BROMANCE | VKOOK - Chapter 21: Chapter 21

"Oh I thought it might be a good opportunity for us to strengthen our father-son bond if I'd join you on your trip here", Mr Kim said awkwardly, watching his son for a while. "Don't you think so too?"
Taehyung had his eyes so big and sparkling in excitement, Jungkook had never seen him look like this before. There was way too much admiration for this man who never gave two shits about him in those pretty, innocent eyes. Still love was present in the Taehyung's look, smile appearing on his lips. "I'd love that, Dad!", he said, clapping his hands happily.
Kook watched the whole scenario doubtful, eyebrows lifted.
Where was the catch?
"So", Mr Kim said, "What's the plan for today? Should we meet up with the principal to arrange your application?"
Taehyung shook his head, "We wanted to go listen to two lectures and then take a trip around campus. Would you want to join us?"
"Ahh", Mr Kim nodded, "Look, son. I have a business call around 10. I think I'll join you in the evening and we can go out for dinner, is that alright?"
Taehyung's smile dropped a little, along with his shoulders. "But I thought you're here so we spend time together-"
"And we will", Mr Kim patted Taehyung's head and then his phone started ringing. Obviously the call was that urgent that the man had to walk away and Taehyung didn't see him for the next ten minutes. So they left and headed for the lecture, Taehyung still didn't want to be late to this.
Jungkook still didn't say anything about all this, biting his lips to avoid saying anything unnecessarily rude about all this. But all of this seemed odd and Jungkook would love to find out the true reason why Mr Kim flew more than 10 hours here-, because it was for sure as hell not his son who made him want to go on this trip.
As far as Jungkook knew, this man didn't care about his kid at all.
"Maybe my Dad really likes me", Taehyung smiled happily when they sat down in the lecture hall, "He came all the way to America for me! He probably really just didn't get to read my messages about the trip and now that he found out he wanted to be part of it as well."
He looked at Jungkook expectantly but the boy only shrugged, "You think that's why he's here?"
"Yes! I mean-, why else-"
"No idea", Jungkook mumbled, still caught up in his thoughts. He didn't trust this old man at all. And he hated how happy it made Taehyung to have him here-, knowing that the man didn't had any good intentions at all.
"I can't wait for dinner now", Taehyung giggled.
"I thought we wanted to enjoy the whole day", Jungkook sighed, "Don't expect too much yet, okay? Maybe an important business call will make it hard for him to come to dinner."
Taehyung scoffed, "Stop-, don't be like this. I never had my Dad caring for me, maybe he finally realized that it's time to change that."
"Why would he suddenly realize that he should change that?", Jungkook sighed sadly, wrapping his arms around Taehyung's waist, "I hope and pray that it really is like that, but please don't get your hopes up too high yet, oki?"
"Can you just let me have this", Taehyung grumbled and pushed Jungkook's hug off. "I know you're not used to anyone caring about me but you, but maybe you will have to learn that now."
Jungkook nodded, he knew that for now it wouldn't make sense to say anything else. Taehyung had to find out for himself and he had to support him in this-, the boy needed that. And maybe it was Jungkook who was in the wrong about all this.
But then again-, why did it seem so fishy?
The next few hours went on quickly. Taehyung kept glancing on his phone, hoping for messages of his father that he'd join them anytime earlier, but when he understood that those messages wouldn't come, he put the phone away and started taking notes and listened to what the professors had to say attentively. Jungkook kept staring at all the people in here. He couldn't imagine being in college in two years from now-, he still felt like a middle schooler even though he was already a junior in highschool now.
Taehyung would leave after this summer, then he'd be one of these kids who spent incredible times at college and made tons of friends-, partied all the time and made memories for life.
Kook hated that he couldn't be part of it from the beginning.
After a while, Taehyung took Jungkook's hand while they sat in the second lecture about the scholarships. The older had been quiet for the past few hours after what Jungkook said about his father. But he couldn't stand to keep being mad, so he gave in and snuggled back close to his boyfriend.
At least Jungkook was here, that was more his father was doing even though he made all this way to America, just to still not be around.
