Tormentor

E L E V E N - Jealousy

Finally alone in his room, Yoongi stared out his window lost in his thoughts. He wants to hear her voice but every call he makes goes to message. Frustrated he throws the phone on the bed. Going to her house was not an option since he doesn't know if her parents are home already. He plays with the hair behind his ear wondering what to do. 

He texts her. "Baby I need you. Call me, please. I'm worried about you." 

He lays on the bed thinking of his girlfriend. There is no way he can let go of her when they are finally together. His depression and hopelessness have been a thing of the past since knowing Jennie. He says her name softly to himself, "Jennie." Because of his surprising happiness, even just saying her name makes him giddy, he is hopeful for the future again. Although he is restless, he decides not to leave his apartment because his dad is still home and instead stays in bed until he drifts off to sleep thinking of her.

Yoongi has a plan. There is no way he is going to break up with Jennie, he will come clean and ask her to pretend they broke up. The next day he gets to school early. Searching the crowd for her little face waiting anxiously. The moment he saw her he ran up for a hug.

"I missed you!" Is the first thing he says as if they hadn't seen each other in weeks.

Jennie smiled in spite of everything. "Yoongi I'm sorry I couldn't call you. My mom took my phone."

"Why?"

"I asked my mom if she knew your dad. I shouldn't have. She says I can't be your friend now. She says you are trying to hurt me and only pretending to like me. It's not true. Is it?"

"What do you think Jennie?" He says with a worried face.

"I think it's not true." She says looking into his eyes trusting her own judgment.

"I was scared this would happen. My dad wants me to break up with you too."

"No!"

"Don't worry. I won't. I love you." He says hugging her.

"I love you too!"

He smiles in spite of his worries.

"Yoongi, I understand now and I don't blame you for hating me. I know your life changed so much after what happened. Your mom couldn't help falling in love with my dad. Love makes us do crazy things."

"Jennie. What did she do?"

"You don't know?" She says raising her eyebrows in shock.

"No. All I know is my mom fell for your dad and when he left her she tried to kill herself. The pills she took left her ... like that because she lost oxygen to her brain."

"Yoongi ... she fell for my dad and tried to break up my parents but my dad kept rejecting her and asked her to quit her job." Seeing his sad face she quickly adds. "I'm sure she still loves you and your dad. I'm sorry."

"I'm not so sure about that but I'm sorry for what she did. I didn't know."

"That's not all ..." Jennie paused not wanting to hurt him further but maybe it was best said all at once. "She tried to kill my mom."

"What!?"

"I didn't know either. I was told my mom had her appendix out but in truth, she was stabbed."

"Stabbed!" Yoongi was shocked nearly falling to his knees. The frustration building up till he wants to scream. He balls his fist to punch the wall. Jennie's eyes grow big and she raises her hand to stop him from punching the wall and hurting himself. Instead, Jennie's hand gets thrust against the wall along with his making an ugly cracking noise. Jennie's hand hurt so much it took her breath away. They both gasped at the bloody sight of her knuckles as someone screamed. Anyone watching could see the pain in her face and the anger in his. What they didn't know is that he was angry at himself for hurting her. Yoongi ignored the pain and blood dripping down his hand.

"Are you okay?" He asked trying to look at her wound but she wouldn't let him. One of the faculty was immediately there and asked what happened. 

Jennie said, "Yoongi tried to hit the wall and I just tried to stop him. He wasn't trying to hurt me."

"Let's go to the nurse to take care of that." The teacher said looking at Yoongi with disapproval.

Yoongi looked at her sadly. "I'm sorry Jennie. I'm so dumb. Your parents will be furious with me. They already hate me and think I'm trying to hurt you."

"I will explain. Don't worry. I love you and I need you!"

"They will use this to keep us apart even in school. They may even call the police." Yoongi said frightened.

"My parents didn't press charges on your mother cause they felt she suffered so much with her own despair. I doubt they will do that to you."

"She tried to take her life. She didn't care about leaving me." Yoongi said sadly as he wiped his tears. "No wonder it's painful for them to see us together."

"What are we going to do?"