There, Taehyung walked with such a smile over his face. The boy wore a striped dress shirt tucked into his loose slacks and white Gucci low-top shoes. "Good morning, Jimin! Mr. Yoshida has brought you another gift for the day~ you lust be a lucky guy!" Taehyung's voice didn't sound as if he faked the glee to his tone and his smile didn't come off odd at all! Taehyung was physically hurt and only heaven knew how bad things were deep within. "Mr. Yoshida will also like it if you could go out and have dinner with him tonight. He really wants to take this relationship to the next level or so he says." As Taehyung mentioned that, Jimin felt a chill down his spine just hearing those words alone.

        "No… I'm not going with him." Jimin answered and tried to find a way to reach the deep conversation through this. "I have a boyfriend already."

         "C-Certainly it's not a sin for you to go out with Seung-Woo for once… Right? The man means well Jimin! You h-have to go with him… Your father says-" Taehyung was suddenly interrupted once Jimin shook his head with a serious look plastered over his face.

         "I don't care what my father says anymore. I'm my own person and I don't need my father threatening me to go on dates with that man. Thanks for letting me know." Jimin shot back. Noticing how worried Taehyung grew once Jimin refused. "Taehyung, are you okay?"

        "O-Of course I am! Jimin, let's talk this out… You don't want to go out on a date with Seung-Woo? You should! He's an amazing man! A gentleman and let alone, a caring and respectful one as well!" Taehyung claimed. Practically begging Jimin to go on a date with his boss. "You won't regre-"

          "Taehyung… What happened to your eye?" Jimin suddenly asked and silenced the man. "Talk to me, I'm here for you."

         "Jimin, your modeling photos have been posted onto the website and tonight, the commercial will air after a drama!" Taehyung changed the conversation so quickly and this left Jimin to scoff to himself and shake his head. "Jimin?"

         "Jungkook didn't hurt you before… Didn't he? I had a talk with him and he told me he has never met you before. I don't have evidence but, Jungkook was clueless when he heard your name." Jimin continued. Watching Taehyung nervously find ways to recover from this. "Taehyung… Who's hurting you? It's obviously not Jungkook and don't say Jungkook gave you that black eye… I was with him all day yesterday and all morning." Jimin testified, watching Taehyung grow speechless.

          "I-I…" The boy was quiet even after stuttering. He didn't know what to say or do now and it bothered him that he couldn't say anything else but just stand there in complete silence. "I don't know what you're talking about… n-no one hurts me…" Taehyung promised, but Jimin just couldn't believe him even once. "I did this to myself…" Everything the boy told Jimin, always seemed to sound as if he lied to Jimin once again.

         "So you punched yourself in the eye? Taehyung, I wasn't born yesterday! Please, you don't have to go through this alone… Talk to me…" Jimin begged. Watching Taehyung look away and hover one hand over his swollen eye. "Tell me who's hurting you… is it… Mr. Yoshida?" Jimin asked and that's what made Taehyung begin to sob to himself. "Did he tell you to pin all the pain on Jungkook? To frame him just so I could break up with him?" Jimin asked Taehyung and got up before walking towards the younger just to hold his hands into his. "You can talk to me… I won't tell anyone what he put you through… Let me help you."

        "N-No… no… y-you don't understand!"

        "Is he holding you against your own will? Are you getting blackmailed?" Questioned Jimin, yet, he didn't realize how much this weighed Taehyung down. "I want you to talk to me.."

        "S-STOP IT!" Shouted the man and kept his hands in his hair to cry. The view Jimin had of the broken man made him long to cry as well. Taehyung was in tears with his black eye becoming the main thing Jimin paid attention to when he cried. The boy hugged his knees over the couch and the bottom of his lip quivered helplessly. "I-I don't deserve any h-help… Mr. Yoshida does this to discipline m-me…" Taehyung begged Jimin to drop his assumptions, but Jimin just couldn't! Only now, Jimin began to notice Taehyung's many comments about how lucky Jimin was to receive such perfect things from Mr. Yoshida himself. Taehyung was always envious of the lovely things Jimin was given every single day from his own boss and let alone… His own abuser.

        "Discipline you? He's a sick man, Taehyung! You don't deserve to get beaten up like this! No one does…" Jimin assured the boy as he walked closer and brought the man into a hug. However, Taehyung refused and struggled into the hug. But, Jimin didn't let him go. Knowing well that the boy would run away and go back to his boss like this. "Don't… don't try to leave. Stay here… you'll be safe! That man wouldn't dare to hurt you if you're here with me." Jimin thought he was doing such a good thing and expected Taehyung to stay where he sat, however, Taehyung was sobbing and right as he kept struggling to free himself. He stopped fighting and let out loud gasps from his heavy tears that seemed to fall like rain.

       "Y-You… You don't u-understand! You don't!" Cried Taehyung as his hands gripped onto the cushion underneath him. "Jimin… don't comfort me… I-I don't like this…" Taehyung sounded as if he spoke into warnings as he told Jimin into the hug. This alone made Jimin break the hug and look down at Taehyung over the couch so miserably. "Leave me alone… My life doesn't concern you and you have no place to interfere. This is between my boss and I… Not Jimin!"

        "Taehyung, it does concern me if I know something about it. Please, I won't let you leave unless you talk this out with me. Can't you see that living like this isn't right? That man doesn't love you as an assistant! He treats you like a punching bag… Did he cause the scar too?"

        "I did that to myself." Talking to Taehyung like this was tough. The man refused to talk and blamed himself for everything. Of course, Taehyung now confirmed many thoughts Jimin had on the situation before as to why he behaved this way and it was enough to make Jimin's blood boil towards Mr. Yoshida. "I'm just as bad as him… Don't try to be my friend… I-I'm not supposed to be your friend!"