They went out for lunch in one of the coffee shops on campus as they planned and had some delicious coffee which was also extremely pricey. Taehyung already loved college life, nothing was expensive and it all seemed so down to earth. Nothing like the life he was used to live at home, full of champagne and upper class people who expected him to be perfect all the time.
Of course it wasn't like this for everyone, people like Jungkook lived an average life. His father was doing well in business but they were none of the extremely rich people, unlike Taehyung's family who could bathe in money and still would have enough.
Taehyung never liked having all this money, he felt like everything he wanted in life just fell to his lap and he never had to work for anything.
Which was why this scholarship meant so much to him.
Not that he didn't appreciate his parents' money, but he'd much more prefer knowing he was actually smart enough for an Ivy league college.
They had a good time during lunch, joking around and made friends with the kids who worked at the shop. It were two boys who were freshman at college, earning some money with leading this shop in their free periods. It went pretty well and they seemed to have a lot of fun around here. Taehyung felt a little jealous, he wanted to have friends like this too. Someone to work at a coffee shop with, who was being dorky and funny all the time and able to have fun with. Even during work.
Unlike the friends he had at home who cared only about bullying and drugs.
Not that he didn't love his friends-, he really did.
They were all he had at this point. And they all shared a pretty similar life.
Lia who had her parents abandoning her with 16, showering her with money so she would stay away from home. The girl never asked for moving out, yet she had to. All of this happened after her mother died and her father married a new woman-, a younger one who was probably after the old man because of his money. And she wanted to have the daughter out of the house. So Lia had to leave.
Then there was Yoongi who had an alcoholic as a father, probably drug addicted too but he was a rich business man and that was what made it easy for Yoongi. The mother was gone since birth and Yoongi grew up in a house where his father blamed him for his mother's departure, never got any love from a parent and pretty much let out his anger on people like Jungkook who had everything he ever dreamed of.
Not to forget about Hoseok who had parents who were still in love, but never loving their son. They got him when they were way too young, always blaming him for missing out on college experiences. Now that Hoseok was older, he tried to cope with all this by making other people feel bad.
And last but not least-, Aylie. The pretty girl who got everything she wanted. The one everyone either wanted to be or wanted to be with. She had caring parents, but they cared about the wrong things. She always had to be homecoming queen-, never missed out on any gala or special event. You never saw her wearing the same thing twice and there was barely a weekend she didn't spend at a pool without her mother by her side.
With dating Yoongi she tried to make a point-, showing her parents that she didn't want the perfect guy, she wanted a messed up one. They never acknowledged the boy and just pressured Aylie into getting the life they planned out for her.
All of those kids had one thing in common; they never received the love of a parent.
And maybe that's why Jungkook was able to mess up their whole world so much by jumping in it out of nowhere. It brought out the worst in Yoongi, Hoseok and Jimin but it brought out the best in Lia, Aylie and Taehyung. There was always good and bad in anything.
Sometimes being forced to see the truth in front of you changes your perspective of seeing things. And exactly that happened when those messed up kids met Jungkook. Some of them wanting to change and be a better them, while the others rather wanted to get rid off this unwanted truth.
"Tae?", Jungkook snapped the older out his thoughts that kept drifting off. "You good?"
The older nodded, "Totally", he said but none of them believed him this.
They paid the bill and then left the shop, walking over to the meeting place from where their campus tour would start. Jungkook and Taehyung kept holding hands and now it was Aylie joining them with a big smile, "Hi lovebirds", she joked and then they all started walking with the guide who were another bunch of college kids who had a whole lot fun telling them about the secret spots in college-, the ones that got used to hook up or to hide when you wanted to skip class.
It really gave them the full college experience instead of the same lame guided tours you could find on the internet.
"How's your day going Aylie?", Jungkook asked interested. The girl looked at the boy surprised, "Oh, it's going okay. I listened to a maths lecture but then my Dad caught me and forced me to come out of it", she laughed. "Now he's doing some business call so I got rid off him for a while."
"My Dad is here too", Taehyung said proudly, "He came here, only for me."
