𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 {𝐭.𝐠𝐠𝐮𝐤}

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲-𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭

Thirty-First
:Chapter Thirty-One:

Jeongguk was sitting in the dugout, watching his teammates practice ahead of him. He felt pretty useless to his team since he was still considered injured and was ineligible to play.

But, he was here since Hoseok was finally back. The aforementioned was gone for three days in total due to his late friend.

With Hoseok being back, that meant Taehyung was also back.

Jeongguk didn't really care that he was back but he was dreading what was to come after practice.

Because the teenager loved his younger brother oh so much, he was willing to invite Kim over to his house. Just the thought made Jeongguk get chills and made his stomach churn, and not in a good way.

His brother was infatuated with Kim and his company, he loved spending time with him and rarely believed the two were already best friends. Jaeyong adored Taehyung so much, way more than his other friends.

It was mind boggling to Jeongguk, he knew he wanted Jaeyong to not get to know Taehyung for a reason, even if the reason was because Jaeyong would grow to like Taehyung.

     "How you holding up?" The question pulled Jeongguk out of his thoughts, turning to look at his hyung, Hoseok.

He straightened his posture and shrugged lamely. "Pretty boring just sitting here and doing nothing." He answered, watching as his friend took a seat beside him, pulling his bag up onto his lap.

"Yeah, I'm sure it is. I hated it when I still came when I was injured." Hoseok told, not looking up since he was still digging in his bag for whatever he was in need of.

"You were injured?" Jeongguk inquired. Disregarding their topic of conversation, the younger teenager noticed how timid Hoseok was. He wasn't surprised or was going to force Hoseok to lighten up when his friend recently passed away.

     "Yeah, my freshman year. I was on third base, watching the batter and he hit the ball up. I then began to sprint as fast as I could, running from their base to home. I knew the ball was in the air and I was the first target so I slide but I ended up sliding wrong. I broke my ankle when it collided and had to sit out." Hoseok answered, pulling out his batting gloves. He began to pulled them over his fingers.

"What did your friends do?" Jeongguk asked, interested in the conversation.

Hoseok pulled the glove over his pull hand and strapped it in, looking to his right at Jeongguk who looked back expectantly. "I didn't have friends when I joined. I wasn't really liked or cared about on the team. So, when I got hurt, no one cared or checked up on me. They didn't care about me. It sucked, too, because I still came to practice and cheered them on though they didn't like me and no matter how hurt I was."

Jeongguk frowned, hearing the way Hoseok was treated broke his heart. Someone like Hoseok never deserved to be treated the way he was. "Damn," he breathed. "That sucks."

"Yeah, it got bad and I was so close to quitting but then Changmin transferred and we got close. Then, the next season came around and Taehyung was playing now. It was really just the first half of that first season that was bad for me." Hoseok explained and pushed back up to stand.