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just one day

chapter twenty-two, part two; a tumblr worthy day
taehyung's perspective
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"What're we doing here, Kook?" I asked, my butt was all the way to the edge of the passenger seat as I looked up at the giant thrift shop we were parked in front of. The engine was idle as Jungkook mindlessly twirled the keys in his hand, his eyes gleaming with a mischievous glint that sent my heart racing.

"We're going to play a game, Tae-Baby." He said mysteriously before continuing on, "We have ten minutes to pick out the most ridiculous outfit we can find for the other to wear. So you make me a ridiculous outfit and I make you one. Make sense?"

"Yeah, I gotchu." I nodded thoughtfully, hilarious ideas already springing to mind. If only I could get lucky enough to find the things I thought up.

"The timer starts as soon as we enter. Once the timer is up, you can't get anything more and we head to checkout. Then after that we can both change into our ridiculous outfits. Of course, any and all props are allowed." I could see that his thoughts were definitely concocting plans just as mine were, although I bet the lucky bastard had been thinking about it all morning which was a totally unfair advantage. I'd just have to wing it and come up with the best possible outfit I could manage. I snapped out of my thoughts as Jungkook continued on, "Whoever has the more ridiculous outfit, as chosen by the cashier, who will serve as judge, gets breakfast in bed for the next week."

Suddenly this went from a friendly competition to a high-stakes challenge. One I was most definitely prepared to win.

Jungkook must have sensed my newfound resolution because he chuckled and gave my head a friendly rub, messing up my hair which resulted in a half-whine and half-sound-of-discontentment which made him laugh more.

"You're too cute, babe," he said, making a cooing sound as he pinched my cheek and gave it a little shake.

"Uh-uh." I swatted his hand away and pouted, upset that what had been perfectly decent hair was probably now disheveled.

"You ready to start?" He asked as he adjusted his body to slip his car keys into his pocket.

All thoughts of ruined hair and pettiness left as the eagerness to whoop Jungkook's ass at creating a ridiculous outfit took forefront control of my brain.

"Hell yeah, let's do this."

We both got out of the vehicle and stood in front of the door, each of our respective phones held in hand as we got our timer's ready. Our thumbs hovered over the start button and our free hand had a grip on the door handle.

"Ready..."

"Set..."

"GO!"

We both started the timer and burst inside the thrift shop, scaring a couple of elderly women but I was too focused on the task at hand to take the time to stop and apologize to them.

I immediately headed to the section I was banking on most; the costume section. With Halloween being just around the corner I had figured that this would be the best place to look for ridiculous articles of clothing. I quickly found the section, as I had suspected it was towards the front of the shop and had a large sign displayed that claimed it to be the, "Halloween Costumes." Just what the doctor ordered.

Jungkook has scampered off to god-knows-where but I didn't see him nearby, so I was quick to snatch anything that seemed bizarre and crazy; underwear themed gloves there, feathered suspenders here, and a pair of pants that seemed to have once belonged to a unicorn costume but had at some point lost the top that belonged with it. Or there was a weirdo out there that just specifically wanted a unicorn themed costume shirt, not that I was in any position to judge. You do you, boo.

Deciding that the rest of the costume section was a bust I wandered off to the shoe section, praying that they had what I wanted. I caught sight of Jungkook, who was hurrying past me to an unknown destination, and tried to catch a glimpse of what he was holding. All I caught sight of was something knitted and something that seemed tie-dyed. I cringed.

I reached the section designated to be the place to store shoes and started searching for clown shoes, thinking that possibly they could be here, when I caught sight of something that I was sure would earn me a win. I grabbed the pair of shoes and almost laughed out loud. Of all the luck.

I abandoned the shoe section and moved on to the shirts, specifically the women's shirts. Luckily I found what I was looking for; a sheer, sparkly overshirt that I imagined would look so funny on Jungkook's toned body. I risked a glance at the timer and realized I only had a minute and a half left. I had taken too long in the Halloween section. My eyes widened and I took off at an almost full-sprint, my destination the hat section. It took me thirty seconds to find it, thirty precious seconds that I couldn't afford to waste. Once I reached it I realized that someone else had this idea.

Jungkook stood in the section, a wild looking hat in his hands that he quickly hid behind his back when he saw me coming. Were those barbie dolls? I almost didn't want to know. We made eye contact for a few seconds before he slowly backed away and left the section.

