Love Is Bound ‖ ✓

chapter 20

Y/n tries to keep her deceiving tears at the brim of her eyes. Of course they would not. Those tears alarm a sense of self doubt. All her insecurities backfire.

Jimin is her first love and it was complicated. Complicated because her boyfriend refuses to come out as a couple after he met the popular slash cool guys. Fine with her. She accepted it. Jimin promised her that they would be official but here they are— off as friends. Even that, y/n embraced without any objections.

Is she that hideous to be called his girlfriend? Is she just potential of bringing ill luck? Like, nothing good ever comes across her. All she has is her life fuddled with gigantic problems.

Y/n parks the car and gets out of it. Harshly slamming the door, y/n provokes a few heads to turn her way. She grabs the drinks and other orders rather tightly and took a seat next to Taehyung.

"Y/n-"

"Guys just take whatever you wanted and go!" Taehyung somewhat understands the situation. Or at least the cause. He turns to Jin indicating him to give them some time, to which the other gladly complies.

"You want to talk about it?" Taehyung strokes her back, up and down with absolute tenderness. Y/n can not help but break down. In his arms. Perhaps that was all she needs. A best friend. Jimin used to be her best friend and now he is just— a friend? Well if he is, he is not doing a good job.

At this point y/n is not sure why is she crying. Is it because Jimin and Minseo are close? That close which y/n only dreams of. Or is it because she is not good enough?

"I'm sorry. This is weird, sorry." Y/n wipes her tears and fixes her specs. "No y/n it's okay. You can always talk to me", Taehyung smiles, caressing her hand.

"Tell me y/n, is it Jimin?" Y/n stays silent, debating on the inside to tell him or not. "You don't have to do it now. Know that I'm always here for you." Taehyung pats her shoulders and smiles reassuringly.

"The other night Jimin's parents warned Jimin about his relationship status and since then we agreed on being friends. I s-saw Jimin with Minseo and his friends today. Not his usual friends." Y/n stops right there, not wanting to dig into irrelevant background details. "You know Jimin and Minseo seemed so close. Maybe that's the reason he and I are friends..."

"Whatever the reason is, don't be a fool and jump into conclusions. Wait for him." Taehyung wants to say that Jimin is perhaps reliable but can not bring himself to give the brunette any false hopes. "By the way Namjoon is throwing a party tonight and it would be a great escape. What say?"

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Maybe Taehyung should take his words back. This was supposed to be an escape and here they are running into the mouth of the familiarised trouble.

Taehyung managed to convince y/n about the party. He put his sexy brain together and styled an outfit for her— a lush green deep V-necked satin top and a mini leather skirt. Y/n is hot but much to her baggy fashion sense, super clueless.

Back to the current situation, both of them along with Jin stand in the middle of the entrance door, staring at a particular someone through the heedless blitzed crowd. What was Taehyung thinking— of course Jimin would be here. Afterall he is one of those popular guys who likes to party.

Jin makes his way to the dance floor howling like a hooligan, in y/n's eyes. These bunch of sweaty bodies pushing each other and what not. It makes her sick. Taehyung seems to understand the uneasiness bubbling around the brunette.

"Come, let's fix you drink", Taehyung holds her arm and walks towards the counter. Since y/n does not like to party, Taehyung assumed she had a low alcohol preference and orders a raspberry mojito.

"Hmm, this is good!" Y/n exclaims as the wondrous flavours prepped her taste buds. "I didn't know they served something this good in this hell hole." She says not forgetting to trash talk about parties. "There are many things you need to know y/n", Taehyung grins.

"Hey, there's a girl at two o'clock totally checking you out. Go to her." Y/n subtly points towards the girl twirling her hair between her fingers. "That, you notice but not my not-so-subtle hints? Plus, you need me here more than she does."

"Come on Tae, I'll be fine. Just go." She pushes him towards the other, chuckling to herself. That is only temporary till she sees Jimin with Minseo and that closeness, obviously defied his parents' warning.

Y/n chucks down the remaining drink in her glass. The burn trailing down her throat is surprisingly appeasing. Not to the taste buds but the feelings. A few more glasses down and that is it.

Taehyung comes back to y/n, the same spot where he left her. Just that y/n is not there. He looks around and sees a number of glasses on the counter. One sniff of the leftover drink and he could tell it was rum.

"Excuse me, was this not supposed to be non-alcoholic?" He asks the bartender. "No sir, all the drinks in this party contains alcohol-" "Should not you be mentioning it on the menu?!" Taehyung scolds and turns around to search for y/n.

After looking for y/n everywhere, his eyes falls on the dancing crowd. There she is, jamming in the middle. Her head is fully into the music. Body syncing to the vulgar movements. A young dude was definitely about to take advantage of her intoxicated state.

Y/n jolts at the sudden contrast of temperature around her wrist. "What are you doing?" She mutters but is forcefully pulled by her wrist. "Park Jimin. Just let go!" She pushes him only for her to stumble backwards.

"Y/n!" Taehyung comes running to her rescue. "You are drunk enough let's leave..." He whispers to her. "No! No I don't want to. I wanna dance and neither of you are letting me", she drags the vowels.

Jimin takes a step closer to Taehyung. "Why on earth would you let her drink when you know guys here don't have good eyes!" Taehyung is not in a mood to put up with his shit. All the revealed sides of Jimin are already unnerving to him and this new one is not something Taehyung is appreciating either.

"Stop, both of you! I will leave by myself. You two, stay here." Y/n pushes past the crowd. The blaring music is not helping her pulsating headache. As soon as the fresh air kisses her face, a stupid smile forms on her lips.

She sits on the edge of the steps, struggling not to expose much skin than the skirt helped to cover. "Hey baby, are you lonely?" A man approaches her while his partner brushed her back. Even though the girl is tight as a tick she is aware of any fight and flight situation. This is definitely one of the flight situations.

"Fuck off!" She tries to sound tough but the goosebumps on her skin were very deceptive. "I don't usually have patience. Good thing you are pretty." He was reaching for her chin but before he could make a move, a firm hand set around his wrist shoving him down to the ground.

"What the fuck!" His partner shouts and throws his fists. "Jimin, watch out!" Y/n screams, covering her eyes. He takes care of the bastards in no time. It was as if Jimin jumped out of those action movies to beat the shit out of the villains and save his lover. Though, it was completely different. They were friends.

"You will pay for this!" The two men shout and ran for their life. Once Jimin turns to y/n, she notices he did not look like that soft, only for you Jimin. He looked angry, aggravated and demanding. "Get inside the car!"

"I'm not going anywhere with you!"

Jimin was infuriating by her reckless behaviour. He steps forward, stacking her back against the wall. Pushing her hips back against the wall he said, "I have had enough, alright? I want you inside that fucking car!" He growls, his angry short breaths fanning on her cheek.

Y/n gulps under his gaze and makes it to the car. On reaching the dorm, Jimin rashly opens the door to his apartment knowing very well the other did not have the key to hers.

"What was that about?"

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I had to write this whole thing all over again as my careless stupid fingers deleted this from my notes. *sigh*
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