Foolishly Falling

We Meet Again

"JIMIN!!" Yoongi screamed as he was jolted out of a deep sleep. His hands reached out to the other side of his bed. However he was only disappointed as he was greeted with nothing but coldness, as usual. Yoongi made sure that he only sleeps on one side of the bed because he simply could not bring himself to sleep on Jimin's side of the bed. For 3 years, the other side of the bed remained empty and cold, just like Yoongi's heart.
It has been 3 years since that horrible day when his sunshine was ripped apart from him, leaving him cold and hollow. Naturally, many things had changed: Yoongi has become the CEO as he was the sole successor of his father's company; hence, he took over the company when his father decided to retire. One prominent change in Yoongi's life was his nightmares. Every since that fateful day 3 years ago, Yoongi has developed insomnia, and when he do fall asleep, his sleep would be infested with nightmares. The same nightmares came back to him every night. In his nightmares, Jimin's desperate eyes pleaded him as it was been sucked into darkness and Yoongi could not do anything but to stand and watch, and scream desperately. Sometimes, he would dream of Jimin looking down at him with venom in his eyes, and saying, "You useless piece of shit...you could have save me! You are so weak to even protect your own boyfriend!"
After that, Yoongi will be jolted out of his nightmare, only to be awake for the rest of the night, thinking about Jimin, his beautiful Jimin that he was too weak to protect.
Tonight was no exception. Yoongi is now wild awake after a particularly frightening nightmare of being beaten up to death. Yoongi sighed loudly as he ran his hands through his silver hair, staring up to the ceiling and his mind drifted back to the event that happened 3 years ago.

3 years ago, 2015.04.30

Yoongi opened his eyes and he was greeted with a white ceiling. Yoongi was puzzled for a second before the events that happened the night before rushed into his brain like a train wreck, making his brain hurt physically. Yoongi looked around desperately, to be greeted by his parent's worried eyes.
"Yoongi!! Son! You are awake! Are you feeling alright?" Yoongi's mother asked, her voice sounding too loud inside Yoongi's confused brain.
"Ji...Jimin..where is Jimin?" Yoongi managed to whimper a soft question.
"Oh...my poor baby...Yoongi, please rest first, you need to be strong to handle this..." his mother replied.
"Tell me...please I need to know what happened..." Yoongi choked out.
"Ok Yoongi, but please stay strong...Jimin... his body, along with his parent's bodies, was discovered in the fire...." Yoongi's mother managed to say.
Yoongi's mother's voice seemed to drift away as Yoongi allow his brain to let the horrible news sink in. Jimin is dead? His Jimin? No!! That's not possible! Jimin was dragged away in front of his own eyes! Yoongi's thoughts were crowded with so many questions.
"Yoongi...baby..are you ok?" his mother asked.
"Jimin...no...no....it can't be! He was dragged away! NO! He's not dead! We need to find him! NO!!" Yoongi shouted, trying to get out of the hospital bed.
Before he could get out, he found himself being forced down onto the bed by his father and the doctors. Yoongi remembered feeling as helpless as he felt when Jimin's father was assaulting him, before taking Jimin away.
"NO!!PLEASE! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! LET ME GO AND LOOK FOR HIM!!" Yoongi shouted desperately, thrashing around with all his strength, no caring about the pain in his body as all he could think about was Jimin. Yoongi jolted one last time as he felt the doctor injected something on his wrist and he felt himself being drifted back to darkness, he whispered a soft 'Jimin' as he was dragged into the darkness once again.

