paracosm

[ 5 ] STEPBROTHER.

PARACOSM

JJK | STEPBROTHER.

mina's POV

"you know that, jeon? i don't need you in my life. why are you here anyway? why did our parents meet and had to make us related? is it because it's a way so you can bully me and naeun?" i exclaimed to jungkook, my stepbrother. he has been a bully of me and naeun for a long time now, and he has never once tried stopping.

"i-i'm sorry," he mumbles and left the room. his voice seems so sad, yet i don't know how to react.

jungkook's POV

i have never in my life felt more useless to live. i have liked mina for a long time, and i know it seems super weird to bully the one you like, but that was how i wanted to get closer to her. i have been thinking, ever since i was a little boy, that i have no intentions in my life at all. nobody has ever wanted to be my friend, until highschool. when i met mina, i felt like i had a purpose in my life, which was to make her mine and make her happy.

but i guess now that she doesn't see me as someone nice, then... there was no use in me living anymore. i quickly grabbed a paper and pencil with my shaking hands, trying to make a goodbye letter, to mina, jisoo, and hyungs.

*a week later*

i have stopped eating a full meal ever since that day. i have only been curled up in a ball on my bed. i never go out of my room, and i'm very weak. jimin and taehyung was of course, very worried about me, but i didn't care. i couldn't take it anymore. i placed the letter outside my room, shutting the door quietly.

i went to my bathroom and grabbed a razor, staring at it with teary eyes. i made it hover above my wrist before cutting the biggest vein i could find. before i knew it, everything around me turned black.

jimin's POV

jungkook hasn't been coming out of his room for a long time, which was pretty weird because he was always the one to ask us to go out.

"mina?" i asked, and i saw her coming out of the living room.

"hm?"

"do you know what happened to jungkook? he hasn't been answering any of my texts and i'm pretty worried about him." i explained.

mina sighs. "jungkook? i told him to get out of my life."

"what?!" i yelled, standing up and making mina flinch. "you told him to get out of your life? mina he loves you! he has loved you since you first came! he told me that when he looked at you, he saw what it means to have purpose in his life. you can't just say that to him!"

i quickly stood up and ran to jungkook's room, but i wasn't expecting to see a letter in front of the door.

dear mina and hyungs,

mina, i'm so sorry for hurting you and jisoo. i know that bullying you weren't going to let us become closer, but that was the only thing to come up to my mind. i know that you will not forgive me for bullying, but at least let me love you, okay? i'm sorry for bullying you, i really am.

hyungs, i'm sorry for doing this. i know you guys are probably disappointed in me doing this because you guys are the ones who has always prevented me from doing this, but i can't take it anymore. it hurts too much, hyung. i'm really sorry for leaving you guys.

- jungkook

as i read that letter, i can't help the tears escaping my eyes. jungkook can't be... dead, right?

"jeon jungkook, don't you dare do what i think you're doing! open the door right now!" i yelled, pounding the door with my fists. mina took the letter from me, and i saw how her eyes widened with shock. of course, she doesn't know how sensitive jungkook was.

"j-jimin this can't be true, right? j-jungkook isn't d-dead because of me, right?" she whispered to me, and i couldn't answer. i finally managed to open the door by kicking the door down. we went to his bathroom since there was no sign of jungkook there, and he was there, lifeless. blood was surrounding him.

"jeon jungkook!" jimin yells, quickly checking if there was still a pulse, but there was none.

jungkook's POV

"i'm sorry for leaving..."