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Jimin raised his head from where he had been supporting it in his bended knees, staring into the view ahead of him he finally felt at least some resemblance of peacefulness compared to the chaos that this past days had been.
His hands palmed the sand below him, warm and grainy, he smiled lightly feeling the wind hitting his face. A seagull trilled over him while flying to the horizon, the ocean looked especially blue today, swirls of blue and turquoise green mixed in his view. He glanced as the water came closer to his feet with each arising wave that hit the sand.
Jimin wondered when his cousin was coming to get him, even though he was enchanted with the landscape and could stay where he was for hours. He still was anxious to ultimately get to his new home and get set, he glanced at the little suitcase next to him and snorted.
Like I have so much to unpack.
Just one single suitcase was all he had brought with him from his little single-flat back in Australia, some basic clothes and all his most important devices, he pondered if he maybe should have packed some more fancy clothes, not like he was going to go out with all the research papers and investigation that he needed to finish. He groaned internally about the amount of work he was due to make.
At least his fluffy ragdoll cat “Pickle” would be going through it with him, he really needs to squeeze her in amidst of all of his researching.
While he was trying not to hit his head against the sand or maybe try and swim all the way to bottom of the planet and not appear again, he heard a scream.
Of course, it was Seokjin.
And before he even had the time to realize what was going on, he was being thrown in the back by his giant cousin, slumping all of Jin’s weight into him.
Jimin sighed or tried to with his fucking idiot cousin in top of him and again wondered what exactly he had done to the world to make him this unlucky. He was sure he was going to end up with terrible back pain.
“What are you doing you idiot” Jimin wheezed and started hitting Jin in the chest and maybe move him, just enough to feel like he wasn’t dying.
“Oh my god, Jimin I’ve missed you so much!” Jin dramatically wailed.
And Jimin suddenly was being moved upwards and being held tightly by Jin, he started to move them from side to side while still hollering dramatically. Jin abruptly lent backwards and grabbed Jimin’s cheeks and started to pinch them.
“Let me see you, Jimin my God, you are so skinny, what have they been feeding you over that brutal and barbarian land. Don’t you worry I’ll make you something delicious the moment we get to the restaurant...” Jin continued to babble while Jimin could only stare at him in amusement, well kind of, considering that he was partially blind since his cheeks were still squeezed and making his eyes get closed.
He tried to speak through his shouted mouth, it was definitely not working, and judging by the glint of mischief in Jin’s eyes he was having a great time making him look like a dork, and still squeezing his poor and abused cheeks.
As much as he wanted to kick him, he really was grateful for his cousin. Jin had always supported him in his pursuing of exploring the ocean, he had helped him sneaking out to the ocean at late times of the night, just so he could admire the moon reflecting in the ocean, and when his parents had been reluctant about his decision to study marine biology in Australia, it had been Jin who convinced them. Besides when he had announced that he was coming back to Korea, Jin had been the first to asked if he wanted to come living with him and his fiancé until he settled.
So yeah, he maybe be a pain in the ass, but he loved him and truthfully he was an even bigger one, and Jin could testify to that.
He had been 4 years old when he had probably made Jin lose a few spawn years and definitely quite the amount of neurons.
Young Jimin had always been obsessed with the ocean, his deepness and all the secrets inside of it, since he was a child all he can remember it wanting nothing more than to only swim for hours and hours.
Once when he was nothing more than a hobbit size child, he put his family through desperation when he had decided to get lost in the beach that his family always went to in holidays. Kid Jimin had gone to the beach that day with the only purpose to build the most incredibly sandcastle that his little hands and his gremlin-kid like ability could come up at the time.
And he was doing a terribly sandcastle of which he was very proud of, but things happened, more specifically him getting all messed up with the sand and took the decision to quickly rinse himself. Like the grown-up kid that he believed he was, Jimin marched to the shore all alone.
It was supposed to be a quick rinse and getting back to his great sandcastle making abilities, but something caught his eyes. There in between the greyish rocks and algae, was a starfish.
Kid Jimin had only seen starfish in the shops across the town, but they always were dried and eerily white, like any sign of life had left its body, of course his 4-year-old mind was a lot simpler than that and in no way had the capacity to come up with what was so creepy about it, so all he really thought was much childish.
That star is so ugly.
But the star that he was seeing was nothing like the ugly ones int the stores, this one was blue, a deep and rich turquoise colour, and it caught Jimin’s attention, he went to touched it and it suddenly moved. Jimin giggled with gleam as he observed, fascinated, the little star moving slowly, such was his joy that he didn’t even realize the more he went into the ocean following the star, and straying from shore.
The starfish continued to move and Jimin enchanted as he was followed it, he didn’t even realize that he didn’t knew where he was until the star suddenly stopped in some rocks. Jimin suddenly noticed that he was standing on top of some rocks that lead to a deeper place, he bent to see and he was even more fascinated when he noticed all the the sparkly and colourful things at the bottom of the sand. He could see pretty fishes swimming around all types of plants and shells varying in sizes, colours and shapes.
He went down to grab one of them, and suddenly he heard a splash of water a few meters ahead of him. Jimin startled and fell down to his butt. He looked down and realized his knee was bleeding, the blood dripping down into the shallow water around the rocks, he winced feeling the burning sensation. Jimin remembered his cousin Jin telling him that whenever he had cuts to wash them in the water to stop the hurting sensation. Jimin looked over the rocks, there was the part that he was standing in, the plain black rocks surrounded by the water, and further away he saw that there was a deeper zone, in which he could probably wash his knee without the risk of having to swim.
But yet again he didn’t think things well enough. And that’s how he ended up with the water at an sternum-level, he looked back into the shallow zone and wondered if he should head back, as smart as he considered himself at 4 years old, he didn’t swim nearly as good as his cousins or parents and he knew enough of the ocean to know that you had to be careful. He was about to head back when he felt something touching his leg. Jimin started to panic and