And on Monday, the time had come.

Taehyung would go to the principal's office and confess everything! Show all the evidence he had and get the justice he deserved.

Before he left for school, he had a short phone call with Jungkook, the younger showing his support and encouraging him warmly as Taehyung fulfilled his daily morning routine with a nervous gut feeling.

"Good luck, beautiful. You'll do it, you're strong. I believe in you," he had told him while the bubblegum pink-haired boy was munching on a piece of toast with a huge grin on his face, his heart warm and full of love.

"Don't forget to tell me how it went. Of course I know you'll do well, but still. I wanna hear it from you," he had said as Taehyung was busy brushing his teeth, almost choking on the toothpaste since he was flustered and taken aback by the ravenette's cheesiness.

As the older was changing into a long-sleeved, white shirt and some clean, baby blue pants in order to look formal and convincing enough, Jungkook showed his support for the third time. And most importantly, he also did something else.

He dropped the L-bomb.

"Believe in yourself, stay confident and you're gonna do well. We'll have our justice now, especially you. I'm so proud of you, bubs. I love you so much," he said, Taehyung almost choking once again, this time on his own spit, and gasping with his heart beating faster than a horde of wild hoofbeafs.
"Th-Thank you so much. I l-love you too," he whispered into the speaker, being left a stuttering and blushing mess.

And on the whole bus ride to school, he could not think of anything else except for Jungkook telling him he loved him. Though he was supposed to concentrate on something entirely else! Damn Jungkook and his sweet ways of driving the boy crazy.

Checking his phone, he saw messages from several contacts of his sending their support. He was extremely happy, receiving support from so many ends and having such amazing friends and family.

Hobi-Hyung🦄🍀💚
Good luck, Tae! You got this, sweetie🥰
Sent 7:22AM

Minnie(?)🥺💙
Hey, Taehyung. Text me when to come to the principal's office so I can testify as a witness.
You can do this, by the way. I know you can.
Sent 7:23AM

Sis🌌💜
Kick his ass, Taehyungie. That bitch got absolutely nothing on you. Don't back down, you've come too far to give up.
My dearest baby brother🤗
Sent 7:24AM

Koo❤🥰🌹
Baby. Good luck again!
We can be a couple after this, focus on that <3
I love you, my sweet👉🏻👈🏻
Sent 7:28AM

Smiling at the supportive messages and giggling sweetly as he saw Jungkook's message, he typed quick replies and made his way out of the bus to enter the school building, get the recording from BamBam and then finally confessing to principal Han.

However, there was one last surprise waiting for him.

In the hallway, BamBam was supposed to meet him to give him the recording of Lee Ruo admitting to roofying him. If he would accompany Taehyung to the principal's office to explain the situation and support him, they had not decided yet. But somehow, the older boy seemed nowhere to be found. Feeling confused and uncomfortable, the pink-haired boy wandered around and around, asking himself if he should call BamBam.

When he entered a darker and more deserted corridor with not a single soul around, he suddenly felt fingers snake themselves around his wrist and grab it, pulling him behind a cupboard filled with sports trophies. Football, baseball, tennis, swimming and whatnot. But he obviously didn't pay any attention to that.

The boy gasped in shock, thrashing around wildly and trying to get rid of the hands grabbing him, letting out another gasp as the person's voice started whispering: "Hey, hey. Calm down, Taehyung, it's me."

Turning on his phone's flashlight to scare the intruder off in a panicked way (which worked extremely well as said intruder immediately let go of him and crouched down wincing to escape the flashy light of his phone), he took a good look at the person.
And immediately regretted it.

"Oh shit. BamBam? Sorry about that, I didn't know it was you. But why did you have to scare me like that? I thought we were meeting in the hallway at the entrance." As he saw the other still wince in pain, he got down to eye level with him and once again, gasped loudly as he saw the boy's state, this time out of mortification.

"Oh my god! Who did this to you?" Bruises and scratches decorating his entire face, his eyes swollen to the size of tennis balls, bandages around his wrists and ankles and blue, green and purple staining his arms. BamBam looked like he had been beaten up continuosly for hours and hours. He wondered how the older could even stand properly.

