Worlds Apart - Taekook - Book 2

Chapter 283 - Caught Out!

"Fuck off! What do you want now?"

Jungkook realised that he'd possibly said that a little louder than intended. The dancer looks around him but it's early evening and people are busy with their own business, in worlds of their own. No-one cares that Jungkook's phone has lit up with Ash's name for the tenth time.

"I... I sorry...I... s-sorry..."

"Shit!" Jungkook nearly walks into an advertisement board whilst walking along the street, "Sukmin? Is that you? Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" He looked at the screen to check that it definitely said 'Ash' and it definitely did! "I thought it was Ash calling me again... Sukmin?"

Jungkook felt like shit!

He'd stopped off at a few shops on the way home after his impromptu shower at Purple Aura. He'd bumped into Mrs Phan who looked surprised to see him but persisted in squeezing his cheeks and cooing over him, something she'd always done, even now when she'd known him for practically the entirety of his relationship with Taehyung.

It was Valentines day tomorrow... Jungkook picked up some special chocolates and found a card that had 'husband' written a hundred times in a variety of sizes, on and around a big red heart. The card was simple but he'd found it amusing because Tae had an obsession with using the word 'husband' so it was appropriate... plus he liked that this was their first valentines as husbands.

Jungkook still hated occasions where he was expected to give a gift and if that gift was meant to be money, that was worse! Tae said many times that he had Jungkook and he didn't need anything else... but what did that mean?

The dancer didn't know. It didn't make sense and he didn't know what he was expected to do with that information.

Marie said "Oh, how sweet of him!" When Jungkook told her what his husband said but it didn't help him decide about gifts.

Another thing that wasn't helpful was being busy. He'd forgotten about Valentines day until Tae stated that the shower sex was the best valentines present that he could've hoped for!

Now, Jungkook wanted to get home and write in the card before Tae got home. .. instead he dived into 'Ediya Coffee' so he was off the street and could talk properly on the phone.

"Sukmin?"

"Sh-should... I go?"

"No! No, no!" he says, feeling like the worst person in the world. He may as well have kicked a puppy. "Please don't go... I'm here, tell me why you're calling? Is everything okay?"

Ugh! He wanted to murder his best friend!

Sukmin's voice was quiet, "I... I forgot my charger..."

"Is that why you're using Ash's phone?" Jungkook made a mental note to answer the phone and wait to hear the person's voice next time before reacting. He might also consider buying a second portable charger for Sukmin so he can keep one in his bag at all times.

"Y-yeah"

Jungkook could kick himself. He didn't want to upset anyone but to think that he might've upset Sukmin gives him the worst possible feeling. The psychologist at the clinic said that there was a possibility that Sukmin had regressed into a more childlike state, almost as if he was reliving the years he should have experienced. Marie and Billy sought help when Sukmin's speech appeared to be causing him distress as he was stammering more and the speech and language assessor at the hospital referred him for an appointment with a psychologist as he believed there was more to the stammer... and there was. All of the professionals that had seen the young lad agreed that past trauma was causing a lot of his actions but they all recognised that there was a developmental delay.