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Cale loved to sleep, loved to rest among the soft blankets and fluffy pillows like few things in the world. Although he loved company, he still preferred to sleep alone in the background, to be able to roll freely in bed, to lie down like a starfish, to get up whenever he wanted and to throw himself fearlessly back.
Kim Rok Soo could never have had that, not being a child, let alone an adult.
Cale mourned for the Kim Rok Soo he had once been, the one who had spent almost his entire life on the move, never having even 5 seconds of rest all to himself, always worrying about something on the road, always watching for every sound, shadow, change.
It was no surprise to him that he had clung so easily to Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo, let alone that his escape from the pain of their deaths had been to drown himself in work, they were everything he had always wanted in a family. Someone who would let him get away with more times than not, someone who would explain things to him if he ever didn't understand them, someone who would help him when he was stuck...
A sigh took all the air from his lungs, he didn't bother to breathe right away, letting the heavy feeling in his chest fill the crevices of his heart, creeping into his pores and reminding him how exhausted he was.
The next time the air entered his body, he was already drifting off into dreamland.