1:31 Am

Chapter 6

The low glow of the self phone screen illuminated the darkness of the room. It was silent except for the few choked sobs coming from the younger boy. He couldn't control how badly he was shaking. Just the thought of this person coming back made him sick to his stomach. Even if he wasn't there he felt he needed to go back and protect his mom. He knew his dad was there to protect her but he wouldn't know for how long. Youngjae hugged his pillow close to his face, throwing his phone into the laundry basket. He didn't want to look at his phone. He couldn't handle seeing all those messages. They began to pop up. One after another. Youngjae covered his ears as he silently sobbed into his pillow. He couldn't handle it anymore. "Youngjae...?" Jaebum looked at the younger boy who was huddled in the corner of the bunk. Jaebum turned the light on and dropped his cup on a near by edge only to have it fall to the floor with a dull thud, rushing over to the boy in the corner. He looked at youngjae and reached out for him only to have the other boy nearly try and get away from it. He analyzed the situation and realized what was happening. Youngjae stared blankly at the laundry basket as the phone went off. Jaebum reached for the phone and turned it off before throwing it to the opposite side of the room. "Youngjae. Youngjae. Can you hear me? If you can hear me i want you to give me a sign. Cough or put up a finger for me if you can hear me." He heard a soft cough and he swallowed thickly. "Okay. I want you to try and breathe with me okay? I'm going to come over to you and i'm gonna be right here okay?" Youngjae coughed again. Jaebum cautiously walked over to youngjae and held his hands out to the younger boy. Youngjae grabbed onto jaebum's hands and right then he began to shake even worse than he was before. "Okay youngjae breathe in and out with me. Help me count to three. Can you do that?" Youngjae nodded. "match my breathing" Jaebum breathed in "1....2....3" and exhaled through his mouth. Youngjae did the same. After doing that for what seem like 30 minutes, youngjae's breathing became less frantic and a little slower. Jaebum gave the youngjae's hand a small squeeze causing youngjae to snap and pull away. "It's okay Jae, it's just me." Youngjae hiccuped and looked at the leader. "h-hyung...?" Jaebum sighed in relief and nodded. "Yeah it's me buddy." Youngjae began to cry harder, scrambling over to jaebum and hugging him tightly. Jaebum hugged back, stroking the younger boy's hair and rocking them back and forth at a calming pace.

The clock read 3:24 when youngjae was able to calm down. It had taken him almost 3 hours to calm down from what ever had happened to him. Jaebum refused to let go of youngjae even if he would hear youngjae's soft, broken voice say "it's fine hyung. I'm alright now." He still wouldn't let go . Youngjae stopped fighting after a while and gave into the comfort of his leader's arms, resting his head in the other's chest. The soft and steady heartbeat made youngjae a little tired. He yawned and jaebum got the message. The leader picked up the younger member and put him back in the top bunk. "hyung... can you lay with me?" Jaebum looked at youngjae and nodded. He went to turn off the light and then climbed onto the top bunk, grabbing a blanket and throwing it over him and youngjae. Jaebum felt the other curl up against him, still shaking a little. "It's okay youngjae. I've got you. No one is going to hurt you now that i'm here." The words echoed in youngjae's ears as he started to doze off. Jaebum had texted JYP telling him that both him and youngjae were both very sick. JYP responded and told them to relax as they will be off schedule to be healing properly. Jaebum put his phone down and began to comb his fingers through youngjae's hair. He looked down at youngjae's wrist and saw that his tattoo was the same color. Jaebum continued massaging and running his fingers through the younger boy's hair, taking a small whiff of his scent in. The scent of lavender and reasonably priced cologne filled his nostrils, the warmth in his chest growing and spreading throughout his body. Within moments jaebum found himself asleep, his breathing syncing with youngjae's. He wanted to stay like this forever with him. He didn't love the boy. Not yet of course but.... He found himself being pulled and pushed by this boy. As if youngjae was the moon and jaebum was the sea. Jaebum hated the fact that he was so influenced by youngjae already and they haven't even been together, y'know, like TOGETHER together. In all honesty it drove jaebum nuts but in this little moment, in this one... moment, jaebum wished more than anything to stay in this moment, frozen in it forever. But unfortunately he found sleep pulling him under and he gladly gave in, closing his eyes and finally falling asleep with youngjae in his arms.