What Drives the Mind

Driving in the newly gifted car from his brother, Jinn kept glancing in his rearview mirror at Kai who was driving behind him, in his old car. He couldn't stop thinking about what Art had done, because that meant that he was serious about what he had said to Kai. Letting out a heavy exhale at first, a yawn followed as Jinn flashed his blinkers before putting on his turning signal to let Kai know that they were getting ready to get off at the next exit.

Pulling up, the two riding in separate vehicles parked side by side, got out of the car and made their way to the hotel. Grabbing Kai's bag from his hand, Jinn began to walk toward the hotel with Kai's shorter legs speedily trailing behind. "Jinn, is this really necessary?", Kai asked.

Momentarily cutting his eyes at his boyfriend, Jinn continued walking, "it is Kai, I won't be able to keep an eye on you if I leave you at the house.", Jinn responded.

"I'm not a child dammit! I don't need a babysitter!", Kai suddenly shouted, coming to a halt with his fist balled at his sides.

Coming to a quick stop, Jinn spun around to see his angry boyfriend glaring at him. Letting out a sigh, he raked his long fingers through his strawberry blonde hair, disheveling it a bit. "Look babe, I'm sorry if you feel I've been overbearing, but I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place here."

"I understand very well what's going on Jinn, but the history old bullshit between you and Art has nothing to do with me! If you don't trust me, then you should have just left me at home!", Kai shot back.

"It's not that I don't trust you!", Jinn raised his voice a bit, "it's my brother that I don't trust and since my mom asked us all here this weekend, including you, Art is most definitely going to make an appearance!"

Rolling his eyes at his boyfriend, Kai brushed past Jinn and continued on, storming his way into the hotel. For the last couple months Jinn had been a little distant because he was working so much, but after hearing what Art had done, the guy had managed to be absent, but overbearing all at the same time! Jinn would call Kai often when they were apart and always wanted to know where he was or what he was doing, honestly, Kai was just plain tired of it!

After checking into the hotel, Jinn went to see his mother by himself, thinking that Kai could use some time to himself to cool down.

***

"Sweetheart, you've been here for quite some time, why don't you go on back to the house dear?", Mrs. Wilkins suggested, chuckling at her son who was sleeping so hard he was practically falling out of the chair.

Flinching at first, Jinn stood, shaking himself awake, "Gee Ma, I'm sorry, didn't realize I fell asleep.", Jinn apologized.

"It's really okay dear, I've been sitting here watching my soaps, plus your father went to get me some spaghetti from our favorite takeout restaurant.", Mrs. Wilkins giggled again. Shaking his head, Jinn sat back down, quickly running his hands through his hair.

"Jinn? Do you mind if I ask you a question?", said Mrs. Wilkins.

"Sure, what's that?", Jinn grinned as he looked up to see his mom with wide eyes, he already knew she wanted to pry.

"Your job at the office is still going well, right?", Mrs. Wilkins asked.

"Mn.", Jinn nodded.

"And as far as I know our wine sales are rocketing especially since you've managed to branch out to other countries. I hear Japan and Europe seem to like us very much.", she continued.

"Yes, that's true.", Jinn added.

"So then answer me this, why are you working so hard sweetheart? You can barely keep your eyes open; I have never seen you so exhausted.", Mrs. Wilkins explained. Letting out a sigh, Jinn lower his head.

"I have my reasons.", he mumbled.

"Which are? You're distracting yourself from something aren't you?", said Mrs. Wilkins, raising a brow. "Are you and Kai having issues again? I haven't saw him in a while, you should have brought him with you…or wait! Are you two broken up again?!", Mrs. Wilkins asked anxiously.

"God Mom no! Kai and I are fine, our relationship is the last thing that you need to be worried about, besides, he's back at the hote…house resting.", said Jinn, stopping himself from talking and correcting himself before his mother noticed, after all, he hadn't mentioned that they wouldn't be staying at the house this time.

