(Look Here)

It had started off as a simple competition to see who could ignore everyone else for the longest. Yoongi's idea, of course, but a fun prospect nonetheless. It was funny to them to pretend not to know each other, especially since they were so close. It was pretty boring in the dressing rooms, so they went along with it. They lasted about five minutes, completely and totally not acknowledging each other's existence.

Taehyung and Jungkook cracked after six minutes and four seconds (Hoseok had started a timer), simultaneously bursting into fits of laughter that immediately made Jimin break as well. The maknae line then took it upon themselves to make everyone else lose. They were dancing around and being loud, trying so hard to make everyone laugh. But the other four weren't giving up so easily.

Except for Namjoon. He couldn't contain his laughter at Taehyung speaking purposefully broken English and left the game. At the fifteen-minute mark, Hoseok, Yoongi and Seokjin were still successfully ignoring their fellow members. Hoseok was feeling particularly proud of himself for not jumping up to join in the fun that the others seemed to be having by trying to break the others. He was feeling strangely competitive with this and tried his best to not smile at Jungkook's terrible dancing or Namjoon's terrible singing.

Jimin decided to take a different approach. In his peripheral vision, Hoseok saw Jimin whisper something in Yoongi's ear that instantly made him smile and hit Jimin. He got up and joined the others in defeat. It was just Hoseok and Seokjin left in the game and they were doing well. In the end, it was Yoongi that made him laugh. He was jumping and mimicking Hoseok's enthusiasm during a recent performance of Cypher Pt 4 and Hoseok couldn't help but laugh and push him over. The other four cheered at their success and focused their attention on Seokjin.

He was doing very well not paying attention to any of them. They were beginning to think that maybe he was annoyed at them for something because forty minutes passed and not a word from Seokjin. It was getting a little bit annoying. They had long given up on making this their priority, rather whenever any of them entered the room he happened to be in, they briefly tried to surprise him or make him laugh. Literally anything.

It had been an hour and sixteen minutes. Hoseok was bored with the game. He was tired of Seokjin acting like he didn't exist. He was just on his phone and Hoseok wondered how he wasn't bored out of his mind by now. Hoseok approached him and tried again.

"Hyung, you won, you can stop now." No reply. "Seokjin, come on, I'm bored." Nothing. An idea sparked in Hoseok's mind. Probably a bad one, but if Seokjin was ignoring him anyway, why shouldn't he have some fun? Once everyone there was no one else in the room, Hoseok locked the door. It was unlikely that anyone would come looking for them since Hoseok had been complaining non-stop that he was tired and Seokjin was still playing the game. There was hardly anything useful in the room either. Not much chance of interruption.

"Really not going to talk to me, huh?" Seokjin stayed silent. "Fine by me." Hoseok came up behind Seokjin's chair and wrapped his arms around the elder's neck. He very lightly kissed Seokjin's neck and hummed in his ear. "Staying quiet for me, baby?" No response. Hoseok figured that if he wanted to stop, he would have said something. They were often close to each other in public or on camera, but that skinship was often just for the fans. Hoseok wanted to see how far he could push before Seokjin snapped.

He planted more kisses down Seokjin's neck; deeper this time, bolder. He could tell that Seokjin was tense but wasn't going to stop until he was told to. Hoseok became braver and sucked a little underneath his jawbone, causing Seokjin's head to twitch slightly. Hoseok laughed at his stubbornness and walked around Seokjin's chair and sat on his lap. Seokjin continued playing on his phone as if nothing was happening. Hoseok smiled. He kissed him gently on the lips and felt nothing in return. So he trailed kisses along Seokjin's cheek and down his jawline.

Hoseok really couldn't be bothered to hold back at this point. Seokjin wasn't reacting and Hoseok was bored. Hoseok buried one hand in Seokjin's hair and tongued his neck, moving down to his collarbones. His free hand skipped lightly up Seokjin's shirt and pushed against his chest. He shifted his weight so their bodies were closer together and bit down slightly on Seokjin's skin. Seokjin made a sound. Hoseok looked up and saw Seokjin still concentrating on his phone but blushing profusely.

Hoseok shook his head and stood up. Seokjin still wasn't paying him any attention. Rude. He folded his arms.

"You, Kim Seokjin, are incredibly good at this game." Hoseok walked over to the door, smiling. That seemed almost unreal. He was sure that he would freak out about it once he'd had more time to think about it, but for now, he was kind of hungry. He was about to unlock the door when, without much warning from his body, he sneezed. That surprised him more than anything that had happened in the past fifteen minutes and he shook his head to recover.

"Bless you." Hoseok snapped his head around to look at Seokjin, who was still on his phone. Those were the first words that Seokjin had said to any of them for over an hour and a half. Hoseok couldn't fight his laughter.

"Okay, that totally counts as paying attention to me; you can talk to us now!" Hoseok clapped as Seokjin rolled his eyes.

"That was not a fair match. I'm 99% sure that was cheating." Hoseok unlocked the door and opened it, preparing to leave. He grinned,

"Really? Wanna take it up with the others?" Jungkook just happened to be walking past the door at that moment and looked inside the room curiously.

"Take what up with the others? Did he crack yet?" Hoseok nodded and hi-fived Jungkook. "You did it! How?" Hoseok shrugged and looked back at Seokjin, who was giving a silent warning with his eyes.

"He just loves me too much, I guess." Seokjin glared at him and Jungkook tilted his head at the exchange. Hoseok giggled, "Kidding; I sneezed and he said 'bless you' by accident. I wish it was more interesting, honestly." Seokjin smiled and blushed. Hoseok winked without Jungkook seeing, sending a message: he would pay for ignoring him.