[Chapter 36] "Stop joking!"

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"Eh..go to sleep I'll sleep on couch," Taehyung says as he scratches the back of his head.

"Yea, sure," I make myself comfortable as I try to sleep. I sense the light being switched off and loosen up.

I find myself awake in a few hours, for a few minutes I don't move. I simply lay in the same position processing everything. I had a dream but I could only remember bits of it.

Clouds, red sky, the same old things but this time my mom was a part of it but I don't remember exaclty what she did or maybe I did remember and putting it into words simply made it seem worthless and so I decided not to. It felt like she was a part of something that couldn't t happen in reality and so I found it useless to put it into words.

And so I sit up. Trying to get out of bed, I place my good leg on to the floor and putting all my weight on to it I search for the wheel chair. Taehyung sleeps peacefully on the couch and I try my best not to wake him up.

I manage to sit comfortably on the wheel chair without making any noise. I push myself and finally leave the room.

I take the elevator and I finally am out of the building. I go back to the garden and once I put the wheels to a rest I look up into the sky.

A cloudy night it was, the sky was covered with a blanket of clouds and stars hiding itself from me. The stars were visible as the clouds moved but they soon hid themselves when the clouds covered them.

I sigh as I look back down.

"Why are you up at this hour?" The voice startles me and I look behind me.

"You managed to scare the living shit out of me," I sigh.

"Uh..sorry," Taehyung scratches the back of his head as he sits beside me on the grass.

Ah his hair looked so soft I really wanted to the ruffle it. And maybe I managed to do it. I slowly touch his hair as I smile and they are just as soft as I had imagined them to be. Taehyung looks up immediately.

"Oh!um...I'm-" I pull back my hand but he doesn't let me and instead he slowly places my hand back on his head.

"It feels nice," he giggles. And so I brush through his hair, smiling.

"Jennie you need to sleep, it's late. You'll have to wake up early tomorrow for the funeral," he looks up at me.

"Yea I know but that place is just stuffy," I scrunch my nose.

"Nightmare?" He asks.

I nod slowly. "I'll hold onto you," he smiles. Ahh my poor heart!

"Stop joking!" I shake my head.

"I'm not, I mean it," he says with a serious tone.

What was with this awkward silence again??

"Okay! Let's go back."

He pushes me slowly back to the room. Once inside, he helps me to lay down.

He then pulls the chair closer to the bed and I watch him curiously. He sits on it as he looks at me expectedly.

"Go to sleep," he scrunches his nose.

"Okay," I close my eyes.
After a few minute I don't hear any noises and so I decide that he has left.
I start feeling anxious again and I straighten up.
"Tae? Are you there," I ask groggily with my eyes still shut.

"Hmm...yes," I hear him shuffle.

I open my eyes to find him resting his chin on his hand, smiling at me.

"How do I know that you din't leave? That you are still here?"I ask.

"I'll hold your hand," he brightens up.

"Okay," I whisper. He holds my hand and I can feel myself relax somehow. Soon my eyelids feel heavy and I whisper a small 'goodnight' before drifting off to sleep.

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