His Boxy Smiles

Chapter 22

Taehyung was relieved to see all the members still present in the room with him when he woke up the second time that day.

The only difference was that it was already night.

His members were still sleeping- almost like they have been all this time but Taehyung noticed a slight change.

Jin was now lying on the couch and not sitting up anymore. Jimin had his head rested on the maknae's shoulders who was now fully hugging Taehyung's arms, hands still holding his. There were no loud snores anymore.

Yoongi hyung probably kicked Namjoon awake at one point to make him stop snoring so loud then fell back to sleep.

J-Hope was resting his head on the foot of Taehyung's bed. He was sitting on a chair. It was almost like he had been staring at Taehyung before he fell asleep.

Taehyung once again smiled at the scene.

He was so very thankful that his members were there. He hated being alone. Especially now.

His bed's head also shifted from the previous time that he was awake. Taehyung was now propped up in bed in a halfway sitting position. It was easier to look around the room like this so Taehyung was thankful to whoever adjusted it.

Jungkook suddenly shifted in his sleep, turning his head to face Taehyung. At the movement, Jimin shifted too and wrapped his arm on Jungkook's, the one that was hugging Taehyung's.

Taehyung smiled at the two.

It was the first time after days that the boys were able to sleep peacefully without any worries or nightmares.

They had been right. Taehyung was their only cure.

'They look so peaceful.'

Taehyung would have pinched their cheeks if it weren't for his barely mobile limbs.

It was ten minutes of Taehyung just looking at Jimin and Jungkook's sleeping face when Jungkook groggily opened his eyes to check on his hyung.

His eyes grew wide at the sight of Taehyung looking back at him.

Taehyung smiled his boxy smile although it caused a pain that surged through his neck.

Like a lightning, Jungkook's eyes blurred with a fresh wave of tears.

"Hyung..." he whimpered like a lost child.

At the sight of his Kookie's tears, Taehyung frowned in a pout. He hated seeing Kookie cry. In fact, he hated seeing anyone cry.

"Don't cry," Taehyung frantically tried to wipe the maknae's face off of tears with his free right arm. It was covered in bandage and a single movement will in turn cause the bandage to rub against his cuts. It stung but he didn't care.

Jimin woke up at the commotion and blinked a couple of times before it registered to him that his Tae was awake.

"Jiminie, Kookie's crying! And I can't wipe his face fully. Help me," his best friend pouted in a worried whimper.

Seeing that, Jimin cried too. How can his best friend worry about them when he was the one in a bed filled with serious injuries?

"W-wah," Taehyung panicked. He made them cry. "No, don't cry..."

"Son of a-"Yoongi shot up from his sleeping position to glare at the culprit who had woken him up. However, when he caught Taehyung's teary eyes staring directly at him asking for help, his glare completely disappeared.

"Yoongi hyung, Jiminie and Kookie are crying! What do I do..." a tear rolled down Taehyung's face. He couldn't help it. His Jiminie and Kookie were crying.