyung. Just you." He says as he glances over at Hyungsik.
"Oh w-well as long as my supervisor knows and I won't get in trouble." Tae says.
"Don't worry your friend there can tell your boss or I can too." Jungkook has a slight smirk as he watches Hyungsik.
"Oh, ok." Tae looks between Jungkook and Hyungsik shyly.
"Fine, I'll go tell them you're helping." Hyungsik says a little annoyed as he senses some arrogance in Jungkook.
Hyungsik leaves and now Jungkook smiles over at Tae.
"So... what did you need help with?" Tae asks nervously.
"Oh I have some things in mind." Jungkook smirks.
Jungkook doesn't know himself what he actually means by that. How does he tell the human he wants to spend time with him in order to impress, seduce, and get him into bed tonight?
So for the meantime, Jungkook has Tae hanging out by his friends helping refill their drinks as they get drunk. Jungkook, Yoongi, Jimin and some of their other friends hang out outside in the garden drinking while Tae just refills their drinks and snacks.
"Hey where's the guy you're trying to hook up with? Did you hook up with them yet?" Yoongi comes and asks Jungkook in a whisper.
"Well..." Jungkook replies looking over at Tae who's coming over with a tray of martinis.
Yoongi looks over to who Jungkook's looking at and chuckles."No way, a human." He whisper yells.
Jungkook nudges him fearing Tae will hear as he approaches closer.
"I was wondering why you brought him over here." Yoongi continues.
Jungkook doesn't reply as he stares at the beautiful human coming closer.
"Uhmmm... they ran out of olives in the kitchen for the martinis." Tae says as he sets the tray of them down next to Jungkook.
"Oh uh... j-just leave them like that. It's fine." Jungkook replies catching himself feeling flustered again at watching the human. How was Tae doing this?
"Oh, ok then." Tae says before going to sit somewhere and sigh as he looks around.
Jungkook furrows his brows. The human looked bored. Usually others are impressed by the amount of 'friends' Jungkook has and how much fun they're having that it has them at Jungkook's side and in bed by the end of the night, but this didn't look like it was going anywhere at all.
He's never not been able to impress someone and it's frustrating Jungkook. The human doesn't seem to be falling for anything about Jungkook and it only makes Jungkook want him even more.
But what he doesn't know is that Tae was just tired. He had gone to classes, worked at his uni's library and then rushed over to work over at this event.
Jungkook furrows his brows when he watches him yawn. He needs to find other things to impress him with before the night ends.
Jungkook walks over to Tae and takes a sip of his drink. He stands in his best pose as he looks around and glances over at Tae.
"Yeah, I know this place is pretty big." Jungkook begins. "But believe it or not this is just one of 5 homes my family owns and they'll be mine soon."
"Hmmm." Tae just nods and yawns again.
"Yup. All 5 and probably more soon." Jungkook adds as he takes another sip of his drink.
Tae just shakes his head and then looks down at his phone for the time. Only 1 more hour until he could go home and finally sleep in his cozy bed.
Jungkook grows even more frustrated. If he would've told that to anyone else they would've oooh and ahhh'd by now and fawned over everything he said.
"Oh, I think one of your friends is out of a drink. Let me go get him another." Tae says getting up.
Jungkook's left there stunned yet again. The way this human was so aloof about everything Jungkook threw at him has him frustrated to the core and he doesn't know what to do anymore since he's pulled all his cards out and would've usually had someone in bed by now.
He's run out things to do. He's never had to work so hard to get someone to hookup with him.
He huffs as he watches the human bring over the tray of martinis to one of his tipsy friends.
He watches the friend take the drink and look at it.
"What!? No olive?" He scoffs before tossing the drink over at Taehyung and drenching his shirt. "Come back when you can bring me a real drink, peasant." The guy chuckles.
