𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 || 𝐕𝐊 ✔

Eight : Clueless

"Uncle Taetae~ You will take Nivi to jinee uncle's shop?" Nivi cutely tilts her head, eyes sparkling in hope.

Taehyung pressed a smile at her attention, not even realizing what she asked. He was just sitting blankly on the couch, hands airily patting the girl's head. His mind too busy to ponder about his sudden gloomy life.

Nivi pouted her lips, getting sullen at no response from taehyung. Jimin walked in, placing the tray of drinks on the table and casually glancing at taehyung.

He frowned, taehyung was in a daze since he came. No matter how much he tried to smile genuinely, he could clearly see the distress in his eyes.

"Nivi, baby go and play with toys" He softly tells his daughter. Nivi blinked her round eyes, "in the rwoom?"

"Yes baby" Jimin patted her head lovingly, watching her nod reluctantly and then cutely sprinting towards her room.

Jimin breathed out, eyes carefully fixed on taehyung. He sat beside his friend, watching him blankly staring at nothing.

"Tae?" He placed his hand on his shoulder, his touch delicate.

Taehyung fluttered his eyelids, nodding his head. He heard jimin's low concerned voice, "what's wrong?"

His eyes immediately brimmed with tears, chest paining as he contains the sobs within. Jimin's brows crease in great worry, "tae...baby?"

Taehyung turned towards his friend, breaking into a cries, "Chim"

Jimin's eyes widens, shocked at his sorrowful sobs. Though baffled, he pulled taehyung to his arms, patting his back and mumbling comforting words.

The more jimin tried to console him, the more taehyung's wails intensified. Oh how long he wanted someone to provide him with comfort, someone who would look at him with love and care.

He didn't knew he needed someone until jungkook drew a line of distance between them. To simply put it, he only needed his love all this while.

Taehyung had to force himself to get a grip on himself, sensing jimin's anxious voice. He didn't wanted to worry his friend like this.

Jimin hurriedly gave him a glass of water, whispering him to take steady breathes and calm his mind for a moment. Taehyung quenched the dryness of his throat, blinking away the tears stick to his lashes.

Jimin warmed him in a affectionate embrace, his eyes moistened to see taehyung such dejected. He breathed in and drew himself back, smiling fondly at taehyung who sniffed a little.

"Are you okay?"

Taehyung nodded, watching his hands clasped along with jimin's.

"It's about jungkook" Taehyung mumbled in low weak voice. Jimin's eyebrows furrowed, he didn't ask anything impulsively but waits for taehyung to feel comfortable.

Taehyung looks up at his friend, then slowly started explaining everything that bothered his mind. His voice was stammering, low and hard to perceive but jimin could grasp it well.

"He said he isn't upset but---" Taehyung presses his lips, trying not to cry again.

"You gave him space for a month long?" Jimin didn't know what exactly was more shocking to him, taehyung living clueless or jungkook behaving totally strange.

Taehyung licked his lips, "yeah...it's normal, right? Mano said couples do that often"

Jimin couldn't help but sigh, taehyung is really innocent to think reasonably for times.

What jimin couldn't understand was jungkook getting overly upset over a trivial thing of taehyung saying no to sex.

Taehyung had never approached jimin with such a serious argument between jungkook. They actually never had such a thing, in fact he doesn't even remember seeing taehyung sad after his marriage with jungkook. They were always the perfect pair to admire at.