On-Way Passage || ᴠᴍɪɴ

Extra 3

Jimin didn’t know where he was heading yet, but he didn’t want to stay at Hyungjin no matter what.

He grabbed the letter and made his way to the entrance of the lab, but right as he opened the door, he ran into someone, which caused the letter in his hands to fall to the ground.

Furthermore, the impact this time was so powerful that Jimin, whose head had been slightly lowered, knocked his nose against the other man’s shoulder, and he immediately felt it twinge with pain.

When he raised his head, he discovered that the man was, yet again, Taehyung.

Taehyung looked back at him. Brows suddenly furrowing, he said, “Your nose is bleeding.”

Jimin jolted with shock. Sure enough, when he lifted a hand to feel his nose, it came away stained with blood. He promptly cocked his head back and pinched the bridge of his nose to stop the bleeding.

Taehyung handed him a tissue.

Jimin took the proffered tissue and wiped at his bloody nose and lips, but the blood was sticky, and cleaning it up with just a tissue was impossible. He thus turned around to make his way to the toilet and wash his face.

“Wait.” Taehyung knelt down and picked up Jimin’s resignation letter. He gave the envelope a brief look, then handed it to Jimin after a brief pause.

Jimin accepted the letter with his clean hand. Thinking that he was going to resign anyhow, he directly turned and departed without so much as a thank you.

Jimin entered the toilet and made sure that his nosebleed had stopped entirely before washing his face and hands with water. The resignation letter had been folded and tucked into his pants pocket, and after drying his hands, he took it out again, glanced down at it, and made his way outside.

Taehyung happened to be at Jo Hongyu’s office at this time. Jimin could vaguely hear them talking through the door. After a moment’s hesitation, Jimin decided against stepping inside. He slipped his resignation letter back into his pocket, hoping to try again once Taehyung had left.

And yet the outcome of his waiting was Hongyu leaving the laboratory with Taehyung.

Jimin sat down on his seat and stuffed the envelope back inside his drawer, planning to return tomorrow morning and hand it in. He’d been dragging his feet anyway, and the resignation process usually took more than a day or two.

When office hours ended, Jimin walked out of the red-brick building housing the labs wearing a short white T-shirt, loose, light grey cotton pants, and a pair of not-so-clean sneakers.

His T-shirt had the words “Promising Young Man” printed on the chest, but Jimin’s listless gaze made him look more like an idle and unmotivated university student as he walked down the path of the research institute with a crossbody bag over his shoulder.

When he arrived at the gates, he noticed a black SUV parked on the side of the road, with Taehyung standing next to it. Dressed in a suit and tie at the entrance of the institute, his look of an elite was particularly conspicuous.

Taehyung was the first to call out to Jimin, after which he said, “I wanted to apologise.”

“Hm?” Jimin had no idea what he was referring to.

“May I invite you to dinner?” said Taehyung.

“You want to invite me to dinner? Why?” Jimin was perplexed as to what Taehyung was after.

“To apologise for yesterday and earlier today,” said Taehyung. He then paused before continuing, “I was in a bit of a hurry that day, at the headquarters. I’m sorry.”