BROMANCE | VKOOK - Chapter 28: Chapter 28

"So, now you don't even want to go to college?", Aylie let out a sigh as she walked through the front door of school, Yoongi by her side. The boy was wearing huge sunglasses and was dressed in all black, looking like some e-boy. When Aylie picked him up this morning, he had been on drugs and only after forcing him to take a shower, he would finally behave appropriate enough to take him to school.
"Nah, what's there in college for me?", Yoongi laughed, throwing his books into his locker, "I ain't going to put another 3 years of work for nothing. In the end I'll end up being a lame ass boss in a lame ass company anyway, so no need for college."
"Don't you want to at least have the chance to make your own choices?"
"You're a fool if you truly believe that any of us is able to make their own choices. Taehyung tried, look where it got him", Yoongi snapped at her, the girl flinching a little. "I'm just saying-"
"Well, you better not", the boy groaned, "And if I were you, I'd reconsider going to college as well. You'll end up being a housewife anyway."
The girl let out the biggest sigh, "Not if I marry you. You wouldn't make me your housewife."
"Oh really?", Yoongi pulled his sunglasses off to stare the girl in the eyes.
"Yeah, you respect women", Aylie crossed her arms.
Yoongi rolled his eyes, "Whatever."
Before their conversation could go any further, the door swung open and Lia stumbled in after missing school yesterday, she was back today. Dressed in nothing but a short skirt, a way too revealing shirt and holding a bottle in her hand. She looked around, met several eyes and then just let out a loud laugh and headed over to her locker where she leaned against and drank from her bottle.
"Oh, jesus", Aylie sighed when she saw Lia. "She seems out of it."
Yoongi shrugged, "That bitch should better get her shit together", he grumbled and dragged Aylie along, hurrying over to Lia who just kept watching the hallways in silence, a bitter smile plastered above her face. "How is everyone so fine when Taehyung's literally going through hell", she chuckled, taking another sip from her bottle.
It looked like water but once Aylie ripped it out of Lia's hands and smelled it, she quickly enough realized that it was being vodka in there.
"Are you crazy?", she yelled out, "Drinking at school? At 8am in the morning?"
"Would you keep it down", Yoongi hissed at his girlfriend. He then looked at Lia and grabbed the bottle, "Are you fucking serious?", he snapped at her then.
Lia only snatched her bottle back and gave Yoongi a pissed off glare. "What?"
"You want Jungkook to realize something's fucked up?", he asked, Lia shook her head soon after. "No", she bit her lips. "Of course I don't!"
"Then get your fucking shit together."
"Am I the only one who thinks he should know what's going on?", Jimin interrupted them, joining them with Hoseok by their side. All three of them gave the two a look that said it all. "Yup, if you want Taehyung to be dead by tomorrow, go ahead and tell Jungkook about what's going on", Lia laughed and looked at Jimin full of judgement.
"He deserves to know", Jimin hummed, looking down. "He's worried-"
"We're all worried", Yoongi said, "But I care more about Taehyung being okay than about Jungkook being a little worried."
The others agreed and waited for Jimin to agree too.
But the boy remained silent.
"I can't do this."
"Well, you have to", Hoseok said quietly. "You fucking heard what he said."
"How about we just focus on this day?", Aylie suggested after a while, "It's future orientation day, this afternoon will be all about finding the right place to go to after highschool ends", she said. There was indeed a whole event planned where different companies and colleges showed up on campus and had their own little spot here where students could go to and inform themselves.
"Yeah, sure. Let's pretend everything is fucking fine", Lia snapped. "Y'all are fucking amazing at doing that."
"Any other plans what we can do?", Aylie watched her sternly, tension rising between the two girls.
"Figure out a fucking plan!", Lia groaned. "But why would you care? All Taehyung ever meant to you was a good fuck." She laughed out weakly.
"I care about him!", Aylie snapped back, balling her fists, "I just don't get myself wasted on a weekday in the morning when I know there's a bunch of people watching every move we make."
"No one is watching us, what the fuck", Lia rolled her eyes. "They all think we're fucked up kids anyway."
"Which we are!", Aylie said. "And it doesn't help freaking out when Taehyung clearly told us to stay the fuck out of this."
