Petal | tk

Chapter 15: Faux

Ignore the mistakes plz :)

Third Person POV

Taehyung stays quiet during most of the ride back to his shop, looking out of the window as the view slowly gets blurred by the slow rain drops that hinder his view now.

"That was quite a fight back there. I missed arena being like that." There's a chuckle from Eunwoo that disturbs Taehyung's thoughts on whatever happened tonight.

Especially what he did and how out of character he was in the room with Jeongguk.

Put your hand on my leg. Taehyung wants to hit his head on the window as he remembers it

"Yeah." Taehyung mumbles.

"Well, hopefully Kang and his sorry excuse of a brother can stay away. I think it's quite a humiliation." Eunwoo says.

"Hopefully?" Taehyung turns to him, frowning. "They should be staying away now. That was the deal. You were there when it happened."

"I know but I'd be honest with you that if Kyungmin and Kang can manage to get back to arena after the shamelessly m*rder attempt as we like to call it as it is, they can come back again." Eunwoo says and Taehyung shivers a little.

"So, the police can't do anything."

"When do they ever when it comes to this." Eunwoo mumbles. "They're always kept away from this which is for the better."

"I thought you rich people can have the police under your control." Taehyung mumbles. Eunwoo chuckle again.

"That too." He says and Taehyung scoffs.

"I knew it."

"But you shouldn't worry about them. As far as I've seen, Yoongi is very protective of you so he won't let them do anything to you." Eunwoo says and Taehyung smiles a little.

"And you've seen what Jeongguk did to that fucker so he won't let anything happen to you either." Eunwoo says and Taehyung feels a jolt in his body at those words, he closes his eyes for a moment to calm his bloody, traitor of a heart.

He doesn't to hear anything about Jeongguk right now or he'd explode.

Taehyung only nods at that.

"You seem very tired." Eunwoo says, glancing at him.

"I feel tired too even though all I did was watch." Taehyung smiles at Eunwoo's worry.

"And that isn't tiring? It's a heart in your throat kind of situation, never once peaceful for a second." Eunwoo says and Taehyung agrees to him completely.

"I'm never watching a fight again." Taehyung chuckles.

"I hope you don't have to." Eunwoo says and glances at him again, Taehyung does too, smiles at him a little.

"Then why do you? You were away from all this but came right back." Taehyung asks.

"It sort of gets into your bones. The thrill to watch. To me, it's not that bad. I watch to watch, Jeongguk is a good friend of mine just like the rest are and that's all." Eunwoo shrugs.

"But to rest of the crowd, it's like an addiction. To bet and to watch people beating eachother. They fucking get off on it if you know what I'm saying." Eunwoo grins as Taehyung makes a displeased face.

"To some, fighting is an addiction and a bad one and to some, it's watching. It's simply like being addicted to substance." Eunwoo says the last line with a glint in his eyes that Taehyung chooses not to ask about.

"So---". Taehyung bites his lower lip, he still has time to stop his next words but a curious bitch is what he's always been.

"So Jeongguk is addicted to it? Fighting in there?" Taehyung asks.