Part 37

Yoongi was going to drop Jimin. The car ride was silent. Jimin kept stealing glances at the older. Yoongi had his jaw clenched, eyes focused on road, hands gripping the steering wheel so tight that his knuckles were turning almost white. Jimin wanted to talk to him but didn't dare seeing the older's angry stance.


Yoongi stopped the car in front of a medical shop. He turned to Jimin and said "stay here." Then got down of the car and went inside the shop. He came back after sometime with a packet in his hand.


He took out antiseptic and cotton out of the packet, soaked the cotton in it and turned to Jimin. He then put the cotton on the cut at the corner of Jimin's lips. "aah" Jimin whimpered feeling the sting.



Yoongi stopped what he was doing and closed his eyes. Then opening them he again started tending the wound this time more gently. After cleaning the wound he put cream on it. Then started doing the same thing with the younger's elbow.


Jimin looked at his rigid face " hyung are you angry on me" he asked timidly.


"No why would I be" the older replied in a stiff voice.


"Then why are you not looking at me? I know you are angry" Jimin again said.


"What does it matter to you if I'm angry or worried? Actually what do I matter to you?" Yoongi said this time looking at the younger's eyes.



There was something in his words, in his voice and in the look in his eyes that made Jimin speechless. He felt a sudden pain in his heart, tears burnt his vision.



"H..hyung I....you..." He couldn't form a sentence.


"You what Jimin?" Yoongi asked in a pained voice "you what? All I asked you to do is take care of yourself. But you didn't even do that. Just a few days back you landed in hospital because of your carelessness. And today you got into fight in the middle of the road. You got injured. Tell me Jimin did I ask too much from you. I know I don't mean anything to you but at least you could've thought about your safety"



As Jimin heard the older say he doesn't mean anything to him, he felt a stabbing pain in his hurt. He held the older's hand in his and cried "no hyung please don't say like this. Please hyung don't say you don't mean anything to me. It's not like that. You mean a lot hyung a lot. I'm sorry hyung I so so sorry I made you think like that. I didn't listen to your words. I'm sorry hyung" he sobbed loudly.



Yoongi couldn't see the boy he loves crying he felt his heartbreaking into pieces, he immediately pulled the crying boy in his arms and said "Jimin..ah don't cry, please don't cry. I'm sorry I made you cry. Hyung is bad very bad, he made you cry. Please forgive hyung. Please stop crying."



Jimin broke the hug and looked at the older. "no hyung is not bad. Don't say like this" he said cutely.



"Ok ok I won't say it. But you please don't cry and please take care of yourself for me" Yoongi said wiping his tears.



"Hmm okay" Jimin again said cutely.


Yoongi looked at the cute boy and placed a gentle kiss on his forehead.


Jimin felt his beating like drums at this.


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It was seven thirty in the evening when Jungkook got back home. It was raining outside that's why he got a little late. He didn't find his husband in the living room "maybe he's studying in his room" he thought as he placed his coat on the couch. Then went to the younger's room to give the macarons he brought for him. The day before Tae said he was craving for some strawberry macarons. So he got some for him.



"Tae" he called knocking on the door. No answer came. He again called "Tae" but again no answer came. So he opened the door only to find the room empty. There's no sight of Tae.




Jungkook furrowed his brows, "where is he" he thought. Then he thought maybe Tae is in kitchen so he went there. But again met with emptiness. He placed the macarons on the dinning table and searched for Tae in the whole flat. But he couldn't find him anywhere.



This made him worried. Tae's school ended way before then why he is not here. He tried to call him but the younger's phone was switched off.



"Maybe he went with Jimin" he thought and called Jimin. Jimin received after two rings.


"Hello Jimin" Jungkook said.


"Hello hyung" Jimin replied.


"Jimin is Tae with you? He's not home yet" Jungkook inquired.


Jimin frowned hearing this "not home yet. But  he left nearly two hours ago."


"Two hours ago? But your school ends way before that, doesn't it?"


"Oh actually we went for shopping after school. But we left the mall nearly two hours ago. He should have  reached home by now. That mall isn't that far from your place."


"Oh okay maybe he got stuck somewhere" Jungkook replied "maybe he'll be back soon"


"Hmm I guess so" Jimin told him "please inform me when he returns"


"Okay I'll do that" with Jungkook cut the call.


He rubbed his face with his hands. "where are you Tae?" He thought worriedly. It's raining heavily outside, Jungkook remembered Tae is scared of thunderstorm. "what if he's stuck somewhere? He must be alone. What if he gets scared? What if something happened to him?" All these thoughts started bothering him, making him even more worried.



"No this won't do. I can't sit here like this when Tae is out there, alone in the rain. I need to search him" he thought and left home in search for his husband.













Jungkook came back after two hours. In this two hours he had searched everywhere for Tae but there was no sight of the said boy. He had even called the KM to see if Tae had gone there to meet his parents. But again he met with negative answer. Tae wasn't there too.



He was almost drenched in rain, as he hadn't took his car but searched everywhere on foot. His mind is filled with all kinds of negative thoughts,



"What happened to Tae? Is he okay? Did something happen to him? Did someone harm him? Did Tae left him?"



He felt his heart stopping at the last thought. What if, what if Tae indeed left him? What if he unknowingly did something that Tae didn't like? What if Tae really left him? What will he do? Tae is now his only family. What will he do if Tae really left him? In these past months he had become used to of the younger's presence around him. He had started to like the fact that there is someone at home when he comes back at the end of the day. He is no longer alone in that apartment. He has someone to take care of. Maybe there relationship is not like exactly how a married couple's should be. But they had found their own comfort level with each other. He has found a companion in Tae, a family that he had always craved for. But what will he do if he looses it? What will he do if he looses Tae? How he is going to live now?



With a heavy heart he punched the door code and entered the apartment.



As he entered the living room, his eyes went wide at the sight that he met with, his heart beating faster.


There in the couch was sitting Tae. His hands on his knees, face hidden in his hands.


Jungkook called out,





"T..Tae"


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