Sleepless nights became something of a habit now for Jimin. The lack of sleep painted dark circles under his eyes that now no matter how hard he tries to hide them and try and convince his friends that he is in fact sleeping was becoming a challenge and almost impossible. It was as though every night something woke him up and his body would be buzzing, fear filled but never tired even with the lack of sleep. The moon always sat high when Jimin's body decided to shake himself awake and to simply waste time, Jimin would stalk to the living room, throw himself on the sofa letting the T.V play rather static sounds or useless pictures flashing on the screen. This only done to bring sound to the deathly silent apartment he lived in alone.
His phone illuminated, lighting up the dark room but also clearly indicating the time at the current moment. Jimin's hands rubbed the dust in the corner of his eyes hoping to assist him to not feel a burning in the back of his eyes, due to the blaring bright light of his phone. Taking in a deep sigh, he let his body fall back onto the soft bed below him, this done just before he blindly reached over to clasp his phone in his small hands only to blind himself. The digital clock read 2:56am and not one part of Jimin's body wanted to fall back to sleep so he decided to do what he does every night for the past 2 weeks. He wondered off to the living room, feet dragging behind him, using his memory to not bump into anything in the dark but to no success. The right side of his face met something sharp- probably that stray nail- Taehyung kept telling him to remove because it was a 'safety hazard' he wasn't wrong.
Jimin had no energy or care to even wipe away the now free flowing blood as his mere aim was to switch on the T.V and slump on the couch until school began. However just before he could grab the remote, his phone blared out his ringtone at first scaring him half to death and as he walked to answer it, the only thoughts running though his mind was. - Who on earth is calling me at 3am?
Once he saw the caller I.D, he hesitated before picking up the call and to his confusion Taehyung asked the question that hung off Jimin's tongue.
"What are you doing awake?"
"Me? What are you doing awake? It's 3am Tae."
He heard a sigh and with the silence now filling the atmosphere, Jimin took this chance to roam back to the living room hearing Taehyung's voice once he got comfortable on the sofa.
"If I'm honest I was waiting for the time to hit 3am. Jimin you have no idea how many coffee's I've had in the last 2 hours." Taehyung said, voice growing more fond, excited almost begging to share so many stories.
However, Jimin almost ignored the second sentence, much more focused on the fact why Taehyung decided to stay up so late.
"What- why did you stay up so late?"
There was no reply, when seconds passed the line went dead an obnoxious beep heard. Though instantly, a text from Taehyung lit up his phone once again with a simple- 'I'll be there in 10 minutes.'
Jimin ignored the message, confused and much too tried to even care about what he meant by that. He relaxed into the soft couch, leaning back and resting his head against the top of the sofa, eyes slowly focusing on the dim lighting and finding the ceiling. At this moment, his body was too heavy to move, to even notice the fact there was a deadly silence in the room, to even find the strength to simply reach over and switch on the T.V.
He stayed like this until he heard a quiet knock on his door. Mindlessly Jimin walked over opening the door to a Taehyung who wore a thick coat that somewhat perfectly hid his very loose track pants and ripped white shirt. (That he might have cut up himself). The taller boy instantly cupped Jimin's cheek, hand rubbing against dry blood.
"What happened?"
Jimin didn't reply, he, without saying a word, moved forward and leaned against Taehyung's body loving the warmth. For some reason, the fact Taehyung was here made Jimin want to sleep, almost as though his body knew he could sleep now and the soothing deep voice of his best friend was all he needed to be lulled to sleep. Taehyung pressed his hands on Jimin's waist before moving down slightly to press firmly against the back of his thighs. He bent his knees ever so slightly before hoisting Jimin up, instructing him to securely put his arms around his neck. And without hesitation the older boy did, at first startled however complying. He clung onto Taehyung like a koala, resting his head on his shoulder as his eyelids began to grow heavy and it became hard to keep them open.
Taehyung placed Jimin down onto his bed careful not to startle him but once he lost contact with the boy, Jimin's eyes slowly peeled open before in a low voice spoke.
"Don't leave Taehyung."
It was from that night and on that rather Taehyung would stay with Jimin or Jimin would stay with Taehyung. However, soon enough the two concluded to merely share an apartment space together which at first Jimin thought was a bad idea due to Taehyung's habits but soon accepted it. It was from then on, Jimin got enough sleep and he was beyond thankful for Taehyung for that.
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A/N
Y'all, I haven't updated these since November 20th. I really want to have a little momentum going but I am going t University now, fuck. I start Monday and I am shit scared.
To think I've been writing these one shots for 2 years...
Anyway until next time
L.T
