counting change | yoonminseok

035

He physically felt exhausted.

It had been a while since he had pushed himself with exercise and he could feel it now as he felt like he was on the verge of collapsing. Mentally he wasn't feeling so well either but really when had he ever been in a good mental state since his high school relationship?

His body was exhausted and that was making him want to slip into little space which was making him mentally tired from trying not to. He wanted to call his boyfriends to come pick him up but he wanted to keep his pink hair a surprise until he saw them on Saturday so he just sucked it up.

He had contemplated calling Taehyung and Jungkook but he didn't want them to worry and start connecting the dots with his recent behavior and the behavior he had during his last relationship.

So he simply grabbed his emtpy water bottle and went to the locker room and started unlocking his rental locker to get his bag.

"Fucking twinks. They even come to the gym now."

Jimin froze hearing that statement thinking of who else was in the locker room. He had seen only a couple other people but he didn't think that any of them would make a comment about him. He took a deep breath deciding to ignore the persons statement as to not make things worse.

"Hey, I'm talking to you faggot!" Jimin suddenly was pulled around and slammed against a locker causing him to groan as the metal dug into his back. "So you think you can come to this gym acting all gay and stuff?"

"There's not a way for a person to act gay.  Literately all I did was work out, what's so wrong with that?"

"The gym is for people who are actually normal, not fags like you."

Jimin couldn't help but roll his eyes at that statement. It was definitely the pink hair that was causing this and he could only sigh.  He definitely should of went with black, pink was just getting the attention of all the wrong types of people.

"Being straight isn't the automatic sexuality set on everyone. People are born differently not just in whatever close minded way you're thinking of."

Before Jimin could even look at the person yelling at him he felt a harsh slap across his face and suddenly he was thrown to the ground. He knew other people were in the locker room as well, why weren't they helping him? His main focus was trying not to slip into little space that would just make things ten times worse for him. 

"You guys are all jerks! Did you plan to just watch that guy beat this kid up! You're disgusting."

Jimin slowly opened his eyes seeing a different guy yelling at the people in the locker room and he couldn't help but take a deep breath trying to calm himself. The guy who had been hitting him seemed to have disappeared leaving him to focus on staying in the right head space.

He felt someone pick him up and he immediately opened his eyes confused to see it was the guy who had been yelling. He placed him on the bench and he walked away leaving Jimin confused. Everyone else in the locker room seemed to be hurrying to get out leaving Jimin alone there.

"Here we go!" He heard as the other guy walked back in holding a first aid kit. "I'm going to clean your wound first, okay?"

"My wound? What-" 

Jimin looked down at his arm noticing that it appeared to be bleeding. He couldn't recall the guy ever hurting his arm so he just brushed it off as him accidentally getting cut by the metal on the lockers when he was pushed down.

"My name's Namjoon, what about yours?"

"Jimin." The younger said as he bit his lip trying to ignore the pain in his arm. This situation seemed to end in a similiar outcome as the time he was at the mall and ended up having to walk come in little space to Taehyung and Jungkook. Except this time he wasn't goint to let himself slip and a complete stranger was helping him. "Is it always like this?"

"It's the first time I've ever seen someone act like a jerk to be honest. Has anybody ever pestered you here before?"

"This is actually my first time here." Jimin said laughing as he tried to ignore the burning pain in his arm. "I literately bought a membership like two hours ago."

"I'll make sure to talk to management and see if they can get that guy kicked out." Namjoon said as he started putting gauze around my arm. "Nobody deserves to get beat up just because someone assumes your sexuality."

"It's fine it's not the first time it's happened. Besides I'm actually bi anyways so it's not like he was wrong."

"Don't talk about that like yourself. Just because you aren't straight doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you." Namjoon said as he smiled at the younger as he finished bandaging his arm but frowned realizing his face was beginning to bruise. "My boyfriend used to talk like that and now that he's accepted himself he's happier than ever."

Jimin frowned at what the other had said to him. He never really felt like he didn't accept himself for not being straight after all his best friends were gay and he was dating two men. But at the same time he was giving the random guy an excuse for hitting him because he wasn't straight. He wanted to wear feminine things and had dyed his hair pink because he thought it looked pretty.

Jimin was weak and he simply stared at the ground as he began to recall things his old boyfriend told him.

"H-hey don't cry!" Namjoon said trying to calm the younger frowning when it wasn't working. He didn't really expect his Wednesday to be this interesting. "Everything is fine! Here how about we go grab some ice cream, I can pay!"

"Ice cweam?" The little said looking up expectantly as he seemed to stop crying. "Jiminie weally wikes ice cweam."

Namjoon looked at the younger slowly beginning to piece together the circumstance he was in. He always tried to make sure he was educated on numerous different subjects so he knew a little bit about littles. He was slightly panicking though as he didn't really know what to do in a situation with a random little he didn't know.

"Yeah sure, let's go grab ice cream!"

I finally introduced Namjoon in this book and I think I can find a way to include Jin in the next chapter