This is going to be a very long final chapter mainly because a lot of things are going to be explained and there will be flash backs so enjoy.

They walked hand in hand to the roof top of the building. Jimin inhaled deeply feeling the breeze blow onto his face. This feeling of peace and senerity had finally settled on him now that Taehyung was beside him.

"You left your painting that day" Taehyung said looking down at him with a fond smile on his lips.

"I'll send it to you this afternoon"

"No need. I'll follow you to your house and get it." Jimin muttered before he lowered his face blushing terribly hard but Taehyung suddenly grabbed his face softly to stare into his eyes. Jimin noticed his eyes turned red and watery.

"What's wrong?" He asked watching as tears fell down the eyes of the man he loved. He reached out to stroke his face with his small hands gradually wiping away his tears. Taehyung sniffed.

"It's just that i can't believe it. You have no idea how painful it has been Jimin. Loving you in silence and not being able to tell you. Not being able to tell you that you and i belonged together"

Jimin gulped. He needed to hear from Taehyung what happened. How he was able to remember him so he gently pulled him to a bench. The same bench they where sitting on the day Jimin left. When they where comfortably seated, Jimin whispered.

"Tell me everything"

Taehyung gave him a small smile before he began talking.

"It all started when i woke up on March 10th 2019. I woke up with tears in my eyes and a heaviness in my chest. It was a pain that i had never felt before"

Flashback
Taehyung looked up at the white cieling blinking back several times when he paused upon feeling something wet on his cheeks. With his fingers, he touched the liquid only to discover that they where tears. Not only that, his chest was hurting. He felt like he had lost something but he had no idea what that was. He looked at the calendar. March 10th.

Shaking his head, he stood up from bed and prepared for the game they where about to play against another college. After some time, he was at the auditorium jogging in with the other members. As he entered, he immediately spotted his best friend whose full attention was as usual on hyping his long time crush Jungkook the ace of the team but as Taehyung gazed at the other, something felt different. It was like the whole world disappeared and all he could see was Jimin and his eye smile. He felt his heart twisting when he noticed the bright smile on Jimin's face when he was  looking at Jungkook. He had a strange feeling in his chest. iwt felt familiar. He felt a hand on his shoulder bringing him back from his day dreams, he saw it was Namjoon  so he continued his run but stopped to call out Jimin's name from the crowd. It took a while but the latter finally noticed him and smiled nervously as their eyes met.

"I'll buy you pizza and ice cream after we win today" He shouted. Jimin seemed confused but he smiled nevertheless.

They eventually won and an excited Taehyung was ready to take his best friend to eat but Jimin was focused entirely on Jungkook when he entered the locker room to congratulate them. Well mostly Jungkook. Jimin didn't even notice Taehyung's presence. It's not like Taehyung didn't know about Jimin's crush on Jungkook. He knew everything. He was his best friend after all but there was something about the way he looked at Jungkook this time that really got to Taehyung. Jimin was saying something to Jungkook. He could hear their conversation from where he stood.

"Em... Do I know you?" Jungkook said looking at Jimin who smiled shyly and stuck out some comic books to him "I'm Park Jimin, Taehyung's friend. I heard you like comics so... "

Seeing the disinterested look in Jungkook's face, Jimin nodded.

"Okay... Well i just came to congratulate you. You were great on that field today..."

Jungkook looked uncomfortable "Listen Jimin are you trying to flirt with me?"

"Is it wrong for me to flirt with you?"

Jungkook laughed brushing his fringe from his eyes with his hands. "I'm sorry but I'm not gay"

After saying that, he left and Jimin just stood there embarrassed and unable to say a word. Something clicked inside him when he heard the other guys snickering at his friend so he went over to Jimin and grabbed his hand.

"Hey Jimin, what are you doing here?"

"I came to see you!" He answered and Taehyung just smirked.

"Are you ready to go?"

Jimin was confused. "Go? Go where?"

Taehyung sighed. "I told you I would treat you to pizza and ice cream if our team won today" He pouted. "Or you didn't hear me?"

