>>> Chapter 12 <<<
"Breakfast!" Jungkook announced.
He made sure to wake Taehyung up extra early for the breakfast.
"Morning Kookie!" Taehyung yawns with a huge smile on his face.
"You prepared this?" Taehyung asked with wide eyes as Jungkook nods placing the breakfast on the bed for Taehyung.
(Twitter)
Jungkook @Jeon_Jungkook
Breakfast in bed to make sure he eats before uni 💜 @kimtaetae
*picture of a bomb breakfast*
Comments:
Taehyung @kimtaetae
Thank you 🥺💜
Seokjin @Kim_Seokjin
I must say I'm impressed...
After getting ready, Taehyung went to his first period where Jimin was already waiting in class.
As soon as Taehyung sat down beside Jimin,
"Is everything okay now?" Jimin asked.
"Huh?"
"Well, I saw Jungkook's tweet so I'm assuming you guys are okay now?" Jimin shrugged.
"What do you mean? When were we not okay?" Taehyung asked Jimin in confusion.
"Well he seemed off yesterday and you also seemed restless so I thought you got in a fight or something," Jimin tells Taehyung who gave Jimin a simple smile.
"We just had a small argument but it was nothing to worry about Jiminie, we're okay now," Taehyung assures the other.
"Please tell me if something is wrong okay?" Jimin asked from Taehyung.
"I will Jiminie," Taehyung promised not wanting to worry his best friend.
(Twitter)
Taehyung @kimtaetae
Ice cream with Jiminie @Jiminie_Park 🥺💜
*pictures of him and Jimin*
Comments:
Seokjin @Kim_Seokjin
I miss you two so much 😔
Jimin @Jiminie_Park
@Kim_Seokjin We miss you more hyung!!
Taehyung @kimtaetae
Hyungieeee we miss youuuu 🥺😭
2 weeks have passed and Summer break will finally begin the next day, which is why tonight, the business majors are throwing their summer pool party.
Jimin somehow convinced Taehyung to come, but the truth is, Taehyung missed hanging out with Jimin and their friends.
Yes, Jimin and Taehyung still hang out regularly every Sunday, but it still feels different being around their mutual friends and having fun like how they usually were.
Taehyung has been spending 90% of his time with Jungkook, either at Tiger flower or in Jungkook's apartment.
Taehyung loves it he definitely does but he has friends that he has been neglecting for so long.
The party starts at 7 pm, it was now 6:30 pm and Taehyung is getting ready to leave.
Taehyung wants to be there early so he can spend enough time with Jimin and their friends before going back at 10 pm to wait for Jungkook so they can then hang out at the apartment.
"Kookie, I'm gonna go now." Taehyung casually tells Jungkook as he fixed his hair.
Jungkook on the other hand is about to change before going down to the bar.
"Are you really still going to that party?" Jungkook asked in surprise, he thought Taehyung already agreed on spending time with him.
Taehyung nods and before he can even explain himself, "You're leaving in 3 days and you want to go to a party? I thought you want to spend time with me?" Jungkook accused.
"Kookie, I will be back by 10 I just want to be there cause Jimin wants to go." Taehyung tries to explain.
"So choose then, Jimin or me?" Jungkook flat out asked Taehyung to make a choice right there and then.
"You can't make me do that." Taehyung quietly whispered.
"Wow, so you won't choose me?" Jungkook chuckled bitterly shaking his head in disappointment.
"No, it's not like that, I don't want to choose." Taehyung sighed his heart troubled by how this conversation is going.
Why is Jungkook making a big deal out of this? Taehyung thought.
He will return earlier than the time Jungkook will be done at the bar.
"Is it so hard to stay? To not go to that stupid party and just stay? All I want is to spend time with you before you go to Japan for 2 fucking weeks!" Jungkook yells startling Taehyung who backed away in fear.
"I was going to be home by the time you finish work so we'll still get to spend time with each other," Taehyung explained his gaze on the floor afraid to meet Jungkook's.
"No just go, go to that stupid party with your stupid friends!" Jungkook continues to yell throwing his hands in the air as he lets his frustrations out.
"Kookie please I won't go anymore." Taehyung pleaded, not wanting to hear Jungkook yelling any longer.
"No Taehyung Go! Leave! Go ahead! Go to your friends I don't care anymore!" Jungkook is livid.
He is livid at the fact that Taehyung will not choose him over Jimin, over a stupid party.
He doesn't care if Taehyung will be back before 10 pm and they will still get to spend time with each other, he doesn't want Taehyung to go at all.
Jungkook pulls on his own hair in anger as he waits for Taehyung's response.
"Please don't say that..." Taehyung's voice, quiet.
"What?! You're going to cry again because I raised my voice? Oh, poor little Taehyung so babied by everyone can't even take a little voice raise." Jungkook blurts out in a mocking tone.
