BROMANCE | VKOOK - Chapter 29: Chapter 29

This day sucked.
Jungkook got home after school and threw his bag on the kitchen floor, grabbed a piece of the cake his mother had been baking all morning and then rushed upstairs without even saying hi to his mother. His father was still at work, so his mom just looked after him in confusion, not sure what got into her usually so bright son.
Jungkook slammed his door shut and turned his speakers up, playing some angry rap music loud as fuck even though that wasn't his type of music at all.
He just stuffed the cake into his mouth and threw himself on the bed and his phone in a corner. No one was texting him anyways.
His mother, still worried, slowly walked after him and knocked onto his door but Jungkook only threw his shoe at the door to make sure she would get the hint that he wanted to be alone for now.
The woman gave up after a while and decided that this was just puberty hitting her son today a little harder than usually.
Jungkook grabbed his blanket, pulled it above his head and started crying. The boy was so overwhelmed and he just longed for Taehyung's touch. He'd give anything to just be with him right now, kissing him and cuddling with him on the bed. Talking about the most random things while being able to smell his sweet scent, he always smelled like a mix of strawberries and vanilla-, with a hint of honey.
Jungkook just wanted to nuzzle his face in the older's neck while being pressed to Taehyung's chest, his arms wrapped around the younger's small body. All Kook really wanted was to be hold by the boy. Right now.
Not anytime soon, no. Right fucking now.
This just sucked and he hated everything and everyone.
The next two hours he spent with mindlessly switching the music on his phone to a point where he got annoyed of himself for never having a song for more than twenty seconds. Then he spent half an hour scrolling through tiktok but because he usually watched couple tiktok, he got sad again because his boy wasn't there. So his next way led him to Netflix which was full of bullshit, taking him to a porn website where he searched up gay porn until he found one where the actor kinda looked similar to Taehyung.
He got off to that and was a bit more relaxed afterwards, snuggling himself into his blankets and pillows, hugging himself while he started crying out of nowhere.
Anger slowly fading away, quickly replaced by the aching pain in this chest that must be coming from his heart.
Never in his life would he have thought that missing someone was that painful.
Of course he had missed people before.
Like his mother or his dad when he went on trips with school, Jungkook had always been that kid that would cry in silence at night because he couldn't sleep without knowing his parents were in the next room. But missing Taehyung was a whole other level. It felt like craving sweets or pie on a day where rain is pouring outside and you're stuck inside, longing for the things you don't have at home right now.
Jungkook sobbed for a lot longer until he heard someone unlocking his door from outside and stepping inside.
The only one who would do that was his father, so Jungkook immediately turned around and looked at his father who stood in front of his bed and looked down on his son worried. "Are you alright there, buddy?", he asked carefully.
Jungkook just broke into tears all over again.
Mr Jeon was a little startled, not sure how to give the boy comfort now. He had never been the one who gave his son the hugs or lovely words he needed to hear, the boy always wanted his mother to come and assure him everything was going to be fine.
But right now, Mr Jeon refused to leave this job to his wife as always. It broke his heart seeing his boy lay there, tears dripping down his reddened cheeks and his hands shaking because he couldn't stop crying so hard.
"Hey, hey hey", he said with his cracky voice, sitting down next to Jungkook before slowly reaching out for his shoulders and patting those carefully. "What's wrong?"
"Everything", Jungkook whispered, wrapping his arms around his Dad, nuzzling his face in his father's chest. "I think something bad is happening and I can't do anything about it", he sobbed.
Mr Jeon slowly hugged him back, putting his arms around his son's body while he ruffled his hair with one hand. Why was he so bad at knowing what to say?
Usually he always had some advice to say, or something to yell about.
Seeing his son being a crying mess however, that was too much to take for the old man.
One thing he always promised himself was to never let it get that far that he would have to see his son suffering from pain.
That was the one simple thing he swore himself when he was younger. His son should never go through heartbreak or pain. Well, now here they were. His baby sobbing, unable to stop while he had no clue what to say.
"Do you want to talk about it?", he asked quietly. Was it too much? Did Jungkook want his privacy after locking himself in his room for hours? Or was it necessary to ask? Mr Jeon had no idea.
He loved his child a little too much to be confident in a situation like this.
