•° Delicate °•

•° THREE °•

October 2020

The sounds of coughing woke Namjoon up again. Mika had been fighting a severe stomach bug that had been going around Jisoos nursery, both Jisoo and Younha had come down with it, as well as Seojun. The only person that had escaped it in the Min family household was Sara, and she was looking after not only her family but going over to check in on Mika too during the day.

Namjoon pulled the covers off him and went into the bathroom, Mika was lying on the floor, curled up in the foetal position, so much paler than her usually pale skin was. He helped to clean her up before lifting her. He could feel a weight difference in her and it worried him. He knew she was eating the bare minimum as well. She was spending her days either in bed or on the sofa, she didn't have the energy to go for her daily walks either. This was all too familiar to him.

The following morning he left her on the sofa with food on the coffee table as usual after she ordered him to go to work, reassuring him she'll be fine and that Katie would be visiting later. When he got home, he found Mika asleep on the sofa, she hadn't eaten any of the food he had made for her before he left that morning, she had text him a few times saying she was tired. He gently woke her up and he could feel a cold sweat on her face. He offered to make her something to eat but she declined, just wanting to go back to sleep so he carried her upstairs to her bed. Her pale face cuddled into his hoodie as he got on the bed with her.

It had been a week since this had started, and he was beginning to worry more about her now. Her sickness had eased off, but she was still struggling to eat, when she did it was a couple of mouthfuls, and usually, she brought it straight back up again. She was beginning to lose weight too, her face thinner than usual and paler. He was worried she was beginning to slip back. Mikas heart condition concerned him as well, it was constantly at the back of his mind.

The next night he came home, he hadn't had a very good day at work and when he came home Mika was lying on the sofa, she looked completely drained again. He sighed as he saw her, begging her to eat something.

"You need to eat if you want to get your energy back baby." He said as she declined his offer of food yet again

"I can't. I feel really sick whenever I eat something." She replied

"Baby please, you haven't eaten anything today." He said looking at the untouched food on the table, "I am worried about you."

"It's just a stomach bug, it will pass." She said trying to stand up from the sofa but stumbled a bit

He moved forwards quickly to catch her before she fell, he was officially concerned now.

"You need to start eating." He said firmly, the days frustrations catching up on him and beginning to spill out "I am not doing this shit again with you."

She used what little strength she had and pushed him away. He was shocked at the shove.

"I am fine." She said

Her voice was calm but her face was angry, her green eyes looked dark. The last time she looked this angry was when she shouted at him to get out of her hospital room and go back to Seoul. She had been quick to anger if anyone had brought it her eating or mentioned anything to with her weight back then.

"I know what you are implying, and you are wrong." She spat

"And what's that?" He snapped back at her

"That I am starving myself again." She shouted

"What the fuck am I supposed to think when you aren't eating, and you can't even stand up from the sofa? I've seen all this before remember." He shouted back