jungkook looked back at tae in the backseat with a face that tae couldn't read and looked in front.
a tornado of thoughts crashed every stable wall taehyung had built for himself in his own mind. he hated that he felt so utterly emotional right now. for a second, he regretted ever reading yugyeom's text. he regretted hearing that jeongguk was in love with him.what happened to jimin?
does jungkook hate me now ?
why did i do that without asking ?
why was it so late till i realised something was not right with jiminie?
enough of these collided with one another and taehyung looked out , quietly rubbing the tears with his hoodie, scared for his best friend and worried for what may come after.
jungkook could hear tae sniffling and looked at the rear view mirror. it hurt. it hurt so much because he wanted to say it was going to get better. that things aren't good right now but that they would be in a while. he wanted to say more but something struck him.
he already had told taehyung everything he needed and wanted to. he just didn't want taehyung to settle for somebody like him when there were people out there who had a clean slate with tae. people who didn't cause him pain. people willing to love taehyung and treasure him.
the bartender held his hands up immediately but taehyung furrowed his eyebrows as he approached the man, trembling in fear.
he stepped forward, lunged and pulled on the guy's collar.
"where is he."
"where's who-"
taehyung hissed and punched the guy's jaw.
"where's my jimin." taehyung loudly whispered in a broken and cracked voice.
when the guy didn't respond, the sheriff threatened to pull the trigger.
"listen. you're messing with the wrong kind. tell us if you saw anything sketchy going on here, or you won't be able to say anything, ever."
"down. in the cellar."
"you put him where?!" taehyung saw red. all he felt was rage. he threw the man on the ground and ran to where the handle jutted out from the ground. the sheriff and the two boys looked at each other.
it was pitch black. and possibly dangerous.
taehyung was about to scream jimin's name but felt a hand cover his mouth.
"don't." the sherrif mouthed.
jungkook looked at taehyung and took a step to start climbing down the ladder. tae grabbed jungkook's shirt and yanked him away, mouthing the words, "are you crazy?"
jungkook rolled his eyes and mouthed , "i'm not letting you go down there alone."
taehyung's grip on his shirt loosened and jungkook quietly sighed and began to descend, with taehyung and the sherrif close behind.
the sherrif had told jungkook to tap taehyung's shoe thrice when he felt that he had reached the ladder's end.
once jungkook felt solid ground, he stopped climbing down and reached out upwards for taehyung. he felt a shoe and tapped it thrice.
they all switched on their flashlights and began slowly showing the light to the area, inching forward.
a light that wasn't theirs shone on their faces and the sheriff immediately put his gun up again.
"i don't...i don't understand..." the sheriff breathed out.
"what the fuck." jungkook whispered.
the figure pulled out his gun and shot the ceiling, making pellets of the wall fall on the ground.
taehyung fell to the floor due to the sound and scrambled backwards , the concrete burning his butt.
