Elegy || tae-jin-kook

Fəsil 11

The morning light penetrated through the curtains and hit Jin's face. He scrunched his eyes because of the certain intrusion of light. He slowly opened his eyes and examined the room. Right, he was at Suga's house and this was Suga's room. He tried getting up and lifting the blanket off him but he stopped suddenly, seeing a catheter being injected to his right arm. He looked beside to see a nearly empty bag of IV drip, being connected to the catheter. Right he fainted, but was it so bad that he had to get an IV drip.

He sighed and tried looking for his phone. He needed to call Jungkook to let him know why he wasn't home last night. He found it by the bedside and was delighted to see 3 missed call and a voice message from Jungkook. He felt sad for worrying Jungkook so much but he was also a bit happy knowing how much Jungkook might have missed him last night.

He opened the voice message and when Jungkook said, Kim Seokjin instead of Jin, he felt his hair tingle, he could feel that something wasn't right.

Yoongi fell asleep on the couch outside while working on a paper. A loud voice broke off his slumber. He looked around and noticed that the sound was coming from his room, where Jin was. Who was talking with Jin in this manner, given the state he is in now? He quickly opened the door to the room and was dumbfounded.

Jin was staring at the phone that was on the bed and he had a blank expression. He didn't show any emotions, but his eyes had tears brimmed up that fell through his cheeks.

Yoongi heard what Jungkook was saying and the choice of words he used to potray Jin. He couldn't believe his ears. The Jungkook he knew wouldn't ever say anything like this to Jin. His blood boiled with anger. He took the phone and turned off the recording.

Suddenly, a whimper came and he saw Jin breaking down. Yoongi's heart clenched seeing his bestfriend like this. He engulfed him into a hug and tried to pacify him.

"Yoongi-ah, I am a whore. He called me a whore, a gold digger. He didn't even once tried listening to me. How could he come to a conclusion of his own", Jin hiccuped and spoke. Yoongi wiped the tears and made Jin look at him.

"Jin, look at me. You are not a whore, neither a gold digger. You don't need to prove yourself to anyone". Jin spoke out,"But, it hurts Yoongi-ah, it hurts so much . I love Jungkook so much, how do I live knowing that he hates me so much. Yoongi-ah, I can't take this anymore. I want to give up, I want to die. Probably only death can give me peace".

Yoongi's hurt dropped hearing Jin say those things. His grip on Jin tightened as he hugged him. "Jin, I will make everything right. But promise me that you will never do anything stupid, okay? It's a hard time but this will pass. Jin-ah, if you die, I will die too. Would you take responsibility of my death ?". Jin cried harder.

A sudden call interrupted them. Jin was half hoping that it was Jungkook. But to his dismay, he saw Taehyung's name. He grabbed the phone and threw it at the door, for which the phone's battery came out, turning off the ringtone.

"This was all because of Taehyung and his friend Jimin. I don't wanna see their face ever again", Jin cried out.

Yoongi called Jisoo to come over at his house to look after Jin. She was so scared upon learning Jin's condition that she didn't even think twice before coming into his house. He was relieved that he didn't have to leave Jin alone in the house while he worked at the cafe.

During lunch break, a call came from an unknown number to Yoongi's mobile. He picked it up hesitantly and asked, "Hello, who is this?". A deep voice answered sounding fidgety, "Hey, it's Taehyung". Yoongi rolled his eyes and was about to cut the call when Taehyung said, "Please, please don't cut the call. Please hear me out". Yoongi replied,"What is it? Haven't you done enough?". Taehyung stuttered out, "I..it wasn't me, Yoongi-ssi. But I may have gotten a clue about what happened to us that night. Jin-ssi, won't answer my calls, so I thought about contacting you".

Yoongi had a hunch that Taehyung wasn't directly involved. Namjoon had told him about Taehyung previously, so he knew Taehyung wasn't this sly. It had to be Jimin. If only he got the proof...He cleared his throat and answered,"Taehyung-ssi, are you free to talk in person?". He immediately replied,"Yes, Yoongi-ssi, text me the location. I will be there as soon as I can".

An hour later

The cafe's bell jingled and Taehyung came in. Yoongi's work shift at the cafe was already over but he was still waiting for Taehyung to come. "Taehyung-ssi", he called out motioning him to come where he was.

Taehyung sat across Yoongi on the table. Yoongi eyed him up trying to figure out if Taehyung really was innocent or is it one of their ploy.

"So what did you want to talk about, Taehyung-ssi", asked Yoongi. Taehyung answered, "Before that, can you please tell me if Jin-ssi is alright?".

Yoongi huffed with annoyance and crossed his arms,"You seriously think that he will be alright, after what you guys did it to him? He was drugged, Taehyung-ssi. He is very sick because he might have been overdosed with that drug. His boyfriend thinks that he is a whore, who runs after money. He asks me if he can die. So yeah, if you still think that he is alright then he is.

Taehyung drooped down his head for a while and then looked at Yoongi. "Yoongi-ssi, is there anything I can do to make everything okay alright? I..I love Jin-ssi, I haven't loved anyone like this before. However whatever happened between us that night was a mistake. Looking back at it only makes me upset because none of us were in our senses. The last thing that I want is to take advantage of Jin-ssi".

Yoongi remained quiet and Taehyung continued,"After that night, I knew that something was not right and it dawned me that Jimin could be behind all this. That night when we four went for dinner, the last thing I remember was having my champagne, after that I was in a daze. I remember touching Jin-ssi, but I thought I was dreaming. Jin-ssi didn't protest either, in reality he would, but Jin-ssi too was in a daze. I can't pinpoint exactly what we drank but I am sure that Jimin is behind it all because... because he had been planning to make Jungkook his by getting rid of Jin, since a while now".

Startled by this, Yoongi asked back,"He what?"