(Ship requested by teudongiedeul)

(Concept: Tzuyu and Jungkook are good friends. Jungkook has trouble sleeping, so he usually talks to Tzuyu at night)

(Jungkook POV)

It's always the same thing. I got to bed and then lay awake for hours. I'm lucky to even get a few hours of sleep. Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and then I can't fall back to sleep. When I wake up, I'm still tired.

Some nights, I'll text Tzuyu because she stays up late too. Most of the time, we end up calling or video calling for a while.

Tonight was one of those nights. I texted her and she replied right away. We went straight to video chat from there.

"What's keeping you up tonight?" Tzuyu asks, like she always does.

"My mind. Like always."

"What's on your mind?"

I usually can't sleep because of stress and tonight I was stressed about work. I guess it also doesn't help that my job makes it so I can't have a normal sleep schedule.

"I feel like I don't bring enough to the team, but at the same time, I feel like people don't like me because they think I'm showing off. I just want to help." I vent everything out.

"You're always so hard on yourself." She says, "You think you don't do enough, but you do more than enough. Your fans can appreciate that. The people who think you're showing off aren't your fans and you shouldn't be worried about them."

Tzuyu always gives me good advice.

I feel bad for going to her for help all the time, but she doesn't seem to mind. I've known Tzuyu for a long time and she's a very patient person, especially with me. We met through some mutual friends; we would hang out when we were with our friends, but eventually, I invited her to hang out separately and we became really close.

I started feeling really tired after talking to Tzuyu over the phone for about an hour.

I must have dozed off because I closed my eyes and when I opened them again, my phone was off, but still in my hand.

I took this chance to get as much sleep as possible so I plugged my phone in to charge and closed my eyes once again.

(Tzuyu POV)

Jungkook fell asleep while we were on a video call, which is normal.

But after he fell asleep, I had trouble sleeping.

He said some things...

I don't think he was fully aware of what he was saying.

He was falling asleep, but he was still talking.

"I think I'm gonna go to bed soon." I told him, "I'm getting sleepy."

"Okay...well, good night."

"Good night, Jungkook."

I was about to end the call, but he kept going.

"I love you." He muttered.

"Eh?" It caught me by surprise. I didn't even realize I made that sound.

"I love you, Tzuyu. Good night..." He says with his eyes closed before his phone drops to his bed and the call ends.

That's why I couldn't sleep that night.

His words kept replaying in my head. Did he really mean what he said? I know we're like best friends and all, but he's never said anything like that before,

When I talked to him the next day, he didn't seem to remember anything from the night before.

"Are you still going to do that thing you were talking about last night?" I asked him about something else just to see how much he remembered.

"Thing? What thing?"

"You said you were going to try a new workout or something."

"I know what you're talking about, but I don't remember talking to you about it." He laughed.

I know he was just tired and probably speaking nonsense, but I couldn't stop thinking about it.

"Jungkook, what am I to you?" I ask him one night. 

We were up late, talking over video call again.

"Hm?" He looks at me, confused, "What do you mean? You're my best friend."

"Right...there's nothing else?"

"What are you talking about?"

I figured he wasn't going to remember so I just said it.

"The other night, when we were talking like this, you were falling asleep and...you said you loved me."

He was quiet for a moment.

"I did..?" He laughs nervously, "I don't remember."

"But did you mean it?"

He shifts around where he was sitting.

"Yeah." He says confidently, "I did."

Now it was my turn to be speechless.

"As a friend?" I ask.

"No." He smiles a little, "Something more than that it seems."

I could hear my own heartbeat at this point. 

He saw the look on my face and had to do something, "Gimme a sec. I'll be over in a few minutes."

Before I could say anything, he hangs up the call. He shows up at my door in his pajamas a few minutes later.

We sat on the floor in my living room to talk things over.

Almost as soon as we sat down, he let everything out. He told me how he felt about me and it all started to make sense. He loved me.

"I hope this doesn't change anything between us." He says, "I'd hate to lose a friend like you."

"What if it didn't have to change like that?" I say, "What if we become something...more than friends?"

"Are you saying-"

"I'm saying, I think I love you." I tell him, looking him right in the eyes.

He swallows, "Can I stay over tonight? I have a feeling this is going to be a long night."