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Kim Seokjin lives so much of his life carefully. Everything is bound up in what's proper, in invisible rules that he follows just in case something he does makes it back to his father. None of those careful, unspoken rules dictate what he should do about going into a music store except, probably, that he shouldn't be spending 68,000 won on an acoustic guitar.

He sends a post about how he's about to make a terrible decision and something about Namjoon's dread encourages him. Maybe because he still remembers their talk about living by made up rules that make no sense. No one is going to care if he buys a guitar. It's not like learning an instrument will bring shame on his family. Why can't he try it?

What he decides on isn't particularly extravagant. It's a handsome guitar made of blonde wood, advertised as a 'starter' guitar. It comes in a simple case and he grabs a few instruction books too. There's no point in making a stupid impulse buy if he can't even figure out how to play it.

Rather than go straight home, Seokjin takes his new guitar and goes to the empty classroom instead. The abandoned piano sits in the middle of the room and Seokjin sits on the bench, propping the instruction book on the piano's sheet music ledge.

On impulse, he takes a quick selca and posts it, telling his friends where he'll be. After all, Yoongi did promise music lessons...