Enraptured || taekook ✔️

Chapter 54

The first thing Jungkook felt as he woke up was a body tightly pressed against his own and a head smushed against his chest.

Not being used to this at all, he let out a little gasp and kept his eyes on Taehyung's adorable sleeping face: his long eyelashes kissing his cheeks and his lips forming into a little pout as he inhaled and exhaled stably.

And then, Jungkook sneezed.

"What the hell?," he asked to himself quietly, only now realizing how much his throat burned and how he could barely produce a tone with his voice.
And as if that weren't enough, his nose felt extremely cloggy, so cloggy he could not draw breath through his nose.

His little sneeze seemed to have woken Taehyung up, the brunette's eyelashes fluttering and him shifting on the other's chest. Eventually, he opened his eyes and rolled off Jungkook, letting out a short yawn.

And then, he started coughing.

"Oh no, I think I got sick," he mumbled in distress, holding his hand in front of his mouth. His other hand went towards his forehead, feeling the temperature. He let out a gasp at how high it was.

"I have temperature! Jungkook? How are you feeling?," he then asked, his voice raspy and extremely groggy from his new sickness and the fact that he had just woken up.
"Shit. My throat hurts. My nose is clogged and now that you mention it, I do feel a bit hot," he reported, Taehyung's eyes widening.

"Shit, we must've caught a cold yesterday!," he exclaimed as loudly as his throat let him.
"Damn it, we should have asked for some medicine yesterday. What am I gonna tell my mom-- Oh shit."
He then realized he had not contacted his family at all after yesterday's party, they must have been worried sick!

"Give me my phone please, Jungkook. I forgot to tell my family I'm staying here. Oh no, no, no. I'm so stupid," he rasped and sank back onto the bed, pulling the covers over him and covering up his face in shame.

"Hey, hey. You're not stupid," Jungkook mumbled groggily, his hand searching for Taehyung's hand beneath the covers. His other hand searched for the older's phone underneath his bed until he remembered leaving it in the living room yesterday.
"Your phone is in the living room, the battery is probably empty. Um, take my phone instead, I hope you memorized the number." He reached out his own phone for Taehyung to take.

The brunette thanked him and took the phone, dialling his sister's number as his mother should be at work right now.
"Come on, Taeha. Pick up," he whispered after the fifth ring.

"Who is this?," his younger sister asked firmly only a few seconds later, him letting out a breath of relief.
"Taeha, it's me."

"Taehyung! Finally, where were you last night? Mom and I were worried sick! And why does your voice sound so shit, did you have a massive karaoke party yesterday?," she rambled, sounding a tad upset.

"Uhh... I...," he stuttered, making up a fake story inside his mind.
"At the party yesterday, I got super wasted and it made me feel really shit afterwards. And to make things worse, I... had a fight with Jungkook. And afterwards, it was so late, he decided to bring me home with him since it was too late to take a bus." He tried to sound as convincing as possible but knew that his sister wasn't one to be fooled easily.

"But you went to the party with Jimin, I thought he had a car! Did he just leave you there? What an asshole! And that still doesn't explain why your voice sounds like someone dislocated all your vocal chords!," she exclaimed, Taehyung biting his lip to search for yet another excuse.

"No, uhm... Jimin was wasted too. He passed out and probably slept at Ruo's. And, well, our fight was a bit extraordinary? I ran out on Jungkook and he chased me and then I chased him and it rained, so... Eventually, we made up and while going back home to him, I guess we caught a cold," he muttered.