"Phone." A deep and hoarse voice echoed around the room as the men handed over their phones to Chen.
"Wallet." Taehyung frowned as he took out his Gucci wallet from his pocket. "Take care of it, make sure it's safe and sound." He instructed as Chen and Taeyong grunted, "Shut up, Kid."
"Air Pods." Now it was Seokjin's turn to complain. "Hey, that's unfair! What do you need my Air Pods for anyway?" He whined. Hoseok whispers into his ear, "Because you have no phone?" Seokjin pouted cutely as he handed over his Air Pods, earning a giggle from Taehyung.
As Chen starts to lead the men to a secret room from a trapdoor in Namjoon's 'office', Taeyong held out his hand, stopping Taehyung. "What now?!" Taehyung huffed as he crossed his arms. "I'm not blind kid, hand over your condom." Taeyong glared at Taehyung as Seokjin and Hoseok looked at them in amazement and disgust. Taehyung grinned sheepishly as he handed over the condom to Taeyong with Chen sniggering.
"Taehyung, I want the whole box!" Taeyong continued as Seokjin shouted, "Kim Taehyung!" Taehyung rolled his eyes, blushing as he handed over the box of condoms.
After half an hour of getting Taehyung to surrender everything he has, Chen finally pushes the men into an empty room. "Namjoon will be expecting you in the evening, Seokjin. Hoseok, come with me." Chen spat as he dragged Hoseok roughly out of the room, locking it.
As Seokjin observed the room, he concluded that there was no way of escape. There was only one window with his metal grills securely fixed into the window. By the side was some bottles of water and snacks for them. Other than that, there was nothing else. Well, only a vent but that would be no use to him as the ceiling was too high up.
Seokjin breathes deeply. Now was a 'good time' to have an anxiety attack but this time Seokjin felt more calm, maybe because Taehyung was leaning onto his shoulder. With his stomach grumbling, Seokjin reached for a snack. However, Taehyung reached over and slapped it off his hand.
"Yah! I'm hungry!" Seokjin yelled as Taehyung stared at him in shock before licking his lips seductively and cornering him onto the floor, "Well, you can eat me... I'm hungry too, why not let's eat each other up?" Seokjin turned a deep shade of red as he pushed Taehyung away with his heart and mind racing. Too close! Seokjin fainted internally.
Suddenly, a loud shout downstairs from the window could be heard. Peering down, Seokjin saw a familiar face with another man at the entrance of a shop creating a scene. Ji-eun, Johnny and Chen were huddled over there, arguing with Seokjin's assistant and his boyfriend. "You liar, you took my cat. I'm positive!" Soobin shouted, waving his arm angrily in the air as his boyfriend, who was it, oh yes, Hueningkai nodded in agreement. "We didn't take anything from you, you madman!" Ji-eun hissed at Soobin.
All of a sudden, the vent cover came crashing down followed by two handsome men on top of Taehyung. "Yah! I told you, don't unscrew it yet!" Jungkook smacked Jimin on his head as Taehyung rubbed his head and arms painfully. "Do you know how hard you landed on me?!" Taehyung glared playfully at Jungkook as he and Jimin rolled their eyes and said, "Just be grateful we're rescuing you." Seokjin asked out of curiosity, "But how did you know where we are?"
As Jungkook went over to unlock the door using a hairpin, Jimin explained, "We followed you. Just now the loud whistle from the pizza place was made by me to clear the way for you and Taehyung to stop and catch Namjoon in the act with Areum. What we didn't know was that Hoseok was following you guys and two, Jin is connected with that Namjoon guy. Childhood friend, you say?" Seokjin nodded as a loud 'CLICK' opened the door for them to freedom.
Jimin held onto Seokjin's hand as Taehyung guarded Seokjin from behind with Jungkook in the lead. "Are you okay? Are you having any anxiety attack?" Jimin hugged Seokjin. Taehyung stared at Seokjin in amazement as Seokjin unwillingly explained everything about his last life, afraid of what Taehyung might say or feel about it.
However, he just remained silent as he squeezed Seokjin's hand, confessing, "I also had family problems when I was younger. My father was an alcoholic and my mum died young. My father was the worst. He would beat us every day for not being able to get wine for him and blamed us for our mother's death. My brother, Hoseok was everything to me. However, one night when I was sleeping soundly I heard a loud shout and when I walked down the stairs into the living room, there was blood everywhere. The sofa, the lamp, all flowing from my father's head. Hoseok was in front of him with a broken wine bottle, smirking and wiping blood of his mouth. They looked like they were in a fight. Just as our father was about to beat Hoseok, that darn bastard broke our window on that rainy night and jumped out, mouthing the word 'sorry' to me."
