The Magician || Jinkook

24. ?

Jungkook

There's a small smile on my stitched-up lips as I ring the bell to Seokjin's house. I wait a few seconds and the gate opens up for me. I walk through the beautiful garden and the door opens before I even get there. Seokjin is struggling against his brother who's trying to give him a kiss on the cheek. It looks pretty funny actually.

"Hyung, let go of me, I'm not five!"

"You're never too old for smooches."

"Not in front of my boyfriend, you're embarrassing me!"

"I don't see how that's my problem. Come here."

Seokjin gives up on struggling and Hoseok happily pecks his cheek. He waves to me before closing the door again and Seokjin comes to me with an annoyed pout. I pull him in my arms and wait for him to kiss me, which he carefully does right away. Kissing hurts of course because of what Jimin did to my face, but no pain can ever be too great to keep me away from my lover. 

"Sorry you had to see that," he mutters.

"What do you mean? It's cute. My parents used to be like that too."

"What made them stop?"

"I moved away from home."

"Oh. Makes sense."

"Anyway, should we get going? They're waiting for us in the park."

He nods and I take his hand to make sure I don't accidentally run away from him. He's pretty slow with the cast on his leg. Not to mention I just like holding his hand. This is everything I've dreamed of. All I wanted was to be able to be with him and now we can. Being human is awesome. Sure, I'd prefer if I still had my powers, but that doesn't stop me from doing magic. It's the goal of today's outing after all. 

~†~

Jimin and Taehyung look up when we wave at them. They're sitting on a bench surrounded by flowers eating ice cream. It's a simple scene I'd never thought I'd be able to witness. As we walk up to them Taehyung gets up to offer Seokjin his seat. He sits down and Jimin's eyes nervously gaze on the ground. 

"Are you scared?" I ask. He shrugs.

"A little but I know it's for the best. I feel fine at the moment but who knows if my past self will show up again and ruin everything. It's not worth the risk. I need to do this. I want to do this."

"Alright, as long as you know it's permanent. You can't undo it afterwards."

"I know. I'm fine with that."

"I'm a little sad though," Seokjin admits. "Hoseok-hyung doesn't have his memories either, so I'll have no one to talk to about Heaven. It'd be nice to be able to reminisce with you. Even if we ended on a bad note we still had a lot of good times together."

Jimin scratches his head, unable to look Seokjin in the eyes.

"Yes, but I don't think my heart can take it. Even though the good will disappear I think it's worth it to get rid of the bad. I don't want to remember being the bad guy. I want him to go away forever. I wanna be me."

Seokjin accepts that answer and I bring out my pendant. Even though I don't really like Jimin that much considering what he's done, I made sure to do my research before this. He won't have a seizure like Taehyung did. Hopefully.

"Follow this with your eyes."

Jimin's dark eyes move along with the pendant and I hold my breath in to keep my focus. The other two know to keep quiet during this to make sure it doesn't go wrong. The pendant swings at a slow pace and soon Jimin is immersed in the action.