"I thought we agreed on ruining his father's life this summer", Lia said, "Weren't all of you in on that? You're quick to back out when it comes to actually being serious."
"You know why we're not continuing to do that", Jimin interrupted quietly, "I'd like to get my brother back alive, don't you?"
"Of course I do", the girl ruffled her hair, "I just can't sit around all day and do nothing!"
"Then fucking learn it", Aylie yelled out and then grabbed Yoongi's hand and pulled him away.
Jimin and Hoseok stayed for a second, gulping dryly because it all got so intense within minutes. "Fuck", Hoseok blurted out, "I just want Tae back, man."
Jimin and Lia nodded, all of them turning their heads when they saw a certain someone walking down the hallway, carrying his books in front of his chest with glasses on his nose and tears running down his face.
"He looks like shit", Hoseok let out.
And Jimin and Lia could only agree on that.
"Kook, kook, kook!", the boy snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Lyza calling his name three times in a row, hurrying after him. "Good morning!", she said and joined him walking to their classes. The boy only gave her a nod and stopped for a moment to look at Jimin, Lia and Hoseok who stood there, staring at him.
"Why are they staring at me?", he asked anxiously.
"I don't know." Lyza bit her lips, "Did you hear from Tae?"
"No", Jungkook said, "I dropped by his house yesterday and his mother told me to leave. Then Jimin sneaked into my house at night and he said he has no clue where they took him but he's not at home. That's all I found out."
"And you believe that?", Lyza asked in doubt.
"Nope, I think he knows exactly where Tae is and what's happening", Jungkook said, "But I also know he won't tell me anything."
"Why wouldn't he?", Lyza asked in confusion.
"Because they know I would do shit, I wouldn't stand around as if nothing ever happened, unlike them." Once the three realized that Jungkook saw them staring, they went back to conversation, turning their backs on Jungkook.
"Why aren't they doing anything? It's their friend", the girl mumbled.
"I have no idea", Kook answered. "But I'll find out, don't worry."
The first two periods passed by quickly, filled with maths formulas and trying to solve math problems when all Kook wanted to solve was his own issues. Yet his teacher thought maths was way more important than real life.
Lyza sat next to him and started googling on how to find a sugardaddy after she realized that she had no clue how to do maths and would probably never get anywhere in life. It was just a very sad moment for the two of them.
They got ignored by Jimin for the whole lesson but at the same time, they didn't even try to talk to him.
Instead Jungkook decided to ask Lia in lunch break.
She seemed the most messed up, obviously drunk the whole morning and stumbling around the hallways. Maybe she would spill something.
And so, once the morning was over and lunch break would be the start of this whole future orientation thing, Kook took his chance and headed over to Lia who leaned against a wall in the cafeteria, not eating anything, just watching the students.
"Hi Lia", he said when he leaned next to her and started watching people too. "How you doin'?"
"Amazing", Lia said sarcastically as she stared at a couple that sat on a bench, sharing kisses and giggling with each other. Jungkook followed her glare and both of them thought the same thing-, that could be Taehyung if his father would let him just be happy.
"Why are you drunk?", Jungkook asked curiously, "You don't seem like the type of girl to get wasted during the day."
"Looks like I'm always up for a surprise", she smiled calmly. It was almost scary how calm the girl seemed.
"You are", Jungkook nodded, "So what's the reason?"
"Nothing. Just felt like it", she said, avoiding to look at Jungkook.
"Where's Taehyung?", Jungkook asked straightforward. Both of them knew anyway that this was the only reason he was here. The boy cared about no one else in this, just about Taehyung and his well-being.
Like basically everyone in this.
"Not here", Lia laughed, "Obviously."
"Yeah, but where is he?"
"Aren't you his boyfriend?"; the girl snapped, "Shouldn't you be the one knowing it?"
Jungkook shrugged, "He didn't tell me and now he's not answering my calls. So naturally my first intention would be to ask the people he's close to."
"If he's not answering your calls, he's probably having enough of you. Just stop calling him", she hummed. "It's for the best."
"I would still like to know where he is. If he wants to break up, he can just do that. He doesn't have to hide-"
"Not everything is always about you, Jungkook." The girl finally turned to him, staring at him for quite a while before she continued talking. "I have no fucking idea where Taehyung is but if you won't stop trying to find out, you'll just make it worse."
