Clinically In Love [Vmin-BTS]

Chapter 42: <○Good Bad News○>

.O N E.  .W E E K.  .L A T E R.
December 1st

Jimin hated the news. He never understood its purpose. To him, it was just a condensed and cloudy infestation of mishaps, a thirty minute summary of how bad things in the world were actually going. Murders, accidents, suicides, topped with the old-time bore of Asian economic affairs. He hated it all. And well... He didn't exactly have a reason not to.

He checked his phone for the hundredth time that day. But nothing from Taehyung had yet been etched across his screen. His Park Chanyeol posters had long since begun peeling off his walls, as if waiting for gravity to do the rest. His Dart Trace albums remained untouched on his shelf, coated by dust and forgotten interests. Jinin skipped meals, ignored his stomach's growling cries for food. Because all of that meant nothing... Not if he didn't have Taehyung at his fingertips.

After a week of nothing, no texts and no midnight calls, Jimin had stopped waiting for good news. His waking moments felt like a drag. Hours of sleep became corrupt with bursts of tears. But nonetheless, his thoughts remained with Taehyung.

"Please don't call back." The younger's final words. But as irony would have it, Jimin had called at least a thousand times since. Or at least... He tried

and tried

and tried.

But with no response.

"And now for our national affairs..."

Jimin's tear-swollen eyes watched without intent as the television kept playing the same condensed bad news.

But he just wanted to hear something good for once.

He wanted a miracle.

Some good news.

He wanted

and wanted

and wanted

Taehyung.

But the boy to Jimin's right had suddenly stolen him from his thoughts.

"Jimin-hyung! Look!"

The TV's volume was suddenly turned up to full blast without warning. Jimin frowned.

"What the fuck, Yugyeom--?!"

"JUST LISTEN--!"

And he did.

"Notorious drug lord and former inmate of Incheon Detention Center, Kim Seokjin, has been taken into police custody after a two-month-long man hunt. While placed under further charges for money laundering, theft, sexual assault, as well as the attempted murder of hospital patients, Min Yoongi and Kim Taehyung, the accused has been sentenced to life imprisonment for extensive police reports on homocide, including the murder of Jung Hoseok, as well as two staff members of HuanMeun Hospital, Daegu last week.
  After extensive medical examination, 21-year-old Min Yoongi was found with knife wounds to the lower abdomen, resulting in a lacerated liver, while Kim Taehyung, aged 19, has undergone examination for several bruised ribs. Both victims have been transferred for specialised therapeutic treatment at EunJin Hospital, Busan until further notice..."