Chapter 24 - Truth

Jimin's POV

By the time Mrs Min left, I was already stuffed so after gulping down my glass of water, I turned to look at Yoongi who was leaning back on his chair as if he's been waiting for mem

"Jimin ah, are you finish?" The black-haired elder soothingly asked while Jimin slowly nodded in response. "Let's go to one of the places that remind me of you."

"Of m-me?" The masked male stuttered, getting a little curious as he then gets up from his seat and looked at his hyung with perplexed doe eyes.

Hearing my response, Yoongi grinned out a small satisfied smile before leading the way as all the maids rushed up to the table we were seated in a second ago and started cleaning up all the leftover foods.

Feeling as clueless as ever, Jimin walked right behind the elder and followed him into somewhere unknown until they both then stops in front of an elevator that glimmers shiningly in the colour gold.

"The lift is huge." I thought, carefully stepping inside the enormous elevator after the elder has magically opened its door with one single press.

"You ready?" Yoongi asked while turning to the male in a fitted black suit who soon nodded in excitement before he then slowly lifted up his index to push against a circle grey button that read below '♧'

*Ding*

The golden doors of this spacious elevator soon creaked open and almost as soon as Jimin's eyes fall to the outside world, he was blinded by the sparkling lights that were dangling down from the garden's roof like nature vines, light decorated trees that look exactly like how it would be in a fairy tale book and lastly, various types of blooming flowers that were potted in place.

Amazed, I stepped out of the lift with the feeling of how this sight looked like a whole different world, a world that I never imagined to actually exist.

"Hyung this place is the most prettiest I've ever seen!" The masked boy exclaimed as his eyes shimmer under those thin pair of glasses, staring at the place in awe just like how Yoongi imagined him to be.

"You are missing the best bit." The elder male softly hummed before grabbing onto my hands and pulled me further into the magic garden.

After stumbling to the other side of Min's rooftop, I look up to only witness such breathtaking sight of the entire Seoul city that lights up the dark mysterious night with its vibrant neon colours and countless stars in the falling sky.

I continued to stare up at the view with my now large round eyes, I've never thought I would get to see such beautiful things being right in front of me as if I could simply grasp it and never let myself go like this sight ever again, never keep that beauty all to myself...

"Do you like it?" Yoongi asked, showing his cute gummy smile to the younger one who was totally distracted by the scenery.

"What do you even mean by that? I love it! It's more than perfect!" Jimin squealed high pitchedly like a kid before leaning closer to such beauty and support his thin body on the glass rail.

Yoongi cannot help but broke out a small chuckle because of the latter's cuteness before he then takes a step forward and gently places his large hands atop Jimin's one that was gripping loosely on the rail.

"Because it is more than perfect, it reminded me of you...Jimin. All this time, I-I wanted to tell you that you don't have to hide under that mask&sunglasses anymore."

His covered smile fading a little after what his hyung just says, Jimin frowned his brows as he turned to stare at the elder with confused pair of hidden eyes.

"But I-I have to! M-my face is too chubby, my skin is not smooth or spotless, my eyes are way too small, my nose is so damn ugly and my b-body..." Jimin's eyes watered up from all the leaking tears before he then parted his trembling lips again to sadly continue. "I'm not perfect and you were r-right, I'm just the chubby Chim Chim that everyone hates."

"You have always been more than perfect to me Chim ah, I know that I'm the whole reason why you say those things about yourself and shit, trust me I fucking regret it." The elder cried out and Jimin was taken aback as he had never seen the male broke down at this moment.

"I wish I didn't bully or insult you in that way, I'm sorry but me realising my mistakes now won't be enough to pay up for what I did to you and I know, know how I couldn't be forgiven for ruining you entirely." Yoongi breathlessly spoke in guilt and fault full reality as he cannot keep in his sobs anymore.

"Why did you change? What happens to the Yoongi I used to know? not that cold bully who just go around and cuss at everyone but a caring sweet boy who helped me when I didn't know what to say in front of the class."  Jimin asked, unable to hide his disappointment and questions he longs to be answered.

"The boy who writes me letters when I was ill and didn't come to school, the boy who protects other kids who were getting bully, the boy who I trusted, the boy who I care for...my first friend and also my f-first love..." Jimin shouted out everything he always wanted to say with bursting emotion that has been bottled up inside him but as he gradually came towards the end, he whispered the last part inaudibly.

"Do you perhaps remember that day at the park, the last day we were together?" Yoongi slowly asked with a hope-filled voice while looking at me with his red bloodshot eyes.

