growing blue | jjk x bts

025

𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕪 𝕗𝕚𝕧𝕖

Yoongi felt stressed.

Of course, who wouldn't feel concerned when seeing someone they knew hurt? What was he even supposed to refer Jeongguk as anyways? An acquaintance, a friend?

Jeongguk wanted nothing to do with him and the other protagonists, that hurt. And yet that wasn't the main issue right now, why was the younger even covering those bruises in the first place? Where did he even get them at?

It was obvious it had been someone else who had hurt him, the handprints on his neck showed that. But why would he want to cover the bruises? Shouldn't he instead be going and making sure whoever hurt him got what they deserved? Yoongi didn't like the idea of someone being able to have the power to hurt Jeongguk, he didn't want to see the younger in pain like that.

He couldn't even do anything to help him. There was no way as a protagonist Yoongi would be able to help solve the situation without making it more stressful.

So he just had to live with the fact that Jeongguk was hurt and he couldn't do anything about it.

"Stupid," he muttered as he made his way to the library hoping one of his friends would be there. "This is all so stupid."

He couldn't really tell his friends about this and that guilt just seemed to be setting into him. They all had been concerned about Jeongguk missing school yesterday and had been thinking a worst case scenario of him being hurt.

Yoongi couldn't go and tell them that Jeongguk actually was hurt and was trying to pretend that he was fine, he didn't want his friends to go through that worry knowing they couldn't do anything to help the boy they were all drawn to.

Sighing he entered the library hearing the second bell ring. He officially was late to class but it didn't really matter as he had planned to skip anyways. Making his way to the seating area he found Hoseok already there just laying down and staring up at the ceiling.

"Hobi?" Yoongi said frowning as he noticed how deep in thought the younger was. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing!" The younger said as he immediately pushed himself up and put a smile on his face. "Just thinking about your birthday tomorrow! Aren't you excited?"

Yoongi couldn't help but narrow his eyes as he stared at his boyfriend knowing he was lying. Hoseok had been acting suspicious the day before at lunch and seemed to still be keeping up the happy facade he had put up then.

"I'm not going to let you play off whatever is bothering you like everyone else is," Yoongi said as he sat down beside Hoseok. "So just tell me what's wrong."

"Nothing is bothering-"

"Hoseok you absolutely suck at lying," Yoongi said as he glared causing the younger to grow even more nervous. "You don't want to lie to your hyung, do you? If I can't get you to talk I can get Jin involved and he'll be disappointed with you hiding your feelings. You don't want Jin to be disappointed in you, do you?"

"I don't want you to have to worry too!" Hoseok said whining as his act immediately fell at the mention of Jin being disappointed in him. "It's the day before your birthday, you should be happy!"

"Hoseok, if something bothering you then you need to talk about it so you'll feel better. Keeping things to yourself isn't good. Besides I'd feel much better if you weren't worrying over something. I prefer seeing you smile and being your bubbly self."

The younger seemed to gulp as his hands messed with the sleeves of his sweater. Yoongi was waiting until he felt confident enough to talk about whatever was bothering him not wanting to stress out the younger even further.

"I went to the coffee shop on Monday, because I was studying for one of my tests and wanted to get a drink to help me stay awake," Hoseok said as he didn't let his eyes move from his hands. "And when I went in there everything was fine until one of the workers came and asked the cashier where the first aid kit was and I didn't want to eavesdrop but-"

"Woah, calm down Hoseok," Yoongi said as he grabbed the younger's hand noticing how worked up he was getting. He quickly pulled him into a hug trying to get Hoseok back to breathing normally. "You're doing just fine, okay? Don't push yourself-"

"Jeongguk was hurt."

Yoongi couldn't help but freeze thinking through what Hoseok had said. He had been stressing about knowing Jeongguk was hurt and didn't tell anyone, why hadn't he?

Of course, Taehyung had freaked out yesterday when Jimin brought up Jeongguk could be hurt, so he assumed Hoseok didn't want them to stress over it. Which made sense as to why he kept it to himself, so he wouldn't hurt everyone else with that information.

In turn keeping that information to himself caused him more stress and that terrible method of not talking things through was exactly what Yoongi was planning to do about the bruises and gauze he saw on Jeongguk.

"It's not good to keep stuff like that in Hoseok," Yoongi said as he squeezed Hoseok then leaned back to look at him. "If keeping something like that from us makes you feel guilty or anxious then don't, nobody wants you to stress out."

"But I didn't want you guys to freak out over Jeongguk being hurt. There's nothing we can do to help since he hates us and I don't even understand why we all are so compelled towards him and just, it hurts knowing he got hurt! I don't even know what all happened-"

"Calm down, Hobi I saw Jeongguk earlier." The older said as he gripped onto the redhead's hand. "How about we just relax and take a nap right now, okay? We can talk about this at lunch with everyone else and I promise they'll feel much better knowing this and not having you think about it yourself."

"You're just saying that since you're tired and want someone to nap with," Hoseok said teasingly causing the older to grin seeing that he was happy again. "It really is showing that you're getting old hyung, you always want to sleep all the time."

"Aish be quiet," Yoongi said as he laid down while Hoseok immediately went to wrap himself around the older. "I'm trying to sleep."

-

Pristin deserved better.