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“Okay. Okay. I can do this.” Namjoon looks up. “Jimin. I can’t do this.”
“Why can’t you do this, Joonie-hyung?” Jimin sits next to him on the bed.
Namjoon has his three best outfits on the bed and two of Taehyung’s blousiest shirts and one of Jimin’s leather jackets even though it won’t fit, but Jimin says it’s for the aesthetic.
“He’s beautiful. And funny. And I don’t know. I feel tongue tied and too tall and I haven’t been on a date since-”
“Do NOT! Say his name, Joonie. You’re better than him.” Jimin takes Namjoon’s hand in his and sighs. He sits up and gestures Joon to do the same. Namjoon straightens his shoulders and elongates his neck like the exercise videos Taehyung has him watch. He takes Jimin’s other hand and waits for them to do their affirmations. He wonders if Yoongi will do affirmations with him if they start dating. Okay. No no. Back up. They have to get through tonight first.
“Say it, Namjoon.”
“I am beautiful and worthy of love,” he starts like all his affirmations. He breathes deep. “I will have a good time with Yoongi on this date. We will like each other. We already like each other. I am worthy of having meaningful connections with people.”
Jimin swings their hands. “Perfect, darling. Now let’s fix your hair in that swoop and you put on the outfit you feel comfortable in, and go get your kitten.”
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They had decided to meet at the outdoor café closer to Yoongi. Namjoon had been there a few times. If they met, then they could leave if it was awkward and not have to deal with each other. Namjoon felt good about making that decision already. Maybe it won’t be too bad tonight. He knows he overthinks, he also knows he has a strike because he didn’t come back when Jimin and Taehyung were having their fight because their relationship was changing, but also, he knows he can be too earnest. He hopes he can strike a balance with Yoongi tonight. He’s already feeling unsettled. Yoongi is just really fucking cute, okay.
When he looks up, Yoongi is standing in front of him, and Namjoon squeaks. Yoongi laughs, but it’s silent and shoulders move up and down. He’s got his hands in the pocket of his bomber jacket and his hair is fixed curlier than usual. He’s even cuter than he was the last time Namjoon saw him. It’s totally unfair.
“Are you gonna hug me? Or are you afraid of all the cat hair?” He laughs again.
“Don’t you have a cat at home? Doesn’t that make it more likely to have cat hair on me at all times then?” Namjoon shuffles closer.
“Aren’t you being a little forward, Kim Namjoon?”
Namjoon stops cold, smile sliding into a quizzical look. “I’m sorry?”
Yoongi laughs at him again. “You’re being presumptuous. I’m going to let you hug me. I’m going to let you in my house on a regular basis.” Yoongi takes one hand out of his pocket and gestures around. “This is only the first date."
Namjoon can feel his face turning red, but he still smiles back. He reaches out and takes Yoongi’s hand before he can put it back into his pocket.
“Maybe I thought presumptuous was the way to go.” He shrugs trying to go for casual and missing comically.
Namjoon turns to go into the door of the café, but Yoongi tugs him back.
He bites the inside of his cheek and looks away before focusing back on Namjoon with a soft smile.
“Let’s do this backwards.”
Namjoon stumbles in toward him closer. Yoongi does not elaborate, but they start walking away from the café and toward the river.
Yoongi asks him questions about his friends and his life, and Namjoon might get lost explaining why he named his plants the names he chose, but Yoongi never seems bored.
He tells Namjoon about all the kittens he’s rescued and fostered, and the ones he’s let go.
“Is it time to go back and eat, or what do you want to do now?” Namjoon wants to shove his hands in his pockets but he’d have to let go of Yoongi’s hand to do it and he doesn’t want to be lopsided or let go of Yoongi so he just smiles to himself.
“I think you should kiss me. Then we’ll figure it out.” Yoongi uses his hold on Namjoon to pull him closer. Namjoon channels his inner Jimin and steps even closer.
He loves how much taller he is than Yoongi. He smiles down at him. Yoongi pokes his dimple.
“Do you like looming, Namjoonie?” But he’s smiling when he says it.
Namjoon moves Yoongi’s hair delicately away from his eyes. “Do you like me looming over you?”
Yoongi huffs a laugh. He looks flustered. Maybe Namjoon overdid the Jimin.
But then Yoongi pulls him down so close to his lips. “It’s growing on me.”
Namjoon puts his arm around Yoongi and closes the distance to finally kiss him.
Yoongi is so soft. His lips are soft, when Namjoon runs his hand up Yoongi’s back to his hair, his hair is soft, when Yoongi sighs it’s so, so soft.
After Yoongi pulls away, Namjoon still holds him close and stays so still. He doesn’t speak until Yoongi looks up.
“Do you wanna go eat now?” He wants to touch Yoongi’s eyebrows. He decides he can. While Yoongi answers, he runs his middle finger over Yoongi’s soft eyebrows.
“I want to climb you like a tree, but we’re in public so.” Yoongi pulls back a step, and Namjoon is left with his hand in midair.
Namjoon laughs, half wild. “You. Um. We could-”
“It’s our first date, Namjoonie. Let’s go eat at that BBQ place you were telling me about instead of the café and then I’ll let you walk me home.”
He takes Yoongi’s hand again. “Sounds good, hyung.” He takes a deep breath and listens to the Taehyung in his head telling him to go for it. “Can we plan our next date?”
Yoongi’s face scrunches in the cutest smile as he stops dragging Namjoon through the streets. “I might never let you go.”
Namjoon scoops him close and looms again just to see Yoongi blush. “That sounds amazing, too.”