makeup artist | jongin ✔

♪ 08 ♪

“Hey, you’re here early…” Tehun looks at Kai who had just closed the apartment door.

“Ne.. I’m sick and I needed to get some rest.” He mumbles in reply. He was sweating in his clothes again, but because of the fever, it got worse. Walking toward the coach, he lays down – closing his eyes.

“So, how’s the first rehearsal? How big was the arena?” She sits at her comfort zone, the kitchen table. She had her fluffy white shirt on along with her white shorts. She then brings her legs up to cross them on the table.

“We actually only got to look around the arena. And it’s big. Very big.” With his arm resting on his forehead, he speaks in a low tone.

“The rest are still hanging there, huh?” She turns to the clock and it says 7 o’clock in the evening already.

“Well, they needed to be informed with other stuffs. D.O hyung told me to get home first and said he’ll tell me what I need to do later.”

“Sounds like you ran into some fans again…” She notices how slowly he talks. He sounds very tired. “They were nice I hope?”

“Yes! Yes, they were.” He quickly defenses his fans. “It’s just the number.”

“Well, I’m glad that they respected you and you were willing to greet them all...” The way he’s acting is getting to her badly. And she wants to get it off of her chest. She then jumps off the table and approaches the sleeping figure.

He didn’t even bother to take his jacket off. The white t–shirt he’s wearing was soaked with sweat. His tight jeans were left unbuckled. She could tell how uncomfortable he is right now in the costume.

“When will D.O and the boys come back?” She’s already worried again at the youngster. “You need a close friend to take care of you. Like seriously, can you change and go take a shower on your own? You seem weak.”

“I can’t…”

“Then uh… get up. At least, there’ll be some cooling air in your own room. You’re burning up.” She then shook his shoulder a little in front of him. “I’ll lead you there on the way. Come on, it’s not that far. You can do it.”

He listened to his noona and slowly gets himself up. He feels something holding him up, so that he wouldn’t fall sideways and it was Tehun. Her small hands can’t take hold of his arm muscle fully. And quickly she comes into his arms as he stands up trying to grab onto something.

Tehun was surprised at how hot he is and tried her best to support him. As she drags him to his room, she wraps her arms around him to hold off his weight while Kai has his arm on her shoulder.

Putting him to bed carefully, she picks up his legs and lays them straight on the mattress. She then gets him a thin blanket and covers him with it.

“Since you can’t shower on your own and your friends are still not here… I will have to do this the other way then. You need to take your take clothes off especially your jeans and t–shirt. You stay under this blanket. I’ll lower down the temperature a little more.”

Walking off to get the medicine his sister left him, she feels her eye bags growing again just seeing that her boy was in such a bad fever. Once she got back to the room, Kai was already hugging the blanket. Seeing that the clothes were now on the floor, she takes them away – coming back with another glass of water.

“I’m sorry it’s cold for you, but you’re really hot right now. And hey, drink this up.” She speaks softly – hoping not to make him feel worse than how he already is now.

With his eyes closed, he lifts his head up along with the help of her hand. He took the pills and gulped down the glass of water. While starting to feel numb, he then covers half of his face with the blanket – letting the medicine take over.

For Tehun, she’s just looking at Kai hiding under the white sheet. He was like a little fur ball with the frosty hair and the fluffy looking eyelashes and she just wants to cuddle it. She then leans in closer, so she could see better at what she’s about to do.

Ruffling his hair gently, she giggles at how he knits his eyebrows for a split second and slowly opens his eyes. It took a while for his pupils to readjust its focus, but once it was clear, he sees a girl smiles down at him with such love and care as the light shone right above her. Her white clothing was blinding for him, so he closes his eyes again.

This time with a smile.