If Jimin wasn't avoiding Taehyung before, he certainly was doing so right now. He hardly spoke to him since Mintae's birthday. It was clearly obvious he was distancing himself from him. Taehyung couldn't understand what was happening. He liked that things where getting better between him and Jimin. They didn't quarell like before, though they still bickered, they had become quite close sometimes having little chats with each other. Jimin always cooked dinner for everyone and stayed home three times a week but now, he didn't do such again. He was always working and getting home at late hours. He had taken up dancing again but the dance he performed on his own was tiring and energy consuming. He would dance till he passed out on the ground. Taehyung saw all these but he couldn't do anything because Jimin wouldn't let him come near. Everyone in the mansion was worried about him including Mintae. He couldn't get what was going on with his father but Doo min knew. She knew Jimin was punishing himself for his feelings towards Taehyung but the latter was so oblivious towards it.

This lasted for more than a month until Taehyung couldn't take it anymore so he decided to confront Jimin. Since the latter had been avoiding him, he targeted a time when he was alone dancing in the make shift room he had put up for himself.

Jimin had returned a bit earlier than usual that day. After spending some time with Mintae, he changed into black loose revealing clothes, tight leggings and a flary top that exposed one part of his shoulder. Once he was done, he went to the studio. Taehyung was at home as well and waited until Jimin entered the studio. Before long, he could hear a soft song being played. Taehyung froze as soon as the melody of the song wafted towards his ear. He definitely recognized it. It was the song he and Jimin used to dance to back when they where in college. Spring day.

He slowly walked towards the room but he was dumb struck when he saw how Jimin was dancing. He was performing the exact same moves they used to execute back then. His throat went dry and he swallowed hard. At that moment, he wasn't thinking straight. He didn't know what got into him to make him walk towards Jimin and suddenly grab his wrist.

Jimin's breath hung as he turned around and faced him. His eyes widened in disbelief when Taehyung suddenly wrapped his arms around his waist and pulled him closer to his body.

"Tae...what are you doing?" He murmured but Taehyung grinned, his eyes darkening with something that resembled desire.

"I had no idea you still dance. You even remember our dance routine" he whispered as he caught up with Jimin's dance steps.

"Let go of me!" Jimin grumbled trying to wriggle out of his embrace but Taehyung smiled.

"Um...I don't think so. I realized this is the only opportunity that I could get to talk to you"

Jimin scoffed. "By dancing with me?"

He rolled his eyes. "Who was it that said we should keep the past in the past"

He pretended to be thinking hard before he smiled scornfully. "Oh...I remember, you!" He said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"That was before we got better"

Jimin frowned. "We didn't get better Tae, we never got better. We just decieved ourselves" he spat and finally tore away from Taehyung before storming towards the mp3 speaker and switching it off. He placed both arms on his hips as he glared at Taehyung.

"What do you want?"

Taehyung gathered his breath. "What's going on with you Jimin? Since this past month you've been acting strange. You're hardly home and you seem to be angry at me all the time. I thought our relationship got better. What did I do?"

Jimin suddenly laughed. "Better? it never got better Taehyung. We are ignoring the main problem here. We are just going around in circles and not confronting the real issues between us"

Taehyung looked confused. "What do you mean?"

Jimin weakened as he shook his head. "You know what, forget it!"

He started to leave but Taehyung grabbed his hand forcefully. "You're not going anywhere Jimin, you are not leaving until you explain yourself"

Jimin smiled bitterly as he stood face to face with Taehyung.

"Really, you want me to explain myself? Fine then, let's start!"

He had a challenging gleam in his eyes as he scrutinized Taehyung.

"First of all, what are you really hiding from me?"

Taehyung lowered his head as Jimin continued. "Don't think I don't know that there's something wrong with you. You have a hard time falling asleep and you always pop pills into your mouth every thirty minutes. You have no friends and you live alone in this huge mansion as if you're scared of something. When I mention your mother, you go berserk"

He looked pointedly at Taehyung "So why don't we talk about it?"

There was silence for a while before Taehyung sighed. "We can't!"

"See? How can we get along if we keep things from like this from each other?"

He shook his head. "I've been an open book to you revealing my insecurities and short comings whereas you...."

He stopped and gathered his breath before continuing with his words. "Can't even tell me the truth about what really happened ten years ago?"

Taehyung turned pale immediately. "Why are you suddenly bringing that up?"

"I know you are not telling me the truth about what happened and we haven't really sat down to talk about it"

His eyes watered as he looked closely at Taehyung. "I also want to know...what do you think of me now Taehyung?"

Taehyung said nothing. Jimin knew he was dwelving into a sensitive part of this discussion but he had to go on. This had been eating him up secretly from the inside but today, he was going to let it all out.

"I changed after ten years. You never told me how you felt about it"

"I never thought you wanted to hear my opinion!"

"But what do you think?" Jimin almost shouted. "You told me not to hide. You gave me courage to finally be myself but I still don't know how you feel about me changing my sexuality."

