Chapter 9

                                    

                                          
Love is like the wind... Maybe you can't see it, but you can feel it.....
                          
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14 July 2022; 12.37 pm
                          
'What?' Jimin asked slowly, forcing the words out of his mouth while entering Taehyung's room. The latter was up on his phone right after he had refreshed himself and drove off the sleep from his eyes. 
                          
Others may think they are extremely irregular, having breakfast at such an odd time. 
                          
They too think like that. 
                          
In fact, they, except the oldest, Jin, hate having any breakfast at all. 
                          
How can they be this much disrespectful towards food?- is a million-dollar question for Jin every time they skip any meals. However, they can't really do so ever since May and her strict rules were welcomed in their house. The boys weren't complaining though. 
                          
'Where's Jungkook?' Taehyung asked, ignoring Jimin's question.
                          
'Sleeping. It's quite a hardwork waking him up and I'm not wasting it,' Jimin signed. 
                          
Jimin had been trying his level best to speak and seems like his efforts are definitely not going in vain. He, now, can speak out small words which maybe very slow and you've to put your ear close to his mouth but the members were glad that Jimin was now speaking.
                          
They can't wait to see the day when they'll see their brother up on the stage, singing proudly with all his heart, letting his soulful voice fill every corner of the concert stadiums. 
                          
Teahyung laughed, not taking his eyes off the phone screen. Jimin glanced at his phone to see what was in it that had piqued Taehyung's interest this much. 
                          
'Gifts for... girls?' he signed briefly. 
                          
Taehyung looked at his hands and chuckled deeply after he had interpreted the meaning. 'May's looking extremely down and depressed lately. Didn't you notice?' he asked, looking at Jimin before scrolling again through the display of various girly items which can impress them, regardless of how morose they may be. 
                          
How the heck will I notice when it's you who's always intruding on our private moments? Jimin thought, which again instantaneously suppressed his cheery morning mood.
                          
Speaking of which, Taehyung really had been a nuisance for Jimin. He never lets May alone with him and from the past year, his protectiveness has taken a peak level, so much that neither does it seems right nor it seems brotherly anymore.  
                          
No, he isn't at all blaming Taehyung. It simply seems wrong to think like that. And, besides it's not just only him, it's the others as well. 
                          
So Jimin can't really pinpoint on anybody. So the only thing he's left to do is to suppress all his doubts in the deepest pit of his mind. 
                          
Talking of May, she too seemed a little distant these days.
                          
Jimin knows it's due to her exams that she hardly comes upstairs to watch the stars with him and sleep together. He missed the only time he did that and longed to spend another such beautiful night with her. 
                          
Once, Jimin remembered, he went to her room to give her the mug of coffee which Jin asked him to give her and immediately tripped on a bag. When he looked up he was surprised to see that her room, which usually remained so neat and clean, then all messed up and found May in between piles of books. 
                          
She, stressfully, looked at her notebook which was filled with equations and sums, her pencil between her teeth as she concentrated on her work and barely noticed Jimin's arrival. She isn't any better now even though her exams are over.