for you ❥ vrene

25: You Still Love Me

Taehyung's POV

Jungkook and I ran as fast as we could towards, what it looks to be, a burglar? A murderer? However, we wouldn't make a sound as it would just expose us running towards him, to pin him down.

Irene however, decided to scream for her life. I wouldn't blame her for being alarmed either. She's not used to loan sharks and gangs willing to kill you for money, as her father was a billionaire who was probably associated with all of the gangs in Soeul. She's still oblivious to the fact that the man she met in the police station is challenging me. He's ready to take everything away from me.  He wants the money my father left us after my parents' divorce, which we don't have anymore. The bank took it all. We had to give the money up to live in peace.

Well now we don't have peace. Kim Jung Soo is after it. He's after something we don't have.

The burglar was about to dashi run away from us, when the golden maknae had pounced on him. I stopped running, trying to catch my breath from running 100 meters in 7 seconds. I don't know how Jungkook managed to run it in 5.

Jungkook was pinning him to the ground. Omma and Yeri had been standing on the porch, with the expression of fear, confusion, and caution. Irene ran over to them, welcoming them into a warm, bear hug.

I look back over to see Jungkook struggling to keep him down. The burglar however was reaching towards his knife slowly, and Jungkook had no idea of what he was doing as everything was happening too fast for him to keep up with the situation.

I ran as fast as I could and pushed Jungkook off of him. I grabbed the burglars hand and snatched the knife, away from his tight grip and threw it into the bushes on the other side of the yard.

Boy was that a mistake. While I was using both of my hands to snatch the knife, he flipped me over, making me hit my head hard on the ground. He quickly got up but then.... fell down?

I looked up to see Joohyun with a rock in her hand. As his body fell to the ground, I saw a wound on his head. She did the same thing I did to her father. We make a good couple.

She bent over to feel if the pulse was still going  in his body.

"Don't worry, he's alive." She said happily, with a cocky smirk plastered on her face.

Damn, I love her.

She gently picked up my head and placed it on her lap. I looked over to see if Jungkook was okay, and I could clearly see how shook he was on Irene's actions. He walked towards us with an amazed facial expression and a thumbs up.

"Woah Noona!  That was amazing!!! If you can hit a head that hard with a rock, what would you do if you played baseball?!" The suddenly innocent maknae said.

"Thanks Kookie, but what do we do with him now?" She said signalling to the burglar, who was as still as a dead body, around 3 feet from us.

"Should we take him to the hospital, police station, -" Jungkook started but I cut him off.

"No, we should keep him here, tied up in the basement."

"Oh, good idea Hyung!" I knew he would agree with the plan, beacuse he knows of the situation I'm in right now.

"W-w-why?" Irene said confused and scared.

I sat up, cupping her face, telling her it's okay. That she can trust me, everything will be okay as I was gently stroking her cheeks with my thumb.

"Do you trust me?" I asked her.

"Yes. More than myself."

I was happy to hear those words coming out from her mouth. It shows that nothing has changed between us after the whole incident.

"But, do you trust me?" She asked leaving me confused. She has no reason to ask me this, she did nothing wrong.

"Of course. I can trust you, even if my life depended on it."

"Good. If you do trust me, then tell me what's really going on Tae."

"What do you mean?"

"You were holding onto me in the car as that if and when you let go, you were going to die. Like your life depended on me."

"You trust me right?"

"Always" She said while nodding.

"I'll tell you when it's the right time."

I  let go of her face, and held on to her hand while Jungkook was struggling to pick up the unconcious body from the ground.

I was pulling her with me towards the house, but for some reason she wasn't moving. I looked back, to see her with her head hanging low, making her look at her shoes nervously.

I walked back to her, squatting so I could meet her gaze, that was on the ground. She was crying.

I stood up and placed my finger under her chin. I slowly lifted her face so I could look in her eyes with comfort.

"Why are you crying?" I asked with concern in my voice.

She broke down and held me tight, with her arms wrapped around my waist.

"I'm sorry you need to deal with Jung Soo uncle." She said in between her sobs.

"You know him personally, or did you meet him for the first time today?"

"Personally. He's a dangerous man. He has eyes everywhere Tae. He made my life hell. I won't let that happen to you though Tae. We'll face him together. I promise." She whispered into my chest.

I kissed her forehead softly in appreciation and gratitude.

"Thank you for always supporting me Hyun-ah."

"No problem."

"By the way, you were pretty rough back there. You should be rough with me sometimes." I said whispering in her ear, with my lips touching her skin.

"Yah! Behave yourself! You're unbelievable." She scoffed with a shy smile.

"You love me." I said in a cocky tone. I know it's true.

"Such a pervert." She compliained, lightly pushing me away. She started to walk towards Omma, Jungkook and Yeri.

"You still love me." I laughed as I caught up and walked close, beside her.