Jellyfish | 2MIN FF

ep 16; jongin✨

CHAPTER AHEAD CONTAINS BULLYING AND GRIEF; READER'S DISCRETION IS ADVISED!

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"He was nice wasn't he?", Jongin's mom smiled and glanced at me. My heart shattered, my words slurring and responded to her question. Jongin was invading my head, my imagination, my heart. My heart leaped every second as I twitched due to the overdose. His young mother's hand held mine. "I just wanted to let you know, you're amazing, Taemin. You've been struggling and what's happening out there is.. very difficult."

I questioned it, but I did hear my elders yelling at each other. I knew Jinki was hurt, but there's nothing I could do. She smiled as her slender, slim body stood up. "It's getting late, you should get some sleep. I got you a gift~", she handed me a nicely Christmas wrapped gift.

"Come visit me when you're an outpatient!", she walked out and Jinki immediately ran in, holding me.

I felt his warm tears falling on my shoulder. Why was he crying? "Taemin, I'll do everything to keep you here with me. I promise!", he sobbed over and over again like a maniac. Was the argument that serious?

"I want you to have a normal life like everyone else, ever since I started to take care of you because no one else would, it changed my life. I was happier, you know I never told you this but-"

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the morning before..

Minho walked in the empty classroom, looking at the three empty seats. Jongin, Lucas, and I were gone. Everything seemed just so plain without them. He faced Lucas' seat and stared at the carved words on his desk.

"Murderer."

"Pig"

"Die."

He frowned at the harsh words said about his best friend and replaced his desk with his own. Seeing those words now against him, made him feel slightly good. At least it wasn't aimed at Lucas.

Minho looked over at Jongin's seat, filled with beautiful roses and treats. He placed a daisy on his desk and in Lucas'.

He planned on walking to his old friend, Lucas' house and skipping school, later explaining to his father about leaving.

The streets seemed so empty and dreadful. Everything seemed meaningless.

He remembered Lucas and himself messing around in basketball practice, ending up getting in trouble. His first time I finally smiled at him and having me next to him, always greeting him with kindness. The way he treated me seemed so lovable. It kind of made him jealous last time, but after that, he respected him.

The first time he's met me.

"You like jellyfish too?! Wanna be friends?"

"Minho, please don't leave me!"

He tried not to end up crying before getting to the bright pastel yellow house. The outside of it seemed happy, but little did he know, the inside was scarier. The young boy knocked on the door, hearing glass shattering inside. "Lucas?", he yelled out.

The door opened, revealing a medium sized intimidating man. "The fuck do you want? Who're you anyways?"

"I'm Lucas' best friend.."

The man laughed and mocked him for a bit. "My son has friends? How unbelievable.. at least he's good at something."

Minho nervously tried getting his words out of the tightly enclosing throat of his. "Is he here?", he asked.

He grabbed Lucas like he was just a dumb toy, by his arm and imprinting his handprint on it. The selfish man threw Lucas outside of the house. "Keep him. I don't want to see him for the rest of my life, he was a mistake anyways," he growled and slammed the door shut.

Minho eyed Lucas' black eye and bruised body. Lucas sighed and walked. "Bet you don't wanna see me either, Minho. I have no one else to go. Do you know how hard it is to kill your own friend?"

"It wasn't your fault. Don't you get it, Lucas? The person at fault is already in jail! We can start new. You can stay with me at the moment," he tried to smile, but failed.

"That's gonna be hard, but did you only skip to see me? I shouldn't matter to you. I do care about you, Minho. So, let's go back to school," Lucas finally managed to keep his bright smile. How could he smile while he's in so much pain.

The both of the boys walked inside the classroom, getting glared at. Lucas knew he was starting to picked on and looked at his desk. The words were missing and there was a daisy. He got shoved onto the ground. "There goes the murderer, watch out he might kill all of us with his deadly fists!", the boy mocked. He was used to those types of comments by now. It just hurt when it came out of his own father's mouth.

One of the class freshman, Haechan, threw a binder at the boy. The upperclassmen swearing him out. Lucas stared and stood there, deciding what to do. Loud shouting came from outside. A random short girl ran in the class. "Oh my gosh, it's a celebrity!", she yelled at the top of her lungs.

"He's looking for you Lucas!"

"Probably came to knock some sense into you, who is it anyways?", the bully laughed.

"It's Kim Jonghyun," the girl dreamily sighed, remembering his handsome and perfect facial features.

Jonghyun walked in, the teenagers all crowding around him. He looked around to find Lucas. The blonde man spotted him and grabbed his wrist, Lucas dragging Haechan with him. Minho followed them as Jonghyun led all of them into an empty hallway.

"Finally.. Didn't know I was that popular. Okay so, Lucas, I need you to meet me at Banpo Bridge, got it? Don't think I hate you about what happened. Still mad but I don't hate you," he handed Lucas a business card with his phone number on it. "Call me when you need me, I'll be going to see Coach Chaeng."

He walked away and left the young boy with tons of questions.

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tonight..

I looked at the window, seeing the curtains wave around. I was alone. My mind was just making up random voices and images. One of them seemed awfully familiar.

All I wanted was to get out of this hospital. I would sometime, but I just couldn't wait. It would soon be morning, so if I escaped I'd be in trouble. I can still use my legs to walk, it won't be easy though.

My slim fingers slid the window open and crawled out, thank baby Jesus it was just the first floor. I looked up the sky as it started to get bright. Another night with no sleep. My hallucinations got the best of me.

I accidentally bumped into a man, looking up at who it was. "J-Jongin?", my eyes started to tear up.

He smiled and held my hand. "Hi Taemin."