Healing

XVII - hangover

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Jinyoung wakes up because someone decides to play being dinosaurs in the house, stomping everywhere and making his headache so much more horrible. Surely it must be his sister, torturing him with loud noises just to make him roll in agony and get revenge.

Hangovers are the worst invention and he doesn't like them, at all. It seems it's true they only get worse as you get older. Jinyoung hasn't got drunk since high school and he doesn't remember ever waking up and feeling so miserable.

One out of ten, he would not recommend.

In complete suffering, Jinyoung opens his eyes but the sun is a bitch and is shining brighter than ever, and he did not close the blinds when he got home te day before. He could try to stand up and close them, but he's entangled in a jacket so that's the first problem he needs to deal with.

When he unwraps it and separates himself from the blanket that got in between as well, he recognizes the item does not belong to him and remembers Jaebeom wearing it when he came to see him. He then remembers how he got drunk, but whatever happened after the first sip of bear is blurry to him. Some images cross his mind, like a movie trailer, which is definitely not enough to put the pieces together.

The effort to remember is making his headache worse, that's for sure.

The young man grabs his phone that fell off the bed. When he unlocks it, it launches on the Kakao app and his conversation with Jaebeom. It's just goodnight texts, and he doesn't even remember when he sent them or what he was doing while he was at it.

Getting drunk and forgetting what you did, plus getting a hangover is completely unbecoming.

He sends a new text hoping he can get some recollection from Jaebeom.

Good morning, how did you sleep? – Jinyoung

The reply doesn't come immediately, and in that time the young man manages to get out of bed, go to the bathroom for a shower that helps with the fog in his mind and to feel more like a human again. On the way he learns that his sister is not at home and the T-Rex like footsteps he heard was just his mother cleaning the living room, in her usual fluffy slippers.

By the time Jinyoung feels like a presentable human being, Jaebeom has replied.

Morning. I slept well, how about you? How's the hangover? – Jaebeom

Instead of typing, Jinyoung calls as that requires less energy and concentration on a screen. Jaebeom answers quickly and it's very soothing to hear his voice.

"Horrible, I thought a dinosaur had eaten my mother and was walking around the house because it was so loud. Never let me get drunk again," Jinyoung continues right where the conversation would've followed over Kakao.

"But how else would I see you dancing?" Jaebeom asks, his voice amused.

Jinyoung groans as he lays down on the bed, forearm over his eyes and the phone on his ear.

"Did I dance in front of you?" he asks, feeling mortified. "What other horrendous and humiliating thing did I do?"

Jaebeom chuckles, and Jinyoung has to admit he loves that sound. "Nothing, it was just cute and endearing. You're very affectionate when you're drunk."

"I can be affectionate when I'm sober too, and it won't get me a headache," he refutes.

"I know," comes Jaebeom replies. "But would you teach me how to do a triple spin while being sober? I don't think so."