Music is My Lover

Chapter 58: Starving Insomniac

Yoongi didn't remember when was the last time he had been able to have a decent night of sleep. The first few nights he had tried to stay in bed hoping he'd eventually pass out from exhaustion, but it was useless so he didn't bother with it anymore.

He worked day and night, on stage and off. His main source of comfort was working on the song  you had put together while he was there. It was coming along nicely and he decided to extend the melody and add his own lyrics, which he'd never done when he used your poems as a base.

He brought his elbows onto the desk and crossed his hands over the laptop's keyboard to rest his forehead on them. The throbbing headache he'd had constantly, for he didn't know how long anymore, was giving him a really hard time and painkillers were useless.

It made him feel dizzy when he moved on stage, but so far he had managed. Taking it a little slower as the rest of the members of the band had insisted. They were really worried about him, but none of them knew how to help. He wouldn't stay backstage and he wouldn't skip a single concert and they understood him in a way.

Someone banged on Yoongi's hotel room's door hard and he covered his ears in pain as if they had hit him in the head. "Aagh, stop! Who is it?" he yelled before removing his hands warily to hear the answer.

"Yoongi-hyung!" he heard his dongsaeng's distressed voice and got up immediately. When he opened the door he saw Taehyung in utter panic and looked down at the phone in his hand. A tweet with a video titled "Suga's Fiancée" was on the screen.

"For fuck's sake" Yoongi said frowning at the title and touching the screen to play it. "From what we know, they've been dating for at the very least 7 months and they both have rings on their fingers. At this point of the relationship, there aren't many other options as to what it could mean. What a shock that one of the members is finally in a relationship and surprise! Getting married"— he rolled his eyes at the assumptions and briefly glanced at Tae who seemed to be doing much worse than him with these news for some reason.

He brought his eyes back to the video —"And Suga was not alone, V also tagged along. But why was that? Our team discovered that he might also be in a relationship! Yes, you've heard it here first. Kim Taehyung, who has ARMY fawning over him with his handsome looks and baritone vocals might just be taken" he furrowed his eyebrows as he understood what was going on.

Yoongi took a step forward and his dongsaeng immediately wrapped his arms around him, his cheeks already stained with tears. He patted his back not knowing what else to do as he hugged him back. "It'll be okay, Taehyung-ssi" the older one said reassuringly. Tae had already talked to producer Bang after his hyung urged him to once his own relationship was out.

"But my statement wasn't going to be rushed" the younger one explained his worries drying his face with the cuffs of his pajamas "we'd get to it once the tour was over. That was the plan when they didn't even have a clue! But now" his tone of voice shaky and desperate before it trailed off.

The rapper pulled back to make eye contact with him "they still have no idea, they have nothing against you, Taehyung-ah" he tried to make him see that this was just a rumor at the moment. He nodded at his hyung taking in his words. He was right, they didn't have photographs of him. They knew he had been there because they had identified the flight, but nothing else.

"Make sure you talk to your girlfriend" Yoongi said finally offering a small smile and dropping his arms to his sides. Taehyung just stared at him, he looked beyond exhausted. The bags under his eyes and the paler than usual tone of his skin had him worried.

"Are you okay, hyung? Do you need to talk?" he asked seeing if he could help somehow. Yoongi instinctively shook his head no and had to stop himself placing his hand on the side of it when he felt everything move around him. Taehyung grabbed his arm when he saw him unstable on his feet. "Yoongi hyung??" he asked holding him firmly.