Child Of Stardust || TAEKOOK ✔️

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"Tae!"

Jimin's voice latched with worry when I slowly opened my eyes to see. I was still in his room. And my heart was throbbing as if I just ran a marathon. First Hara...and now Jungkook... were they really mere fragments of my imagination? What about.. what about the boy..? Why couldn't I see his face? Why did his voice sound muffled..? What was happening? I thought.. I thought I really was going crazy..

"You were twisting and turning on bed.. were you having nightmare? Are you okay?"

"Yeah.. I'm alright.. don't worry about it.."

I tried to smile at him, hoping it'd give convince him somehow.

"Alright..if you say so..here I've brought porridge for you.."

He handed me the bowl of porridge. The situation was also like a bowl of mixed-up porridge-jumbled, uncertain, and difficult to decipher, with all the ingredients swirling around in a tangled mess, leaving me unsure of where to find the answers. It felt like somewhat mocking. Wasn't it so?

"Tae.. you know I'm always here right? You can share anything with me"

He gave a reassuring smile and I smiled back while nodding. I knew he was always there, always been by my side. Perhaps that's why I trusted him blindly.. he deserved that. But would he believe if I were to reveal all these dreams or whatever were going inside my head. Were they really all in my head?

"Chim.."

I started. He looked at me attentively. And I gathered my courage to continue,

"Do you uh think the medicines are working?"

He seemed concerned. I might have regretted asking him that.

"What happened Tae? Why are you asking? Did anything happen?"

I kept fiddling my fingers under the blanket. I had so many thoughts running inside my gead and it seemed if I didn't let them out, I would burst any moment.

"I.. I still keep seeing the images in my d-dreams and they seem.. too real.. I don't know anymore what to believe and what.. not.. tell me Chim.. do you think I'm going crazy..?"

"Oh Tae"

Jimin immediately embraced me. His grip on me was tight as if I'd slip away the moment he'd let go of me. I felt his hands drawing circles on my back, perhaps trying to console me. His hands were still on my cheeks when he stopped hugging. I saw tears streaming on his face. Why was he crying?

"What did you see Tae? Can you tell me?"

"I-I saw Hara and J-Jungkook.. there was another boy who I didn't know...I saw so many scenarios a-and they seemed too real to be just my imagination Chim.. I just..I just can't believe those are not a part of my life..."

I could feel the warmth of his hands on my cheeks still. His face was screaming some expressions that were unknown to me. Was I wrong to tell him the things that had been bugging me? Did he think I was actually going crazy and belonged to a mental asylum now?

"I can't do this anymore.. I can't..", Jimin whispered loud enough to be audible to me.

Did my face fail to hide the void I was feeling inside? Maybe he pitied me. Maybe he thought I was a hopeless case now. Why would I not be alright even after treatment? He took care of me so well. Then what went wrong? I even lost the ability to let out my inner turmoils through tears. I simply couldn't cry anymore. Why couldn't I cry when I wanted to..?

"Chim please tell me the truth okay.. I got fired because he told me I was sick.. am I really so sick mentally? Will I.. will I not get fine at all? What did the doctor say?"

He remained silent. I could hear the faint sound of him sobbing. It felt like I was gradually loosing all my ability to express emotions and feel them. I felt so messed up that I was unaware of my own feelings. I.. I actually felt so so sick..

The comfortable silence was suddenly disrupted by loud, ear piercing noise outside. A trace of bright white light came into our view from the window. It was so bright that the whole room was brightened, almost making us unable to see.

"Fuck. Tae! C'mon! We need to get out of here!!"

Before I could register his words to act or comprehend the situation, Jimin grabbed my hand and immediately ran towards the door. I tripped several times from the force but never actually fell down. I was almost stumbling when we were outside. The light was still bright while Jimin ran towards God knows where. I was only following him blindly.

"Shit!"

I felt Jimin's grip loosing on my hand and I found him on the road with a pained expression. He let go of my hand when he fell down.

"Chim!"

The light was a lot dim now. I helped him to stand on his feet but he was bleeding from his ankle. He needed that to be treated. I surveyed the surroundings to get a better hold of the situation. There was no one in here. I wanted to know what that light was about. Did Jimin know anything about it? Why did he run then?

"Are you okay? Your ankle is bleeding"

"Yeah I'm fine. It's just a scratch"

He looked around with worry as if to find something unusual. What was he looking for? I had no idea. The matter of treating his wound seemed very trivial to him at that moment. I could tell.

"Chim wh-"

"Well well who do we have here now"

The voice came from right behind me. For some reason.. it sounded a lot familiar too. But when I turned to see the face, I found no memory or whatsoever of knowing this person in front. Though he had a smirk on his face and he was looking at me directly. His aura screamed power and dominance which was hard to not notice. I realised I had a frown on my face while trying to remember the known yet unknown features of the person. However the thinking process hurt my head.

I turned towards Jimin to see if he had any idea of who this was. However his face was pale and I could pretty much understand what he had in his mind while gripping my hand tightly again. I tried to find any other emotion by his expressions but found nothing except

fear.