ESCORT || JIKOOK ✅

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Jimin pov

The sedative is administered a few hours after Nari's last conversation with her children.

It's a bittersweet moment.

The lines on her face clearly relax and any remaining pain seems to fade. She truly looks like she's at pace after that.

From then on, the vigil is nearly constant. Neither Lisa nor Jungkook want to leave their mother's side for more than a moment.

I eventually convince them that they need to at least go and take a shower, get some fresh clothes and come back.

I wind up taking a trip up to the resort where our luggage has been sitting, untouched, in our bedroom for two days.

My plans of a romantic getaway where Jungkook and I can finally talk about that night we spent together have pretty much gone up in smoke.

The weird part is that I don't really care. I load our bags up and take them back down with me.

We wind up using the hotel that I booked for Jungkook, as a staging area.

Lisa even brought a small bag from her house so she wouldn't have to go back there.

She says she can't stand being there alone now that their mother isn't there.

Too many memories I guess.

I can't really blame her.

So we switch off, someone is always at Nari's side. The staff are friendly and understanding.

They're clearly used to dealing with grieving families and are extremely kind as they talk to us about Nari's condition and what to expect moving forward.

After three days of waiting and watching, our vigil comes to an end.

Lisa is inconsolable and cries until she passes out. Jungkook, on the other hand, is surprisingly stoic about it.

He makes arrangements with the funeral home and handles all of the other details without batting an eye.

He's been keeping his emotions closed off to me ever since the first day we arrived and it's hard for me to get a sense of what he's thinking.

I can't tell if he's keeping everything bottled up, or if he's just handling it really well.

Whatever the case may be, I've done everything I can to make sure that he knows I'm here for him.

The funeral arrangements are handled swiftly. There weren't many to be made.

Lisa and Jungkook were Nari's only living family and she'd been sick for so long that most of her friends had drifted away.

She's laid to rest in a modest grave beside Lisa and Jungkook's father who died when they were still small.

To hear Lisa tell it, their mother never remarried because their father was the one and only love her life.

To have a love so pure, so perfect, that you know nothing else will ever come close must be a truly extraordinary experience.

When I hear that story, the only person that comes to mind is him.

My feelings for him have only deepened over the last few days.

My desire to care for him, provide for him, give him anything and every thing he wants, has become overwhelming.

I've been unable to tell him any of that.

I do my best to let my actions speak for me, but I feel like they're falling short of conveying the exact strength of my emotions.