•honey• || KookMin

23. Devoring home

"Have you been well? Do you have a partner?"

"Yes. Namkyung."

"Ah, that wild bitch."

"Say something bad about her and I'm out of here." warns Jin to his mother. He didn't tell Namkyung he was coming to talk to her, but assumes his girlfriend wouldn't have allowed it. Mrs. Kim holds the cup in her hands.

"You never wanted to listen. She's no good for you. Didn't you see what she did? It's thanks to me that she's not in jail."

"No. She isn't. If you cared so much about my good, there would be other things you would have done What do you want?" he insists and she delays. "I'm leaving.

"Wait, wait," Jin raises an eyebrow. "I need to borrow your apartment."

"Why? It's mine. My grandfather left it to me and no one else."

His grandfather never found out, he died long before, but Jin was always the favorite child. To the point of leaving almost all his inheritance to him. A bank account -which his mom and dad abused for a couple of years-, and an apartment. Where he usually lives when Bangtan isn't listed as an activity of the day. Namkyung lives there with him.

"I know, that's why I'm asking you" Jin sits back down. "There have been problems in the family. Your aunt got divorced, Youngseok moved away, she went back to Woonjae-"

"Are you fucking with me?" he rebukes shakily. That means he, who made his life hell, is relative again.

"And they're accusing him of raping some girls who must be lying to get attention and make money off him" Jin continues with an incredulous gesture. "We need him to stay in that apartment because then we can testify that he wasn't in the area where it happened and it will be dismissed. They're hell bent on saying it was him" Jin pulls his teeth with his lips closed, anxious. "And I thought you being in love with him you could just leave it there."

"In love?" he blurts out with an incredulous note along with a strained smile. "He raped me."

"You provoked him into having sex with you. You're just like those girls. Plus a selfish-"

The woman screams, Jin doesn't restrain himself from breaking the cup with his hands. He gets up and leaves without saying anything to her.

~ * * * ~

"How did they take it?"

"Badly, but they're not going to stop me. They said they might send me money to help support me while I'm not working and studying."

"ENOUGH FOR ME! WE'RE GOING TO SEOUL!" exclaims Taehyung on the other end of the line. Jimin laughs and celebrates in equal measure. Taehyung speaks, Jimin loses the thread for a moment. Notices on the nightstand a photo she has with Jeonggoo on the beach and that one she took of her with the sunset against the light. "What do you think?"

"Uh... yeah, yeah, it's good to me."

She wonders if there is a chance for Jeonggoo to come with her as well. They haven't talked about it and I'd say Jeonggoo doesn't want to talk about it either.

~ * * * ~

"Do you think you can convince Jimin not to leave?"

Mr. Park resorts to the only thing he has: Jeonggoo. The girl purses her lips. She must have known that, if he called her, it would be something she can't handle even if she wants to.

"She wants to go to Seoul. Although she will go with Taehyung, she will meet Yoongi... I don't want her to leave. She's still too little. She's my little girl" he emphasizes almost desperate. "Maybe you can convince her. She listens to you. Sometimes even more than I would like."