pajama boy 'Jaeyong' - discontinued

chapter 11

Wednesday 4th December

"Can I hug you?" Taeyong shyly asked.

"Of course toots. Come here", Jaehyun grinned and spread his arms out awaiting the hug.

Taeyong clutching onto him, breathing in the relaxing smell of the older.

Frankly speaking today was a bad day.

Today was a pain day.

The only thing Taeyong wanted to do was to curl up in a ball and sleep, but his pain not letting him do so.

The two of them swayed a bit and the older led Taeyong to the couch. They lay down, still holding each other. Jaehyun had the younger half on him, Taeyong clutching him strongly.

The older softly stroked his head pushing back the latter's strands of hair, which were drenched in sweat, of his pain. Jaehyun slowly made circular motions on the back of the younger in an attempt to calm him down a bit and make him forget his pain.

"It hurts Jae", Taeyong whimpered.

"I know toots. I know it does. But try to concentrate on me and my breathing. Your breathing is too quick, you have to calm down", Jaehyun muttered.

Taeyong leaned deeper into Jaehyun and tried to match his frantically breath to match the calm one of Jaehyun.

"You're doing great toots. Keep breathing slowly", Jaehyun instructed, rubbing patterns on the youngers back.

Once his breathing and heartbeat had slowed down, the older softly hummed a tune, making the younger close his eyes and fall asleep.

"Sleep well", the blonde whispered and carefully slid out of the tight hold. Taeyong whimpered at the loss of warmth but nether less stayed asleep.

Jaehyun hummed and put the blanket over the sleeping boy and patting his head. He sighed and went to the kitchen putting water into the boiler and pressing the start button. He then turned on the stove, poured some milk in and the rice pudding.

After the water boiler made a 'ping' he poured some into Taeyongs hottie (if you don't know it's a hot-water bottle 😉), being careful not to burn himself.

He put the cap on and lay the hottie beside him, waiting a bit for it to cool down.

In the meantime he stirred the rice pudding and adding a little bit of sugar to sweeten it.

Once the rice pudding deemed finished he got a ladle and put rice pudding in two separate bowls. He then pulled out a tray from under the sink and put the two bowls with spoons, cinnamon, apple puree and some strawberries on it.

He carefully walked over to the still sleeping Taeyong and put the tray on the stand next to the couch. He quickly went back to the kitchen to get the by now comfortable warm hottie.

"Toots, wake up. I cooked some rice pudding", the older murmured, Taeyong groaning in response but slowly opening his eyes to look into the glowing ones of Jaehyun.

"How long did I sleep?" he asked groggily while rubbing his eyes.

Jaehyun smiled lovingly: "Not too long, maybe half an hour. But you have to eat at least a bit if you want to get rid of the feeding tube. You skipped breakfast today."

Yes, Taeyong had skipped breakfast today, the pain making him nauseous thus not eating.

Taeyong pouted but grabbed a spoon, putting some cinnamon and apple puree on the rice pudding and eating a few spoonful's.

"A little more", Jaehyun begged staring at Taeyong with intense eyes.

"But Jae, I'm really not hungry. I will eat later. I promise", Taeyong looked up with puppy eyes.

The older sighed: "Toots, you have to eat, I know you're nauseous but it's important even if you have the tube. And I know later will be the same. Eight big spoons. Then you can cuddle with me all day long."

Taeyongs eyes lit up at the mentioning of cuddling: "Pinkie promise?"

"Pinkie promise" Jaehyun assured, linking their pinkies together.

"But it's your fault if I have to throw up!" the younger grumbled.

Jaehyun chuckled.

Eight long spoons later the two of them were lying cuddled up under the blankets watching 'Perfect blue' on youtube.

The pain slowly fading...