reach: tomorrow, VKOOK FANFIC

3. The bright road in front of us

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The first thing Taehyung sees when he opens his eyes is a nervous Jungkook. The thin boy is sitting on a chair in front of the school nurse with his eyes glued on the white plastic floor below him. Seemingly, he is in the process of getting a scolding.

"You should have brought him here right away if you saw him fainting!", The school nurse says with an upset tone.

Jungkook's head sinks even lower.

"I'm sorry.", he says.

The nurse sighs and then leaves the room, the sound of her high heels slowly turns to silence after her.

Jungkook is left quiet at the chair. No movement or sound is made. The only thing that can be heard in the room shared by the two boys is the clock on the wall, an almost non existing sound from a distant air conditioner as well as their own heartbeats - their own breaths.

"It was you, right?", Taehyung suddenly says.

Jungkook turns around and Taehyung now spots the small package of strawberry milk in his hands. He smiles.

"Thank you for showing me the cherry blossom.", he says, "It was beautiful."

Jungkook blushes, remembering the hug and turns away only for a second, before he quickly goes up to beside Taehyung's side and places the strawberry milk on the white table beside the bed.

Taehyung laughs and something incredibly gentle can be seen in his eyes... But when Jungkook looks even deeper...

Isn't it fear?

Jungkook is just about to say something when the door to the room suddenly swings open. In comes two loud boys, one looks worried and the other one has a big smile on his face. He recognizes them in an instant, it's Taehyung's friends.

Jungkook bows politely towards them and then leaves the room in a hurry.

Mixed feelings.

You're confused.

Jimin goes straight up to Taehyung's side and looks at the boy who's still smiling brightly, as if he just recieved first place.

"Are you okay?", He asks, "Did the pain really come back? After all these years..."

Jimin leans forwards and lays his hand on Taehyung's forehead for a second. Although he's still smiling, Taehyung's grin fades slightly and he glances towards the pink package of strawberry milk.

"... I think it did, it's really unfortunate, isn't it?", he says in little of a daze.

"Taehyung...", Jimin says not really knowing what he should answer to that.

Hoseok who was in the other side of the room talking on his phone, goes up to them with the phone still in his hand.

"I just called Jin to let him know about the situation, looks like there won't be any karaoke tonight, sorry.", he says.

Taehyung sighs a disappoined sigh and looks at him with a look ready to complain.

"He's always too worried... I'm fine now!", he insists.