"I-I... Ch-Changmo. And your ex. They found out about the recording, Changmo must've seen me hit the button to stop recording and figured it out by the time I walked home. I mean, I sent it to myself per e-mail, saved it on my Google account and put backups all over it immediately so it's still there but I wanted to tell you to be careful. Don't let Ruo see you or he might knock you unconscious before you can get to the principal's office. He doesn't know I'm here, by the way. I had to come early and hide here all the time, I was just about to text you," BamBam explained carefully, nausea making its way into Taehyung's stomach. He seriously felt sick.

"F-Fuck. There's no way this could happen! Gosh, I'm so sorry, BamBam! It's my fault you got hurt, oh no! They just beat you up while you were walking home? How can a person be this cruel...," the pink-haired boy exclaimed, his face chalk-white out of fright. He couldn't believe his ears. So there was a huge chance Ruo knew about his plan and would do everything in his power to stop him.

"No, it's not your fault! Well, while I was walking home, they just sneaked up on me and dragged me into a dark alleyway. Then they went 'I know about your recording, you little shit' and asked me what I wanted to do with it, tried to get me to delete it, and so on. I didn't give in, so they started hitting and kicking me and they shattered my phone too. This is my brother's phone, he was kind enough to borrow it to me for a day. The recording's on there." Taehyung felt as if he were paralyzed, his throat clammy and his stomach turning in disgust. Despite still not being BamBam's biggest fan, he could've hugged him right now.

"BamBam, I...," he mumbled. "I'm so sorry this happened to you. And I'm thankful for what you did. Truly thankful. But god, you should go to the hospital and get treated. I'll pay the bills-" The other cut him off with a big shake of his head.
"No, don't. Getting beat up to a bloody pulp isn't nice, definetely isn't. But what you went through must've been a thousand times worse. Your ex might've broken my bones, but for you, the whole world broke down. And now, it's time for his world to break. Wait until the bell rings for class and as soon as you hear absolutely nothing, you run to the principal's office as quickly and quietly as possible," he ordered.

"But- what about you? You should come with me, you didn't deserve this either!" BamBam shrugged.
"This is your fight mainly, so you go by yourself first. If you want me to come, text me. And Jimin too, you said he was part of your plan." The pink-haired boy nodded hesitantly. Hearing the awaited school bell ring all of a sudden, he decided to hug BamBam carefully before leaving. The boy, extremely flustered, hugged him back with rosy cheeks and a wildly beating heart.

And then, after a few minutes, it was time.

Absolutely no sounds could be heard, there was a literal pin-drop silence in the usually so loud school building. But Taehyung had one last question: "Does he know I want to confess? And get him punished?" To his benefit, BamBam shook his head.

"No. They did ask me if you had anything to do with this recording but I denied it. Of course, they could be smart and know I lied or dumbasses who think I told the truth. I told them I just wanted dirt on them and I found what they did horrible and they simply threatened me to never set foot in this school again. They think there's zero evidence to what Ruo has done so it'd be unlikely for you to try anything. But you can do this, now's the moment so come on and show them!," he spoke, patting Taehyung's shoulder and pushing him in front of the cupboard so his journey to the principal's office could begin.

And when the last teachers had entered the classrooms they would teach in, he took hushed and quiet, but huge steps towards the principal's office, his heart beating wildly as he stood in front of the wooden door.

So this is where it's gonna happen. Either I win and get everything or I lose and get nothing.

Taking a deep breath, he knocked three times, steadily.

"You may enter," Mr. Han's unsuspecting voice sounded through the door, the pink-haired boy patting his own chest in order to gain confidence.

As he entered, the man's eyebrows rose up in surprise. "Mr. Kim. To what do I owe this pleasure? Shouldn't you be in class right now?" Not saying a single word, Taehyung walked steadily, stopping right in front of the older's desk.

"Mr. Han," he spoke, trying to sound confident. "I want to confess something. A truly horrific and traumatizing experience that has been constantly invading my thoughts, for over a year by now. Never would I have ever thought I would speak up about this, but now, I think I finally gained the confidence to do so. It involves another student of yours which is why I'm begging you to listen to me without interrupting or doubting me. If this wasn't of importance, I would never miss class and disturb you like this. I'm doing this because I'm tired of being kept in the dark, living with these dark shadows surrounding me and sometimes, overpowering me."

The middle-aged man didn't react for a short while, apparently at a loss of words. But then, he motioned the boy to continue with furrowed eyebrows and his chin propped on his palm.

