On Your Way ✓

Chapter 4.

3rd person POV:

"When did it go wrong?" Taehyung asks himself every once in a while.

Was it when he was 5 years old and he saw his mother crying her eyes out as she begged and screamed at her father to stay and not leave her and their son alone as he hid behind a door listening to everything when he should've been sleeping instead?

Was it that, when his father ignored all her pleas and packed his stuff and left forever without saying a single word and he had rushed to the window to see him throwing his luggage inside a car before a man got out of it and kissed his father on the lips?

Or was it when after a year that he left, his mother had slapped him for the first time because he was holding hands with another boy when she had come to pick him up from his friend's house where he was having a sleepover and he was never allowed to even sit next to that boy again?

Was it when he was 11 and had sneakily painted his nails by stealing the bottle from his mother's room and was caught, and she asked him why he would do that to which his answer was that his friend had said how much he loved painted nails on others and he wanted to impress him? He remembers that was the first time his mother had ever beat him up and once again, he was never allowed to talk to the other boy after that.

Was it when he was 13 and he had kissed another boy and had gone home giggling to himself and his mother had asked him what got him so happy to which he hadn't answered which had resulted in his mother snatching his phone and going through it. She had read his conversations with the boy he liked. He was homeschooled after that and all his devices had been snatched from him, and he was not allowed to go out on his own after that.

Or was it when he was finally 18 and was allowed to attend University and once brought a girl home who was just a friend but his mother had misunderstood that and thought she was his girlfriend? That was the first time his mother had hugged him after his father had left.

Or was it when he started bringing more and more girls home every few months, making them lie to his mother that they were his girlfriends and his mother had started acting like the same woman she was before his father had left?

Maybe it was when he was 21 and had fallen in love with someone selfishly knowing he could never accept it and had treated the person so poorly, had treated them like a dirty little secret for years before they were finally done with him and had left him for good and he had been so devastated and out of his mind that he had finally snapped at his mother, yelled at her and let out all the frustration he had pent up inside him, a month later he had been forced to marry someone he didn't even love at the age of 24 or his mother would've killed himself before him?

When did it go wrong?

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