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jimin/yoongi, 4000+ words,
pg,oneshot
Yoongi thinks that photography is all he needs to make his days in college a bit more interesting. And then he meets Park Jimin.
There's twenty more minutes of class and he's free. Yoongi runs his hands along the handle of his bag. He should probably be taking note of what his teacher is saying, but it's not like he doesn't know all of this already. He had taken a year off to laze around and work at his dad's company in America, and ended up looking through his pre-purchased college textbooks out of sheer boredom. All he has to do really is occasionally study, listen to the boring ass lectures and turn in a paper or two. His GPA is pretty high up there with little to no effort, all because of a little too much free time (read: A year of free time). Yeah sure, he had wanted a career in business, but it's starting to get a little boring. Especially since he had picked it as his major. Yoongi watches the other students diligently writing off everything that comes out of their teacher's mouth and wonders if he can fit five minutes of sleep in before he actually gets to leave.
Yoongi's almost late for photography. He had left his cameras in his dorm room and had basically sprinted across campus to make it in time. He'll probably have to stop staying up so late every night reading manga and scrolling the web if the lack of sleep makes him forget to bring his cameras around with him like he always does. A good photo is up to the photographer, but it'd be bad if something worth taking a photo of springs up and he doesn't have his cameras on him. There's a classic vintage camera, he's not sure of the brand as he had gotten it second hand from his grandfather and hadn't bothered to check. The other one is digital, an Olympus camera. He's more inclined to use the latter since film is more than expensive and he's no pro when it comes to developing, but on a good day he'll use it and brave the dark room.
He makes it just in time and shuffles into the classroom, taking a seat closest to the front like always. They don't do much in class, discuss cameras, talk about basic principles. Photography is an art, so the real work is in getting assigned a topic and taking photos for it. This week's assignment is "The Human Body."
"Why not use the skeleton models instead? There are like ten of them in the lab." Taehyung says. Yoongi rolls his eyes. The two of them are walking back to the dorms together having both finished their respective classes for the day.
"Why can't you just let me take pictures of you? I need it for a project. Are you really going to let me fail? We've known each other since birth how could you do this to me." It's Taehyung's turn to roll his eyes.
"I met you five months ago dumbass. Why would you even want to take pictures of me? I know I'm the most attractive guy you've ever met but that's taking it a bit far now Yoongi hyung."
"I have a project for photography about the human body don't flatter yourself."
"Why not take pictures of Hoseok hyung? He dances doesn't he? That'd be a good subject for your project." Taehyung suggests.
Yoongi scrunches up his face. "Have you ever seen a picture of Hoseok where his face isn't doing something really fucking weird?" Taehyung laughs.
It's worth a shot though, he doesn't have any other ideas.
Yoongi heads over to the dance studio on the other side of campus early the next morning. Whenever Hoseok doesn't have any other classes, he's at the dance studio. In fact, he probably ended up sleeping there again, which is probably why he hadn't come back to their room last night. Hoseok and Yoongi shared a room, and Yoongi had meant to ask Hoseok to help him out with his project. Hoseok hadn't come back by the time Yoongi had fallen asleep. Yoongi has no idea why Hoseok dances until he passes out in the studio, but he hasn't killed himself yet so he figures it's nothing to worry about.
The walk to the studio from the dorms is a few minutes, but to Yoongi it feels like an hour. When he does get there, much to his annoyance Hoseok is no where in sight.
Yoongi takes out his phone and calls him. It rings three times before Hoseok picks up.
"Hello?" Hoseok sounds way too lively at 6:00AM. Yoongi's eye twitches in annoyance.
"Where are you?"
"I'm with Taehyung. It's movie day. Why were you worried about me aawwww."
Oh right. Movie day. Every Saturday the two torrent movies and watch them together on Taehyung's desktop. Yoongi's starting to regret ever introducing them to each other.
"Are you two dating or something? Is there a relationship I should be knowing about here?" Yoongi asks.
Hoseok laughs into the phone. "What are you even calling for hyung?"
"I'll tell you later go have fun with your movie date or whatever don't forget to use protection."
Hoseok continues to laugh like he always does when Yoongi makes jokes about him and Taehyung. He thinks he hears Taehyung ask what Hoseok is laughing about but by then Hoseok has already hung up.
Yoongi pockets his phone. He could probably just go back to the dorm and start his homework. He's about to do just that when he notices that there's music playing in the other room. Had that always been playing...?
