Twisted Life, Thorny Love

42. Memory lane

Bipolar disorder.

It fell like a bomb on the two of them. Taehyung started shaking slightly as he let the weight of the two words sink in.

"B-Bipolar disorder?" Jungkook whispered. He had taken the week off from the college and thus had decided to accompany Taehyung to the psychologist for the entire week. Honestly, he didn't think it would be this bad. Then again, it made sense. Taehyung had memory lapses while Jin didn't. It made a lot of sense.

For the past four days, the two of them came to the hospital every day and Taehyung had completely opened up about everything from his point of view.

"Actually, it might not have been this bad if you had just worked on it sooner. But you have made it a big problem for yourself, Taehyung. At least work on it now if you don't want it to become a borderline personality disorder" Daesan said.

Taehyung gasped. He started to glare at the table intensely. "There you go. Now work on reducing that glare. Come on, try to stop glaring at the table" Daesan said. But that only made Taehyung shift his glare on Daesan.

"None of that. Cool down first. Calm down" Daesan said, staring straight into Taehyung's eyes. Before Taehyung could even blink, he flicked a lighter right in front his eyes, making him go cross-eyed. And before Taehyung could realize what was happening, he snapped his fingers right beside Taehyung's left ear. Within a flash, he brought his hand to his right ear and snapped it again.

It was so loud that Jungkook was sure it almost sounded like a gunshot.

Before he could think of anything else, Daesan brought his hand back in front of the small flame on the lighter. He waved his fingers right behind it before passing one his fingers slowly through the flame. "Calm down" he whispered.

Jungkook realized what was happening. The doctor was hypnotizing Taehyung. And the result was surprisingly immediate. Taehyung fell limp against his own seat.

"TAEHY-" "Shh" Daesan silenced him immediately. "He is not unconscious. He is in a semi-sleep state. Nothing is gonna work unless he first gets back all of the memories he lost. Only then can we progress with the treatment. That's how the treatment for a bipolar disorder starts. Mainly when the patient has memory lapses" Daesan explained.

Jungkook nodded and stayed back as the doctor lowered Taehyung's chair and placed an overhead light right above his face.

"Calm down completely. You are completely chill........NOW!" he snapped his fingers again. "You are standing with your husband on the cliff of Jeongbang Waterfalls........what do you see around you?" Daesan asked.

"Trees.....Ocean.....Minho....." Taehyung whispered. "Good. Now!" he snapped his fingers again. "The two of you are talking about your anger issues. Your husband tells you that he supports your brother on this one...." he says and sits back.

Jungkook looks at Daesan with awe. He had never seen hypnosis before. Ever. He always thought it was nonsense, but here he was, sitting in a room where his own boyfriend was being hypnotized to remember the stuff that he had conveniently forgotten.

He looked at Taehyung, who had a frown on his face. "Will he remember the whole thing now?" Jungkook whispered. "You just have to prompt. Let's see" Daesan said and silenced Jungkook by showing him the classic 'finger-on-the-lip' gesture.

Jungkook sat back and started observing how his expression changed from a frown to pain to shock to a scowl. He flinched as Taehyung's eyes suddenly flew open. He was panting and his eyes were red. A whole new shade. One that was darker than the time when Taehyung came to his house.