A World of His Own

Chapter 2.

[Diary]

"Hey, let's stop for some snacks! You lost the game of cham cham cham this morning right Jungkook-ah?" Taehyung smiles as their car is approaching a convenience store."

Jungkook is startled out of his thoughts, "oh yeah, you're right. Haha, I've almost forgotten about it." The car pulls over for the boys to buy some snacks. It is already eight pm, they have done several interviews and are clearly very exhausted. Jungkook decides to buy some ice cream, bread for tomorrow's breakfast and some potato chips. Taehyung is busy choosing gums and he is doing it so cautiously as if it is the most important thing ever. Jungkook finds it both cute and funny.

Jungkook has always viewed Taehyung as a man with a childlike soul, he has always thought that Taehyung is the only light in this world that would never go dim. Tonight is actually an eye opening night to him, Taehyung's light flickered for the first time in many years.

"V hyung, come on, just take both of them I'll pay for it!" he says.

"Really!? Really!? You would!?" Taehyung's eyes glimmer.

"Of course Tae bear." It is actually not intended, the nickname comes out and flows naturally like water, like air.

Taehyung loves it when Jungkook calls him bear, loves it when he can feel the warmth oozing out from his eyes, loves it when he is just there for Taehyung. He carries the bags of gum and throws them to the bin where every other things are.

"I can't believe it took you fifteen minutes to choose a pack of gum," says Jin. He looks annoyed, but not really, he is just jokingly annoyed like how he usually is towards all other members.

"I love you too hyung," says Taehyung with that boxy smile of his that everyone falls for. Jin knows immediately that he can never ever be seriously annoyed by Taehyung.

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The TV is on, potato chips are all over the floor, cans of coke and beer are on it too. The members gather together in a circle, everyone except Taehyung. He was the first one to go to the bathroom to take a shower and he has not come out of the bathroom yet. It has only been fifteen minutes, so it is not worrying for them. The movie that is going on right now is actually about a woman who is kidnapped and now trying her best to fix the broken telephone she found in the basement to call for help. It is quite an interesting movie but only some who actually are watching the movie and the rest are thinking about something else.

"Hey guys, I kind of swear Taehyung shook pretty badly in the first radio interview," says Jin. He just cannot shake the idea off like that without discussing it. This is actually a big thing since Taehyung has never shown any sign of vulnerability all this years. So once he shown it, it worries Jin a lot.

"It is not the kind where you feel cold and shiver a bit, it is actually serious guys, like he's holding pain," he continues with a mouth filled with potato chips.

"This is crazy, I don't like the idea of knowing that someone who's so happy all the time, suddenly is feeling nevous, scared, and just generally not happy anymore. This makes me so sad, I don't want my Taehyung to feel pain, emotionally, or even physically," J hope frawns; the hold around his can of beer thighten. The idea of his Taehyung in pain disgusts him.

"But if we're talking about it, maybe he is usually like that? But he's too good in hiding it?" asks Jimin. Jimin has a hunch, he really has. He does not remember whether it is a dream or reality, but he remembers seeing him sitting on his bed with his back leaning on the head of the bed and mumbling to himself. He looked a little bit worried over something.