Minji's Sitter | Taejin ✔️

Thirty-Three

A/N: This chapter might hurt a little, but we will be making progress, slow progress, but it will be some progress.

"I am guessing you are not coming by tonight?" Namjoon asked Jin, who he was looking forward to seeing.

"No, I left work later than I intended to, so I am going to stay home tonight, plus I have a lot on my mind right now." Jin slipped out of his clothes, throwing them in the laundry basket, grabbed his robe and put it on.

"Is everything okay? Did something happen?" Namjoon could sense that Jin was feeling down, and he was hoping that it had nothing to do with Taehyung.

"Yeah, everything is fine. Taehyung is going to be traveling for work, so I think I might have to watch Minji until he is back."

"Oh, are you going to stay at his house, or she's going to yours?"

"Well, none of the above." Jin plopped down on his bed and flipped on the T.V. to catch up on his newest addiction.

"What do you mean?" Namjoon was hoping that Jin wasn't going to say he was traveling with Taehyung. He knew they weren't close, but he didn't like the idea of Jin hanging or staying around Taehyung.

"He thinks I live with you, so he put up a big stink about not wanting Minji to stay at some stranger house-"

"But why would you tell him you live at my house?" Namjoon was confused, he asks Jin to move in with him a few months back, and Jin declined. Jin even made it clear that they couldn't be in a relationship together as he wanted to get his life together. Although it didn't stop Jin from using him for sex, at least that's how he felt, but that's how their relationship or whatever you want to call it has always been.

"I said it so that he wouldn't come to my house, not knowing he would put up a big stink about not wanting her at some strange guys place. Anyway, it didn't end well, and he thinks you are my boyfriend. by the way, but you are to be blamed for that."

"I wouldn't want my child at some strange guy place either, so I can't say that I blame him, and why am I to blame?"

"Well, because you told Minji you are my boyfriend, she told her father the same thing, so now he associates you with being my boyfriend, which is fine by me. Although he got upset when he found out she met you." Jin rolled his eyes at the image of Taehyung's face earlier.

"So, who is going to be watching Minji tomorrow?" Namjoon always found himself to be concerned about the little girl he had met a few months ago; he had seen how much she clung to Jin, if he had been a stranger, he would've sworn Jin was her parent.

"I am going to watch her." Jin started texting Taehyung to see if he could talk so that he could tell him the truth.

"You are going to go by his place and watch her?" Namjoon questioned, confused.

"No, he is going to bring her to me."

"But, I thought you said he thinks you live with me."

"Yeah, he does, but I am going to call him later and tell him the truth. I wanted to tell him earlier, but he was too worked out for me to get a word in. So I just allowed him to believe whatever he wanted to. Plus he knew he was going to be away for work, and he should've given me advance notice, what if I had plans?"

"Jin, you are joking, right?" Jin could hear the change in Namjoon's tone.

"No, I am not, what's wrong now?"

"Have you been seeing that therapist I recommended?"

Jin rolled his eyes and let out a deep sigh, "Not recently, but why are you asking?"

"Have you spoken to your brother?"

"If you are about to give me one of your lectures, let's talk another day. I don't have the energy for any of this today."

"You never do Jin. Whenever it's not what you want to hear, you never have the energy for it." Namjoon was a bit annoyed with Jin for a lot of reasons. He tried to keep his calm most of the time, but Jin had a way of bringing him out of it.

"What did I do now, Namjoon? Seriously don't tell me this is because of what I just told you."

"It is because of what you just told me. You are playing this game with Taehyung, but Minji's life is being affected, and it's clear you don't give a crap about her, or you wouldn't be doing this."

"Are you fucking kidding, how can you say I don't give a crap, you think I don't care about that little girl?"

"How can you really care about her when you keep doing things that affect her in a bad way, but what am I to expect, you aborted your own kids anyway, how can I expect for you to care about someone else's child?" Namjoon wishes he could pull those words back, but it was too late, he had spoken out of anger and didn't mean what he had said.

Namjoon's words dug a whole in Jin's heart. His stomach became weak, and tears appeared in his eyes, "I-I can't believe you would say something like that to me."

"Jin, wai-"

Jin hung up the phone before Namjoon could finish his sentence.

Before he could put his phone down, it started ringing, thinking it's Namjoon; he ignored it, but when it rang again, he looked at it to see it was Taehyung calling him. He was about to ignore it, but when he remembers that he needed to confirm things for Minji, he picked up.

"I thought you wanted to talk to me, why did you ignore my call before?" Taehyung questioned before Jin could even say a word, but when he hear sniffles on the other side of the line, he became confused, "A-are you okay?" he wasn't even sure if he was supposed to be asking Jin that.

It was like the flood gates open when Taehyung asked Jin those words; he broke down over the phone and started crying even more than he had been doing before. Being asked those words made him extremely emotional because he was not okay.

The one person who he thought was going to be there for him no matter what. Had broken his heart. Jin cared about Namjoon more than he let Namjoon believe. He was focusing on fixing himself before he committed himself to Namjoon because he cared for him. He didn't want to bring his messy ways into a relationship with Namjoon, so he was trying to become someone Namjoon would be proud to be with, but he never knew Namjoon thought of him in such way. Jin had confessed his darkest secrets to him, and he used them against him like that, it broke Jin into a million pieces.

All the progress he had made while being in therapy had gone right out the door.