"Oh Jungkook? What are you doing here?"

The addressee ravenette jumped on his feet, looking to his side and finding his upset boyfriend's father standing right beside him with a confused expression.

"Oh... Hello Hello Sir," Jungkook cleared his throat and bowed to the elder.

"Hello to you too young man," the older chirped giving off a friendly vibe as usual," it's Jin for you, by the way."

Jungkook nodded, flashing a bunny smile.

"And what are you doing here?" Soekjin said, pointing at the pavement right outside his cafe, "don't you want to come inside?"

The younger sighed, rubbing his shoe on the concrete.

"No thanks, I think I'll pass."

The older frowned, looking concerned.

" Why not? Don't you want to see Taehyung? And why am I seeing you after so many days? Are you two fighting or something? " Jin tried to sound as clueless as possible, heart hurting slightly when he took in the sad smile that placed itself on the younger's lips.

"Yes," Jungkook breathed lowering his head," I pissed him off and I'm not sure if he wants to see me. He doesn't reply to my messages or calls either."

"Aww it happens Jungkook don't worry so much! Couples fight all the time!" The blonde replied internally rolling his eyes at himself. He felt like a jerk at the moment.

"Come on," he said after a moment," come inside and help me carry this stuff to the kitchen."

Only then did Jungkook notice, the huge pile of groceries the older had been handling in his arms and some other stuff kept about his feet.

He nodded, and quickly reached out to get the packets from the pavement and they carefully brought the things inside the cafe.

On entering, Jungkook's eyes scanned the expanse looking for his boyfriend but failing to spot the blonde anywhere around.

"Looking for Taehyung?" Soekjin teased him and the younger blushed slightly, wanting to retort with something smart but was interrupted by a series of buzzes echoing from his phone.
He tensed, immediately recognising the changed message tone of the contact. It was the blackmailer.

For the past few weeks, the blackmailer had tormented him to the core. Demanding instant replies or else threatening to expose him to Taehyung, and texting him lewd things. Whoever it was had even managed to send him a hazy picture of the night of the party in which Jungkook was clearly seen grinding against somebody and claimed that he had a picture of them getting cozy in the bathroom as well.

Jungkook was smart. He knew by now that someone was using him to destroy things between him and Taehyung. He even knew that the pictures they sent were unclear and could well have been edited.

Now he just had to find the person who was behind all this and had such a motive. Who could it be who was benefitting from spoiling his and Taehyung's relationship? He had thought of certain exes but didn't think any of those dorks could do such a thing.

"Jungkook?" The ravenette was snapped out of his trance at the older's voice.

"Your phone's ringing," he pointed out at the cellphone in Jungkook's pocket, as if waiting for him to take it out.

"Uh yeah, just a sec," the younger said shifting his bags to one hand and quickly pulling out his phone. He was right, the unknown blackmailer had texted him 5 times within the last minute. It was almost weird how the blackmailer texted him the moment he came into the cafe. It had happened multiple times and made him wonder if the blackmailer was somehow watching him.

"Are you busy?" The older blonde asked again, trying to catch his attention now.

"No.. not really I was just--"

"Oh great! Then please hold these cause I really need to pee right now." Soekjin said dropping the huge load of groceries on the boy's already full arms.

Jungkook stumbled, suddenly having to balance a huge tower of coffee powder cartons on his only two hands.

"Quickly take them to Hosoek, he's right there." Jin said pointing at the kitchen while rushing away to the staff washroom.

The ravenette took a step and the tower wobbled dangerously, scaring him enough to take the step back carefully.

Jungkook huffed and sucked in a breath. He couldn't fuck this up. If he could impress Taehyung's dad, maybe the older could help him talk to his boyfriend? He really just wanted to clear things up now.

So with a resolution in mind, Jungkook began to carefully move the cartons over on both his hands and balance the weights. He realised he was still holding his phone and he couldn't place it back into his pocket with all the stuff, so he left it on a table nearby before warding off to the kitchen.

Big mistake.

Because when he returned he found his phone missing from the place he had put it at.

Then he looked around in alarm and stilled when he found the missing object in Taehyung's hands.

His phone was switched on, screen flashing the conversations he's had with the unknown blackmailer from the past few days. Taehyung had a stony expression on his face as he showed him the screen.

"Looking for something, kook?"

Jungkook gulped, shaking his head vigorously when he heard a muffled chuckle from behind. He looked over Taehyung's shoulder to find his evil cousin Yoongi, standing there snickering to himself.

"Taehyung no... This is a misunderstanding please listen to me--" the ravenette jumped up, rushing to reach the older with an panicked expression.

"A misunderstanding?" Taehyung's cold voice made shivers run down his spine, " a misunderstanding you say?"

"Yes," the younger breathed, heart beating in his ears, "some-someone's trying to blackmail me with those messages i--"

"blackmail you?" Taehyung asked, voice losing some of its coldness, "who blackmailed you and with what?"

Jungkook froze, contemplating if he should tell the other the entire truth. Then he decided he would. That was the only way.

He was going to speak when a concerned Yoongi emerged from his brother's side.

"Blackmail you? Why would someone blackmail you Jungkook? Did you do something wrong?"

" No-- I mean not-not really... Actually I don't know--" Jungkook sputtered, struggling to find the correct words when Taehyung turned the phone back to himself and started reading the messages.

"You were so good that night Jungkook!
I wish you'd remember me.
I wish you had completed what you started.
Please reply soon darling." 

The older read out aloud, gritting his teeth at the words addressed to his boyfriend.

"Well... No part of it looks like blackmail to me." Yoongi pointed out with a shrug. Taehyung didn't say anything but his expression said he didn't know any better.

"It is, though Taehyung, it is! A certain someone I don't even know the name of started to blackmail me about something which apparently happened in a party. I was very drunk and don't remember a lot of what happened then and someone's trying to use my lack of knowledge against me!"

Taehyung shook his head and handed his phone back to him.

"You don't make sense," he said disbelievingly, " What were they blackmailing you with? And why didn't you tell me before?"

" Uh i--"

" Yeah Jungkook tell us, " Yoongi butted in, "Why didn't you tell tae about it before? Are you hiding something?"

Jungkook felt cornered by the elders' scrutinizing gazes and just closed his eyes, blurting out the truth.

"They were blackmailing about a kiss. They said I kissed someone at the party a few weeks back and threatened to tell you about it. I fell into the trap because I don't remember if I ... If I..."

"kissed someone." Taehyung completed slowly. His face was drained of any colour it previously had and his eyes widened, blanking out.

Jungkook closed his eyes and dropped his head, guilt taking over him. He was stupid, so so stupid. How could he let all of this happen to himself? To Them? This was all because he fucking couldn't remember if he was loyal to his boyfriend or not. All because he got around so much before Taehyung came into his life, that he couldn't trust himself.

"Tae--"

"Get out."

Jungkook sniffled, tears filling his beautiful doe eyes but the older didn't budge.

"Get out now kookie. I don't want to see your face ever."

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A little sad part here I'm sorry 😔 but I promise it will get better next.