BROMANCE | VKOOK - Chapter 27: Chapter 27

The night was brighter than usually, moon shining so bright that Jungkook still struggled to fall asleep at 2am. His parents had went to bed early so he got stuck with himself for almost all the evening. While he tried to distract himself from everything going on with his videogames, once he laid down in bed this night, it all came crashing back down on him. It was a chilly, warm summer night, you could hear every car that passed by outside, silence surrounding everything.
It almost seemed peaceful.
Kook couldn't stop thinking, Taehyung was still on his mind and he hadn't replied to any of his text messages. And he had sent at least fifty texts, yet he got not one reply to any of them.
Something was so wrong and no one except for him seemed to realize it.
When thinking back to school today, all his friends had just pretended everything was fine and that Taehyung was just skipping school.
But Jungkook knew that Taehyung wouldn't do that, he was still working hard on getting better grades to be able to go to a good college after graduation.
It just wasn't like Taehyung to miss out on school for no good reason.
Why was Jungkook the only one noticing this? Or was he simply the only one who cared?
After he tried to read a book, did some of his homework and even did a whole workout, it was now 2am and he still couldn't stop thinking, falling asleep was impossible and Jungkook was about to accept that.
Right when he decided that maybe it was a good time to watch porn and jerk off in peace, which was the one thing that would always calm him down-, he got interrupted by a noise on his window. Someone threw a tiny stone against it and made Jungkook's eyes go wide. He pulled his hand out of his pants and got up in confusion, hope building up that this might be one of those romantic moments in movies where the love of his life would stand under his window, trying to convince him to run away together.
Just that they weren't in a movie and that there wasn't Taehyung standing there.
Instead it was his little brother who stood there, looking up to Jungkook when he opened the window.
"Jimin?", Jungkook tilted his head, voice low so his parents wouldn't wake up by that.
"Can I come in", Jimin asked silently, grabbing onto the tree in front of Jungkook's window, the one he would always climb up when they were younger and Mr Jeon forbid Jimin to sleep over 7 days in a row. So he would just sneak in at night.
He was quite good at climbing so before Jungkook had even agreed, he was in front of the window and smiled weakly, "Please-"
Jungkook shrugged and let him in, "What are you doing here?"
"Can I just stay the night?", Jimin asked, walking over to Jungkook's bed where he sat down and eyed Jungkook for a while. His look was desperate and Jungkook could see how red his eyes were, as if he had been crying a lot lately. "Why don't you show up in the middle of the night at Hoseok's window and ask him to stay over there?", Jungkook asked, sounding a little salty which he was. What Jimin did was still unforgivable and dropping Jungkook after years of friendship was not something you easily do to your best friend. Wrong on so many levels, yet Jungkook got soft the second he got Jimin's attention back. He'd never send him away.
"I feel more comfortable when I'm with you", Jimin admitted quietly. "Kook, I'm sorry for everything. I really am."
"How comes you only ever tell me that when we're alone but in school you treat me like shit?", Jungkook sighed and sat down next to him, "That's unfair, Chimmy."
"I know", the older sighed, shoulders dropping a little. "I know. And I'm sorry."
"Sorry doesn't make it okay", Jungkook shrugged and looked at Jimin's cheek for a while, it was blue-ish and swollen. "What happened to your face?"
"What do you mean?", Jimin flinched and quickly put his hand all across the bruise. "I'm fine."
"Did someone hit you?", Jungkook grabbed the older's hand and pushed it off, "Jimin? What's going on? Why are you here?"
Jimin looked down on his lap. "Things at home are getting too much to handle", he let out after a while, "So I sneaked out once my parents left me alone for once."
"What's happening at home?", Jungkook asked worried. Taehyung wasn't here, he was still in there, that was the first thing that shot up in the boy's mind. "Is Taehyung alright?"
"Taehyung's not home", Jimin blurted out, "I'm all alone with my parents there", the boy started sobbing. "And I don't want to be there anymore, I'm scared"
"Are they hurting you, Jimin?", Kook wrapped his arms around his best friend and looked at him impatiently, "And if Taehyung isn't home, where is he?"