"Say something! Anything!"

Taehyung bit his lips really hard "what does it matter what I think? You've already made your decision"

Jimin sighed in frustration. "But how do you feel about it?"

"I don't know okay, I don't know" Taehyung finally blurted

Jimin nodded his head, wearing a bitter smile on his face. "And you say we got better. You can't even accept the new me. You keep secrets about who you really are. It's obvious we can't be any closer"

He stepped back from Taehyung and released a final long breath. "I think it's okay the way things are. We really should give each other a break"

Jimin looked down at his feet before walking away. Taehyung felt a strange tightening in his chest. It was a feeling he hadn't felt in his entire life. His head throbbed harshly and he found himself stumbling backwards. With shaky hands, he pulled the pill bottle from his pocket and popped two of the pills into his mouth. He thought he had been discreet but it seemed that Jimin had noticed that he was on medication. Jimin had been watching him and he was beginning to have doubts concerning what caused their separation years ago. Taehyung didn't know how to feel about it.

He too left the studio and started to walk upstairs. Doo min and Jungkook stood at the living room. They had overheard the argument between those two at the studio.

"Those two fools. Taehyung is seriously oblivious to my master Jimin's feelings" The old woman said

Jungkook smiled at the older woman. "So what are you going to do? Are you going to be the one who helps him to discover it?"

Doo min shook her head "No of course not. I hope that they'll figure it out themselves"

She sighed. "I know Jimin and Yoongi have been in a relationship for years but I have never seen my master Jimin in so much pain over anyone before. Even when he and Yoongi argued, he never really took it seriously but with Taehyung...."

"It's different! I want to see him smile again and if Taehyung is the only one that can achieve that, then who am i to stand in the way"

Jungkook nodded. "But they have to get over their issues first" he whispered. Doo min nodded in agreement.

For the next few weeks, the mansion had turned ice cold. Jimin and Taehyung treated each other like house mates which was how it was supposed to be in the beginning. They hardly spoke to each other. When they where together in one room, the tension was so full, everyone felt uncomfortable. This was really affecting Mintae. He just wanted his parents to get along again but it seemed impossible because they started to get really comfortable with the way things where. Apart from the home front, almost everyone at work noticed that Jimin was always silent and absent minded from things. This had been going on for quite a while. Hoseok decided to talk to him about it when he noticed him brooding over some documents in his office.

"The mini fashion show is holding tomorrow but you still seem absent minded"

"I'll be fine Hobi. I can handle it"

"Jimin it's been more than a month. Are you really going to keep ignoring Yoongi?"

Jimin looked at Hoseok and ruffled his hair in frustration. "Of course not. I just really need to sort out my feelings"

"And how is that going?"

"Not good!"

Jimin looked up at Hoseok with a confused expression.

"I'm just really confused right now. My feelings are all tangled up"

Hoseok rolled his eyes. "Is this because of Taehyung?"

Jimin said nothing causing Taehyung to sigh heavily. "How many times am i going to say this. Taehyung is bad for you!"

"Do you think I don't know that?" Jimin screamed tears rushing down his eyes. Hoseok froze. He had never seen Jimin in this state before.

"I really tried. I tried so hard but he started being nice. Being a really good dad to Mintae, Saving my life, tucking me in bed whenever I overslept in the office. Holding my hand when I felt down..."

"Maybe if he hadn't done all these, I wouldn't have started to worry about him. I wouldn't have started to notice that he's sick. I would have been content just hating him like I used to but now I can't do that. I'm even worrying about what he thinks of me now"

He laughed bitterly. " Can you believe that?"

He started to cry harder. Hoseok was struck speechless. He didn't know Jimin was struggling this much. It was clearly obvious he didn't want to hurt Yoongi but he was fighting so hard against his reemerging feelings for Taehyung. It took him a full minute but then, he slowly moved towards his friend and wrapped his arms around his head letting him cry onto his chest.

"I didn't know you where going through so much. I'm your best friend for God's sake. All I did was put pressure on you without taking your feelings into consideration. Love is really something. It comes so unexpectedly"

"I should know because I understand how it feels to love someone so much that it's impossible to love another"

Jimin stopped sniffing and looked at Hoseok. "What do you mean? You've been in love? With who?"

Hoseok gave him a sad knowing smile and it finally hit Jimin.

"Yoongi? You are in love with Yoongi?"

Hoseok nodded his head. "Since the first day I set my eyes on him when you introduced him to me as your friend. I thought I had a shot at him until Yoongi told me about his interest in you and how he was thinking about courting you. He needed my help"

Jimin was silent. "Why didn't you tell him?"

Hoseok scoffed. "He was madly in love with you and i couldn't stand in the way of his happiness. All I could do was help him to get to you"

"So you did but at the expense of your own feelings"

Jimin sighed shaking his head.  "That's why you where always upset whenever I argued with Yoongi"

Hoseok nodded his head "But I forgot that the heart wants what it wants. No matter what, you still couldn't forget about your love for Taehyung just like I can't forget about my love for Yoongi"

Jimin had nothing to say at that moment. He was quite surprised that Hoseok had hidden something like this from him for so long but he couldn't blame him though. He was Yoongi's boyfriend.