Jimin barely nodded his head. Determined to cheer him up, Taehyung took him out. The minute they stopped inside the car, Taehyung had this feeling of de ja vu.

"What's wrong?" Jimin asked.

Taehyung shook his head. "Nothing, i feel like this has happened before you know?"

Seeing the concerned look on Jimin's face made him shrug. "It's nothing okay" he said and started the car. They started driving but moments later, the car suddenly stopped working leaving them to toll it and take a stroll.

They bought their ice cream with pizza and settled down on a bench close to each other. Seeing the pained look on Jimin's face made him feel strangely devastated. This strong urge to wrap him in his arms was overwhelming but he simply ignored it until Jimin spoke.

"I'm not taking part in the dance competition anymore. I'm a looser"

Taehyung stared at him when all of a sudden, he got a flash of memory.

I'm signing up for that dancing competition"

"I thought you said you weren't going to do it"

"Well I changed my mind"

"Thank God for second chances"

"You're acting really different but it's good to see you so positive"

He shook his head. What kind of dream was that. It was a dream that felt too real? He was talking to Jimin exactly as he was doing just now only that this Jimin was different, brighter, more positive. He shrugged his shoulder again. That was nothing. It was only a figment of his imagination.

"I hope you can find some sort of strength. You are not a looser Jimin. You're far from that"

The latter just nodded his head weakly.

"Come on, let's go" Taehyung said. They both stood up and left together but as the days progressed, Taehyung thought he was going crazy. He found himself staring longer than usual at Jimin's face. He found himself wanting to be much closer to him. He had dreams. Dreams where he and Jimin where happy but he could feel extreme pain too.

There where days when he didn't want to wake up but when he did, all he saw was a distant Jimin. A depressed and tired of life Jimin but despite this, it didn't stop this new feeling for his friend from growing at a fast pace. He wanted to protect him from every danger and lessen the pain he was feeling from the dejection he started to experience after Jungkook spread the word about Jimin's sexuality to the entire school.

Jimin was always walking around in shame unable to hold his head high. He was always in a bad mood and no one could get to him. Not even him. The only thing he wanted was Jungkook.

"You like him don't you?" Jimin's friend and roommate Hoseok asked Taehyung while they where in the library. Surprisingly, they turned out to be seat partners.

Taehyung reddened. "I don't know what you're talking about"

Hoseok grinned. "I'm sure you do. Why don't you tell him? It might help him come out of this slump"

Taehyung sighed in defeat. "But I'm his best friend. It's going to be really awkward"

"I feel sorry for you" Hoseok whispered shaking his head at him in pity.

"Don't be. I don't know. I just get this feeling that i should wait"

Hoseok scoffed. "Wait? For what? Jimin?"

He laughed heartily. "You can keep waiting forever because that man is never going to look your way"

That stung really hard but Taehyung felt deep inside him that wasn't true but as the days progressed, Jimin kept moving further and further away from him so Taehyung took solace in activities such as volunteering at the orphanage where he grew fond of a certain little boy called Jung min who reminded him so much of his first love, a girl called Sulli.

But something happened that made him conclude that something was definitely wrong somewhere. He was scrolling through his phone looking at past images of him and Jimin when the latter was happy until he fell for the most popular guy on campus. Jung min suddenly entered his arms looking into the phone when he grabbed it and started pointing at Jimin's image with a surprised but bright look on his face.

I know him. I know him.

Taehyung stared at the eight year old.

"You know him? But you've never seen him before"

Jung min shook his head.

In my dreams. I've seen him in my dreams.

Now Taehyung was shocked. He shook his head.

"It can't be. You have dreams of him?"

"I also dream of you two. You are very happy with him and you both love me very much"

Taehyung felt he couldn't breathe. He was so confused. He had no idea what to even think or how to process this but something was definitely wrong somewhere. He had previously thought he was going insane, seeing memories of a life he had with Jimin. It was a different life. A life where they where in love but now that Jung min was having these weird memories too could only mean he was not going insane. There was a gap in his memories and he was determined to find out what it was.

