Siren | Yoonmin

Chapter 41

Chapter 41

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Jimin was sitting on the cold bench in Yoongi's kitchen, his legs pulled up to his chest, staring at the other side of the room absentmindedly. He was only wearing a t-shirt, which he had pulled over his legs to keep them warm, and boxers. The exact same clothes he had been wearing when he had finally admitted the truth to Yoongi.

It had been a rather simple answer. It took a lot of willpower from Jimin to answer completely honestly, but he had done it. "I'm not a mermaid. That was a lie." There was a short pause in which he searched for any reactions on Yoongi's face. "I'm a siren. One of those creatures that seduce and kill humans in all the tales that are told around here."

Yoongi had had exactly one question. One Jimin could only give one honest answer to. "Do you?"

Now he was sitting here after Yoongi had asked him to leave him alone. Give him some time to think. Jimin had never seen Yoongi like that... so... blank. The boy wasn't showing any type of emotion. If he had maybe Jimin would have known what to say. How to make it better. But like this he'd just nodded, grabbed a pillow and walked out of the room. And since Yoongi's apartment was just his bedroom, bathroom and the kitchen the kitchen would have to do.

He was impatiently sitting there, tapping his foot and glancing at the door. Had Yoongi gone back to sleep? Did he expect Jimin to leave the apartment entirely?

Around half an hour had passed and Jimin was just about to get up and grab something to drink before going to sleep on the hard wood bench when the door to the room opened and a tired looking Yoongi entered.

Jimin could tell he was overthinking again. Not that Yoongi wasn't always overthinking, but he was probably taking it too far again. His face looked like it might have aged around five years in the last half hour. His eyes were a bit red and his face puffy.

Had he cried? Jimin couldn't tell. Maybe.

"Jimin... could I ask you some questions?" Yoongi's voice was rough and tired.

Not hesitating even a second Jimin nodded enthusiastically, moving to the side to make space for Yoongi, who simply sat down on a chair opposite of him. Not that it was surprising that he didn't want to sit next to Jimin but it hurt nevertheless.

"Are you with me because you want to seduce and kill me?" The question sounded ridiculous but Jimin gave a serious answer.

"Of course not."

"Then why are you with me?" Yoongi was playing with the edges of his finger nails. A sign that he was nervous. Again, not surprising.

"Because I love you." Jimin admitted straight up.

Yoongi let out a sigh that did sound a lot like relieve. "How much of what you told me so far is true... what is a lie?"

Jimin tilted his head, confusion written all over his face. "In what context?"

"What you told me about mermaids and their culture and so on... how much of it is true for sirens? Is anything you said true? Are there even mermaids?" Yoongi asked, still playing with his hands. Jimin kept getting distracted by it.

"No... no mermaids... and what I told you was true for the most part. We are shapeshifters... because that makes it easier to bait our prey... and yeah... I haven't really told you much about mermaids I think." Jimin stated wrapping his hands around his feet to warm them. Even though he couldn't feel cold in that sense he felt like the temperature in the room had dropped in the last hour.