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M/N LOOKS UNDERNEATH the bed of his room, his lips pursed in frustration and an inkling bit of worry.

"Yoongi?" He calls, but sees his cat nowhere in sight.

M/N could not find him anywhere, from the time he woke up that morning to when he came back from school. It was as if he had vanished, leaving only his few toys that he rarely plays with (he prefers shoestrings over stuffed mouses) and his cat bed on the floor next to the teen's desk to remind M/N that a cat is-indeed-living with him.

"Yoongi?"

M/N checks inside of his closet, even going the extra mile to move his clothes from off the floor to see if he could spot Yoongi's shiny, black fur. No such luck. M/N clicked his tongue, his brows furrowing.

'Where the hell could he be?'

M/N scratches the side of his head, his other hand perched on his hip. He could not make out Yoongi's familiarly-distinctive outline from beneath his blankets, and he did not see him in his usual spot inside of his bathroom sink either, and he was beginning to feel at a loss.

'Could he have run away?' M/N thinks, looking inside of the small space between his dresser and the wall.

Just the thought of that made the teen's chest tighten, his face falling at the possibility of Yoongi leaving him alone. M/N knew he occasionally gave Yoongi a bit of a hard time...

'But,' M/N frowns, 'he wouldn't just up and leave me like that... Right? That's just how we are to each other.'

"Yoongi?"

M/N calls again, waiting a few seconds to see if the feline will run out from a hiding spot he didn't know of, but it didn't happen. M/N shuffles his weight back and forth from foot-to-foot, now starting to get a little anxious without Yoongi's presence, and wrings his hands together in front of him.

"Yoongi...?"

The teen's voice trails off into a weak whimper, his eyes beginning to sting with the promise of tears, and M/N rushes into the kitchen. He checks beneath the dining table, under the counter, in the cupboards, and even behind the fridge, but Yoongi wasn't there.

"Yoongi, where are you?!" M/N exclaims.

M/N scrambles into the his parents' bedroom, a cold sweat now beginning to break out across his face, and he checks under their bed, in their closet, but the feline could be seen nowhere. M/N's bottom lip wobbles pitifully, and the teen could only describe the emotion he was feeling at the moment as pure terror.

'Oh my god, oh my god-'

After looking for the cat for another few minutes, M/N stumbles into the living room with tears running down his face.

'He's...really gone?'

M/N takes in a shaky breath, placing a hand over his racing heart.

'I can't breathe.'

M/N flops onto the couch, and just as he goes to take in another desperate gulp of air, the boy hears a low noise. M/N looks down as soon as Yoongi's head pops up from between the couch cushions, and the cat blinks before groggily snarling, "Can you get off of me? I'd rather not waste one of my lives being crushed to death."

M/N only silently stares at the cat for a moment, and Yoongi opens his mouth to repeat himself until he's stopped by M/N snatching him from inside of the couch, and hugging him to his chest protectively.

"Hey!" Yoongi exclaims, lightly struggling in M/N's grip. "What are you doing-"

"Just shut up for a second, please?" M/N interrupts, burying his face into the fur of Yoongi's neck.

The cat goes to swipe at M/N's face when he suddenly feels his fur become damp, and he hears M/N sniffle in a cry. Yoongi stops.

"Hey," the feline hesitantly yet softly calls this time, "what's wrong, M/N?"

"...I thought that you left me," M/N murmurs into Yoongi's fur.

Yoongi's tail flicks back-and-forth, and his nostrils flare.

"Why would you think that?"

"I couldn't find you anywhere, so I thought the worst."

"I just wanted a quiet place to nap for a while since you were playing video games and you closed your bathroom door."

M/N pulls away from Yoongi and gently grabs the cat by the face, the feline letting him because of his currently-fragile state it seemed.

"Don't ever do that again, okay?" M/N demands, looking from one of Yoongi's wide pupils to the other.

Yoongi's ear flicks back, and he quickly licks his nose before saying, "Don't close your bathroom door, then."

M/N, with his face now dry of tears and a bit of snot, weakly chuckles.