Can we ? | JJP ✔

12

please read the note at the end of the chapter. Thanks.
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Given the temporary full authority to help managed the company, Hyunjin did a pretty good job. His father asked him to back Jinyoung up for the currently empty position and he didn't mess anything up. At least yet.

Mr. and Mrs.Park were on their way home from a business trip in Dubai. They heard what happened to their beloved son but couldn't fly to Korea right away cause the business matter they did was having a rather serious problem which needed to be fixed immediately.

They called Jaebum, asking about Jinyoung's condition. The son in law told them the whole story, and he also mentioned about Jinyoung's trauma of being touched by other people, and he reminded them politely to not make sudden moves of any kind of touch before Jinyoung allowed them to do so.

Three in the afternoon after the regular treatment ended not long time ago, the doorbell rang, activating Jinyoung's alert system and grabbed Jaebum's arm tightly as if he asked for protection.

"That must be your parents, Jinyoung" Jaebum caressed the younger's hair.

Jinyoung who were hiding his face in Jaebum's chest, looked up to him and his face lit up, "Mom and dad?"

"Yeah, I'm sure it's them. Let me open the door. You wait here, okay?" He smiled.

"Okay.." Jinyoung released the arm and let Jaebum went downstairs to open the door for the person who rang the bell once again.

He waited anxiously.. What if it wasn't his parents? What if it was Jackson? What if-

Several overlapping sound of footsteps were heard getting closer to his room and Jinyoung had to hug a pillow in order to make him feel secured, as he fixed his eyes to the bedroom's plain white door.

Not long after that, the door opened and it showed Jaebum with a smile on his face, "They're here, Jinyoung"
He stepped inside and gave the way to the parents.

His mom cried as soon as she saw him, hiding behind a huge pillow, scared of meeting people, pressing his back to the bed's headboard.. meanwhile his dad was trying his best not to release any single drop of tears that were already pooled in his eyes. "Jinyoungie...." Mrs.Park carefully approaching. She stepped closer, looking at Jinyoung fondly and asked him whether she could hug him or not.

Without thinking much longer, Jinyoung threw the pillow aside and opened his arms. He allowed them to touch him- to hug him. "Mom, dad" he held them tight.

He missed them.

The feeling he burried for himself since the very beggining of his married life, the story of the abuse he got from Jaebum though... remained still at the bottom of his heart. A lot of stories he wanted to tell his parents about the life he experienced just settled almost permanently in him. The mindset of not going to ruin the marriage, however, was the one which had permanently pinned to his mind.

The time he spent with Jaebum these days added more confusion and more dilemma for his poor heart. The attention Jaebum gave, supplied more damp soil to the already buried feeling of hurt and it kept them down there, dormant.

The warmth he received from Jaebum gave assurance yet also a confusion to his heart on whether or not everything he did were all lies or purely, all sincerity. He would beat him up over something trivial, painting purple marks on every part of his skin, yet those ugly behavior- they all gone just like that after the accident.

He received what he called love from him.
But was it really?

Did Jaebum finally gave up on getting Youngjae back and had no choice of loving Jinyoung and forcedfully had to give his love for Jinyoung?