Taehyung took a deep breath. "One year ago, I was in a relationship with your student Lee Ruo. I loved him with everything I had, I thought we were soulmates. And I thought he thought the same about me. One night, we attended a party, a party hosted by Jackson Wang. And that was, when my back-then boyfriend started showing his true colours. I was terrified. He poured me a strange drink that I ended up drinking all of it since he persuaded me. The drink and whatever kind of chemical mixed into it made me lose all senses and all my conscience- I didn't know where I was, who I was or what I was doing. I was in a truly vulnerable state."

"My body limp, my mind weak, he started taking advantage of me, pulling me up the stairs against my will and pushing me inside the bedroom. I will never forget that feeling of utter terror, that horrible, horrible feeling I felt when he locked the door. Part of it was fear of what was about to happen, the other part was the realization hitting me. I came to realize that the person I had loved so much and that I thought loved me was someone I didn't actually know at all. The following events still haunt me to this day, I don't know if my mind will ever be cured. He tried to take my virginity by force, I had no chance to fight back. All I could do was scream and cry and hope that it would all be over soon."

"Luckily, I was saved in the last moment. My best friend Park Jimin, who came with, grew suspicious of me not being there anymore and found me before the assault my boyfriend performed on me could turn into actual rape. He defended me and punched Ruo in the face, then he took me and helped me out of the building. Ever since, my friends have always tried to make me feel safer and though most of the time, it's working, the demons of my past still break their way through me sometimes and I start having flashbacks, my body doesn't listen to me anymore and I panic. When Lee Ruo re-entered this school? I felt like all the hard work I had done trying to heal from those experiences were for nothing."

"Not too long ago, I met someone named Jeon Jungkook and though I didn't like him much at first, he saw something in me that I couldn't see in myself and made several attempts to get closer to me. Without a doubt, he succeeded and now I realize he is exactly what I needed. I opened up to him and he listened. He helped me gain strength and make it through all the days I had to be in the same building as my ex-boyfriend. It wasn't good, but it was bearable. He kept trying to make my life miserable, trying to ruin my friendship with my best friends and provoking Jungkook aswell."

"I really thought I'd be able to make it through senior year with his presence around me. But the moment he caused Jungkook's expulsion and drove a wedge between me and Jimin, I had enough. Even though I try to distract myself, the discomfort will always be there and that's not how I want to spend my last year at school. School should be a peaceful environment and despite all the stress you feel, you should still feel safe. So I did everything in order to find enough evidence for his actions and believe it or not, I did. I have actual evidence of what he did and it does not matter if you want to believe it or not, Mr. Han. Evidence can't be denied and if you don't listen to me, I will go to the police and make an even bigger case out of this."

"I have different sorts of evidence and each one of them is convincing because judging by the way you blindly expelled Jungkook, I was afraid you wouldn't want to believe me. I know you like Ruo because of his family, I know you most likely don't believe he'd be capable of this. But this is why I visited your office, because I want- no- I need you to believe me. I also paid my doctor a visit in case you'd think I'm delusional or schizophrenic. You can contact him yourself in case you don't believe the fact that I am neither of both. Apart from the trauma triggering me from time to time, my mentality is healthy and I function as any other healthy person would. So please, Sir. Please make the right decision and listen to me and what I just said. Lee Ruo deserves to get expelled."

For about a minute, there was a pin-drop silence, neither saying a single word or even daring to take a single breath.

And then, Principal Han pushed up his glasses, bent over and grabbed something from the other side of his table.

"Lee Ruo," he spoke into the microphone. "Please report to the principal's office."

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(A/N: y'all think the principal will do the right thing? or not🙈

by the way, i'm sure by now everyone heard oft the horrible things that german radio host said about bts like it was just literal racism and i'm still pissed as fuck, when i heard about it i was literally 2 seconds away from crying because i live germany and 90% of the people living here don't have any respect for asians or their culture and as a half korean, people talked shit about me too and especially my mom who's an actual korean and just? asians are a literal joke here (at least where i live)

it pisses me off, as soon as i'm an adult i'm leaving 😶 racism is so talked about here and yet this society is so racist i just don't understand?

anyways, i hope you're doing well, thank you for reading and bye bye, i love y'all💜💜💜)