fragile ∾ pjm + myg

chapter eight

The weight of his phone on Jeongguk's pocket was something he never really paid mind to, but today it was bugging him to no end ever since he left Jimin alone in his shared room with Yoongi –both of his hyungs still rooming together since Hoseok changed with the eldest rapper. There was warning signs blasting inside his head for all of his walk to the café near their dorm, red signs all over his brain, leaving him restless. His fingers were twitching at every few seconds as he sat on one of the outside tables after ordering, enjoying the chilly wind that autumn brought on his face while finally taking the object that his attention had be on out of his pocket, staring at it with uneasy eyes. Maybe he should really call Yoongi? The elder maybe really knew about this, but something inside Jeongguk told him he didn't; that Jimin didn't tell anyone about this. Jeongguk wasn't oblivious, never mind stupid, he knew something was seriously wrong but he was scared of asking; scared of making the wrong move and shattering Jimin while he did it, but it never stopped him from being worried sick about his hyung.

He could see the never ending frown on Seokjin's face whenever Jimin wouldn't have dinner with them, always with a new excuse that they knew if being questioned was asking for a discussion; how Hoseok was trying twice as hard to always cheer them up when Jimin's down mood accidentally affected all of them, how Namjoon was struggling to keep the group together when one of their members barely left his bed at all. And then it was Taehyung and Yoongi, both never leaving Jimin's side no matter what. Yoongi was the one who asked for Hoseok to change their rooms, Taehyung always spending most of his free time in Jimin's room when the boy refused to leave. He could see the deep worry in their eyes every time they stared at Jimin, something going on between the three of them that the others weren't a part of but Jeongguk couldn't bring himself to be angry for it; concern for his friend being the first thing on his mind.

That was probably what had driven him to enter his password and click on the green call button, searching Yoongi's phone number on his contacts and hesitating for a split second; would Jimin get mad at him? The boy hadn't explicitly told him not to tell the others but Jeongguk knew it was very much implied in his words. But then he remembered the emptiness of Jimin's eyes whenever he made eye contact for a few seconds with the older boy and pressed on call , bringing the phone up to his ear as he silently thanked the waitress that brought him his coffee and the small piece of cake he had ordered, listening as it rang, the unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomach only growing stronger at each time the dial sounded loud and clear on his ear. He was taking a sip on the coffee when Yoongi's voice said "what?" on the other end of the line, making Jeongguk roll his eyes a little at the elder's delicacy.

"Hyung, where are you guys?" Jeongguk question sounded odd even to himself and he cringed a little, but he was hoping so hard that they were still in Seoul and not in the bus already.

"At the bus station. Why? What's wrong? It's Jimin oka-" the elder's voice grew louder as he kept speaking before Jeongguk cut him off, not wanting to make this longer than it had to be, the bad feeling on his gut not getting better.

"It's about Jimin. He isn't with me, he said that his parents weren't home so he was gonna stay at the dorm an-" before he could finish this time Yoongi was the one to cut him off and the elder's tone blew him away for a split second.

"He what?!" the rapper almost screamed, forcing Jeongguk to get the phone away from his ear for a second, before he heard a hushed discussion between him and someone the boy could bet was Taehyung, suddenly remembering they were taking the bus together, "Jeongguk, where are you right now? Are you still in the dorm?" Yoongi's voice was lower now, but the concern in his tone was impossible to go unnoticed. Jeongguk swallowed thickly, a shiver running down his spine when he answered quietly that he wasn't in the dorm and Yoongi cursed under his breath, "Fuck, shit, okay. Okay, here's what you're gonna do for me: you're gonna go back there and you're gonna stay with him until me and Tae get there to pick him up, yeah? He's coming with us to Daegu, I don't give a fuck; just stay with him until we get there."