Tae pouts and looks stunned at the action as he looks down at his drenched shirt. Tae's eyes get teary as he just nods and walks away with the tray and grabs a towel to try and dry his shirt since it was getting cold, they were outside after all.
Jungkook suddenly feels something he's never felt before. He feels sad and angry. Usually if it was anyone else he would've laughed but for some reason this human is having him feel and do things he's never done before.
"Hey, what's the problem?" Jungkook goes up to his friend who threw the drink at Tae.
"Stupid human can't even make a drink. Isn't that what they're here for anyways and he can't get the one thing right?" The friend scoffs.
"Y-You didn't need to do that, Johnny." Jungkook catches himself saying. What was wrong with him? Why is he defending a human?
Johnny scoffs. "You're joking, right Jungkook?" He questions as he lets out a small chuckle.
Jungkook wants to say more but he glances over to where Tae is who's now shivering as he tries to dry his shirt.
He gives Johnny a stern look before going up to Tae.
"Come on." He says taking the shivering human by the hand and leading him inside.
Tae lets himself be led inside by Jungkook. They rush past all the people inside the party and make their way into a lavish room.
"W-Where are we?" Tae questions.
"My room." Jungkook replies before leading him over to two doors within the room.
Tae gasps when he's brought into a big walk-in closet.
"Pick out a shirt." Jungkook says.
Tae's standing there stunned wondering if he walked into a department store and wondering if he heard Jungkook correctly.
"W-What?"
"Pick out a shirt." Jungkook sighs.
Tae nods and slowly approaches the are where all the button up shirts seem. Jungkook seemed to have a hundred of each item or more but Tae looks through the white button ups as they match his uniform more.
Tae pulls a silky white one out and holds it against himself to see if it would fit. Jungkook's more muscular and wider and this shirt will probably fit a bit big but he would rather have that than a cold, wet, transparent, alcohol reeking shirt.
"That one?" Jungkook asks.
"Y-Yes." Tae nods looking a little shy and his cheeks turning pink and Jungkook can't help to think it's cute again.
"O-Ok take it and put it on." Jungkook says before stepping away and out of the walk in closet.
Tae puts on the soft silky shirt. He could tell it was really expensive by how pretty and soft it felt but he mostly chose it cause it was white and would go with his uniform but he's gonna make sure to not ruin this one in the next hour until he goes home.
"Thank you, Jungkook." Tae says as he walks out of the closet to a pacing Jungkook. "I'll make sure to give it back before I leave tonight." Tae smiles at him.
"Oh... uh y-yeah. Whatever." Jungkook clears his throat not being able to make eye contact with the pretty human.
Tae's smile was doing something to him and he couldn't explain it. He's even wondering why he even lent him one of his shirts. Jungkook's motto has always been 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine.' So for him to forget that has him questioning everything about himself.
"I-I'm gonna go to the restroom." Jungkook suddenly says as his knees now feel like jelly at seeing Tae still smile at him.
"Ok, Jungkook."
Oh god why does his name sound so good coming out of his lips. What the hell was wrong with him??
Jungkook had to step away for a bit. His heart had started beating fast again and his stomach felt like it was fluttering and doing cartwheels, he felt like he was flying through the clouds and it was scaring him yet again. It was a conflicting feeling.
It was a conflicting feeling because although these feelings were foreign, unknown, and new... he liked them but he doesn't know whether he should fear them or not.
Jungkook comes back out of the restroom to find Tae still there looking out the window.
"Should we go back to your f-friends now?" Tae asks as he can see them through the window getting even more drunk.
He only has a bit left of his shift but he doesn't really wanna go back to Jungkook's friends, especially that one that threw the drink at him.
"No." Jungkook seems to sense that. He didn't want Johnny interacting with Tae again.
"Oh, well then should I go back to the others attending your party and serve there?" Tae then asks as he begins walking towards the door.
"No!" Jungkook replies. He also didn't want Tae's last hour to be working at the party away from him.
