SAVE ME || JIKOOK ✅

6.

JUNGKOOK POV

I barely remembered the
journey back down the porch steps and to the driveway
where I'd parked my car.

The outside houselights
seemed too bright.

The sky looked inescapably black.

I kept tripping over myself.

My car looked odd.

Too big.

Too different.

Not my own.

But when I pressed the fob to unlock it, it flashed at me
letting me know it was mine.

I opened the door and got
inside.

Everything went dark.

I sat and stared, getting
myself together.

The house in front of me, the
Parks home was darker than when I'd first driven up.

The lights had gone out
entirely on the lower level.

On the second story, I saw
faint light in one window.

I knew, without quite understanding how, that
was Jimin's room.

My thoughts went out to him.

He'd lived in that room his
whole life, in darkness during
the day, only coming out at
night yet still unwelcome in
his own household.

How could any parent think
their own child was a demon?

I had always felt myself a tolerant person, respectful
of others' beliefs.

But this was something I
couldn't understand.

It made me angry and sad
and frustrated.

I could still smell his scent.

Like my childhood soul coming
to life as an adult, awake
for the first time in years.

It was all over me, strong and cloying, as if causing my cells
to evolve into something new.

My cock was quite awake,
as well. No surprise there.

I stared upward at that golden window and had a brief
weird thought.

How do I get up there?

How do I take him in my arms and carry him away from all
this madness he's had to
endure?

I thought about trellises and ladders and tree branches arching like bridges.

But there was nothing like that anywhere near his window.

I squeezed my hands together.

I still held my fob as if it was some sort of lifeline.

I couldn't bring myself to
start the car engine.

How could I leave now when I knew my mate was alone and unhappy in a place that hated him?

And yet, I had a promise of marriage.

That was something.

But trust wavered.

It had to do with his fathers.

They had lied on his profile.

They would lie to protect their faith, no question.

What if they changed their
minds about me?

They could snatch Jimin
right out of my hands
without a blink.

I kept thinking I should have grabbed him and taken him
right then and there.