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Camp Evergreen: You & Me, Me & You {3}

Previous: You & Me {2}

Pairing: Kim Taehyung x Reader

Genre: Summer Camp AU, Non Idol AU

Rating: PG15

Word Count: 4.9K

Warnings: Swearing!

Summary: Tensions run high as camp rages on. Voices are raised, words shoot to kill, and the intricacies of personal relationships continue to come to light.  

Notes: This is my Free Space for @bangtanwritingbingo​. This is a lil baby chapter after 2 major drops! 

Beta Readers: @xiaokoo​ who is amazing and I owe so much. 

Camp Evergreen Master List

Be the One Masterlist

        The cool morning air swirls around Taehyung. Knee deep in the lake, he’s regretting not stepping out during Quiet Time yesterday to come and collect specimens for this week’s art lessons. To The Lakes, a broad study of water and the creatures that exist within it, is always a camp favorite. Gathering seaweed from the shallow end, having facilities leave out dried pieces or strange creatures they found sweeping the beach, and teaching students how to use sand to give texture to their pieces are all aspects of this week. The water, though cold and murky in the rising sun, sloshes past his legs, threatening to lap up and soak his shorts, which inevitably would set his day off in a negative direction.

        “Why are you doing this alone?” A voice calls from behind him. He turns, smiling softly in the morning glow.

        “I didn’t want to bother you,” He offers. “I’m almost done,”

        “How are you going to carry all of this?”

        “I brought the wagon,” Taehyung points to the small blue and purple contraption, a relic of his earlier camp days, when he would spend his free time holed up in his camp studio, painting and repainting each of its panels. He’s taken it to every corner of this camp, hauling samples for art class, materials for projects and during week 5, set pieces and costumes for the one-acts and musical.

        “You haven’t painted it this summer,” Kwan says.

        “I haven’t had time.”

        “You haven’t? You’re holed up in the Cabin for hours on end.”

        Taehyung nods, “I’m working on something else.”  

        “Something else?” She stares at him, watching as he seals the last plastic container filled with lake water.

        “I’ll show you, but you have to pull the wagon,” He smiles.

        She laughs, “Fair trade.”

        Together they make their way up the beach, through the walkway and to the Arts and Crafts Cabin, turning into his studio and not hers.

        “So, is this project for someone?” She asks, sitting in a lone chair in a room of stools.

        “Yeah, it is,” Taehyung nods. He’s rummaging through his workspace, heaps of scrapbook paper, bottles of acrylic paint and mod podge strewn about, a failed attempt at making his own washi tape still stuck to the sides.

        “You’re lucky no one uses this cabin during the year.”

        “Why?”

        “It remains a disaster. You have clay stuck to it from three summers ago.”

        “Yours isn’t any better!” Taehyung doesn’t need to glance at her to know he’s right. Pencils, pastels, fine point markers and paper in varying weights cover her studio. Pictures she’s drawn and never finished, paintings she’s one step away from finishing, all stacked and strewn.

        “We’re the Arts & Crafts instructors, our spaces are meant to be messy, that’s the entire point.”

        “Then don’t tease me!” Taehyung finds what he’s looking for, an excited “Aha!” leaving his pouting lips.

        He waves her over and sets in front of her ten or so pieces of paper, each ornately decorated in watercolors, pastels, collage and what looks like pieces of fabric. She stares at them intently, hesitant to pick them up or touch them, eyes amazed by the work in front of her.

        “Tae, what is this?” Kwan’s fingers gingerly pick up a page, it’s filled with dates delicately stamped out, a few embossed in the woven paper.

        “It’s a collection.”  

        “Of?”

        “Memories,” He answers, a genial shrug accompanying the three syllables.

        “Is this for who I think it is?”

        “Maybe,”

        “Tae, what’s going on between you two?” She asks point blank.

        “What’s going on between who?” Yoongi asks, stepping into the studio and shutting the door, squashing any fears of the air conditioning seeping out.

        “Yoongi-ah!” Taehyung quickly grabs the pages, stacking them haphazardly and putting them in a safe cedar box, one he had carved in college, his initials branded into the base.

        “Secrets, secrets are no fun,” Yoongi sings, standing next to Kwan, hips bumping lightly against hers.

        “I don’t have any secrets,” Taehyung answers.

        “Then who are those for? Y/N?” Yoongi questions. Taehyung clocks the glint in his eye, Yoongi knows something.

        “Maybe,” Taehyung shrugs.

        “Are you two just friends?” She asks again.

        “We’re close, really close.” Taehyung leaves it at that, turning on his heels to go to the Mess Hall for breakfast. “Please, make out in Kwan’s studio.”

         You hear it before you see it, a raised voice, a snapping tone, an angered Jimin yelling at a camper for messing up the blocking in their scene.

        “How many times have we been over this? How many times have we walked through this?” Jimin snaps again, eyes scanning the group of frightened teenagers. Jimin is known for not yelling and at most using a stern voice and practiced glare to communicate his disdain or frustration. He is strict, practiced, but jovial and kind.

        What you’re seeing, his eyes red, lips in a pout, a strangled growl instead of a sing-song tenor, isn’t the Jimin you know so well.

        “Mr. Park!” You call, disrupting the tortured teenagers from his barrage of frustration.

        “Oh,” He says as he turns to look at you. He sets his script on the podium, waiting a moment before turning back to the group. “You have an additional ten minutes to work on your scenes before you need to be in your next session. Casey and Alex will make sure you get there on time.”

        Jimin doesn’t say anything else, instead he heads towards you, walking at a brisk pace towards your office.  

        “Jimin-ah!” Taehyung calls. “Are you okay?”

        “Don’t talk to me,” Jimin mutters. He holds the door open for you, and together you leave Taehyung standing outside, confusion written in his eyes.

        “Take a seat,” You instruct. The door closes behind you and you set your stuff on top of your desk. “I only know loosely what’s going on, do you want to talk about it?”

        “As my boss or my friend?”

        “Friend,”

        “I can’t believe you and Taehyung are,” Jimin shakes his head.

        “Say it.”

        “He left a page open on my computer, Stella’s engagement announcement. He left it open instead of just telling me.”