"Oh? uh... what do I do then? Where shall I go?" Tae smiles sheepishly as he's a little confused as to where Jungkook wants him serving drinks since all the people were inside and only Jungkook's friends were outside.
In all honesty Jungkook doesn't know either. All he knows is that he hasn't gotten anywhere with Tae and the pretty server will be gone soon. He also wants Tae’s attention all to himself so he doesn't know what to say without giving away his intentions.
"You can uhmmm... Jungkook looks around his room and stalls as he tries to think of something. He looks at the shirt Tae picked out and how pretty he looks in it and gets an idea.
"The night's almost over and everyone's pretty much served, so instead, you can uhh... help me with some chores."
"H-Help you with some chores? Jungkook, I just serve food. I don't really-"
"Fine, if you wanna go back to serving rude people and getting more tired be my guest or you can relax and do easy stuff that I need help with for the last hour of your shift. It's up to you." Jungkook shrugs but he’s so desperately hoping the lovely human chooses the latter.
"E-Easy stuff? Like what?" Tae asks. He could use something easy. He was so tired and sleepy.
"Like uhmmm... helping me organize my shirts in my closet." Jungkook says. "Now that you've gotten familiar with my closet, you can help me organize it a bit better." Jungkook says.
"Y-Your closet? Just organize it?" Tae asks. It actually did sound easy and way better than serving drunk people.
"Yup." Jungkook nods. "I just need you to help organize by color and anything else in there."
"Oh? Ok. I can do that." Tae smiles.
"Great. Let's not waste time then." Jungkook says.
Tae nods and follows behind as they go back into the huge walk in closet.
"First we'll go through my shoes. We can sit here on the floor and organize them." Jungkook says.
Sometime later, Jungkook and Tae find themselves forgetting about the task and just sitting there talking.
"Really you're going to school to study painting?" The concept of paying a lot of money to paint and be an art teacher seemed so absurd to Jungkook.
"Yes." Tae laughs. "I love art. I always have even as a kid."
Jungkook can't help but smile too. He had spent the time listening and learning new things about the human and he wanted to learn more.
"So why don't your parents just buy you the tuition thingy for the school?" Jungkook asks in a funny way since he's still learning about all this and he's so used to his parents getting him everything, why don't Tae's parents do the same?
"I never met my parents. Well I did but I was 1 when they died in a car accident, so I don't even remember them. My grandma took good care of me though." Tae explains pouting a bit and Jungkook doesn't know why he feels his heart constricting now.
"She didn't have much and is very old now, which is why I've been having to work a lot to support her and myself, but thankfully I'll be graduating soon and maybe then I can finally have a job I like that pays well." Tae sighs.
Jungkook sits there for a bit contemplating everything Tae just told him. He's always had it easy and has had everything he's wanted. He can't imagine what it's like to work so hard to barely get by.
"S-So what do you do for fun?" Jungkook asks almost worriedly now. "He wonders when the human has time to have fun and relax like he himself usually does.
Tae chuckles as he shakes his head. "Well in the small time I have during some of my days, I like to paint, listen to music, and go for walks. It's all I really have time and money for usually but I love it." Tae smiles.
Jungkook smiles. He wants to learn more about the human. He finds everything about Tae so interesting and endearing.
"Well..." Tae says getting where they were sitting. "We should take these boxes of donation clothes out to your garage for pickup before I go home."
Jungkook frowns. He had almost forgot that Tae was supposed to go home.
"Oh, y-yeah. Let's take them." Jungkook picks up 3 of the boxes.
Tae's eyes widen at how easily Jungkook picked those heavy boxes up and is carrying them in one arm.
"What?" Jungkook questions as he sees Tae surprised face. He had forgotten one of his powers is strength and he can lift things so easily without breaking a sweat. To Jungkook, these boxes feel like he's carrying a sheet of paper. He forgot to hide this power from the human.
