𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐌𝐄//𝐏𝐉𝐌 𝐅𝐅

🐴27

It's been minutes and Jimin was still staring at the closed glass door that leads to the garden of his house where two figures sat at the hammocks with serious gaze that did nothing but worry him even more. Mostly because Haemi seemed distressed more than serious.

Upon seeing her raising chest that indicated her sixth times of sighing, the urge to run to her and embrace her with kisses intensified in Jimin as he sat helpless at the dinner area.

He watched as his dad's mouth moved with hurry while Haemi just stayed quiet as if she was strings away from bursting either in tears or anger. His heart tugged at the sight of her hunching body, a posture that athletes weren't fond of unless they're in pain which in her case was emotionally and mentally trembling.

"Poor sweetheart"

A soft voice interrupted Jimin and made him turned to face his mom behind him. Just like her son, Mrs Park was wearing a frown as well as she felt bad and pity towards the young athlete who's also a victim of an abusive family.

The old woman loosely hung her arm around Jimin's waist as she leaned on his shoulder and observed the girl in the garden.

Even with glistering eyes and shaky hands, Haemi didn't shed a single tear as her eyes fixed on Mr Park with strong yet blank stare but nobody could see through her raging storm mind and shattering heart.

Each word Mr Park uttered only sent her further into the fire pit where she burnt those dark memories but also where she's standing now as the fire stung her with the flashbacks and tiring childhood.

".....robbery and society violence. That's what Mr Mrs Song committed and pledged guilty of"

A quiet sigh left Haemi's shut mouth and it was the breath she's been holding while Mr Park listed out biological her parents' crimes. It wasn't light crimes at all and some of those really stir up something in her stomach, making her want to throw up.

Thankfully, Mr Park stayed quiet and allowed the stunned girl digest the new yet disturbing truth. Though she's a grown up, it still takes some time to swallow the fact that the one who was supposed to love you ends up in jail for beating people to death and robbing the helpless.

Haemi's jaw and fists clenched as she thought deeper, imagining the poor victims her parents had caused harm on as if they're Bonnie and Clyde.

Then it hits her. What if the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.....

The girl quietly gasped as her breath became uneven. She glanced at her trembling hands, feeling the fear and guilt arise in her. Those hands of hers has the blood of criminals running through them. Her uneven breathing turned into hiccups as she tried to catch her breath while warm tears wet her red cheeks like streams.

Haemi was too deep into her fear and scary scenarios of herself turning into those monsters that she didn't hear the click of the glass door along with the running footsteps that crashed the grass and approached her trembling body.

"Haemi? Baby look at me"

A pair of hands cupped her face and brought her face up but she was struggling to see through her blurry eyes that were filled with tears and her uncontrollable sobs seemed to have muffled the comforting voice.

Though the hammock was made for one person per time only, Jimin didn't care and sat on the hammock and engulfed the sobbing girl into his hug. Her figure disappeared between his arms as he swallowed her up with his hug.