There was nothing worse in this world than seeing the little baby you put all your love and effort into break into tears while you have no idea what made them feel this way.
It was a normal thing teenagers went through while growing up, but as a parent it's quite hard to accept that you're not going to be all-knowing about what's going on in your child's life anymore.
"Yes", Jungkook answered quietly, sitting back up as he wiped his tears away. He stopped crying for a bit, biting his lips. Mr Jeon breathed out relieved. He was glad his son actually took his offer, other parents always talked about how their kids shut down all the way when their parents tried to talk to them.
Jungkook was different though.
"So, what's wrong, buddy?", Mr Jeon asked softly, patting his kid's shoulders.
"Taehyung's still missing", Jungkook said, voice small and cracky, "And all the others seem to know what's going on but they're lying to me. They tell me that I have to stay out of it."
Mr Jeon listened and nodded then, "Do you have any idea what could have happened?", he asked slowly.
"I think it's something within their family. We messed up his Dad's business party the day before and he never showed up again after that", Jungkook explained, "And his father is a cruel man."
"Maybe you should not interfere into something when it's a family thing", Mr Jeon hurried to say. Just knowing that it was Mr Kim who was possibly at fault for Taehyung going m.i.a, it frightened the old man.
The whole town knew that this man was no one to joke with. He was stone-cold and he didn't care about anything nor anyone. All this dude ever had in mind was growing his business and how to get more countries involved in his shit. No one quite knew what exactly the company was even selling or shipping off the country-, but to be honest; no one really wanted to know.
One thing that every adult knew was, that when you meet Mr Kim on the streets, you better bow and wish him a good day. Or else your life might be ruined by the day after.
He just was like that.
While he treated his wife like a price, his kids were more like a burden to him. He hated them and he had no love for them. While parents like Mr and Mrs Jeon had been proud parents when Jungkook was a little boy, always excited to do stuff with the other kids in kindergarten, Mr Kim never let his sons go there, insisted on having them home-schooled until middle school and saw them as someone to take over his company one day.
Soon enough he realized that Jimin was a kid without the right intentions and Taehyung was messed up after entering highschool. He gave up on them leading his business and almost forgot about them.
Until they dared to ruin one business party.
Just one fucking party.
"What if his Dad did something to him?", Jungkook asked worriedly. "Would a parent do that?"
Mr Jeon shrugged, "I would never. A good parent never intentionally hurts his child. The worst they do is yell at them because they're worried or something, but intentionally hurting a child is sick."
"Would he though?"
"I'm not sure, Jungkook", Mr Jeon said. "But he's a powerful man and I don't want you to investigate this whole thing any further, alright? This could end up badly for you."
"You can't stop me", Jungkook pouted, "I will find out what happened and I'll get my boyfriend back!"
Mr Jeon sighed, "Just let the adults handle that, please."
"No one is doing anything!", Jungkook whined, "Everyone is pretending nothing even happened. Taehyung is gone and everyone goes on with their day and I feel like I'm the only one who misses him."
"I miss him too", Mr Jeon said in a small voice, "I really like this kid. I think he's good for you-"
"Can I say something", Jungkook suddenly asked, "Something really mean and offensive but you have to promise not to get mad at me?"
His Dad lifted his brows, still holding his son in his arms. "You better not tell me I'm a horrible Dad because I am not!", he pouted and Jungkook laughed out softly, "You're the best dad ever, don't worry."
"Alright, then go ahead."
"I thought you were homophobic", Jungkook admitted, "You always said that being gay is wrong and-"
Mr Jeon started smiling a little while his son kept talking, "I was so afraid of coming out to you. Even Mom told me not to-, but now you seem to really support me and Taehyung and I don't understand what changed."
His Dad still smiled and ruffled his kid's hair, "I'm not homophobic", he hummed, "I'm bisexual myself, kiddo."
"WHAT"
"But I got bullied for it in highschool so my worst fear has always been that my child gets treated the same way. Y'know? I promised myself to keep you safe when you were this little baby in my arms that kept asking for snacks all day and had the bubbliest squeaky voice and the cutest eyes. I couldn't bare the thought of you getting hurt one day so I tried to make you think that being gay is wrong."
