My Bestfriends brother

08. Heart to Heart

"Hey." I glanced over my shoulder to see my co-worker Avery. He usually stayed back after work to make sure all of us girl got home safe after some guy started stalking one of the girls who worked with us.

"Hey. My friend is coming to pick me up." I told him.

"Jennie?" He asked.

"No, Taehyung. He just got back today." His face lit up.

"Taehyung? I haven't se-"

"Avery!" We both looked over at the sound of his voice. Tae had his head out the window. Both started talking animatedly.

After the two caught up I said bye to Avery and got in with Taehyung.

"Look, you were right. I should've called. Really, I'm sorry."

"No, you had every right. I just felt left behind, but we can fix that. And I want to meet her, the right way this time."

"Left behind?" He asked startled.

"It was completely unfair to you . ." And we ended up talking in his car for the next two hours. He caught me up on how he met her; a music shop.

I told him how I felt, and it came out that we were both pretty insecure.

We ended up having a laugh about the stupidity of it all, but knew that it's what we really needed to help us grow more.

"Hows your mom, the situation gotten any better?" He asked.

"Yea, I mean I help out with the bills here and there a bit, but I don't really mind."

"She's an amazing mother, but I hate that you have to help with the bills. Still."

"It's gotten better. She's really going out of her way to try and fix herself. After the divorce it was hell, she hardly ate and slept all day, bit it helped knowing you were there. She's working now, and raising a case against her ex-husband. And I mean we get along well. We communicate much more than we used to."

I never liked to make a sob story out of my life or my mom, neither of us deserved that. After her ex robbed us out of the divorce, it was hard times for a while.

But we got back on track, slowly but surely.

He took a lot from us, and verbally assaulted my mom after the wedding for not being a virgin on her wedding night even though it was obvious, being twenty six with an eleven year old. She had me when she was fifteen.

But she didn't want him to pity her when they got together for being taken advantage of, so she never told him the truth. They divorced two years ago.

Taehyung was the only one who knew what was truly going on, not even Jen or Ji knew.

"Sleepover at my place?" He asked.

We ended up in his room with popcorn, chocolates, mashed potatoes, and takeout from places around town. We had Indian, Chinese, German and Mexican. Gilmore style.

I've always been a cuddly person, and was honestly confused on the limits we had now. We sat arms touching for the first part of the movie, and then said fuck it, we're still friends and don't want sex out of it, so it's fine. The lines used to be blurred, but with us being away and growing up a bit more, we learned to communicate a bit more than beforehand.

He had told me more about his girlfriend. Jay sounded well rounded, and he said she was a big inner nerd. I smiled at that. A big talker, out going but not naive, funny and beautiful inside and out, though he didn't have to tell me that. Her beauty was evident, prominent.

After the movies and food I decided that I really wanted to meet her right then and there again.

So we called her, she couldn't come over, but we did facetime. She knew about our past together, but I reassured her that that was in the past. She didn't seem like she needed it, but I really just wanted her to know. She understood how standoffish I had been, and said that she hadn't blamed me, that she'd have been the same way if the roles were reversed.

We finally said goodbye about thirty minutes after and fell asleep to a movie playing.

When I woke up, Taehyung was gone and the TV was playing classical music.

Getting up with a sigh, I made my way towards the kitchen.

"Thanks for the clothes, whatcha makin?"

"Some garlic and egg fried rice." I smiled.

"Ooh."