Wheels Have Each Other

32. The truth

"Where is he, you fucker?! What the fuck did you do to Yugyeom Oppa?! Huh?! WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?!"

"Wh-What do you mean, I didn't d-do a-anyth-"

A painful slap cut him off, whipping his head to the side from the impact. 

"Who are you trying to fool? Huh?! He went to your house last night. He was supposed to go back home and text me about what happened, but he never did that until now. And that wouldn't happen unless you did something to him and he isn't in a position to contact me. So I'm asking you again. What. The fuck. Did you do. To him. WHERE ON EARTH IS HE?!" 

"I-....h-he didn't even come to o-our house, wh-what are y-yo-"

Another slap. 

This time, Jimin got out of his shock and tried to hold her back, but she threw him off of herself with a force that he never knew existed in her. 

"You'll keep receiving a slap for every single lie you keep speaking, so you better say the truth now, Taehyung."

"HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU SAY I'M LYING WHEN YOU ARE MAKING THINGS UP AN-"

"SHUT UP!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!! I'M NOT MAKING ANYTHING UP!! I NEED NOT!! I WAS LITERALLY THERE AT JIMIN'S HOUSE LAST NIGHT TO HOLD YOU BACK FROM GOING TO YOUR HOUSE, SO YOU DON'T ASSUME THINGS AND KEEP LYING!! I'LL REPORT YOU TO THE COPS!!"

And just that word was enough to bring Taehyung back to his senses like no other slap could. 

"Y-You're crazy," he mumbled and dashed out of the club as fast as his legs could take him, hauling a tax and leaving before Jeongyeon could reach him. 

However, a call from Jimin a few seconds later was all it took for him to get the taxi driving him back to the club he just exited from. 

This time, Jeongyeon didn't yell at him. Instead, she sat at a seat, as decently as a woman could ever sit, and gestured for him to join Jimin, who was sitting in front of her with a frown on his face and a glare in his eyes. 

"You said you'll tell me what's going on?" he said and it was then that it finally dawned on him. 

Jeongyeon was the accomplice. 

She was the one who kept helping Yugyeom all these days. 

And why? Taehyung supposed he was going to know soon. 

He looked at Jimin and found him glaring at her, something that he didn't think his best friend would ever do. Jimin was glaring at Jeongyeon. In what universe was that possible?

He looked back at her and found her staring back at Jimin with an eyebrow raised. 

He cleared his throat to catch her attention, but that didn't happen. "I thought you called me back to tell me what was happening?" he asked, but again, he received no reply from her, save for her now glaring back at Jimin. 

"Hello?! Excuse me?! I have to go back home!! I have a husband and a son waiting for me back there!!" 

Silence. 

'Like hyung, like cousin, of course. What did I expect,' he thought and rolled his eyes and got up, deciding to go back home, but just a "sit down" from Jeongyeon made him fall back onto the seat. 

"I'm still waiting for you to leave, Jimin," she said and Jimin glared harder. "You said you would leave right after he comes back."

"There's nothing he hides from me. You can tell me too," Jimin said. Sure, when she asked him to call Taehyung back to the club, he did promise her he would leave the two of them alone, but he didn't want to do it anymore. He wanted to know what was happening.