One day, he strolled through the university grounds. He didn't know where he was going. He just had to find a place to think and relax. As he strolled, he passed by a rice cake spot and lingered far too long staring at the snacks on full display. A flash of Jimin's smiling face appeared in his mind and he heard his words.

"Tae, buy this for me!"

"I thought you said they where cheap"

"Well... Yes but they've become symbolic to me!"

"Why?"

"Cause they remind me of you!"

Taehyung shook his head and started walking on. He didn't know how long he walked but then he paused when he discovered he had stumbled on an old abandoned park. He felt a shiver run through his entire body as he walked through, accessing the environment. This was his first time here but he could feel the familiarity of this place. His eyes fell on a tree few meters from an old bench and another memory flashed through his head. He saw himself standing in front of Jimin, eyes glazed with alcohol. The rain was falling quite heavily and they where both wet.

"Tae...."

"I like you Jimin"

A shocked look appeared on Jimin's face as he spoke "Hell, I might even be in love with you"

Then he Taehyung wrapped his arms around Jimin's waist pulling him closer to his own body.

"I have always wanted to do this Jimin. Please let me... "

"Do what?" Jimin whispered but then he Taehyung kissed him right there under the rain. It was a long sweet kiss that was cut short by Jimin pulling away and backing up from him.

"Jimin! Jiminah!" he said  but Jimin shook his head.

"No... Stay away from me" he whispered and ran away.

The memory faded away and Taehyung stood rooted to the spot completely in shock before he started laughing out loud.

"I'm going crazy. Now, I'm even dreaming while wide awake" he stuttered but his words hung in his throat when his eyes fell on the bench. Once again, he saw himself and Jimin in another memory. They where sitting together looking distraught. Tears falling down their faces. They looked the very picture of misery.

I don't understand...." He had whispered.

"Listen to me because this is the last day. We will never get this chance again...I was told that once i go, you will forget everything!"

"Why are you doing this to me?we where just going to eat rice cakes and talk. What's all these?" Taehyung cried, his face turning red.

"I'm so sorry for doing this to you. I'm sorry for causing you so much pain but you have to listen to me"

You'll forget me. You'll forget that we where ever in love with each other. How i wish you will remember but when you wake up on March 10th, you will see a different Jimin, not me, not the one who loves you!"

Taehyung couldn't breathe as he felt his legs grow weak. He slumped on the ground shaking his head as the memory continued running like a movie being played in his brain.

"Stop saying these things to me" he had cried but Jimin kept on talking.

"If you do happen to remember, I want you to know that i love you. I love you very much. I was the happiest to have fallen in love with you Taehyung"

"However, there are some things i want you to do for me"

"First, you are going to go for that art programme. You are going to study very hard so you can become a respectable young man and fulfill your dream of being an artist. Next, don't let anyone else adopt Jung min. He belongs to us Taehyung. He is our family"

Jung min? This Jimin mentioned Jung min? Someone he had never ever met in his life? Jimin had never even crossed the gate of the orphanage. He had never ever bothered to even ask about his volunteer work at the orphanage yet in this memory he seemed so linked to Jung min and the orphanage.

His memory continued.

"Finally, come back to me in ten years Taehyung. Come back to the Jimin who loves you. From now, everything will just feel like a dream...."

Jimin broke into tears. "But i hope it won't be just a dream to you Taehyung. I hope you can still remember me"

"Is this why you've being acting strange lately? Because you are leaving, going back to your own time as ridiculous as that sounds. You say i will wake up but when i do, you'll be different?"

"You'll be different too"

Taehyung began to cry "This isn't happening. Don't go. Stay with me...please" he pleaded

"I wish i could but if I stay, it will upset the balance of the universe. I have to go back"

Then Jimin leaned closer to  and whispered into his ear as tears dripped from his eyes down to his cheeks.

