Death's Caress - kyungjeong

Nine

"Wake up YiJeong, you have class today." Kyungil shakes the younger lightly.

"No, stop. I don't want to go to class today," YiJeong mumbles out from beneath his duvet. He rolls over to face away from the reaper and closes his eyes again. It wouldn't kill him to miss one class would it? Besides, he needed the break after everything he'd been through that week. But it seemed like Kyungil wasn't having that,"No, you need to get up now YiJeong."

"I don't want to. I'm extremely exhausted and I don't have the willpower to do it today." YiJeong hoped that would be enough of a reason, but of course it wasn't. "You know that Jaejoong will get suspicious if you keep missing school right? And do you really want him showing up here and finding out some things you've been hiding from him?" Kyungil made a good point.

"No," YiJeong mumbled before rolling over to face the reaper again. "Why do you always have to make good points? Why couldn't you just let me sleep?"

Kyungil just stared down at the boy before turning to walk away. "Your breakfast will be done in about ten minutes, so be up or i'll drag you up."

"Okay, I'll be up," YiJeong said before rolling out of bed to get ready.

And true to his word, Kyungil had breakfast ready in ten minutes. He made YiJeong eat before sending him on his way; of course not without following behind him and hiding from anyone who wasn't YiJeong.

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"You've been really quiet lately YiJeong," Jaejoong observed. "I'm exhausted and overwhelmed from school work, Jae." YiJeong mumbled out. "And it doesn't help that my professors seem to hate me and give me too much work."

Jaejoong laughed out before poking YiJeong's cheek,"we're in college Jeongie, of course the workload is heavy. It'll be okay soon, we're almost in finals week and then we can go on break." YiJeong sighed out before nodding his head in agreement,"I know, i'm just whining."

"Anyways, where have you been these last few days? I haven't seen you on campus once until today," Jaejoong questioned. YiJeong wasn't quite sure what excuse he could come up with to get the older off his back about missing school. He could tell the truth, but let's be real here, who'd believe him?

"I, um, I was busy with some personal things,"YiJeong decided to settle on saying. He wasn't exactly lying, but he was definitely being very vague. Jaejoong stared at him briefly before continuing to eat. At least he wasn't questioning YiJeong anymore, he didn't feel like getting anymore into his life then he already has.

"Well i'm glad you're back Jeong, it's nice to see your face sometimes kid." Jaejoong said before standing up and throwing his trash away. "I actually have to get going a bit earlier, I have a paper I need to edit before my next class. See ya!"

YiJeong watched Jaejoong walk away before turning back to his food. When he looked up from his plate he noticed Kyungil sitting across from him. "What are you doing?" He asked the reaper. "I'm making sure you're taking care of yourself properly as you seem to fail at that a lot. And stop talking to me, no one but you can see me right now and if they see you talking to nothing that gives them more reason to target you. I'm actually showing myself to you because I need you to know that I won't be home until a bit later

"I have something to handle down in the land of the dead. Some new soul is wreaking havoc. Be safe getting home, see you." Kyungil finished up before disappearing and leaving YiJeong completely alone.

"Oh how I love being alone all the time," YiJeong whispered to himself before getting up and disposing of his food. Maybe he could sneak away for a few hours and really think about how his life was going, because the way he was seeing it, there wasn't much reason left for him to keep pushing on.

"I obviously care about Kyungil, why isn't it the same for me? Why does he always find some reason to yell at me or leave?" YiJeong said to himself as he left the building his last class was in. Maybe a trip down to the small park by his house would bring him some peace.

The only problem with this was that YiJeong didn't realize what this trip to the park meant for him.

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im just gonna leave it right there because what comes next will be more of the plot and less filler chapters. I'm sorry to the five people who read this that i haven't been active. I was recently in a really bad car accident and missed a week of uni so I had to catch up. hopefully this will be updated again within the next few weeks as finals are upon me.