Jimin shrugged, "I don't know, Kookie. I have no idea where they took my brother. They also took the girl he brought home from America-, they're both gone since last night and-"
"And?", Jungkook lifted his brows expectantly. "Tell me everything."
Jimin went silent, wiping off his tears, "When I asked where they took them, things started to go down and-"
"And?"
"And I don't want to go back, Kook-"
"We can wake up my Dad and he will take us to the police, they'll help", Jungkook suggested carefully, rubbing Jimin's back. "You don't have to go back there."
"No you don't understand", Jimin shook his head, "I have to go back there. My Dad would just pay the police not to do something."
"The police isn't supposed to take bribes." Jungkook gritted his teeth, "They can't just leave you alone in this."
"And even if they'd help, I'm sure my Dad will make sure that Taehyung won't come back then. I can't just-"
Jungkook let out the biggest sigh, "Fuck. We shouldn't have provoked this idiot", he facepalmed himself and Jimin nodded slowly, "We shouldn't have."
"And I thought this summer would be fun", Kook grumbled, "Now look at the mess we made."
"Why are you even awake that late at night?", Jimin then asked, trying to change the topic. Jungkook chuckled, "Couldn't sleep so I was gonna watch porn and jerk off, but then you appeared out of nowhere-"
Jimin blushed, "Do you jerk off thinking of my brother?", he asked curiously.
"Jimin!", Jungkook gasped, "That's none of your business-"
"It kinda is", the boy hummed, "So did you two already-"
"No!", Jungkook exclaimed, "My Dad forbid us-"
"Your Dad knows?", Jimin asked with big eyes. So much had happened within such a short period of time and he missed it all. Just because he would rather try to impress some bullies at school instead of being by his best friend's side during his first romance.
"He knows", Jungkook said proudly, "And I think he really likes Tae-"
"Will you forgive me eventually? For leaving you hanging?", Jimin asked after a while, eyes going sparkly with tears. "Kook, I'm so sorry"
"Probably", Kook bit his lips, "I'm sorry I wasn't cool enough to be your friend anymore", he then added. "Good thing is that Taehyung isn't cool either so we are a good match."
"What do you consider being cool?", Jimin asked confused. "I think Tae and you are the coolest dudes ever. You always do the right thing and-"
"And get shitted on for it, exactly", Jungkook smiled and ruffled Jimin's hair.
"Doing the right thing isn't always the easiest thing. I'm a loser who tries to take the easy way." Jimin shrugged. "You're too cool to be my friend, to be honest", he added shyly, looking up at Kookie.
"Now that you say it, I agree", Jungkook smirked innocently, his confidence jumping back in. "I'm pretty hot as well, by the way."
"You are", Jimin let out the biggest sigh. "So you were jerking off before I came here?", he got back to the topic and his eyes went to Kook's hands.
"Yup", the boy looked down. "To the thought of your big bro", he added with a wink and Jimin could only scrunch his nose before he laid down in bed next to Jungkook and pulled the blanket above him.
Jungkook laughed and laid down besides him, wrapping his arms around Jimin under the blanket and snuggled closer. That was how they always used to sleep at night, nothing new and nothing to worry about.
Jimin shut his eyes, feeling safe in Jungkook's arms and finally calmed down from the happenings of today.
While Jungkook laid awake all night, horrible scenarios coming up in his brain what could have happened to Jimin at home, and where they took Taehyung and the girl.
What if they left town and would start over somewhere else? Get a house, maybe a puppy and in some years a kid? Living the life Jungkook dreamed of, just that it was a girl that didn't even like Taehyung?
With these thoughts turning into dreams, Kook had a restless night.
*
"Jeon Jeongguk", it was Mr Jeon who stood in the middle of his son's room the next morning. Arms crossed, eyebrows furrowed madly and his lips pressed together. Kook woke up in surprise, turning around when he heard his father sounding so angry.
He quickly let go of Jimin who was slowly waking up as well.
"Don't you have a boyfriend?", he groaned, god he sounded so pissed that Jungkook immediately felt a little bad.
