Chapter Thirteen

...Past Timeline...

Warning: This Chapter contains content that might be a triggering factor. Read it at your own risk⚠️

"Hey, have you seen Jungkook?" Ji-Eun comes up to the basketball team and asks but they all give her the same answer as everyone else.

"No sorry. He said he will be back in a minute but he hasn't returned for hours" one of the teammates said as they all agreed.

Ji-Eun who was up on the stage had to come looking for Jungkook because he wasn't in his place. It was almost noon and the performance had started. Ji-Eun's number was coming to a close. So she took it upon herself to look but everyone was saying he wasn't around.

"Where could he have gone?" her chest was filled with worries. She goes around the whole field but she still couldn't find him.

"Did he leave without me?" She tries not to feel bad and thinks of what could have happened.

"Hey?" She looks back when someone calls from behind. "Hoseok," she said with a tiny smile. Maybe I should ask him. He probably knows where Jungkook is.

But before that Hoseok says "have you seen taehyung? I have been looking for him for almost hours now? I have asked everyone but no one has seen him. Yoongi and Jimin were also worried, '' he said, looking around and back at Ji-Eun.

Ji-Eun froze in her place. She had no words as all her mind went to the possibility that Jungkook and Taehyung might be with each other. She could only stare at Hoseok, her heart suddenly racing with uncountably.

"Please don't be together"

Was repeating throughout and it was killing her.

But to her horror, Jay approaches them with a victorious smirk. "If I am not mistaken perhaps you are looking for Jungkook?' he asked with an innocent smile.

Ji-Eun nods, still not being able to speak. "And you searching for Taehyung? Am I right?" he asked, looking towards Hoseok.

Hoseok frowns at Jay not liking the smile that was plastered on his face. He has heard what the man tried to do to Taehyung. He was holding back not to punch the latte. "Yah I am," he said.

"Then worry not! Jungkook told me to bring you to the back room. He said he had something for you. A surprised sort I guess. Not sure he just said to bring you there" Jay held back a laugh when he saw the relief slowly climbing on Ji-Eun's face.

If only you knew.

"Just follow me. I'll take you there" Jay offered with the biggest smile. He turns but Hoseok stops him.

"What about Taehyung?" Hoseok's ash narrows his glare at Jay. "I don't know. Maybe Jungkook saw them talking last time. You can come to two and ask him." Jay doesn't wait for an answer and walks away knowing they will come behind.

Ji-Eun and Hoseok look at each other before following Jay. Hoseok now finds the secondary uncomfortable. It is not that he is thinking of the worst but he is also aware of what Jungkook means to Taehyung. So to think Jungkook and Taehyung being together wasn't a good feeling for him. But he tries to have a clear mind and trust the man who gave him a chance to love.

They walk past the silent hall finding nothing but emptiness. Ji-Eun's fingers play with the ring around her neck. The Ring gripped tightly because she needed some strength and assumed that Jungkook wouldn't just leave her. She feels mad at herself that she was feeling these unnecessary things against jungkook. Because Jungkook couldn't have given her the ring if he didn't truly mean to be with her. It will probably hurt Jungkook if he ever comes to know that she didn't trust him.

They come in front of a closed door. "Where is Jungkook?" Ji-Eun asked to look around but no one was around.

"You know I just remembered something, Kris was looking for me. But Jungkook is in the room, you can go in and I will go find Kirs" before they would speak Jay runs away leaving the two alone.

"We shouldn't have trusted him," Hoseok said regretting it, and Ji-Eun agrees. "But he said Jungkook was in here," she said and proceeded to open the door.

Ji-Eun's hands trembled a little when opening the door. A shiver shook the two who stood in front of the scene of their lovers who laid naked on the bed. Time seems to be moving slow for Ji-Eun who felt her world stopping seeing Taehyung and Jungkook's arms.

No words would describe what went inside Ji-Eun seeing her lover in such states. Her balance suddenly dropped to the ground but she felt no pain. Her eyes graved on the two. She didn't even notice when the sudden sharp part of the door had pierced through her skin and was bleeding. It was like her ability to feel anything was suddenly taken away because of the shock that was thrown at her. Her mind and heart were trying to process the trauma that her boyfriend who had handed her a ring as a token for their future was sleeping with another person just moments later.

Hoseok on the other hand also wasn't feeling any different from Ji-Eun. The only difference was that he couldn't name the feeling that he felt. Not even Jungkook came into his mind but only the sleeping face of Taehyung in his eyes. He immediately looks away and turns around. His head moving in all directions not knowing what he should feel or do. Taehyung wasn't his but why is he feeling this heartbreak?

Ji-Eun's shaky hands reach for the ring around her neck. Her eyes are full of threatening tears but she doesn't cry. She can't seem to. Her heart was feeling the sorrows still she couldn't cry nor would scream.

"I will only ever love you" Jungkook's words bring her to her senses.

She jerks on her feet, not knowing she has hard strength on her. Looking at the man she loves so much she turns and runs. Not looking back or stopping her runs. Runs as if she was trying to run from the horrible nightmare of her love with someone else....only this time it was reality.

Hoseok silently watches her leave and he falls back onto the walls. His eyes are numb, so he shuts them and just leans against the cold wall.

Ji-Eun was out of breath by the time she reached the doors of her house. The pain of earlier panging into her chest but still someone she managed not to let out the tears. She is completely blank as her mind focuses on trying to open the door to her house. But with the tears blocking her vision she struggled as the key kept falling from her shaky hands.

The sudden coldness outside gives her chills. Her face became red but not sure if it was the cold or her numbness. "Come on!" she was to scream but she can't. The key keeps on slipping from her hand.

She took a deep breath and looked up and in heels the cold air. But she ends up choking "p-please" she begs. Close to breaking down.

