namjoon moves on to read seokjin's poem, but the boy just frowns at him.
"namjoon, i think you saw something in c—i mean, earlier—that you weren't supposed to see. i didn't want to have to tell you this, but i don't think i have a choice. it's getting kind of dangerous for you to spend so much time with yoongi. i don't know why, but he seems easily excitable when he's around you, which shouldn't be a problem in itself.
but when yoongi gets too excited, he finds a place to hide and starts cutting himself with a pocket knife.
isn't that kind of messed up? he even brings a different one to school each day, like he has a collection or something. i mean, it's definitely not because he's depressed or anything like that, he just gets some kind of high from it. it might even be, like, a sexual thing. but the point is, you've kind of been enabling him. i'm not saying it's your fault! but that's why i had to explain it all to you, so i think if you keep your distance, that would probably be best for him.
while you're at it, don't be shy to spend a little more time with me! to put it lightly, i at least have it together in my head, and i know how to treat my club members.
anyway, i worked really, really hard on this poem, so... i hope that it's, uh, effective."
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"jeez! that really startled me! well, i guess i kinda, uh, messed up at 'writing' this poem. i was just trying to...never mind. let's just move on."
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"namjoon, i have one more request before we start reading. do you mind if we sit on the floor today? it's a little bit easier on my back. i can read with my back against the wall instead of bending over at a desk," yoongi said. "i just have back pain fairly regularly, so i do my best to manage it."
"is that so?" namjoon asked. "i wonder why that is. mainly because of your posture, right? always hunched over like that while reading."
"yes!" yoongi shouted. "i have terrible reading posture. so that's why we should sit on the floor."
namjoon shrugged. "fair enough. i have some chocolate as well." namjoon retrieves the bag of chocolate as well 'portrait of markov', then he sits next to yoongi against the wall, teacup on the floor by his side.
as if in sync, they assume the same reading position as last time, each holding one half of the book. except this time, their bodies are even closer. yoongi squirms a bit. "i can't see too well."
yoongi slides closer until their shoulders are touching. yoongi wears his intense reading expression, and can only presume the world around him has faded. after a few minutes, namjoon lets go of the book to fumble with a chocolate wrapper. "you can have as much as you want, yoongi."
"no, it's alright." yoongi smiles, grabbing on to the left side of the book. "i'll hold the book, okay?"
he holds it so that namjoon doesn't have a hard time reading from it, but as a result, his left arm is practically resting on the younger's leg. namjoon sighs.
