Love and Appreciate || Jin

08 - Longing

...

He makes them feel protected.

...

Blinking his eyes open, he find a boy standing and rubbing his eyes infront of door. It was Jungkook. He looks like he's about to cry. Don't know why but Jin feels his heart has been torn.

Still rubbing the sleepiness out of his eyes, Jungkook makes his way towards Jin, who's sitting on the couch. Jungkook sits besides Jin and hug him. Leaning his head on Jin's chest. Jin hugs back and softly says, "Hey, did I wake you up?"

With a little sobbing sound, Jungkook replies with tiny volume, almost can't be heard by anyone "I miss my mom..."

It took him a moment before he realized, the young boy must missed his mom. Why not he? He left his home at the young age to realize his dream. With burden on his shoulders, his family's hope. Not just Jungkook, he sure the other boys must feel the same too.

"Hey, it's okay..." Jin states while rubbing a small circle on the boy's back.

Still whispering 'it's okay' to the young boy and brushing the boy's silky hair until there's no sobbing sound can be heard. He takes a look at the young boy face. Jungkook is sleeping. Jin wipes the remaining tears around the boy's eyes and his cheek.

Jin tries to move himself from Jungkook, to let the young boy sleep in a comfortable postion so that both of them won't wake up with a sore body. Yeah, he feel guilty for moving himself from Jungkook. When he tries to move, the younger's grips around his waist becomes tighter. As if the boy didn't want him to move. So, he lets the boy sleep.

He let the boy sleep in his arm for a moment. He looks at the watch on his wrist while brushing the boy's hair. 2.47am. The atmosphere there were calm and quiet. Perfect for sleeping. Rubbing his eyes then, he lets his eyes shut, trying to sleep with that position. Finally, sleep overcome him.

After about 3 hours of sleeping, he blinking his eyes open. Starring through the sliding door, its still dark outside. Yeah, his body starting to ache. Peeking at the boy's face, confirming that the boy is still sleeping. Jin look at the time, his watch stated. 5.52am. He waits for another 8 minutes until the watch stated, 6.00am. Sharp.

Moving his body from Jungkook, he lets the boy sleep in comfortable position. Grabbing a pillow from the room, he places the pillow under Jungkook's head and pull the blanket up, covering the sleeping figurine. Jin stretch his body a bit, calming his muscle ache.

After stretching, Jin head towards the front door, where he left his luggage open without zipping it back. With the dim lights shining through the dorm, he starts organizing his luggage back and zipping it. He carry the luggage and place it at the corner, near the window. Of course there's easier way to move the luggage though, by pulling it; the rollers sticked to the luggage are created to make it easier to move.

But he's afraid if he pull the luggage, the sound from the rollers will disturb the boys and make them wake up. Placing it at the corner then he open the luggage again and grabs his clothes. Then, he head towards a bathroom, to takes a warm shower although it is still early in the morning.

After spending about 30 minutes in the bathroom, he step outside, wearing a dark brown pants, a comfortable dark gray turtleneck sweater. He dries his hair with the towel then makes his way to the sliding door and open it slowly. The fresh morning air blew softly on his face. The outside wasn't that dark anymore as the sun was about to rise.

He hangs the towel at the fordable clothes hanger located at the veranda. Then, slowly he closes the door, try to be a quiet as he can and not wanting the cold air enter the dorm. He looks at the sleeping figurine, hoping that Jungkook is still sleeping after making the noise. Confirming the boy is still sleeping, he goes straight from the veranda to the kitchen.