"I'm sorry"

Taehyung's heart shattered as that word I'm sorry left Jimin's lips. Why did he feel so miserable? Why was all these feeling too real? He managed to get up and drag his feet to the bench. He didn't want to think about this anymore. It just hurt too much. It was in the midst of his agony that he suddenly heard a voice beside him.

"Hurts like a bitch doesn't it?"

Shocked, he turned his head to the side and saw an old woman in an oversized coat and a beanie sitting beside him with a weird smile on her face.

"This is the reason why the ones left behind aren't supposed to remember" she continued.

Taehyung rose his eyebrows.

"Who are you?"

She smiled more normally. "I'm the one who will finally put you at rest"

"What?"

"You've been having strange dreams, you've been having recurring memories. It's almost like amnesia. But it isn't because everything you remember did happen but it didn't happen here"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Taehyung said. He was now fully alarmed staring at this strange old woman who appeared from nowhere and seemed to know about his dreams and faint memories.

The woman sighed. "You'll never believe me so it's better i show you"

She suddenly reached out her hand and closed his eyes. Her palm remained over his eyes when he felt like his whole body lifted. It was like he had been transported to another realm where his memories where unlocked. They all became very clear to him now every word, every happiness, every pain. They became clear.

Their first kiss at Namjoon's  party. Their fake relationship contract to make Jungkook jealous. Their first stupid argument because of Jungkook. The first day they kissed. The day Jimin joined the volunteer work at the orphanage, their bond with Jung min. Nayeon's interference between them. The push and pull going on between them, Jimin's strong denial, Hoseok's friendly advice. The camping trip where he told Jimin about Sulli and where their love for each other was confirmed. Their first sex, Taehyung's sketch of Jimin he promised to make into a painting. His serenading in front of Jimin's department building. Nayeon and Jeonyeong's destructive plan that caused the painful break between them. Their reconciliation at the airport and the look in Jimin's eyes when he revealed the truth to him. The look in his eyes the day he disappeared.

The woman finally removed her hand from his face and tears fell freely down Taehyung's eyes. He remembered everything now and damn, it was painful.

"Now, you remember everything that happened in the alternate time line" she said with a relaxed smile.

"Who are you and what did you do to us?" He questioned.

The woman shrugged. "I'm just a fairy and all i did was help a depressed young man realize his true destiny. To recognize the person who will shape his life. The one he was truly meant to be with. I'm talking about you Taehyung"

Taehyung got up from his seat shaking his head "You're a fairy? It seems impossible. I can't believe it"

"You have every right to doubt but know this, you will hurt a lot. You will feel so much pain because of Jimin but your fate is to wait for him. Wait until he has become the person who loves you because you cannot do without him"

Taehyung looked confused but the woman continued. "Jimin has yet to experience that time line which you just saw. The Jimin you know right now is the one full of sadness and sorrow unprepared to see or hear anything. He's headed straight towards tragedy but all you have to do is to be by his side. To love him and protect him"

Taehyung sighed finally beginning to grasp what this strange woman was saying but it all still felt unbelievable. However, now he knew he wasn't going crazy.

"I'll never appear to you again so it's up to you. You know what to do"

She disappeared and Taehyung almost had a heart attack but after a while, he recovered himself and took a deep breath. From then on, he was close to Jimin even when he didn't want his company. He loved everything about the older and Jimin was sometimes confused about Taehyung's affection for him. Taehyung always caught Hoseok staring at him in pity but he didn't care. Even though Jimin didn't love him now, he wouldn't stop showing him affection.

But his heart was torn into pieces when few days to their graduation, Jimin broke the news of his sudden marriage to Jeonyeong, the daughter of a family friend.

"You're getting married?" He had muttered, lips quivering.

"Yes, if i can't have Jungkook. What's the use? I can just do what my parents want"

"Are you hearing yourself? You are gay and besides, there's life after Jungkook!"