"So what the fuck do you expect me to do?!", Jungkook yelled out.
"Just stay the fuck out of it", Lia hissed back, "There's nothing else we can do."
"So you want to pretend everything is fine? While no one knows where he went? What if he killed himself or someone hurt him? What if his Dad took him somewhere? What if he ran away with Tzuyu? There's a thousand things that could have happened!" Jungkook started to freak out just by thinking of all the possible things that could have went down that night after he left Taehyung's house.
"Everything is fine", Lia said bittersweetly. "There are no dead bodies found, yet, right? So, it's all fucking fine. Just go ahead with your day and shut the fuck up. You're just a kid, you don't understand anything."
With that she headed off and left Jungkook standing there.
The boy's shoulders fell and his eyes filled with tears. God, he felt so alone right now. No one was helping him find out what happened and everyone wanted him to stay out of it. But why? He was no kid. Taehyung acknowledged him so why couldn't his friends do the same? What happened that everyone suddenly treated Jungkook like a piece of shit again. Well, they always did. But not in the same way.
As he walked back to his table he could feel Hoseok staring at him while he passed by, facing the ground once Jungkook and his eyes met for a second. Kook could swear there was sorrow in the older's eyes, and pity. Yet he decided to look away and not show it to the younger. It was obvious that he was on the same side as Lia.
The only thing Jungkook couldn't stop questioning himself was, which side were they on?
Taehyung's? Or their own?
Lunch break ended and the students were free to go to the workshop. The sophomores were allowed to go too, so Jimin, Lyza and Jungkook found themself surrounded by people as well. Everyone busy trying to find a way to spend their future, some arguing with their friends if college was the way to go.
Yoongi headed straight to one of the companies that were known for producing music, a huge business label. They usually preferred art students with a focus on music, unlike Yoongi who had to play football all his life because this was what his father wanted for him.
Aylie rolled her eyes, following her boyfriend there while he kept looking through a magazine that was showing the campus and the programs, his expressions turning sadder with every time he turned the page.
The girl sighed watching him, he would never get to live his dreams, when would he finally give up on them?
Hoseok and Jimin were sitting outside and smoked weed together instead of doing anything else. To them, there was nothing worth looking for in there. Their way was made out to be anyway.
Lia stood at a spot where they showed a community college, talking to two girls who seemed happy and quirky, joking around with Lia about how much more fun community college was because all the rich kids were somewhere else. For a moment the girl liked to pretend she wasn't one of these kids.
Lyza kept looking through a modeling agency's prospect, smiling at all of it.
"You wanna be a model?", Jungkook asked her with lifted brows, "Bro, don't you wanna go to college or something-"
"Nah", Lyza chuckled, "I want to be famous someday. Walk the runways and have my face printed on all the covers. College can suck my dick."
"You don't have a dick", Jungkook laughed.
The girl shrugged, "College can still fuck off."
"What do your parents think of that?" Kook asked.
"They think I'm stupid anyway, no one of them expects me to go to college. All my mother cares about is my weight and all my dad cares about is getting me married to a rich dude someday so I can pay off his rent when he's old."
Jungkook nodded, "Well, then modeling seems like a good option", he laughed.
"What about you? What do you wanna do in the future?", she asked curiously. Jungkook never really talked about his dreams or anything, he always made sure to support everyone around him but he never mentioned what he was all about.
"I'd like to marry Tae", Jungkook chuckled. "And if I can't do that I'll just become a porn star or something."
"What the-", Lyza gasped.
"I just really want to get dicked down", Jungkook sighed, "And what's more aesthetic that getting dicked down on camera?"
"Bro", Lyza facepalmed herself.
"What", Jungkook whined, "Let me live."
"That's your dreamjob? For the future?", she asked in disbelief, "Boy you can't be serious."
"I just want attention", Jungkook said, "And being in movies is a good way to get attention."
"You're not gonna become a porn star", the girl said amused and ruffled his hair, "Taehyung will never let you do that."
"Therefore he should come back first", Jungkook said and the atmosphere went back down, "Otherwise there's nothing holding me back."
Lyza nodded, "I'm sure he'll be back."
They said nothing for a while until she added in a small voice, "Eventually."