ILLICIT | PJM

Forty-Three

Jimin's eyes fluttered wide open, a cold and wet hand towel covered his forehead. He felt a weight on his stomach and saw Ayla with her head down, as if she was waiting for Jimin to wake up. Jimin felt like his head was on fire since yesterday morning but that was normal for him, he didn't know that it was a viral fever. Jimin sat in a straight position carefully, he touched his neck and realized that his body temperature was back to normal.

Everything around him was a little blurry, a little smeared. Strips of medicines laid on the table, his lips charred and he felt pale. He very carefully held Ayla by her arm only to discover that she was burning up. A sense of guiltiness swept through his mind, should've stopped when she told him to but didn't they already do enough business for the virus to pass?

"Ayla, babe I'm gonna lift you. Okay?" he stroked her hair and she hummed in response. Very carefully he hoisted her up and laid her on the bed and covered her with the sheets. Just that instant the bell rang, who would be here at 4:30 in the morning? Must be Taehyung. He let go of his girlfriend's hand and ran towards the other end of the penthouse.

"Yaah! Jiminie what took you so long?" His best friend hissed as he handed him a bag of donuts. Taehyung scanned him, "did you catch a fever?" Taehyung asked and Jimin nodded his head in approval. They both approached his room when Jimin suddenly remembered that Ayla was there.

"Wait!" Jimin ran to the door and locked it, he checked if Ayla was fully covered, even below the sheets. She was in his shirt and she was wearing a pair of his sweatpants. He sighed in relief and opened the door again.

"Ooh." Taehyung sang as he saw Ayla fast asleep.

"Shut up, I passed the fever now, just go and make some use of your medical degree." Jimin softly spoke. Taehyung placed his hand on her head.

"Man, she's literally burning." Taehyung cursed and got some medicines from the medic kit. The next few minutes were spent on giving her medicines and putting her back to sleep while Jimin just stood there feeling guilty.

"Jimin clean your room at least." Taehyung started picking up the bottle of almost untouched champagne and Jimin picked the bar of chocolate and his belongings.

"Seriously white chocolate?" Taehyung touched the creamy substance on edge of the bed and then the next minute Jimin was running towards him, pulling him in the washroom.

"You don't just touch anything on the floor you asshole!" Jimin yelled as Taehyung just stared at him dumbstruck.

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Ayla pov

My vision felt a little disoriented at first, my throat was dry like sandpaper as the taste of vomit at the back of my throat came. I tried to get a flashback of yesterday night and was successful in it. I got out of the bed and checked the time, 2:30 pm.

"Oh good you're up." I heard a familiar voice and I turned my head to see Taehyung leaned at the door frame of the room. He approached me and placed his hand on my forehead.

"You're still having the fever." his tone was uneasy. "Go and take a bath." I did as he instructed. I gathered my clothes and picked up the towel and left for a bath. The hot water had a calming effect on my body, the muscle knots loosened and my nerves relaxed, all the cologne scent on me faded and got washed away. My body which was feeling sore and exhausted was now better. I came out and went to the dining area where Taehyung was waiting for me.

"Where is Jimin?" I asked him as I sat next to him.

"He just left, before you woke up." Taehyung answered as he stuffed a bite of burger.

"So nice, how he is making you baby sit me while he enjoys the sunny weather." I scoffed and controlled my surge to eye roll.

"He has gone for some work." my eyes widened at his statement. By work he meant killing people. "Not killing, just threatening." a wave of relief washed over me.

"I got some vanilla donuts earlier, wanna have them?" Taehyung got up from his seat and handed me a bag of donuts.

"I had enough vanilla yesterday night." I spoke emotionlessly but still had them.

"Did I vomit or anything?" I asked Taehyung and he nodded his head yes.

"Thrice." I choked on my food and he immediately gave me a glass of water, to make things more perplexed he smirked.

"Man Jin is never sending me to this house again.'' I said as I took a sip of water.

"Why don't I remember then?" I asked him when I was back to normal.

"Because I gave you some painkillers and sleeping pills, or else you would constantly grumble in pain and that lover boy was questioning my abilities in the medic stream." Taehyung is one of the most egoistic personalities I've ever come across in my life, he was sweet too.

"Hey winter bear, why do you take things to your heart? He was just worried." a genuine smile spread across my lips, he was actually a very cute but hot as fuck type of bear. "I wonder why he hides things about himself." my voice was barely audible yet they entered Taehyung's ears.

"What are you talking about?" Taehyung tried to act clueless when he actually wasn't and that literally irritated the shit out of me.

"Does he not trust me? Like does he even love me? Or is everything for a show?" I asked Taehyung, if I can share my darkest secrets with Jimin then why can't he?

"All I know is that he is nuts over you, he trusts you more than he trusts himself. But you know bipolar depression is not something I will explain to you about, he will do that himself." and with that came a click of something which meant that someone was eavesdropping the entire time. Jimin was standing behind us in a sky blue button up and black cafe trousers.

I turned my head back to Taehyung who now was leaving the living area, leaving both of us alone. After a few minutes Jimin sat in front of me and took my hands in his and looked me straight in my eyes.

"I'm sorry." he heavily sighed and the apologetic look was evident in his eyes.

"For the fever or for hiding that you're bipolar and depressed." I was trying my best to avoid his cold near to death stare.

"I was. I was bipolar, not anymore." my eyebrows pinched at his statement. "You know Jin hyung always forced me to take these routine checkups. The last time I went for one was when we returned to Miami. My therapist said that I'm no longer bipolar or depressed, just a little bit of anxiety here & there. This is the reason why I didn't tell you."

"I refuse to believe that this is the only reason." I looked at our hands.

"Seriously, you'll leave me if I ever start counting about my flaws. My mouth will only hurt." Jimin sarcastically laughed.

"Jimin we are not perfectionists, we are humans and everyone has their flaws okay? I'm here to embrace your flaws. I'm not leaving, not now, not ever." I said simply. The cost of making Jimin get a hang of things was just too much. He pulled my chair closer to him and just looked at me.

"I would've kissed you if we were not ill." he caressed my cheek and a smile crept my face. We remained like this for a while until our time together was interrupted by Jimin's soulmate.

"Guys something is wrong." Taehyung had a gun in his hand as he got more conscious of his surroundings.

"Why?" Jimin asked him as he backed away a little from me. "You have a roll of ammunition right?" Taehyung asked as he saw the small screen in front of the main gate. Jimin simply nodded his head yes.

"Kai is just outside your house." 

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