Chapters The Calm Before the Storm
It’s a new day, a rare day off for the Colts, when Jungkook sneaks out into the countryside with all the picnic fixings. Everypony else is somewhere elsewhere. The 95s are off doing their own thing. RM and Suga are in their studios. Hobi is in the dance room. Jin is at his family home for the afternoon. A few minutes later, he arrives at the picnic blanket where he is soon greeted with a nuzzle from a yellow mare with a banana milk cutie mark. “Took you long enough, my love,” she says as she kisses him. “What took you so long?”
“Trying to make sure I was not noticed by my hyungs, my group mates, especially our leader,” responds Jungkook as he begins to sweat bullets. “If RM hyung ever finds out, I’m screwed for sure.”
“Okay,” responds Banana Milk. “We wouldn’t want that.” She kisses him again. “Now why don’t we enjoy our lunch?”
Jungkook nods and opens the basket to reveal two sandwiches with banana milk as the drink, naturally. “My favorite,” sighs Jungkook with a smile.
“Same,” agrees Banana Milk with a smile.
Meanwhile at Big Hit, the 95s meet up with Hobi. “Are you ready for our lunch plans?” The pair inquire of their hyung.
“Yes,” responds Hobi, “let’s get going.” Jimin flies ahead as the two unicorns trot out behind him. They all head into town as well before heading into the village proper to go to the restaurant for lunch. After a few more minutes, the three finally get their food and get to talking.
“Did you also notice Jungkook acting absolutely off this morning?” V inquires of Jimin and Hobi.
“Yeah, actually,” responds Jimin. “He was acting bizarre today. Snuck out with more food than he needed for one pony this morning. I wonder what’s up.”
“Yeah,” adds Hobi, “I noticed it too. He never sneaks around. Normally on our off days, he just stays in his room and plays video games. I wonder why he snuck off today. That’s not like him.”
“Yeah, it sure isn’t,” agree the 95s. “We should ask him later.”
Meanwhile in the countryside, Jungkook and Banana Milk continue their picnic. “This is nice,” sighs Jungkook, “what we have.” The two soon cuddle up side by side and continue to share plenty of hugs, nuzzles, and cuddles.
“I enjoy this too,” responds Banana Milk with a smile. “And I love you more than any pony else I’ve ever met. We’re just meant to be, ya know?”
“Yeah, I sure do,” responds Jungkook with a sigh as he turns once more and kisses her.
About an hour later, Hobi, Taehyung and Jimin finish their lunch and head into the countryside themselves. As they’re walking, Jimin flying ahead as always, the three soon spot Jungkook and an unfamiliar mare.
“What is he doing?” Says Jimin from overhead. “Who is he walking with? Is she what he was hiding from us!”
“Most likely,” responds Hobi. “A secret Marefriend would be a good reason to be so sneaky.”
The three then head more in Jungkook and Banana Milk’s direction. Upon hearing hoofsteps and beating wings behind him, Jungkook soon turns around to see three of his Hyungs before him.
“Please don’t tell RM and Jin hyung,” says Jungkook with his ears now pinned back nervously. “They can’t know the truth.”
“They’ll find out eventually, foal,” responds V. “You know that. We won’t tell, but know it’s still an eventuality.”
“I know,” sighs Jungkook, “but I don’t care because I truly truly love Banana Milk.”
“Hi,” says the yellow mare with a smile. “I’m Banana Milk.”
“Hi,” responds V, “I’m V.”
“I’m Hobi,” responds Hobi.
“I’m Jimin,” responds Jimin, now landed at Taehyung and Hobi’s side.
“Nice to meet you Colts,” responds Banana Milk shyly. She is slumped back behind Jungkook at this point.
“You three promise not to tell RM and Jin?” Inquires Jungkook still nervously. “I don’t want to get in trouble.”
“We won’t tell,” the three reassure him, “we promise. That being said, soon the papers will likely find out and once that happens you’re done for. Do you really want RM and Jin to find out that way or do you want to come clean? It’s up to you, just make sure you make the right choice and then no one gets hurt.”
With that, his hyungs leave once again leaving Jungkook and Banana Milk alone.
“What are you going to do?” Banana Milk inquires of Jungkook nervously. She’s now very much on edge. “Are you going to tell your remaining brothers?”
“Suga, yes, he won’t care,” responds Jungkook. “As for RM and Jin, I…I just don’t know yet.” He says as he hugs her. “I’m sorry.” He then finishes his apology and walks her home, them sharing a kiss once more outside before she goes inside.
“Who was that?” Inquires her baby brother, the four year old colt, Banana Pudding.
“My coltfriend, so not your business,” responds Banana Milk. “Why don’t you go bugger mama?” She then goes down the hall to her room. Once there, she is confronted in her door by her little sister Banana Swirl.
