February 14, 2020
"It's my turn now, isn't it?" Bella inquired. They nodded. "I'll go with Truth."
"Have you ever had your heart broken before, Bella?" Jimin asked.
Bella looked at Jake and then looked down. "Yes."
"What stupid ass would ever do that to you?" Taehyung's eyebrow shot up.
"I can be a handful, V-oppa. Maybe he just grew tired of me."
"What exactly happened, Bella?" Jimin wanted to know.
"It's okay, Princess. I already know about this and you can trust them. But it's up to you if you want to share." Jake encouraged.
"He ghosted me."
"Ghosted like just stopped talking to you?"
Bella nodded. "It was an LDR so you can imagine how important communication is. But it's not like he did not have the means of communicating since he was posting stuff on Facebook with this other girl and her son. Well, both their children actually. They were doing family activities together."
"How old were the children?" Taehyung questioned.
"About ten years old. The ex was older than me by a decade." Bella shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe he just got tired of taking care of me."
"I'm sorry, Bella." Jimin pulled her into a hug. "You are our baby sister now. Always and forever, maybe even longer. And no jerk is going to do that to you ever again. He will have six of your older brothers to contend with. You know we don't play."
Taehyung chuckled. "I hope you hear that loud and clear, Kookie."
"Thanks, Jimin-oppa." She said, sitting back in her spot on the bed. "Maybe I wasn't the best girlfriend to him, I'm sure I made mistakes too."
"But he couldn't just be a man and have a talk with you about it?" Jimin pushed, frustration in his voice.
Bella shrugged. "I don't know what to tell you, Jimin-oppa. I asked myself the same question." She paused for a moment and continued. "Then one time, it suddenly dawned on me that he once described how he usually acts at the twilight of a relationship. He said he would not break up with the girl, he would just wait for her to give up."
All three idols were listening intently. Bella continued, "I'm the type of person who fights for the relationship and gives it everything she's got even if it would be the death of me. Call it romanticism but I believe in fighting for someone you're in love with. I guess he and I weren't really compatible in that sense."
"How long were you in the relationship?" Jimin inquired.
"Three years, Jimin-oppa. We were already making plans for me to relocate." Bella hung her head. "I was that sure about our commitment to each other. I was ready to leave everything I knew behind. The last time I was in Singapore, he took me to meet his parents and his son. I loved that kid with all my heart, I still do."
"Fu-Fudge." Taehyung breathed. "Meeting the parents and the son? You were that serious and he just ghosted you? Did anything happen during that meet?"
"We stayed at his parent's place for most of the day. I gave his mom dried mangoes, which she absolutely could not get enough of. It's one of our delicacies. I met his mom's best friend, who incidentally is also a Filipino working there. His dad was smiling the whole time and encouraging me to try more of the food that he cooked for lunch. His son and the both of us played Azefalgar together. I met the next-door neighbor in the elevator and his parents introduced me as the girlfriend. What else? Uh, we had dinner at the nearby Thai restaurant. I watched him and his son play soccer before he dropped me off at the airport to come back to Cebu."
