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jungkook's tears streamed down his plush pink cheeks and his puffy eyes were being strained as he tried to see the road in front of him. he ran as fast as he could, jacket flailing in the wind like the last thread of sanity he had left.
he never wanted taehyung to know he was in love with him, regardless of whether he would move on or not.
"kook? yo, what are you doing here buddy. woah, slow down." yugyeom opened the door to a panting, broken-hearted looking jungkook and it pained him to see his friend like this.
"h-he saw it." jungkook gasped in-between his heaving, trying to get oxygen back into his system.
"you really need to sit down for a while, and then we can talk. we have school in a bit, we can go from here if you'd like or we could stay and not go. anything works, as long as you're okay. your health is priority."
a few minutes of silence soon filled with birds chirping. water trickled as yugyeom washed his cups to make some coffee and sat down next to jungkook on the sofa.
"he saw your text. the one about me having to confess."
"so he was lurking ?"
"i don't know, i had left my phone in the hall and i regret it so much. he just came back, chuckled and said are you fucking kidding me and then said figure it out yourself when i asked him what he meant."
"okay, so what do think he-"
"well, a while ago he was talking to someone, jimin i presume, over the phone. he was talking about having a small crush on me? i don't know , it must have faded by now or he wouldn't have reacted the way he did this morning."
"and did you ever let him know that you overheard the conversation ?"
"why would i ?
yug, you know how deeply i feel for this guy. we've been at it for years but somehow he's the only one I'm happiest with. he may not even see it but i adore him so much it hurts.
and i can't let him know. "
"that's my question. why can't you?
you know what. we have school today. why not tell him there?"
"i mean, there is no running away from the situation.
and i'm gonna have to go back home today." jungkook shrugged.
"and knowing your angsty self, you won't do it. you'll back out."
"okay, you know what. let's go. we'll see at school."
jungkook's heart was racing. it was louder than anything else and he was so sure that taehyung would laugh right in his face and tell him to go fuck himself.
because who would love someone like him?
who would love the person who hurt them every single day of their school life ?
jungkook sighed and looked down, failing to hear the whispers around him.
a buzz made his face contort into a confused expression and he looked at his phone to see the text from the sheriff that signalled him once again that they would have to be handcuffed the next time they step into the school premises.
he groaned internally and looked around for taehyung but he stopped in his tracks when he saw him finally.
there he was, in a white shirt and black jeans, tie barely hanging on to his neck and his messy hair covering his eyes ever so slightly.
taehyung threw his head back as he laughed and that's when jungkook spotted him.
joshua hong.
he knew about joshua's little crush on taehyung, and he was aware that he had asked taehyung out mutiple times.
there was however, no denying that the two looked good together.
that they looked happy.
that kim taehyung looked happy.
so jungkook turned around, a smile forming on his face as his brain started to realise what he needed to do.
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he walked back home and opened the fridge to get a beer.
letting go of tae wasn't going to be easy.
but he was going to do it today.
he was going to come to terms with it. and if it didn't happen now, jungkook was afraid it never would.
his lips opened to take in the mildly alcoholic drink and turned on the television, stroking his little cat as he sighed loudly.
somehow, seeing taehyung happy sent jolts of electricity right to jungkook's heart.
he was well aware of the fact that he could never be the one to hold taehyung.
he knew he would never be able to kiss him and tell him about how he recited tales of taehyung to the stars every night he couldn't fall asleep.
and he damn well knew he would never be the one to make kim taehyung happy.
