Jonghyun just couldn't sleep.

He tried, holding his frail lover close to his chest as he would gently caress the boy's back now and then, wanting him to have peaceful dreams. Since the moment Kibum had arrived, the elder just couldn't  understand what was going on. Everything was just a blur of emotions, cries and agony.

His boyfriend had said that the medicine was working... or something like that. Between the desperate whimpers and cries, it was almost impossible to completely understand what the small blonde wanted.

It was hard to watch him. So much sorrow seemed to linger in his whole presence, even now. His face was puffy, his cheeks still a light red. As he would stir slightly in his sleep, he would let out quiet whimpers or sometimes ever soft cries, his face contorting in pain every time.

Jonghyun had considered waking up but most of the time, Kibum would calm down within a couple of moments, his lips slightly curling upwards, not really into a smile but something close to it. He would whisper sometimes, too, most of the times slurred, incoherent things before changing his position, most of the times turning onto his stomach only to some time later, on the end of his little cycle of actions, turn back onto his side.

Still, the younger's behavior wasn't only what bothered Jonghyun to the point where he was unable to fall asleep. All day, he had been feeling something dreadful slowly sleep into the house. He had a day off work, hence why he had insisted on going to the doctor with Kibum. He just didn't want to stay and sit in their house, waiting to see if things were getting better.

It was simply painful to do so. By every minute that had passed, he became more and more nervous, fidgeting anxiously whenever his phone would ring or a car would pass near the house. But no, Kibum didn't come home for many hours that seemed much longer than usual.

It was like time was playing a trick on him, just merely days before the couple of hours he spent with his lover had seemed like minutes. They just laid on their bed, tangled in their sheets, breaths mingling as they would whisper quietly to each other, giggling like teens or nagging each other like mothers. But soon, they had to part. It didn't even seem like half an hour had passed yet it was already evening, nearing the hour when they would go out and meet their friends. Saying that he was exhausted, Kibum had stayed in in th