New Horizons

part 16

It’s weekend and a peaceful day for taehyung. Peaceful because he has no work today. His step children left for their mother in the morning. His in laws also aren’t home. They went to jungkook’s cousin’s house. So only taehyung and jungkook are at home basically doing nothing. Taehyung has given a day off to the maids thinking they should get some rest too.

Currently, jungkook Is sitting on the couch and watching a tv show which suits his age. The whole house is empty and he feels awfully better. Because most of the time when he is sitting here mostly maids are around him and sometimes he feels annoyed. Well he is a person who loves privacy, and now no one is here to glance at him or look at him which is making him awfully comfortable.

He looks around to spot taehyung but when he doesn’t find him, he slowly-slowly pulls a packet of cigar from inside of his sweat pant pocket. Then he pulls up a lighter and lits up the cigar cautiously. Not like he fears taehyung, hell no! but last time taehyung embarrassed him so he avoids smoking in front of him. And whenever he smokes he washes his hand so well and gurgles his mouth to leave no trace.

Just as he takes only two puffs of the cigar, he sees taehyung coming downstairs with a red basket full of washed clothes. Seeing taehyung coming, jungkook panics and hurriedly hides the cigar behind his back and sits like nothing happened.

Taehyung glances at jungkook and is about to go outside of the house to let the clothes dry. But he stops in the middle of the living room and looks at jungkook with frown. At first jungkook doesn’t notice as he is looking at the tv. But he also glances at his wife when he sees taehyung coming to his direction with frowned eyes.

‘’what happened?’’ jungkook asks.

‘’what is this?’’ taehyung speaks with a panicked voice pointing toward jungkook’s left side. Hearing taehyung jungkook turns his head toward the left side and his soul leaves his body

‘’are you smoking?’’ taehyung says and holds jungkook’s right hand to see what’s happening.

‘’oh my god you burnt the couch!’’ taehyung says staring at the big burnt hole on the gray couch from where light smoke is still blowing. Well Jungkook managed to hide his cigar but accidentally it touched the couch and made the specific area burnt.

Jungkook hurriedly throws the cigar down and presses it with his slipper. Taehyung touches the couch and looks at jungkook who is looking down like a criminal.

‘’did you buy this couch with your money or your father with his money?’’ taehyung asks.

‘’why?’’ jungkook asks as he looks up to taehyung.

‘’you have no one to scold you. That’s sad. If It was my place then I would scold you.’’ Taehyung says. ‘’you know my ex husband smoked behind my back… and when I caught him- do you know what I did to him?’’ taehyung asks.

‘’how would I know? I wasn’t there..’’ jungkook says being unsure of what to answer.

‘’that’s right. How would you know. So when I caught him I pulled his ear so hard that his ear lobe actually got tore and bleed. Well it wasn’t my intention. But he had ear piercing so I accidentally pulled his earring and it happened.’’

Jungkook stares at taehyung without answering. Why is he saying this? Does he want to pull his ears too? Bold of him assume that jungkook would let him.