Black {m.yg + j.jk}

XI

For the next two weeks, the two boys worked diligently to finish their song. After Yoongi snapped Jungkook to his senses, they quickly finished the lyrics and immediately began working on the background and melody.

But something else was going on.

Each day, Jungkook would come to school with another bruise. Another "scratch" from when the "neighbor's cat got feisty."

The dark circles grew prominent under his slowly sinking eyes that were even more defined by the large bags forming. It seemed as though the word "sleep" was stripped from his personal dictionary.

He tried to make it not so obvious, but to everyone else, he was the opposite of discreet. He didn't seem to try and hide his limp, or his winces every time he sat or stood.

Everyone was affected by it. Seokjin gradually grew more and more stressed, the evidence clearly written all over his face and in his aura.

Hoseok constantly hovered around the younger, making sure that he didn't accidentally hurt himself or someone else hurt him. Jimin was particularly protective, acting out vocally and physically if anyone bugged Jungkook too much.

Taehyung wouldn't barely talk. Anytime he'd speak, it'd be in soft whispers, as though he were holding back sobs. Which he was. He couldn't bear seeing his best friend, basically his brother, in this state. It literally killed him on the inside knowing he was doing and couldn't do anything to help.

Yoongi obviously noticed the changes too, but he didn't know why they were happening, nor did he have the slightest clue. When the others had their conversations about Jungkook's situation, Yoongi would have been already dragged off to class by Jungkook, or he just wasn't around to hear it.

But, he had an underlying theory that it had to do with him. The first day he met Jungkook, yeah the boy seemed terribly shy around him, but he seemed fine physically. Yet as the days went on and the farther they got into their project, the more Jungkook seemed to whither. He couldn't stop but wonder if they had found him again, and were going to begin...again.

~

Soon

Love y'all!

-haley