CHAPTER-3

(Note:- This book doesn't promote violence against animals.)
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"Taehyung! Where the fuck are you?"
Taehyung's eyes blew wide as the words echoed in his head. He breathed heavily as he looked around to get familiar with his surrounding. It was then that he realised the present scenario.
He wasn't at home.
He was out on the streets.
He was practically alone with no adult by his side to feed him.
Taehyung's insides rumbled as an uneasy feeling rubbed his chest.
This was a mistake.
He should run back to the house.
It isn't too late to just beg and go back home.
It's the right thing-
Taehyung's eyes fixed over the tiny male that slept beside him completely turned into a cocoon, rubbing his toes to bite away the cold. He scooted closer to the Jimin and slowly turned him around to meet him.
Why is he burning? Taehyung furrowed his brows and placed the back of his hand over the male's forehead.
"H...hey, you need to wake up. You are having a fever." Taehyung tried to nudge the boy but Jimin didn't respond. His feet turned cold as he watched the bruises over the male's chest and legs.
It was his fault.
It was his fucking fault.
Taehyung quickly stood up and rushed towards the roads to ask for help but the alley was empty. He tried screaming for help but his lonely voice echoed back to add to the eeriness of the place.
He wanted to cry.
He needed to cry.
But why was he not able to do so?
His heart was twisting inside his ribcage and his legs trembled to the point he could collapse over the floor at any moment.
What was happening?
Why is his body reacting but his face isn't?
Taehyung screamed his lungs out but the tears couldn't fall out. The pain shot through his nerves until they hit his brain causing a throbbing sensation.
He scooted over the ground with his small hands over his ears trying to stop everything that was occurring in his body then.
"H...help us," Taehyung's breath hampered as he kept calling out but none responded to his dismay.
He let his hands hang lifelessly on either side of his body and walked back to Jimin was trying his best not to shiver but his body couldn't keep up with the subzero cold.
Taehyung stopped in front of Jimin and looked down at the male with a million thoughts but absolutely no emotions to express as a part of empathy. He scooted before the tiny male and pulled his arms over his shoulder to lock them against his neck.
He lifted himself off the ground and grabbed the male's legs as he started walking towards the city. He stopped at a times but managed to keep his pace along the way.
"What are you doing...?" Jimin mumbled as he tried to open his eyes.
"I don't know," Taehyung answered monotonously and looked ahead as he kept slow and heavy steps.
"You are going to fall if you keep carrying me," Jimin spoke weakly as he tightened his grip across Tae's neck.
Taehyung felt the same crushing sensation within his heart but his face couldn't respond. He inhaled sharply as he decided to ignore everything around him.
Jimin, on the other hand, firmed his grip over Taehyung's shirt and drifted to sleep. Somehow, he knew he wasn't going to let go of this boy under any circumstances.
Taehyung's feet stopped in front of a tiny medical store. He looked around for some kind of shelter to place Jimin. He walked toward the narrow alley behind the store. Once he spotted a shop with shutters closed. He carefully slipped Jimin off his back over the front of the shop.
"Wait for me, okay?" Taehyung softly rubbed the male's cheek with his thumb and ran toward the shop.
"E..excuse me?" Taehyung timidly spoke up and raised his heels to reach the counter of the shop.
The shop owner turned around to look at the customer but found it empty. It was then that he looked down to see a tiny kid standing there with torn clothes stained with dirt and grease. He scrunched his face as he threw a stare in the direction of the boy.
"What?" He scowled.
"Could you please give some ointment and bandage for wounds?" Taehyung asked with respect holding back the rumbling fear in his heart as the man glared at him.
"No money, no medicines!" The man quickly judged the boy to be a street hawker and turned around.
"I...do have money!" Taehyung jumped a few times to show his little hand with a green note.
The man quirked an eyebrow and looked at the note. He quickly turned around to pull out some old bandages, and unsold ointments.
Meanwhile, Taehyung looked around the shop and the television that was fixed over the wall.
"Today, we are going to show you what a kangaroo mother care means. Once the baby is born, it is too vulnerable to loss of heat and it's very important to maintain the warmth around the baby. So, the mother needs to keep skin-to-skin contact with the baby to build bondage and provide warmth to the baby-"
"Here, take them." The man threw a few medications over the counter.
