A Caged Bird | Minjoon

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"ughhh," jimin groaned, in annoyance.

usually, the two boys would be happily curled up in bed together by now, but jimin had a big paper due that night. it had been a few days since the two had any real fun together. finals were coming up and both of their workloads increased significantly. namjoon didn't mind it much, considering he had finished most of his assignments early. it wasn't too difficult for him, but jimin, on the other hand, was heavily struggling with it.

"what's wrong?" joon asked, pulling his eyes away from the anime he was watching to look at what jimin was doing.

"this fucking paper," jimin said, a bitter tone laced in his voice.

joon looked over at jimin's work, seeing all the notes he had written down in his notebook and his open laptop where he was writing the paper.

namjoon took another bite of his ramen, not sure what to say, wanting to avoid irritating jimin any further.

"do you want me to help with it? or... i can make you some food?"

jimin shook his head, focusing intently on the bright laptop screen, typing quickly on the keyboard.

"no thanks."

joon just nodded, quietly taking another bite of his food, trying to bring his focus back to the show he was watching.

over the next few minutes, he could hear many annoyed sighs and small curses fall from jimin's lips. he didn't look over to the boy until he finally heard him snap.

"fucking bullshit!" jimin yelled out, throwing all his materials onto the coffee table aggressively, his notebook landing on the floor, not even bothering to close his laptop.

jimin marched angrily to his room, slamming the door shut, leaving namjoon alone in the living room, a bit surprised at jimin's outburst.

of course, he didn't blame the boy. jimin had been working so hard all week- he couldn't imagine how stressed out jimin must have been. college truthfully was very stressful. there was a constant pressure to do good and succeed. namjoon loved writing, so he didn't mind the pressure. jimin, on the other hand, didn't seem to be so fond of it.

namjoon wondered why jimin chose to major in writing in the first place, considering he hated it so much. but he also understood that lots of people aren't sure what they want to do when they first come to college. for some, it requires lots of trial and error to choose what they want to do for a career. and jimin definitely seemed to be one of those people.

of course, namjoon wanted to go comfort jimin, but he knew going in there now would just frustrate jimin more, so he decided he would work on jimin's paper for him in the meantime.

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after about twenty minutes went by, joon had managed to finish the entire paper. he had written so many essays, and stories in his lifetime, that by now he knew what teachers required to get an above-average grade.

so, after finishing up the paper, joon headed to the kitchen. he heated up two packets of ramen for jimin, adding lots of extra sauces and seasoning to make it taste even better. he put the ramen into a bowl and then grilled up some veggies to put on the top as well.