sleeping sickness

chapter 2//jaebum pov

"Earth to Youngjae." I said, waving a hand in front of the younger's face. He blinked a few times.

"Huh?" he said. I sighed. We had been working on our psychology homework for the past 2 hours and had barely made any progress.

"What does 'PTSD' stand for? And what is it?" Jinyoung asked for the third time. He and I already knew the answer, but we wanted to make sure Youngjae understood. Youngjae looked down at his paper and tapped his pen against his textbook.

"Why are you asking me? Do you not think I know what it is?" he snapped. Jinyoung started to reply, but I cut him off.

"You know, I think that's enough for one day. Let's take a break, okay?" I said. Jinyoung understood and nodded. We were all quiet for a bit before he spoke up.

"JB, you wanna spend the night on Friday?" he asked.

"Uh... sure?" I said, uncertain. In the entire time I had been friends with Jinyoung, I had never spent the night at his house. He had always said, "no," but I never knew the reason.

"Jinyoung, are you sure?" Youngjae asked nervously. His brother nodded.

"It'll be okay, Youngjae. trust me," he said. He turned to me. "Cool. So do you wanna just come over after school?"

"Sure, I guess." I kept looking over at Youngjae, who was looking increasingly nervous. He fiddled with his pen. I opened my mouth to say something to him, but he stood up and left.

"Is he okay? Jinyoung, are you sure this is a good idea?" I asked. Jinyoung sighed and ran his hand through his hair.

"I hope so. Aish, I hope he doesn't totally hate me now." he laughed nervously.

"He shouldn't, you're his brother. Go talk to him." I got up to leave. Jinyoung tugged at my shirt, trying to get me to come back.

"No, please don't leave me alone with him! I don't want to deal with him now." he pouted.

"Sorry, bro. You're on your own for this one." I left. I felt kind of bad for Jinyoung, who had to deal with a (most likely) pissed off Youngjae. But I felt worse for Youngjae. He felt uncomfortable at the thought of someone staying the night at his house. I knew about his situation, thanks to Jinyoung, and I knew that Youngjae had some sort of sleep disorder, but I had just assumed it was sleepwalking or something. Maybe he was embarrassed by it and didn't want people to know. Whatever it was, I wanted him to know that he shouldn't be embarrassed. Both Jinyoung and I were there for him. 

~unedited