DEAD END『ULTRMRi』

『part four, one』

_kang, 7:07am_

× three months later × 

Seven awoke with a start, dazed as he looked from side to side. His hands smoothed across cool sheets; Jumin was nowhere to be found, and he was alone. 

What had happened months before seemed like a hazy dream by now. The girl that enraged Jumin was a dream that ended in shambles, but a dream nonetheless. And Jumin himself was a dream, one that Seven wished he could live with forever.

He took in a slight breath, his lips curling into a smile as he shut his eyes and squeezed the pillow that Jumin slept on. Seven buried his face into the soft object and giggled to himself, falling back onto the bed and curling up in the sheets. He was happy, he was glad that he could finally just live in peace with Jumin. 

Forever.

—

For the past three months, ever since the incident with MC, Jaehee had been thinking about the relationship between Seven and Jumin. For the longest time before the problems around Seven's birthday arose, she'd figured that the boy and Jumin had only a platonic relationship, that nothing more than a possible brotherly love had come between them. 

But lately, she was noticing more and more obsessive behaviors from Jumin. It had been a few weeks since Seven had left Jumin's penthouse alone; weeks since anyone had seen him without Jumin near or hovering beside him. 

Jaehee was not one to pry with relationships that didn't concern her, but what did concern her was that Seven wasn't of legal age yet. 

Where they were currently living, Seven had to be eighteen to legally have a romantic relationship with Jumin. It made Jaehee's head hurt when she thought about it, as she believed Seven was old enough and maybe.. maybe mature enough to have a relationship with Jumin, who at the moment was twenty-two. He was about to turn twenty-three. 

Seven turned seventeen three months ago, Jaehee remembered. Now she just didn't feel right about letting it continue, since Seven was only sixteen a mere three months ago.

She got up, brushing her hair back as she approached Jumin's desk. The male slowly looked up at her, calm and collected as always. 

"What is it, Jaehee? Did you need the email again? Do I need to contact someone about the auto-spam...?" he asked, setting down some papers he'd been writing on. 

"No," she replied shortly, sighing as she fixed her glasses. "I wanted to ask you something about Luciel, Mr. Han." 

Jumin's eyes flicked up as his dark eyes narrowed a bit. This was how he always looked when someone brought up Seven, how he looked when he heard anyone speak of the boy who held his heart.

His brow twitched as he was brought back to the current conversation. "What about him? Is there something wrong?"

"Do you think it's right for you to be with him?"

Jumin shut his eyes for a second before giving Jaehee a condescending look. "Excuse me?"

Jaehee, for a moment, struggled to reword her question. "Luciel is only seventeen, he's not even legal yet. You're six years older than him."

"Are you suggesting that I'm doing something wrong by being with Luciel? He loves me," Jumin said with a scowl, now feeling hot. Jaehee was making him a bit upset, stirred. "And I love him. Six years is nothing."

"It's not legal, even if you do love him and he loves you. You're too old for him," Jaehee continued. She sighed, taking off her glasses to wipe them for a moment.