Jimin snickered. "Could that life possibly be with you? Don't be ridiculous Tae besides you aren't gay"

Taehyung wanted to open his mouth and tell Jimin right there about his sexuality. He also wanted to admit his feelings to him but the scornful look in his face stopped him.

"You're making a mistake Jimin"

"Just leave me alone Tae. I'm tired okay. I'm just tired"

Taehyung said nothing more. He felt bad because no matter what, his feelings was never going to be recognized by Jimin. Two days after, he went to visit Jimin at home but was met with a troubled looking Hoseok.

"Poor Jimin. He was humiliated by Jungkook and his friends. My stupid boyfriend was a  part of it. I don't know what came onto Jimin. He just suddenly started begging for Jungkook's love. It was like he had no pride left in him"

Taehyung felt himself about to cry but he held himself back. "Where is he?"

Hoseok shook his head "I have no idea"

Taehyung remembered that one of Jimin's favorite place to relax when he was feeling down was the beach so he immediately went there and sure enough, there was Jimin strolling through the sandy beach. Taehyung didn't want his presence to be known because it seemed Jimin needed the space and isolation so he watched him from a distance taking pictures of him. Those pictures where the first he ever exhibited on his return to Korea ten years later. It was an artwork Jimin himself later bought.

Two days later, Taehyung left for the art exchange program he promised Jimin in the other time line to go to so he wasn't able to attend his wedding. Thus, they lost contact but Taehyung knew he would still return hopefully to a Jimin who loved him.

Now

"But when i came back and i met you again. You where still the same and I started to feel like everything that fairy told me was a lie. All those memories i had of you where simply made up but here you are loving me. You have no idea how long i have waited for this" Taehyung said

Jimin took his hand. "I'm sorry. I really don't know what else to say apart from I'm sorry"

Taehyung hugged him. "It's okay Jimin. At least we are now together and we will be for a long time. No one can separate us again"

Jimin hugged him tighter. "I love you. I'm so glad your bond with me was strong enough to make you remember me"

"It's okay Jimin and i love you too"

They released from each other's hold and Jimin smiled at him. "So tell me how was your life in America. I'm sure you dated a lot"

Taehyung simply laughed at the note of jealousy in Jimin's voice. "There where admirers of course but they all later became my business partners. Many people thought i changed partners frequently but it wasn't true. I just had a lot of people around me"

Jimin smiled in relief. Taehyung looked into his face. "Where you jealous?"

"No! I just wanted to know how you had been faring all along"

"I did well with my life but I was never truly fulfilled. You complete my life Jimin" he said softly.

Tears threatened to fall from his eyes but it stopped abruptly as Taehyung suddenly received a message on his phone. He looked into it and smiled to himself before looking at Jimin.

"What is it?" Jimin asked.

Taehyung stood dragging Jimin up with him. "Jimin, there's someone who wants to meet you" he said.

"Who?" Jimin asked with confusion spread out on his face. Suddenly, someone entered the roof top. It was a boy not more than eighteen years old. He looked somewhat familiar as he slowly approached them looking pointedly at Jimin with a huge smile on his face.

"Who is he?" Jimin asked.

"This is Jungmin and he's the only one apart from me that remembers you in the other time line"

"Jimin hyung!" Jung min spoke and Jimin blinked in shock.

"You can speak?" He whispered then turned to Taehyung. "I can't believe this. What happened?"

Taehyung smiled"I remembered the last thing you told me regarding Jung min so i begged the director Sunmi to keep Jung min from getting adopted by another family till i returned from abroad. I signed a bunch of documents because they needed my word. Two years later after i had gotten stable, i officially adopted Jung min and brought him to live with me. He had surgery on his ears and throat. He was able to speak but the ear surgery wasn't successful so now, he uses a hearing aid"

Jimin turned to Jung min and enveloped him in a tight hug.

"You're all grown up now" he muttered. He wished he had been there to see him grow up but he was here now and he could experience more things with him.

"Jimin hyung, you look a lot smaller than i thought" Jung min pointed out once they separated.

