DESTINATION:LOVE | TEAJINKOOK - PART 1

Chapter 24

TAEKOOK CHAPTER

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JUNGKOOK'S POV:

I fastened my seatbelt quickly when Jimin and Jin began to yell at us. Taehyung rushed to start the car and we left as quickly as we could. We didn't say it out loud but we both decided to pretend we didn't run away from two bottoms just now. What is worse is that one of them is human.

"You were a real hero back there." Taehyung broke the silence with a scoff.

"At least I didn't shit myself like someone," I scoffed mockingly.

"You know Jimin can be crazy when it comes to candy but you are scared of a little human, you should feel embarrassed," Taehyung said as I rolled my eyes.

"I am not scared, I just want peace. Jin can be a real pain in the ass if he wants to." I admitted but smiled at the thought of my little human waiting for me.

"Yeah, he really is like Hoseok sometimes." Taehyung sighed and shook his head with a smile on his lips.

"No, Jin is not like him. Hoseok was indecisive and didn't know what he wanted. Jin is the complete opposite of him." I pointed out Hoseok's shortcomings, and Taehyung didn't like it.

"Shut up! You have no right to insult Hoseok." 

"Taehyung, I really don't want to talk about this. If we want this ride to be peaceful then we should both shut up." I said and leaned back in the seat and closed my eyes. 

"Yeah, this is exactly your style. Dropping conversation, avoiding talking to me. We always talked about everything together. Not even Jimin knew things you did. But after Hoseok's death, you have changed." Taehyung said seriously and hurtfully.

"You have changed as well. You were the one who always stood up for his friends. You have never been the one I would expect to blame me for something I couldn't affect." I said the same seriously and hurtfully. Then there was silence and the silence stretched all the way to Seoul.

* * *

As Taehyung parked the car in front of my hotel building, we looked at each other and said at the same time.

"I go to that shop."

"I go to the apartment."

We said and then just nodded at each other before we both left the car and made our way in different directions. 

When I had everything I need, I waited in front of the car. But it took Taehyung too much time so I called him. Fortunately, Jimin always updates Taehyung's new phone number on my phone. As if I call him. 

"Hey, where are you?!" I shouted to the phone as Taehyung answered the call. But it wasn't Taehyung.

"Hi, he is with us in the club. Havana." Some girl said on the other side. I rolled my eyes and made a signal with my hand to call a cab. I would leave him here but he got keys from the car, asshole.

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A cab took me to the place which the girl was talking about. As I expected, it was an ugly pub where only old drinkers went to drink in the middle of the day. To my surprise, Taehyung wasn't drinking alone but was accompanied by 3 girls. He probably met them on the way here because they didn't match the vibe that the pub had.

"Tae, you had enough. C'mon." I said and yanked him by arm to stand him up.

"Jungkook! My bro! Come and drink with us!" Taehyung yelled as he saw me and pulled me down beside him.

"Girls, that's the asshole who took the love of my life away from me, then he abandoned me and now he's trying to repeat the past," Taehyung shouted drunk across the pub.

"Tae, you really had enough. We should return to camp." I said seriously. He turned in his seat and looked at me with tears in his eyes.

"Jungkook! You asshole! Why did you even beat me the first time we met? If you would just leave me there, I would be s much happier now! I wouldn't get and lost you as my best friend, I wouldn't meet and lost Hoseok or Jin. I wouldn't suffer so much now!" Taehyung cried and shook my shoulders. I grabbed his hands and stopped him. 

"Tae, let's talk about this later. Now..." I tried to reassure him.

"No! We didn't talk for decades! You left me to drown in my sadness for too long! I want your answer now! Why did you leave me after Hoseok's death!? I know I was an asshole and blamed you but I was doing the same thing countless times before Hoseok but you never ever left me before. You know very well that I am just kicking everyone away from me when I am in pain. That made you my best friend. No matter how hard or long I was kicking, you never gave up! You were always there for me! Why did you give up on me after Hoseok!" He cried hurtfully, sadness obvious in his eyes.

"Because I felt it WAS my fault! Even though I said it wasn't, I felt like I killed him! I couldn't look into your eyes after that! And he was the love of my life as well, I felt so much pain. As much as you!" I yelled at him back. He stared at me and shook his head.

"No. After Hoseok's death, I thought the pain I felt was big but the suffering I was living in when you left me was much more worse." He said and wiped his face from tears.

"And the biggest pain was when I realized that you loved Hoseok more than you ever loved me as a friend. Because if you cared about me more, you would never abandon me like this. That was the moment I realized that Hoseok he's never been more important to me than you were." He admitted as tears rolled from his eyes.

"What are you talking about? I have never seen you more in love than when you were with Hoseok." I asked, expressionless. I didn't know what to say or how to react to his outburst.

"I loved Hoseok and his death was very hard for me. But all this time when I blamed you and was angry at you, wasn't from mourning for Hoseok. It was because of the pain you caused when you left me. I knew that Hoseok's death is very sensitive for you, even after decades. So I kept blaming you and reminding you about it to keep you in pain. But now, I don't want it anymore. I want us both to forget the past and go back to how we were before Hoseok. I don't want to fight." He admitted and put his forehead on my shoulder. I lifted my hand and stroked his hair.

"You are the same little brat that I met in the kindergarten." I scoffed when I felt him snoring on my shoulder.

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When Taehyung fell asleep in the pub, I carried him back to the car and lay him down in back seats. I hope he won't vomit in Yoongi's car. Then I got into the driver's seat and started the ride back to the camp. Taehyung slept for 7 hours during our ride so I had a lot of time to process everything he told me in his drunk state. He really was reminding me about Hoseok and the worst day of my life for all these decades just because he was angry at me? Is he crazy? Yes, he is. 

"Good morning, sleepyhead," I said as I heard him getting up in the back seat.

"Hi." He said as he held his head. Good for him, vampires have a very quick hangover thanks to vampire metabolism. He crawled through seats and got in the passenger seat beside me. There was silence for a few minutes before he spoke.

"About the incident from the pub, I should say sorry." He said seriously while looking outside from the window. I stared at the road and nodded.

"But I won't." He said as he turned his head to face me with a serious expression. I looked at him and smirked.

"Yeah, as if you ever apologized." I scoffed and kept smiling. I kept my eyes on the road but I saw with peripheral vision as he smiled to himself before turning his head back to the window.

The rest of our ride was calm and silent but it wasn't the weird and uncomfortable silence as before. I felt as if the whole Hoseok thing has never happened and I broke free. The only thing that played through my mind now was that Taehyung had admitted that he feels similar feelings to Jin as he had to Hoseok before.

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Just a short chapter for our TAEKOOKers.

I just want to make you sure that there is no romantic love between them - just friendship!