Evergreen

21: "I present to you..."

*Jimin POV*

he left me sitting there. on the couch. speechless.

I really had no words. Clearly this was our first time fighting and I was shocked because I didn't think it would come this quick.

But, we're we really fighting? Because an argument takes two people. I don't think I can call this a fight. Tae just yelled at me and left. He didn't give me a chance to retaliate or anything.

I mean I knew it was my fault for their breakup, I was living with that guilt everyday. I hated myself for it. But, for Taehyung to actually say those words to my face, it hurt. It made the situation feel real. It made the guilt feel even more real.

The only thing I could do was go in the kitchen and grab my phone and call my father. This was something I had to discuss with him.

The ringer only rung two times and my father's voice ca be heard from the other side.

"Oh hello Jimin, are you okay?" it was almost 1 am and I know for a fact my father was awake. He never rested. He was always writing something and different times of the night.

He set his camera up on his desk so that I can see him properly while he still tried to get some work done. His glasses were fitted perfectly on his face and he had on pajamas, even though I knew he wasn't planning on sleeping until a few more hours.

"Dad. I'm not okay," I speak beginning to feel emotional. My father was the type of person that was hard to lie to, he was good with reading people. I remember as a child he would just look at me and I would start crying and confessing to him about anything I had did.

"Son, what's wrong? Does it have anything to do with that best friend of yours?" he really was good at deciphering my problems. sometimes I thought that he should've became a therapist.

"He yelled at me dad. Me, him and his ex boyfriend had a good little sit down. His ex basically told him that I had feelings for Tae and Tae had feelings for me. Then he told Tae that he isn't going to ever get back with him. When he left, he gave Tae a gift and then Tae started yelling at me and blaming me for what happened between them," I noticed the clear salty liquid start to slide down my cheek bones.

"Why would he blame you? More importantly, why would you blame yourself?" He took his glasses off and stared at me through the phone screen.

"I mean it is kind of my fault. Jungkook told Tae to choose whether he wanted me as his friend or him as a boyfriend, and I didn't tell Tae to choose Jungkook. That makes me selfish." I was fiddling with my fingers, trying to avoid eye contact with the elder.

"No Jimin-ah that doesn't make you selfish. That young man made the decision to be your friend on his own. And it seems to me that Jungkook boy has severe insecurity issues and your mere presence ignites that for him. This is not your fault son. Have you told Tae how you feel?" he interrogates.

"No not yet. I haven't had the chance,"

"You always have the chance to do something, it's whether or not you act on that chance. Stop bottling up your feelings, you get that from your mother. Who cares if he's mad at you? You need to release your affections for the sake of your personal mental health. This isn't about him, this isn't about his ex. This moment is about you making yourself vulnerable for you," he communicates to me as if we were in the same room.

"I just need time dad. I mean I wasn't supposed to fall for him. This is my senior year of high school, I have to focus of getting into a good dance school. My dreams are bigger than some perplexing love triangle," I announce.

"Time is very precious son, and very valuable. Don't wait too long for what you consider to be the "right time" because time will not do that for you. It comes and it goes. It has done it since that beginning, and it will continue for infinity," my father warned me.