He walks over to the room and peeks inside. There's a boy there, one he doesn't remember seeing around campus before. And he's dancing. The music is just a simple beat with no words, and his dancing isn't as spazztic and flashy like Hoseok's dancing or as precise and perfect like that Jeongguk kid Taehyung is "super best friends" with (as Taehyung likes to call it), but Yoongi can't take his eyes off him. It's like he's overflowing with energy as he dances, like he's having as much fun as possible while dancing and it shows in his movements. It also shows in the ridiculously large smile on his face. Before Yoongi realizes what he's doing he's holding up the camera hanging around his neck and snapping a photo of the boy in front of him. The shutter of his old camera clicks right as the music stops playing and the sound makes the boy start. He whips his head around to face Yoongi.
Yoongi doesn't realize what he's done until the boy speaks.
"Did you just take a photo of me?"
Yoongi looks down at his camera and back up at the boy.
"Um... well you see I have a project for my class and..." Yoongi starts but he stops because the boy is looking at him like he's insane.
"What the hell am I doing shit he's gonna think I'm some kind of creepy stalker." Yoongi thinks. And then "Shit why didn't I bring my digital one it doesn't even make sound I shouldn't have left it to charge."
"Can I see?" The boy says, breaking Yoongi's thoughts.
He's walking over to Yoongi and holding his hand out for the camera.
What?
"What." Yoongi says blankly.
"Can I see the photo?" the boy asks again. Yoongi shakes his head.
"I'd have to develop the film first."
"So you don't know how the photo looks then? Is it a bad one of me?" The boy says, smirking and looking up at Yoongi.
Yoongi swallows with some difficulty. "I could always show you when I get it developed."
"Oh really? I'm Jimin by the way. Park Jimin." He's smiling.
Yoongi nods. "Min Yoongi."
Jimin has no problems with being photographed, so he agrees to help Yoongi out with his project. Yoongi thanks every higher being out there that Hoseok didn't go to the studio or he'd be stuck photographing him and his weird face. He visits the studio the next day to meet Jimin, this time making sure to bring his digital camera. The first person he sees there is Hoseok.
"What are you doing here hyung? I didn't think you walked anywhere more than five minutes from the dorms." Hoseok says, eyes wide. It's true that Yoongi's never really been to the dance studio more than a few times, those few times being that Hoseok wanted someone to keep him company while he's there.
"Shut up if you were here yesterday instead of making googly eyes at Taehyung for three hours you'd know why I'm here."
Hoseok frowns. "I'm genuinely curious though. Is it for another photography project?"
"Yeah." Yoongi says. "But I have a model already."
"Who is it?" Hoseok asks.
At that moment, Jimin walks through the door. Yoongi looks up and points at him.
"He's my model." Yoongi says simply.
"You know Jiminnie?" Hoseok asks. Yoongi wonders about just how many people Hoseok knows.
"You know him?"
"Yeah he's friends with Taehyung. We come here and dance all the time we're like super best friends."
Yoongi is really starting to regret introducing Taehyung and Hoseok.
Yoongi's sitting down on the ground in front of the wall mirror, fiddling idly with his camera while Jimin stretches.
"So do you want to be a dancer or something?" Yoongi asks to break the silence. He's never really been good at conversations where he can't just jokingly insult the person right off the bat.
"Not really, it's just a hobby." Jimin responds. "So how is this going to work? Am I just gonna dance and you snap ten photos and we call it a day?"
Yoongi shakes his head. "I'm not really sure what my teacher means when she says the human body, because the last time I interpreted her topic too literally I just barely passed the assignment." That had been hell. He'd had to take on two extra credit assignments just to keep his average from dipping too much.
"If you don't mind, I'll probably visiting the studio every day this week? It's due on Friday." Yoongi says. Jimin smiles and shrugs.
"I don't mind. Just don't expect me to entertain you while you're here."
Yoongi won't tell Jimin that half the reason he'll go to the studio everyday is because he wants to see Jimin dance more. He doesn't need to know that.
Yoongi ends up staying with Jimin longer than he had intended to. He doesn't remember at what point Jimin had just stopped dancing entirely, or at what point Jimin had sat down next to him and started talking. Jimin is really expressive, kind of like Hoseok but his facial expressions aren't as crazy. He reminds Yoongi of a kid hopped up on too much sugar, he doesn't stop moving his hands when he talks and everything he says is backed up with some kind of nod or shrug. Yoongi finds it extremely amusing. Yoongi also finds it extremely cute, but he pushes that thought to the back of his head, locks it up and throws away the key. The entire time they're talking, his hands itch to lift his camera and take a picture of Jimin's hands or face, but he doesn't. When Yoongi returns to the dorms and opens the door to his room he walks over to his bed and flops down on it. Hoseok looks up from what he was reading and grins. The grin is anything but innocent.
"Where have you been all day? With Jimin?" Hoseok asks.