        “He didn’t want to hurt you,”

        “He knew, Y/N. For weeks, and he let me go on about how I thought I loved her and how we were talking about taking this out of camp into our lives outside of here! I was planning and Taehyung knew. He knew.”

        “Jimin,” You whisper.

        “I loved her.”

        “You can still love her.”

        “She’s been cheating on her fiancé with me! For years,”

  ��     “I..sorry for being a tad uncouth, but how long have you two been sleeping together?”

        “Two summers? We’ve done,” Jimin blushes, a hand coming to wipe his tears.

        “Phone sex has happened?”

        “Yes.”

        “And she didn’t, and you didn’t. Oh Jiminie, it’s a double betrayal.”

        “I can’t believe you’re not mad at him.”

        “I am. He and I have spoken.”

        “Still friends?”

        “Don’t.”

        “You know, as well as I, that you two aren’t just friends.”

        “It’s a moot point. I’m his boss, I can’t do anything about it right now. Tae and I have spoken, and he knows I’m upset that he hurt you.”

        “He’s head is so far up his ass, all he thinks about is you.”

        “Okay, don’t be a bitch,”

        “I’m sorry,” Jimin sighs. “How do I move on when I have to stare at her, work with her, be near her? She’s been lying to me for years! Do I tell her fiancé? Find out who he is?”

        “First, she’s a horrible person and I hate her. Unless her fiancé is abusive, and she’s coerced into this.”

        “She isn’t, Yoongi heard her telling Margot that they met in college and have been together ever since.”

        “Okay, he still could be. She should’ve told you, and not used you for sex during Camp. It’s completely unfair to you, and kind of scary she hid it for so long.”

        “Sociopathic,”

        “Maybe, but maybe not. Have you talked to her about it?”

        “I can’t, I just cry.”

        You stand from your chair and move to hug him, holding his frame tight against yours. “Jimin, I’m so sorry.”

        “It isn’t your fault.”

        “Yes, and you’re my friend who is hurting. I hate that you’re hurting. I can mediate the situation, if you want. Or Namjoon can, or Yoongi. Namjoon’s more impartial,”

        “Maybe, I think I just need to write down my thoughts and sit with them for a while.”

        “Okay, do you want the rest of today off?”

        “You really want to leave Asher with my classes?”

        “No, but you’ve got one class left before free time, which you don’t run today. Take the time, I can run your last class.”

        “Are you sure?”

        “Positive.”

        “Will, I didn’t mean to yell.”

        “I know, but I’m not the one you owe an apology to. For what it’s worth, Dawson is a fucking punk and I hated having him in my class last year.”

        “He is the worst, but he’s getting better. If only he’d study his lines.”

        “There’s a reason why he is never cast in anything with more than a handful of lines,” You laugh. Dawson’s been coming to camp since he turned fifteen, given a spot reserved for donor’s kids.  It’s unclear if he has any passion for the arts or enjoys six weeks away from his family.

        “Thank you.” Jimin’s smile is soft.

        “You’re welcome. Please, talk to Taehyung. You’re soulmates, you can handle this.”

        Jimin nods, knowing you’re right and stands. He pauses at the door and sighs. “Don’t give advice you can’t take.”

       It takes a day to calm down from the frenzy evoked by Jimin’s outburst. Campers are buzzing with gossip, slowly blowing up the scolding into a full-blown yelling match. You’re praying parents don’t get wind and that no one wants Jimin’s head on a platter. He lost his cool, as expected, and it isn’t like other teachers don’t raise their voice or lose it from time to time. Jungkook’s done it, Seokjin particularly has a flair for holding in his frustration and blowing like a volcano. Kwan too, in a few situations where tools have been ruined or last year when a camper, Chelsea, destroyed Siobhan’s painting. That somehow ended up being a premeditated fiasco of vengeance because Siobhan had hooked up with Chelsea’s partner, Quynh, during a game of spin the bottle.

       Despite being disappointed in how he’d handled the Jimin-Stella kerfuffle, the only person who has calmed you down is Taehyung. He’s pulled you to the dock at midnight, kissing your temple, snapping yet another polaroid of you in the moonlight. He’s lessened your stress, listened to your anger, and tried to convey why he didn’t come out and tell Jimin. His thoughtful care, the adoration in his eyes, was enough to garner your forgiveness. He’s grateful; all he’s wanted is time alone with you.

       It was Taehyung’s suggestion to grab the left-over brownies and sit across the picnic tables while the Cabin Counselors and Junior Counselors run shower time. It was rare to have time together, as a group, to sit outside and catch up on cabin drama or budding romances without the worry of Gossip Girl like ears hearing something they aren’t supposed to.

       “You’ve got something, here,” Taehyung reaches over, gingerly brushing the crumbs from the corners of your mouth absentmindedly bringing it to his lips and licking it off. He hadn’t thought through the gesture, instead acting on instinct.

       “Thanks,” Your smile is gentle, shy, not wanting to call attention to that intimate act. It causes Taehyung’s cheeks to flush, a glimmer of what you two once were at camp flashing in front of him.

       “Taehyungie, are you wearing makeup?” Jimin asks, he’s sitting at a table across from you, waiting with wide eyes.  

       “No, why?” Taehyung asks, eyes leaving your chaste expression to look at Jimin.

       “That blush is a nice shade,” Jimin cackles.  

       “You act like they aren’t like this all the time?” Jungkook calls from his table.  

       “Tae?” You ask.

       “Hm?” He turns back to you, his blush deepened.

       You’re still smiling, unable to hide the giddiness, the rush, of Taehyung returning to his usual, flirty demeanor. “Remember when we went to the beach, and -

       “We found a clam that had a baby pearl in it?” He finishes, of course he remembers.

       “Yeah, what’d you do with the pearl?” You inquire.

       “It’s in one of your clipboards,” He smiles. “Near the bottom?”

       “Yeah, I know exactly where it is,” You blush. Your heartbeat pounding in your ears, the rush of blood again deepening your blush. Jimin was right, it was a good color on you.

       You’re lost in his eyes, unaware that another person has breached your bubble until they speak.

        “This summer’s clipboard is really fucking cool. Taehyung out did himself,” Kwan says.

        Your head snaps to her, voice igniting your fight or flight response. “Yeah, he did.”

