WISH

48. Magical Wish - The End

"H-how?" Taehyung stumbled a little.

How was that even possible? How could Jungkook became a Kid? For him? He didn't even believe in magic!

What was happening?

Taehyung found himself lost. He must have been dreaming. Yeah, this might be a dream. Was Jungkook really in front of him?

"Yes, I am. You are not dreaming, Tae. I'm really here," Jungkook nodded when Taehyung looked at him with wide eyes. He was thinking out loud.

"B..but how? You... How? Koo you don't even believe in magic. How can you be.... Are you r-really here?" Taehyung gulped. His brain might be playing tricks. He couldn't believe his eyes.

"Hmm. Touch me and find out yourself that I'm real or not" Jungkook playfully teased and raised his right hand for Taehyung to hold it. 

To feel it.

But instead of holding his hand, Taehyung stepped closer to him. He lifted his shaky hand and slowly brought it closer to Jungkook's face. To touch it, to feel it. 

As soon as his palm came into the contact with Jungkook's skin, he felt a wave of current passing throw his hand, travelling in his body.

Suddenly his cold body felt a wave of warmth. As if, someone dropped a warm blanket on him. He felt those tingles. He felt his heart skipping a beat. He could feel the air whispering in his ears, teasing him.

It was really Jungkook.

His Koo was here.

It was the last thread of his control. His Koo was here. He was not alone.

He threw himself on Jungkook. Tears of pain, separation started falling from his eyes. He clutched on Jungkook's shoulders, as he encircled his arms around Jungkook.

He kept whispering "Koo... My Koo... my Koo is here..." again and again in his broken voice. He was chanting Jungkook's name like he was telling himself and every living thing in this universe that his Koo was there.

He was there with him.

Seeing Taehyung like this... this broken, made Jungkook feel like someone had taken his heart out and stabbed it. His Taehyung was crying his heart out. And from the tightened grip, he could feel how scared Taehyung was.

"Tae... shhh, p-please don't cry. You will struggle in breathing. Please, I'm sorry. It was all my fault. Only if I had believed you and trusted you when you showed me the magical book. This wouldn't be happening. Please I'm so s-sorry, forgive me please," Jungkook apologized.

Taehyung was just crying. It doesn't matter to him that Jungkook hadn't believed him at first. 

Because at the end, Jungkook was here. In his arms. Back to him.

Taehyung cried his eyes out in Jungkook's arms. He felt like his soul came back to him. Jungkook felt his own eyes blur with tears. Somehow, he knew exactly what Taehyung might be feeling.

He had gone through the same things in the span of hours. He could still feel that heartache he had felt in church. That wound was still fresh inside his heart. But now, crying with Taehyung, in his arms... it feels like someone put a bandage on his wounds.

Just like that, two lovers cried in each other's embrace. Letting out their deepest pain and healing each other's scare.

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After crying their eyes out in each other's arms. They were sitting on a bench in the corner of the park, facing each other.

"So... How did this happen? How did you become a kid, Koo?" Taehyung asked. His (now little) mind was filled with a lot of questions.