Touch || TXT Yeonbin (TOMORROW X TOGETHER Yeonjun x Soobin)

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He looked at me again. 

‚I'm not a pet...' his voice was plain, not giving away how he felt, at all. 

Was he angry? Or..

 I looked to the ground, slightly nervous.

‚I know that, I just... I just want to call the one I care for by a name. But if you don't-‚

‚Give me one..' He interrupted my nervous mumbling still chewing away on the food. ‚It's alright if you give me one.'

I thought for a moment, then looked up to him again.

‚How about... Yeonjun?' I suggested, hoping he would like it. I waited for his answer, the silence growing bigger and bigger in the room.

‚I like it... It fits yours..' He then said making tingling shivers move all the way up my spine. 

He didn't even flinch when saying that, why did I react this much to it? I shook my head a little... it must be this cellar atmosphere ... everything sounds... different ..here..

He had finished eating having left just one thing each.

‚You don't want these two?' I asked but he pushed them towards me.

‚You eat them..' He said.

‚Me? But I-‚

‚You probably haven't eaten ... you don't look good.' He pushed further, holding out the jumeokbap to me now. ‚You also need strength to stand against him.'

I smiled slightly taking the rice ball from him, eating it slowly. He, instead of watching me, rested his head almost against mine, if there weren't these bars separating us.

‚How's your arm, Yeonjun-ah?' I asked after I finished eating. I really liked the sound of his name.

‚Better, I heal faster than humans.' He said reaching through the bars to my hand, taking it in his. ‚You shouldn't see it again, I don't want you to.'

He examined it, slightly tracing over my palm. I looked at him. In that moment his eyes flushed icy again for a second. Immediately he wanted to pull his hand away from me, but I held on tight this time, not letting go.

‚What is that? What happens when your eyes change?' I asked nervous, that he would push me away from him, like he had done before.

‚It wants to come out. The beast wants to break through.' His voice was dark and quiet.

‚Beast?'

‚This is what makes me different from you. It's inside of me, and all it wants is... to kill. ... it wants blood...If you had met it and not me... it would hurt you.'

‚I'm not afraid of you.' Our both eyes locked on each other's for a moment.

‚You say that now, when it's still inside me...'

‚I won't leave you.' I said in almost a whisper. I couldn't, I felt responsible for him. I found him.. the one that I'm living with, had captured him here... I can't leave.. neither him, nor this house, nor Taegeum... And if I would.. then never alone..

He looked down, probably not having heard what I had said, examining my palm again. 

‚Why do you live with him up there?' He asked, still focussed on my hand.

‚I...' I thought hard, but since that night in the forest... there was nothing before that in my head. I couldn't remember anything, like how I grew up. It felt like there was a black hole in my head. It swallowed everything.. everything before that day...  Now that I thought about it.. it was strange..

‚I think I always lived up there...' I wondered.

Yeonjun looked up from my hand now. ‚But your smell appeared only just a few days ago..'

‚I..' I pinched the bridge of my nose. ‚I can't remember.. I was in the forest, but I don't know what was before that..'

‚Out there ... It's not an ordinary forest. Things like me live in there..'

I furrowed my brows as he said that.

‚You are not a thing, Yeonjun-ah.'

My hand that was still in his, I raised it placing it on his chest, where his heart was beneath. The smooth leathery Material of his clothes felt slightly cold underneath my fingertips, but warmed as my hand lingered upon it. I could feel his heart beating.

‚You're alive, you deserve that someone cares fo you. I care for you.'

I couldn't understand what these feelings were that I had for him, but as I went up the stairs again, all I could think about was him and as I was lying in my bed again and the noises appeared again, I knew what happened to him in that moment. It was as if I could hear him scream in pain all over, it pierced through my heart like daggers. When the screaming finally stopped that night, all I wanted to do was to run down to him and pull him close. I wanted to be there for him. It's as If he's the purpose why I was here in this house. I don't know what happened before I got lost in the forest, but getting lost was because of him. I was brought to him. To be with him... to save him.

The next day, Taegeum was leaving later for his work -wherever it was- so I had to bridge some time before I could go back to Yeonjun. I tried reading a book, but it was impossible for me to concentrate on the words, as my thoughts only turned around him and what could have been done to him last night. I was already picturing him covered in blood again, weak and pale. I managed to only read a bit. It had been an old tale called ‚Nap of a Star'.

‚Alright, Soobin-ah, there are some pork buns I brought with me yesterday, which you can eat for dinner today.' He hurried past me to the door. ‚I'll be going then.'

I waved, forcing myself to smile. Then I shut the book, warmed the buns quickly and packed them in a box, along with a water bottle. Then I grabbed a small towel out of my room, soaking it in water and made my way to the small black door. 

I hurried down the cold stone steps, reaching the room full of cages in no time. I put down the boxes next to the entrance for now, as his wounds would be more important first. I turned to the cage where Yeonjun was inside of. He didn't stand at the bars like the day before, waiting for me. It was hard to see him at all. He had to be somewhere at the back, deep in the shadows of his cage. I slowly walked towards the cage, worry building inside me as he didn't come out and only silence waited for me. Something was wrong. I got nervous, my hand that clutched the wet towel began to shake. What had he done to him..

‚Yeonjun-ah?' I asked carefully, crouching down in front of the bars. ‚Yeonjun-ah, are you alright?' My voice began to shake, scared that he was badly hurt. ‚Yeonjun..'

Then I saw two Icy-blue eyes with a slit like pupil staring right at me. The next second -before I could realise what happened- Yeonjun jumped towards me from the darkness. He stretched out both his arms, in order to grab me, but I shuffled backwards as quickly as I could manage it, breathing fast. I reached up to the side of my neck with my free hand and as I drew it back, my fingertips were covered in blood. 

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Chapter five, done!

I hope you liked it ;3

I think we're a little bit over halfway through the story. I would guess 3-4 more chapters to come!  

Then you can decide if it's supposed to go on or not, but we talk about this again when the time comes!

Until then..

Be careful when going into forests alone!

Also stay awesome and healthy.

I hope I'll read you next chapter! 

Draven out <3