Protecting the Heart | A taekook story

3. How about i give you a ha...?

Bogum and Yeonjin both left in embarrassment.

Jungkook became anxious and scared the moment Taehyung fell in his arms. The person was trembling all over, totally different from his imposing confrontation a while ago.

Taehyung whimpered and tears fell from his eyes staining Jungkook's tee. He was weak and hurt. No matter how calm he was before, his heart was in turmoil. He didn't want to show his weakness but he couldn't help it.

"Hyung..." Jungkook said weakly while he supported the other male. He could feel Taehyung's emotions pouring out but he couldn't do anything. He was feeling devastated.

"Why...why..." Taehyung muttered in tears and pain. He wanted to know why he was betrayed. Why was his love of 4 years suddenly shattered like this? He wanted to know what wrongs he did to be treated like this.

Jungkook understood his thoughts and patted him soothingly, "You didn't do anything wrong... it's them to be blamed, hyung." Jungkook closed his eyes and rested his chin on Taehyung's head and kept patting the person. Seeing him like this, his heart felt like cutting into a thousand pieces with a knife. He was angry too as how can someone hurt such a beautiful soul.

Suddenly, Taehyung gagged and quickly pushed the younger male and rushed to the side and vomited heavily. His stomach churned as if someone was stirring up his organs inside. When he recalled his sister sticking to his boyfriend, he felt dizzy and disgusted. He vomited everything he ate and drank in the party and his insides were painful. Jungkook hastily ran to him and patted him. He wasn't disgusted to see the vomit at all and soothed him patiently.

His stomach was empty and only water kept coming out. Taehyung stood up and leaned limply against the wall and closed his eyes. Jungkook gave him the water bottle to rinse his mouth which he bought in the meantime from the convenience store.

Everything returned to calm but his tears were silently falling down. His face was pale and eyes red. "...why am I always betrayed by close ones?" He didn't intend to get any response, he just wanted to vent his emotions. Jungkook listened patiently. "It was all lovey-dovey, pink bubbles. Before falling in love I made faces at people who showed affection in public and were childish with their lovers, but love really makes people blind, I became one of them too. I was so confident in my love but I was slapped by reality and laughed at. Sure enough, first love fails." Taehyung chuckled warily.

"It wouldn't have been that hurtful if it were some other girl or guy, but it was my sister unfortunately. She wanted to beat me in every aspect since childhood by notorious means. I don't know what made her so jealous of me. Even my parents didn't find her behaviour wrong and instead encouraged her to do so. When she came to know about my sexual orientation, she was laughing hysterically and looked at me with disgusted eyes. She told mom and dad about it and even added extra words to ignite the fire and they beat me and spat and even said that it was their bad luck to have me. They took me to different doctors to cure my sexual orientation but when they realised it couldn't be cured, they abandoned me when I had just turned 17. I lived on my own in some dilapidated apartment. I know how to cook and clean all thanks to them...then came Bogum in my life after years, who made me feel loved and cared for. I thought I finally had a family of my own...but how could I forget I was born to be doomed...I was fed with sweet potion just to drown in a bitter ocean."

"When I had finally gotten my job, my parents greedily came to me, showing their so-called parental love. For a moment I thought they finally loved me...then they asked me for money...and even approached Bogum... I was heartbroken, yelling at them, crying and begging to stop deepening my unhealed wound. I was never favoured to come out of trauma, I guess."

"Let me lean on you for a while." Without waiting for the response, Taehyung leaned his head on Jungkook's shoulder. From the start to the end, Jungkook never spoke because he didn't know what to say. Hearing the words which can only be told to someone close to heart, he felt complicated and hurt. His hyung suffered this much and he didn't even know a single thing. From his childhood to adulthood, his life journey was smooth, he had loving parents, siblings and a good amount of property and money to inherit. The only hardship he suffered was the training in the police academy. He couldn't even imagine a helpless teen living alone in darkness, his daily routine being cooking and eating alone, studying hard to maintain his scholarship and get a better life.