Truths Untold

Chapter 26: What Have I Done?

Hoseok POV

I feel my blood run cold at all of the new information. She's my fucking sister... She's my sister and yet I never knew.

I didn't know everything she was doing for me at home. All the beatings and shit she took for me from Mom and Dad. All of the work she'd done for me while I was out dancing. All I thought she'd been doing was being an annoying little sister who'd always wait up for me to come home for whatever reason just so that she could ask me how my day was and how dancing would go.

I had no idea of everything she was going through. At all. I was so busy with going to college and doing homework and dancing in the evenings, spending as much time with friends and away from home because of all of the shouting and fighting that was always going on.

I didn't know that my older sister had turned to drugs. I didn't that Minsae was the one dealing with the reality and pain of the house. I didn't know that she was reaching out to me while I was here because she needed help. I'd always thought she was just trying to be an annoying little sister that she always was to me, trying to see how things were going and see how my days were.

I've been so wrapped up and pissed at Minsae for my mother's wrong doings, yet I've been too damn blind to realize it. I've been a complete ass and she's done nothing but take all of it and continue to treat me like I've never done a thing to her.

Looking over at Jungkook, I can see the tears that have formed in his eyes from what we've been told. Clearly she never told him any of her past either. The only difference between him and me right now is that he's got a small smile on his face.

Glancing around at everyone in the room, Chae and Jee obviously already knew all of this since they're the ones who told us but the rest of the girls all appear completely heartbroken over the information they've just been given. All of the boys are a complete teary eyed mess except for Yoongi hyung who somehow also seems to have been in on some of the knowledge. He still looks a bit surprised but not at all to the degree of the rest of us.

"You see, Hoseok. Even without the background knowledge of her past, the seven of us have been with her for around two years now. We all know how hard working she is. How sensitive she actually is even though she doesn't allow that side to show. We know how kind and caring she really is. Do you realize now, why Mina gets so pissed at you for the way you've been treating her? Why we've all been begging for you to just be kind to her for once?" Jee speaks up after a few minutes of silence.

"We weren't joking earlier at the press conference when we said that it's the happiest we've ever seen her when she's with Jungkook. It's a really comforting thing to see her the way she is when she's with him. She's finally happy with him and she's actually calmer and much less up tight. She's much more herself when she's with him and it makes us so happy just to be able to see her be able to be that way with someone. To see her finally relax with someone." Mina says from my side.

I duck my head in response, feeling like a complete asshole. I've known and I've seen the change in her when she's with him compared to when she's not got him by her side. I've noticed how much more at ease she is with him and yet I've been trying to keep them apart this entire time.

"Hyung,... She really does make me really happy. She's really sweet and kind and caring, and I really enjoy her company. I... I really do love her, hyung. And... And, you wouldn't have to worry about her either. I promise I'd be taking really good care of her. Protecting her and helping her, making her happy and putting a smile back on her face when she needs it.

"I know you told us to stay away from each other, I just... I hate seeing her hurt and upset. I want to be there for her when she needs someone, be her shoulder to cry on, be there to put her smile back on. She's so enjoyable to be around, so sweet and kind. Adorable and cute and beautiful.