Taehyung doe-eyes looked at the number of tubes of medicines and bandages given to him and quickly nodded in disagreement, " I don't have enough money to buy all these."
The man fought back a smirk and quickly pulled the green note out of Taehyung's hand, "No problem, this will do. Besides I am too generous you know."
Taehyung flashed an innocent boxy smile to the man and quickly grabbed all the stuff within his tiny arms and ran out of the store.
Taehyung's smile faded as he grew closer to the place where he left Jimin. The medications almost fell off his hands as he watched a ferocious dog grunting and sniffing Jimin who was stuck at the corner of the shop.
Taehyung pushed the medicines and bandages down his pockets and looked around for a stone or something. His eyes stopped at a stick and quickly rushed to pick it up.
"Leave him alone!" Taehyung screamed and the dog simply threw a glare at Taehyung and exposed its sharp canines as it advanced toward Jimin.
"I said leave him alone! He is...sick," Tae's voice softened as he kept mumbling shit but the dog ran its paw over Jimin's soft skin.
"Don't fucking touch him!" Taehyung screamed and rushed toward the dog with a stick.
The dog immediately turned around as it sniffed the danger and pounced over Tae. It used its fangs to bite the stick that Tae held in between them. It growled and shook its head to bit away the stick and pressed its claws against Tae's chest.
Tae winced in pain but he couldn't hold longer. His grip was slipping and the dog was this close to ripping away the stick and biting him hard.
Jimin, on the other hand, coughed a couple of times to let laboured breaths out of his lips. He squinted his swollen eyes to look close. He traced his hand over the stairs of the shop to find something, anything.
Once his hand grabbed hold of a medium-sized stone, he threw it with full force. But unfortunately, it barely hit the dog's leg, provoking it even more.
" Let...him go!" Jimin mumbled weakly as he kept throwing small pebbles toward the dog.
"Let us fucking live!" Jimin choked a sob with warm tears gushing down his cheeks and his hands trembling as the time passed.
Taehyung's insides burned as he heard the male scream at the top of his lungs. He kicked the dog with his full force. His breaths wavered as he stood up. He gripped the stick tight and bashed it hard against the dog's back.
"Why us? Why just us!" Taehyung screamed as the pain built up in his head.
"Argh!!" Taehyung howled as he raised his stick to strike one more time but the dog quickly rushed out of the place.
His fingers trembled as he let go of the stick.
His eyes couldn't blink.
His lips turned cold but he couldn't express anything that was left within him.
He blankly turned around and placed slow struggling steps towards the crying male that sat there with bloodshot eyes and a body that didn't stop shivering.
Taehyung bit his lip hard as he placed himself before the boy and pulled out the medications. His breathing wavered as he watched the ointments.
"Wh..what happened?" Jimin asked between his sobs.
"They are a lot of them and I...can't read," Taehyung bit his lip harder to hold back his hiccups.
"Just apply anything. I will be...fine," Jimin weakly smiled as the tears rebuilt within his orbs.
"I am... sorry," Taehyung murmured.
"It's okay."
Taehyung exhaled sharply and picked up a few tubes with pictures that resembled a wound and poured them into his fingers to rub them against Jimin's bare chest.
With every tear that trickled down Jimin's cheek, Taehyung cursed their fate.
He used his small arms to wrap the bandage around Jimin. It did loosen up in some places but Taehyung managed to cover Jimin completely. He took off his shirt and pulled the male close to his chest.
"What are you...doing?" Jimin asked in a feeble tone, his eyes trying to stay open.
"The kangaroo said it will heal you," Taehyung mumbled and firmed his grip around Jimin.
"Hmm," Jimin smile within Tae's chest and wrapped his arms around his waist.
(A/n:- Life isn't rainbows my kids.
I know what you are going to ask. At an age of Taehyung and Jimin they should be able to read and write. Right?
But who said they ever went to school?
Their broken families could barely provide them food. Let alone education.
Where do you think Jungkook is?
Anyways, hope you liked the chapter.
Don't cry too much. Okay?
Love you kids.
Maddie🙂❤️
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