I watched in horror as Taehyung's body started to decay in front of me, just like how Jungkook's did just before. I shut up eyes tightly, not wanting to see the rest of it but the image at already been imprinted vividly in my mind.
Voices started to echo in my mind and I hunched over with my hands clamped over my ears, trying to block them out. I couldn't decipher what the voices were telling me but they were starting to get clearer and I heard a sentence that made my heart stop.
"You promised him that you'd make him smile. I thought you were going to save him. Look what you've done now,"
"I-I didn't..." I stuttered, not being able to reason back to the anonymous voice.
"I'm sorry," This time it was Taehyung's voice that had spoke.
Tears spilled out non stop and the voices continued to haunt me until it suddenly died down and a woman's voice spoke out clearly to me.
"Wake up my dear,"
Eomma?
I flinched and shot my eyes open to just see that I was laying down on the floor next to my bed, drenched in cold sweat and tears dripping from my eyes. I looked towards my bed and clearly saw Taehyung up with a worried expression despite the darkness of this unlit room.
He opened his mouth to say something but I cut him off my rushing towards him and wrap my arms around his torso tightly. Tears pooled my eyes and started to trickle down my cheeks again as I sobbed into his warm chest. I could tell he was confused why I was like this but regardless of that, he gently pat my back whilst caressing my hair with his other hand.
I cried for a good few minutes and then rested my head against his chest, hearing his calm yet fast heartbeat. It was just the same except that I wasn't bawling my eyes out now.
"What's wrong?" Taehyung spoke in a gentle tone and continued caressing my hair.
"Just a bad dream..." I replied back, not wanting to go into details as I could still vividly remember him lying dead in front of me.
Thank lord you're still alive in front of me.
Taehyung emitted a loud sigh and just continued his patting on my back. It was then when I remembered why he was here.
"How are you feeling?" I pulled away from him and placed my palm on his forehead, only to find it still very warm.
"I'm better thanks to you. But don't sleep sitting down, it's bad for you..." He grabbed my hand that was on his forehead and interlaced his fingers with them. "Yoongi hyung moved you on the floor when he came by to check up. He was going to move you to his room but he was afraid that you'd wake up,"
"What time is it?"
"Around 6am," he replied back and let my hand go to just extend it out to my face. "Stop crying," he wiped the tears that had unknowingly escaped my eye with his thumb.
"Lie back down, your fever isn't any better. I'm not letting you go to school today," I pushed him down so that he was laying back down again and pulled the blanket over him. "I'll be back,"
Feeling dizzy and lightheaded from all the crying, I headed to Yoongi oppa's room whilst blowing my nose and knocked on the door gently. Like expected, a sleepy and grumpy looking cousin opened the door with his eyes half closed.
"Why the hell are you waking me up so early?" He rubbed his eye and leaned on the doorframe for support.
"Can I skip school today?"
"Hell no," he replied back before I could even reason why.
"But Taehyung-"
"There is no way I'm letting you stay home alone with a boy," he shook his head in disapproval.
"What's going on here?" The two of us turned our heads to see Samchon making his way towards here groggily. "Why are you two up so early? And who's that boy in Jiwoo's room?"
"Samchon, can I skip school today?" I immediately turned to him with my hands clasped together.
"What? Why?"
"He's a friend that fainted in front of our house yesterday... And Jiwoo is insisting that she'd take care of him today," Yoongi oppa explained.
Samchon nodded his head in approval. "That seems like a pretty legit reason, take the day off dear," he pat my head and walked back into his room to probably get ready for work.
"Thank you!" I beamed and turned back to my cousin brother who seemed to be taken aback at all this.
"Ugh, just wait here," he rolled his eyes before going back into his room.
I frowned in confusion and waited until Yoongi oppa came back out with a bundle of clothing in his grasp. He passed them on to me and grunted.
"Tell him to get changed into this later, it's the largest sized clothes I have right now," he muttered and closed the door on me.
With a small smile, I headed back into my room and saw Taehyung peacefully asleep again. Setting the clothes down on my table, I approached Taehyung quietly and sat on the floor just next to my bed. I brushed his bangs out of his eyes and just continued staring at him in deep thoughts.
I was definitely sure that the voice who woke me up was my own mother. Even if it had been five years, I still couldn't forget the calming voice that I used to hear daily. I let out a small yawn and stared at the digital clock on my table.
6:38am
Half of me actually felt like sleeping for another few hours meanwhile the other half was scared that the dream would continue on if I fell asleep.
"Sleep, it looks like you need it,"
I looked back at Taehyung who was awake now and shook my head. "I can't... I'm scared,"
Taehyung seemed to have no words to say back to me after that and kept his mouth shut. I stood back up and headed into my bathroom to quickly wash my face. Entering the bathroom, I cringed at my messy self on the mirror and turned the water tap on.
