Habits {Jikook}

CHAPTER 12

💿 ILYSB - LANY

×

"Why did the bus stop? Where are we?" Namjoon asked his dad who was sitting in front of him, looking through the small gap between the seats. His dad just shrugged his shoulders unknowingly and waited for the bus driver announce something.
They had been riding the bus for almost an hour now until the bus driver suddenly decided to turn right to drive to the nearest rest stop.
Jeongguk was still sleeping beside his brother, unaware of the murmuring and confusion bottling up inside the bus.

When they heard the bus driver speak through his microphone, everyone in the bus went quiet, curious to know what was the reason for the sudden halt.

"Dear guests. We just received a storm warning, but it turns out that the storm won't be here for two hours. Nevertheless, the safety of our passengers is top priority, which is why we stopped the bus. Now that we are already here at a rest stop, we would like to give you the chance to go inside and use the restroom or buy a snack.
However, we will leave in 15 minutes.
We ask for your understanding," the bus driver spoke monotonously.

Immediately, there was a crowd forming at the exit.
All the guests were getting off the bus when Namjoon tapped and squeezed his little brother's shoulder to wake him up and Jeongguk tried to push his hand away but it was useless. The older just didn't want to stop, so he slowly opened his eyes and looked around.

"Move your ass,"
Namjoon said in an exhausted tone and the other tried to understand what's going on. When Jeongguk finally looked up, Namjoon told him why everyone was standing up and why they should hurry up too. Jeongguk just nodded sleepily.
While standing up, he rubbed his eyes and started to walk to the front of the bus, grabbing each seat he could reach on the way there. If you asked him for how long he had slept, he would probably answer with three minutes.

Jeongguk then hurried to the restroom but what he did not expect was a very long queue waiting for him. He tapped his foot on the floor, feeling the impatience growing inside of him. He couldn't be late. Well, was sure that his family wouldn't forget him there. Hopefully.

"Why are you still here? The ride will continue in only a few minutes," Jimin asked, suddenly standing right beside him with a white wrinkled paper bag in his hands. Jeongguk continued to look ahead, not acknowledging the presence beside him and answered shortly, "I could ask you the same, Park"

"I just bought some fresh bisquits and was on my way back, when I spotted you standing in the queue. What about you, dickhead?" Jimin huffed and rolled his eyes afterwards. The nickname lead Jeongguk to chuckle quietly and he spoke, now looking over to the other, "Well, as you can see, I obviously want to use the restroom but I've been waiting for so long now"

"Jeongguk," Jimin looked at him deadpanned and sighed, "You're so dumb, I swear to God. That's not the queue that leads to the restroom. You've been standing in a waiting line where people wait for a free table in the restaurant"
He then dragged him away from all the confused people that waited there for just as long and went over to the actual restroom of the rest stop.

---

"Yeah, uhm. Hi mom"

"Jimin, where in the world are you? And where's Jeongguk?,"
Jimin's mom, Miyeong, spoke at the other end of the line. She sounded really frustrated as well as worried and Jimin understood it.

Because both of the young men were standing before the window of the rest stop, looking outside.
Rain was pouring down and Jeongguk was observing the way each drop clashed the ground. The sight was not calming at all, the enormous amount of rain flooded the whole parking area, slowly growing heavier.