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The cold autumn wind was making Jisung shiver. „Minho, please come inside.”, he said and crossed his arms tighter around his chest.
It was like Minho completely ignored his presence. But he probably just had not heard Jisung. Not because he was far away – no, he was actually pretty close to him – but because he was too focused at looking at the bottom of the bushes in their garden.
Jisung moved closer and placed his hand on Minho´s shoulder, making the boy scream: “Fuck Jisung, don’t scare me like that.”
Jisung removed his hand and crouched down next to Minho. “Let´s go inside, please.” he said, looking around their garden. Searching for the - for three days now missing - cat.
“No, I can´t. I need to find Dori.” Minho said, looking at the grass below him, thinking about how much he missed his cat.
“You are going to catch a cold. You aren´t even wearing a jacket. Aren’t you freezing?” Jisung asked him, concerned about his health.
“I´m fine.”
“You sure?” Jisung asked because now he was noticing the goosebumps on Minho´s bare arms.
The boy just nodded, standing up to go back to other places where he knew that there was a possibility for the cat to be there. “It´s going to rain tonight.” Minho said, Jisung was following around as he walked around “Dori is out there probably freezing.”
Jisung and Minho as well knew a lot of cats get run over by cars. Minho had never lost a cat like that – he hadn´t even had a cat he owned die – but he knew from friends that it happened sometimes. Jisung didn´t dare to mention it.
After a while Jisung went back inside, alone.
He took a shower, thinking that after he would come back down Minho would have come inside by himself.
He did. Jisung came downstairs in the living room and found Minho sitting on their sofa. He was staring out the floor-to-ceiling windows wall that provided a great view over their garden.
It was dark outside already, so Minho had turned off any lights in the room to be able to fully watch the outsides.
Jisung sighed and grabbed one of the blankets, that were placed nicely on their sofa. Minho noticed him but didn’t say anything. Not a word, even as Jisung put the soft blanket around Minho´s shoulders.
“Tea?” Jisung asked and Minho replied with a quiet “Yes.”
He then went to the kitchen preparing two mugs of chai tea. He hoped that it would make Minho tired, to avoid him staying up all night worrying about Dori. When waiting for the tea to cool down he texted their neighbour Felix, asking him if he had seen the cat. He didn´t, but he promised to look for it.
Jisung came back to the same scene as before with Minho not having moved at all. He took a seat next to him and gave him the warm mug. “Thanks” Minho said softly.
After a while Jisung was the one to fall asleep, sitting and leaning against Minho. His head on Minho´s shoulder and one arm around Minho´s waist, holding him close.
When he woke up again a few hours later Minho was asleep as well. Jisung thought about carrying Minho upstairs but he wasn´t sure if he was strong enough to carry him without waking him up.
In the end he decided against it, but he did stand up to lay Minho down from his sitting position, to make him more comfortable.
Jisung laid down beside him, face to face so he could admire him before falling back into dreamland.
The sun is who woke Jisung up the next day. It was weird that Minho was still sleeping, since he was usually up way before Jisung.
Jisung went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. He checked his messages and noticed a missed call from Hyunjin. He called him back but it wasn´t Hyunjin who picked up, instead he was met with Felix voice.
“Hey Sungie. Hyunjin is still sleeping.” Felix said. “I know why he called you though. We found your cat yesterday evening. It was actually not much after you texted me.” He laughed.
Jisung felt relieved with the great news.
“If it´s okay I’ll bring Dori over right now. ”Felix said
“That would be so great. Thank you so much Felix.”
“No problem mate” Felix said and then they said goodbye hanging up.
Jisung went to the front door walking past Minho, who was still sleeping, now turned over to not face the sunlight.
Opening the door to Felix standing there with the missing cat in his arms was making him smile. Felix handed Jisung the cat. It purred in Jisungs arms.
“She was in our garden. We found her and took her inside. I wanted to bring her to you yesterday but you didn´t pick up your phone so I guessed you were sleeping already.” Felix said.
Jisung put the cat down to hug Felix and thank him while doing so.
“I should go, my brownies will get burned. See you later.” Felix said waving as he walked off.
Jisung closed the door, the cat following him when he went to the kitchen, somehow sensing that he was about to feed her. Immediately as he opened the food package all the three cats were present. Rubbing their faces on his legs.
“Don´t run away again. Minho and I were worried about you.” Jisung told the cat while watching them eating.
The same thing that seemed to work with the cats worked with Minho too, because as soon as Jisung placed the eggs he fried for breakfast on a plate, Minho was there, hugging Jisung from the side with his head on Jisung´s shoulder.
Jisung smiled telling Minho the great news “Felix came over earlier to bring something.”
“What did he bring?” Minho asked curious.
Jisung gestured to the floor where Dori was sitting and licking her face clean after eating. Minho gasped and fell to his knees to stroke the cat.
Eventually they ate breakfast and Jisung noticed Minho not looking too great. He looked pale and kept sneezing.
“You did get sick.”
“No, I am not.” Minho said and sneezed again right after.
Later they watched a movie together with Dori laying on Minho´s chest and Jisung next to them with an arm around Minho.