freckles

* chapter seventy one *

"Jimin you little leech get up." A voice hissed as Jimin's shoulder was shaken quite roughly.

"Excuse you," Jimin grumbled, opening his eyes, not moving much because Claudette was right beside him. "You're a parasite."

Jungkook narrowed his eyes at Jimin, crossing his arms. "Yeah well, you stole Claud from me last night so we're enemies now."

"What do you want Jungkook?" Jimin closed his eyes as he rubbed them, quite annoyed that the maknae woke him from his sleep with his girlfriend.

"We need to leave." Jungkook looked at his watch. "We let you sleep as long as we could, but you got five minutes to brush your teeth and change."

"Well fucking hell." Jimin sat up carefully, sliding his arm out from beneath Claudette's waist. "You should've woken me sooner."

"We wanted the both of you to have a moment or whatever." Jungkook rolled his eyes, a bit annoyed it seemed. "Now go on, I'll wake Claudette."

Jimin huffed softly, getting out of bed, Jungkook walking around to the other side. He sat down on the edge of the bed, taking a moment to himself to take a deep breath and run his hand through his hair.

He and Taehyung got into an argument.

"I really don't need you baby-ing me every two seconds!" Taehyung stood from bed, raising his voice at Jungkook.

Jungkook's eyebrows wavered as he pulled the covers closer to himself, slowly trying to cover himself from Taehyung, hide from his shouts. "Taehyung you were having a night-"

"I don't need your help Jungkook." He glared at the poor boy, Jungkook not understanding all of this anger. Taehyung always needed his help, he always needed Jungkook to ground him after his nightmares.

"I'm sorry I thought I helped." Jungkook held onto the sheets tightly as he spoke softly, not wanting to anger Taehyung anymore. Taehyung never lashed out at Jungkook. Why was he doing this now?

"Stop playing the victim card and get out of my bed."

Jungkook wiped away the few tears that traced his cheeks, the scars of a memory.

He sniffed softly before shaking Claudette's shoulder gently. "Claudia. It's time to wake up my Love. Wake up, Honey."

Claudette groaned softly, rolling more onto her back as she forced herself to open her eyes. Jungkook smiled softly at her, wishing Taehyung would be this gentle with him.

Sometimes, Jungkook just wanted to be babied.

Something... Taehyung apparently didn't like.

"Good morning beautiful." Jungkook forced himself back into reality, stroking Claudette's hair from her face.

"Where did Jimin go?"

Jungkook's smile wavered, looking to Jimin's empty spot as Claudette did.

'I'm not good enough, am I? Not good enough for Taehyung, not enough for Claudette. She wanted Jimin, not him. And Taehyung wanted,, space? I don't even know what he wants.

'What do I need to do to make them love me more? Dress better? Do I need to work out more for Taehyung? Maybe I can hop in the shower with him tonight. He likes it when I do that. And Claud. Should I buy her something? What's her favorite color? Or a purse.. Maybe she'll like a purse.'

"Hey Baby I have a gift for you that I forget to give you." Claudette stumbled out of bed, Jungkook not having enough to process anything to do much. "It's really stupid and far fetched, but I tried." She flicked on the lights while she walked past, grabbing a bag she had hid in Jimin's room so she wouldn't have all of the boys' presents in her room.