Dream Boy | VMIN

Thirteenth Dream

Yoongi took a deep inhale.

"Jimin is my friend that passed away last year"

His body couldn't find the right balance at the end of his toes, he became frighten of the shocking sentence.

"Jimin died because he was murdered and his last breath was on your arms"

Jimin was what?

"You were suicidal so you did everything you could to erase all your memory of Jimin.. starting from Hypnosis, eating illegal memory lost medicine and hitting your head multiple times"

He was in denial.

"JIMIN IS NOT REAL!" Loudly he shouts, his surroundings were nothing more than the breeze and the trees, he could shout as loud as he wants.

Yoongi pities him.

"Look at the effect, you're in denial" he scoffs. "You don't want to acknowledge his exsistence"

As much as Yoongi is taunting him, he was right. The past few night of dreams Jimin had always convinced that he's real, in fact very real, but after he woke up, he would always deny it. But he never knew why.

"Listen, Jimin and you used to date and that puppy you got was both of yours, I just kept him so he wouldn't starve."

He did? They did?

"S-so.. he's a ghost?.." Yoongi curved his lips and shakes his head. He didn't know what was the right answer to that but it seems impolite to call him that.

Yoongi didn't dare to speak to him after that, even in class and in lunch break, both of them would pretend they never had that conversation nor any conversations at all.

"Oh, Taehyung your grades are going well, you're going to end up in Seoul University at this point!" The puppy barks happy and swings its tail back and forth, Yeontan was happy to know that he will be kept dear for a long time.

"Mom.. do you by any chance know a guy name Jimin? Park Jimin?" The curved smile from the woman was gone, her eyes darted low and the hands that held the dish was let go.

"You.. remember him?"

It shock him to the core to know that everything about Jimin isn't a lie, and that means what Yoongi explained was correct.

He really is in denial.

The set of dishes can be arranged later. His mother pulls a book out of the old drawer and that book is a memory book.

Pictures of Taehyung were captured at the first few chapter, all being lovable and joyful in his toddler body.

But then, there were strawberry fields.
The exact same strawberry fields he dreamed about.

"W-where was this mom..?" His mother deeply huff before replying. "Jimin's old home"

His head felt like spilling apart each time a fragrance of memory comes back and he drops on the floors.

"Taehyung!" His mother worriedly went side by side to her son and coincidentally, his father just got him. "Quick! Drive us to the hospital" The father didn't had time to argue and quickly carries her son to the car.

💤

It looks like he passed out, his brain was so exhausted that he needs to shut down for a few minutes.. or maybe hours.

His surroundings were nothing more than a white. Just white space.

"Taehyung!" But more than just white space. Jimin was still there with him.

"Jimin..!" He wraps his arms around him, his tears fell into nothingness as he sobs his name.

"That strawberry garden.. I used to live there..  and we often visit it every vacation we got"

The more Jimin explain, the more he realizes that every bit of pieces are going to come together.

"We played tea times, we laughed, we played UNO and we confessed under the tree" Jimin giggles while recalling.

"It was our favorite place"

But then he died

"Yoongi was right.. you were depressed so you got me out of your brain by force"

"I don't want to be forgotten Tae.. especially not you.."

It all came so suddenly, Jimin didn't want to be forgotten and Taehyung's conscious didn't want too, it was their will to see each other again.

Even the promise they made saying they won't forget each other was broken like a weak string.

"But now.. I'm just happy that you remember me.. remember how much love we have from that day"

Softly, he disappears from his grip into thousands of light

💤

He woke up.

The first thing that happened was being attacked by the hug of his mother and father. "We're Sorry Taehyung!" The Doctor explained that he passed out from the stress that was piling up, the parents realized their mistakes.

"We'll try to be a better parents alright?"
He tries his best to smile, even if it's a crooked one. One to ensure them that everything is alright.

"Thank-k.. you.."

He wanted to be left alone in his sheet of white, he wants to cry and the only thing he needed to do was cry.

Now that he remembers, he realized ;

"Those were just.. memories" it felt like he had false hope from the start.