Somewhere in Time || A VKook Saga

[Ten]

1995, Present Day

Jung-kook snapped out of the memory of his and Taehyung's first silly fight. He later found out the farmhand was fibbing about his mother being a mermaid, and being the gullible boy that he was, Jung-kook swallowed Taehyung's lies whole. He wasn't aware from that moment, he would develop a habit of trusting Taehyung, like when he proclaimed he would love Jung-kook forever or when he said he would never let him go.

And so when Eun-Hye told him she would run away with her boyfriend Alex because they would cherish each other till the end of time, he doubted they would. Jung-kook did not believe in happily-ever-afters.

Looking at his daughter's forlorn shadow, Jung-kook debated whether to tell her his own tragic tale just to show her that no matter how much faith they placed upon their love, such things only existed in fairy tales. But he wasn't ready to reopen those wounds which he tried his damn hardest to erase out of his consciousness.

Jung-kook decided to talk to his daughter when they both calmed down and reason without involving pent-up emotions. But how would they discuss love in the absence of feelings? Eun-hye wore her heart on her sleeve, whereas he would rationalize his sentiments before acting upon them. He learned that from the consequences of his own 'reckless impulses' as his mother called them. 

A few days passed before Jung-kook approached his daughter again. She's in her room looking out the window as if waiting for Alex to leap through it. He knocked on the door and Eun-hye turned to her father with sad eyes.

"What do you want?" Eun-hye greeted.

Jung-kook wasn't expecting Eun-hye to squeal like a seven-year-old girl and jump on him with her arms around his neck as she used to do when she saw him, but he had hoped Eun-hye's anger would have subsided by now.

"Hey, I actually came here to apologize for the other day....." Jung-kook said.

It was her daughter's turn to be surprised. "I'm sorry too dad.... I feel like nobody understands me except for Alex... I... I assumed you were saying 'no' just to be contradictory.... I thought I knew everything about you, about mother, about our family..... but clearly I don't."

This time, Jung-kook walked in and sat beside his daughter on the bed. He took her delicate hand in his and patted it. "I guess I still see you as my little girl and never realizing... well, perhaps I do... but I just didn't want to accept the fact that you're a grown woman now who is very much capable of making her own decisions."

Eun-hye looked at her father, "You know dad... whatever happened long ago, doesn't really matter... what you do in the present ... that's what counts."

Jung-kook shook his head, "Eun-hye..... that might be true... but certain matters which occurred before would affect their future....just because they transpired, in no way means that we can take them for granted.... I understand some things may change or that we don't have to be stuck in the past..... but the problem is....."

Jung-kook's voice trailed as some repressed memories started surfacing upon mentioning 'the past'. Simply talking about it was hurting. He wasn't sure if he could bear it any longer.