"The day you c-changed." Jimin heavily breathed out, recalling his past memories.

End of Jimin's Pov

Yoongi's POV

*Flashback*

When Yoongi was 13 years old.

I sat on the newly painted blue seesaw with my focused eyes that were programmed to only look at the boy who was seated on the other end, he was giving me the sweetest smile on earth and it never failed to make my crush for him stronger.

"Yoongi I'm getting sick!" Jimin screamed out loud with his high pitched bubbly voice.

"But I don't wanna get off." The older boy fakes a sad pout before giving the latter a big cheeky grin.

"Hyungg! Not fair, I want to get off." Jimin pouted as he was repeatedly bouncing up and down on the large seesaw that made him feel even more sick and tired.

So he came up with an idea.

"Oh my god a giant kumamon!" The little Jimin exclaimed loudly as he pointed somewhere randomly while grinning cheekily from ear to ear.

As expected, Jimin's trick worked absolutely well when Yoongi was so fast to turn his head at the direction Jimin's index finger landed on. The smart boy then took his chance to get off the seesaw and starts sprinting with all the strength left in his short running legs.

"Chim Chim!" Yoongi grunted from not afar while getting off the seesaw too and immediately chase after his mischievous friend.

However, it didn't take long at all for Yoongi to quickly catch up and tried to take a hold of the younger's shoulder but that did not perfectly end well when the two both loses their balance and within another second, Yoongi and Jimin dramatically fall down to the grass field.

"Oww..." The younger boy blinked his eyes open just to see how he is on top of the elder whose hands was wrapped tightly around his small waist.

"Chim..." The 13 years old looked deeply into Jimin's perplexed large eyes and felt that kind of pleasant feeling he's been having quite often lately whenever the younger would give him the prettiest smile or shyly looked at him.

Realising what just happened, Jimin playfully giggles and tries to get off his friend but in the next second, he was taken aback by surprise when Yoongi suddenly pulled him back down and this time, their faces are only inches apart.

Yoongi did not know what got into him at that moment but somehow, he became greedy and wanted to be more than just a friend to Jimin so he did exactly what his instinct told him to and leaned even more closer to the cute boy's compelling pair of lips.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY SON! Oh my god get off my son!" A lady horribly screamed from afar and her voice wasn't as pleasant as Chim Chim's one when they were still playing on the seesaw.

"Oh for God's sake! Why are you with a faggot." The lady who I soon assumed to be Chim Chim's mother grabbed the latter by his forearm and aggressively yanked him up away from me.

"Get into the car." Mrs Park scarily ordered as she handed the car keys to the little confused boy.

Meanwhile, I quickly dusted myself off the dirtied ground and let my desperate eyes searched worriedly for Chim who was already running off somewhere, leaving me with his furious mother.

*Slap*

"What do you think you were doing!?" Mrs Park retorted, fuming in anger as her nostrils flared up from what she just saw with her own two witnessed eyes. "Don't you dare let your gay self come near my son ever again."

"B-but I like him." The boy choked on his words as a drop of tear falls onto his crimson cheeks from the stinging pain where Mrs Park has laid her hands on him.

"You can't like my son, he is not gay!" Mrs Park screamed out loud and it was as if her head was about to explode from total madness at that moment. "GUESS I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO MOVE MY SON AWAY FROM YOUR GAYNESS."

With that being said, Mrs Park furiously turned on her heels but as she was about to storm back to the parked car where her son was waiting confusedly for her, Yoongi ran as fast as he could and hold tight onto the lady's sleeved arms.

"P-please don't let Chim Chim g-go, I will do anything!" The 13 years old boy breathlessly pleaded and cried even harder at the thought of not being able to see his Chim ever again.

"Then if my son doesn't hate you in a week, I will have no choice but to take him away." Liking what she just heard, Mrs Park spoke her last words before leaving Yoongi crying hopelessly on the ground with his body shaking up tremendously from the growing fear.

*Monday*

The first day of this horrendous week has finally arrived and that only means it was time for Yoongi to continue with the plan he came up with during the weekend after shedding many tears.

The 13 years old boy was in the same homeroom class with Jimin as he failed to pass the acquired grade to get into Highschool but now, he was starting to regret not studying hard enough because if he had, he wouldn't be doing this stupid plan but also, he wouldn't have met the latter and fall in love to the point that he became this reckless.

Yoongi was nervously tapping on the desk table with pressed lips that formed a thin straight line, waiting for the right moment before he finally gets up from his chair and walked up to the shorter male who was drawing something on his notebook with that usual pretty smile.

