Amor de mi Alma || 2Jae

Chapter 18

"Jaebum," Youngjae, shaking, tugs on Jaebum's sleeve. "Jaebum I want to leave. Please, I want to leave right now."

"Jae, what's wrong?" Jaebum turns and takes Youngjae's hand to stop the tugging, and he must've sensed the immense amount of shaking from his hold of Youngjae's hand. "Youngjae, what's wrong? Why're you shaking so much?"

"Jaebum please, I want to leave, I don't want to go on this ride anymore - please," 

Youngjae feels almost crazy, gathering a lot of attention from visitors of the park with his sobbing and hysterical voice, and he doesn't even realize how Jaebum begins to shift around uncomfortably with the unwanted attention.

"Jaebum, I want to go."

The staff lets them out by Jaebum's request and he hurries to get Youngjae outside, the younger boy still shaking and breathing in a breath of fresh air once he can. 

Jaebum looks around the park and then pulls Youngjae forward, approaching Mrs. Kim. Yugyeom's mom seems shocked, stopping her conversation with Mr. Divins once she sees the sobbing Youngjae and overly worried Jaebum coming toward her.

"Can we go back to the hotel?" asks Jaebum, keeping a tight grip on Youngjae's shoulders. "I think something went wrong on a ride or something."

"Oh gosh," Mr. Divins frowns. "What happened?"

"I don't exactly know, we wanted to go on Space Mountain but just as we were about to leave Youngjae must've seen something that scared him or something." Youngjae sobs a little louder and Mrs. Kim and Mr. Divins look at one another.

"Yes, you two can go back to the hotel, Mrs. Kim can go with you guys. I'll tell Jaehoon what happened as soon as I see him, and I'll probably tell Jinyoung and Yugyeom and Kunpimook too," Mr. Divins says. 

Mrs. Kim guides the two boys back to the entrance of Disneyland, passing a few familiar faces along the way, like Ariana and Jasmine, and a group of trumpets and the walk back to the hotel is short. It begins to grow dark when they reach the hotel, and Mrs. Kim tells Jaebum that she'll be in her room at the other end of the hall Youngjae's room is and that they can call for her if they need to.

"Go shower," Jaebum tells Youngjae once the door is locked. "I'll be out here, okay?"

Youngjae nods and quickly grabs some shorts and a shirt before disappearing behind the door to the bathroom, where a relaxing shower seems rather appetizing.

When he is finished, his sobbing has stopped and he steps out into the hotel room, hair still dripping wet and the puffiness underneath his eyes gone. Jaebum sits on Youngjae's bed, reading an excerpt from a book he brought, and he looks up once he hears footsteps, standing up and immediately going to hug Youngjae despite that his shirt gets wet from Youngjae's hair.

"What did you see?" asks Jaebum when he moves back, guiding Youngjae to sit down on the bench in front of the large window that looks out on Disneyland, which looks absolutely gorgeous with its lights on in the night. "Don't try and tell me any lies, Youngjae. I know that there was something in there that shocked you this much."

Youngjae hesitates and bites his tongue, beginning to fiddle with the bandage around his hand. "Remember that man that attacked me twice in the alleyway and who you saved me from?"

"The one that gave you this?" Jaebum takes Youngjae's injured hand, stopping the younger from plucking at the bandage. 

Youngjae nods. "Yeah. That one. I... I thought I saw him sit in the seat in front of us." Youngjae looks down at the ground outside. "But I must've been wrong, he doesn't even know that we're here, he couldn't've found out, and he doesn't even look remotely the same to the man I saw today -"