What You Do To Me || KTH✔

Chapter 33

|Jihee's P.O.V.|

It's been 2 months since the incident... And my life sucks more than ever.

Jiyeon, Jisung, and I all moved in with my halmeoni. Jisung has been avoiding Jiyeon and I, which was to be expected. I know he still blames me for everything... And that bothers me. I'm trying to ignore it, but that thought of him hating me is always at the back of my mind. I wish it would go away... But I don't know how.

The murder case went to court, and there's no way that appa will be proven innocent. Tae and I caught him red handed (literally), the police are completely sure he did it, and he even confessed in court... but there hasn't been a final decision on the prison sentence yet, so we don't know how long he'll be in there yet.

I don't get why I was protecting him earlier, it was a stupid thing to do. I was such a pabo... I should've listened to Jisung! I was just being so ignorant, and things might have just worked out a bit better if I had listened. But now I had to live with it...

After the incident, I was out of school for a long time, probably like a month. I just refused to go for so long that halmeoni hired a private tutor for a little while, but after a month she forced me to go back.

I hadn't really talked to any of my friends except Sora, but they understood. I needed my time to be alone. Sora was an exception, she always had someway to improve my situation if I was feeling down. But even so, I still was a bit anti-social with her as well.

At lunch I would sit alone at our old table, and then Sora would come and join me. I was just scared that BTS wouldn't be as welcoming, especially since I haven't known them as long.

Sora's been telling me for the past two months that they've missed me so much, and I think I might be starting to want to rejoin them. But I'm not sure about it, and I'm a bit reluctant to just jump back to the way things were before.

But I think the main reason I want to go back at all is Tae. I've missed him the most, and he hasn't tried calling me or texting me, like the others. I don't get it, he's the one that's my boyfriend, not them! If anything, my phone should be blowing up with his messages and calls, but I guess not. Unless he lost his phone... Yeah, that's probably it... Why would he avoid me?

I mean, it's kind of odd that Taehyung isn't talking to me, and I want to figure out what's wrong, but what if the answer is something I don't want to hear? I'd prefer to just go talk to him and figure it out, but I'm too scared to. That's the main reason why I'm so scared to rejoin them. If I go back, then I probably won't have a choice but to hear what Tae has to say, and I don't know if I'm ready for that.

I just wish things would go back to normal...

• • •

I sat down at my old lunch table as usual, and then Sora showed up. But instead of sitting down, she grabbed my arm and tried to drag me out of my seat.

"Sora, what are you doing?" I asked in confusion.

"We're going back to Bangtan!" She said, trying to pull me up, despite my desperate attempts to stay seated. I wanted to be with them again... They were all so hilarious, and fun to hang out with! But I still needed more time...

"No! I want to stay here!" I begged.

"Nope, we're going!" Sora said, eventually dragging me out of my seat. I realized that there was no getting out of this, so I picked up my lunch tray and walked over to BTS' lunch table.

I approached the table, and Bangtan watched in shock as I reluctantly sat down at the table.

"Guess who's back!" Sora said.

"Yay!" Hobi exclaimed. "Jihee!"

"Yah! I'm your girlfriend, not her!" Sora joked.

"YAH!" Hobi replied.

Sora had me sit in between her and Tae. He hadn't even tried to speak to me in 2 months, so it was a bit awkward between us. Even in class, we just didn't talk even though we sat right next to each other. I understood, he had been with me during the incident, and it was definitely not something either of us wanted to talk about.

"Hi..." I shyly said.

"Hi." Tae replied, shyly as well. "I just remembered, I have to study, I'm not doing well in my classes, see you guys later!" He picked up what was left of his lunch and speed-walked out of the lunchroom, leaving the rest of us in confusion.

It was silent, until I decided to speak up. "D-Did I do something wrong?" I asked a bit shyly.

"No, you just got here, you couldn't have..." Jungkook said.

"Something's definitely wrong with him..." Jimin said.

"But guys... We should figure out what's wrong, he's been fine for the past two months until you guys sat with us again. This definitely isn't like him..." RM said.

"And I sit next to him, he's doing fine in class..." I mumbled. Why was he lying? Did I do this?

"We need to figure out what's wrong." J-Hope said. "I'm gonna go after him." J-Hope stood up and left the lunchroom to find Tae, and we all sat in silence.

What did I do wrong? There's no reason for Tae to be mad at me, and that's making me worried. Now I knew for sure there was something wrong, and I was really scared to figure out what it was.

• • •

|Taehyung's P.O.V.|

After exiting the lunchroom, I went to the library to study. I really didn't need to, but I needed to get out of there. I made that deal with Jisung that I would leave Jihee alone, and it was going to be very difficult now that she came back to Bangtan. I didn't really have anywhere else to go, so going to the library was my only option.

After sitting down at one of the available tables, I heard a voice call my name. I turned around to see J-Hope running to where I was sitting.

"What are you doing?" I asked in confusion.

"V, we all know something's not right... I wanted to see what was wrong." J-Hope said kindly.

I didn't want to tell them, what if they got mad at me for giving up so quickly? Especially Jungkook, he told me that I needed to stay with her.

"Nothing's wrong, you don't have to worry." I lied.

"V. Jihee said that you've been doing fine in your classes, so there's no reason for you to leave lunch suddenly to 'go study'. Tell me what's wrong!" J-Hope said. Great... what was I supposed to say now?

"Okay... fine. I can tell you, but please don't be upset with me. And if I tell you and the rest of Bangtan, you guys have to promise not to tell Sora or Jihee. Arasseo?" I said with a serious tone.

"Arasseo, I promise." J-Hope replied.

"Pinky promise." I said, and I held out my hand.

"I pinky promise that I won't say anything to Sora or Jihee." J-Hope said, interlocking his pinky finger with mine.

I took a deep breath. Maybe this was a good thing. Maybe they could help me figure this out, and sort out all of our problems with Jisung. It was now or never.

"So on the day of the, um... incident... when Jihee left the police station..."

And I explained everything.