Stigma: Killer Love

Chapter Seven

“Hey, Tae.”

“Jungkook…” Taehyung barely managed to get the younger boy’s name out. He wanted to just hug him, but he held himself back, at least in front of his mother. Junghyun paid his respects and was about to leave when Taehyung stopped him. “Junghyun can you take my brother and sister to go eat with you?”

“Yeah sure. Come on guys, I just drove from Busan and I’m starving.” Junghyun said as he reached out to take Eon-Jin’s hand. Before anyone could react, Taehyung’s mother slapped Junghyun’s hand away.

“Don’t you dare touch them.” She seethed. Taehyung pulled his siblings away from his mother and into Junghyun’s arms.

“They are going to eat and there is nothing you can do about it.” Taehyung glared back at the woman.

“Why should I listen to a murderer?” She shouted and Jungkook could see the colour drain out of Taehyung’s face.

“Tae-oppa is not a murderer.” Eon-Jin shouted at the woman. By now everyone was staring at the commotion.

“Yeah, Taehyung couldn’t hurt anybody, and he didn’t kill father.” Jeong-Gyu joined in.

“You rotten brat, what have you done to my children?” Mrs Kim stepped forward to slap Taehyung, but a hand stopped her. It was Jungkook.

“We will take our leave now, Mrs Kim. Again, our deepest sympathies.” Jungkook took Taehyung’s hand is his and dragged him away, but not without bowing to the furious mother. Junghyun led the two kids out to the car that was waiting outside.

“I’m going to take them to a nearby restaurant, if that’s okay?” Junghyun said to Taehyung who didn’t respond. Yoongi came out of nowhere and ran up to the car. By the time he had reached them, he was breathless.

“Let’s go, Junghyun. Jungkook, look after Taehyung.” Yoongi climbed into the passenger seat of the car after the kids were buckled in safely. Junghyun followed and they drove off.

“Let’s take a walk, TaeTae.” Jungkook said as he wrapped his arm around the older male. Taehyung walked with him without a word, his face still blank like before.

After walking for what seemed like forever to Jungkook, especially in his dress shoes, Taehyung stopped walking.

“What’s wrong Tae?”

“Why didn’t you answer the phone when I called?” Taehyung asked Jungkook. Jungkook was shocked for a moment before he burst out laughing.

“I was hurt that I couldn’t talk to you, so I went for a walk, then lost track of time. I didn’t think to call you back since you had sent me that text.”

“Oh, well thanks for coming. I really needed the company.” Taehyung smiled closed lipped. Jungkook flashed him his bunny teeth in response.

“It’s the least I could do, you seemed to really want me there.” Jungkook turned to walk and Taehyung followed, clearly aware that Jungkook hadn’t let go of his hand.

“Aren’t you going to ask?” Taehyung said, softly.

“Ask what?” Jungkook had taken to swinging their joined hands by now.

“Why my mother called me a murderer.” Taehyung had said this so softly that Jungkook had almost missed it.

“No, I think that you will tell me when you’re ready.” Jungkook said calmly. “Do you want ice-cream? Or are we dressed too formal for that?”

“Definitely to formal, but I still want to go.” For the first time Taehyung laughed. Jungkook stopped walked and let go of Taehyung’s hand. “What’s wrong?”

“You laughed, and you have the cutest smile!” Jungkook gushed. He stepped closer to Taehyung and pulled him into a hug. “I really like your smile Tae.”

“Thanks.” Taehyung felt himself blushing. It had been a long time since someone had told him that they liked his smile. It made him feel warm inside.

“Now let’s go and get that ice-cream!” Jungkook shout as he grabbed Taehyung’s hand and began to run.

***

To say that watching two twenty-something year olds in black suits eat ice-cream covered in sprinkles was weird, was an understatement of things. Taehyung had showed Jungkook to the nearest ice-cream shop and they both went all out, at Jungkook insistence of course.

“I want mine to have Oreos and some chocolate bits.” Jungkook said pointing at the toppings he wanted.

“I want smarties and jelly beans. With hundreds and thousands.” Taehyung also pointed to his own choice.

“Why would you want sweets and chocolate together?” Jungkook asked.

“You are the one who wants chocolate and biscuits on chocolate ice-cream.” Taehyung teased back.

“Touché, Tae.” Jungkook laughed. Taehyung flashed a smile back and Jungkook’s breath was taken away. “You have such a cute boxy smile.”

“Huh?” Taehyung was too preoccupied with watching his ice-cream being made that he didn’t hear what Jungkook said. “What did you say?”

“Never mind. Is that all the toppings you want?”

“Yeah, I also don’t want to throw up because of eating too much sugar.” Taehyung took the cup of ice-cream that the employee handed to him. “Thanks.”

“Smart, we should have gotten food first then.” Jungkook laughed as he did the same. He went to go pay while Taehyung Looked for a place for them to sit. When they were both seated, Taehyung took Jungkook’s hand.

“Thank you so much Kookie. You don’t know how happy it makes me to have you here.” Taehyung was near tears, but he had a smile on his face.

“You called me Kookie.” Jungkook felt a blush spread across his cheeks, but before he could say anything more his phone rang. It was Yoongi. “Hello, Yoongi.”

“Hey Jungkook, where are you guys? We bought food for everyone, but the kids started eating already.” Yoongi said.

“We will be there now, we went to an ice-cream parlour.” Jungkook said as he played with Taehyung’s fingers. “Don’t worry about us, Taehyung is fine.”

“We are at my apartment, for when ever you guys want to show up.” Yoongi said bye and hung up the phone.

“What did Yoongi say?” Taehyung scooped the last bit of his ice-cream in to his mouth.

“He said that they bought food for us. And that they are in his apartment.” Jungkook relayed the information.

“Should we go?”

“Yeah, let’s just go join them before they start to worry.” Jungkook threw away their trash and lend Taehyung out of the shop by hand.

The walk back to the funeral venue was silent. A comforting silence for Jungkook, but heavy for Taehyung.

“I killed my father."

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Took me a while😅