"Then what sweetheart? Please talk to me!", Mrs. Wilkins, pleaded.

Letting out a heavy exhale, Jinn lowered his head, "to be honest Mom, I'm just scared. I'm scared that I'll lose Kai again. I want to be able to follow him wherever he goes if he decides to leave again.", Jinn explained, letting out a sigh.

"Sweetheart, you will drive yourself crazy thinking he'll slip away at any moment!" Mrs. Wilkins said sympathetically. "The fact that he's decided to stay when he had the option to go back to Japan means something Jinn.", she continued.

Rolling his eyes to the floor, Jinn let out a sigh, before softly saying, "yeah.", little did his mother know that Kai was being pursued by his own brother, not to mention he was also working on another project intended for Europe and the odds of him going there were not quite off the table in Jinn's mind.

"Go on home and get some rest Jinn for that overactive mind of yours, I won't be alone for too long, your father, Art or Jenna will be here soon.", Mrs. Wilkins encouraged her son and Jinn smirked, knowing his mother would not give up so easily as she worriedly stared at her tired son.

"Alright Mom, I'll see ya tomorrow.", said Jinn as he walked over and kissed his mother on the cheek.

"Okay dear, please bring Kai with you tomorrow!", Mrs. Wilkins raised her voice as Jinn exited the hospital room.

On the way to the hotel, Jinn decided to give Kai a call to see what he wanted to eat, after all he supposed he was being a bit annoying lately, and what better way to make it up to Kai than to feed his bottomless pit of a stomach?

For a moment, the phone rang, over and over and Jinn let out a sigh before finally hanging up. "Guess he's still mad at me.", Jinn said aloud, shaking his head to keep away the creeping sandman as he felt his eyelids getting heavy. One thing was for sure, after he got them some dinner, he was definitely going to sleep like the dead tonight.

***

Standing in the shower, Kai allowed the water to run down his dark hair that had in the blink of an eye grown down to his neck. Puffing out his cheeks, Kai blew his lips, removing his head from under the water and flipped his hair backward. "Ugh, maybe I overacted!", Kai whined aloud as he turned off the water and began toweling off.

Wrapping the towel around him, Kai exited the bathroom and made his way over toward his phone, "oh, baby called.", he said softly, before he dialed Jinn back.

"We're sorry, the person you are trying to reach is unavailable right now.", the operator sounded.

"Hmm…I'll guess he'll call again, maybe he doesn't have service.", said Kai, putting his phone back down on the charger and walking away from it.

After toweling off, Kai put on some of his oversized night clothes and laid down, playing a game on his phone while he waited for his boyfriend to come back. At some point Kai had gotten bored and fell asleep and was just now waking up to a still being very empty.

Grabbing his phone from his chest, Kai sat up squinting from the light, "Fuck", he said in a sleepy voice seeing that the time was almost midnight, where the hell was Jinn and why did he have so many missed calls from Art?

Feeling anxious, Kai was suddenly fully awake, had something happened to Mrs. Wilkins? Did she pass away why he slept? Was that the reason why Jinn had called him and why Art had called him so many times as well? Freaking out, Kai immediately called Jinn again, but the answering service sounded again, so he had no other choice, but to call Art.

Hearing the phone ring over and over, Kai became even more anxious, swallowing more times than he needed to. "Hello.", Art's voice finally answered, but this time he did not sound like himself, something bad had definitely happened.

"What's…is your mom, okay? I'll be there as soon as I ca…", Kai began to say, but Art cut him off.

"Kai." His deep voice interrupted.

"…Yes?", Kai said nervously, although he had a feeling what Art was probably going to say.

"I need you to listen to me very carefully, Jinn's been in an accident, he fell asleep at the wheel."

"…..", hearing those words, Kai's pretty brown eyes began to water, his hands shaking so violently that the phone slipped from his hand.

"Kai….Kai.", Art's voice echoed on the other end of the line.