A Pure Soul

32.

"Now come on, Jimin-ah. I'll show you the world of fashion."

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The car ride was quiet. Jin focused on the road ahead, while Taehyung sat beside him, holding an iPad and studying a report. The report detailed an attack by a small group outside their territory the previous night. Taehyung wanted to ensure that they did not pose a threat to their empire, but as he suspected, they were merely a small group of slightly more than ten wannabe gangsters. 

Jimin sat in the backseat, watching as they drive past the city in a blur. Jimin couldn't deny that he felt somewhat awkward; he had never spent this long in silence in a small space with any of them. It made him feel a bit uneasy, and he shifted every few seconds in his seat, which did not go unnoticed by the others.

"What's wrong Jimin-ah?" Taehyung laid his iPad away and looked inside the mirror, where both their eyes meet. "Nothing." Jimin was quick to answer. It was needless to say that both Jin and Taehyung weren't convinced by the answer. 

They looked at each other with a knowing look. In an instant Jin drove to the side of the road and hit the brakes, which caught Jimin off guard. The seatbelt was the only thing keeping him safe in his seat, as without it he would have been thrown out trough the front window. 

In synch both Taehyung and Jin turned around and began staring at the youngest, their intense gazes made him even more uncomfortable and he noticed how his shifting worsened. "It's nothing really." Jimin tried to convince them, but once again he was meet with nothing but their eyes piercing his body and the loud silence... 'Was this some kind of torture method?' 

Jimin tried his best to not break under their stares, he wanted to hold the contact, but it was too much pressure, he noticed how he looked away every few seconds, only to be meet once agian with their stares as soon as he looks up at them once again. 

Almost a minute passed in complete and utter silence, when Jimin blurted out: "It's nothing, I just feel like a freeloader, to go shopping with me is not only a waste of money but also of your time!" Jimin didn't want to talk about his actual thought on going shopping, he didn't want to be considered ungreatful, but yet here he was breaking under the silent gazes of the others.

"Yah, do not speak of yourself in such a manner!" Jin admonished Jimin as soon as those words left his mouth Jimin did not anticipate such an explosive reaction from Jin, which frightened him slightly 'Is he angry with me?' Jin has been the calmest and most caring the past week attempting to regulate the others when they were too wild or loud for Jimin. Therefore, hearing him raise his voice was truly alarming.

Jin could see that he had starddeled his mochi, that's why he gave him an apologetic smile. His voice came out louder and harsher, than he had intended. In his defence his blood just started to boil, when Jimin said those words, he was furious Jimin was belittling himself and he was even more furious at the person in fault for Jimin's small and fragile self-esteem.

"What Jin wanted to say is, that you are an amazing human! We want you to see yourself the same way we see you... It doesn't exist enough money on this earth to even reach your worth the slightest bit! Every penny spent on you is well spend!" Taehyung finally broke the thick air. Jin nodded in agreement, with every word that left the other's mouth, while Jimin just stared at both of them with glassy eyes.