sick - im jaebum

six

it was the middle of the night when subin realized she should probably go to the bathroom. she was half asleep and she stumbled into the ensuite.

jaebum heard her, not really minding that he was woken up. in fact, he was more glad that she remembered to pee. he told himself it was because she didn't wet the bed she that he didn't have to smell it. deep down, he knew that wasn't the reason.

jaebum loved to watch subin interact with the other patients. he admired how patient she was with youngjae when he couldn't say what he really wanted to say. he was impressed when she would reintroduce herself to yugyeom day after day. he smiled when she hyped bambam up when he finished a meal.

what he loved more than her interacting with the other guys was when she interacted with him. recently, repeating grey, eternal sunshine, and michael jackson wasn't enough. so she would ask him what street he grew up on. what his mother's maiden name was. what she didn't know, was that her face distracted him more than anything she could say.

in a half asleep, confused haze, subin stumbled out of the bathroom. the girl walked over to jaebum's bed and climbed in with him. jaebum realized that she crawled into that bed out of habit since she was sleepy, and she didn't feel jaebum.

"subin, you're in the wrong bed," he told her. but she was already asleep.

her left hand was on his shoulder, the rest of her forearm on his pec. that was fine. her nose was pressed against the sleeve of his shirt. that was fine. what wasn't fine was how her legs were barely brushing against his own. he twitched at the triggering feeling.

to combat that feeling, he grabbed her thigh and swung it over his hip bones. he pulled her flush against him, holding her as tightly as he needed to hold her to feel okay. she didn't feel anything. she stayed asleep.

jaebum stayed awake. it wasn't because he was uncomfortable anymore. he was really content actually. it was just knowing that it was subin right next to him that made his mind keep buzzing.

soon enough, subin's body heat put a blanket of exhaustion over jaebum. his eyes drifted closed and they didn't open again until the morning.