        “Is it your favorite?”

        “Does it matter?” You don’t intend to sound like a bitch, but you do. Taehyung places his hand on your thigh, giving it a gentle squeeze, a please don’t do this, a warning.

        Kwan remains unphased. “I guess not.”

        Trying to be kinder, you offer her an olive branch. “I heard you had a shit year, but you sold a few pieces? I read that one went to The Chelsea?”

        She stares at you, unsure how to proceed in this conversation. Do you have a google alert for her? Did Taehyung talk about her during the year? “Yeah, I did. It’s an honor, really. Someone came to a gallery show I was in and wanted to buy it.” Kwan beams, why is her smile so stunning? Is that really necessary?

        “That’s amazing,”

        “I want a Picasso / In my casa / No in my castle,” Jungkook spits. “Did you know Jay-Z filmed in the Pace gallery for 6 hours?”

        Yoongi blinks at him, “Why would you know that?”

        “And you? Work’s going well? Taehyung said you got a promotion?” Kwan’s offering the branch back to you, a sign of peace, of no ill will… With Taehyung’s hand still on your leg, you take it.

        “Oh he did?” You glance at him, catching him staring at you, eyes tracing the slope of your nose, the apple of your cheek, the curve of your studded ear. All he does is nod. What else can he do? Get in the middle of it? He’s praying you play nicely, praying this isn’t going to be a moment, a thing you become insecure over. You’ve never been insecure about your relationship, about whatever undefined defined thing exists between you. This summer has brought out the worst in you.

       “Yes, I did,” Taehyung hums, lips slipping over his water bottle’s straw.

        “Promotion to what?” Kwan inquires.

        “Vice Principal of Curriculum,” You tell her.

        “Holy shit, that’s huge, right?”

        “It’s a pretty big deal,” You concede, a faint smile on your lips. It had been huge, a major promotion to a leadership position, a recognition of your talent and work. Taehyung had cried, he was so proud, bursting actually. That was the night of your first kiss, well, your first make out session. It started so innocently, his tears mixing with yours, a few drinks deep, he had kissed you hesitantly, a gentle peck. You both wanted more, leaning in, hands searching for a place to hold you to one another. It was hot, sexy, the way your bodies moved together, lips and tongues and some teeth, yearning for things unsaid. As quickly as it began, it ended, the need for air and water shedding light on the line you were crossing. That was in January, after the weirdest Christmas-New Years the two of you had ever shared.

        “So you’re perfect for this gig. Are you enjoying it so far?” Kwan won’t stop, and you suppose she is just trying to be friendly, though she’s just asked the one question you don’t know how to answer.

        “Yes, it’s, different but I’m enjoying being a fly on the wall in everyone’s classes,”

        “Yay, you participated in mine!” Hoseok calls. He’s next to Jimin, showing him some new choreography he’d been working on before camp, perfect for Holding Out for a Hero in the musical.  

        A lightbulb goes off, “That’s how you and Taehyung met, art?”

        “We met through Jimin,” You tell her. Jimin has moved from his table to yours, as has Jungkook who sits to your right.

        “We’ve been working together for...five years now? Taehyung has never mentioned how you two met,” Kwan’s so curious, trying to understand the nuances of your relationship, it’s annoying if not a little endearing.

        “It’s really a cute story,” Taehyung’s congenial smile broadens, the glimmer in his eye directed at you.

        “It’s not that cute,” You counter, peering at him over your sunglasses.

        “Tell it,” She requests.

        “Take it away,” You sweep your hand through the air, giving Taehyung the opportunity to begin the story.

        “Jimin-ah said he had a friend he wanted me to meet, someone he thought I’d connect with over art and music, maybe go on a few dates with. I didn’t think much of it, my parents do similar things too, and my eye was on this stunning woman in my final studio course. It was a senior residency, full year. We were in our second semester, and all I had done was spill paint water on her and stare at her across the room, truly never said a word just, longed to. Anyway, I was drawing and painting, doing some mixed media and she always sat at the third computer station, creating stunninggraphics. I didn’t have high hopes for Jimin, not that I needed to be involved with this friend, I was far too distracted.”

        “Oh my god, you’re the girl from his art class that Jimin set him up with?” She guesses, hope in your voice and in the generous clap of her hands.

        “Patience is a virtue,” You snap, eyes flickering with anger before resting back on Taehyung.

        “Jiminie invited a bunch of people over for a party, and I went, knowing this person Jimin thought I’d get along great with was going to show up. I don’t know if they ever did, Jimin never said anything. But Yoongi did show up, and on his arm was -

        “Me,” You smile, you remember it fondly. A dozen or so people crammed into their apartment, Yoongi hadn’t wanted to come with you, but Jimin had begged you to come. You didn’t know him too well, but he knew Taehyung wouldn’t stop talking about you.

        “I went, ‘Jimin-ah! She’s here!’ and almost spilled my drink on him. Somehow, I got the courage to speak to her, and we’ve been-

        “Best friends,” You interject, wary of where he’s taking it.

        “Yeah,” The fall of his smile is harsh, disappearing faster than it appeared, his thumb stops tracing circles on your jean-covered thigh. “Best friends.”

        “Who don’t date other people but don’t date each other?” Kwan thinks she’s being helpful, or at the very least, not throwing a grenade into the conversation. This is the nicest you’ve been to her in years.  

        “I, that’s none of your business,” You offer a polite smile, a gentle reminder to her to tread lightly, which she quickly moves past.

        “I’m just saying, you two seem far too cozy to just be friends. I mean, we all saw you last summer,” She shrugs.

        You remember last summer too, how could you forget it? Taehyung dragging you into the freezing water, splashing you, chasing you, all to wrap you up in an extra-large beach towel, like a burrito, and snuggle you during the final bonfire. Taehyung sneaking treats to you during your laborious meetings with management. Taehyung holding your hand, walking you to your cabin, kissing your cheek, staring at you regardless of who else was in the room. You were sure something was going to happen that summer, but it didn’t.

        “What does that mean?” You snip.

        “It just means, you two are close, closer than you let on.”

        You can feel your blood run cold, her insinuation angering you instead of embarrassing, her attempt at forcing your hand poorly calculated. You watch as she begins to cower under your gaze, which in an instant shifts to Taehyung, who is calculating what step he should take next to ensure you speak to him again, and back to her.

