Vmin one Shots

The one that got away

Taehyung watched his leg swing under the bridge from where he was sitting,there was a fresh red wound on his knee and he picked on it's sides, without rest ,anxious but his eyes were planted to the far end as far as the water goes.And he decided he should keep doing that even as Jimin sat by him.Taehyung thought he should quickly dismiss Jimin if he starts to lecture him to not pick fights with the boys,he wouldn't even care if Taehyung argued they were making fun of Jimin and was basically asking for it but to his surprise, Jimin doesn't say anything.Instead he silently pulls away Taehyung's hand that was busy against the wound and held it firm inside his small arms.And then they sat in silence,just the sound of water lapping against the footboard and distant birds flying home.At some point, Jimin leant against Taehyung's shoulder and drifted off to slumber and Taehyung closed the possible distance to make it comfortable for his angel.

The next time Taehyung picks a fight with the neighborhood kids was when they tripped Jimin off the side rails and Jimin was pulling him off the boys,spending tears on both their shirts.Jimin was barely strong enough to pull Taehyung to the alley close and he had squatted down to cry.Taehyung leant against the opposite wall and watched Jimin break down completely.Taehyung didn't understand people,everybody calls him reckless but he wouldn't harm a human,not someone like Jimin.Whatever kind of person Jimin's father was,it had nothing to do with who Jimin was.Jimin was soft..literally soft in every way possible.Even if Taehyung tried to explain ,he wouldn't be able to complete it without dissolving into tears not barely two sentences in.Everyone made fun of Jimin calling him thief's son...mad woman's son, different names but a 'son' attached to those names.Taehyung knows so well that none of that defines Jimin,only Taehyung knows who Jimin was.So he quits watching his angel crying and goes to sit Infront of Jimin,cross-legged.Taehyung pulls the boy into his lap and pats a gentle hand as the other shook and cried into the crook of his neck.If Taehyung could, Taehyung would keep Jimin in his arms like this..ward off evil and fight every single one of the neighbourhood kids to death.But Jimin would rather want him to be like this,to be his Gaurdian.

Years later, Jimin shows up at his door and Taehyung is surprised cause he was supposed to be at college but Jimin waves it away saying he'd cross the world twice to be there for Taehyung's birthday and Taehyung mocked him saying twice was too much.That was the day Taehyung knew first that Jimin was more than just a bestfriend,when they stole his father's drinks and climbed up the roof,he knew it when the stars shone above his head in brilliant sparks,pearly moon spreading light over,building shadows in it's wake , Taehyung's eyes focused onto the way the bright light drew beautiful lines along Jimin's laugh.The spark in Jimin's eyes put the stars to shame and he will debate the God himself for that.Taehyung had stopped Jimin in mid-sentence by pressing his lips against Jimin's and with bated breath had waited.He had pressed his eyes closed when Jimin's head tilted and pressed on,that day Taehyung went to sleep with unsettling butterflies fighting to break out and taste freedom but he was a coward,he was a fool.When Jimin asked what had happened as they waited for the KTX, Taehyung said it was a drunken mistake.He wasn't sure if the hurt that passed Jimin's eyes were a figment of imagination or real like their existence.And then Jimin was gone.

They still called,still talked into the night about everything and anything ..maybe,not everything.Taehyung didn't speak about how his heart spikes a beat whenever he saw Jimin's name flash on the screen,doesn't tell about how he smiles whenever 'the night we met' starts to play.He waited for vacations,promised himself to tell Jimin about how he feel but then so many vacations passed,so many seasons wilted away yet Taehyung was too afraid,too scared to take a step ahead and maybe watch his friendship break.
"She asked me out,I said yes", Jimin's words had come as a nail to his coffin and Taehyung doesn't remember how long he stared at the screen.He blamed it on the network when Jimin enquired,faked his best of smiles and called off the  facetiming saying he was sick.He half expected Jimin to realize his lies but Jimin seemed too happy to notice that.He remembers that night very well,he had cried into his mother's lap through the night .

And now 'the night we met' hurts, Taehyung called himself fool for ever thinking the song was sweet,it was pain.And Taehyung wished in vain that he had the courage but then he just watched.Jimin's changing lovers and his own heart breaking and making up.He had more chances now that he got hired in Seoul and Jimin's Apartment was just a block away.Yet, Taehyung kept to himself not wanting to invade privacies.Jimin's girlfriend was sweet and she wouldn't mind Taehyung's presence and acknowledged that Jimin cared for Taehyung more.And maybe that's why Taehyung didn't visit,he kept his heart in a glass cube.One day,Jimin had pressed Taehyung's intercom asking for a drink.Jimin in a drunken slur had said that he was going to propose and showed him the ring.
"Would you be my bestman?",Jimin smiled so wide and Taehyung could never say no to that and he had nodded,tears bordering his eyes and hoped in might that Jimin doesn't notice and Jimin doesn't notice,he never does.He doesn't notice Taehyung's heart shattering to a million pieces in and in a weird way, Taehyung wants him to notice..atleast once.But then a drunk Jimin hugs Taehyung close and confesses that he was his first love.He confesses he hoped someday he'd confess but was too afraid, confesses he thought Taehyung was in love with him too,confesses he dated the girls to make Taehyung jealous but seeing as that Taehyung saw him nothing but as a friend,he gave up.Taehyung chokes,he feels words piling upon the base of his throat and tears stinging his eyes and Jimin straightens up and says,"But it's okay,You're my best man..Gaurdian.I shouldn't be greedy enough to ask for more"
So greedy he doesn't become,Jimin doesn't ask for more and Taehyung,in few months,stands at the other side of the altar locking his eyes with Jimin who smiled as bright as ever.He plants his eyes onto the bride walking in.He hears the 'i do's.He watches the first kiss and the laugh in Jimin's voice.Before they walked out to the car,the bride had hugged him and she says,"am sorry" and Taehyung almost bursts out crying if not for her holding him close.
"In another life,I'll give him back to you",She says and Taehyung nods into her neck.And as it's Jimin's turn to hug him, Taehyung in vain wishes if he has a time machine and Jimin hugs.
"Don't say it's a drunken mistake when you find the time machine", Jimin whispers and he is not surprised how he could read off his thoughts.It was natural like that.Taehyung smiles as the couple walks away,throw a bouquet back and rides away in a white car.Taehyung is left alone on that altar.