Yoongi heard the alarm ring and he sighed as he got up from his bed to prepare for work. Inside his shower, his mind was still crowded with the thoughts about Jimin. After that day at the hospital, he realised that he could not convince anyone that Jimin was still alive. Truth to be told, he himself would not have believed that Jimin was still alive if not for that night inside Jimin's kitchen. After all, the police discovered three corpses, which were too burned to identify and it was easy to conclude that Jimin's whole family was burned in the fire. After countless time of trying to convince his parents that JImin was still alive, Yoongi gave up and told himself that he would take the matter into his own hand. To this day, Yoongi was trying to find any traces of the father and son that disappeared without a trace.
Yoongi walked into his office building and he could feel everyone froze around him. One thing that changed also was Yoongi's demeanour. His warm gummy smile and tender eyes were gone, only to be replaced by a cold indifference and soulless eyes. Although he was a fair and kind CEO, nobody dared to even raise their eyes at Yoongi. Some were just too afraid to look at Yoongi while the others just could not stand the cheerless look in his eyes, because it made that equally depressed.
"Yo! Yoongi! My bro! Beautiful morning eh? " Yoongi heard a loud voice that he knew too well.
Everyone in the office was afraid of Yoongi, except for Kim Taehyung. Yoongi could not remember how he met Taehyung. He only recalled that Taehyung was the son of one his father's friend. After their first meeting, that guy just latched onto Yoongi like a koala. Of course Yoongi tried to scare Taehyung away because he did not even want any friends. Sometimes Yoongi wondered if Taehyung is even human, because any normal human would have run off, crying, under Yoongi's insults and threats. However, Kim Taehyung had apparently decided to be Yoongi's friend no matter how many times Yoongi tried to insult him and tell him to back off.
"Hey..." Yoongi replied reluctantly, but he could not hide the slight smile on his lips.
Although Yoongi tried to argue that Taehyung is an annoying little pest, deep down even he could not argue that Taehyung was his saviour. After losing Jimin, Yoongi suffered from depression and it was Taehyung's joyful nature that made the pain in Yoongi's heart a little more bearable. Truthfully, Yoongi did not think that he would be alive and well without Taehyung, and he was very thankful that Taehyung did not give up on him like the rest of the world did.
"Yoongi hyung!! Do you know what day is today?" Taehyung asked gleefully, jumping up and down.
"Eh...Friday?" Yoongi replied, looking confused.
"Oh my god! I can't believe you forgot!! Today is my birthday!" Taehyung shouted, pouting a little with tears in his eyes.
Yoongi chuckled internally, because Taehyung looked like am angry kid.
"Oh...sorry Tae..hmm...what do you want to do?" Yoongi asked, feeling apologetic.
"Let's go ciubbing tonight!" Taehyung exclaimed.
"Tae you know I don't like loud and crowded places" Yoongi tried to argue.
"But hyung...you forgot my birthday! This is the least you could do!" Taehyung replied, pouting again because he knew that Yoongi could not resist it.
"ok..ok fine...whatever.." Yoongi sighed.
"OK!! I'M GOING TO INVITE THE OTHERS ALSO!! THANKS HYUNG!! I LOVE YOU!!" Taehyung jumped happily and skipped out of the office after giving Yoongi a hug, well, more like sqeezing Yoongi.
Yoongi smiled at his cute friend and continued to work, already feeling tired as usual.
Before he knew it, Yoongi found himself inside a crowded club, full of drunken people grinding against each other. Yoongi looked around to see his own friends doing the same thing: Taehyung grinding onto Jungkook, who was Taehyung's high school friend and his no-so-secret crush and Namjoon and Jin flirting with each other at the bar.
Yoongi just sighed and walked out of the club, trying to get some fresh air. As Yoongi stepped out of the stuffy club, he heard a soft voice from the dark alley beside the club. Yoongi was bored, and his curiosity got the better of him as he walked towards the voice. As he got closer, he could hear the faint voices clearer.
"Please don't do it here...let's go somewhere private.." a soft voice pleaded.
"Bitch! I paid you for this! Open up your legs or your pretty little face will be decorated with bruises!" an angry voice hissed back.
Yoongi's eyes widen as he realised the situation. Someone was trying to force a person into having sex in the public! How despicable! Although Yoongi realised that the other person was probably a prostitute, it didn't mean that the person should be humiliated like this.
Before Yoongi should stop himself, he found himself in the dark alley, facing the couple, and realised it was two men. At the same instant, the smaller male looked up and saw Yoongi standing nearby and his eyes widen in surprise. Yoongi was beyond perplexed as he found himself looking into the same deep brown eyes that he stared with adoration 3 years ago.
"Ji...Jimin?" Yoongi exclaimed.