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As three months passed by, Jungkook's condition got way worse. He started to feel dizzy every other day. All of his energy was draining. He fainted a lot of times.
He told taehyung that it was anemia. His work pressure madd him temporarily weak. Just a few days rest and he'll be good again. Taehyung didn't believe it at all. But Jungkook's consistency for believing his lie made Taehyung finally submit.
Taehyung asked a promise from him that if Jungkook faints again, he'll be the first one to be informed. Jungkook just smiled and left a kiss on the boy's warm cheeks. He told him it's all going to be alright.
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Jungkook had only five months left. He had tried his best for the past months to not make taehyung worried for his health. But he was failing miserably. He was growing weaker each day passed. His body's immune system was not responding to any medicines. The fear of leaving taehyung alone terrified him, made him cry silently for the whole night.
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In the seventh month, Taehyung woke up with someone coughing loudly from the bathroom. He turned to look at his left side only to find out Jungkook wasn't there.
He ran towards the bathroom. And finds Jungkook's hunched up figure beside the toilet seat, vomiting out all the things he ate that night.
Taehyung didn't say anything. Rather he chose to sit beside jungkook. Started rubbing Jungkook's neck, pushed some hair from the sweaty forehead. Holding back his own teary eyes.
After helping jungkook lie down on the bed, taehyung didn't sleep that night. He couldn't look away from Jungkook's face.
He noticed how the once bright, beautiful face of jungkook's turned so pale. The strong boy has become so thin. Once the moist and soft Lips are now chapped and dry.
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When Taehyung woke up, Jungkook had already left their apartment for work. Perhaps, He couldn't have the courage to face Taehyung at all.
Taehyung waited for the whole day and night. But Jungkook never returned that day.
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When the elder finally returned home after two more days. He found Taehyung sitting at the couch with a painful expression.
Taehyung's eyes were so swollen, blood red. He must've cried so much. But not that Jungkook was any better. He looked at the boy with the same amount of pain.
Taehyung got up from his seat, sobbing. Ran to hug Jungkook as if this was the last time he could hold the boy he loved so much all these years.
Jungkook took him in his trembling arms, kept repeating several apologies in Taehyung's ears.
Taehyung didn't leave Jungkook alone for a second after that. He was now sitting on Jungkook's lap, resting his head on his shoulder, holding the other's hand.
"Do you want to tell me anything, jungkookie?," Taehyung asked in a small voice.
Jungkook looks so defeated and lost. He tried to hide his every pain. But now it became inevitable. There's no way to escape.
"I have-" Jungkook paused, searching for words.
Taehyung kept tracing the soothing patterns on his love's hand, leaving small kisses. Kept whispering that it's okay. He can take as much time as he needs to continue.
So jungkook continued, "My dream of growing old with you can't ever be true, Taehyung. I...I am so sorry, baby. I have tried every way to live for you. But-but I failed...."
Jungkook couldn't finish it. His face crumpled, eyelashes were wet. His hold around Taehyung felt like an iron grip as if the boy would fade away in thin air.
Taehyung kept his eyes closed, head resting at the junction of Jungkook's shoulder. He didn't find any courage to look at his love's face. He'd burst into tears and he would never want that. He had to remain strong for the crying boy.
He could never accept the truth that he knew from five months back.
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when he accidentally found out about the mysterious medicines his bun was taking, he searched the names of those small boxes on the internet. The results were of course left him terrified.
It made him search Jungkook's cupboard for any prescription or file. He indeed found lots of papers from a specific hospital. The hospital which is well-known for cancer treatments.
He didn't wait anymore. He took those prescriptions to directly consult a doctor that very day.
When the doctor said the patient had very little time left, he broke down. He cried and cried, heart wrenching sobs filled their apartment as he returned broken, heart felt like an empty void.
Jungkook found a crying taehyung lying on the floor when he returned from the office that night. The sight just broke Jungkook's inside. He hurriedly paced to pull Taehyung on his lap, sush-ing him, patting his hair, kissing the boy's cheeks, nose, and teary eyes.
After lots of trying, Taehyung told him he had a very bad fight with Jimin (Taehyung's university mate and office colleague)
Taehyung didn't tell Jungkook the truth until he revealed it on his own.
"We will be fine, Bambi. We will get through it. We've got each other, remember? Nothing bad will happen. Just... You need to eat good foods and proper care. For that, I'm here. I always will....," Taehyung kept rumbling. Jungkook listened to him without uttering anything, snuggled closer against the crook of the younger boy's neck, breathing the very known calming scent.
