You Never Walk Alone [1st Draft Ver.]

Chapter 32: Friend(s)?

"Hey, Jimin?" Kyung-se called out as he watched the boy sit down on the bench in front of him.

"What?" Jimin asked.

"I...I'm sorry." Kyung-se spoke, suddenly getting up from his seat, kneeling on the floor and bowing 180° at Jimin, the latter's eyes going wide.

"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?" Jimin asked, quickly bending down to grab Kyung-se by the shoulders and picking him up, he could see that the latter was crying.

"I-I'm so sorry for bullying you for so many years, I didn't really know why I was doing it, I just bullied you because my hyung told me to, and his family had done so much for me, I thought this was the least I could do, s-so I obeyed what they said, I'm truly sorry for bullying you Jimin." Kyung-se said, moving to bow again, but Jimin stopped him, "So please, just give me any punishment you think is worthy, or give me all of them at once, I'll take them, I deserve to burn in hell anyw-"

"Hold up, hold up, Where'd this come from?" Jimin asked, "Why are you in this state all of a sudden?"

"Ki-ho hyung, Ki-ha hyung, Kyu-won and I had a bit of a disagreement with hyung, we realised that we only bullied you because hyung told us to, we asked him why he wanted to bully you all this bad and he told me it had something to do with a fight between your father and his father, and then we argued with him because til now we thought you all must've had a rivalry, but then when we saw him blaming you all for something your father did, we decided it was better not to listen to him. And here we are." Kyung-se explained, "Apparently, we aren't allowed to go back home."

"Wait, why are you referring to your father as his father?" Jimin asked.

"We were adopted." Kyung-se admitted, "Kyu-won is my younger brother and Ki-ho and Ki-ha hyung were my aunt's children, my cousins, we lived together as a joint family but then one day, when all four of us were at school, the house caught on fire and all of our family members died so we were sent to the orphanage, and then hyung's family adopted us."

"Oh. I'm terribly sorry that has happened to you." Jimin spoke.

"It's okay, I probably deserve worse for bullying people like you and your brothers." Kyung-se replied, "Again, I'm very sorry for my past actions." He apologised, managing to bow a little bit.

"Don't apologise again and again, it's okay, I...forgive you." Jimin said, giving him a small smile.

"Really? Thank you!" Kyung-se spoke, returning the smile.

"Just, please don't let this apology turn out to be fake." Jimin said and then sat back on his bench.

The teacher came in a bit later and then began teaching.

"Hey, Jimin." Kyung-se called out again, halfway through the lesson, the other boy turned around in his seat.

"Yes?" Jimin spoke.

"Uhm...I'm so sorry for asking this but, c-can you tell my your t-twin brother's name? I forgot." Kyung-se asked.

"It's Taehyung, why do you want to know his name, though?" Jimin replied.

"N-no reason..." Kyung-se answered with a strained smile.

Jimin narrowed his eyes in suspicion, "Okay then..." He said, slowly turning back to the front, doing a double take as he saw a pink shade growing on Kyung-se's face. But he said nothing and continued to focus on the lesson.

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"Um...Namjoon?" Ki-ho called out as he walked into the classroom.