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little!jisung
caregiver!chan
caregiver!changbin

during quarantine, jisung was unable to go to class while chan + changbin had to go to work. he starts feeling like he's put on weight and that chan and changbin don't love him anymore.

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When it was announced on the news that the world was going into a global lockdown, Jisung knew he would be screwed.

He wouldn't get his degree in music production, he wouldn't be able to get into the company that Chan and Changbin worked for, Chan and Changbin would probably break up with him once they realised they were just housing a freeloader with no education or job. He would end up homeless by the end of the lockdown. His life was over.

Except, it wasn't?

Sure, his college had been shut until the foreseeable future, but Jisung was fortunate enough to have - not just one, but - two boyfriends who were in the music production industry. He had all the supplies he needed at home to complete his assignment all because of Chan and Changbin!

Jisung felt sorry for the other students in his class who relied on the college's equipment for their coursework, but his sympathy soon reeled itself in when he found out they could get laptops from the college with all of the appropriate software delivered to their houses.

So, even in such a worrying and shitty situation, things seemed good for Jisung. His anxiety wouldn't let him rest, but that was normally what it was like anyway. He hated not being able to go outside and go for walks, but he'd stuck his head out of the window enough times for both Chan and Changbin to be worried he would fall out. But it gave Jisung the fresh air he needed, and so the two always watched cautiously whenever Jisung leant too far out the window, yet never interfering.

The only bad thing with Jisung's particular situation was that he had nowhere to go, and nowhere to go meant no exercise. Jisung was used to walking to and from college everyday (well, most days. Sometimes when Chan was leaving for work at the same time as Jisung was leaving for college, he would drop him
in, and Changbin would sometimes do the same on his way home from work).

The walk there and back was a good forty minutes in total, and Jisung loved the fresh air in the mornings, and the serene evening smell as he passed by restaurants and patisseries on his way home. But there was none of that now, and with the Government asking people to cut down on their carbon emissions, Chan and Changbin were now the ones walking to and from work everyday.

Jisung was getting no exercise, and it wasn't like he desperately needed it (he was skinny enough to live off of no exercise but he still liked his daily walks) but he desperately needed it.

He was left alone during the day, and being alone during a global pandemic was far from fun, so Jisung decided to make himself useful and go through his clothes - which clothes he wanted and which ones he didn't. Simple as.

Except looking at clothes always turned into wearing them, and Jisung was having a great time modelling jeans he forgot he had, but when he got to his favourite pink skirt, one that he hadn't worn in a while since there weren't really any special occasions to wear it for anymore. He wasn't little as much as he was at the start of the pandemic, having to be alone most days and being faced with the anxieties of what the hell I'm actually living through a moment of history not really leaving him much time to be little.

But when he saw the skirt, he gasped and immediately felt himself slipping. He had a rule that if he was ever home alone and felt like he was about to slip, he should call either Chan or Changbin. The two often worked together on their tracks, and they worked very quickly, so it was never an issue for one of them to leave early to get to Jisung.