THE DARKEST HOPE

Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Jungkook and Tae were running for quite some time now. The dangerous back alley where they almost lost their lives was far behind them. Finally they stopped in the vicinity of some abandoned industrial buildings.

"This is far enough!" Jungkook was breathing heavily.

Tae dropped on the ground, trying to catch his breath. The two of them were just panting and puffing for several minutes until they could catch their breaths. When they finally regained their composure they looked at each other. Stayed like that for a moment, just staring. At first tiny little smiles appeared on both their faces. Then all of a sudden they both started laughing laudly.

Jungkook couldn't control his laughter at all and every time he thought that he will somehow manage to stop the waves of uncontrollable giggle he looked at Tae's grinning face and burst into laughter again.

Tae too was almost suffocating from amusement and although his injured ribs and stomach were hurting a lot at every rush of laughter he couldn't do much. Finally he was just rolling on the ground, his hands clenched around his body almost howling from the effort to control himself.

After a while they managed to calm themselves and stared at one another with curiosity.

Usually in life when two people that are made from the exactly same type of wood met, these people somehow start to like one another just like that, intuitively the first moment they lay their eyes on each other. This time the case was exactly that. Taehyung and Jungkook observed the other for several minutes, each measuring the person before him. Finally Jungkook broke the silence.

"Damn, man, what did you do back there? Rush at these thugs like that! We could have been killed for nothing, over a stupid jacket! I even don't know what to say about you! I surely think that your head doesn't agree with your body a lot!"

Tae smiled at the remark. "My father says that I'm the stupidest thing that ever lived!"

Jungkook looked at him surprised.

"I wasn't going to say that!" he spoke more calmly. "Full out crazy was actually what came to mind. Why would your father say such things about you?"

"Go ask him." Tae answered. "Anyway, I am Taehyung, call me Tae." he stretched out his hand. "Thank you for the help. You saved my life. And sorry for the jacket thing, I was just angry and yeah, wasn't thinking."

"No problem, it's a good thing that we made it out. Jungkook is the name. Nice to meet you!" Jungkook energetically shook his hand. "It was kinda fun, wasn't it?" Jungkook smiled.

"Yeah, wasn't it?" Tae smiled back. "Did you see me how I hit that guy and he fell back? And then the other one..." Now that everything was over he felt full of energy and excitement. Yeah, what an adventure!

"Couldn't see much from what you did because I was quite occupied myself. But yeah, you sure kicked their asses." Jungkook was smiling.

"You were very impressive yourself! We did showed them who is the boss, didn't we?" Jungkook smirked and nodded in agreement.

Tae looked around. "What is this place?"

"Oh, an abandoned railway station. There are several in town. Usually no one lives here in the winter season because it is rather cold inside."

"Aren't you an expert." Tae smiled. "How do you know?"

The two of them sat on the partly broken bench before the small station. The place was quiet and somehow peaceful. Above their heads a big rusty clock was hanging. His hands stopped showing time decades ago.