“Where’ve you been?” Inquires the seven year old filly.
“Out with my coltfriend,” responds Banana Milk, “now will you please go bugger mom?”
“Mom is still at work, sissy,” responds Banana Swirl. With that, Banana Milk shoos the filly out of her room and closes and locks the door.
Meanwhile back at Big Hit, Jungkook sneaks back into his room. However, he soon hears a knock outside his door. He opens it a peep and sees that it is Suga so he opens it some more.
“Hey Suga hyung,” responds Jungkook, “what do you need?”
“Want to do your guitar lesson? Remember how you asked me to teach you a few weeks back?”
“Yeah, let’s go!” Responds Jungkook. He grabs his guitar and Suga goes to his room and grabs his. The two then go to the main room where they record their vlives normally and do their lesson there. They practice for near three hours before they take a break.
“Hyung,” says Jungkook, “if I tell you something, do you promise not to tell RM and Jin?”
“Okay, I don’t tell, you know that, so shoot,” responds Suga.
“Well, I…I have a marefriend,” responds Jungkook. “V, Hobi, and Jimin already know. It’s just RM and Jin can’t. They’ll blast me to oblivion.” He begins to panic. “Please please promise not to tell.”
“I promise,” responds Suga. “Also I don’t care that you have a marefriend. You’re old enough to have one. Just be careful,” he says as he shrugs, “after all, we do lead more public lives than the standard pony, so don’t be shocked if your relationship does make the papers. I’m just warning you because I care. Please just be careful.”
“Okay, I promise,” responds Jungkook. He then takes his guitar and returns to his room.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the building, Jin has just arrived back and has gone into his studio to take a nap. It’s one of the few quiet places he has left nowadays given how noisy his nephew has continued to become.
A few days later, Jungkook and Banana Milk are on the cover of every magazine across Equestria, and as a result, Jungkook is called into a meeting by RM and Jin. He gulps as he enters the office.
“When were you going to tell us, kid?!” Inquires RM furiously. “I should’ve found out from you, not from the media!”
“Says the pair that didn’t tell me about a murder for three whole years,” the Maknae snarks back with a gulp. “Me not telling you about my marefriend is nowhere near that bad.”
“Fair,” responds RM, “but you should have told us nonetheless!” He snaps at the Maknae. “We’re your Hyungs too, Kook!”
“But can you blame me?” Jungkook snaps back. “If I had told you, you probably would’ve told me to break it off with her. And I truly truly love her, Hyungs! Like love her, love her. True love, love her!”
“And we respect that,” snaps back RM, “but you two could be more private and not so public.”
Jungkook lets out a huff and a sigh. “Okay, we’ll try, I promise.” Kook says finally giving in. He then storms out the room with a huff slamming the door behind him.
“Were we too hard on the kid?” Says RM as he turns to face Jin. “Hyung, were we too harsh on him?”
“No, not at all,” responds Jin. “He’s stubborn, bullheaded. We needed to be firm. We were firm. That’s all.” Jin then flies out the room leaving RM alone.
As he’s flying, he sees Jungkook enter his room and Jin lands before him. “What do you want now?” Sighs the dejected Maknae. “I know you and RM don’t approve of me and my marefriend.”
“It’s not that we disapprove,” sighs Jin, “it’s just we’re idols, Kook. You just need to be more careful.” He sits down next to the Maknae on his bed. “Please try to understand. No pony here wants you to dump her. We just want you to be careful is all.” He teasingly shoots a soft beam of magic at Jungkook, barely missing the colt. “To make the others think I’m actually mad with you,” he snickers. With that, Jin smiles and flies out of the room. Relieved, Jungkook plops down on his bed and lets out a sigh.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the building, the remaining six sit down to lunch. “Where is Kookie?” Inquires V of Jin and RM.
“He’s asleep in his room, he’s fine,” responds Jin. “He’s just having some alone time to cool down and relax, unwind.”
“You two got onto him didn’t you?” Inquires Hobi of RM and Jin.
“Yes,” responds Jin. “We did.”
“You hurt him with your special magic, didn’t you?” Inquires Hobi of Jin in particular.
“Yes,” responds Jin. “It was the only way to get through to him.”
“Jin!” Screams Hobi as he jumps up from his seat. “We don’t aim our magic at one of our own! The hell!” With that, the normally sunshiny yellow unicorn storms off followed soon behind by the 95s.
“You didn’t?” Says RM to Jin. “Please tell me you didn’t.”
“I didn’t really,” responds Jin. “It was just a small beam of magic. Absolutely harmless. Besides, I purposefully missed him. It hit the wall of his room. That’s literally it.”
“Okay, good,” responds RM, “but why do you want the others thinking otherwise? Why do you want them thinking you actually hurt Kook?”
