Chapter 20

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"But I want to," Jimin sighs and pulls Yoongi's face closer, and their foreheads touch, sending shivers down to Yoongi's spine. Not because of the cold, no, but because of how close the other's face is, reminding him of last night. "You mean so much to me, Yoongi. It is only right for me to do everything in my power to protect you because I promised Kihyun I would take care of you and because...."

Jimin could feel every heartbeat in his chest as he contemplated whether or not he should tell Yoongi. But he has come this far to stop and turn back now.

"Because I love you. I still do. I will always love you, Yoongi."

Those were the words that Yoongi expected him to say, but he never truly believed that Jimin would actually tell him. The feeling of having butterflies fluttering in his stomach was an ancient feeling that he hadn't felt for a very long time but suddenly experiencing it again made him feel nostalgic for some reason—remembering the days where life was good, and he could watch Kihyun smile every single day and holdJimin's hand whenever he wanted.

"God, you don't know how much I wanted to hear those words again from you," Yoongi closed his eyes and sniffled, earning a small smile from the other. "Why do I keep falling for a kid like you?"

"We can start over, Yoongi," Jimin whispered. "We can try and go back to what we had before. This time, I can protect you, and we can try to be happy again. Happy together just like we used to."

'We can start over.' That was the line that really resonated with Yoongi the moment those words came out of Jimin's mouth and was the first thing that he remembered when his eyes slowly fluttered open. Eyelids are still heavy, but he managed to open them bit by bit, remembering the familiar room that he last saw when one of Shownu's men injected him with a drug, making him fall unconscious.

As he looked around the large and empty room, he realized that he was still tight and bound to the chair with rope just like earlier, but there were no people this time. It was pretty quiet, and he could not hear anything other than the pitter-patter of the leaking pipe in the corner of the room, echoing and irritating Yoongi with every droplet that touches the cold ground.

But Yoongi thinks he spoke too soon when his head snapped towards the double doors when a loud thud erupted outside the large room. His heartbeat began to speed up at the many thoughts that ran through his head, his mind trying to figure out what that noise could be or who was behind these walls that confined him.

His first and only thought that became very clear in his mind was Jimin and the rest of Bangtan. Feeling his heart pounding hard and loud against his chest, he doesn't know if this is because of fear and nervousness or because the thought of seeing Jimin again is giving him a heart attack. The person who has always been there by his side, trying to comfort him as if he was holding his hand, the intimate night they shared, and those beautiful words that bloomed like flowers from his mouth are all very special.

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