Counting The Stars||Taejin✔️

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Hello!!!
Hope you all are well!

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Jin squirmed on his bed, his face lined with sweat as his eyebrows furrowed together.

Light whimpers left his lips as he brought up his hands and shook them like he was warding off something.

Suddenly Jin snapped his eyes open, waking up from a nightmare. His dilated pupils held deep fear as he looked up at the blank ceiling, trying to get his breathing under control.

He ran his tongue over his chapped lips, wetting them. Once he had calmed down he took his phone and typed in his password.

The brightness made him close his eyes, immediately reducing it. It 4:34 a.m.

Jin sighed and kept the his phone aside.

He tried closing his eyes, but it only made him more anxious. So he just lay on the bed staring at nothing.

He did not know for how long he stayed like that but when his alarm rang, he flinched looking at the phone with wide eyes.

2 hours had passed since then but for him it barely felt like two minutes.

He got up and directly went to his bathroom. His eyes lingered on the cabinet.

He had this sudden urge, an itch in his hand to go and open it. To finish what he intended to do yesterday.

He shook his head and immediately went out thr bathroom and out of his room. His mother as usual was in the kitchen while his father ate his breakfast.

"Can I use Namjoon hyung's bathroom?"

She looked up "What happened dear?"

Jin licked his lips again "The water pressure in mine is too less."

"Aah ok sure. And hurry or you will be late"

Jin nodded and went back to his room to get his clothes. He did not trust himself to be in his bathroom for more than a second. The only option he had was Namjoon's room.

He went into his brothers room and finished cleaning himself up. He was faster than usual, not feeling comfortable in a different bathroom.

He got ready and went to his room and got his bag. He went out to the kitchen and this time is mother and father were not there.

He heard the front door open and he guessed that his father was leaving and his mother was there to bid him goodbye like everyday.

Jin glanced at the breakfast on the table and his nauseous feeling was back. It had been a day since he had eaten anything and he honestly did not know how he was even standing right now.

He heard his mother coming back. So he immediately went and placed is plate and bowl into the sink and started washing his hands.

"Have your breakfast dear" His mother said.

Jin shook his head as he dried his hands "I am done mom" he said not even stuttering.

She frowned and glanced the rice cooker "There is a same amount of rice as before"

Jin cleared his throat "I ate mom. Now I will go. I don't have time"

Jin's mother still had a slight frown on her face but she still smiled and nodded. "Be careful. Come back soon"

She believed him. She failed to look through him.

Again.

Jin gave a bittersweet smile to his mother and went out of the house, swinging his bag over his shoulders.