it's just kissing | m.j ✓

CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE.

"OK, I don't know exactly what's happened," Jungkook begins in his conspiratoy tone, his fingers interlaced in front of his nose. "But we should probably wait till spring to bury that guy's dead body. I hear it's really hard to dig the ground at this time of the year. Shit's frozen or something."

"Jeon Jungkook," Seokjin begins with a roll of his eyes just as Taehyung perks up at the proposal. "I see that you've done your research, but we're not going to murder anyone. Not intentionally anyway."

"OK, so hypothetically, if-"

"No, no more hypotheticals from you," the bartender cuts in, holding a finger up to effectively shush the bouncer who seems a bit too eager to commit homicide. Honestly though, he finds the whole thing a bit hilarious. The man's still nervous about getting caught for having downloaded a couple songs illegally while in middle school. He'd never pull off actual homicide.

"Has anyone asked Jimin?" Taehyung questions from besides the other bartender, and everyone, including Hoseok and Yoongi who have been listening silently, all glance at each other. "I'm guessing that's a no," Taehyung says with a sigh of defeat.

"I can't bring myself to ask," Hoseok mumbles, and the rest nods in agreement. Normally, Taehyung is too nosy to not ask, but this time, it's different. Especially considering what they have witnessed that night. They have no idea what transpired Jimin and Mingyu to leave like that, only to have Mingyu re-enter the bar and leave right after with the rest of the guys he had come in with. Jimin had returned a few minutes later, looking completely out of it, which meant one of two things.

The two either got into a huge fight or the two got into a fight and then broke up as a result of it. They don't know what has caused it, but something tells them that Mingyu's at fault. Jimin just wasn't the confrontational type. He wouldn't have started a fight, especially when he's surrounded by so many people he's not familiar with.

And all of them are afraid to ask, especially when Jimin has been making such an effort to pretend as if nothing's happened. Taehyung had been a firm believer that Jimin would have told one of them about the breakup if the two had indeed broken up, but his faith has been dwindling as he continues to see Jimin in the same heartbreaking state.

In fact, Taehyung isn't entirely sure if he's ready to hear the bad news. As much as he dislikes Kim Mingyu with passion, he doesn't want their relationship to have come to an end on such a negative note. 

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Ever since that night, Jimin finds himself standing in the middle of the endless road that is Kim Namjoon. He has no idea where he is. He doesn't know which way he's supposed to be headed or if there even is a destination that can be reached. It's a jumbled mess of thoughts and emotions that Jimin can't quite bring himself to untangle, but all he knows that he needs to make a decision about which path to take.

The fact that Mingyu's texted him again to ask for forgiveness makes him want to down whatever bottle he can get his hands on and drink himself into slumber that will continue through the end of the week. He's contemplated just taking time off from the bar, figuring that spending too much time around Namjoon's probably not a good idea until he has everything sorted in his head. But in the end, he found himself returning to the bar, because at home, it became just him and his thoughts, and nothing was worse in his opinion.