Aylie looked a little confused, "Seriously? Your Dad?"
"I know right, it seems unbelievable but he's here", Taehyung chuckled, "We go out for dinner later. I'm so excited!"
Aylie gave him a smile, "Tae-, I don't want to be the one saying that but are you sure he's here because he wants to support you and your college choice?"
Taehyung pouted a little, "Why does no one believe me. I know it seems odd but am I that unlovable? Maybe my Dad likes me too.. Just a little", he looked so upset.
Jungkook sighed, "We're just worried for you."
"Just when I thought for once in my life that I might get the attention I have been missing out on my whole life, the people who are closest to me can't even let me have that tiny bit happiness", he snapped. "Honestly, fuck off", he then said and stormed off.
Taehyung hated how right they were, and he hated how his heart ached with every time someone spoke out what he himself was thinking the whole time.
Something was off, he just didn't know what it was yet.
But he'd find out soon.
*
Jungkook didn't see Taehyung all evening, the boy seemed to have went out for dinner on his own and the younger decided to just let him do that. He wasn't mad or anything, he knew that Taehyung was hurt and he already planned to apologize when Taehyung would return.
He had decorated the tiny dorm room with roses which he had stolen from the gardens too, he had also put some candles on and wrote a big "sorry for being an ass" on the bed's blanket with rose petals. He put a little paper beneath that and wrote "as an apology you could have my ass </3"
Now he just sat here and waited for Taehyung to return.
It was already around 8pm and the boy was surprised that Mr Kim stayed out with him for that long.
Not that he didn't wish Taehyung exactly that, but it definitely was a bit weird. The man usually didn't spend more than a minute on his son.
It took Taehyung one more hour until he finally walked back into the dorm room.
Stained tears on his cheeks and his fist bleeding because he had angrily punched a wall on his way here. His eyes were red and his lips bitten and trembling.
Not saying a word he walked straight into Jungkook's arms and just hugged the younger, crying hardly.
Jungkook didn't know what to do, he just held the boy and didn't dare to ask what happened.
Taehyung sobbed for a whole ten minutes until he pulled back, wiped the tears off and looked at Jungkook for a while, "Can you help me bandage my hand? It's hurting", he said quietly and showed Jungkook the blood that was still dripping down, ruining the plain white blanket they had on the bed.
Kook nodded quickly and hurried over to the bathroom, he grabbed a towel and a bandage, walked back and started drying the blood before putting the bandage around his fist.
He still didn't ask, letting Taehyung the time he needed.
Taehyung thanked him for helping and then looked at what Jungkook prepared with the roses, "What did you had in mind?", he asked quietly, his expressions finally softening a little.
"I wanted to say sorry for being a bitch", Jungkook admitted quietly. "I should support you and always have your back, not talk you down when you're excited."
Ruining someone's excitement was not just unnecessary, no it was the worst kind of behavior.
"Kook", Taehyung inhaled deeply, "Don't say sorry."
"But I am-", Jungkook hummed. "I love you, I really do, Tae. I want to see you happy, not make you sad."
"But you were right tho", Taehyung let out, his breath hitching a little when he had to admit that. "You just tried to protect me and I didn't listen."
The boy looked a bit surprised, "What do you mean?"
"You were right. My father is not here because he wanted to see me", Taehyung laughed. "He's just here because of fucking business as always, but it took a whole new level now."
"What?", Jungkook tilted his head, biting his lips.
"Let's have sex", Taehyung let out, "Before it's too late."
"Taehyung!", Jungkook gasped, "What are you saying!"
"Please", Taehyung grabbed Jungkook by his shirt and pulled him on top of him, "I need you right now." And in those words was so much more meaning than ever before. Tears started running again when Jungkook let himself be pulled on Taehyung's lap, the older slowly starting to undress Jungkook, crying harder with every kiss they shared.
"Taehyung what happened", Jungkook whispered after a while, pulling back to look the boy deeply in the eyes.
"Let's not rush this. Let's talk.."
If only the boy had known what was about to come.
What happened earlier , ..