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"What will become of me from now on?
After some time, I stopped thinking about that.
Maybe I forgot... How to think at all.
Nothing changes anymore. This world that belongs only to me, each and every day, continues on.
But I'm not lonely. It doesn't bother me at all."
Every night, he comes across the same dream.
One where, deep inside a dark, cold ocean... Not even the word loneliness could describe it such a scenario.
Even so, the dream isn't considered to be a nightmare, for the brunette always wakes up in a state of pure calmness, doe brown eyes staring at the same ceiling he's been waking up to for the past ten years.
Because, for Jeon Jungkook, loneliness is a word that doesn't exist in his mind.
The room he finds himself in still resembles one of a child's, filled with toys and other things. Feels right considering that he still is one, despite being seventeen already. He never bothered to change it, content with how it looks and makes him feel.
Safe.
With a quick rub of his eyes, the first thing Jungkook does out of instinct is to check his tablet for messages.
As always... There are none, the 2539 days since the last message counter simply mocking him.
Everyday he does this and yet... Over the years it seems he has forgotten why he even does it anymore. Deep down the brunette knows he has forgotten something extremely important but whatever it is, it makes his head hurt and become hazy whenever he tries to fish out those seemingly distant memories. It definitely seems to be important though, if he checks everyday without fail.
With a sigh escaping his lips, the boy glances down at his tablet once again and with a press of a button, the walls around him quickly dematerialize to reveal a seemingly blank space that never seems to end. But as he once confirmed, it's finite although one might not think so at first glance.
Because you see, Jungkook lives inside what seems to be a simulated world. That much he knows, despite not remembering how he even got there in the first place. He just knows that his tablet is his most prized possession and that this world his home although some times... it feels like a prison. But he doesn't exactly complain. Sulk? Yes. Pout? Very much so. But never actual complains.
With his eyes still glued to the blank screen, the boy tilts his head in thought as he tries to decide what to draw first.
A tower is what he starts with, of all things he could have started with. And as he does so, the tower magically appears outside his room, majestically tall (because Jungkook has a tendency to exagerate with his creations)! A mass of billions and billions of pixels! But.... It's not exactly what he hoped it would turn out to be.
So he's simply quick to erase it. But he thanks it for its appearence since it helped out with getting his creativity flowing.
To this day, Jungkook sometimes can't help but to still be amazed how the system seems to bend to his every wish.
How it makes every thing he draws come to life in front of his eyes and they don't fade away until he decides they should do so.
But even the most perfect of worlds have flaws and in this one, the biggest one would be that he can't create living creatures. He tried! He tried so hard to make himself a companion! But each time, the system just assumed he wanted a stuffed animal. There was even one time where he drew himself. That... That ended up being quite the disappointment since he wasn't blessed with a clone but instead, a life sized rag doll of himself appeared in its place. And it wasn't even that pretty.
So Jungkook just gave up.
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Those times were distant ones now though and Jungkook had pretty much forgotten about them as he moved on to create more worlds for him to play in.
Today, he felt like running... So naturally, a prairie was the best thing to make!
Jungkook ran. He ran under the shinning sun, the grass nice and cool under his feet, the breez a gift against his face... And when he couldn't run anymore, body pleading for rest, he stopped and laid down on the soft grass to finally take a break.
As quick as the boy laid down though, he got up. Why? Because his eyes spotted something! Something he was very much sure it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place.
'Surely, it's something wrong with the system...' is the first thought that comes to mind as his gaze shifts to check his tablet. And wouldn't you know it... He in fact had not drawn any trees! Was it a glitch? Jungkook didn't know! How could he know when it was the first time he was coming across something like this? But curiosity sure was bubbling inside his body so, after gathering up some courage... The brunette finally gets up.
With small, careful steps (and looking a bit silly, holding his tablet as if was a weapon), he starts to approach the tree, eyes squinting as a swing comes into view as well and...
Someone's sitting there?? And they seem to be sleeping...
Indeed, it would seem that someone (or something) was sitting on that swing! Upon getting even closer, Jungkook could see that it was a boy just as young and dressed similar to him, if not the same (a white loose shirt along with white just as loose pants) and as the boy finally focuses on his face, he's positively taken aback.
The sleeping man was gorgeous, long eyelashes, sharp features but at the same time, he looked soft, sun kissed skin, his head leaned against one of the ropes of the swing.
"Woah...." Jungkook found himself muttering in awe, now standing in front of the figure.
Weird.
Completely weird!
Was this person always here?
Hard to believe since it was the first time Jungkook was seeing him and he certainly wouldn't forget about such an ethereal creature!
Alas, there was no time to overthink things. Jungkook was currently a man on a mission, curiosity getting the best of him and so, without wasting any more time, his hand starts to reach out for the man.
As soon as the tip of his finger touches him though... It seemed like everything had frozen in time.
The grass was no longer dancing with the wind and the sun... seemed duller in comparison to how it was shining before.
But the sleeping man... The sleeping man seemed to be the only thing that stood out in the whole scenario, especially when his eyes revealed themselves from under his eyelids, showing off strickingly blue orbs. The type you could get lost in if you weren't careful...
But Jungkook wasn't paying attention to that. No no.
Instead, something else flashed in front of the boy's eyes, completely dismissing what was around and in front of him.
It felt... Familiar.
Laughter,
A man,
That same swing,
And the warm, shining sun...
As if he had been burned, Jungkook quickly pulled his hand away and almost tumbled while taking a few steps back just as quick. He felt like his heart was going to burst out of his chest at any moment and in the mist of that panic (and before the mysterious man had any chance of stopping him),
Jungkook deleted the entire scenario as he ran back to the safety of his room as fast as he could, never once looking back.