You and I (vkook)

Chapter 28

Transparent hands were at my neck // Oh but I love the way you let me breathe instead

It was 7pm and Taehyung was trying really hard to focus on his History of Art essay, but he was too tired to keep going.

His sleeping problems were big that week and he kept having nightmares every day. Jeongguk had told him to just sleep over but Taehyung was trying to stay at his dorm to finish his works, the end of the semester was approaching and his weeks were packed with deadlines.

But he felt like today he couldn't handle everything alone even if his life depended on it. After rewriting the same paragraph for the tenth time and still getting it wrong, Taehyung decided to stop for the day.

So he called his boyfriend. "Jeongguk-ah."

"Hey Tae, is everything okay?" Jeongguk asked on the other side of the line.

"I'm at the library and I'm so tired I think I'm going to die." Taehyung complained.

"Have you slept well last night?"

"No. I had nightmares again." He pouted.

"Go to the dorm and sleep baby." Jeongguk said, making Taehyung's heart skip a beat. They had been dating for a few weeks now and Jeongguk was big on the pet names business, Taehyung secretly loved it and his heart would melt every time, but Jeongguk didn't have to know that. "You got to rest."

"Can you please go too and nap with me?" Taehyung asked making his voice sound as cute as possible.

Jeongguk sighed. "I wish I could but I'm working now..."

"Please Kookie." The older pouted even more. "Let me talk to Seokjin-hyung."

"No, are you crazy?" Jeongguk exclaimed. "Seokjin-hyung is already annoyed at you and I ain't letting his annoyance grow."

Taehyung sighed deeply. "How are things around there? The place is crowded?"

"Not really, it's quite empty to be honest." Jeongguk replied.

"So give the phone to Seokjin." Taehyung said pretending to have complete control over the situation, when in reality he had no idea of what to say to Seokjin.

"Fine." Jeongguk mumbled. "But if he doesn't let you come back anymore it's not my fault."

"He wouldn't do that."

"He did that with his own boyfriend Tae!"

Taehyung cursed inside his head. Jeongguk had told him about the whole Namjoon thing a few days ago. "True. Just do what I said, I can handle him."

"If you say so..."

Taehyung heard some muffling and soon enough Seokjin was in the line. The owner of the café sounded like he was about to kill Taehyung over the phone once the younger asked him if he could let Jeongguk leave earlier because he needed him.

It took Taehyung a lot of pleading and maybe a lie about a sick dog to get Seokjin to agree with him, but in the end the older allowed Jeongguk to leave only because the place was dead anyways.

Taehyung quickly got out of the library, picked his boyfriend at the café and went to his dorm in order to take nap.

But things didn't go according to plan and once both boys were lying in bed together, neither of them were able to nap.

They just kept there lying on bed together, pressing their sides onto each other and holding hands. Jeongguk was mumbling the lyrics to some random song and playing with Taehyung's fingers once he suddenly stopped and his face shifted into his thinking expression.