TROUBLE | VKOOK

11.The awake man and the woken up boy

It was rare to see nights like these before summer. Spring had barely come and yet the sky was clear, in the shade of the deep blue sea. It was quiet as if the streets of the city had abruptly disappeared and the place had turned into a village, an old one with insects singing in the darkness of the night.

It was so calm, so quiet that Jungkook would have never woken up if it weren't for someone disrupting his sleep. It was only when he felt his whole body being moved that he opened his puffy eyes almost in annoyance, not really understanding what was going on since he was still half asleep.

It was Taehyung's arms that had woken him up. They were holding him softly while trying to turn him around in a way that his body would be laying on top if his. Jungkook was still too sleepy to react, so he let Taehyung do as he wanted. Once Jungkook was laying on top of Taehyung's side and the man's arms were wrapped around him securely, he lifted his gaze towards Taehyung's face.

Despite the darkness, Jungkook could see the way Taehyung's lips were forming a pout and the way his eyes glowed.

"What are you doing?" Jungkook mumbled, his voice sleepy and raspy. His head was on Taehyung's chest with his cheek pressing there replacing the pillow with the warmth of his body.

It was like Taehyung had immediately snapped out of something unknown to Jungkook the moment he had heard his voice. It was like he had seen a ghost but it was just Jungkook laying there with him.

Taehyung's hold on Jungkook loosened in an instant as if he had been caught doing something wrong, as if he didn't want him to know what he was doing, as if he didn't want Junkook to think that he needed to feel him in his arms in the middle of the night.

Deep inside the man's eyes there was a lot going on. He looked tired, but the truth was that Jungkook had never really seen him tired, not fully. That time he looked exhausted but yet he tried to fill the emptiness of his eyes with life that he seemed to struggle to find at that moment.

"You're awake?" Taehyung said in his usual calm tone, but Jungkook could see his eyes glowing more than they should.

"Uh, yeah... I just woke up." Taehyung removed his hand from Jungkook's back. "Go back to sleep."

"Why did you move me?" Jungkook rubbed his cheek against the man's chest to make himself comfortable.

"Uh?" Taehyung stopped moving. He almost stopped breathing too.

"You were moving me." Jungkook giggled tiredly, his nose bumping against Taehyung's body.

"Did I?" Taehyung didn't sound like he was joking.

Jungkookwas too sleepy to pay attention to Taehyung's weird behavior. However, he placed his leg between Taehyung's legs to kind of fully lie on top of him.

With his eyes closed, Jungkook brought Taehyung's arms around him, a content smile decorating his face. A soft relaxed sigh left his lips. "Why are you awake?" He had sensed that Taehyung had been wide awake for some time. He could feel his heart beating faster than a sleeping person's would.

"I just am." Taehyung casually said, his voice weak and raspy.

Jungkook forced his eyes open once again. "Is everything alright?"

Taehyung didn't say anything for a second, took a deep breath filling his lungs with oxygen and then his chest raised once again intensely. He nodded his head quickly when he realized that Jungkook was staring at him.

"Am I too heavy?" Jungkook joked lifting his body.

"No, you're fine."

Taehyung took a deep breath, too shaky to be left unnoticed. It was like the air he was breathing was not enough for him.