HELTER-SKELTER || PJM

CHAPTER-24

"You guys can fall in love, get married, or even go to hell! But why must I keep getting beaten up for you all the time!..."

Tae is yelling non-stop at Jimin from the last half an hour without stopping to breathe even for a while.

"Who asked you to jump off that tree?" Jimin says.

"I didn't! The branch gave away and I fell down! Lucky for you, I fell down or you'd have been caught! They'd have given you such a thrashing, you'd be thorn to shreds! You ought to be grateful to me.  UNGRATEFUL BRAT!"

"Well, well! Have you ever acknowledged my favours?"

"What favours?"

"You asked me to fall in love and I did, didn't I?"

"So?"

"So what? When I took the risk of falling in love at your behest, it's your responsibility to protect our love. Remember that!"

"Which law says that? Take a look at your father. Every female is allowed inside, including witches, asses, and mares but not womenfolk! Look in the whole of town with a lamp but you won't find a grumpy old man like your father!"

Tae stops for a moment to inhale a deep breath before continuing ...

"And look at my father! He happily died, three days after I was born. And at your old man, he's sworn to life! He won't die and won't let die! And he swears you to something crazy everyday!"

The lines of Tae are correct as far as Jimin can think so.

"Look, if you really wanna marry that girl, there's only one way out! Reform your brothers. Make them cozy up to woman. If even one of them gets romantic and gangs up with us, our job will done!"
Tae suggests.

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Better an oops than a what if.

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"Marriage for me? At this age? Have you guys gone crazy?" Seokjin chuckles, closing his file.

"You're not as old as you think, hyung." Jimin says.

Both of them, he and Taehyung, are now at Seokjin's office trying to pursue him. But it seems like it's not working.

"Guys older than you get married. Really!" Tae says only to get a glare from Jimin.

"Hyung, that's not what he mea-"

"Whatever my age, I can't get married in this lifetime. I once set out as a groom to get married, but it didn't happen and I've no regrets. Nor do I think I have taken a wrong step..." Jin says walking around slowly with hands at his back, "...but guess what I see whenever I hear of a marriage? Our mother's body wrapped in a shroud, and our father, shackled and being held by the police" He takes a deep breath.

"Do you want me to forget all that and still get married?" He asks Jimin.

"Sorry Hyung. I didn't come here to hurt your feelings" Jimin says looking down at his feet not meeting his brother's eyes.

"Neither does he plan on getting married, right Jimin?" Tae asks.

"Shut that fucking up! "Jimin thought giving him a slight punch and turns back to Jin.

"I spoke because I didn't want our family to go without an heir" Jimin says.

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"Without an heir? As if we're the last dinosaurs...we face extinction and the world won't get to see dinosaurs again! Go on... Get the hell outta here!" Yoongi shouts at Jimin and Tae.

They are now at his home, facing Yoongi after they laid the same proposal to him, as Jin has already denied it.

"How dare you ask me to get married? I'm a sworn celibate! I always go to a temple every month to pray that the destruction called women does not ever come to possess my heart and soul! And you want me to pray for them! What will the Lord say? That I've let him down? I'm gonna kill you for real"

Yoongi clutched Jimin's neck bumping
him into the wall behind.

"What are you doing?" Tae intervenes.

"Can't you see? I'm wringing his neck!"

"Leave him alone, please" Tae pulls him back.

"Who the hell are you to stop me? Who?" Yoongi yells at him snatching his hand.

"I'm his close friend" Tae says pointing at a coughing Jimin who's holding his neck.

"Close friend? You? Before I end his story, get the hell out of here! Out you go!" Yoongi growls, throwing both of them out.

"Hail Lord! The Lord of Celibacy!" He prays looking up and goes back inside.

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It's now Namjoon's turn, who is sitting in the garden when both of them were thrown out. Jimin and Tae can't accept their defeat without even trying...but they felt too scared to do so when they met Joon's intimidating eyes.

"That's the wrestler" Jimin whispers to Tae.

"Don't stand around to talk to him. If he asks, say we're here for God's oblations" Tae whispers back.

"Don't look at him" Jimin mumbles, as both of them are trying to sneak out from behind him.

"Hey...come here" Joon calls them. Jimin having no option, sighs and walks closer to him.

"You insist that we guys ought to get marry, isn't it?" He asks.

"..."

"Six years ago, this is exactly what I was pastering hyungs with. For how long would they get off both sides of the bed? And remember what dad said then?" Joon leans forward.

"That your brothers have decided, they're not getting married. So why do you want to get married? That's it! I decided to do my own laundry but I'd never get married, and nor will I let anyone marry in this family"

"Which means none of them is going to lay an egg, mhm?" Tae mutters to himself but it was enough to get heard by Joon.

"What?"

"Oh, I was talking about poultry.."

"Come here...you jUst come here!" Joon says and Tae went nearer to him, facing down.

"Look Tea..."

"Tae-" Tae corrects him in a low voice.

"Whoever you're, it's your company that has done this to my brother. LOOK AT ME! If I see you with my brother ever again, I'm going to wreck your knee-caps"  Joon warns him and goes indoors.

--- To be continued ---