Seokjin gasped as tears came trickling down his eyes. Taehyung continued, letting out all his sadness, "After Hoseok left, I called the police and ambulance. When asked to explain what had happened to our father, he sabotaged me. Said that I was the one who hurt him. After that, I was brought to the boys' home where I completed my education in the College beside it. It all happened when I was in middle school with Jimin and Jungkook."
Interrupting the sad story, Jimin patted his friend's back as Jungkook stopped in his tracks behind a wall. Namjoon and Hoseok could be heard arguing about something in the middle of the hallway.
"Namjoon, if you were sick of me, you could've just broken up with me!" Hoseok cried as he began to hit Namjoon's chest. "I thought you loved me..." Hoseok screamed as Namjoon held him in silence, rocking him slowly as his tears soaked his chest. "I'm sorry, I know about your past and I know that you did mean what you did. After all, your father wanted to kill you with that knife. Please forgive me, Hoseokie." Namjoon replied, hugging his boyfriend'.
Taehyung's brain stutters for a moment and his eyes take in more light than Jimin expected, every part of him goes on pause while Taehyung's thoughts catch up. Seokjin placed one hand on his shoulder, "It'll be okay, it will."
All of a sudden, a furious voice roared, "Hey, what are you doing here?!" Taeyong was a few meters away from them with a baseball bat as Hoseok diverted Namjoon's attention by kissing him deeply.
Taeyong screamed as he hurled himself onto Jungkook. Being the muscle bunny, Jungkook ducked easily and kicked him harshly in the d*ck as Johnny, Chen and Ji-eun came rushing up the stairs. "God, that crazy man was insane! He accused us of stealing his cat... Hey!" Johnny taunted before Taehyung tripped him, making his howl in pain. Jungkook took the bat from Taeyong who was still in pain and started swinging at Ji-eun who snorted, "You have to do better than that, boy."
She ran backwards before doing a somersault and kicked Jungkook out of the way. As Taehyung and Jungkook fighted against Ji-eun, Jimin and Seokjin looked at Chen whose muscles were bulging out. "Um... hello." Jimin smiled innocently at Chen before Seokjin slapped him while Jimin took off his belt and started to whip Chen harshly.
"I told you."
WHIP!
"That."
WHIP!
"I could be..."
WHIP!
"Top, MIN YOONGI!"
WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPP!
Chen howled in pain as Jimin looked at him in shock. "Are you okay? I'm sorry-" Jimin started but Seokjin took his belt from him and whipped Chen's face, creating marks and scars on his handsome face. White knuckles from clenching his fist too hard, and gritted teeth from effort to remain silent, Seokjin hunched form exuded an animosity that was like acid - burning, slicing, potent. His face was red with suppressed rage.
Meanwhile, Jungkook kept ducking as Ji-eun kept on kicking at him. Now, Taehyung was getting tired and hungrier. "Oh god, just F*CK OFF!" Taehyung bellowed as he grabbed Ji-eun's wrist and threw her down the stairs. There was silence from everyone before Taehyung said, "What?"
However, Namjoon threw Hoseok aside as he took out a gun from his pocket. "You've caused enough troubles for me, all of you! I thought we could work out Jin, but not anymore!" Namjoon hissed at them. Walking closer and closer with fear in their eyes, Jimin, Jungkook, Seokjin and Taehyung did a group hug as they bid farewell to each other.
"I love you so much, Taehyung... Goodbye." Seokjin pecked Taehyung's cheeks as sadness drained through him rather than skating over his skin. It travelled through every cell to reach the ground. Seokjin filtered it yet strangely enough, he kept what was pure and it was the dirt that left.
As the four men shut their eyes, no trigger was pulled but instead a loud flash blinded them. Followed by shouts and more loud flashes, Soobin and Hueningkai came rushing up, followed by police officers who arrested Namjoon and his henchmen, with a huge sigh of relief. Hueningkai is actually kind of cute. Seokjin thought before a familiar voice interrupted his thoughts.
"You owe me twice, pabo." Yeonjun grunted in Seokjin's ear.
