We Run Around With Monsters Under Our Feet [m.y+j.h]

11. HUNGER.

After freshening himself up in the makeshift bathroom, Hoseok returned to the central area. He supposes the centre is more of a main hall that leads off to different rooms.

Now in the larger space, Hoseok stretched. Lifting his arms high above his head to get rid of all the little knots tied in his back from his uncomfortable sleep and excretion.

The toilet wasn't the most convenient (it hardly was a toilet in fairness). A simple hole in some stones that went up to about crouching level. He didn't know where his bodily fluids went, and wasn't quite sure he wanted to know. Just that when he twisted a metal knob, everything was gone. For a sink, there was a concave carved stone. Bumpy and with small mounds created from a lack of polishing yet the thought of sanitary was in place. Water trickled constantly from stones like how it did in the kitchen area and created splotches across the expanse of the sink. On the other side of the circular area was another large flow of water and with a guess, he assumed it was a makeshift shower. It looked cold but there was soap. Knowing that Yoongi cared for his own sanitation was a warming factor because a strange unsettling feeling lingered with Hoseok imagining him coated in germs.

However from relieving his bladder, Hoseok discovered that he was absolutely starving. It was as if from emptying his bladder it emptied his stomach. With a hand clasped to his gut, he made his way to the kitchen. Finding Yoongi slumped over the table sighing heavily to himself. A repetitive cycle where he inhaled a breath and tested himself of how long he could release it, resulting in a -slightly annoying- prolonged exhale.

"What are you doing?" Hoseok chuckled, quite enjoying Yoongi's state of boredom.

His intrusion into the room seemed to startle the monster as he choked in his next inhale and then began to struggle to meet the boys eyes. "Would you, uh, like a drink?"

Hoseok nodded "and some food please."

Yoongi froze.

"Food?"

"I'm not bothered what, if that's your problem, bread will do. Or fruit. I'm hardly fuss-"

"I don't have any kind of food here. Apart from you." His voice was monotonous and seemed to find great interest in the floor.

"Oh." Was all Hoseok could manage, the rumbling of his stomach being an elephant in the room and he hoped he was imagining it echo across the walls. "Then water will do, thank you." He tried to smile, a friendly offer that it didn't mean anything, yet he could see how Yoongi's jaw tensed and fists clutched tightly. He felt bad.

Ashamed of his own rudeness, Hoseok slinked his way towards Yoongi's shaking form. Grabbing both of his hands in his own to try and stop the tremors. "You're overreacting. I just won't eat."

"Don't you understand?" Yoongi hissed, turning away from Hoseok and trying to free his hands without much avail.

"Understand what?"

"It's all happening too soon." He mumbled to himself. "You're going to starve to death, Hoseok."

Palms turning slick with sweat, the boy squeezed the monsters hand reassuringly. "It's fine, you're going to kill me before then."

Yoongi was confused, how was Hoseok so calm about this all? His death seemed like such an easy topic yet was far from that. He grew frustrated, knowing he was going to be Hoseok's murderer. A boy who was literally a ray of sunshine, who wasn't afraid of anything- especially not Yoongi. The first person who actually was up to challenging Yoongi and fate itself just willingly allowing himself to die. The problem lied with the monster not wanting to kill Hoseok. Something deep within him was refraining the monster from attacking the human boy. Yoongi himself began to feel hunger bubble deeply inside of him, not eating for over a year and pangs of starvation coursed through his veins like a herd of hyenas. Delicious. Hoseok did look delicious. Smooth uncut skin and the whiff of blood was one he couldn't deny. A meal was placed out before him, with fatty muscle (from the lack of resistance Hoseok held up) put out before him on a silver platter yet Yoongi was reluctant to eat.