Nothing Left For You (Vminkook)

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Taehyung

    "He knows?"

    "Yes."

    "Hm."

I keep my eyes trained on the floor in front of me as I stand before my mother.

    "He's leaving you?" She asks, her tone unbothered.

    "I think so." I say, the words stinging on the way out.

She hums again, not really showing any signs of being upset with me.

    "I'm sorry." I say, not quite sure what it is I'm apologizing for.

    "Are you apologizing? To me?" My mother asks with a chuckle. "You really are a strange man, Taehyung."

    "Why did you call me here?" I ask looking up at her, wanting nothing more than to be at home alone.

    "Rayla told me you and Jimin had an argument. I wanted to make sure everything was alright, but it clearly isn't." She says looking over my appearance. "It's a shame, really. Jimin is a good person."

    "If you called me here just to remind me of what an idiot I am you can save your breath." I say, my patience wearing thin.

    "You are an idiot, by far one of the most idiotic people I know." She says standing and crossing her arms. "But underneath all that idiocy, there's a man. A man with a heart and emotions and, believe it or not, a conscience."

I sigh but I don't interrupt her as she continues.

    "I know you know you're wrong. And I know that even when you were running around with that secretary of yours you knew you were wrong. Especially when Jimin was nothing but a good man to you. I don't know what it was that made you step out of your relationship, what made you feel like you had that right, I don't know. But I do know this, I know that you want to fix it, forgive it, and move on from it. But I will tell you from experience that it will never be that easy. Life isn't easy, and I made a mistake by making everything easy for you growing up."

    "It wasn't easy." I defend, I faced the same struggles as anyone else growing up.

    "Your life wasn't complicated, Taehyung. Money wasn't an object to you since the day you were born and your father and I raised you together in a healthy household." She says. "Everything was practically handed to you, and that's my fault, it is. I didn't teach you to value hard work or dedication. It took Jimin a lot of hard work to try and satisfy you. And a hell of a lot more dedication than anything."

    "I know, mother." I say, her words testing the narrow walls I had built in the last day and a half.

    "I'm very disappointed in you." She says, her words completely and genuinely disappointed.

Her words completely knock down those walls and tear me down, tears forming in my eyes. "I know."

She rounds her desk, stopping next to me and pulling me into a hug, smoothing my hair down comfortingly. "You're a better man than your father, Taehyung."

I hide my face in the crook of her neck as she speaks, tears flowing freely.

    "You're better than this, you are. And I know you probably don't want to hear this right now, but you have to fight for Jimin. Because he loves you and even though you've made a mistake the history you two have...he'd never leave all that behind without fighting. Do you understand?"

    "Yes." I say through my tears. "I understand."

I did understand, I did.

But I also understood that I couldn't fight, I couldn't beg him to stay, he needed to make that decision on his own.