"Miss me already?" I answer the phone happily.

But I'm met with silence on the other end of the line, "Viv?"

"I'm not here to see him, Aviva. Answer my question. Are you fucking Jimin?"

I hear Tae's voice through the phone distantly and dread fills me.

I had totally forgotten Tae was staying with me. We had such a magical night and morning that I felt like I was in heaven and I didn't give him a second thought.

"Is this why you wouldn't talk to me for months to work things out? Because you were fucking my best friend?!"

I hear him a lot closer than before, then the muffled sound of the phone dropping is heard and I instantly start to pack up the things from my meeting earlier. I rush past my secretary telling her there's been an emergency and I'll be gone for the rest of the day.

The drive home feels like it takes more time than it actually does. I'm jumping out of the car as soon as I park, not bothering to grab any of my stuff, I lock it and race up the stairs. My apartment door is flung open and I'm shouting her name trying to find her to calm my racing heart.

I rush into the bedroom and see Viv standing beside my bed and Tae right in front of her. Me and Viv's eyes meet and relief floods me seeing she's alright. Tae whirls around to face me and I can see the anger burning in his eyes. Before I even have a chance to speak, he's lunging at me.

He catches me around the waist pushing me against the wall as I grapple with his shoulders, pushing him back.

Taehyung reaches for me again and I manage to grab his shoulders, pushing him hard against the wall. His hands are clutching the collar of my shirt.

"You must be joking, right? You went after MY girl?!" he growls and shoves me away from him.

"She stopped being your girl the second you cheated on her!"

He intakes a sharp breath and swings for me. I step back dodging his wild throw and he stumbles forward. He quickly recovers his balance and glares at me.

"I love her," he says, trying to hit me with his right fist, this time I counter and swing back, connecting my fist with his face, as he hits me right in the ribs. 

"You don't do that to someone you love," I hiss out throwing another punch and connecting again with his jaw.

He fights back and strikes the side of my head. We are going blow for blow before I grab him again, holding him in place as he tries to break from my grip.

"You never deserved someone like her, Taehyung. You can be angry with me all you want, but I do love her and won't let her go," he scoffs at my statement and it reignites my anger. I push him down and he lands hard on the floor.

I go to walk past him, but he grabs my leg, causing me to lose balance. I fall hard on my back and the wind is knocked out of me.

He gets up and rushes over to me, grabs my shirt, and lifts me off the floor. I bring my foot up between us and put all my might behind it kicking him in the gut and shoving him back.

We are both laying on the floor trying to catch our breaths when I look around the room and notice Viv is nowhere in sight. Tae wipes the blood that's trickling from the corner of his mouth as he glares at me.

"You would throw away our friendship for a girl? How could you do this to me?" he says chest heaving as he tries to control his breathing.

"You really pity yourself so much that you have to blame everyone else?" I say sitting up to stare at him.

"What about you?" he shouts. "You never made a move on her, you harbored feelings for my girl and did what you could to turn her against me."

We both rise to our feet and face off against one another.

"I thought you might actually love her! That you would stop and change for her! Do you even know what it is to truly love someone?" I hurl my words at him and he rushes for me again, grabbing my shirt and shaking my body.

"Why does it even matter anymore?"

"Because I do love her," I say calmly and honestly. His eyes enlarge in shock finally realizing I mean what I'm saying, before hardening in hatred.

"Right, you have been pretending to be my friend this whole time only to stab me in the back,"

One hand drops and he swings again, hitting the side of my cheek. I feel my teeth clank together as my body moves away from him.

I laugh at his words as I turn around to face him.

"Who stabbed who behind the back, Tae? I've been nothing but a friend to you! You have always known of my feelings for her, but I never sought out to come between you two, you did that all yourself."

I swing again and he catches it, countering it with his own throw just for me to catch it. I turn him so his back meets my chest and lock my arm around his neck as he struggles against me.

"You need to leave, Tae!"

"Say's who?!"

He hooks his foot around my leg and sweeps me out from under my feet making us fall backward and onto our backs. I groan in pain, my body aches from how hard I met the wooden floor.

"What can you do for her, Jimin?" he groans laying flat out on his back, arms spread wide.

"I can cherish her."

"That won't be enough," he laughs out.

"Why are you like this?" I mutter and he looks at me.

The sound of feet rushing down the hallway causes us to look at the door. Kook rushes in and grabs hold of Tae, dragging him up on his feet with him cowering in his hold.

Viv follows in and drops to her knees beside me, her eyes filled with tears as she brushes some hair off my forehead.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm okay, beautiful," I groan sitting up and her small hand rubs up and down my back.

Kook and Tae are shouting at each other as Tae tries to get out of his grip.

"Let him go, Kook," I say and he sighs before releasing his grip.

"You're no longer my friend. From today on, Jimin, you are dead to me!" he spits out.

"Get out of here, Tae" I reply not trying to feed into another fight.

He swiftly turns on his heel and storms out purposely, bumping into Kook's shoulder as he passes.

Kook follows him out of the room, I'm assuming to make sure he leaves. I'm more than a little sad at how my friendship just ended.

I love Viv and wouldn't take anything back, but Tae is my friend and I know he's hurting. I wish I could have explained everything to him first so it didn't come down to this.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Viv's soft voice draws me out of my thoughts.

She reaches up and gingerly touches a cut I have on my eyebrow and I hiss at the contact. I grab her hand and place it on my cheek instead.

"I'll be okay. Are you though? I'm sorry I forgot that he would be here today," I frown knowing it's probably been a lot for her.

"A little warning would have been nice," she giggles, "but I'm okay. I definitely am not the one who just had their ass kicked."

"He didn't kick my ass," I grumble with a roll of my eyes.

"Sure looks like he did," Kook says waltzing back into the room, a dumb bunny smile on his face.

"Fuck off," I groan as I pull my aching body up and off the floor.

Viv scolds him and he playfully acts like he's scared of her. She finally sends him out to go pick up some dinner so she can help me.

She takes her time gently cleaning up all my cuts and applying cream to my bruises.

"Are you sure?" she finally whispers as she closes the first aid kit.

"Of?"

"Of me. Are you sure I'm worth all of this?" she sighs looking down at the floor avoiding eye contact.

I softly grab her chin between my thumb and pointer finger, tilting it up for her to look at me.

"You are worth it all and more, Viv. I feel like I've been stuck in a neverending winter and then you came back into my life. You warmed my heart, causing the first sprouts of love to push through the ice until they bloomed. You with your stubbornness, attitude, and anger,"

"I had a valid reason to be angry," she grumbles, a small pout on her lips.

I chuckle at her reaction and pull her close to me before leaning down and capturing her lips with mine. It's gentle and tender and when we pull apart her cheeks are flushed and she's a little out of breath.

"I love you, Viv. You pulled me out of winter's cold grip and held my hand as you brought me into spring."

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