With This Ring [JJK Fanfic]

Cuddles

Jungkook's POV

             It broke me to see Ara like this. She stopped talking as soon as we left the hospital, and she had been in bed for days now. I don't know how to help her when she feels like this. I've never even seen her upset before now. I couldn't imagine what she went through and not many people can. Only soulmate-less people would do such a thing and that was rare. It disgusted me to think of the man that would do such a thing to her. I hated him so much. I wanted to kill him. He was vile, he hurt my soulmate, he hurt my Ara.

I gently slipped into bed with her and watched her roll over. She said nothing and kissed my cheek before rolling back over and falling asleep.

It was two hours later when I heard a knock at the door. I shuffled out of bed and found Taehyung at the door, rubbing his eyes and pouting.

"Can I sleep here? Lena is visiting family and I can't fall asleep," he asked.

I glanced back at Ara who was fast asleep now.

"I. . .okay," I said. "Please don't wake Ara,"

Taehyung nodded and followed me to bed, immediately latching to my side.

"Goodnight, Jungkook," Taehyung mumbled into my chest before he fell asleep.
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Ara's POV

I woke up with Jungkook's arms around me. . .or so I thought. The hair color told me otherwise.

"Taehyung? What the fuck?" I muttered. "When did you get in here?"

"Good morning, Ara," he smiled. "Lena's on a trip and normally I'd stay with Jungkook. He pushed me off him a while ago. It's habit to hold someone while I sleep. I'm sorry."

He began to let go and I pressed my hands into his back.

"It's okay," I said. "Jungkook has been a little weary to touch me lately and I kinda miss it."

"I'm uh. . .I'm sorry about what happened. Are you okay?"

"Not really," I said. "But I'll get there. I'm mainly just scared of y'know. . .doing it again. I've been having nightmares about it and the thought of doing it with Jungkook again scares me."

"That's awful, Ara, I'm so sorry."

"You can't stop it, so don't be sorry." I ran my fingers through his hair.

"You shouldn't have had to go through that. I'm sorry because you didn't deserve it. No one does." Taehyung said, his ear pressed to my stomach as he propped his leg on mine.

"Thank you, Tae," I said.

"Thank you for talking to me," Tae said. "I've heard you haven't been talking."

"I just don't know what to say, especially to Jungkook," I sighed. "And you took me off guard at first so it was automatic."

"Sorry," he pushed his nose into my stomach and laughed. "I get yelled at for being too cuddly a lot by the members."

"Well, it's okay with me." I said. "You should go back to bed, it's only six."

Taehyung nodded and laid his ear back down on my stomach.

"I love you, Ara." He breathed. "You deserve the world and more."

"I love you too," I said as I felt his face shift; he must have smiled.

I smiled too as he slowly drifted off to sleep as I played with his hair.
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"Taehyung, get off her before she freaks out," I heard Jungkook say. "I don't want you to scare her."

"Kook, calm down, I already talked to her," Taehyung said as I felt him sit up. "She's okay."

"You talked?" He asked.

"I spooked her a little earlier but then yeah she approved." Taehyung replied.

"But she actually talked to you?" He asked. "That's great!"

        I wrinkled my nose and opened my eyes.

"Morning," I said before I kissed Jungkook's cheek.

"Can we all cuddle? Lena gives me morning cuddles and I'm kind of really missing her," Taehyung shyly said. "I don't like being away from her."

          I nodded, and opened my arms. Taehyung moved up towards the head of the bed and laid down in my arms, Jungkook wrapping his arms around him as well and resting his hands on top of my arms.

"The separation isn't as bad as it used to be but it's hard for me to get sleep or be comfortable without being in her arms," Taehyung explained. "This isn't the same, but it helps, so thank you two."

        I cracked a small smile as I squeezed him tighter briefly, acknowledging his thanks.

        I watched as Jungkook's eyes slowly came up to mine. They were full of wonder and concern, puzzled as to why I had opened up to Taehyung and not him, I could tell. We'd talk about this later, but for now I just reached around and squeezed his arm.