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Gods, it was ruined. He felt wetness sliding down his cheeks that was definitely ruining his makeup, the sweet and fashionable yet natural look that he has learnt and redone several times just to appear absolutely perfect for his first date. All of it just to spoil it in a matter of several seconds.
Jimin didn't think he would end up crying when he has been preparing for this day meticulously. He had his hair done, his nails fixed. He has chosen the most suitable outfit out of everything he owned. He's been dreaming about it and just as in those stupid films it was not going the way he planned.
It all started when his friends decided to set him up with an alpha. Jimin was skeptical because they were actually his "so-called" friends, his groupmates he couldn't get along with though he tried. In hopes that it was the way to make up for all the silly bullshit they've been doing since the beginning of the semester he decided to agree. The person in question was the star of the university, the amazing Kim Namjoon. Jimin wasn't a fan of pursuing such alphas that were in the spotlight. He was almost too perfect for him. The omega didn't know anything about him but his scores in basketball and his awards that he has been getting for his excellent marks and science projects. Jimin would have to see what was past those achievements.
When Jimin entered the cafe he realized he has been set up: instead of Kim Namjoon there was the captain of his basketball team, Min Yoongi. A quiet and mysterious senior was rumored to be incredibly rude to anyone else but his teammates. Jimin has heard that he wasn't interested in omegas or any other people at all, rudely denying his rare admirers any attention and rejecting the more insistent ones. Jimin decided that if the ship was already sinking he might as well go down with a smile.
He gritted his teeth, stretching his lips in a careful quirk and approached the alpha. And he was kind of impressed from the very start. Yoongi stood up the moment Jimin walked up to the table for two and offered him a chair in a chivalrous gesture. He was waiting for him to order and didn't flaunt his money or throw around shitty pompous lines that the alphas usually did to impress omegas. After just five minutes of talking with him Jimin sensed there was a calm kind of aura to Yoongj, a sense of security that he has never felt in the other alphas' presence before. And though Yoongi indeed didn't talk much, he immediately showed he was a great listener.
Jimin decided that he might as well try a little harder and genuinely attempt to get to know the person in front of him. And by the end of their set up slash blind date the senior himself was talking without the initial tension. His voice enchanted Jimin. The omega was ready to listen to him with his mouth open. The way Yoongi would tentatively smile and then try to school his face back to the neutral expression was somehow endearing. Jimin didn't know what was going on with him but every time he laid his eyes on Yoongi's features and his attempts at humor, that he actually quite liked, he wanted to giggle and smile. He was simply infatuated.
As it often happens in a couple of hours the scent blockers wore off and even a hint of his musk and magnificent undertones attracted his inner wolf and Jimin felt like it was that rare time in his life where luck was on his side.
Yoongi turned out to be genuine and sweet. Jimin ended up telling him the whole truth and the alpha seemed disheartened up until Jimin said that he truly enjoyed the time they spent together. And that his only regret was that it flew by way too quickly. That's when Yoongi proposed to go on a "real", "proper" date. And Jimin swore to himself he wouldn't spoil it.
So in all fairness that couldn't be considered as something going wrong. But the further events definitely could. First their date had to be postponed because of a phantom heat Jimin suddenly got. That was completely out of the blue and hasn't happened to him before. The second was him forgetting to put his phone away so he ended up messaging Yoongi in the throes of his heat, whining about so many embarrassing things he wanted to delete himself out of online and digital existence forever.
The alpha seemed to be very understanding over the phone when Jimin gathered his courage to call after the heat died down and apologize. Yoongi sounded completely compassionate and surprised Jimin with his knowledge of omegan cycles, slipping some advice in between their conversation subtly. Jimin ended up trying what he suggested and it warmed him up how the elder showed him care so effortlessly.
Thirdly, during their date in the amusement park it started pouring heavily. They rushed into the first roofed building in the line of their vision but unfortunately it turned out to be a ghost house, closed for renovation at that. And they ended up being trapped in there because as soon as the door closed behind them it went off its hinges and it was impossible to open it, at least not with bare hands.
It all turned out to be too much for Jimin. He was slightly tired from his phantom heat, nervous about the date, agitated for no particular reason and when they found themselves enveloped with dust and darkness, the omega broke down, to his utter embarrassment. Admitting he was scared of darkness and cobwebs and all those spooky things would be a cherry on top, wouldn't it? Yoongi would definitely think of him as that typical pathetic omega, always whining, always a damsel in distress. He hated his body that betrayed him like that. Why couldn't it have had a huge internal conflict and stay cool and collected on the outside, like Yoongi always was? His luck was a nonsense.
- Jiminie? Are you crying? - the soft deep voice sounded next to him.
- No. It's just way too dusty in here, - Jimin sniffed, realizing he was sounding exactly like he was doing what he denied.
- Can I hold your hand?
That stopped the sniffling. Jimin could do with a hand in his so he doesn't drown in this dark ocean, half made of his self-reprimanding. He searched with his fingers and they bumped against his hyung's body. His hand was taken inside the secure hold and the omega was slightly pulled to the other, stopping just shy of touching more.
- I think I need to tell you something, Jiminie.
- Ugh, right now? - the omega sniffed again.
- This is kind of urgent.