“To teach all the culprits a lesson,” responds Jin, “because after all, we were the only two not to know. Suga, the 95s, Hobi, they all knew and didn’t tell us either, so this is the consequence.” Jin then flies off before being soon followed behind by RM while Suga still remains asleep at his place at the table absolutely oblivious to all of it.
The next morning before the sun is even up, Jungkook sneaks out for a sunrise breakfast with Banana Milk. “This is nice,” sighs Banana Milk as she lays her head on Jungkook’s shoulder as they watch the sunrise together.
“Yeah, it sure is,” responds Jungkook with a smile.
Meanwhile back at Big Hit, no pony has noticed that the Maknae has disappeared for the morning. The 95s are in their room with Jimin asking Taehyung whether he should dye his wing tips or not. Suga is sleeping in his studio. Hobi is working on choreography while Jin and RM are in a meeting with Bang PD. None of them have had the time to even notice the missing Maknae.
About two hours later, after the sunrise had ended, Jungkook and Banana Milk share a last kiss for the morning before he walks her to her work at the cafe before returning to Big Hit himself.
“Hyungs! I’m back!” Hollers Jungkook as he enters the building.
“Quiet Kook,” responds Taehyung from him and Jimin’s room near the door, “RM and Jin are still in an important meeting.”
“Oh, sorry,” responds Jungkook, “I was gone all morning so I had no idea.”
“Okay,” responds Taehyung. “Gone all morning with the marefriend?” Tae then inquires.
“Well, duh,” responds Jungkook as he rolls his eyes at his hyung. “We have sunrise breakfast together every morning nowadays. What have you guys been up to all morning anyways?”
“Not much,” responds Taehyung. “Just our normal soulmate shenanigans.”
“Yeah,” nods Jimin in agreement. “Nothing new here.”
Jimin then flies out of the room and into town to the local salon. “Where is he going so fast?” Inquires Jungkook of Taehyung absolutely confused.
“He’s getting his wing tips dyed for the first time, I couldn’t talk him out of it,” responds Taehyung.
“That’s bull,” responds Jungkook as he gives his hyung a glare. “You encouraged him to do it, didn’t you?”
“Okay, yeah, I did,” responds Taehyung finally coming clean. “He’s wanted to do it for months now, so why stop him? It’s absolutely harmless.” Taehyung then trots off to go get something to eat leaving Jungkook alone once more.
Meanwhile in town at the salon, Jimin’s wings are treated for the tip dying procedure. “What color do you want on your tips?” Inquires the mare. “Blond with some accents of hot pink if you can manage it,” responds Jimin. The mare nods and goes and gets the dyes necessary. She then puts on gloves and squeezes the blond dye into her hooves before taking it to his wings. Once that’s dried, she does the same minimally with the hot pink. She then leads him to the tub where she rinses out the excess dye. She then wraps his wings in towels and tells him to have a sit to which he happily obliges. Three hours later, the dye is dried and set and Jimin returns back to the studio.
“They look good,” says Taehyung as he greets Jimin at the door.
“Thanks,” blushes Jimin, “do you think Army will like them?”
“Oh absolutely,” responds Taehyung with a smile. “They’ll love them.”
A few minutes later, they all walk into the main video recording space together to start recording their newest music video for their newest song along with some other videos they need to put up within the week like Bangtan Trivia among others. Needless to say, it’s a very very busy day at the studio and the Colts wouldn’t have it any other way. Well, except for the Maknae, who would rather be spending his night with his marefriend that is.
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The First Concert Since the Magazine Dropped
A few months later, it’s the first concert since the news of Jungkook and Banana Milk dropped in the papers and the magazines. Despire knowing that Army has some idea, he still decides to tell them regardless. “Army!” Starts the Maknae. “I have a marefriend!”
RM rolls his eyes and grumbles to himself. “Please just shut up, Kookie. Please.”
“Her name is Banana Milk and she’s the absolute best!” Jungkook continues.
RM bows his head. “Well, we’re all screwed,” he sighs to himself. “We’re done for.”
Meanwhile Army erupts in cheers and applause. “We love you Jungkookie! Congratulations!” Cheer Army. “Congratulations!”
Meanwhile in the crowd, Banana Milk looks up at the stage eyes wide. She had no idea he was about to do that, but she’s absolutely honored and slightly horrified. “Sis,” says Swirl, “are you alright?” Asks her little sister concerned as she’s at the concert with her big sis.
“Yeah, absolutely splendid,” blushes Banana Milk. “Absolutely splendipidous.”
After the cheers die down, Jungkook finally shuts up and jumps into the first performance of the concert alongside all his hyungs. As they dance and sing, RM just gives the pink earth pony colt an absolute death glare letting him know he’s in absolute trouble later when the concert ends.
