"Children, you are living in a corrupted society run on money and greed. It's always been that way, and it always will be."
She was talking to eight year olds.
The next day she didn't come back.
Neither did you.
But as you lay here, on the roof of your temporary residence with Jungkook, everything seemed right for once.
Jungkook is everything you have. You're everything he has.
And that's just fine.
Somehow his hand finds it's way into yours, and you're almost lulled to sleep by the singers voice, and the small motion of him rubbing circles on the back of your hand with his thumb.
Yes.
Everything is fine.
"Wake up," Jungkook whispers, and you wince as you realize the sky is lighter than when you closed your eyes.
"We should go inside," you reply, but a hand stops you from getting up.
"Watch the sunrise with me."
Its barely a whisper.
And together, you watch the grey sky fill with beautiful hues of light pink, and purple, and yellow. Jungkook loved yellows. He said it reminded him of dandelions. Something that grew despite harsh conditions. Something that kept coming back. Even though he said some people thought it was a nuisance, how could something so delicate be a nuisance? - he still pored over the pages of a gardening book you had found somewhere in a garbage can. Neither of you even saw a dandelion.
"You always did like the sunrise more," you murmur.
It takes all your willpower to pretend not to notice the tear that rolls down his cheek.
××
"Jungkook, we're leaving! We're leaving this fucking place!"
His eyes snap up from his book, and then to the hologram projector on the rotting coffee table. On it rolled instructions on how to apply for the last ship, the last ship, off of earth.
Everyone is leaving. No one is being left behind.
It didn't even bother you that the rich and powerful left first, to colonies established on different planets, meteors, anywhere.
You didn't even care where the fuck you're going, just off this godforsaken planet.
A grin appeared on his face, and then he wasnt sitting, and you were in his arms, and everything was so, so warm, and right. Everything was right with the world.
And, you belatedly realized, you wouldn't even mind staying here, as long as he was with you.
But you would never admit that.
××
"Where do you think we're going?"
It was your last night on earth; you had both been registered, and everything was set. Deciding to spend the last night looking at the stars, it didn't take long for Jungkook to follow you.
"That one." You didn't point at a specific star, just a general area.
Jungkook huffed.
Count The Stars With Me (We're Just Lost Boys)
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