DOLL [vmin]

10: cracked

Jimin couldn't do anything. and it was already too late. It happened so fast, and found himself now on the ground unable to move his right arm. It's strange because it didn't hurt. it just won't move. Jimin took a while to move and turned his head hearing footsteps.

"Jimin!" A nice manly voice was heard Jimin stared at Taehyung who hurried to him. The man didn't look happy. His face had a frown and he made angry noises, his hands moving around. "Jimin jimin what did i tell you, be careful. oh oh" the dollmaker helped Jimin on his feet who was stunned by what happened. his perfect blue eyes just watching the raven. He looked at the floor where the man was crouching and saw his lower arm on the ground. Now the doll looked at his arm and gasped seeing his arm was broken off.

"M-my arm?!"

"Come with me, you can't walk around like this," Taehyung said, hurrying down the stairs to his workspace. Jimin followed the man slowly, shocked and worried. Was Taehyung gonna shout at him? Was he going to be mad? Jimin didn't mean to break his body, but he got scared and fell. He tripped over something, he couldn't do anything about it.

"Jimin, how did this happen? I told you to be careful. my work, its broken aish aish" Taehyung paced around the room grabbing things together as he said words slightly stressed about what happened. "you could have shattered!" the man shouted, making Jimin flinch and step back. "you're lucky you came off it alright, oh poor arms, i worked so hard on them" Taehyung sighed and got some glue putting it on the broken ends. "sit here Jimin''

Jimin did as asked and sat down on the chair, taehyung held his upper arm and attached the lower arm on the broken parts connecting it. He wrapped a bandage around it to keep it together while the glue did its work. "I'm sorry..." Jimin said.

"It's fine..'' Taehyung sighed. "I don't want you to break, you're the best i ever made. My precious beautiful doll. You have stay perfect forever. but now you have some cracks. Taehyung opened a sack and got some bit of clay. He turned Jimin's head to the left as he rubbed it into the cracks the boy had in his face and neck. "ai ai, you're fragile Jimin be more careful.."

"im sorry, i will"

Taehyung walked to the shelves where paint was stored and got a brush and a kin toned paint. "Now look to the left" he said and got some paint on the brush. He painted the filled cracks in jimin's neck and face with the paint blending it in with the older paint perfectly. "Now don't touch your face, it needs to dry well and you cant have ugly prints in your face."

"Okay" Jimin looked down and moved his arm and fingers, he could move it again and was glad it still worked. "thank you"

"Hm, what happened? why did you fall?'' Taehyung asked. "Are the stairs slippery? Do I need to change it? add a mat?"

"No no the stairs are fine.'' Jimin said and thought he didn't know if he should tell the others or not. "the dolls did it" Jimin then said softly slightly hoping taehyung didn't hear.

"the dolls?"

"yes. they made me fall....the dolls are evil Taehyung" jimin whispered hoping the dolls wont hear him talk about them to the toymaker.

"I know...i know Jimin '' taehyung sighed again and looked at the dolls on the shelf in the room. their eyes all looking at them directly. "But that's how it is''

"They hate me...they think i betrayed them....they are jealous"

"But why?" Taehyung knew the dolls were evil but why did they hate Jimin? Jimin was one of them

"I get things they dont....I got life, you gave me. but they just want me to suffer like them. they hate me for being first" jimin looked to the side seeing one of the doll's heads was shaking and its eyes rolled back. "A-ah im sorry!" he said looking at the doll.

"sorry for what?"

"they heard me, oh no...no no..they will take me back, i don't want to go back!" Taehyung said and grabbed onto taehyung. the man looked at the dolls that just sat there silently.

"Let's go to the ballroom okay? calm down" taehyung said, taking Jimin's hand and guiding him out of the room. when they passed the doll's on the shelfs one fell forward and brushed Jimin's arm. but the raven didn't notice. but jimin did, he looked back at the doll on the ground with a crack in his face, its eyes staring at him intensely.

They entered the ballroom and Jimin felt more relaxed, the room was big and bright. soft music was playing, taehyung must have been here seeing one chair was being used for a jacket and there was a notepad on the chair at the front the pencil fellen on the floor.

"Jimin, can you dance for me?" Taehyung asked, watching a dance will for sure calm things and probably calm Jimin too. He looked at the doll who nodded and looked at the stage. Taehyung sat down on his hai grabbing the pencil from the floor. Jimin had made his way on the stage and listened to the music. Then he started to move. Jimin never thought he would be able to move like this, so elegant, so flexible, so beautiful. He felt pretty, light and happy doing this, it made him never want to stop dancing. He was getting lost in the music that he started humming and soon enough a beautiful sound went past his lips.

Taehyung's eyes widened hearing Jimin sing. the boy's voice sounded angelic, it reminded him of shimmering diamonds. It was almost hypnotizing. Taehyung sat forward as he let the beautiful dance and sound go through him. hypnotizing it in his soul to never forget this.

Sadly their moment was broken when the music stopped And so did Jimin. standing back on his feet looking right at taehyung who stared back at him.

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