Love Will Remember | Jikook [COMPLETED] 🔞

Chapter - 49

Jungkook stared at the ceiling, sleep far out of his reach, dried tears staining his cheeks, and emotionally exhausted. It was close to eleven at night.

When he reached home, he'd tried to call his mother. It went unanswered as usual. Growing up, he never understood why his mother wanted him to stay in his room all day when he was at home. While his schoolmates had many stories to tell about their parents and the things they did during the weekends, Jungkook stayed silent because he didn't have a story to tell.

He was silent not because he was shy, but because he didn't have anything to talk about. The kids in his class didn't know that though. They soon started ignoring him because he talked less. He used to think everything was normal between him and his mother. But she had almost shut him during his early teen years.

Sports were one of his outlets. It didn't require talking so he preferred doing that. When his father made him pack bags to go to Seoul, he was terrified. He knew no one here. Even though he had no friends back home in Busan, he at least knew their faces and names. He had a hard time fitting into the new crowd. All the attention he was receiving as the new kid in the block was suffocating him. It didn't help the school bullies took pleasure in teasing him for looking so skinny.

The day he met Jimin still warmed his chest. Kindness was the last thing he expected from the school's popular boy. Park Jimin and Kim Taehyung were the most whispered name on the campus. One was the epitome of beauty while the other was full of muscle, chubby and rough, exuding confidence. Imagine his surprise when he ran into the same two boys in the changing room.

He didn't mean to follow them. Something about Jimin and the way he had taken care of him throughout the game had made Jungkook orbit around him subconsciously. The others left him alone when Jimin and Taehyung were around. Jimin soon became his safe place.

Another sob racked his body and he curled into a ball, biting his lips as he fought the urge to pick up his phone and call him.

You're pathetic.

Who would want someone as weak as you?

Do you think Jimin loves you?

You're fucking annoying. He will never love someone like you.

The taunts replayed in his mind as if it happened yesterday. Jimin had dated a few girls before Jungkook. Though Jimin said he was gay and he went out with girls before he was sure about his sexuality, it didn't lessen Jungkook's fear. He cringed at the memory of being so emotionally vulnerable to every taunt thrown at him.

He shouldn't have bothered with them, but it didn't help. Every time he came home from school, bearing the hurtful words of Jimin's exes and the others, Jimin was there to comfort him. He took all the comfort Jimin had to offer. He became clingy.

Jungkook sniffed, wiping his face with the sleeves of his baggy t-shirt. What would Jimin think if he saw him like this? His entire body went rigid when the door to his bedroom opened. He closed his eyes tight, biting his lips so hard that he tasted blood.

Light footsteps approached him. Soon a kiss was pressed on the side of his head and he held a whimper. Jimin's citrusy scent mixed now with his sweat enveloped him. Jungkook fought the urge to turn around and clung to him like a koala then and there.

Jimin retreated to the bathroom and when Jungkook heard the shower running, he jumped out of the bed and rushed to the spare bathroom in the hall. He scrubbed his face clean, getting rid of any traces of his emotional break down before going back to his room.

When Jimin came back, Jungkook pretended to sleep, curled on his right side. The bed dipped behind him as Jimin climbed under the sheet. A kiss was placed on his nape and he shuddered involuntarily, his heart racing. Jimin wrapped his hands around Jungkook's waist.