        “What the fuck do you know about Taehyung and me?” You question.

        “Nothing, just that some might say you two are more than just friends, closer than close,” Kwan’s back tracking, the fear in her eyes echoing in the quiver of her voice. Completely unsteady, unnerved, and you don’t fucking care. Las Culturistas heralds every summer The Summer of Kunt, and boy if you aren’t living up to that.

        “I believe it was Ariana Grande who said ‘close ain’t close enough’,” Jungkook pipes in, earning a chuckle from everyone but you.

        You shake your head, anger flaring. “I’m also too close with Yoongi, do you think we’re fucking too?”

        “It’s only awkward if you’re fucking him too,” Jungkook adds and again, earns a chuckle.

        “Stop quoting Frank Ocean,” Taehyung hits him gently, warningly. He takes the hint, slowly moving himself further and further from the conversation.

        “I, no,” She practically shouts, voice echoing too loudly around the cluster of counselors.

        “Or do you just hope we’re not?” You spit back, eyes still taking her to task.

        “I, no, Yoongi can do whatever he-

        “I am your boss, you better be hard pressed not to forget that,” You interrupt, the hot tears already building in your tear ducts, voice becoming hoarse as you try to cover your embarrassment with superiority. Power replacing humility, indignation over disrespect is easier to muster than crumbling under the weight of her insinuations.

        You turn on your heels, tears cascading down your burning cheeks and head straight for your office.

        “Y/N! Wait!” Taehyung yells behind you.

        “Don’t talk to me,” Is all you say before stepping into the one place he dares not to enter, Cabin 11.  

        Taehyung might not have been brazen enough to storm into your office and comfort you, but Yoongi doesn’t seem to mind. He finds you curled on the floor in a corner, AirPods in, what sounds like Kendrick Lamar blasting in your ears.

        “Hey,” He says, sitting down and staring at you. King of not making eye contact, he tries his best to catch and hold your gaze.

        “What?”

        “We need to talk,” Yoongi’s voice is stern, tired of whatever shit you’re preparing to throw at him.

        “About?”

        “What just happened, you and Taehyung.”

        “Why?”

        “What’s with these one-word questions?”

        “Funny, I thought you’d recognize it. Signature Yoongi move.”

       “Don’t be like that.”

       “Fine, Yoongi. Here’s my question: What the fuck is happening between them?”

       Yoongi sighs, he’s been wondering the same things, though admittedly he’s far less upset by it than you are. “I don’t know, they’re friends.”

       “They’ve never been this close before, right? Not last summer, or the summer before?” You ask.

       “No, they haven’t,” He agrees. “But she’s gone through a lot this year and Taehyung’s sold pieces before, he’s got work in The Chelsea. He’s been a big help to her.”  

       You let it sit, both of you silently acknowledging that this is uncharted territory for you both. You stare at him, pale skin and wanton eyes, Yoongi’s been your best friend for eons at this point. He’s tolerated every boyfriend, every tear, every drunken ramble about your unrequited feelings… he’s seen you at your worst, and thankfully, your best, though this summer is turning out to actually bring out the worst in you. He’s been there, level headed and kind. Who else, Taehyung excluded, knows you this well?

       “Why is she cozying up to Taehyung if her heart is tied up with yours? Does she not see it that way?” You’re sitting up, tucking your legs underneath you.

       “I could ask you the same thing,” He’s watching you, but you recognize the look in his eye, he’s stalking you, trying to be the predator, but with your mood, and your track record this summer, he is most definitely the prey.

       “You don’t have any reason why she isn’t your girlfriend. I have rules,” You explain. “Rules that say no matter what happened before camp, or last summer at camp, or what happens every fucking day, he and I cannot be together.”

       Yoongi pauses, his mind racing to everything that happened the two weeks before camp started, the change in your demeanor, the giddiness between you and Taehyung, the clear shift in how you stared at one another. Something had happened, something monumental, something you wanted to keep just between you two. Why? If it was positive, if it pushed you closer to finally being together, why are you feeling so threatened by Kwan?

       “What happened between you two before camp?”

       “Meaning?”

       “You guys are always heart-eyed and hand holding. He calls you religiously, brings you flowers, you cook him endless meals, and you spend more time together than apart. I am shocked you don’t live together. Now, you’re constantly fighting? And being a mythic bitch to everyone. What fucking happened before camp?” Yoongi’s stitching it together, trying to put the pieces together, but all he’s got are edges.

       “Nothing, Yoongi,” Your voice is weak.

       “Bullshit,” He accuses.  

       “I just…something happened, but I’m not ready to talk about it because maybe I heard some things.” Is all you offer.

       “Maybe you didn’t say some things,” He counters.

       “Why are you asking if he’s already told you?”

       Yoongi shrugs, “He didn’t tell me anything, I’m your best friend, not his.”

       “I don’t want to talk about this anymore.”

       “Fine. But do me a solid and stop working your way into my head. Kwan doesn’t like him, Y/N, and Tae certainly doesn’t like her.”  

       “Where’s your proof? Because mine is in her wearing his favorite hoodie,” You can feel the tears again, hot and angry, boiling to the surface.

       Yoongi rolls his eyes again. “It’s a piece of clothing. Stop acting like, what’s that phrase you use?”

       “I have a lot of winning catchphrases, Yoongi.”

       “The one you just used, about hearts?”

       “The phrase is, in general ‘hearts tied up with’. I asked why, if her heart’s still tied up with yours, is she cozying up to Tae.”

       “Stop acting like his heart isn’t tied up with yours. Just, say what you feel and stop hiding it.” He instructs.

       “How John Mayer of you.”

       “Meaning?” Yoongi mocks you.

        “Say what you need to say,” You sing.

       “Yeah, do that. Stop hiding and just tell him you love him.”

       “Don’t give me advice you don’t follow,” You bite back. Jimin’s little phrase had been stuck in your head for days now.  

       “Fair point,” Yoongi shrugs, a hand reaching for yours. “You two have something really special. You’ve been tending it for years, stop trying to drown it and let it bloom.”  

       Yoongi doesn’t wait for a response, opting to give your hand another squeeze before he stands and leaves.