"I-I...Y-you are...v-ve-ry a-nnoyin-ng." Taking a deep breath in, Yoongi does it with his eyes permanently shut as if he did not want to see how the younger will react or worse, cry.

"Are you okay Yoongi, are you ill?" The little Jimin asked worriedly as he placed his right hand on Yoongi's forehead, making the elder male's cheeks heated up from the erupting shyness.

"I can't do this." Yoongi thought before gulping down his prepared harsh word slowly as he lovingly looked into Chim Chim's bright brown concerned orbs.

*Tuesday*

"Youareveryannoying, Idontlikeyou." Yoongi speedily says as he then heavily breathed out and blinked his coward eyes open just to see one confused Jimin.

"What did you say?" Jimin asked with a cute frown that made the elder boy cannot repeat himself ever again.

"I-I uh nothing.." I gave up before walking away with slouched shoulders.

"Another attempt yet another failure, it's harder than what I think." Yoongi tiredly sighed, he was losing hope but it still felt like he had no other choice because after all, he only wishes for the younger to stay and make his heart flutter all over again.

*Wednesday*

Teacher : Class, Yoongi is not in today.

Hearing the teacher's announcement along with other careless students, Jimin frowned as his face perfectly displayed the word 'worried'.

*Thursday*

After getting back home from school, Jimin rushingly took off his shoes and sneaked inside his bedroom before jumping onto his bed just to finally opened his phone after a long day of school without his friend by his side.

"Yoongi ah why aren't you coming to school?" Jimin texted his question down on the keyboard and did not forget to press sent as he then stared at his blank phone screen, waiting for any response.

"I'm not well." Yoongi shortly replied.

Truth is, the black-haired male had been panicking about how the week was coming to an end so soon and that only means his wasted time was ticking off every second but Jimin still hasn't shown any form of hatred towards him.

He can't lose him.

*Friday*

"It's the last day...I'm sorry Chim but I would die not seeing you forever." Yoongi murmured to himself as he walks into the school with a heavy heart and hesitant footsteps that wants to just run away and hide away in his room like the last two wasted days.

Almost instantly once Yoongi has entered the hallway full of kids that aren't his age, Jimin came running from his locker just to tightly hug his absent friend. "Yoongii~ I missed you!"

"I have to this." The older boy thought, biting his lips before he then pushed Jimin away from his body that longs to be in the latter's warm embrace.

"Go away from me! I don't like you."

"Yoongi?" Jimin tilted his head to the left.

Just then when I see that familiar perplexed expression on my Chim Chum, I shooked my head and rushed off towards the nearest bathroom and hurriedly locked myself in one of the stalls just to let my hot tears out.

*At Lunch* 

Dull and slow, I walked out of the class and lifelessly sat down on one of the empty rows of dining table in the chatty canteen, begging for Chim Chim not to see me as I don't think I would be able to contain myself after seeing his worried gaze that could soon turn into hatred within a blink of an eye.

But isn't that what I want? For Chim to hate me and never leave...

"Yoongi ah, what happened?" A worried melodic voice snapped Yoongi out of his cunning thoughts as he soon noticed the boy he wished to ignore.

"Go away, I don't want to see your face." Yoongi lowly gritted out as he tries not to look at the latter and regret everything at that instance.

"But you always say that you love seeing me and that my face is so pretty that you can look at it all day." The shorter boy teases before wrapping an arm around his moody friend's pale neck.

"Well it's not like that anymore, your face is ugly now! a-and..." Taken aback by the younger's positive response, Yoongi fires up again but stopped like a broken engine when he saw those tears in the corner of Jimin's angel-like eyes.

"No...no! I can't stop now, I came so far, it's just a single drop of tear, it won't hurt." Yoongi panickedly thought before he then turned to look at Jimin with icy cold eyes, the same harsh gaze he used to look at other students and not his Chim Chim.

"I hate you!" The older boy yelled out loudly and now, all the attention are diverted towards them as the other students gasp at what was happening between the two friends that never left each other's side.

"B-but I thought we are friends Yoongi..." The little Jimin sobbed even louder, cannot contain his sadness at those words he never wanted to hear coming from the person he trusted and loved the most.

"Well you are wrong." Yoongi coldly says before grabbing his school bag and left the cafeteria with a broken heart and nonstop drop of tears falling down onto his warm stained cheeks and down to his quivering jaws.

"I'm sorry...but this is the only way."

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