The Mechanism of Life

𝚂𝙸𝚇𝚃𝙴𝙴𝙽

p.jm

Jimin slowly woke up. Stretching out his limbs and a content yawn falling off his mouth. A small smile on his face, because this was the best sleep he had in a long while. He skeptically looked down at the bed. It was Yoongi's. The other was still sleeping over at his bed. Jimin was pretty sure that the mattress to Yoongi's bed was different than this. Which is why he had a good sleep last night.

No nightmares, no staying up for too late. He fell alseep almost immediately. And felt more refreshed than ever. He yawned once again, raising his hand to cover his mouth before hopping off the bed. He glanced at the clock. It was near to eight.

"Yoongi, up, up, up, up." Jimin mumbled, nudging the other. It was a bit different since Yoongi would be awake before him, on other days. But granted yesterday's happening, he decided maybe it was better to let the other sleep for a little while longer. 

He slowly walked up to the bathroom to brush his teeth. He quickly checked his inbox to make sure Taehyung or Jungkook hadn't message him last night. He was feeling way better, Jimin realized. For he walked out of the bathroom after fifteen minutes, instead spending longer time, staring at nothing. 

By the time he walked out, Yoongi was alread awake. His face swollen from the sleep. Cheeks slightly flushed. Hair properly messed and sticking out in every direction. His eyes barely open as he looked at Jimin. 

"Morning hyung." Jimin smiled. 

But instead of a reply, Yoongi grunted out a sound of acknowledged. Mumbling something like— Too early to be cheery— before plopping his head back down into the people. 

"Didn't have a good sleep?" Jimin asked, his voice softening a little. 

Yoongi replied something. But it got muffled by the pillow. "Sorry, what was that?" Jimin asked. "No, I slept pretty well actually. Better than I have in quite a while. But I'm still sleepy." Yoongi replied, raising his head for a while before nuzzling back into the pillow.

"I'm going to grab some coffee, what do you want?" Jimin asked only to remember Yoongi's usual order, "Iced Americano?"

Yoongi rolled over, giving Jimin a lopsided grin and nodded. "Be right back." Jimin mumbled, walking towards the door. But stopped just after opening it. He walked back in, looking for Yoongi's phone. "Open it." He said, holding the phone above the other's head. Yoongi didn't ask anything, and lazily gave in the password. Glaring at Jimin when he tried to see the password over Yoongi's shoulder. 

Then, Jimin opened the music app, playing the first playlist he could find and increased the volume just enough to be heard by Yoongi. "Be back in fifteen." Jimin reminded before walking out of the room, and closing the door behind him. He reminded himself to take the keys just in case.

As he waited in the restaurant downstairs for his order, he glanced over at the time ever so often to make sure he wasn't too late. He mumbled a thanks and smiled a little, taking the coffee cups in his hand and jogged his way to the elevator. 

When he came back to the room, he found Yoongi dressed up in new clothes. A little surprised by how quick Yoongi was able to get ready. But the music was still softly playing. 

"Your coffee," Jimin mumbled, placing it down on the table and taking a sip from his cup. He stared at the other coffee cup for a while. Reaching forward, he grabbed it and took a quick sip from it. He clicked his tongue, savoring the sweetness before taking another sip. 

"Hey, that's mine." Yoongi grumbled from the side. 

Jimin looked up, still siping the coffee and grinned. Yoongi sighed, rolling his eyes, before taking away his cup from Jimin. Glaring at him as he walked away. Jimin laughed out loud when he saw the expression of Yoongi's face, after the other realized the was cup was already half empty. Jimin quickly picked up his own cup and backed away. 

"Whatever, we have to leave." Yoongi grumbled, still glaring at Jimin for drinking his coffee.

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"Yeah Namjoon, yeah we got the deal." Yoongi assured for the umpteenth time. "Hoseok's supposed to come tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah, tomorrow, one in the afternoon." Namjoon replied, "Have you moved over to the official dorms by now?" 

"We are, right now." Yoongi replied, glancing over to his side, when Jimin was busy talking to his friends. He was laughing about something and threw looked over at Yoongi every once in a while. Whispering something to his friends, with a mischevious glint in his eyes. 

Yoongi frowned a little, hitting Jimin's forearm before focusing back to his call. "Hey ow!" Yoongi yelped, when Jimin pinched his arm in return. Yoongi ended the call, glaring at the other who only glared back at him. But of their attention was diverted when they reached the gates of the dormitaries. They eyes widening, and mouths hanging open as they stared at the huge building. 

"Woah..." He heard Jimin muse as he paid his share of the cab fare.

"This place is huge!"

"Well, it's an international competition, what do you expect-" Yoongi didn't get to finish as he was dragged inside. Barely managing to keep a hold onto his bags. Jimin was too excited for his own good. He let the other drag him to the counter, where they had to register their names in order to gain pass to the laboratory and keys to their dorms. 

"Dorm 23. And registering our pass to the lab was at nine." Jimin mumbled. Scowling afterwards, "We missed it."

Yoongi clicked his tongue and shrugged, "No problem, we can work on the theory part."

Jimin pouted but nodded nonetheless. Yoongi sighed when the other shot of in the direction of the elevatory and followed after with a sigh. He's just as hyper as Hoseok, Yoongi thought. He noted how Jimin had his fist curled up in excitement. His eyes slightly widen as he stared at the numbers. As soon as the elevator stopped at the required floor, he dashed out the second the door open. Yoongi trailed after, not so energetically. He snickered when he saw Jimin restlessly waiting outside their given dorms. Forgetting that the keys were with Yoongi.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry." Jimin urged, partically jumping on his toes, "Lab, lab, lab, lab."

Yooni intentionally stopped and moved comically slow. Earning the groan from Jimin and scowl, and then a slap on the his arm. He grinned, keeping up his pace as he opened the door. Had this been a cartoon, Jimin must have exploded by now. 

"Rude." Yoongi mumbled as Jimin shot past him and into the room. Dropping his bag before running out. Yoongi watched as the boy dissppeared behind the turns of the hallway. He shook his head, before entering. Keeping away his bag in a proper place. Along side Jimin's. Then, he opened up his back, fetching the necessary papers, his laptop, the project itself and a clipboard. The dorms were a little smaller than the hotel room, but surprisingly more spacious.  A double bed on either side of the room, opposite to the door, with a huge space in between. A study table, in the shape of the L, was placed to the side wall, infront of the window. It was big enough for two. Another door, which Yoongi assumed was the bathroom door was on the adjacent side to the entry door.

He placed all the items on the study table. Seperating and clipping them together in a proper manner. By then the excited Jimin was back. The smile on his face still present.

"It's like the lab back in our college, but more advanced." He explained, "All the teams have their individual labs. But before that we need to scan that pass for registering. Anyways, it's like really cool and I can't wait to start working."

Yoongi narrowed his eyes at the other. Though Jimin was obviously excited, he wasn't happy. There was something off about him. Something he couldn't quite put his finger on. The smile on his face didn't reach up to his eyes.

But he didn't mention. Thinking he was just worrying too much. 

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