       You pop your headphones back in, pressing play on the only song left on this playlist, baritone Irish voice, crackled and smooth, sweeping through you.  

       I’m in love this time / What’ve I done?

        Jimin, Taehyung and Kwan sit at the picnic table, unsure what to do or say post your outburst.

        “Tae, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to set her off, I didn’t know she’d get so upset,” Kwan apologizes. He can see the tears in her eyes.

        “I know, she’s just on edge.”

        “She hates me.”

        “She doesn’t hate you, she hates that we’re friends.”

        “Is she –

        “Envious,” Jimin interjects. “Y/N and Tae can’t be their usual, gooey selves, and she’s jealous you can hang around him and borrow his clothes without it looking like your sleeping together.”

        “That’s why she’s mad? I borrowed your sweatshirt because mine was soaked! I didn’t mean to, shit.”

        “It doesn’t help that you and Yoongi haven’t defined or made anything public yet,” Taehyung adds.

        “Yeah, he wanted to keep it quiet, but maybe one of us needs too tell her.”

        “Yoongi, not you,” Jimin says.

        “I didn’t mean to pour salt in the wound either,”

        “I know you didn’t. she does too.”

        “What happened between you two? I thought you were going to make a move before camp?” Kwan inquires. Before she and Yoongi got together, she and Taehyung had talked about their feelings, how they wanted to profess their love or adoration, but as far as Kwan knows, Taehyung never followed through.

        “I, I don’t want to talk about it,” Taehyung flattens his fingers and pushes his bangs away from his forehead.

        “It’ll be okay,” Jimin wraps his arm around his best friend. “But, you gotta tell me what happened.”

        “Is this payback?”

        “No, it’s your best friend asking you to share what happened because it’s had you rattled for weeks now. Talk to me.”

        “I’ll leave you two alone,” Kwan stands, grabs the empty plate and heads to the Mess Hall.

        “Start from the beginning.”

        “Well, senior year of college –

        Jimin laughs and swats Taehyung. “No, before camp. Start there.”

        Taehyung smiles and nods before sipping his water and preparing to tell Jimin what’s been weighing on his heart.

Next: You & Me {4}

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Tattoo Artist: Park Chanyeol

Shop: LoeyInk

Location: The Arts District

Owner/Main Artist: Park Chanyeol

Specialty: Finger tattoos

You’d fallen in love with the library when you were very young, and you’d known since that very day you wanted to be a librarian.

Books just meant so much to you, and the fact you could get one or five from the library for free? (As long as you returned it on time, of course). There was nothing in the world you would rather do than work in a library.

Now, of course, libraries have evolved quite a bit since back in the day. They’re filled with modern technologies to which old-school librarians regularly turn their noses. And, to be honest, it’s not even an official rule that people have to be quiet while they’re in a library.

But that didn’t stop you from wanting a tattoo on your index finger of the word ‘shhhh.’ Because, I mean, come on. How perfectly fitting was that?!

The research you’d done, however, proved to be a bit... concerning. There were many articles advising against finger tattoos, saying they were very painful and faded easily.

But also in your research, you’d stumbled across a local artist who specialized in finger tattoos.

How perfect!

You’d made an appointment as soon as you could, and when the day approached you found you were more excited than nervous. You still prepared yourself for it to hurt, but seriously, the reviews for this artist - Park Chanyeol was his name - were extremely encouraging.

After hauling it down to the Arts District, arriving at the shop, and filling out the consent form, the receptionist led you back to a small but comfortable room.

A minute or two later, a very tall young man with the most positive aura entered the room, smiling brightly at you.

“Hey, I’m Chanyeol,” he introduced himself, holding out his hand. “You’re Y/N, right?”

“That’s me,” you grinned as you shook his hand in greeting. “Nice to meet you.”

He sat down next to you, already beginning to prepare his tools. “So, we’re doing ‘shhh’ in some typewriter font today, is that right?”

“Yep, that’s correct.”

You watched as Chanyeol unpackaged everything he would need before he got out a translucent piece of paper and a felt tip marker. He drew out the letters, making sure to get your approval before placing the template on the inside of your pointer finger.

“Any particular reason for it?” he asked as he loaded up the fine needle with ink.

“I’m a librarian, actually,” you explained, hoping he would get started soon. Your hand was already cramping up from holding it in this weird position so he could get the best angle for the tattoo.

“No way!” he laughed, his sunshine smile becoming even brighter. “That’s awesome! I don’t think I’ve ever met a librarian as cool as you.”

“Well, thank you,” you blushed. You had to admit, Chanyeol was incredibly attractive, and his personality was so magnetic. And you’d only known him for less than twenty minutes!

He did warn you of a slight burn before he touched the needle to your finger, but when he finally began tracing over the drawn on letters, you found it was more ticklish than anything.

“Seriously, the only librarians I remember growing up were those stodgy old ladies who hated skateboarders,” he chuckled as he curved over the ‘s.’

“There are still some of those around, trust me.”

“You’re just not one of ‘em.”

“I like to think so, so I’m glad to hear it from somebody else,” you admitted with a slight smirk.

“Where’s your library?” he asked as he began on the first ‘h.’

“About twenty minutes from here, down at the corner of Perimeter Center and Rockbridge Road.”

“Oh, yeah, I think I know where that is. How long have you been working there?”

“About five years. How long have you owned this studio?”

“About six. I guess we’re probably around the same age, then.”

Now, why would he bring that up?  Was he possibly feeling the same magnetic attraction you were feeling? Because, honestly, you’d almost decided that was just your imagination. But maybe it wasn’t. “Probably...”

Not even five minutes later, and he was finished. He wiped off the excess ink and allowed you to finally move your hand, which you did with a relieved sigh.

“That really wasn’t bad at all,” you marveled, twisting your wrist so you could properly see the tattoo. “It looks so good!”

“I would love to be there to see the look on a kid’s face when you tell him to be quiet,” Chanyeol admitted as he began to clean up.

“Honestly, there aren’t that many loud hooligans. At least, none who come into the library.”

“Man, it’s been forever since I’ve even picked up a book...” He spared you a glance as he took his gloves off and threw them into a nearby trash bin. “Have any recommendations?”

