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The next morning, Jungkook woke up to find Taehyung sleeping on the floor, with his blanket and pillows piled on top of him. What.

Trying not to wake the boy, Jungkook sneaked over to the bathroom. Unfortunately, he kicked over the shelf and the lamp fell. Oof.

Taehyung's groans and shuffling blankets were heard. "How the-"

"You were drunk and I had to take you home nothing happened please go out and pretend this didn't happen!" Jungkook quickly said before rushing to the bathroom.

"Wait- I-" Taehyung got up from the floor to stop Jungkook, his bangs slightly covering his eyes. "Did I say anything weird yesterday."

"Uh, no. I don't think so." Jungkook lied as he escaped to the bathroom again. When he was done he came back to his room to find Taehyung holding Jungkook's phone.

"Um, excuse me? Privacy? Ever heard of that?" Jungkook snatched his phone away from the boy's hands.

"Jungkook, listen to me." Taehyung said in a serious tone as Jungkook double checked to see if Taehyung did anything weird to his phone.

"Did you touch anything on my phone?" Jungkook focused on the phone, completely ignoring Taehyung.

"Jungkook, god damn it." Taehyung shook the boy, who suddenly brought his attention to him. "Last night, I was planning to tell you something... but you took so long I thought you weren't coming so I took shots."

Jungkook eyed him carefully. "So what is it that you wanted to tell me?"

"That... " Taehyung was about to continue, but then stopped.

"What.. what's wrong?" Jungkook placed his phone on the shelf, putting his full attention to Taehyung. "Is this something about me ruining the mission? I tried talking to my father as long as I can..."

"No, it's just... " Taehyung took a deep breath. "No matter what happens later, I'll be there for you okay? This will all be over soon."

The words made Jungkook worry even more. As if Taehyung knew something bad was about to happen.

"What's... going to happen to me?"

"I-I don't know."

For a while, there was an awkward silence between the two boys. Sigh, this is not going well.

"So you came all this way to comfort me?" Jungkook started.

Taehyung shrugged. "Yeah."

Jungkook nodded awkwardly, "Well, thanks, I guess." Though, he was still a little suspicious about this guy. "Does your boss know you're here?"

"No, he only checks my room at night." Taehyung replied as he added, "um, I probably need to go now."

Jungkook directed Taehyung to the front door... but then stopped him. "Or... do you want to grab some breakfast before you go?"

Taehyung's face lit up. "Really? I mean- sure, I know a good place!" He grabbed Jungkook by the wrist and tugged him out of his room.

"Woah, woah. I'm not even dressed yet, Tae-" Jungkook gasped, trying to catch up with Taehyung.

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"You do realize you're treating me breakfast today aren't you?" Jungkook watched as the waitress placed a huge stack of waffles on their table.

"Yeah, I know." Taehyung smiled as he took the first bite.

Jungkook reached in the basket to get a fork too, but then found out they were empty. "Dude, seriously? They're out of forks." He muttered as he raised his hand to call the waitress.

Just then Taehyung stuffed a waffle piece to Jungkook's mouth. Jungkook widened his eyes. "Did you just-"

"Just eat and stop complaining, kid," Taehyung smirked as he ate a piece. He reached over to feed Jungkook another piece.

"I can feed myself, mom." Jungkook rolled his eyes jokingly as he took the fork from him.

Just then, Jungkook received a phone call from an unknown person.

"Hold on, lemme get that." Jungkook picked up the phone.

"Hello, Jungkook. I've been watching you for a while." a middle-aged man's voice was heard from the other side. A chill ran down his spine as he realized who this was.

"Jungkook, I suggest you take this call in the bathroom... in private."

Jungkook eyed Taehyung as he mouthed an excuse to go to the bathroom. Taehyung nodded his head with a polite smile.

As soon as Jungkook got to the men's bathroom, he locked himself in a stall. "Are you...? Taehyung's boss? How the fuck did you get my number?"

A cynical laugh was heard. "I see that Taehyung had been spending some time outside with you... hasn't he?"

Jungkook felt his throat tighten. "What are you talking about?"

"Don't lie, kid. I've been tracking you and Taehyung. Clearly, you've been sleeping with one of my men last night... haven't you?"

Jungkook stuttered, "I-I did not sleep with him last night."

"Anyhow, I wouldn't do that if I were you. In fact, you shouldn't be trusting any of my men."

"And why is that?"

The phone call then switched to a video. Jungkook's screen projected a video of Taehyung, Jimin, Yoongi, and Namjoon, with a group of other men.

"So 10% for each of us, just like the deal right?" Jimin said as the boys sat back comfortably on their chairs, showing no signs of being strained.

"These boys volunteered to join us for the money, Jungkook. Every one of them, desperate to get their hands on your father's money."

The video shifted to a recording of the boys and Jungkook in the apartment, laughing and having fun.

"Of course, when they meet his son, they're gonna have to act all nice and sweet and innocent. Even Yoongi and Taehyung. They told you that they were forced. Bullshit. They weren't forced at all."

The screen then projected signed contracts from the boys. Angry tears fell off Jungkook's eyes. "Liar! They're not that kind of people. Not Taehyung..."

"Even Taehyung."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because you've been hanging out way too much with my men, Jungkook. We must keep you from getting distracted thinking that all these boys are nice people. Wake up. They're just fucking soldiers wanting your father's money, nothing else."

At this point, Jungkook couldn't even respond as tears kept falling from his eyes.

"Anyways, do not tell Taehyung that we knew he escaped. And we will give you the next mission tonight." The call ended, leaving Jungkook's cries echoing in the bathroom.

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"Jungkook, what took you so long! You should try this new fla-" Taehyung stopped, noticing Jungkook's eyes red from the tears. "Jungkook, are you okay?"

"Is this what's it's all about? Getting all that money from my dad? I thought you said you were forced" Jungkook scoffs in disbelief.

Taehyung's face instantly dropped. "What do you mean?"

"He told me you guys volunteered to steal the money from my dad. Is that true?" Jungkook watched Taehyung's jaw tensed and Jungkook scoffed again. "I should've known... "

All those people...

Namjoon

Jimin

Yoongi

even Taehyung...

they all betrayed him.

They were desperate for the money so much... they agreed into robbing his father. Hell. Yoongi lied. Taehyung lied. They were all doing this to get their greedy hands on the money.

And the worst part was that they all pretended to be nice to him. Jungkook was an idiot. He knew it was too good to be true.

"Fuck it" Jungkook laughed in the most painful way. "I can't believe I trusted you." Jungkook looked away in disbelief, anger flashing in his eyes.

Taehyung closed his eyes in guilt. "Jungkook... I'm so sorry we did this to you and your father..."

Taehyung reached over to hold Jungkook's hands, but he quickly shook his hands away in anger. "What's wrong with you people?" Jungkook yelled, tears flowing down his eyes as he glared at Taehyung one last time with disgust. It was like he didn't know this guy anymore. He didn't know who to trust anymore.

Jungkook stormed out of the breakfast place before Taehyung could say anything else. At this point, he wanted so badly to shut himself in his room forever.  Away from this toxic game and fake people,

So that's exactly what he did.

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