"I've known him for literally a day Hoseok go fuck yourself."
Hoseok's laughter can probably be heard all around the school.
Day two of the project and Yoongi thinks that he should probably start taking some photos of Jimin so he actually knows what to work with. He's sitting in a lecture, absentmindedly writing notes. He'd much rather be at the studio with Jimin, but that doesn't mean anything special. He'd much rather be anywhere than in class. He's bored to tears, and when he's bored he tends to fall asleep. Today is no exception, but if he falls asleep in class he'll probably miss something important. When class is over he more or less sprints out the door and rushes outside. He bumps into Jimin on the way to the studio and they end up walking together.
"Don't you have class now?" Jimin asks.
"No but I have class in the next two hours."
Jimin nods. It's a cold day today and he's wrapped himself up in a huge scarf. Yoongi figures the scarf is probably longer in height than Jimin is. His cheeks are red due to the cold and it's unbearably cute. Yoongi's hands twitch and he digs into his bag and pulls out his digital camera.
"Jimin." Yoongi says. Jimin turns to look at him and at that moment Yoongi takes a photo.
"What, I thought you said dancing." Jimin says.
Yoongi shrugs. "Photography is also a hobby y'know."
"I don't mind but at least warn me first. What if it turns out weird."
Yoongi turns the camera back on and shows the photo to Jimin.
"You look fine." Yoongi says.
"What about the one from Saturday?"
"I haven't gotten around to developing it yet. I'll probably go later today or something. No guarantees you'll see it though, almost every photo I develop myself gets ruined."
"Don't ruin it then." Jimin says, smirking like always.
"Yeah yeah fine whatever you brat."
Yoongi actually manages to take a few photos of Jimin this time. There are a few where he's stretching, but hardly any of him dancing. Yoongi is actually too transfixed by Jimin's dancing to actually remember to take any photos of him. If he could, Yoongi would just record a video of Jimin dancing but that'd be a bit creepy. Yoongi doesn't want to freak Jimin out or anything. They've only just met, but Yoongi can feel himself getting attached already. He finds that a bit worrying.
"Why weren't you at the studio today?" Hoseok asks. It's Tuesday night and they're in their room at the dorms.
"I had an essay that's due tomorrow to write." Yoongi responds not looking away from the screen of his laptop.
"Is that so? Jimin was waiting for you." Hoseok says.
Yoongi doesn't look up.
"Is he still there now?" Yoongi asks. Hoseok shakes his head, which is pointless because Yoongi isn't looking at him.
"He left before I did. He seemed kind of disappointed actually."
Yoongi sighs. "I probably should have gone today then."
Hoseok smiles. "I think he likes you. He was asking me where you were."
Yoongi scoffs. "He's working with me on a project. I was supposed to be there so him asking that doesn't really mean anything. Do you have his number by the way?"
Hoseok raises an eyebrow. "Yeah...why?"
"What else would I ask for a phone number for idiot." Yoongi goes over to Hoseok's bed and plucks the phone out of his hands.
"Hey, hey wait." Hoseok shouts and makes a grab for it.
"Calm down I'm not looking at your sexts to Taehyung." Yoongi says stepping back and dodging Hoseok's failed attempt to reclaim his phone. He sends a text to Jimin using Hoseok's phone with his number and instructions to text him back. He hands the phone back to Hoseok.
Hoseok grabs it out of his hands and lightly kicks him in the side. "At least ask first why don't you? Not even a please wow hyung you're so polite."
Yoongi waves him off and goes to find his own phone. It takes a good ten minutes of searching before he finds it in one of his sneakers in the closet. Sure enough, there's a text on it from an unknown number.
guess who~ also why weren't you at the studio today?
i had an essay that i needed to do
hey at least tell me from before i waited there for an hour
sorry ill go tomorrow i know you were lonely without me
yeah sure say that if it helps you sleep at night hyung
shut up park jimin
Yoongi ends up texting Jimin for the rest of the night. At one point he laughs a bit too loudly at something that Jimin texts back at him and wakes up Hoseok.
Hoseok throws a pillow at him. "Stop texting your boyfriend and go to sleep."
Eventually Jimin stops responding and Yoongi assumes that Jimin fell asleep on him. Sure enough, when he wakes up he has a text.
SORRY I FELL ASLEEP SHIT.
Yoongi laughs and rolls out of bed.
Yoongi flips through the pictures on his camera on the way to the studio. He's looking through the ones he has of Jimin, making sure that he has enough body parts to properly fit the topic. He'll probably have to bullshit his way through the paper they have to write about their project, because there is really no reason as to why he chose a dancer in particular.