Splashing the cold water on my face, I tried my best to not remind myself of Jungkook and quickly exited the bathroom after drying my face off. Taehyung was sitting up on my bed with a curious expression when I had come out. I went over to my table and passed him the clothes that Yoongi oppa had given me.
"I'm going to go downstairs to make breakfast. Get changed into this and sleep," I told him and headed outside.
For the next hour or so, I spent my time making fried rice for my uncle and cousin and porridge for Taehyung. Samchon and Yoongi left right after eating my food so I decided to bring the porridge up to Taehyung.
With caution, i walked upstairs with a tray of porridge, water and medicine. I abruptly stopped when I passed by Jungkook's room and stared at the door, a wave of melancholic nostalgia hitting me. I hadn't even spared a glance at the door ever since his funeral and I was glad to do that because even right now I couldn't stay mentally calm.
Shaking my head, I entered my room to just see Taehyung in my cousin's clothes, sitting in front of my keyboard whilst blankly staring at the black and white keys. I set the tray down on the table which caused him to turn my way.
"Do you know how to play the piano?" He asked and I nodded.
"I took lessons way after Jungkook did but my playing isn't that bad..." I walked over to him and turned the keyboard on. "Do you know how to play?"
He innocently shook his head and played a note with his finger. I let out a small chuckle and sat down beside him to start playing the easy and short version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
[a/n: the real version is legit so hard guys search up Twinkle Twinkle by Mozart on YouTube if u don't know]
"Just follow me," I told him and pressed a key from an octave higher.
He tried his best to imitate my fingerings, messing up from time to time which caused me to giggle. I was quite surprised at how well he was following and fast he was learning this. As I played the ending, he furrowed his eyebrows because his fingers weren't coping with him. A smile etched onto my face as I gently placed my right hand over his and pressed the keys for him.
After around twenty minutes, i had finished teaching him the whole song including the left hand and told him to try playing it on his own.
I stood up from the piano seat to give him more space and quietly watched as he started playing the piece on his own. The way he stuck his tongue out to lick his lips whilst concentrating was a new yet fascinating sight for me and I felt my cheeks heat up all of a sudden. As he neared the end of the piece, I saw the corners of his mouth slightly curving upwards into a smile.
Watching him play the piano only made me reminisce the times when Jungkook was playing the piano and I couldn't help but think about the dream from the previous night again.
"Jiwoo,"
Taehyung snapped me back to reality as he stood up from the piano stool. I mentally slapped myself and then rushed over to the tray of food that I had forgotten about. Thankfully, the porridge was still warm so I sat down on the bed and beckoned Taehyung over.
"Eat this," I scooped up the boiled rice with the spoon and held it up to his lips. "And tell me why you're like this right now,"
He gently took hold of the spoon from me and ate the food off it. "I beat up a few guys from our class yesterday..."
"What?!" I shouted as my eyes widened in terror. "Why? You're not the type to do that..."
"They were bad mouthing you in both dirty and bad ways so how couldn't I?" He spoke with such sternness in his voice that made me flinch.
My heart palpitated quickly and I felt the blood rush to my cheeks after I had sunken his words into my mind. Taehyung seemed to have realised what he had said and quickly looked away.
"And the reason why I came over to your house was because I didn't want to turn up home in such a state like this. Halmeoni is already in a weak state and I didn't want to surprise her in a bad way,"
None of us spoke a word after that and Taehyung just silently finished off his food and medicine. The medicine kicked in almost instantly and Taehyung soon fell asleep afterwards. Having nothing to do, I decided to catch up on my homework and assignments that I was meant to do.
It was around 1pm when I finally decided to take a break and relax for a while. My eyes instantly traveled to Taehyung who was still sleeping soundly on my bed. The image of him rotting out in the dream was still too real for me and I couldn't help but think negatively.
The dream had been accurate of all the events with Jungkook.
Then does that mean Taehyung will kill himself?
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Author's note
Omg two updates in one day!!!!!!! I have never written a chapter this fast and wow, idk what to say. Tbh, the main reason for updating twice is because... 3years with bANGTANNNNN!!!! I'm not really satisfied with this chapter but yeah...
lmao i never expected to get so many comments in one day thank you guys for all the love <3
i didn't even know what a lucid dream was until u guys commented on the previous chapter lol. i thought it was some sort of mythical shiz with Lucifer (iDK).
I'm still unsure of this story's ending... I used to have a planned out ending at the beginning but now idk anymore. Would you guys like a sad or a happy one?
I have two weeks left of school and still one exam and three assignments left... (i procrastinate a lot due to wattpad). Anyways, until then, spam me with comments and votes :3
-keidee (call me that now guyssssss i thought of it a few days ago... pronounces like saying the alphabets KD)