While I Sleep™ • ✓

23: Pack Up

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Taehyung has had enough.

He has seen enough of this atrocious trauma, enough of Jungkook's suffering; he has seen enough of such incidents which make him weepy.

He will have to talk to Jimin now.

He is well aware about it.

It has been a whole week since, well 'Polly', gave them a a blood-curdling and petrifying visit. And that means - a thorn in his growing relation with Jungkook.

Taehyung wants an answer to all the weird, preposterous and terrifying happenings. He wants an answer to why 'Polly' showed up out of nowhere, he wants to know from where 'Polly' came. He wants to know why Jungkook suffers at nights.

Taehyung lazily walks out of the bathroom, his hair poking out in various directions. Unlike his normal self, he has got bags under his eyes. His morning has not been very appealing. He is walking with a galumph, whereas his mornings are bright and vivacious.

"Hey," he says in a low - almost inaudible - voice.

"What's wrong?" Asks Jimin with a smile, his eyes showing care and love.

"I could not sleep last night," says Taehyung, "God knows why."

Jimin smiles again and heads towards the refrigerator. Pulling out a bottle, he pours the content into a long glass. He gives Taehyung the glass of fresh and cool lemonade and says, "Here, have some. You will feel better."

"Thanks, bro." Taehyung takes the glass, gulping down more than three quarters of the lemonade in one go.

"No problem, dude," Jimin waves a hand, "But how is it that you could not sleep? You are not that type of a person." Jimin asks.

"I was pondering over a thought." Taehyung says in nonchalance.

"Which thought?" Jimin asks again.

"Jungkook." A swift and blunt reply exits Taehyung's mouth.

"I have been wondering about, well 'Polly'." Taehyung says next, "I mean, it is weird how someone we don't know just randomly appears in our bathroom." Taehyung says.

"She was not a someone." Jimin deepens his gaze.

"What do you mean?" Taehyung questions.

"You remember we found Jungkook's diary?" Jimin asks, "Well I found a written piece in that diary."

"About what?"

"It was about Polly," Jimin starts, "Polly is younger than Jungkook by around three to four years. She used to live in the psychiatry with him. But about three years before Jungkook ran away from there, Polly was found dead on Jungkook's doorstep."

Taehyung chokes in his drink, "Excuse me?"

"Yes. And what is worse is–," Jimin sighs, "–Polly was a both a sadist and a masochist. She loved hurting people. Sources say that she killed her own father because she wanted to taste human blood."

"Have you, perhaps, got any more information about her?" Taehyung involuntarily gulps.

"Surprisingly, yes," Jimin says, "She is also, well....a cannibal."

"A cannibal? As in, she eats humans?" Taehyung asks.

"Well, there is no solid proof against her being a cannibal though." Jimin says, "It is what sources say."

"Where do you get these sources from?" Taehyung asks.

"I have my own ways." Jimin winks.

"Anyways, what would you like for breakfast?" Jimin asks.