THE DEVIL WORKS HARD (Kookjin)

Chapter 31

For a few stagnant minutes which seemed to farther stretch into long excruciating hours, Jungkook barely blinked his eyes nor spoke a single word. The only edging noise around them was either from the annoying singing of mosquitoes or the loud incessant chirping of crickets, and of course the muffled down sniffles of Seokjin as well.

He could feel the trembling hands wrapping tighter around his upper body thereby helping to jolt him back to reality. Jungkook had a lot to say, he had shit ton of questions to ask, but for the mean time his only concern was getting himself and the scared boy back into the house.

Clearing his throat, Jungkook's cold fingers inches up until they were wrapping around Seokjin's biceps just so he could carefully pull the boy away from the hug. But as he did so, Seokjin refuted with a rather loud groan and proceeded to nuzzle even closer against his neck.

This action immediately causes Jungkook to give in, opting only for words instead.

"S_seokjin?" He manages to call out in a monotonous voice.

"Hmm?" The boy lazily responds, his warm breath fanning against Jungkook's skin as he exhaled.

"Do you know where you are right now?"

Without words at first, Seokjin did eventually nod before saying "Yes, in your arms"

In all honesty, it was a mere simple and honest response, anybody could easily have said this. So it was weird for Jungkook when he felt his entire insides suddenly come to life with a low burn of  warmth and even butterflies to say the least. But he was quick to exhale deeply, letting out a mild cough to help sever down his brewing nervousness.

"Umm, what I mean is do you know exactly where we are right now?"

This time Seokjin carefully detangles himself from the hug, but kept his head tucked underneath Jungkook's chin with his eyes screwed shut as if averting all forms of evil.

"Did I do something wrong?" He asks almost in a whisper, his heart thumping heavily within his chest as he did.

"No Seokjin, of course not. In my eyes you can do no wrong, I'm only worried about you"

"Why?"

Heaving a long sigh which seemed to go on forever, Jungkook backed up a little bit just so he could carefully tilt the boys head up to his eye level before proceeding to gently place both of his palms on either sides of his face. "Your eyes are closed"

Seokjin nods, knowingly.

"You know what you've done right?"

Again, Seokjin nods without a word.

"Are you okay?" Jungkook questions, the thumb on each of his finger lightly brushing over Seokjin's reddened cheeks.

"I'm in trouble now aren't I? I'm so scared to open my eyes, I've broken yet another rule they've severely warned me about. They'd find me in no time and whip me so hard until I pass out won't they? Can you please help me? I really didn't mean to, I thought something bad happened to you and I was very worried" He cried out almost immediately, now desperately grabbing a fist full of Jungkook's shirt as some sort of anchor.

Without a care in the world this time around, Jungkook quickly allows all of his self control scurry off with the night wind as he slips his palms off Seokjin's face and proceeded to wrap his muscular and well defined arms around his body instead, concealing him in a hug which seemed like one of the most sincere gesture he'd ever done in his entire life. He held him so close to his body to the extent he could feel all of the crazy and haphazard jumps his heart did within it's cage. Without stopping there, he goes on ahead to ghost his long inked fingers into the wavy mass of brunette hair resting on his chest and began gently stroking his scalp until he felt calmness rippling through him.