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Jungkook and Jimin didn't know how to react. Taehyung wasn't anything like they remembered. Yes, he was still breathtaking, maybe even more now, but he was so different.
"T-Taehyung?"
Taehyung looks over at the security, "I'm fine. You can go."
The guy nods and walks away. Taehyung looks back over, "I don't go by that name anymore," he says as he starts to walk towards the bar. Both boys follow, trying their best not to look at his plump ass in the little shorts he had on. Did his ass get bigger?
Taehyung gets the bartenders attention, the male smirking at him, "Nice show, like always," the man says as he pours Taehyung a shot. Taehyung gives him a flirty smile, "I knew you were watching."
"Always am."
Taehyung giggles as he downs the shot. He looks back at Jungkook and Jimin who were trying their best to hide their shock.
"I go by V now," Taehyung says, "so don't call me the other."
Taehyung squeaks when someone suddenly slaps his ass, "Nice show, sweetness," a sleazy guy slurs.
Jungkook steps forward to beat his ass, but Taehyung's reaction stops him.
"Oh, thank you, hun," Taehyung smiles.
The guy walks away and Taehyung sighs, "So—"
"You're just going to let him do that to you?" Jungkook asks, looking back at the guy who was checking out a waiters ass.
"It's part of the job," Taehyung shrugs.
"Baby, did someone force you into this?" Jimin asks.
Taehyung stares at Jimin before smirking, "Mhhm, you wanna force me into something?" He asks, his finger trailing down Jimin's fitting suit.
Jimin widens his eyes in shock. He was a little uncomfortable because this wasn't the Taehyung he remembered at all.
"Taehyung," Jungkook says, narrowing his eyes.
Taehyung looks away from Jimin and looks Jungkook over, "Wow, Kookie, you got so big."
Jungkook tried to keep his straight face as Taehyung moved his attention on him, "I bet you could fuck me so well, huh? I remember how good you were," Taehyung says as he looks up through his smokey eyes, "did me so well."
Jungkook felt like he was suffocating, but he didn't give in, "What happen to you?" Jungkook sincerely asks.
That throws Taehyung off and he just scoffs, "Why are you guys here? If not for a little ole threesome?"
"Tae—"
"My name is V," Taehyung says, narrowing his eyes.
"Fine. V, we came to find you. We need to know what happen. You broke it off by ignoring us," Jimin says, "and we deserve to know why."
Taehyung shakes his head and starts to walk towards a booth close by. The boys follow.
"Listen," Taehyung starts, "it was three years ago. Why do you guys still care so much?"
"Because we were in love!"
Taehyung takes in a deep breath, "Fine, you want to know the truth?"
Jungkook and Jimin nod as they sit across from Taehyung who was literally glittery under the club lights.
"I gave up," Taehyung says, "I gave up on trying. Getting raped again just—"
"Wait, what?" Jungkook asks, his heart tightening, "again?"
Jimin's mouth was parted in shock as Taehyung just absently nodded, "Yeah. Freshman year of collage. My roommate held me down one night and fucked into me until I passed out."
"Tae—"
"That's not my fucking name," Taehyung snapped, "Taehyung doesn't exist anymore. He's dead and left in that dorm. Don't you dare try to bring him back," Taehyung hisses, getting up from the booth and starting to walk away.
Jimin rushed out the booth to catch up to him, but Taehyung said to the security, "Don't let them through," as he walked into the back.
Jungkook and Jimin couldn't get passed the guard. They couldn't get Taehyung to turn around. They just watched as the boy they loved closed the door on them.
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Jungkook and Jimin sat in his car, both boys too shocked to make a sound. Jungkook and Jimin had both changed in three years, but not like that.
They became men. They grew up, but Taehyung turned into a whole other person. He wasn't innocent and caring. He wasn't happy at all. He didn't care about himself and Jungkook hated to think about what he let's these men do to him just because.
Taehyung wasn't Taehyung. He was V.
"He's not him," Jimin mumbles.
"Huh?"
"You were right," Jimin sighs, "we got the wrong Taehyung. That wasn't him."
Jungkook just looks away, "he had no one."
"He didn't let anyone know," Jimin says, his eyes tearing up, "We would have been here. He could have called Yoongi—"
"We can't blame him, Jimin. He was assaulted again. Let's just be glad he's not dead," Jungkook says as he buckles up.
"He is dead!" Jimin cries, "that wasn't him!"
"Jimin, please don't cry, baby," Jungkook says, wiping his tears away, "t-there's nothing we can do."
"I refuse," Jimin sniffles, "I refuse to let him go."
Jungkook sadly smiles and cups Jimin's face, "Who said we were?"
Jimin just lets himself be comforted by the person he missed. It felt just like old times, but he knew that the other half of his heart was missing. And it was inside, dancing on a pole.