Three hours later, after the concert ends, RM pulls Jungkook aside. “What the hell, Koo?!” Screams RM. “What happened to keeping it more private?”
“There’s no point,” responds JK, “and you know it. You know Army’s already seen the magazines, so why try to hide it? It’s basically the same as lying and last thing we do is lie to Army. You and I both know that.”
“Yeah,” responds RM with a sigh. “But we also aren’t required to tell them everything either. I hope you know that too.” With that, RM walks off to try to dissuade the papers and magazines from vulturing their Maknae.
Meanwhile Jungkook sits in his corner and talks with Hobi, V, and Jimin. “Do you think I did the wrong thing or the right thing?” He inquires of his Hyungs, that puppy dog pouty look in his eyes.
“Only time will tell to be honest,” Jhope responds. “Only time will tell. Army is supportive. Doesn’t mean that the papers and magazines will be though. You know that.”
Jungkook lets out a sigh. “Here’s hoping I did the right thing. After all, she was in the crowd tonight. I saw her amongst the sea of ponies as we were performing.” He then goes off with his Hyungs to go get ready for the fan meet since it is that time of the night.
As he takes his seat next to his Hobi and RM hyungs, JK is approached by Banana Milk and her little sister.
“I didn’t expect you to do that, risk it all, it was definitely a good surprise,” says Banana Milk with a sigh.
“So you’re not embarrassed in the slightest?” Jungkook then inquires.
“Oh not at all,” responds Banana Milk cracking a smile. “Honored more like.” With that, she gets her merch of him signed and heads on her way home. After all, she does still have work at the cafe come the morning.
Later that night, Jungkook sneaks out of the dorm to go get ice cream with his marefriend. “What took you so long?” She inquires of Jungkook. “Normally you’re right on time.”
“Just overslept, took an afternoon nap today after being literally shot at with magic by my Jin Hyung,” responds Jungkook. “I’m fine though.”
“Good, that’s good to hear,” responds Banana Milk. She kisses him and hugs him. “I’m glad you’re okay.”
“Yeah, me too,” responds Jungkook as he rubs his neck with his hoof, “me too.”
The two go up and order their Icecream. Jungkook gets mint chocolate chip while Banana Milk gets a banana swirl ice cream cone. The two then go sit down together at a table and enjoy their cones.
“This is nice,” sighs Banana Milk, “enjoying ice cream and watching the stars together.”
“Yeah, it sure is,” responds Jungkook with a sigh and a smile before taking another lick of his cone, “it sure is.”
After a few minutes, Banana Milk changes the subject. “Why did you get shot at by your hyung? Was it because of me? I never intended to get you hurt?”
“Yeah, it was, but luckily I have quick reflexes so it missed me and hit the wall,” responds Jungkook. “That being said, I have no plans of ever leaving you. I love you too much. Don’t worry. Jin and RM will warm up to you with time, to me dating with time.” He kisses her. “I promise.”
“Okay,” responds Banana Milk as she cuddles up to him. “I’ll trust you on that.” The two finish off their cones and continue to cuddle. She’s so affectionate and he has to admit, that’s part of what he adores about her the most outside of her smile and her radiant, sunshiny golden orange eyes.
The next night after the concert, RM and Jungkook are pulled into a meeting by Bang PD himself. “Explain yourself Mr. Jeon,” says the older stallion to the pink earth pony stallion before him. “You’re allowed to private date, yes, but revealing it out in the open like you do is not allowed.”
“Because it ruins your image?” Responds Kookie with an eye roll. “Is that it?”
“Careful, Kook,” says RM as he nudges the other stallion with his hoof. “Careful.”
“No,” responds Bang lying through his teeth, “we’re just trying to protect you, colt.”
“No you’re not, you’re just trying to protect yourself,” says Jungkook before he storms out the room leaving Bang PD and RM alone trying to comprehend what just happened.
“You as leader have to keep him in line,” says Bang to RM. “I hope you know that.”
“I do and I’m trying,” responds RM as he lets out a sigh. “I’m trying so so hard.” He then bows his head and leaves the room, closing the door behind him with his magic as he does.
“What was the meeting about?” Inquire the other stallions as RM walks past them in the hall.
“Jungkook’s announcement at the concert,” responds RM with a sigh. “He got in trouble. That’s all.”
“Oh,” respond the others. “Oh…”
“Yeah,” responds RM. “He’s still allowed to perform. He’s been let off with a warning. That being said,” he lets out a sigh, “I doubt Bang will be that lenient the next time Koo pulls something.” He then goes down the hall to his studio and goes inside, closing the door behind him with his magic. The others then scatter throughout the rest of the building and elsewhere from there.
