Don't Let Me Fall✔✔

Chapter 32

"Well this was useless," Yoongi said as we all walked in to the kitchen defeated. "I thought you were the best of the best, Jackson."

"What can I say? The kid's good at running away." He replies as he slumps down on a bar stool.

"So what know?" Jimin asks.

"I have acquaintances working in bus stations, airports, and train stations. I've sent a picture of Ken out to all of them."

"What if he's already left Seoul?"

"Then we'll have to manage with the contacts I have outside of Seoul. It's not a lot but it's something." After our meeting in the dining room yesterday, Yoongi contacted Jackson and he came over this morning with a file containing Ken's address and a list of places he hangs out in. We'd been out for hours looking for him, but had no luck finding him.

"This makes no sense. Why is he making a big deal out of this whole situation?" Jungkook asks frustrated.

"What do you mean? I thought you guys said it was to get back at Taehyung?" Asks Jimin.

"If that was the real motive behind it, why would he move out of his home? Why would he make an effort not to be found?"

"You think he was working for someone?"

"It would make sense why we can't find him anywhere." We all turn to Jungkook as if he had a big revelation.

"I guess we didn't think about that possibility." Yoongi groans massaging his temple.

"I bet you all are hungry let me start on lunch" Aunt Min Seo chimes in.

"Min Seo, you are a saint sent from heaven above," Jackson says as he holds her hand. "Please marry me." He says dramatically.

She snatches her hand away chuckling. "You young men these days are so cute. I may be getting old, but I know for sure you won't be able to keep up with me." She turns around and starts making lunch while Jackson looks down trying to hide his blushing cheeks and for the first time in days I finally let out a laugh. It's small but its genuine. I've been walking around with a poker face pretending that nothing was wrong and that this situation didn't affect me for days, but I know Min Seo and Jimin aren't buying it. It hurts to know that the person I put all my faith in and relied on couldn't do the same in return.

I never asked any other person to believe me but everyone else did. I only wanted him to trust me even if he was the only one. I wanted him to be there for me through this hard time of being drugged and not knowing what the hell happened to me, but I guess that was too much to ask of him. Maybe this is the way things are supposed to be.

I feel a someone caressing my shoulder interrupting my thoughts. I turn and its Namjoon looking at me with sympathy. "How are you holding up?"

I give him a sad smile. "I'm fine." I lie. "I just want this whole thing cleared up, so I can put it behind me and move forward."

"What about my brother?" He asks.

"What about him?"

"Would you be willing to forgive him and accept him again when we find out the truth?"

I let out a heavy sigh. "Forgiving him is easy, but getting back together with him? I don't know. He humiliated me and talked down to me. I don't know how I'd be able to get back together with him."

He leans closer to me and puts his hands on top of mine and gives me a gentle squeeze. "My brother's an idiot," I look up at him and he looks into my eyes holding my gaze as if he was looking for something in them.

"But he's an idiot who loves you. He's thinking irrationally and that causes him to make stupid decisions, but I can guarantee that his love for you is real. Even if he doesn't show it, this silence between the both of you is killing him." He continues not letting go of my gaze.

"I love him too, but I have to think of myself first."

"I know, but just remember that when the truth comes to light, and he realizes his mistakes." Our staring contest gets interrupted when Jackson's phone rings.

"Hello?... yes.. don't let him go anywhere, I'm on my way... I don't know make up something." He hangs up the phone a turns to us. "Ken has been detained at the airport."

"So he is trying to leave the city." Yoongi states.

"Nope, he's trying to leave the country."

"You know what that means."

"He's running from someone." Jackson replies. "We have to go now. The person detaining him said he can't keep him for long." We get up and start heading out.

"Wait, I'll meet you all at the airport." Namjoon says as he gets his own keys and walks the opposite direction. He looks at our confused expressions and continues. "It'll be easier for him to cooperate with us if we let him go afterwards, and my brother needs to hear the truth first hand. You guys go I'll be right behind you with Taehyung with me." He says as he walks out the kitchen. Not long afterwards we hear arguing and as we're starting the car we see Namjoon carrying a grumpy Taehyung over his shoulder.

It doesn't take long for us to get to the airport with Namjoon and Taehyung trailing right behind us.

We get off and our eyes immediately find each other. My eyes automatically get lost in his. I see that just like me it doesn't look like he's slept in days. He looks as crappy as I feel, and a small part of me feels a bit better.

I want to go up to him. To throw my arms around him and hold him and beg for him to listen to me before hearing the truth from Ken. I want to believe that a part of him trusts me, but I can't. My pride won't let me.

We're led into an office and we see Ken handcuffed sitting on a table. He looks up to see us and he has a look of panic in his eyes.

I see Jackson hand the officer who kept him here, money in exchange for a key. He leaves and Jackson locks the door and Yoongi takes a seat in front of Ken. "You have a lot of explaining to do kid." Yoongi starts as we all gather around him. "So start talking."

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The tea be spilling lol🍵  The store I work at has closed down for the next two weeks... so I'll be working on this story a lot. And thank you so much for the comments and votes. I always have so much fun reading them and seeing your reactions. I'm sorry if I don't reply I'm just really awkward most times and don't know what to say or I feel like I'm about to say something stupid, but I'll try harder to interact more in the comments section. I really appreciate all the love this story is getting. Thank you💜