Jungkook was still shocked.
"And I apologize for that. It was stupid of me to say those things. And pathetic. But I think as a parent, sometimes protecting your kid will make you do stupid thinigs."
Jungkook's mouth was still open, "So you got dick- a-and now you- oh my god."
Mr Jeon coughed, "Young man. Stop thinking about my sexual preferences right now", he said a little embarrassed. "Also, I didn't get dick. I gave dick."
"DAD", Jungkook cried out, "Don't tell me that, oh my god!!!", he cringed and hid his face in his Dad's chest.
"But to get back to the topic. When I saw how happy Taehyung made you, I realized that it's just wrong to try to turn you into something you're not. Instead I decided that I will protect you against everyone who makes fun of you. It's still a homophobic world out there, but your Dad isn't part of that, is that clear?"
"I still can't believe you like dicks."
"Yeah, I can't believe neither that my own son likes them too!", Mr Jeon snapped back, "Stop making fun of me", he hummed because his son wouldn't stop chuckling about it.
"Does Mom know?!??"
"No!", Mr Jeon hurried to say but before he could do anything else, Jungkook jumped up from the bed and ran downstairs, "MOM!", he screamed out, "Dad likes dicks!!!!!"
His mother who was sitting on the couch, reading a book looked up at her son. Well, at least he stopped crying.
Her husband came running after their kid, "Don't believe that brat anything", he grumbled annoyed.
Mrs Jeon only lifted her brows, "God, I miss my daughter", she sighed and then went back to reading. Those two together were so much more annoying than they were before they got that father-son bond.
"Mom!", Jungkook whined, "Take me seriously. Dad just said he's bisexual!"
"And?", his mother asked and looked back up. "You're gay, and now?"
"It's crazy!!", Jungkook said proudly, "My Dad has taste!"
"So liking women isn't having taste?", she said unimpressed.
"No, women suck", Jungkook shrugged, "Well, I mean Lyza is quite nice. And I guess Lia too. But exceptions prove the rule."
"Your mother is nice too", Mr Jeon reminded his son that there was literally a woman in the room.
Mrs Jeon nodded, "Okay. Can I finish my book now? I'm almost at the ending-"
"Why don't you seem surprised?", Jungkook pouted, he was hoping to spill the news and his mother would be as excited as he was.
"Because I couldn't care less about people's sexualities", she let out a big sigh. "I know your father loves me and as long as he does that I don't care if he thinks men are pretty or not."
Jungkook rolled his eyes, "You're so tolerant, wow."
"I'm a woman", she smiled back at him, "We have braincells unlike you guys."
Mr Jeon and Jungkook scoffed at the same time.
"Okay Dad, let's go."
"No, I'm not going anywhere with you", his father snapped at him. "You just outed me to my wife." Jungkook turned his head and giggled, "So what? Now let's go watch movies and talk about boys!~"
"I don't want to talk about boys with you", the man hummed and sat down next to his wife who was back into reading her book now. Jungkook pouted and then walked back upstairs to go back to crying because his parents sucked and no one wanted to do fun things with him.
If Taehyung was here, he'd have plenty of fun.
*
Two weeks later
"Did it work?!", Yoongi got up from his chair after Hoseok came back out from the principal's office, face angered and his lips pressed together. "No", he groaned and slammed the door of the man's office shut behind him. Yoongi sighed heavily and they headed out of school to get onto the school yard. It was a hot summer day and the air was way to icky inside, so everyone wanted to go outside as much as possible.
So they spent their lunch break sitting around a table under the sun. Lia stared into nowhere, face pale and looking sleep deprived as ever, lips bitten and her cheek swollen. While no one dared to ask her why she looked like this, their topic went back to the main thing that was making them all worried lately.
"Where's Jimin?", Hoseok asked as Yoongi and him sat down with the others.
"I don't know. He hasn't showed up to school all week", Aylie shrugged and Lia's expression dropped even more. "Is he okay? Does anyone know?"
Hoseok shrugged, "Well, he texted me this morning. He seemed alright", he hummed.
"So he's still there", Yoongi breathed out relieved.
The others smiled weakly.
"So, what did the principal say?", Aylie switched the topic, looking at Yoongi and Hoseok expectantly.
