Restless

03 ; restless

Tap tap tap…

“Will you cut that out, Namjoon-ah?

“Cut what out?”

Tap tap tap…

“That.” Yoongi replies, jerking his head towards Namjoon’s right hand, plastic pen between his fingers.

“What?”

Tap tap —

Yoongi’s hand comes down onto the younger’s, effectively stopping the irritating sound of plastic hitting the wooden table. 

“That.” 

“Oh.” 

Namjoon looks at the hand resting atop his. “Sorry, hyung”

Yoongi sighs, bringing his hand up to ruffle bleached-blonde hair. “S’fine.” His eyes scan over the white document page open in front of the 94-liner, cursor blinking steading next to the margin. 

“Words not coming tonight?”

The younger shakes his head. “They’re coming, I just can’t grab them.”

Namjoon’s voice is so dejected and, paired with the ridiculous combination of words, Yoongi can’t help but laugh. 

“Hyuuuuunnng,” 

Yoongi bites his lip, carefully schooling his expression into one of practiced calm and rolling his chair next to the younger.

“Let’s take a look,”

“There’s nothing to see…”

The older looks at the screen, right hand absentmindedly flicking open the various empty files. Namjoon’s not lying. Yoongi turns from the blank computer screen to the younger boy’s face, then back again, sharp eyes taking in the heavy shadows under their leader’s eyes, made all the more obvious by the artificial glow of the desktop screen and the stack of used paper cups. 

Composing during the middle of promotions is always hardest.

Wordlessly he slides back to his side of the desk, swiftly saving and closing the twenty something tracks he had open, before repeating the process with the younger’s computer. In the time it takes both machines to hum to sleep, he’s gathered both his and Namjoon’s paper cups and throws them out, along with the crumpled pages pinned under the keyboard. 

Namjoon watches his hyung move around the room, eyes betraying his surprise - Yoongi never calls it a night first. 

“What are you doing just watching? Come on, let’s go back.” 

Yoongi’s already at the door, one hand on the doorknob, head turned back towards the younger. 

Namjoon breaks into a grin, both dimples appearing as his eyes curve into half-moon crescents.

“Coming!”

part 3 of the 30-day-drabble challenge