The 100-Day love challenge | yoonmin

05

Jimin is being shaken awake.

"Jimin-ah," a low voice whispers. Then, louder, "Jimin."

Jimin reluctantly opens his eyes.

Yoongi is crouched over in the darkness next to Jimin's bed, his arm reaching out to grip Jimin's shoulder. He looks terribly unsettled. He almost never looks like that, which wakes Jimin up a little. He hopes everything's alright.

"Wussit?" Jimin slurs, opening his eyes as big as he can.

"Jimin," Yoongi says again, and suddenly he sounds nervous. "Say it again."

"Say what?" Jimin rubs at his face.

"Say--" Yoongi's voice cracks. "Say it. Tell me again."

Jimin is confused. Yoongi huffs out a breath, looks away, and almost immediately looks back at Jimin again.

"Tell me you love me again," he says very quickly.

Jimin is even more confused. He reaches under his pillow for his phone and wakes up the screen. 10:58. "I already said it today," he croaks. He had, marking his sixty-fourth day, when they were sitting alone on the couch in the dorm's living room watching TV. Being the nice person he is, he'd waited until a commercial break to say it, he remembers.

"I know," Yoongi says, sounding rushed. "Just-- just, say it one more time."

"Okay," Jimin agrees, accepting the wierdness of the situation because what matters is that there's no big emergency and no one is hurt, and now he just wants to go back to sleep. He lets his eyes fall shut. "Hyung, I--"

"No." Yoongi cuts him off. "Look at me when you say it."

Jimin pries his eyes open.

Yoongi is still crouched by the bed, now almost imperceptibly rocking back and forth on his heels. This is definitely the strangest conversation the two of them had in a while. But, it's not like it hurts to say it, so...

"Hyung," Jimin says, making eye contact through his bleary vision as best he can. "I love you."

Instead of looking satisfied, Yoongi looks stricken. Jimin shuffles over and extends a hand to comfort him, but Yoongi darts away, out of reach.

"It's ok," Jimin tries, even though he doesn't really understand what the problem is. "Everything's going to be okay."

"Everything's not going to be okay," Yoongi says, sharp, and he stands up quickly from his crouch.

He's out of the room in a flash, leaving Jimin wondering if he's dreamt the entire thing.

--

On the evening of day sixty-seven, Jimin is so caught up in the drama he's watching by himself that he doesn't even acknowledge Yoongi hovering on the edges of the darkened living room. He finally notices when Yoongi speaks.

"What are you watching?" he asks tentatively. He fidgets where he stands.

"A drama," Jimin says, trying to stifle the emotion in his voice.

Yoongi sounds like he's regretting his question before he asks it. "What kind?"

"Romance," Jimin says, voice wobbly.

And then, inexplicably, instead of turning around and leaving like he alwaysdoes, Yoongi shuffles over and sits down on the couch next to Jimin.

"That woman looks familiar," Yoongi says after they watch together for a minute.

"She's been in a lot of things," Jimin says, clutching the throw pillow he's holding tight to his chest, and his voice finally breaks. "She's really good," he adds, practically sobbing.