ISSUES || Taegi

Chapter 24

Taehyung POV

And just as that, the freaking school year was over, I still don't know how I managed to survive a whole year, or how it went by so fast, but oh boy was I glad it was over. The last week of school I didn't get to see too much of Yoongi as he seemed to be in what I'd like to call the "honeymoon phase" of his new relationship with Jimin, so basically I spent the last moments of my sophomore year in high school hanging out with Jin, Hoseok, and Namjoon, because Jungkook was with his girlfriend most of the time of course, but to be fair I can't complain too much; I've known Jin and Hoseok for a long time, and this year I had almost completely ignored them, and even if I only met Namjoon that year and we weren't exactly close, I got to realize he was a pretty chill and dude, even after all the weird shit that apparently went down between him and Yoongi. Of course, I still talked to Yoongi through text and sometimes in Literature class where he would endlessly spill his love for Jimin and stuff, did it hurt? Yeah, but could I complain? Absolutely not.

Another thing I was kind of concerned about was the fact that I would have to spend my whole summer alone in some cabin away from society or something, okay that's a bit of a stretch, but my mom was dragging me along with her to some random small town the whole summer as my uncle recently fell very ill and my mom was the only one who managed to get a permit from work to go take care of him, also she is a nurse so... Yeah. Basically, the next three months of my life would be spent very... Interestingly, I wouldn't be able to see any of my friends or talk to them as a matter of fact because I wouldn't even have internet service, but I mean, they are all probably going on vacation too anyway, and I would have a lot of time to rethink my life choices. I told Yoongi about this, of course, we talked practically every day and that's what pained me the most about going, he seemed kind of reluctant about it, which made me slightly happy realizing he would somewhat miss me, but then he also explained to me how he was probably going to spend his summer hanging out with Jimin and how he was very excited about it... Life wasn't amazing sometimes, and I wished I could have stayed to at least, I don't know, be aware of the situation or something, but maybe it was for the best, the best thing I could do was try to get over Yoongi and just keep being his friend, that was it, that summer I was getting over Min Yoongi.

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*Three months later*

Beginning of Junior year, unbelievable right? I feel like there is always that time in someone's life where they just kind of realize they are rapidly and inevitably growing up, and I was basically experiencing that realization at the moment... After this year, I only had one year left in high school and then I would have to go to university, even if I have no idea whatsoever of what I wanted to do with my life. I was turning seventeen soon, but life didn't feel like one of those fun teen movies at all, why are all characters in teen movies always 16 or 17? Being 16 wasn't really fun or eventful at all unless you count my various mental breakdowns, and even if I wasn't as pessimistic this year as the one prior, I wasn't really expecting Junior year to be fucking high school musical or something... I could already predict it would most likely involve me being an observant character in everyone else's life, because mine was just dull, I was probably like the sidekick or something, I don't know.

But hey, the good part is, while almost going crazy from boredom, I totally got over Yoongi right? I mean as soon as I walked into school the first day, I was convinced I was over him, I didn't feel weird at all about him, I kind of felt ready to just be a good supportive friend and move on with my life, but the good stuff doesn't last, unfortunately... And as soon as I got into my first class of the day, which coincidentally was "Advanced literature" which I know took with seniors, and sat next to my good old friend Min Yoongi completely convinced everything was right, I realized very soon it wasn't right.

"God, Tae, why didn't you text me when you got back?! I've been waiting all summer for you to come back"- Yoongi said as he unexpectedly hugged me. He was never one to be very affectionate... So, I was very surprised, to say the least, had we changed personalities over the summer or something? First strike.

"Oh uh, I got back home late last night, I figured you would be asleep and didn't really want to bother you. You couldn't have possibly missed me that much though, right? You were with your boyfriend all summer"- I said as I hugged him back and chuckled awkwardly, feeling weird in the pit of my stomach.

"Yeah, and it was amazing, probably the best summer of my life, but I really missed talking to you and ranting and stuff, not only about Jimin, I have to tell you so much by the way, but I also missed our weird random ass conversations late at night, I got really used to you I guess"- Yoongi said lowering his voice a bit at the last part and averting his eyes away from me. Second strike.

"Oh uh... I missed you a lot as well Hyung"- I finally said as I gave him a small sweet smile, he looked back at me and gave me the most genuine gummy smile I had ever seen just as the teacher entered the classroom. Third fucking strike, and I was completely sold by that point.

I wasn't over Min Yoongi at all... I anything I just liked him more than before. Fuck my life.

It was very hard to concentrate that day in class, but I tried my best. During lunch, Yoongi brought Jimin along and asked if it was okay if he sat with us, we all said yes; well kind of, I immediately noticed Namjoon tensing up and Jin looking at him apprehensively, with the softest, saddest eyes I had ever seen my Hyung make, it was really weird. Jungkook was there as well as his girlfriend wouldn't be back until next week, so we all just kind of tried our best to enjoy our lunch. Even if Jimin seemed pretty uncomfortable the whole time, he tried his best to fit in, and that wasn't really hard for him, he was fucking Park Jimin after all, there was no way to hate him, he was just incredibly likable, everyone immediately loved him.

Even if I did my best to participate in the conversation, I was also trying to avoid looking too much at the interactions between Jimin and Yoongi, it was just too painful, instead I tried to focus on my surroundings, and noticed there was someone else who was oddly quiet this day, Namjoon, his jaw was completely tensed up and he kept his eyes glued to the table, he seemed to be spacing out as well, had this something to do with why Yoongi and him drifted apart? Did Namjoon not like Jimin for some reason? I mean not even Yoongi understood why they stopped being close... It was very confusing, but I probably wouldn't find out much more than that. Another thing that I noticed was Jin looking at Namjoon with worried eyes every now and then, he definitely knew what was going on, I mean I was aware they had become close since the Yoongi incident, but I never paid much mind to it, everything happening at that table was kind of sketchy and it made my mind hurt, but at least it kept me occupied.

The day went by just like that, and I just couldn't stop wondering why the hell Namjoon was acting the way he was, if I only had de courage to ask Jin maybe I could apiece my curiosity, and maybe help Yoongi get some closure at least, but I didn't have the balls to do that. It was all very weird... Like maybe too weird. And it was just bound to get weirder; as I got out of my last class of the day and started heading towards the buses, someone yanked my arm very aggressively, put a hand over my mouth and dragged me into a random janitor closet... Needless to say, I started panicking, some very bad memories started creeping up my mind, and soon I realized I was probably going to have a panic attack when I started sobbing uncontrollably without even seeing who had dragged me there.

"Hey please, stop, Tae, it's fine it's just me... Shit if I had known this would happen I wouldn't have done it this way, fuck why am I like this? Tae breathe, please, fuck... I just wanted to propose something. I'm sorry, Tae please calm down"- I heard a familiar voice say as someone hugged me and started rubbing my back, but I was way too gone at the moment to even process what was going on.

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Hellooooo. Dude, I'm so sorry for the cliffhanger btw. So... This is going somewhere, although I've come to the realization that this fanfic is probably going to be long as fuck lmao.

Btw, thank you soooo much for all the reads and support! It really warms my heart <3.

Have a nice day <3.