Always By Your Side | TAEJINKOOK ✔

TWENTY NINE

Third Person POV:

“D-Don’t worry, I-I know it won’t make my wrongs to be forgotten by the truth I am keeping for how long...”

“Seok Jin I didn’t know you personally, but your father always shows off his family picture. I-Its me… Its me, y-your father’s assistant on one of the Jeon’s project. Y-Your father, h-he’s always been great despite him being a single father to you.”

“H-He’s so kind, a-and its always making me feel s-small. A-And the day of his accident, I think Park’s noticed that weakness of mine towards your father.”

“The envy, t-the admiration, that leads me to greed to throw how the part of me that was so amazed with his personality, overshadowed the fact that I am mad how a great person like him could have been so lucky.”

“S-Seok Jin… Y-Your father was used and vanished through all the r-records t-that was replaced by mine, h-he became no one, and t-that’s killing me everyday–“

Seok Jin stares at the man, his tears that has been holding up into the story that was new to him.

He wanted to hear more, because he knows that there are things that was kept by him no matter how hard he tried to dig things up.

It was all buried. Seok Jin never resent his father for keeping things that he has been up to just so he could provide a penny for the three of them to continue on living.

Seok Jin and Yoongi has always been asking about their father's work, but Mr. Kim’s answers has always been heartwarming.

‘Both of you don’t mind my whereabouts, its not illegal, you know me, so just focus on your study and tell me what you want or need and your brave man right here will give the whole world for the both of my seesaw, we will keep it in balance.’

But now that all of it was sinking into Seok Jin’s mind he couldn’t afford to listen to it in one blow, his mind was blank. It stopped functioning by hearing and assuming where it might go.

And just like how he was wishing someone to save him from the situation he wasn’t prepare on how to walks out. Taehyung appeared, protectively almost over. “Mr. Choi I believe you are invited by the cops and was on the watch for hiding, not minding to answer all of their invitation.”

“By that circumstances you are proving you are admitting it, and for you not to cause so much bother, you’re going to surrender yourself now, you can come with us or I can just–“

Seok Jin was gripping on Taehyung’s arms and Taehyung knew right away what Seok Jin wanted. “I’m going to call the authority.”

Choi Yeon Jung kneeled in front of Seok Jin but despite the fact that Yoongi’s life change out of concern, with Choi Yeon Jung who was kneeling in front of Seok Jin, he is fast enough for his mind to read Seok Jin and what Taehyung wanted him to do.

Yoongi grabbed Mr. Choi and guided him to stand on his own, he wasn’t in there for pity, he didn’t gave it so much thought for the humanity he has when he tried to hit Seok Jin with the rock that had gotten into Jung Kook instead.

It all came back to them the way he ran away after what he did that was out of human act.

Taehyung asked Yoongi to guide and take his car by bringing Seok Jin home, he had a trouble of convincing Yoongi but he did it anyway.

Once Taehyung and Choi Yeon Jung was left alone at the table… “I-I am aware of what I did and as of now all I have in mind is for you to hear my side.”

“N-No authority for now, you can all do what you want to me but you have to hear me out first–“

Taehyung flicked his buttoned suit, the man in front of him was suffocating his shredded heart for Jung Kook and Seok Jin's situation. “Did you just realize what you did to Jeon’s son, to Seok Jin's husband, to Mr. Jeon Jung Kook?”

Mr. Choi avoids Taehyung gaze, it was unstable, Taehyung saw a glimpse of guilt and regrets, but he shouldn’t felt pity to the person who acted out of greed.

For what? Money and position? For who? For their own sake that they thought might help their lives to turned out the best? By what? By hurting other people? That’s just so fucking wrong. “I just did what I think could make my children lives in comfortable life–“

“What about now?! You, showing yourself is making you uncomfortable right?! And you want to tell us you wanted Jeon’s and Seok Jin to hear your side just so you could sleep peacefully at night?”

Choi Yeon Jung stomp his palm at the table, flipped it, making the untouched tea on the table splatter by the fresh flowers that was designated on their table. It looks awful as a disaster when he walks into it and was about to throw a punch to Taehyung.

Taehyung didn’t give a fuck about the fist in the air neither with a fucking peace of mind that the man in front of him was looking for.

That is also the thing that he had thought of Jung Kook was waiting for as a cue.

Even Jung Kook didn’t tell him about it. The words that was showing as a sign of goodbye was just a common thing to assume if anyone was on Taehyung’s position.

Taehyung looked at the man. He didn’t move to get rid of the hands gripping his clean suit, he laugh as he grabs his own hair.

He laughed that he didn’t notice was a tears formed. Eventually, the anger, grunts and fist attached on his clothes was loosened.

Choi Yeon Jung saw the people whispering and some are taking pictures and videos while the restaurant staffs were too afraid to butt in between the tension.

“You have to listen to me, l-look… I didn’t came here for this, y-you just pushed me to do this–“

Taehyung make himself fall at the chair that luckily, still on its position even after the table throwing happened. “Pulling out the victim card now Mr. Choi? You really assumed that you’re the victim here?”

“I AM A VICTIM TOO! AND MY ONLY MISTAKES IS MY WEAKNESSES!”

Taehyung couldn’t help himselm calm as he stood up ready to cause a bellicose with what he heard as an excuse to get himself out of the blaming frame. “We all have one! And I must say, you are really weak for letting your deficiency to drive you crazy!”

“Now tell me, how much is your weakness to be driven?”

“You are a witness and you let them use it as your weakness by the thought that it might turn as your strength.”

“Mr. Choi Yeon Jung, am I right or do you have to witness the situation of the man you turned out as a hopeless being by hitting a rock that turned everyone’s hope into the bottom?!”

Taehyung didn’t care about the people they’re going to walks out on the moment he gave his calling card at the counter for their damage.

Taehyung's grip was firmed on Mr. Choi’s wrist pulling him out of the restaurant to bring him where he has to collect his remaining humanity.