petrichor (n.) the pleasant earthy smell after rain

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The time is eight o' five in the evening. Jimin is out on the balcony, his arms gracing the glass railings. It rained at three or four a.m. today. The atmosphere is cold, he could use a jacket, but nothing else other than that. His bare arms are freezing, but his flesh is burning. He likes the cold; needs it at the moment. It smells like wet grass, and it reminds Jimin of a vacation Taehyung and him had taken at Russia. How cold it was; freezing mostly.

The earth moves at its natural pace, and Jimin watches as the clouds look at him from up above, and then slowly disappear as the earth moves to give space for new clouds in Jimin's eyes. The sky is still an electric blue even if the night colors are slowly starting to take over at the edges. But the clouds are covering a little more than half the sky, and it looks like some dark brown is swallowing up the electric blue. He can't tell which shade of brown that is, but it doesn't stop him from thinking that it's breathtaking, and it doesn't stop Jimin's hands from twitching, wanting to take a picture for when Taehyung wakes up.

He decides to live in the moment this time. To close his eyelids and mark the beautiful sky behind them for a long time. He will describe the colors he sees to Taehyung later. At least he can recreate them with his pretty hands, and they will have the final painting on a canvas for as long as they live. Yes, Jimin adores the idea already.

He smiles, already knowing the familiar excitement that will light up in those big, brown eyes when Jimin will start talking about all the different colors to his boyfriend. Jimin's heart flatters rapidly at the livid image in his head.

And as he steps back inside with his right foot, the wind becoming even more aggressive with each passing second, he turns around, lets his hands roam the windows without touching them, before taking another deep inhale of the wet-grass-scented atmosphere, and lets himself return inside Taehyung's and his warm and cozy house.

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