"So, what are you going to do?" Hoseok said.

"I'll just try to overcome it... Hopefully, this damned feeling will go away and I can go back to how things where"

Hoseok nodded his head. "That will be for the best"

When Jimin returned to the mansion, he immediately changed out of his clothes and ate a meal prepared by Jungkook.  Taehyung returned moments later but they ignored each other as always murmuring greetings through their noses. Doo min was tired of living in such a tense atmosphere so she thought of a plan and she found the perfect opportunity to execute it. Taehyung and Mintae where watching a TV programme. Jimin joined them too sitting far apart from them as he pretended to enjoy the programme when in reality most of his attention was on Taehyung who was some distance away and was also pretending to be engrossed in the programme.

Doo min entered the living room with a devious smile on her face.

" I heard that you'll be holding a mini fashion show tomorrow sir. I would really love to come"

Jimin froze. "What? Why? You've never being interested in my work before"

"I know but I decided that I want to see your show at least for once"

Taehyung turned his attention to them as Doo min gave Mintae a conspiring grin.

"What do you think Mintae? You've never seen your father's shows before have you? This will be a good opportunity"

Mintae brightened.  "Yes...I really really want to see Appa's show. I've never seen them before"

He turned to Taehyung and grabbed his hand. "Tae, come with us..."

Taehyung caught Jimin's hard stare and sighed reluctantly. "I can't Mintae, I'm very busy...."

"Please! Please!" Mintae insisted and Taehyung couldn't actually refuse him so he simply nodded without saying anything and Mintae hugged Taehyung while Doo min nodded and walked away. Jimin paused for a moment before he went after her. She was at the foot of the stairs when he stopped her.

"What the hell do you think you are you doing? You know I can't bring them to the show? People will notice and they will begin tracing our relationship"

Doo min rolled her eyes. "That should be the least of your worries. Are you really that comfortable living in such a stifling environment?"

She sighed. "I know what is going on between you and Taehyung. I know that you have feelings for him...."

"Doo min, know your place!"

"If you want to fire me then do so but I'm hoping that you two will get to spend sometime together at a place that makes you feel happy after avoiding each other for so long. I don't care if you fire me but I have to tell you the truth. At first, i didn't support your feelings for Taehyung but I see how happy you are when you are with him. I have never seen you look like that before"

"But you are angry at yourself for these feelings and yet at the same time, you are angry at him because he probably doesn't feel the same way and you are hurt about that"

Jimin laughed bitterly. "I'm hurt?"

"Yes sir. I was there. I saw you that night when you witnessed Taehyung kissing Sunmi in the kitchen. You looked heart broken and sad"

All the color on Jimin's face vanished as he felt weak on the knees.

"You have to tell him how you really feel and hear what he has to say about it or you're never going to get over this"

Jimin shook his head. "Never! I can never tell him. How can my feelings be so open? Am i that obvious?" He whispered to himself before taking a full breath. "I will handle it. It will go away"

"But what if it doesn't?" Doo min said.

Jimin said nothing. Doo min smiled. "I thought so. Think about it carefully and then make a decision"

She finally left and Jimin stood rooted to the spot. At first, everyone supported him against Taehyung but now, they are on his side. The truth was that he was afraid of loving the same person he had hated for so long.

Meanwhile someone somewhere was cooking up a very disastrous plan.

"So you are sure the mini fashion show will take place tomorrow evening and Taehyung will attend" Mrs Kim Cha ha said with a wicked smile on her face. She crossed her legs, sipping white wine while she sat on a white couch over looking the big window that faced the busy town. She was in a spacious living room that housed nothing but gold items.

"Yes maam!" The man with the pony tail and a dragon tattoo on his arm answered. She nodded her head.

"You where careless last time. All you had to do was observe and you got caught by that wretched boy" she spat.

The man bowed "I'm sorry. It won't repeat itself again. I will be very careful this time around"

She grinned. "That's good because my dear son needs a little reminder about how dangerous his mother can be. He has been too relaxed lately hasn't he? Enjoying quality time with that damned transgender fashion designer and his son"

She scoffed. "Son!" She whispered in a shrill voice before sipping her wine.

"I think it's time to make things a bit hotter. Everything all set?"

"Yes ma'am!"

She smiled "Good, then don't fail me again or I'm going to have your fucking head"

She dismissed him with a wave of her hand. When he was gone. She tapped her fingers restlessly on the wine glass.

"My dear son Taehyung, you don't get to be happy without my permission. No, you don't"

Thanks so much for reading. This chapter was quite something. I've been taking quite a lot of time to reach to my main climax and I'm sorry for that. Things will start to progress a lot faster from now. Thanks for understanding and have a great day ahead.