As if the heavens pity her, the key finally went in and opened the door. She sighs and pushes herself in. "There my baby sister" she freezes when hearing the voice she has missed for months.

"J-jin" she whispers the name of her brother who smiles widely. Jin opens his arms in front of his sister.

But she couldn't move and watched her brother as if she was imagining something. "You don't want to hug your Oppa?" he said with a pout.

And that was all it took for her to run into Jin's arms and break down. Jin also holds back his tears because it had been almost a year ever since he saw his little sister. And to have her in his arms got him emotional.

Ji-Eun who wasn't able to cry the whole time now was close to collapsing in her brother's arms. Her tears are not stopping nor her loud cries. Her body became small in her brother's warm embrace. Forming miss her brother, from the pain of seeing Jungkook and taehyung she pours out everything in his arm.

"I missed yo-u" she barely finishes as her grip tightens around his arm.

Jin feels that the cry his sister was letting out was more than just her missing him. He knows his sister in every way. He was raised after the death of his parents so it wasn't hard for him to notice the reason behind his baby sister's tears for more than the reason she says.

"Hey look at me" he brings her to face him but cupping her hands on his face. She couldn't meet his eyes as they were facing down. Jin took a careful look at her and froing. He wipes her tears but they keep falling.

"Why?" He simply asks but she doesn't speak. He can see her trying to control her cries as she bites her lips to stop.

"He made you cry" Jin didn't have to be told because there is only one reason for his sister to be broken. This caused her to fall back into his arms and cry more.

As far as he knows Ji-Eun is a very strong girl. From a young age, she was someone who knew how to hold back her feelings. She wasn't someone to throw trandums, nor was she too easily cry. Maybe it is because his sister grew up in a lot of difficult situations that she learned to take control. She was also a very calm Veyron and very intergillent about any situations and didn't jump into concussion.

The only time his sister ever was out of her character was because of Jeon Jungkook. And he sure knows even today it is because of that guy.

"I feel like a fool," she lets out.

A fool who blinded ignored the temptations of his love for another person.

Jin just pats her back and lets his sister in his hold. His mind goes back to Jeon Jungkook and anger creeping into his eyes. "Big mistake Jeon," he thought to himself.

Painful headaches shot through Taehyung's head and his body aching. Groaning his eyes slowly came to see the burning light coming from the side. He lies with each part of his body feeling every bit of pain. His mind slowly processes his surroundings, his memory messy.

Something heavy he felt on his waist, painfully he pulled his body up. He frowns seeing the tearing on his clothes. His heart raced to see the arm that held him down painfully. Fear went through him when turning his focus on the person that arm belonged to.

He moved too suddenly when he saw Jungkook laying shirtless next to him. The sudden movement caused him to let out a painful grain. His waist is hurting and burning. His body reacts with force when the memory of last night pours in him.

"N-no no!" he cries when the memory of him being forced down against his will while Jungkook forces himself onto him.

He muffed his cries with his hands, he can't wake Jungkook. His mind is going in a different direction. How would it happen! No no please no! More tears bloom from his red eyes. It just can't be! I can't-

He moves away only to fall onto the floor. He was scared seeing his naked self...and shaky when seeing the drips of blood dry on his legs. He cries in confusion, in pain and hurt. He cries hard, so hard he feels his lips will tear apart. But his cries didn't have a voice, he couldn't let out a sound.

He can't let outcries, he doesn't know why but he can't. His trembling hands moved faster and faster to rub off the blood but they weren't going away and he was losing his mind. The part left from his shirt was all soaking wet from the tears that were all from his face.

How could this nightmare go away! Taehyung doesn't think of the pain he feels but moves further and further away from Jungkook because he was scared. Scared he was gonna wake up and touch him. And afraid of how Jungkook might react.

All this stops when Taehyung feels a princess behind him. His red eyes meet when shocked pairs of dark eyes belong to Hoseok. Taehyung's body stopped on the floor, the feelings that were in him seeing Hoseok was adding more to him. He felt disgusted with himself. He felt regretful and mad because he knows he had just broken someone dear to him.

But what Taehyung didn't notice was for how long Hoseok was there. From the moment he came here Hoseok wouldn't bring himself to walk away. His feet were graved on the tile floor. He just couldn't and he doesn't know why. When he heard the sound coming from the room he pushed himself to face the person. He felt surprised when he saw Taehyung crying. Taehyung fell from the bed and moved away as if he was afraid something was going to happen. Then his eyes landed onto Taehyung's legs, saw the blood that Taehyung was trying to get off.

It hit him hard when he understood what had happened....his pain was long gone which was replaced by a large amount of anger. He isn't that stupid not to know...the fear in Taehyung cries. The muffled cries, and him trying to crawl away from the person he made "loved" too.

And the guilt that Taehyung eyes along the need to begg were enough for him to know. Raped.

He clutches down in front of Taehyung. The younger person quickly moves away, covering himself. Hoseok gulps his hands in mid-air. "P-please" Taehyung whispered and Hoseok dared to not go away.

He knows if he tries to comfort Taehyung right now, or touch him in any way it is gonna hurt him more. He just wants to embrace the younger and hide him away but he will wait for that. So pushing away his wants, he sits in front of Taehyung leaving a distance between them. Then he covers himself and cries. Hoseok lowers his head between his knees, covering his eyes because he can see the shame in Taehyung's eyes. He can feel Taehyung thinking himself low because Hoseok saw him like this. So to make it less shameful Hoseok covered his eyes. He just couldn't leave Taehyung alone. Especially with the monster in the same room. Knowing Taehyung was scared he will stay. As long as Taehyung needs it.

Taehyung watches Hoseok who had lowered his head to his knees. The man that was in front of him.....he didn't have the words to explain.

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