Across The Fear

35. Fears Of The Past

Flashback to 17 years ago

Seokjin and his family were in Canada for their family vacation.
They all were taking a stroll near the rainbow bridge of Niagara falls. Seokjin was very happy because his family barely had time for him.
Let alone a vacation.

He's a very needy and affectionate kid. Being the only son of his parents, it's just very common to be lonely for him. Maybe that's the very reason why he committed a sin that he promised to not reveal to anyone. His parents knew how lonely their son was and that was the reason they encouraged him instead of prohibiting him.

They were driving back to their hotel.
It was almost midnight so there's a very few vehicle on the way.
Suddenly a car drove past them in a very high speed. And the next minute, the saw the same car crashed into a lamppost and spinned around a few times getting into a huge accident.
Mr Kim drove near the spot and saw a woman in her 40s, crawling out of the car with a small boy around 3 to 4 years in her arms. She was covered in blood she held her child tightly in her embrace. The child seem to have fainted due to shock. She walked towards the car and tapped on the window for some help.

Mr Kim rolled down the car window when the women started talking with a trembling voice.
"P-please save my kids. M-my dau-daughters are stuck i-inside t-the car." She cried begging the couples to save her children.
Mrs Kim nodded and took the fainted kid into her arms and laid him in little Seokjin's lap who immediately started to stroke the latter's head.

The couple were about to step out of the car when they already saw the woman ran back to her car, to save her daughters.
Just then a truck hit the car and it caught up the flames. Seokjin started crying seeing the horrible view infront of him.
Mrs Kim got worried and told her husband to drive away from the scene.

They reached back to their hotel room when the young boy woke up and suddenly started crying badly seeing the strangers. He kept calling for his mother. Mrs Kim wasn't able to calm the child. But shockingly, Seokjin was the one able to do so.
Mr Kim suggested that they should tell the cops but Seokjin didn't let them.
He persuaded his parents and told them how sad and lonely he feels when they leave him behind due to business purposes.
If anything, Mr Kim was very weak for his son's tears.
He gave in to his son's wish and the next morning they all flew back to South Korea.

A couple of days later, Seokjin found a scrapbook in the other kid's bagpack and saw a family photo of his.
The book contained his personal details and contact number etc.
Under the photo there was a name written in bold characters

Victor Sampson.

[V]

Seokjin pulled out the picture and threw the book away. He kept the picture in his album and hid it.
He grew too attached to the new boy in house that he didn't want to be alone. To his eyes, Victor was his brother and he wouldn't let anyone take his brother away.
But still, he kept Victor's family photo so that if somebody claims Victor as their child, he would have proof to protect the younger.

The picture was of none other than
Isabelle Sampson, her twin daughters, second daughter of the Sampsons Y/N and Victor (Taehyung).

But what he didn't know was that he's unknowingly stirring up someone's life very bad.

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Everyone was in tears hearing Seokjin. Jungkook was the most traumatized hearing his hyung's confession.
All his life, he always admired his Jin hyung. He always looked up at him.
To him, perfection and Jin were the same thing.
But right now, all he felt was betrayal.
He couldn't believe that his hyung actually did something so low.
That his perfect hyung stole someone's only family.