chapter 2

Finally letting his bruised lips go to stop himself from lapping onto anything it could bite and express agony into, Jungkook breathed out small amount of air slowly at the beginning to calm himself. He could feel his eyes simultaneously opening wider in response as so many things were happening at once that he couldn’t comprehend. A small whimper made out of his mouth and he didn’t cover his mouth with his hands that had no energy with the nail cut pain, it wasn’t worth a try to him.

Even after moments of trying to calm himself down, his mind never stopped playing tricks with him. The thoughts and memories rushed back once again. Instead of letting it die down, Jungkook laps one hand over his mouth and let it open widely under the protection as if it was screaming so loud that there was pain. He felt like it though, screaming out loud like there’s no tomorrow just to loose his voice and maybe for the few second of relief from this suffering before it’ll just return and hunt him again.

“Jungkook?” A soft familiar voice called in the midst of small knocks being made on Jungkook’s hardwood door, the voice could’ve gone completely unnoticed by Jungkook’s zoned out mind if not for the mention of his own name.

Jungkook doesn’t respond however. He chooses to close his mouth instead, trying to keep calm by inhaling and exhaling slightly too fast with his mind fuzzed up, trying to find any escape route he could think of that won’t let him come in contact with anyone else. Hiccups starts to built up from his momentum of being cut off and he sniffs quickly as one hand moved to his chest to calm its racing heart that seemed like it was gonna jump out at any more excessive sounds made.

“Jungkook-ah? Are you still sleeping?” Jimin’s voice asked in a louder and more focused tone, sounding bit concerned but mostly curiosity.

“If you’re not gonna answer then I’m coming in.” Jimin declares in a carefree voice making Jungkook’s heart picking up its pace in nervousness.

It didn’t take long for Jimin to latch his hand on the door knob and twisting it open with ease, not shocking at all due to the fact it wasn’t locked. The younger was always too lazy to lock his own door while going to sleep. Plus, living in a dorm with six other grown men for years, it was better to keep the doors open than having to unlock it every single hour because of questions like “Do you have my…” or “Have you seen my…” Expect for private times here and there, but we don’t talk about that at this moment.

“What the? You’re gonna suffocate if you sleep like that. It’s too hot to be wrapping yourself up like a burrito, especially with those thick blanket covers.” Jimin says with a little chuckle at the end, not expecting for an answer as his small hands reached over to pull the big fluffy cover off of Jungkook’s hidden face.

Jungkook finally reacts with his two hands flying away from parts of his body to tug at the blanket harshly, feeling his fingers slipping from the grasp at first before he’s able to make a few more grabs for it to stabilize the slipping sheets as his breath fastens and hiccups interrupting it which had worsened everything.

“So you’re awake huh? Why don’t you get up for some breakfast first, or do you feel like me bringing it to you is better?”

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“Don’t ignore me, come on, up up. It’s lunch time already, so honestly, you’d be eating branch.” Jimin tone seemed to be more rushed although there was a cheerful delighting tone mixed in fairly well. It made Jungkook a bit guilty that if he didn’t reply it would sadden the other, or even anger him so Jungkook tried to stop the hiccups and reply.

“I-I’m f-f-fine.” Jungkook had to choke out the words as his vocal cords were finally being used for the first time in forever after it being on shutdown for so long even as the owner of this gorgeous voice was awake for hours. Jungkook could obviously feel his words shaking and probably squeaked out like a mouse, bringing his self-esteem down even more.

“Jungkook?” Jimin’s voice was now full of concern as his eyebrows furrowed. Even if he couldn’t distinguish what words the other said but it was easy to tell by the younger’s tone of voice, this wasn’t normal.

“Hey boy, are you alright?” Jimin’s hand reached out to smooth across the blanket side that he’d suspected as the male’s back and felt him shaking under his touch but his movements doesn’t stop.

Jimin caresses that spot in slow motion, rubbing up and down to comfort the younger. The feeling of the other’s shaking body loosening up over time as the shaking lightens with audible little breaths had lightened up Jimin as well.

“You wanna talk?” Jimin says with a smile even though the other won’t see it, waiting for a response he rubbed his hand on the younger’s side continuously then it suddenly stopped.

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