His Smile... (Part1) [JK]

Who Cares?

{MinJi's POV}

"Choi what happened to you?!" Jungkook yells. I put my hand over his mouth to silence him and dragged him into the school garden located in the back of the school.

I stop and turn around as he stands there, staring at me. I limp towards a nearby bench and sit down, slowly and carefully.

Before I know it, tears are slipping from my already swollen eyes. I cover my face and cry into my hands.

What do I do? Do I tell him? He'll probably laugh at me and tell me to suck it up, right?

"Choi, please talk to me. Tell me what happened. I'll listen and I can help too. We are friends, right?" He says as he kneels in front of me.

Friends?..

I remove my hands from my face and look down at him as a tear accidentally slips from my eye and falls onto his cheek.

"I-I'm sorry" I say as I wipe the tear from his cheek with my hand.

He takes my hand and leans his face into it my palm.

"No, don't apologize. Do you want to talk about it? Did someone hurt you? Did someone bully you? Who was it?" Jungkook says in a gentle tone.

See? Why is he like this now? Why is it when others are around, he acts so cold towards me? But when we're alone, he becomes soft-hearted and kind.

"Choi, please, talk to me. Did a bully cut you all up? Did they bruise you?" He says as he lets go of my hand and grabs my arm gently. I wince and his eyes widen as he looks down. He pulls up my sleeves to see bruises and cuts trailing up my arm.

"D-Do you cut yourself?" He says quietly.

"No." I say with 100% honesty.

"Then who did this?" He asks again with a stern voice.

A flashback of my father throwing things at me and kicking me comes back and I grip my arm once again, digging my nails into my skin.

Focus on the pain, forget and never think about what happened that night.

"Hey!!! Hey, stop that!!" Jungkook yells as he smacks my hand away from my arm.

He sighs, stands up, and pulls me up from the bench and envelopes me in a hug.

"You can cry now. No one will see you cry if your face is buried in my chest", Jungkook says as his arms tighten around me. I wince again and he lets go of me while looking at me up and down. He touches my stomach with the palm of his hand and I almost scream out in pain. I fall onto the ground while holding my stomach. I can't help but cry as I rock back and forth in agony.

"Oh my...." Jungkook mutters as he sits down and pulls me into a hug, but lightly wraps his arms around me.

"I'm here for you... You can cry and scream to your hearts content", Jungkook says as he kisses the side of my head.

As those words fell from his lips, I couldn't help but cry and scream. Life was unfair, why was I being punished? What did I do?

Before I've realized it, I've cried myself to sleep in Jungkooks arms in the middle of the schools garden.

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A couple days passed since then. I never told Jungkook why I looked like a mess. I told him to not ask me about it anymore and even though he hates it, he avoids asking me the same questions he asked me that day.

My dad has turned more abusive towards me. He already knocked me out by hitting my head with his lamp.

But don't worry, I'm fine now. I just had a bad headache for the rest of that day...