chapter 1

The cool breeze is rough against the little skin showing of his face and hands, Jimin rushed to get to the coffee shop he just started working at 2 weeks ago running away from the freezing cold outside. Jimin got inside heading straight behind the counter to start taking the costumers’ orders. That’s actually all Jimin did, he didn’t have any actual skills of making coffee, he didn’t even need the money. Sure he was just a student but his parents were wealthy enough to buy him the world. But sometimes money doesn’t mean anything, it sure was the last thing on his mind. He just needed a distraction, and school wasn’t enough, that’s why he asked Jin Hyung if he could manage a job for him in his Cafe.

Jimin sure overworked himself. And for good reasons. He was in school till 3pm, then he had dance practice till 6 pm, he would go home to take a shower, eat something even though he hardly does, try to kill some time by reading books or doing his homework. At 9pm he heads to the coffee shop for his nightshift. He was actually surprised the first time he saw so many costumers stay till 1am or 2am, but it was understandable since the coffee shop is the closest to the university and students come to get their dose of caffeine to finish whatever homework or assignments they had.

Jimin was only supposed to work till midnight, but he insisted to stay till Jin closes which is usually at 3 or 3:30am. Jimin had developed a case of insomnia in the latest months, the most he can sleep in a day is 1 hour and it rarely happens. He hoped that if he would overwork himself and fill every second of his day by any type of activity, he could escape, he’d be too sleepy, too tired to move, too tired to think. But he never escaped his mind, he never escaped the thoughts that would haunt him when he’s home staring at the ceiling, the voices of self blame in his head, the killing loud silence echoing around him. Jimin manages to get knocked down once every weekend, where he would sleep for less than 7 hours, and then his long week would begin again.

Jimin heard the door of the cafe open where two figures made it in and Jimin’s breathe hitched, eyes widened with a burn of tears begging to be let out. The two males who made it through were holding hands, the slightly shorter one clutching the other’s arm with his other hand in an attempt of bringing them closer to fight the harsh cold outside, were obnoxiously laughing. Happiness, love, youth shined in their bright eyes, making Jimin die a little bit inside. It’s been months, since he has last seen the tall boy with broad shoulders, jet black hair that was now a dark brown, his wide eyes that once looked at him with burning love as well. Jimin tried to convince himself that he was getting better in the last 2 weeks, that it has been way too long since that day, that he had too much distractions to be thinking about the Tall boy or the events of the day everything came to an end. But every attempt at lying to himself came crashing down as soon as the couple took a step inside of the coffee shop.

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