Not wanting to waste any time I immediately searched for what seemed to be the most ridiculous hat and was disappointed when I saw that there were mostly just worn-down caps left. Damn Jungkook, he must've taken the only funny looking hat!

I was about to abandon ship when I caught sight of something buried beneath the caps. I fished it out and smiled widely. I was so winning.

My phone's timer went off and, a half second later, I heard Jungkook's go off in the distance. I readjusted everything I was holding and started to make my way to the front of the store. I could see Jungkook's head above the clothes racks and smiled as we met up at the front.

"I'm so winning this, Jeon." I said with more confidence than I think I've ever had in my life.

"Nope, I've got this in the bag."

"I guess we'll find out."

We both got in line, with me in the front since Jungkook was ever the gentleman. I was anxiously bouncing on my feet, the desire to win growing strong. I definitely didn't want to get up early to cook Jungkook breakfast every morning for the next week.

We both got strange looks from the cashier, who looked bored out of his mind as he checked us out. I hoped he would be willing to judge for us. Once we were both checked out we swapped bags, neither of us had looked at what the other was buying so it was still mostly a surprise.

We trekked back through the shop to the two dingy changing rooms in the back, the only thing keeping the world from viewing my changing form being a threadbare curtain hanging. I entered the dressing room and set the bag on a precarious looking chair that sat in the corner. I started shifting through it and laughed out loud. Apparently, the tie-dyed item I had thought I'd caught a glimpse of earlier had been a multi-colored striped sweater that sported a disfigured looking cat on the chest. A quick search of the rest of the bag revealed; one disgusting pair of baby pink suspender pants, billowed for the ultimate fashion insult; an appalling pair of orange heels that were shaped like duck's feet; an obscene fringe necklace made out of what appeared to be children's lost hopes and dead wishes; and, finally, the most horrific, ghastly, monstrous, abhorrent, and every other word that could possibly mean "disgusting" hat in the world. It gave me the impression that some sick, twisted pervert probably sat in his mother's basement and created this awful thing. Of course Jungkook would choose this. The hat had the top of a blonde wig that had what looked like a sweatband attached to its base which, in of itself, was gross enough to stare at but whoever made it decided that wasn't enough because they glued naked barbie dolls along the sweatband.

"Are you almost done?" Jungkook asked, startling me out of staring at the hat any longer. I realized that I had spaced out in disgust of the hat for longer than I thought.

"Yeah, gimme a minute." I said as I stripped down and put the new outfit on.

As soon as I was done I exited the changing room and caught sight of Jungkook who had been patiently waiting for me, I started laughing. At the sound of my laughter he looked up and soon joined me. We both looked ridiculous.

But Jungkook looked even more ridiculous wearing the unicorn costume bottoms, a sparkly sheer shirt, feathered suspenders, an easter themed hat, underwear themed gloves, and the centerpiece; a pair of wedged pink crocs.

As soon as we could breathe again, though it was made difficult because every time I looked at Jungkook I started laughing again, we eventually made our way to the front of the shop. I guess while we were changing the cashier from before must've swapped with another employee because there was now a bubbly girl who was checking people out.

Jungkook and I waited for the line to disappear (the thrift shop wasn't busy so it didn't take long) and as soon as we stepped up and the girl saw us, she burst out into laughter.

"Oh my god! Please, please tell me I get to be the judge in your costume challenge." She gasped. I caught sight of her name tag and saw that her name was 'Haruka'.

"That's actually exactly what we just came to ask you," Jungkook said, looking slightly impressed that the girl had caught on so quickly. "We need you to tell us who has the most ridiculous outfit, please."

Haruka was quick to slide out from behind the counter and immediately started scanning Jungkook and I from head-to-toe.

After another minute or so she finally stopped circling as and faced us, her lips pursed in thought.

"Well, your outfits are both ridiculous, but there's obviously only one clear winner here." Haruka declared as she pointed her finger at the winner.

"God dammit!"

mwahahaha. stay tuned to find out who the winner of the contest is! i do love me some suspense. i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.

here's a question for you; who do YOU think the winner of the contest should be? taehyung or jungkook?

this chapter is dedicated to kimnamsoon for their numerous books, some of my favorites being; Personal Slave, Power Bottom, and Countdown.

have a great day my darlings!

anna out ✌️