With this, something in Taehyung finally snapped.
"You don't know what you're talking about." Taehyung grits his teeth, eyes on the floor, his fists clenched.
"I know exactly what I'm talking about, you're too babied by everyone around you that you can't take even just someone yelling at you!" Jungkook screams at Taehyung.
Taehyung clenched his fist harder almost drawing blood on his palms as he stops himself from bursting out at Jungkook's attempt of riling him up.
"So much of a prince you are you probably never hurt a pinky." Jungkook mocks.
Taehyung took a deep breath closing his eyes in an attempt to control his emotions.
"You have no idea what I went through so don't you dare talk about me like you know everything," Taehyung warns, his voice stern, eyes narrowing in anger.
"What exactly don't I know huh?" Jungkook laughs mockingly at Taehyung thinking that the other is just being a baby who's about to throw a tantrum.
Jungkook thinks Taehyung is so fragile.
He's too easily hurt, too sensitive that even that one night that Jungkook started yelling he was already shaking in fear.
Jungkook thinks that Taehyung is just going to cry his way out of this one, he won't let it though, he needs Taehyung to understand what Jungkook wants.
"Tell me Taehyung what don't I know huh?" Jungkook challenged Taehyung not knowing what he is in for.
Taehyung finally having of Jungkook's mockery lets his tears fall, unclenching his fists as he stands eye level to Jungkook, Taehyung's eyes fiercer than Jungkook has ever seen.
"Do you see this scar?" Taehyung points at the scar on his cheeks near his lips, that Jungkook always wondered how Taehyung got it.
"I got this when my father decided to throw a bottle on my face because he was mad at me for crying while I watch him beat my mother up." Taehyung softly reveals as tears began rolling down his face.
His voice is more stable than he imagined it to be.
Jungkook's blood turned cold, he felt his heart and his stomach being ripped out of his body painfully slow as the realization falls on him.
Taehyung's constant worry about him being mad.
Taehyung flinching that one time.
Jungkook's heart hurt as images of Taehyung with his pathetic excuse for a father boils Jungkook's blood that just recently turned ice.
But Jungkook couldn't move, he couldn't talk, the information Taehyung just laid down before Jungkook is too much for Jungkook to process.
"The reason why I wanted to be at the party is because Jiminie asked me to, Jiminie was there for me when nobody was and I won't be there for him because you said so?" Taehyung snickered finally letting go of all the emotions he has been hiding deep within him.
"Jiminie was the one who took care of me when hyungie left for Japan, he was the one who tended to my wounds every time I come back from Daegu with a messed up face," Taehyung tells Jungkook, who's now just staring at Taehyung not knowing what to say.
"So don't you dare call me out like that when you have absolutely no idea of what I went through!" Taehyung raised his voice, his voice shaking in anger and hurt.
Taehyung's devastated as the person he least expects to hurt him with words like this is Jungkook.
"I- I- I-" Jungkook tried to speak but no words came out.
"Thought so." Taehyung bitterly chuckled seeing at how speechless Jungkook is.
"You're done with me? You don't care anymore?" Taehyung's voice is cold, with no hint of emotion behind it as he wiped the tears from his cheeks.
Jungkook wants to say something, he wants to tell Taehyung he's sorry and that he didn't mean it.
He wants to take his words back, but everything that Taehyung just revealed about him, about what he went through is too much for Jungkook to comprehend.
"Good, 'cause we're over," Taehyung spoke with so much conviction, no trace of negative emotion, just plain firmness.
Taehyung walks away slamming the door to Jungkook's apartment as he left.
Jungkook finally breaks down as he watched the one who holds his heart leave.
It's true when they say be careful with your words because once you utter them you can not take them back.
His heart is broken, shattered into pieces, stepped on like it's some dirty rug.
He has no one to blame but himself.
Jungkook called Hoseok to tell him that he can't come to the bar tonight.
He needs to rest and gather his thoughts before he talks to Taehyung.
He decided to give Taehyung some space, they both need at least tonight to calm down before Jungkook tries to fix his fuck up tomorrow.
He will take his words back and beg for Taehyung to take him back.
He will fix this, he will make sure he does.
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As soon as Taehyung was out of the building, tears began free-falling from his eyes.
His heart ached, he loves Jungkook so much but his words hurt so much more.
He knows that Jungkook doesn't know about Daegu before but it still didn't hurt less to be confronted like that.
All this time Taehyung thought that Jungkook wouldn't and couldn't hurt him this bad, but to Taehyung's surprise, he did.
The one thing that Taehyung holds hidden in him is the trauma of his past, and the fact that Jungkook parade it before him hurts like a bitch.
The fact that he didn't care about how Taehyung will feel from the words that left his mouth breaks Taehyung's heart even more.
