𝙼𝙾𝙽𝙸𝚃𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙳

Chapter 9

"The place where our happiness rests;
Where are the toys;
sweet children;
The sun in the head;
He hardly sits under the bed,"  Jungkook read the lines.

"The place where our happiness rests? Does 'our' perhaps denote mine and his happiness?" Jungkook purses his lips together. "Somewhere we used to play?" He then diverts his attention back to the other lines. "Where are the toys? This doesn't seem like a question. Sweet children. It is definitely us. Okay, so," he straightens up his back. "A place where toys are placed, or we used to place where my and Yeonjun's happiness rests, means sweet memories."

Jungkook clicks his tongue on the side of his cheek and tilts his head to the side. "The park? My house's backyard? His grandma's room? Somewhere toys are placed or we used to play?" He closes his eyes, "Somewhere toys are or were placed?" He opens his eyes and reads the next line. "The sun in the head. Park? Didn't we used to place toys in the park? Ah! The storeroom of his house," he smiles proudly.

The storeroom of Yeonjun's house was upstairs, a room stretched under the roof, with a ladder to climb up to the storeroom. The roof was triangular.

They both used to play there with the toys.

"Uh-huh! Gotta check the storeroom. But this was the easiest riddle slash poem I have ever read," he then looks back at his phone and reads the last line. "He hardly sits under the bed," his eyes widen as he reads the lines. "He remembers," and tears well up in his eyes.

"Jungkook, come out!" Yeonjun yell at the young Jungkook hidden under a bed.

He was sitting under his bed in his room. Hardly pressing his knees to his chest. He was sniffing and looked at Yeonjun with his doe eyes.

Yeonjun's small eyes locked with Jungkook's with a reassuring smile. "No one will hurt you. I won't let anyone."

Jungkook shook his head left and right. Yeonjun look at him; crossed his legs and sat in front of the bed looking at Jungkook.

"Listen, there is no monster. This is just a tale. They were just scaring you and even if it is. I will protect you from it. Forever. Got it."

Jungkook was weak so the other children bullied him. Yeonjun was a bit fat. Thus, he was bullied too. But he made sure to protect Jungkook from everyone and everybody.

Jungkook wipe his tears and sobbed silently. "Why did they take him?" Being a sensitive man, Jungkook can't help but miss him a lot and all those memories with him, recalling isn't helping much.

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"He never clean," Jungkook cough. "He doesn't clean himself. What can I expect from him to clean a very old store room? Nah, man." He looks around.

"No way here is a bed," he hover his eyes around and move further to inspect things. "And, I gotta sit under it." He scrunch his nose. "Not the stupid. Somewhere, something."

"Doll house," he opens the doll house and found a folder in it. "Uh-huh," he smile in satisfactory. "Hi there mate," he opens the book and read it.

"What the duck?" He blinks his eyes twice. He look around and ran out of the store down, down the hallway and then out if the house. "But as they are watching every thing. This is no use," he sigh and walk to his house.

"But why does he pointed out to that particularly incident?" He wondered out loud.

He again open the book and went through it. "A creep watching everything? Like everything? Killing and picking up people? Not less than a monster. Where is humanity? How does he have so much powe-" Jungkook pause abruptly as he realised what he just said. "Monster?"