Pinky Promise--Taekook

info dump pt.2

We arrived at school holding hands, Taehyung practically skipping next to me. He was chatting excitedly about bringing me along on a surprise this weekend. 

"What? Like ice skating?" I ask. 

"No!" He throws his head back and gives me a glare. 

The past few days he'd been more energetic than he had been the past few months. Being away from Jiwoo seemed to have helped him a lot. 

"I'm never going ice-skating again." He pouts. 

"We're going ice skating?" Hoseok steps up to us, dragging Jimin behind him. He wears a bright smile like always. 

"No!" Tae exclaims. 

I laughed, pulling him to our class. He refused to let go of my hand throughout class. I thought it was cute. 

Taehyung disappeared during break and Namjoon walked up to my desk. I frowned. Did he know about Yoongi? Did he know Jin and I were fighting?

"I need you to come to my place after school" he says, leaning over my desk. 

"Why? You asking me out?" I looked up at him. 

"Please, it's important/" He pleads his eyes big. He looked tired. He definitely knew.

"fine" I say after a moment. He nodded and left the room quietly. Taehyung slipped past him and skipped up to our desks, holding a little box in his hands. He turned to me with bright eyes. 

"You proposing?" I tease. 

"No--better" He grins.

"Better?" 

"Promise rings" He smiles. They were both sterling silver, and each featured to hands with their pinky's linked. "Here" He puts one on my left ring finger. 

I stare at it, moving my hand in the light. 

"Do you like it?" He asks nervously. 

"Yes, of course. What are we promising?" I looked up at him. 

"To never fall out of touch again." He puts one on his own hand. His eyes are big, full of bright excitement. I like seeing him like this. 

"Sounds like a plan" I link my pinky with him. He smiles and kisses me. 

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I lunch I wanted to give Taehyung a treat, so I went to the cafeteria. I bought him a can of guava juice and walked back out. A hand grabbed my shoulder as I walked out of the cafeteria building. 

A crazed woman. 

But I recognize her. Harin. Her hair was amess and her face mascara stained. "You did this to me!" she hits me on the head. If fell to the concrete. "You're the one who sending me to jail!" 

"You deserve it!" Is napped, looking up at her. 

"Say that to my face" She retorts, glaring down at me. 

So, I stood and look her in the eyes. "You. Deserve. it" 

She screams and grabs my shoulders, throwing me into a metal fence. I hit the ground with a yell. "This is your fault! All your fault! You useless brat!" She yelled and kicked me. 

Security ran up and grabbed her, yelling at her to calm down while she kept screaming at me to go and die. 

I escaped before anyone could talk to me. I felt my hands shaking. I got inside and leaned against a wall. This was all my fault. 

My lungs burned for air that wasn't there. Fuck. not again. 

"Kook?"

Taehyung stood in front of me. He hugged me, seeing my distress. I couldn't say anything. "You're shaking..." 

Indeed, my whole body was trembling with panic. Taehyung holds me like a solid rock, keeping me steady. "What happened?"

"Harin showed up" I say, barely more than a whisper. 

"What?" 

"She hit me" I mumbled. 

"Now way" He gasps. "That--"

He turns back to the direction I came, but I grabbed his sleeve. "Don't, please" He turns and sees my expression, then comes back to me. 

"I'm sorry." 

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Namjoon dragged me along to his storage container, chatting about how important this was to him. I didn't know what this was about, but I had my theory's. I brought Taehyung for emotional support just because. 

We arrived and Namjoon stopped chattering as soon as we stepped into the Livingroom, where Jin was waiting for us. "Jungkook, I just want to talk" he says softly. Taehyung takes my hand, standing behind me. 

I take a deep breath. "Talk then" I raise my chin and meet his eyes. 

"Yoongi didn't want to tell me about his plan. I made him, I knew something was off about him. He told me about being in a gang and about how hard his life was. 

He made me promise that I wouldn't tell you. We couldn't risk someone else knowing. He wanted to protect you, because you're so easily accessible to Changbin. Changbin had to know he was dead. 

I'm really sorry for keeping it from you, it was heartbreaking to see you in pain. I'm sorry for saying the things I said and yelling" The words rush out of his mouth, and I see tears fall down his cheeks. 

"I'm sorry for being so hard to talk to" I respond. 

He hugs me tightly, laughing. "Oh, thank god." 

Namjoon cheered form the corner. "Get over here you mother fucker, I missed you too!" Namjoon teases me and I laughed, holding him tightly. 

Pulling away, I turned back to Jin. "The others don't know, do they?" 

He shook his head. "No, I'll leave that to Yoongi.  He can do whatever he wants about it, it's out of my hands. He probably doesn't want them to know yet, so it's best we don't tell them until we know they know." 

I nodded, glad to have another best friend back. 

"So old man, want to play games?" I tease Jin and wrap an arm around Taehyung.  Jin starts off on an angry rant and I laughed with Joon and Taehyung.