"Oh..." Jungkook looks at the 3 boxes he's carrying."I uhh... I work out a lot with a really good strength trainer."
"Oh wow, y-you're really strong." Tae gulps and laughs nervously as he sees how big Jungkook's bicep flexes as he is carrying those boxes.
"Uh... yeah." Jungkook laughs nervously. "You can bring the other box." He then says. He honestly could've carried that one too but he doesn't want the human not believing his previous lie.
"Ok." Tae nods picking up the box and following behind Jungkook.
They make their way to the garage, thankfully avoiding all the party people. They drop the boxes off in there before making their way back to Jungkook's room.
"I should probably give you your shirt back and wear my own since my shift's over." Tae says with a sad smile.
"But yours is wet and dirty." Jungkook says as they continue making their way back to Jungkook's room.
"It's ok. I think it might've dried by now." Tae says.
Jungkook pauses and Tae pauses too as Jungkook looks like he's thinking really hard.
"Why... Why don't you keep it?" Jungkook says.
"Keep it!?" Tae looks down at himself and the shirt he's wearing. he knows it's expensive. Why would Jungkook just let him keep it? "I can't do that!"
"Why not?" Jungkook furrows his brows.
"B-Because it's yours and you probably paid a lot for it." Tae says still shocked.
"I haven't worn that shirt since I bought it a year ago. Trust me, you can keep it. I-It looks better on you." Jungkook says nervously.
Tae blushes as he looks down at himself again.
"Are you sure?" Tae then mumbles, the pink on his cheeks still evident as he questions.
"Yes, just keep it." Jungkook says. The fluttering of his heart was going crazy right now.
"Wow, t-thank you so much Jungkook. I really like this shirt actually." Tae smiles at Jungkook and if his heart was fluttering before, it now feels like it wants to jump out of his chest and then there's that weird feeling in his stomach again.
"Y-Yeah, uh no problem." Jungkook says as he clears his throat and feels his face heating up for some weird reason.
"You're the best boss I've ever had." Tae jokes and giggles.
Jungkook smiles and can't help but stare at the pretty human laughing and smiling. He was just so captivated by him. However, Jungkook's smile soon fades as the moment is interrupted by a paper airplane floating over and bumping on Tae's shoulder before falling to the floor.
Tae picks up the paper airplane and opens it up to show a cute drawing of a sleeping bear with a note reading 'time to go home!'
"Ahh Hyungsik hyung." Tae turns around to find the owner of the paper airplane
Hyungsik smiles from across the hall as he starts walking towards them
Jungkook's face morphs into a scowl as the other gets closer.
"Ready to go Tae?" Hyungsik smiles and pats Tae's shoulder.
"I guess." Tae says glancing back at Jungkook and then back at Hyungsik.
"We just gotta take the last of the stuff to the van as we leave." Hyungsik says.
"Ok, I can help with that." Tae says.
Jungkook stands there feeling off and upset.
"Well, thank you so much Jungkook. It was nice working for you and getting to help you organize your closet instead of working for the last hour." Tae laughs lightly. "And thanks again for the shirt. I promise to take care of it."
Jungkook stands there realizing two things: One, he never did what he originally intended tonight as he completely forgot and was caught up into learning more about the human.
And two, he doesn't want the human to leave and possibly never see him again. The thought of that feels like he'll have to survive without breathing and Jungkook is internally panicking cause he doesn't know what to do and what these feelings are making him want to do.
It didn't feel fair. He used to be able to get people he wanted to sleep with so easily without feeling anything. He wonders if the human is experiencing any of these same weird feelings he's been feeling but it doesn't seem like it.
"Well.. goobye." Tae says as Jungkook's still too lost in thought to say anything and the silence was driving Tae bit crazy already.
"B-Bye." Jungkook whispers.
Tae smiles and walks away.
Jungkook's heart feels like it constricts again. He feels confused. He already misses the human but he's still there walking away. He can't help but start to feel frustrated at these feelings now as he watches Tae help Hyungsik carry something and both make their way towards the door.
