"It was really horrible"

"Yea. Who'd knew that the RM, Kim Namjoon the son of the owner of Citibank in Korea ,died like a fish!"

"But you know. It serves his right"

"At least number 4 is gone"

"Kim Taehyung. Let's go and play"

A boy approaches his desk and Taehyung seems to be uncomfortable around him. Jungkook took a notice and wrapped their fingers around.

"Sorry, he's with me" The boy presses his lips together and a spit like sound. "You know, you're lucky that Kim Namjoon is dead"

Shit

"W-wha..? He is..?" He seems to be in disbelief. "When..?" Before the boy could answer, he pulled Taehyung away.

"K-kookie? Where are we going?" Jungkook wasn't sure himself but definitely far away from guys that'll tell him a full story of it.

They ended up at the back of the school. Nice and breezy with shades from the tree and everything like that. Peace and quiet.

"Kookie.. did you know that RM.. died..?" Jungkook hesitates to answer.

"Y-Yea.. that's why you didn't get a question for skipping school.. school was closed.." hints of remaining memories start to gather. He remembers that Namjoon called him for their friendly business. But he wasn't sure what happened after that.

"I saw RM before.. I passed out.. but Jungkook.. how did you find me?" Jungkook starts to sweat bullets. His zipped lips isn't going to give him advantage now so he told him.

"I was the one who first saw you unconscious with the.. dead senior. But I took you away cause I panicked and didn't told anything to anyone until the police found out themselves"

"Did you tell the police? You should!"

"No.. I don't want to think about it alright Tae? Just thinking about the scene made me-" he fake gags. "Alright?"

Taehyung nods. He didn't want Jungkook to suffer even a little bit or at least that's how you show graduation to someone. Jungkook's teeth smirk behind Taehyung's back when they hug shortly.

"Alright Kookie, I'll protect you!"

He's so cute.

Somewhere after school, Jungkook stood for a private conversation with one of the people that adored him.

"Kim Namjoon is the son of the Citibank's current owner which is under you, Master Jeon of course."

"And what about the ranking thing? He was 4th I believe?"

"In this school, there's a certain powerful meter and in case you didn't know, you're first and Namjoon is the forth. I can arrange the list for you if you want."

"Bring me a list as soon as possible"

"Tomorrow I'll have it done"

Their footsteps trace apart the other way. Now that Jungkook got some pieces of information, it'd be a good time to take Taehyung home.

Taehyung wasn't with him during the navigation but he said something about going to meet his friend for something they promised together.

It took place in the class next door. A group of girls was talking to Taehyung and they gave him sacks of various colorful candies.

"We're friends like Taehyung?" He nods.

"Can you please tell Master Jeon to befriend us?" Taehyung's face crunched a little. He didn't favor the peppermints but he remembers that on the first day when girls approached him, he didn't look quite pleased, in fact he looked so pissed at their presence.

"Ok.. But I won't guarantee anything alright?"

"Oh come on, can't you do that for your friends here? Don't tell me you're gonna ditch us just cause you got a greater friend than us"

"No.. you guys are great but-"

"But what? Do you see yourself more superior now? Just cause you're close to him and we aren't? You're looking down on us now?!" Taehyung shook his head repeatedly in pressure. It wasn't that, he just felt too pressured by this group of friends.

"We'll give you more candies tomorrow alright Taehyung?" The girls bumped their shoulders with him as they walked out of their classroom.

After that, he meets up with Jungkook at the front gate where they drove home together and like this morning, they earned stares.

On their way home, Taehyung spoke up first to fill out sounds other than the sound of the car's machine.

"So J-Jungkook.." the other hums. "Where were you?"

"Toilet, But it took longer than expected because it was crowded" he lied.

The car stopped when Jungkook finished parking his car. He opens the door to Taehyung's and escorts him to the penthouse. Is Taehyung really gonna stay with him from now on? Apparently his parents said that it's a big ok for him to get super close to Jungkook.

"I don't particularly like to take care of things. They tend to take my time" Jungkook's bluntness added some sort of pressure around Taehyung's shoulder. "But because it's you, I don't mind giving my time away." Taehyung breathes out heavily, he feels somewhat happy that he's not pushing him down but unfortunately, he was too innocent to take Jungkook's word into a blush.

"Do they really have to call you Master Jeon? It feels kind of weird to be calling you that." Jungkook nods.

"It was intentionally only my assistants and underlings to call me that but I guess after I got recognized everyone starts to copy that."

"Ah it's alright if I just call Jungkook right?" Jungkook ruffles his hair and smiles. "Of course, you can be special and call me Kookie too" Jungkook lowkey likes the nickname he got earlier

Jungkook sat in his office-like-wheel-attached chair while observing his laptop. The finances and high low numbers kept bugging his mind.

Taehyung wasn't able to bring himself to tell Jungkook about the girls' request. He seems kind of., frustrated. Something about Yoongi and lazy and everything shoved at him was repeatedly echoed even when he tried to watch the TV.

"If Yoongi wasn't so lazy this would've been done last week!"

Yea that's the word.

"You ok?" Taehyung peeks in.

"Come here Tae" Taehyung obediently waffles towards him, asking him if there was any problem he could help with.

"I need refreshments.." He was in the mood to hug something cuddly like Taehyung, But he didn't want to scare him so he didn't say much about it.

"Oh I have some candies" Taehyung shuffles his backpack and pulls out some colorful looking candies. Harmful candies in Taehyung's hand but not to Jungkook.

"You bought this for me?"

"Well.. my female friends gave me some so you'll get close to them so these candies are actually for you!"

It didn't even take 2 goddamn seconds for him to know that this is certainly not candy or anything safe to be consumed.

"Tae.. do they always give you candies?" Taehyung shook his head. "Sometimes it's flour and sometime it's some foggy water"

Jungkook grew worried. "Did you ever.. take them? As in use them" Taehyung shook his head. "I never knew how to use them and I usually give candies to my mommy and daddy"

Jungkook was right. Taehyung is pure, pure as the first fell snow in the winter. Should he tell them those were drugs or should he forever keep the innocent to himself?

"Don't take anything from them okay? They're bad for your brain" Taehyung didn't process that very well and nods intensely.

"Now, tell me who gave you those candies" Now was no time to sit and deal with company problems, his Taehyung climbed up to the first priority and he needs to solve it.