Just then Jimin thought that the alpha's voice wasn't that confident. He nodded and then remembered that Yoongi couldn't see him well, even with their inhumane sight. The dust was literally everywhere.
- Of course, hyung. You can tell me anything.
Yoongi shuffled on his feet and gripped his hand a little tighter.
- I really don't like horror stuff.
Jimin let out a nervous giggle. Yoongi groaned and swayed their clasped hands.
- I was being serious! This is awful, Jiminie. Don't laugh at hyung.
- I just find this hilarious, hyung. Because I wish I could reassure you but I'm absolutely terrified of spooky things.
Yoongi sighed. Jimin used his other hand and gripped the elder's waist, hugging the alpha. Now, with his scent so close to his nose, Jimin felt much better.
- So what do you suggest?
Yoongi hummed. Without detaching his hand he searched around him, soon finding what he was looking for.
- If we slide this just under there, the door might actually open.
Jimin was afraid the alpha would let his hand go and dreaded that moment. But he ought to have known Yoongi was the unconventional type. He crouched next to the exit, dragging Jimin with him and lodged what sounded like a wooden stick or a plank under the door with the use of his hand and his combat boot.
- Should work. If not I'll break this thing, I don't give a shit.
Jimin giggled at how pouty the alpha sounded even if he was trying to be angry and swore too. Somehow the situation he was in didn't seem all that serious and wasn't scaring him as much. At least he started feeling his toes again. Jimin felt numb with fear before and Yoongi's silliness helped with regaining his senses and pulling himself together.
- Okay, this can be loud, just so you're prepared.
Yoongi pulled the door handle with all his might and Jimin was slightly blinded by the cloudy sky outside that appeared in the open doorway. Yoongi hugged his waist and led the omega out of the damn building. Outside it wasn't that impressive, just an old shed basically. All the scary monsters and the darkness was left trapped inside because the alpha kicked the door shut behind them.
- So they cannot get out and get to us here, - he grumbled an explanation to his actions and the omega laughed at him quietly.
- It's still pouring, - he noted, looking at the distance.
There was no more suitable buildings, not even a single tent in sight where they could hide. He wasn't a fan of walking around in completely soaked clothes.
- Let's just sit over here, - Yoongi said, pointing at the bench covered by the wooden roof that was wider than the walls of the ghost house.
They sat on the relatively dry surface of the wooden bench and Jimin exhaled.
- I'm sorry for ruining it, - he said regretfully.
- What do you mean? You ruined nothing.
Yoongi carefully cupped his face. Still touching Jimin's jawline, he went inside the chest pocket of his flanel shirt and pulled out a handkerchief. He dabbed under the omega's eyes gently and wiped his cheeks. Jimin didn't want to ask, it was obvious that Yoongi was cleaning him off the makeup that slid down his face with his tears.
- Not too awful? - he asked quietly.
- Just perfect, - the alpha replied, hiding the handkerchief again.
He looked over the younger's face and took both hands in his. Jimin felt a little warmer in his cheeks.
- Can I scent you?
Jimin nodded and the alpha lifted his hand, carefully scenting his wrist. He didn't rush, coating Jimin's scent gland with a thick layer of his lovely and safe smell, repeating the same process with the other after.
- Was that scary for you? - Yoongi looked up from his wrist.
He asked it in the softest tone Jimin has heard from him yet and he willed himself not to stupidly tear up again. Instead of answering directly, he surged forward, hiding his face in Yoongi's neck, gulping more of the scented air around the alpha's gland. He was afraid Yoongi would push the needy omega away but the polar opposite happened.
Yoongi enveloped him in the warmth of his arms, pressing the slighter body closer against his. He released calming pheromones and rumbled quietly, sending vibrations towards Jimin. It was the soft kind that sounded more like purring and the young man was immensely grateful that the alpha that seemed so cold at first sight and that didn't know him for too long would go to such lengths to accommodate him and calm him down.
Jimin wasn't blind, he saw Yoongi's playful and adorable nature but he also held in mind that he was quite a reserved person and valued his privacy and personal space a lot. Still he was soothing the omega that he hasn't known for a long time and that brought him some trouble already. And to think it was their first official date!
- It was scary. And just lately... it was a lot, - Jimin confessed, basking in the warmth of the elder's body.
His hands sneaked in the tight space between their bodies and laid on the alpha's chest, pressing into it, feeling the vibrations even more. Yoongi put his chin on top of Jimin's head and sighed deeply.
- You don't need to worry about me at least, -he said, - I understand that things have been overwhelming for you so far. I was ready to lose my shit in there and you held on pretty well.
- Hyung, I actually cried.
- It isn't a bad thing, - the alpha shrugged, - I'm too much of a chicken to cry in front of a beautiful omega like you.
Jimin squirmed in Yoongi's hold. He looked into the alpha's eyes and pecked him somewhere close to the corner of his mouth. They sat like this for a while until the rain eased somewhat.
- How about I call us a taxi and we go to that new place next to mine?
Jimin remembered how they discussed the new lounge cafe and made plans to go there one day. The omega nodded, watching the elder pulling up the app and anticipating, what he hoped, a much drier part of their date.
He hoped it would involve more of this hugging and hand holding from the quiet sweet alpha that was still subtly covering him in his scent.