Park Jimin has been your buoy, your anchor and the ship of sanity that guides you to shore amid storms of self-doubt, nearly all your life; as have you been his. That is not to say nothing has ever brewed beneath the surface of platonic friendship, or that the two of you have never been victims to mistiming. Regardless, you would never risk the friendship you have with him now for anything. Even if you have to hurt him – or even yourself – in the process.
- pairing: jimin x reader
- rating: m (18+)
- genre: angst | drama | friends to lovers!au
- word count: 7.6 k
— warnings: swearing + repeated mention & description of sex (some gets detailed and explicit, hence the rating!) + mention of a past toxic relationship + perhaps a present toxic relationship? + the worst kind of emotional constipation + misunderstandings + lies and pretense +one-sided feelings + reader is a bigger mess + jimin is a mess too :/
— note: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025, PEOPLE! <3 it was excruciating getting back into this one but it was also kinda therapeutic bec real life has been whooping my ass :( i have begun writing the sixth part too bec i truly forreal wish to complete this series without taking another year helP!
ps. the rating, genre and warnings mentioned above pertain to this chapter, only.
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𝐕 ⇢ 𝐀𝐁𝐘𝐒𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐁𝐘𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓
♪ between heaven and disaster
07:03 AM | Text Message from Grumpkin 🎃💖
hey
sorry i missed all your calls and texts :(
i figured u would ask abt seokjin and the date and i kinda didn’t wanna talk abt it
not necessarily in a bad way
just
a “let me figure it out first” way
which still doesn’t excuse ghosting u so i AM rly sorry :(
how was your flight?
and the dinner meeting?
07:16 AM
↳ SHE LIVES!!!!!!
↳ Good morning Grumpkincess <3
↳ All that you said about your date has just made 1000x curious now yk
↳ Oh, and I had a horrible flight
↳ My partner drooled on my $70 shirt 😭
↳ Barely had time to change it before our meeting at 4 UGH
Text Message from Grumpkin 🎃💖
good morning WHAT now
?
that better not be a new pet name park jimin
↳ Yes it is, Grumpkincess
↳ A grumpy pumpkin princess
↳ Adorable right?
Text Message from Grumpkin 🎃💖
ykw your cringe ass deserved getting your shirt ruined
karma 🖕
↳ Ihy 🖕
↳ Ok enough of this can we pls talk???
Text Message from Grumpkin 🎃💖
???
are we not
talking?
Jimin rears back from his phone almost violently. Did you, of all people, really just imply that texting is equivalent to talking? He is pretty sure that of the entire time that the two of you have lived in separate towns, you have spent more than half of it on video calls with each other.
That is talking for the two of you.
Or at least it used to be, before he got onto this flight which has apparently landed him in some parallel universe.
