Yoongi sucked at the lit cigarette while the boys rambled on about their encounter with Victoria and Iseul the previous day. They were all sitting on the concrete floor of the pool behind SNU. He only sighed while Taehyung bounced in excitement and Hoseok fought to speak over him, Jungkook and Namjoon discussing it behind them as Jin watched the scene, amused. His eyes flickered to Jimin, who was only smiling down at his lap.

"Hey," he said after blowing out, making everyone stop talking. "Jimin, you're awful quiet during this discussion about Victoria."

The younger looked at his hyungs with doe-eyes. "What?"

"What did you think of her?" Yoongi asked, a fond smile gracing his face. He'd always had a soft spot for the kid.

Jimin shrugged, cheeks puffing into happy little circles. "I don't know—I...think you should meet her, Hyung." He paused, smiling growing wider—if that was even possible. "She's really pretty and smart and she knows a lot of things and she's stubborn and—"

"Jimin Hyung has a crush!" Jungkook shouted, pointing a teasing finger at him. "Our shortest friend has a crush!"

Jimin lifted his foot to kick at him. "Aish! I don't like her! You like her! You...you think she smells like rain!"

"Sounds like you like her," Yoongi mumbled around the cigarette, voice flatter than a twelve-year-old girl's chest.

The younger furrowed his eyebrows with a pout. "All I'm saying is that she's cool."

"Wait, so you don't like her?" Jungkook asked, looking up from his phone.

"No," he lied.

The youngest shrugged. "Oops."

"Oops what?" Jimin asked, edging panic. "What did you do?"

Jungkook pressed his lips together. "Um...nothing?" Jimin quickly stood and rushed to him before grabbing his phone. "Hyung!"

Jimin's eyes went wide, his heart dropping into his stomach when he read the screen.

He turned on the teenager with a wide-eyed gaze that read murder. "Okay...I'm gonna kill you," he said in a eerily calm tone.

"Hyung..." Jungkook scooted backward as Jimin advanced on him. The others only watched in amusement until the phone pinged with a notification.

The older looked at the screen, shocked. "She...she responded." It pinged again.

"Wait, what did Jungkook say?" Hoseok asked eagerly.

"What did Victoria say?" Namjoon followed up.

Jimin's cheeks flushed as he handed the phone back to its owner, who let out a high-pitched laugh. "She said he was cute!" He turned to the screen around to show the hyungs.

Jin furrowed his eyebrows, watching the scene unfold. Jimin? Why Jimin? What about Yoongi? He looked to the stoic man to find him as indifferent as ever. Didn't Yoongi care? Didn't his soul feel drawn to Victoria at all, even in theory? It left a sour feeling in his stomach.

"Let me take care of this," Jungkook muttered before typing furiously.

Jimin would have protested, but he was too soft to even hear the maknae. He sunk to the ground to sit again. "She thinks I'm cute..."

"And you don't like her," Namjoon scoffed.

Hoseok leaned over to wrap an arm around his shoulder. "Jiminie has a crush!"

"Jiminie has a date," Jungkook interjected, showing his phone screen to them. "Look what I did!"

The boys all broke out in excited shouts. Except Jin.

Jimin didn't know how much more shock he could take. He had a date with Victoria. She was beautiful, feisty, artistic in so many ways. She was perfect so far—and it had only been barely a day. But he felt like it had been so much longer. He couldn't help but smile like an idiot, heart beating with anticipation.

He had a date with Victoria.

A/N: Sorry it so short but I'm just kick-starting shit bc i'm impatienttttt