Jimin just chuckled and turned to Taehyung. "But my Tae Tae likes it that way doesn't he?"

Taehyung blushed and Jimin snickered embracing him again while Jungmin looked on. Jimin couldn't help himself as he held Taehyung tight as though being with him was making him miss him more.

"It's okay Jiminah, I'm not going anywhere"

"I know" he muttered but then paused when he couldn't feel Taehyung in his arms anymore. All he could feel was air. He backed up and looked around him startled. He was standing close to a bridge. There where no cars passing by and there was no Taehyung or Jungmin.

"Where am i?" He mumbled looking around when he spotted the fairy standing and overlooking the bridge.

"Come here Jimin. There's something i have to tell you" she said without even turning her head to look at him. Jimin wasn't finding this funny at all.

"What's going on?" He asked but the woman didn't answer him until he moved closer to her. That was when she looked at him.

"I lied" she said.

Jimin stared hard at her. "What?"

She continued. "You didn't choose us Jimin. We chose you because you are special"

Jimin still didn't understand what she was getting at.

"Do you remember what i said that for a great person to be saved. Sometimes, the gods have to go crazy because that's what happened"

She breathed deeply. "Have you ever wondered why everything began in March 10th?"

Jimin shook his head and the woman bit her lips looking nervous. "Because that day is the day you end your life" she finally said and Jimin froze in shock. He didn't hear her correctly. He was going to kill himself?

"Exactly on March 10th, five months from now, dissatisfied with life, you are going to jump down from this bridge and not only kill yourself but the destinies of over a hundred thousand orphaned children from different parts of the world whose lives you and Taehyung was going to touch through a foundation including the four more children you both where going to adopt"

Jimin was speechless. his entire body continued to shake as the woman went on.

"Your suicide was going to turn Taehyung into a recluse full of sadness and regrets. Since your destiny is tied to his own, it would only be a matter of time before he followed you to the world beyond"

Jimin could hardly breathe as he stroke his chest choking on air.

"The heavenlies couldn't let that happen so they sent me here to turn things around."

Jimin finally broke down. Crying in anguish as the fairy continued.

"You are a great person Jimin. You are important and without you, thousands of orphans where going to suffer. We had no choice but to intervene"

She smiled."I'm happy that i was able to fulfill this important mission. It's one of my most important works"

Jimin finally found his voice and smiled at the fairy. "Thank you so much for everything" he simply said.

She nodded. "You go back now and be happy. Be happy and use that happiness to touch the lives of others. This is the last you'll ever see or hear from me. For now, i wish only for your destiny to be fulfilled"

She smiled. "Good bye Park Jimin. My work here is done"

Jimin nodded and before he could blink, he was back at the roof top standing in front of a worried looking Taehyung and Jungmin.

"Jimin, what happened. You kinda blanked out for a while" Taehyung asked.

Jung min nodded his head in agreement but no one not even Taehyung was prepared when Jimin moved forward and pressed his lips to his own. The latter was surprised, opening his eyes in shock but then he smiled into the kiss, accepting it with relish as his arms wrapped around Jimin's waist. After a while, they stopped and Jimin hugged him again.

"I'm really going to enjoy this" Taehyung said and looked directly at Jimin's face.

"So um...i know it's sudden but i would like you to come abroad with Jungmin and i? What do you think? We could be a real family there"

"Of course i will. I have nothing here anymore and my family has practically disowned me so I'll go with you to the ends of the earth if that's what you want"

Taehyung blushed and Jimin just adored him the more.

"There are so many things i want to do with you. I can never think of doing it with anyone else. Just you. I hope you will agree to do them with me"

"What ever you want Taehyung. I'll always be beside you" he whispered and turned to Jungmin.

"Come here" he said with his arms wide open. The boy hugged him along with Taehyung. They where just hugging each other other and Jimin realized he was finally home. He was right where he was always meant to be. And from this moment till the rest of his life, he was going to be happy together with his best friend and soulmate Kim Taehyung. For the rest of his life.

THE END.

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