You bit the inside of your cheek before making the split-decision to just go for it. What did you have to lose?

“Why don’t you stop by and found one for yourself?”

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Research: Draw Draw Draw Project.

Mike Parr Mark making artist

Parr's performances explore physical limits, memory and subjectivity. They often depict self mutilation or extreme physical feats.

Parr spent his childhood in rural Queensland, Australia. He was born with a deformed arm, and this physical feature is prominent within his art work.

Parr’s impression taking is a striking contrast, both emotionally and visually to his video/ installation work, composed of beautiful engravings featuring many different types of lines, using the mark making technique. Parr was fascinated with observation and the possibilities and responses of memory distortions.

Parr’s early work was designed to get a reaction from the audience, although he also focused on exploring issues of identity, memory and states of being. He particularly used his body as a performative tool, often using his prosthetic arm and testing his body’s physical limits through resistance challenges.

In the early 1980s he started a collection called “the self portrait project”, Parr’s self portrait studies first took the form of painstakingly hand drawn copies of performance photographs. Subsequent drawings acknowledge accidental blurs and smudges, with parr generating purposeful distortions through the introduction of a mirror and manipulating the grid.

Life after death collection, combines charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper; it depicts the artist’s face over and over, in varying states of distortion, as though disappearing or disintegrating.

Paul Verdell

Is an American artist, who is specialized in drawing portraits of many different people that he can find as reference, by using different kinds of colors and lines with his crayons.

Verdell was born in Long Beach, California. At the age 13, his family moved to Fremont, Ohio.

Paul Verdell paints and draws a variety of people with plenty of personality. Like most artists, he has drawn since he was little, but didn’t make a real go of the medium until he was in his mid 20s. That he was decided to go back to school, enrolled in Bowling Green State university, and took a painting class when the first semester came around. Paul eventually developed his unique artistic style, by doing drawings, that him doesn’t consider that good, but he is comfortable with that style. His mark making technique is assertive, created with force and with energy. Paul’s work may seem as if it has loss control imbued within the lines, but his artworks are also vividly representative of the person or object he’s depicting; it’s delicate balance that he’s mastered without purposely pushing his style in a certain direction.

What I like most about his work, is his use of colors, with oil pastels , where he creates different tones on the skin of his characters, using the technique of mark making, which is perhaps more impressive, since it is a very different or unconventional technique for making portraits, that’s why it’s so interesting.

With time, he realized how much colour and expressiveness the textured medium adds to the canvas, and started to experimenting with more and more different types of colors.

The artist isn’t trying to make a statement with his work. In his words, “I’m just here to paint. The viewer can take whatever that want to take out of it”.

Saul Steinberg

Romanian artist by birth was one of the most important artists of 20th century. A designer and cartoonist in the publishing industry from 1936 to 1999, he spent a considerable part of the 20th century publishing in prominent magazines on the world stage, specially in the New York. The famous cover for the New Yorker that showed the view of the world according to the average American.

In his drawings, Steinberg’s lines seem to reinvent themselves as they progress, creating different kinds of shapes and sizes, sometimes using one single line.

Steinberg’s greatest contribution was his demonstration that the drawn lines is equivalent to thought. Indeed, Steinberg is rarely concerned with outward physical appearance and is much more interested in what and how people perceive what they see. His interest in the human psyche isn’t academic. His playful, childlike doodle quality maintains an elegant deftness that succinctly describes a wide range of subjects. His quirky way to draw, sometimes reminiscent of Dada art, also crossed over into the fine arts world.

much of the humor and mystery in his work occurs in the way he relates humanity’s lack of understanding.

Urban Sketching

The drawings of urban spaces are gaining more and more admires, and this work certainly has a good baggage to please this audience, as it addresses a range of drawing techniques, which ranges from elementary theory to the more specific technique used by illustrators this modality.

Techniques and perspective tips combined with the composition tips presented in the work, are a combination that certainly makes all the difference when choosing and enhancing the scene that we will sketch, whether it be designing buildings, mansions, parks, people, animals, etc. the inclusion of the curved perspective is also another highlight, as it goes beyond the usual three vanishing points that the author usually address. The techniques, in this sense, are not many, but the author certainly selected those that generate the most impact. The watercolor for example, is his primarily tool, where he uses for the most of his drawings.

This book has been very useful for me for a long time, even today I use it as a reference. I always preferred to draw on my desk, with a reference photo. But I know that I need to let go, and learn to draw outside, just by watching, and trying to finish quickly.

I live in São Paulo for a while, and sometimes when I walk I always have a small sketchbook in my pocket and a watercolor kit. Sometimes I paint trees, sometimes buildings with interesting shapes and colors, from time to time some birds. Anyway, I learned a few things from this book, although I still prefer to draw in my studio, calm and do the drawing with all the time in the world, it is very important that I draw what is around me, so that I learn to train my eyes, in addition to drawing totally random things, which sometimes the internet cannot provide.

Alexander Calder Animal Sketching

Alexander Calder is a renowned sculptor and inventor of mobiles, and here he brings the simplicity of lines and spirit of movement to the art of animal sketching.

The purpose of the book is to help people like me to draw animals as we can see them.

Calder captures the emotions and attitudes of animals in a few quick lines, the person can quickly obtain a lasting groundwork in animal sketching.

This book really helped me, because I drew animal few times, and I was always thinking in the proportions and finalizing the drawing, but I learned that before doing that perfect drawing, I have to understand the movement and the poses, not necessarily making a masterpiece right in the begging, but train and have some fun on doing it.

This book contain several animal sketches, like cats, dogs, deers, cows, horses. All this animals doing different poses and actions for training.

Juan Linares

Juan Linares is a Spanish illustrator and painter, who specializes in drawing mainly different environments (Urban sketching), from streets to buildings with a different style of architecture. He mainly understands the perspective and depth of the environment. Uses various types of materials, such as acrylic markers, even alcohol-based pens. But his preferred tool, of course, is watercolor, which he always uses, when walking in the streets of his city Barcelona, ​​where he paints narrow streets, with the small bistros, from the famous  La Sagrada Familia church made by Gaudi.

Linares says, that he’s been drawing professionally since 1984. Starting his architecture studies. He drew in sketchbooks, notebooks, and in blackboards. He has a preference in drawing food and buildings.