"Yoongi hyung wait up." Yoongi turns around to see Taehyung walking towards him. Yoongi stops and waits.
"What are you doing over this side of campus hyung? Aren't all of your classes in the other building?"
"Yeah but I'm here for my photography project." Yoongi holds up his camera.
"Oh can I see your photos?" Taehyung sticks his hands out and makes grabbing motions.
Normally Yoongi wouldn't mind sharing his photos with Taehyung, but for some reason he'd rather not share these.
"I'll show you when the project is finished." he says.
Taehyung pouts. "It's not like you have nude photos on your camera or anything right? Unless you do, although that would be taking your photography project a bit too seriously..."
Yoongi stares at him. "Out of all the places to keep porn you think I would keep it on my camera?"
"Why is that what you're offended by..."
"All I have on it right now are photos of Jimin anyways." Yoongi says. He tries to sound casual about it but it's kind of hard with the shit-eating grin plastered on Taehyung's face.
"He's the model for your project right? Hoseok hyung told me about it."
"Hoseok tells you about everything at this point that's not even surprising."
"Just show me I already know what Jimin looks like naked."
Yoongi sputters. "There is so much wrong with what you just said I don't even know where to begin."
"Why are you turning red hyung I was joking." Taehyung's grin is threatening to split his face in half and Yoongi wants to punch him. Taehyung snatches the camera from Yoongi while he's distracted and runs off laughing.
"HEY YOU BRAT!" Yoongi shouts and sprints after him.
When Yoongi finally catches up he swats Taehyung on the back of his head and grabs his camera back.
"Are you sure you need that many photos though hyung? Half of them don't even have him dancing."
Yoongi raises a hand to pause because he's out of breath. He should probably start exercising or something because he feels like he's dying.
"You're really unfit hyung. Maybe you should get Jimin to help you out." Taehyung says and wiggles his eyebrows.
Yoongi swats Taehyung again."Do you ever stop talking?"
Taehyung laughs. "You still didn't answer my question though."
Yoongi shrugs. "I don't just take photos for projects ok, I take them when I feel inspired to."
"Does Jimin inspire you?"
"Do you ever stop talking?"
"Wow you look tired hyung. Are you ok?" Jimin asks when he sees him. Yoongi is sitting on the floor playing with the settings of his camera.
"I don't know I stayed up late talking to a certain brat I know. Have you heard of him his name's Park Jimin."
Jimin laughs and Yoongi has to resist the urge to snap a photo of him. This happens a lot. If Yoongi let himself take half as many photos of Jimin as he wanted to, there'd be more than three times what he currently has on his camera. Jimin doesn't inspire him to take photos or anything, it's just that Yoongi can't stop taking photos of him. He's pretty dissatisfied with the majority of them, they never seem to capture the playful energy that Jimin radiates.
Yoongi watches Jimin as he does his usual warm up stretches and absentmindedly snaps one or two photos of Jimin's sneakers. He's not particularly interested in them, but the project is supposed to be about the human body, not "the human's face and occasionally the rest of him". Not that Yoongi minds taking pictures of the rest of Jimin. If he's honest with himself he'll admit (not to anyone) that Jimin does have a pretty nice body. Muscles are something Yoongi tends to appreciate on other people rather than himself, since his laziness have caused his abs to smooth over. Not that he cares too much. Yoongi begins to wonder if Jimin has abs.
"Hey Jimin."
Jimin looks over at him, eyebrows raised in question.
"Life your shirt for a second."
"What."
"Just do it I want to see something."
Jimin looks at him strangely but complies, lifting his shirt up just a bit.
Yeah he has abs.
"You have abs."
Jimin blushes and frowns at him. "Is that really what you wanted to look at."
Yoongi gets up and goes over to Jimin. He pinches Jimin's cheeks and they become redder. Yoongi should just take a picture of this as well. "I don't understand how you can be so squishy and muscular at the same time. Are you human?"
With some difficulty Jimin manages to speak while Yoongi is pinching his face. "If I wasn't would I be volunteering for your project about the human body? Also please let go of my face that hurts."
Yoongi ignores him. "You're so cute Jimin. Why are you so muscular.?"
"Hyung let go of my face."
Yoongi lets go, but only so that he can take a picture of Jimin as he rubs his cheeks. Yoongi thinks he should probably worry about how cute he finds Jimin, but he'll worry about that later.