"Nothing", Hoseok groaned out, "That fucker literally said it's not his job to do and he doesn't want to get his nose into other family's business."
"Bro, that's literally his job!", Aylie slammed her fist onto the table, "How can he care so little about his students? We didn't ask for much-"
Hoseok shrugged, "I don't know. All I asked was if it was possible to talk about college application period being a little longer than usual. So Taehyung still has a chance to go to college once he comes back."
"We don't fucking know if he even comes back", Lia said sharply.
"I would still like to try to save my best friend's ass when it comes to college. I don't know why but it means a lot to him to get into a good school", Hoseok snapped at the girl.
"I care more about his life", she said and tried to hold back the tears. "It's been two weeks and we haven't heard a single word from him. And every time we see Jimin he's covered in bruises."
Yoongi gulped dryly, "Everything will be alright."
"How can you even say that?", Lia broke into tears, "Nothing will be alright. We won't be alright."
Hoseok and Yoongi gave each other a worried look. Lately things just got worse around here. The girls were a mess, both Lia and Aylie constantly got into fights and ended up both crying because Taehyung being gone overwhelmed them all.
Jimin became distant to them and spent his days mostly alone, and when he showed up to school he would be covered in dark bruises all over his body. Then there were Yoongi and Hoseok who constantly tried to talk to the teachers to give Taehyung longer deadlines for the projects that were due, sent out letters to colleges which Taehyung had looked at before. The boys tried their fucking best to sort things out for their friend but nothing really worked out in their favor.
People told them no and said that there were guidelines.
Then there was Jungkook who became annoyingly calm.
He didn't ask any questions anymore but his looks got more and more disappointed day by day. It was as if he was expecting them to do something when there really wasn't anything to do.
Today, the boy wasn't too chill though.
When he stepped onto the school yard he searched the place for the group of friends he was looking for and then headed there straight, slamming his books onto their table before he stared at them sternly.
"It's been two fucking weeks. Where is he?"
"We don't know, Jungkook", Hoseok hummed.
"I gave you two weeks to sort the shit out. Now you either tell me where the fuck he is or I'm going to the police."
"It's not like we didn't try that before", Lia said, "They told us to stop the pranks", she smiled weakly. "But go ahead, try whatever. We already tried everything, you fucking idiot."
"How would I know? No one ever tells me anything!", Jungkook complained.
"Because you're a fucking kid and you can't control yourself when it comes to Taehyung. You'd mess everything up if we told you shit", Hoseok yelled out, pushing Jungkook further away because he was leaning all over the table and seemed a little too angry to just let him get away with this behavior.
"I may be younger than you but I mean ten times more to Taehyung than all of you", Jungkook said bittersweetly, "So I deserve to know what's going on."
"Funny how the one he called was Lia, not you", Hoseok said sternly. "You don't mean shit. He just wants to fuck you, that's it. Taehyung's not the type of guy to fall in love and be all into it. He fucked Aylie too, he fucked almost all pretty girls in school. In the end, he'll always call Lia if something bothers him."
"That's not true", Jungkook stuttered, voice breaking a little. "He loves me, stop being like that", his eyes filled up with tears.
"See, now you're crying like a child. Just because we told you the truth. We've been friends with Taehyung forever, if you seriously think we're not trying everything possible, then that's your problem. Stop being annoying. If Taehyung wanted you to know where he is, he would have told you."
"That's unfair", Jungkook sobbed, "I love him, I-"
"Life's unfair, suck it up", Hoseok said. "If you would've just kept the fuck away from him, none of this would have ever happened."
Kook gulped and then just turned around and walked away, heart aching and tears falling.
"Don't you think that was a little harsh?", Lia asked worried. "He's just worried."
"Don't you think it's easier for him if he starts seeing Taehyung in another light?", Hoseok sighed. "We all know that Taehyung fell for that kid and that he's not as bad as I just made him out to be."
Lia sighed, looking down, "He started crying because of us."
"Well, I don't care", Hoseok said. "I never cared about him and I won't start now."
Lia gulped dryly.
"Yeah, he'll be alright on his own."
If only they knew that from tomorrow on, things would change in a way that would make them want to comfort Jungkook all out of a sudden.