Maybe Taehyung's stupid and in love that he lets Jungkook talk him around like that but he's not oblivious he saw the pattern in Jungkook's behavior.
Taehyung however, had hope that Jungkook will somehow change for the better, that Jungkook will be more relaxed especially when it comes to Taehyung being around his friends especially Jimin.
Taehyung was wrong.
Very wrong.
It felt liberating finally being able to open up about his past, however, it brought up scars from the past that he decided to push back, that he decided to hide with his smiles, his bright eyes, and enthusiasm.
He laid all those down in front of Jungkook, he felt naked.
As soon as Taehyung reached his dorm he pulled his phone out to call Seokjin.
"Tae?" Seokjin answered
"Hyungie" Taehyung whispered trying his best not to cry.
"Yes, Tae? Everything okay?"
"Is my flight rebookable?" Taehyung asked taking a deep breath.
"Yes, it is, why?"
"Is there any earlier flights, preferably tomorrow?" Taehyung asked his heart beating so fast as he tried his best not to burst into tears.
"There is a flight at 8 am tomorrow," Seokjin informs Taehyung as Taehyung heard mouse clicks from Seokjin's side.
"Hyungie can you-"
"Already did, you will have to be at the airport by at least 6 am." Seokjin cuts his brother off, emailing him his new itinerary.
"Are your things packed?" Seokjin asked
"I have a few things packed," Taehyung answered weakly.
"Okay, you can just shop for some new clothes here it's fine," Seokjin assures his brother not wanting to pressure him with packing.
"Thanks, hyungie." Taehyung thanks his hyung over the phone.
"Is it Jungkook?" Seokjin softly asked and with this, Taehyung breaks down.
Taehyung cries his broken heart out, his sobs are the only response that Seokjin got.
"I'm so sorry," Seokjin whispered feeling his brother's pain despite not knowing exactly what happened.
"It hurts so much hyungie." Taehyung sobs.
"I'm so sorry tae tae," Seokjin whispered wishing he can comfort his brother right now.
Taehyung continues to cry breaking Seokjin's heart even more.
A few moments later, Taehyung decided to hang up not wanting to hold his brother on the line longer.
He wants to tell Jimin what happened without telling him everything not wanting him to worry as he is now probably in the middle of a party.
(Tae texts Jimin)
Taehyung: Jiminie I'm so sorry I couldn't come 🥺
Jiminie 🐣: It's okay Tae but I miss you and everyone is looking for you 😔
Taehyung: I'm sorry it's just
Taehyung: I'm leaving tomorrow morning for Japan
Jiminie 🐣: What? I thought in three days???
Taehyung: I asked Hyungie to rebook it I need to leave 😔
Jiminie 🐣: What happened? Is it Jungkook?
Taehyung: I don't want to talk about it right now my eyes hurt so much already
Jiminie 🐣: What did he do? I swear to God Tae
Taehyung: We broke up
Jiminie 🐣: Oh
Jiminie 🐣: I'm so sorry Tae
Jiminie 🐣: Do you need me to come over? I can leave now
Taehyung: No no please stay I want you to have fun 🥺💜
Jiminie 🐣: Please if you need me I don't care about the party
Taehyung: No Jiminie stay please I also want to get some sleep before my flight tomorrow I don't want my eyes to be puffy 🥺
Jiminie 🐣: Your eyes are cute even if they are puffy
Taehyung: but I don't want to look ugly and sad tomorrow since hyungie is sending someone else to pick me up 😔
Jiminie 🐣: Your never ugly shut up!
Jiminie 🐣: And why won't hyung be able to pick you up?
Taehyung: Because it was last minute and hyungie didn't free his days until 3 days 🥺
Jiminie 🐣: Do you want me to drop you off tomorrow?
Taehyung: No no I have to go early like really early
Taehyung: Can you just do me one favor?
Jiminie 🐣: Sure Tae tell me
Taehyung: I have this one project and the wifi is really slow it's my last project that I got an extension for
Taehyung: It's still uploading and will probably only finish by 7 am so can you come by at my dorm and make sure it's uploaded? 🥺🥺🥺
Jiminie 🐣: Okay Tae tae no problem
Jiminie 🐣: Key is under the doormat as usual right?
Taehyung: Yes thank you so much Jiminie
Jiminie 🐣: I'll miss you please send pics and keep me updated okay???
Taehyung: Yes yes 🥺🥺🥺
Taehyung sighed as silent tears fall from his eyes.
That night Taehyung tried to cry the pain off, he tried to sleep the pain off.
That night he decided that he wants the pain gone, and he's determined to even to the point of forgetting everything just for the pain to be gone.
That night, Taehyung finally fell into a deep slumber hoping that this summer vacation in Japan will help Taehyung in forgetting the pain he is in.
If that is even possible, Taehyung can only hope.
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(End of Chapter 12)