What I like about Linares's drawings, is the way he can put light and shadows, besides the buildings being magnificently well done, very carefully and calmly (he explains that if you are drawing in some environment it is good to be calm, and patience without feeling the need to finish quickly).

He has traveled to some places in the world, including Brazil itself, where he sketched the museum of Niterói, designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer, besides the Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.

Juan Linares is a great artist, and I really admire the passion he puts in each of his drawings. And I wish to see more of his works, of famous architectures of the world.

Laura Carlin

Laura Carlin was born is Glastonbury, England. She studied at Buckinghamshire university, followed by The Royal College of Art.

Laura has illustrated many children’s books for Walker Books Ltd, including The Iron Man by Ted Hughes which won many awards, specially praising for Laura’s illustrations.

She has also drawn for a whole host of publications including The New Yorker, The Guardian and Vogue, among many others.

Laura’s works frequently touches on emotionally complex subjects and adult themes of loss , social injustice and environmental change.

As an illustrator Carlin has worked with several contemporary children’s authors including Nicholas Davies for her book The Promise about a young thief whose life has changed after stealing a bag of acorns and Michael Morpurgo’s book The Kites are Flying ! , a story centered on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

One of the reasons why, I like so much her work, it’s because she has the ability to convey a plethora of emotions through the smallest details on the pages, combining with childlike drawing style and with a sentimental narrative, it’s very brave of her, to do books for children, with such difficult themes to explore.

Research: Show and Tell Project

Frank Frazetta

Frank Frazetta was an American illustrator and painter, who became extremely well known for having defined the look, of the character Conan the Barbaro, created by Robert. E.Howard in the 1930s.

Frank was born in Brooklyn, New York, and from an early age he showed his skills as an artist. As a child, at the age of 8, he studied at a small art school called Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts.

His illustrations are inspired by the great painters of the late 18th and 19th centuries, who portrayed mythological legends.

For me it’s not just the wonderful color palette he used, the wild and original streak or the phenomenal technique he developed. Of course, these things are fundamental, but in my understanding, the most important thing is that he defined practically everything we know in terms of visuals, mainly in the fields of fantasy, witchcraft, barbarism and even a little bit of science fiction.

His paintings defined some characters that we know today, like Tarzan and John carter, that he brought a new life to the characters of Burroughs, not to mention the images of Conan, who made the illustrator famous. Imagine that before him, the Sword and Sorcery look did not exist. The Conan that appeared on the covers of books since the 30s of the last century gets to laugh today. Frazetta was the first to understand the world created by Robert E. Howard.

The reason I chose frazetta as a reference is because I like fantastical worlds so much, and I love to learn anatomy, and frazzetta understood a lot of that, with his extremely vibrant colors, and extremely strong characters, who faced terrible monsters, who disturbed the peace.

Claude Monet

Claude Monet is the main and most dedicated representative of the impressionist movement. He always preferred paintings outdoors, regardless of weather conditions,in order to capture all the effects of nature. Early in his career he was misunderstood, especially by his family, resulting in financial difficulties for years. Only around the age of 40 did he start selling his paintings, he died as a rich and well known artist.

He started to paint from a very young age which earned him some money, selling caricatures, with the money he bought painting materials. In 1858 he met Eugene Boudin, a landscape painter who encouraged him to paint outdoors. The following year he moved to Paris to specialize his techniques. At that time Paris attracted the most varied artists in the world and there Monet met Camille Pissarro and Manet among other avant-garde artists.

In 1874, the first impressionists exhibition was held in Paris, featuring works by Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cezanne. The term Impressionism, derives from Monet’s painting called Impression, Sunrise (1872).

It was the art critic Louis Leroy to call the artistic movement: Impressionism. It was a way of understanding this type of painting that did not follow the standards established by the academy and its realistic paintings.

When looking closely at an impressionist work, you see only separate brushstrokes that look like blotches without contour. Seen from afar, the brushstrokes organize for our eyes creating shapes and luminosity.

His works of art followed, as a main theme, the landscape of nature.

He worked harmoniously with colors and lights, creating beautiful and strong images. In the artistic context, is good to mention the series of paintings that he made on the Cathedral of Rouen (1892-1894), where the artist portrayed the constructions at different times of the day, with variations in brightness.

Monet and the impressionist artists, were no longer interested in themes related to the nobility, to the church, or to producing portraits that were true to reality. They wanted to see the painting as work in itself.

Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott is one of the most well-known film directors of all time. He made several films of different genres, but his most well-known genre is science fiction, making films like Alien, Blade Runner, The Martian and Prometheus.

But before before of being a director, Scott was applying to the Royal College of Art, one the most acclaimed art colleges at the time, to be a designer.

Scott always liked drawing , but he saw that he had no way of being a painter. His teachers always argued that his paintings were more illustrations than paintings.

So he saw that the Royal College of Art, had a particularly strong Graphic Design Department, which would give him a more specific creative target and a broader canvas. He was accepted by the college, and started his studies in 1958 and finished in 1961.

In his words, he considered design college to be extremely competitive, everyone in his class tried to compete with each other to see who was better. And Scott realized that he needed to fight hard to be among the best. “It could be very competitive, with no much being given away and everything kept close to you chest. You observed all the time, watched everyone else did and tried to do better and be the most original”.

Since graduating, Scott has said that he has become extremely perfectionist, and has tried to do as much of his work as a designer and a filmmaker in the best possible way.

After working as a set designer, and director in British television, he began in 1967 to direct commercials, eventually numbering more than 2,000 for his own company. His attention to visual stylization in his commercials, including distinctive atmospheric lighting effects, continued into the feature films that he began to directing in 1977.

In 1979 Ridley Scott releases what is considered his debut film and his masterpiece, the movie Alien. Starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, Scott is credited with having a heroine take point in the ensuing hunt aboard the Nostromo spaceship. Scott’s paintings and illustrations are close to pointillism with tiny points that result in images of high definition and extreme detail.