"I do-", he squeaked in a small voice. "W-why?"
"Why is there another boy in your bed then?", Mr Jeon straightup ignored Jimin's name and pretended he didn't knew this kid. "I didn't raise a cheating kid."
"I'm not cheating Dad! It's literally just Jimin-"
"No need to cuddle with him like this then", Mr Jeon said angrily, "As far as I can remember this Jimin right there had the audacity to make fun of you when you wore a dress."
Jimin looked utterly confused and way too sleepy to realize what was going on.
"Dad, chill", Kook rolled his eyes, "We're good again."
"Just because you're good with him doesn't mean I am", the man said and then grabbed the blanket and pulled it off the boys, "Now get up. Breakfast is about to be ready and if you want your friends to stay over, they can get a mattress or something. Also I'd like to be informed if someone is staying over", he said strictly. "Especially if it's people I don't necessarily like."
Jungkook got up annoyed by his Dad and softly shoved him over to the door, "Dad, just go downstairs and help Mom. Thank you, love you."
"Where's Taehyung?!", Mr Jeon asked annoyed, "Shouldn't he be the one sneaking into your room at nights?!"
"Dad, I thought you didn't want Taehyung and me to sneak around and break your rules", Kook said innocently. "Exactly", the man grumbled, "Exactly!"
"See, Taehyung listens to your rules as if those were the bible or something", Kook winked and Mr Jeon finally let out a relieved sigh, grinning brightly.
"God, I love this boy", he hummed and then just walked off, peacefully humming a song while he headed downstairs to join his wife, helping her with setting up the table.
Kook however turned around and walked back inside his room where Jimin sat on the bed and looked around the room, "What happened to your Dad? Since when is he like this-"
"Bro, I wish I knew", Jungkook rolled his eyes, "Since he found out I'm gay he's always involving in my relationship-"
"I thought he was homophobic, he always talked so badly about boys liking boys when we were younger", Jimin scratched his neck.
"I thought so too", Kook bit his lips, "But it's the opposite, he cares so much that I treat Taehyung right and he's trying to bond with him and I don't know. It's cute how he tries to support me in all this."
"Why does he yell at me though, I always slept in your bed and we always cuddle", Jimin asked.
"Because you hurt me and he hates seeing me getting hurt", Jungkook explained firmly, "When Taehyung stayed over the first time, he threatened to break his neck at breakfast."
"Damn, it must be nice to have a father who cares", Jimin only said and then got up from the bed and grabbed a hoodie from Jungkook to put it on and then the boys headed downstairs to get breakfast.
Mr Jeon and Mrs Jeon had already prepared everything, they even made fried eggs and bacon, set up the table and put freshly made coffee in the middle of it. Jimin had always loved the mornings at Jeon's house. The little family always paid attention to starting the day off happily, eating with family was something Jimin never experienced so he stayed over here as much as he could.
They sat down and both parents eyed Jimin for a while. Mrs Jeon smiled then, "It's nice to have you back here, Jimin", she decided to be friendly while her husband only gave her a deathglare, "Darling, it's not nice to see him here", he corrected his wife and shook his head. "Do you have anything to say, Jimin?", he then asked the boy. "Like, for example that my son looked good in this dress and you making fun of him was unnecessarily rude and an action that happened due to a lack of braincells?" he smiled bitterly and Jimin looked down anxiously.
"I'm sorry, he looked good in the dress and making fun of him was just dumb", the boy said in a small voice. "Sorry Mr Jeon-"
"Don't apologize to me", the man shrugged, "And learn from your mistakes."
Jimin nodded.
"And now, I'd like to know where Taehyung is. I haven't seen him in 24 hours and that's highly unusual, he never leaves my son alone."
Well, now Jimin and Jungkook both went really silent.
And then Jimin got up, "I gotta go", he let out, "My parents will be mad if they don't find me in my bedroom."
The boy ran off, leaving three pretty much confused people behind.
That's when Jungkook realized that Jimin had lied to him last night.
He knew where Taehyung was.
Just had no guts to speak it out loud.