He can't let this end like this. He wants more of the human and he honestly doesn't know what that even is but he thinks quickly as he waves his two fingers and suddenly all the lights go out.
Tae gasps in the dark. "The lights went out!"
They hadn't gone out. Jungkook had just used his other power. His ability to control light.
"Careful." Hyungsik can be heard in the darkness as he can hear Tae struggle to carry the stuff he was carrying now due to the darkness.
Jungkook smirks in the dark and tiptoes over.
"It's dark I can't see." Tae can be heard saying to Hyungsik.
Then boom a sudden crash and a shatter of glass can be heard.
The lights turn back on and Tae gasps as he's now standing next to the remnants of a broken vase.
"Oh my god." Tae says.
"Tae what did you do?" Hyungsik whisper yells at him.
"It was an accident. I think I bumped into it." Tae whisper yells back.
"Oh no!" Jungkook runs up to the broken vase feigning worry.
"Oh my gosh Jungkook, I'm so sorry. I-It was an accident." Tae's panicking as that vase looked very expensive.
"That vase was expensive and passed down through generations." Jungkook lies. His father could make one again easily as he had done before when making this home.
"I'm s-so s-sorry." Tae now looks like he's on the verge of tears.
"It's ok Taehyung. You can pay my family back." Jungkook says.
"I'm sorry but I honestly don't think I'll be able to afford it." Tae's bottom lip wobbles.
"It's ok. How about you pay me back by working for us for a period of time until it's been paid off." Jungkook says trying not to smirk.
Tae and Hyungsik both stare in shock at the offer.
"I d-don't think I can do that Jungkook. I work under this company and if I work for you only I'll be fired." Tae says still upset and his eyes getting teary as he thinks about how much that vase probably costs and how long it would take to pay it off.
"W-Well how about I hire the company you work for as a whole for the time it takes to pay off the vase but when you come in to work, you'll just work directly for me and helping me with stuff." Jungkook says as he feels a small tug at his heart at seeing Tae on the verge of tears He doesn't know why he feels like this. Usually Jungkook didn't really care for other's feelings and puts himself first no matter what but there was something about seeing the pretty human sad that Jungkook didn't like.
"I g-guess that could work." Tae replies. If the 'work' Jungkook would make him do was anything like the last hour then it would actually be easy. "How long would I have to work for you to pay it off?" Tae then asks.
"Let's see that vase costs $10,000..." Jungkook makes up a random amount as he pretends to think.
Tae chokes as he hears the amount and wants to cry again.
"Let's just say 4 months." Jungkook then says. "I'll hire you guys for 4 months but you Tae will work for me."
Jungkook feels like he doesn't really need 4 months to seduce the pretty human, he feels like he'll just need a week but the thought of still seeing him around for 4 months has him feeling some sort of way he can't explain.
"4 months?" Hyungsik asks. "You're really gonna hire us for 4 months?"
Unfortunately he just wants to hire Tae but if the whole bunch has to be hired too then he'll have to put up with this annoying guy too.
"Yeah 4 months but Tae will work for me only and you guys will work serving around the house and other things." Jungkook says as he gives a little emphasis on the 'for me' part. He doesn't really care for the others and what work they'll do. He just wants Tae for himself.
"Ok then, I guess if you're able to then I could work for you when we come over." Tae says.
"Great! Let me write up a contract and let your supervisor know." Jungkook smiles. He doesn't want to admit he feels ecstatic.
Once everything's said and done and everyone leaves, everyone goes to bed but that night Jungkook can't stop thinking about Tae. He can't sleep. He feels weird that he's too excited about seeing him again tomorrow and he seems to be all his mind wants to think of now.
He hopes he can just hook up with him soon and get it over with and then maybe these feelings and thoughts will go away too. He still doesn't know how to feel about them.