On Thursday Yoongi discovers that along with the problem of finding Jimin cute, there's another problem. Jimin's a pretty cute kid, up until he starts dancing. When he's dancing he's...not cute. Yoongi hadn't really noticed it the first few times watching Jimin dance, but he realizes now that whenever Jimin is dancing it's like his sex appeal goes up by maybe ninety percent. Plus ten. And it's incredibly frustrating to watch. Yoongi can't even hold his camera up properly, and fuck the project he wish he had taken a video of this particular dance cover (Jimin mostly does dances to hiphop and bboying, but he occasionally does dance covers to those flashy kpop songs that Yoongi hears on the radio). Yoongi gives up when Jimin does this hip roll thing and excuses himself early. He uses another class as an excuse and Jimin doesn't question, staying behind to practice some more. Yoongi all but sprints back to his room and flops down on his bed.
"Fuck." he says.
Hoseok looks up from his paused Candy Crush and up at Yoongi.
"What did Jimin do now?"
Yoongi rolls over and throws a pillow at him.
It's Friday. Yoongi's already gotten most of the photos he had chosen printed and has them all in a thick brown envelope. He hands them in to his teacher and tells her that he'll have the written part of it emailed to her by tomorrow evening. Yoongi doesn't really have a reason to go to the dance studio anymore, and he doesn't feel like making up excuses to battle Taehyung and Hoseok's accusations and wild theories about his love life or lack thereof. He might just be starting to believe them himself. It's been less than a week since he's known Jimin and that's crazy, but he can't get the stupid kid and his stupid smiles and dumb face and annoyingly nice body out of his head. Jimin moves too much, he's too expressive and it's hard to catch in one photo, but Jimin is all Yoongi wants to take pictures of and he thinks that's crazy too. Yoongi doesn't think he's in love, that'd be pretty pathetic, but he does like Jimin a bit too much. It's only when he's taking his cameras out of his bag to go distract himself that he realizes there's something else he should be doing instead of going to the dance studio, so he heads in the other direction.
where have you been? why don't you tell me when you're not coming to the studio hyuuuuunnnnngg
the project was due today remember? i dont have to go today but dont worry about that i got something to show you tomorrow
what is it?
i said ill show you tomorrow, its not that special anyways
tell me
nope
hyung you suck
wow brat who said i had to give you anything at all? in fact never mind guess ill just keep it to myself
no im sorry please show me tomorrow
good boy
Yoongi heads over to the dance studio at around twelve in the afternoon that Saturday. It's a bright day out and Yoongi wants to take a photo but his digital ran out of space with all the photos of Jimin on it and he doesn't feel like developing anything. When he walks into the dance studio Jimin is already there.
"What is it?" he says when he sees Yoongi. Yoongi laughs.
"Not even a hello? Kids these days have no manners."
Yoongi reaches into his bag and pulls out a small photo.
"You wanted to see this right? I managed to not ruin it." He hands the photo to Jimin. It's the first photo that Yoongi had taken of him. The photo is just Jimin smiling to himself after dancing, nothing special, but Yoongi likes it. Out of the hundreds of photos Yoongi has taken this week, he likes that one the most, and he's glad he actually took the time to develop it properly instead of ruining it like he always does.
"It's not that bad." Jimin says finally. Yoongi snatches it out of his hands.
"I'm happy you don't like it that much because I'm keeping it. It's cute."
Jimin blushes. "I'm not cute."
"Sure you are. I've taken hundreds of photos of you and my camera lens is still intact. That must mean something." Yoongi says. He pulls his old camera out of his bag since his other one is pretty much useless right now and snaps a photo of Jimin.
"I thought you said your project was done."
"Yeah it is. But photography is a hobby of mine y'know? You're a particularly interesting subject."
"Sure I am. Why wouldn't I be?"
"Shut up brat."
Jimin laughs. Yoongi raises the camera and takes a picture of that too.
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A/N:
"College AU with Yoongi studying a boring major but taking photography classes every year and then he has this assignment about the human body and he goes to the dance building in campus and meets Jimin who never stays still but is everything Yoongi wants to take pictures of, even if he doesn’t say it loud."
1. THIS IS FOR A PROMPT I SAW ON TUMBLR AND I JUST WANTED TO WRITE IT??? I HAVE EXAMS THIS WEEK I'M SO SMART WHAT AM I DOING WRITING FIC.
2. I'M SORRY IF IT SEEMS REALLY...IDK....I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT COLLEGE MAJORS OR DANCING OR CAMERAS OR WRITING FICS
3.THE PROMPT WAS HERE YEAH
4.As for their ages Yoongi was supposed to be in his third year of college but since he spent a year in america right after high school (for no good reason i just put that in there) he's in his second year with Hoseok. Taehyung and Jimin are in their first year. Jeongguk is mentioned like once but he's still in high-school.
5. I'm sorry there's no beta and I've been typing this for the entire day i'll go back and edit it later