        "Why not?"

         "Because I don't deserve anything…" Taehyung whispered and looked off to the side. Making Jimin wonder, how bad did Seung-Woo broke this boy down until he felt ugly skin deep? Jimin was able to see the many words written over Taehyung's skin as if they were curses tied to his soul; each writing echoing the words he spoke out like he meant nothing compared to any other human being. The way he cried and struggled with himself every day, made Jimin feel guilty for not knowing sooner. "I'm worthless and that's all you should think of me…"

        "No. I don't think of you like that. You're such a lovely and kind individual… You're Kim Taehyung. Not a worthless ragdoll." Jimin assured the boy and since those words were not many, they seemed to be so much to the younger. Taehyung sat there in silence and wiped his own tears escaping his black eye before he looked up at Jimin before standing up. "Taehyung…?"

         "Leave me alone… Don't talk to me ever again… I don't need you." Taehyung spoke these words out on purpose as he paced back. "Seung-Woo is a nice man… He would never hurt me.. I do this to myself. Please, don't step into my life once again and try to 'h-help' me because.. I-I once… k-killed a man… And I don't want to add you onto the list…" Taehyung declared. Hoping to stab Jimin with it and watch him bleed, but the way Taehyung said those words seemed as if he had no other choice to say them. Almost as if Mr. Yoshida was in the same room as them to hear everything.

         "Taehyung, stay here! I don't want you going back to him!"

        "I SAID I KILLED A MAN! I don't want you to interfere with my life. I don't need you!" Taehyung shouted into tears before rushing out of the room and pushing Jimin's hand back each time he tried to stop him. Jimin was left in tears of guilt and confused. Taehyung cried as soon as Jimin mentioned Mr. Yoshida making it seem as if his boss was abusive towards him, but now… Taehyung talked back and mentioned that he killed a man and his life was a mess because he deserves it. Leaving Jimin to rub the tears from his own eyes and wish he could have made Taehyung stay. Only then, Taehyung seemed to throw in many things just to scare Jimin and that was it. Shouting homicide was enough to make Jimin stand speechless after the boy ran out of his office.

       After work, Jimin never had a break from what happened in the early morning. He remembered Taehyung's tears, his begs, his trembling voice, and his shaking body into the hug Jimin tried to give for comfort. On the other hand, Taehyung cried even more and refused all of it. Taehyung seemed aggressive and emotionally broken in front of Jimin and this of course, was the saddest image he could paint of himself inside Jimin's head. Jimin decided to pay Jungkook a visit for the night and mention the many things that happened today. Jimin couldn't think of believing Taehyung's words of killing a man and found it as a way to escape Jimin and scare him; just so the man wouldn't bother Taehyung anymore.

        The pink-haired man was silent for the next twenty minutes once he finally arrived to Jungkook's house. Parking his car on the driveway and alongside his lover's car. Jimin finally got out of the car and was greeted by the cold breeze of the late evening. Hoping he could talk this out with his lover as they cooked together and tried to lighten up the mood. After the long day, Jimin was stressed about what mean things Mr. Yoshida could be doing to Taehyung as he thought about it! The man walked to the front door and took out his own extra key he would use on the weekends. As soon as Jimin stepped in, the young man was greeted to a few of Jungkook's clothes scattered over the stairs and the lights to his room were left on.

         "That boy…" Jimin thought and picked up his lover's clothes from the stairs and rushed up to Jungkook's room. Hearing Jungkook laugh from within the room. Jimin smiled to himself and tried to turn the knob, but the door was locked. "Jungkook!" Jimin called out and knocked repeatedly until he was greeted by silence after. Unexpectedly, Jungkook pulled the door open, but only showing his body as if he was blocking the rest of the room from Jimin.

       "H-Hey… Swan, I wasn't supposed to be seeing you until the weekends?" Jungkook asked nervously as Jimin rose Jungkook's jeans and shirt in his hands. Handing him the clothes he had in his hands before noticing his lover was just wearing his black underwear.

         "You know I visit you during the weekdays when I want to. What are you hiding?" Jimin asked as Jungkook accepted his clothes and tossed it behind him so carelessly. "Why are you acting so weird, Jungkookie?"

        "Weird? I have no idea wha-"

        "Meow!" Jimin's attention was then distracted as he heard a cat coming from behind his boyfriend. Making Jimin push his boyfriend aside and step in to see a yellow calico kitten over the bed; waiting so patiently. The kitten has wet the bed, the pillow, scratched a T-shirt of Jungkook's and laid over another sweater of Jungkook's. "Oh, Jungkook! You picked out a cat already?" Jimin asked happily as he approached the cat and sat next to it. Avoiding the wet spots on the bed and pet the kitten's head carefully and happily. "He's just a little kitty… I'm in love!" Jimin spoke happily as Jungkook sighed and face palmed. Wanting this to be a surprise to Jimin on the weekend.

        "It was supposed to be a surprise! He wets the bed, my clothes… I had to take off my pants and shirt because of him. I shouldn't have given him so much water." Jungkook complained into a chuckle as Jimin moved in and cupped the kitten into his arms. Caressing the kitten's fur and giggling happily. As Jimin stroked the calico kitten's fur carefully, the thoughts of Taehyung flashed in his mind and that alone made Jimin pull his hand back from the kitten over his arms in hesitation. Even if he had the kitten in his arms, he just couldn't stop thinking about Taehyung and what he went through with Mr. Yoshida.