A highly detailed approach marks his style. His eye for composition, lighting, and design seems to explain his ability to visualize a movie in his mind. He claims to have and eidetic memory and the ability to recall images with high precision.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjD82nKybUA

Roxie Vizcarra

Roxie Vizcarra is an artist, who worked as the senior illustrator of Rockstar Games, who worked closely on the iconic Grand Theft Auto v and Red Dead Redemption 2 marketing campaigns.

The Peruvian-American artist was just out of college- she earned her bachelor’s degree from the Parsons School of Design in New York- when she was approached by Rockstar games in 2009.

Vizcarra was Rockstar game’s first female illustrator. The first project she worked on was Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City.

The first game Vizcarra worked on since its inception was the original Red Dead Redemption, released in 2010.

Vizcarra draws her art from spaghetti western movies and holds the work of “Golden age” illustrators such as Bob Peak and Robert McGinnis in high regard.

For most of her career, Vizcarra’s process began by drawing in sketchbooks (she’s a fan of traditional ink), which she then uploads and adds digital colors through Photoshop.

However, for a year or two she has been using Procreate on the IPad, which is very flexible for her purposes. She also takes references photos when she doesn’t have a clear idea of what the illustration should look like, either of others or of herself, in the desired pose.

Vizcarra shows unusual humility; she insists on not taking credit for herself and repeatedly refuses to attribute specific drawings to one person or another, or to go into the why’s and how’s of illustrations.

Vizcarra’s work is really interesting, and it explores the more of the side of markenting. In making covers and posters extremely flashy for the public, and in addition to using references to posters from old western movies, maybe that is what attracts me the most. I really like the western theme, and I always liked the way she created the poster for games like red dead redmeption 2 and GTA, with extremely warm colors, with references of very old artists, who perhaps few remember, but she always tries to put some of them into her work.

Show and Tell Digital Collage research

Terry Gilliam

Is a famous American-British director, screenwriter, animator, artist and comedian, and who is known for directing and acting in some of the films of the English comedy group Monthy Python, in addition to making films that are extremely difficult to understand, as if madness were the main character in all his films.

Terry Gilliam began his career as an animator and photographic cartoonist; one his first jobs was for the Help ! Magazine.

Gilliam preferred cut-out animation, which involved pushing bits of paper in front of camera instead of photographing pre-drawn cels. The process allows for more spontaneity than traditional animation along with being comparatively cheaper and easier to do. He also preferred to use old photographs and illustrations to create sketches that were surreal and hilarious.

Gilliam was one of the founders of Monty Python. At first, he was accredited as an animator ( his name appeared separate from the remaining 5 members in the credits), later he also joined the series as an actor. Their animations linked the sketches of the program and defined the group’s look in other types of media ( such as Vinyl discs, book covers and the opening sequence in the films).

Gilliam polished a unique style, created fantastic worlds, worked with great stars for the biggest studios, and sweated tight budgets to execute his vision, not always sharp but always brilliant.

Caco Neves

Caco Neves uses digital collage as a platform, he created, for the past 10 years, illustrations for zines, magazines, advertising pieces, vignettes for TV and the web and, more recently, he was summoned by the Vogue art team to create the cover for the Vogue Experience 2017.

After spending a season in London, where he learned to give movement to his creations with the techniques calls Motion Collage, Caco returned to Brazil and, in a moment of creative rest, when he was creating for himself and not for a client, worked on a psychedelic vignette, then he sent it to MTV, to see if they liked the style, and they asked to use this commercial but to make some adjustments.

For Caco, the success of digital collage in the last decade is a reflection of the time we live in. “ The internet brought access to images- digital collections became public- and photoshop became popular.”

He has worked for several national and international companies, and his work is very dear to his collaborators, very much for his creativity, and for the choice of technique.

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*be a good brother…

…i love you…

A gore thing that I really wanted to draw based off of an rp I did with @actualhumans !

Time Taken: 5 hours total in one day.

Materials Used: Steadler 4B Pencil, Master’s touch fine art studio sketch pad, Shinhan Touch Liner, Touch Twin Markers, Copic Markers, Gel Pen, Light Box

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Whether you’re an art stamper, embroidery artist, custom jewelry designer, fabric painter or knitting and crocheting enthusiast, Belle Armoire provides 144 pages of inspiration for creating fashions that are uniquely you.

Inside the Summer 2017 Issue:

Meet textile artist Michelle Hoffee and her work full of handmade eco-printed and dyed art and clothing in this issue’s Designer Collection.

Take a peek into the Spring/Summer 2017 Collection by Melissa Ferreira of Adhesif Clothing.

Learn how designer Katia Occelli incorporates and gains inspiration from nature into her dresses.

Discover Jamie Bourgeois’s series of scarves born out of a curiosity and passion for the exploration of the natural dye process.

Meet Linda Walton and Paula Stuckey of Pretty Little Purses featuring their handmade leather bags.

Where Women Create BUSINESS

Be inspired by the lives and stories of exciting female entrepreneurs inside Where Women Create BUSINESS. This 144-page guide offers an abundance of knowledge and inspiration to women with a passion for success.

Inside the Summer 2017 Issue:

Children’s book illustrator Cathy Morrison

Claudia Stubin, owner of Farm & Culture, the first kombucha and bone broth bar in Orange County, California

The family behind Sassy Sparrow makes one-of-a-kind, beautiful handbags, scarves, gloves, and more.

Lena Schlabach, CEO of Farmhouse Frocks, seeks to bring forth the elegant farmhouse style in every woman.

Lisa Rieves, owner of The Front Porch of Vinings, offers vintage and antique home furnishings, lighting, and accessories.

  Enter to Win Our Glimpse Inside Giveaway!

We’re giving away brand-new July issues to THREE lucky winners! We’re switching things up this month, so here’s what you need to know to enter: 

Choose any of the following, then comment below to let us know which steps you took. Each step counts as one entry, so the more steps you complete, the higher your chances of winning!

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Winners will be randomly selected for our magazine giveaway and contacted via email. Contest is open to U.S. residents only, and ends 07/31/17 at 11:59pm PST.

*$5 off coupon code applies to purchases of any of the following (Summer ’17) issues only: Art Journaling, Where Women Create BUSINESS, Somerset Life, Mingle, Jewelry Affaire, and Belle Armoire. Coupon cannot be combined with any other offer. Discount code can be used only one time per customer and expires 07/31/17.

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