Seokjin and the Heirs of the Korean Miracle - BOOK 1 ✔

Chapter 17 : He's my friend - Memories (part 5)

In the middle of the night, Yoko was awakened by knocking on the door and the doorknob shaking frantically as if someone was trying to open it by force. Behind, a small voice cried:

"Open to me!"

"T-Taehyung, what are you doing here at such an hour?" Yoko asked opening the door, stunned because the little boy was normally in bed and asleep at this hour.

The boy was in his pajamas and his disheveled hair as well as his sleepy eyes let it be known that he had just been dragged out of bed. However, there was a look of alarm in his eyes.

"I came to see Jin," Taehyung said as he rushed without another form of greeting to Jin's room.

Yoko was about to close the door to join the boys in the bedroom when a hand with a manicured finger forced the door open.

"M-Mrs. Kim, what's going here?" Seokjin's mother stammered as she saw Taehyung's mother appear in her dressing gown, looking just as tired as her son.

"Taehyung suddenly woke up, screaming to wake up the whole house that Seokjin might be dead, before he rushed in here," she said, visibly upset at the event and going to find her son in Seokjin's room without asking permission to enter in the House. 

"N-no, Seokjin is fine, he's just sleeping," Yoko said to her, closing the door and followed her hastily to witness the strange scene. Taehyung knelt next to Jin who was sleeping in his futon and gently shook him to wake him up. Seokjin dazedly blinked wondering what Taehyung was coming to his room.

"T-tae? I-I didn't do a-anything, you can take the ball if you wan't it," he spluttered, still all sleepy, not realizing where he was.

"I don't want the ball, you can go back to sleep," Taehyung assured him, stroking his head gently.

 Seokjin didn't need to be asked : he was so tired and knocked out from his medicine that he fell back asleep very quickly without asking for his rest, probably thinking it was all just a dream.

"Taehyung, what's the matter?" his mother asked in a tired voice from the bedroom door. 

"He is fine!" Taehyung exclaimed to his and Seokjin's mother as he looked with relief at Seokjin sleeping calmly and breathing normally contrary to what he had seen in his nightmare. "I thought he wasn't well but he's fine!"

"Of course he's fine, he's already been to the hospital, you don't need to worry about him," Mrs. Kim barked, "come on Taehyung, go back to bed now."

"But what if, when I leave, he doesn't wake up anymore? No, I want to sleep with Jin," Taehyung protested in a worried voice as he crawled into Jin's futon.

"Don't talk nonsense, you're not going to sleep on the floor with him like an animal, you have a bed."

"So can he come and sleep in my room?" Taehyung asked hopefully.

"That's out of the question," his mother said immediately.

Anyway, Yoko would not have allowed her son to sleep away from her with bad people who would not pay attention to him when he was in such bad shape.

"Young sir," Yoko said, taking care to speak to him respectfully in front of Mrs. Kim. "Seokjin can't sleep anywhere but here at the moment because he's injured and sick and I have to take care of him, you understand?"

"Yes, I understand Yoko. So I'm staying here," Taehyung decided before adding anxiously, "I'll also watch over him to make sure he continues to breathe and sleep and doesn't die."

Shocked Mrs. Kim exclaimed to Yoko:

"Do you realize what my son is saying?! He is only seven years old and he is shocked by what has happened!"