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chapter 23 | Near you

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4 pm.

'JUNGKOOK'S P.O.V'

I look at my son as he is walking up to the car and telling goodbye to his friends, hoping for him to not notice the makeup on my face or just not pay attention to it. Once he enters the vehicle and gets on the passenger seat, I turn the ignition on. "Hey. How was your day?"

"Boring as hell, I'm glad we're on Friday because one more day, and I die," he emphasizes everything as always and throws his bag on the back seats to get comfortable and puts his seat belt on. "Have you passed your math test?" I get on the road with him, slowly conversing before coming to a certain point. "Yeah. It went well, but I'm not sure if this is good or not. I received the results for my Science and English test though," he keeps his eyes on his phone now that he can use it. "Did you fail them?"

"No. I got two A's because of you and y/n. She helped me in English," he smiles, their relationship now being a problem to me since what happened between her and me. I feel some guilt for doing this, knowing that he likes this girl, I feel like a horrible person. "Great. I'm proud of you."

"I can't wait to tell y/n about it," he talks about her again, and the discomfort inside of me grows bigger, so I do not say anything about it like I would have a few days ago. "Before we get home, I need to talk about something with you," I take this opportunity to change the topic and make him think about something else. "What? About y/n?"

"No," I peek at the reflection in the rearview mirror. "It is about your mom and me."

"You divorced, didn't you?" he already knows without me even telling him anything, and this response cuts me to the quick side, this means nothing but that he notices how broken our family was. "I...yes, but I need to explain some things to you so that you understand why."

"Okay, tell me," he does not disregard this matter, to my greatest relief, and he listens to what I have to say. "All right, so I know that it must have seemed like I did not care about her anymore, that I was not a good husband to her anymore, but the thing is that I felt that way for a reason. This happened one year ago, do you remember when I went to her workplace for her birthday?"

"Yes," he recalls those events this day. "Well, on that day, that's when everything just...fell apart...I went there with the flowers, the box of chocolates, and the note that I showed you, but when I was there, I saw her car, and I thought that leaving the note on her car would be kinda...romantic...I mean, you know how I am," I do not hide this side of me. "Yeah, you're a simp."

I smile no matter the pain this topic causes, and I continue, turning to another street. "The problem is that when I got closer to her car...I saw her...with another man, who is her boss..." I keep my eyes on the road but find it complicated to not feel the bitterness, the hatred, and wrath. "Wait. What?" he reacts in a way he never did. "Mom cheated on you?"

My head gives a faint move down, and a nervous smile forms on my face without even knowing which emotions provoke this. "But if this went like that for a whole year, that's only because I did not want this to affect you and Hyejoon. I did not want your little brother to go through fights, divorce problems that include the custody, the days when he would be with me then when he would be with his mother. I wanted to avoid that the most, but I just realized that pretending not to know and to be okay just worsened everything. So, I decided to divorce today, and she left..."

"Is she fucking serious? She cannot have done that to you," he does not even believe it. "There's also one thing that I need to tell you and which is way more important, and I'm sorry if I'm letting it all out in once, but I think it's better to tell you all the truth for good and not keep anything to myself anymore..." I regret saying this sentence after hearing myself and the end of it. I am not ready to talk about me and y/n yet, this is way too soon, and I still need to get things straight and clear with her. "I don't care, just tell me everything. Don't worry, I'm just mad right now."