The Street Child (Min Yoongi)

Chapter 23: Vehemence

"The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger"
                                                               ~Muhammad (P.B.U.H)

. . .

"Joshua? Are you okay?"

Responding to the trembling girl's call, the boy with the knotted fists and clenched jaw turned around, his defined eyes blazing with unknown emotions.

Silently, he trudged towards her, until she was cornered to the nearest wall behind her. She gulped, immense fear overtaking her at the hooded look in her boyfriend's eyes.

"Where were you?"

His question was merely above a whisper as his eyes softened. She seemed to relax a bit, but didn't proceed to answer.

"Where were you?" He repeated, prodding her.

She licked her lips and stuttered, finding herself unable to search for a reasonable and appropriate answer. Impatient with her stalling, he growled, screwing his eyes shut and praying for self control.

His hands wound around her quivering body as he grabbed her petite shoulders, causing her to look at him, perturbed.

"What is it? WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING ME?"

His sudden outburst released a gasp from her taken aback state as she felt herself being snatched away from the supporting wall and towards the bed. Her body hit the floor like a ragged doll.

Tears brimmed in her eyes at the pain surging through her lower body, and a sob escaped her.

The enraged boy who stood before her, sneered at her.

"What's wrong, Yuna? Find it difficult to say that you were sleeping with Jaebum?"

In that moment, all the color drained from her face, and the pain seemed to vanish instantly. Her eyes bulged out of her sockets as she drank in his accusation.

"W-what?"

His lips curled up promptly in distaste and a disgusted look overtook his gentle features.

"I saw, Yuna. I saw everything."

She could clearly hear her heart thumping in her throat, she tried hard to swallow it back into her chest, where it belonged. Her mouth opened and closed as she formed silent words.

"I-I'm sorry. I was drunk, I-I didn't know what I was doing, I swea-"

"Oh, save it! I could clearly see you both devouring each other, you couldn't keep your hands off of him!"

She crawled towards him on her hands and feet with a simpering look in her eyes. She grabbed his feet in her shaking hands and sobbed.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry,  I didn't know what I was doing. I was over come with emotions. I'm so-"

She was interrupted in mid apology as he jerked his foot backwards, almost hitting her in the face. She flinched back and whimpered.

Joshua loved her, there was no doubt, no hesitation. He loved her with all he was, and he hated to see her like this, but anger can turn you blind, and so it turned him too. In his fury, his brain turned static, blank as a paper, nothing could be taken in or absorbed. All he could make out was a picture of his beautiful love kissing another man passionately. A man that wasn't him.