After that day... the confession day, Taehyung did not know how to react to Grimm. but it turned out that he didn't need to know, because Grimm didn't show up to school the following week. Instead, the halls were filled with his ghost. Whispers bumping into each other, flying around the halls, spreading rumors.  

"Did you hear that there is a kid who is gay!"

"No way?! Where!? And who!??"

"At this school!"

"Grimm!!!"

"Ewww. That's so gross. I hope isn't anyone we know."

"No way tell me who!"

"Its... Grimm Park!"

"No way!"

"Ewww. I'm in the same Biology class as him."

"I'm his lab partner!"

"Ugh! We touched hands when I helped him pick up his pencil. I hope I didn't catch the gay virus."

"I should pray for him."

"I need to take a good long bath and clean out my eyeballs."

"He needs to go to church"

"What a waste. He's so hot."

"You know, he hangs out with Kim Taehyung a lot... do you think that they are... you know..."

"No. There is no way Kim Taehyung is gay."

"Yah, he is way too good to be gay."

"He's too hot to be gay."

"If Kim Taehyung is gay, I don't know what I would do."

But it's not as if those rumours truly affected Taehyung. After what happened between Grimm and himself, he had time to reflect on what happened, and came up with an appropriate response. Well, at least what he hoped was a appropriate response. Something that Grimm would appreciate.

But Taehyung was never able to share with Grimm what his response to what happened between them. Because the next time he saw Grimm, he was in the consoler's office, with his very angry looking mum. He was sporting several very visible bruises, and even a long scratch across his face which looks like it was given by a ring that scratched his face when someone slapped it. Taehyung looks at Grimm's mother's wedding ring that she still wears even though she separated with Grimm's dad a long time ago. He feels disgust, anger, and desperation well up inside of him as he sees Grimm's mother's ring, and how she sits as far away from her son as possible. As if he is infected and she does not want to catch his illness. Grimm raises his head, and his gaze locks onto Taehyung's. Taehyung's gaze is still filled with disgust, anger, and desperation from seeing the state of unfairness Grimm, his best friend was in. And no doubt Grimm thought that that look was meant for him because Grimm quickly breaks the gaze, and returns his gaze back to the floor. That was two weeks before he jumped.

They said that if he hadn't been hit by the car then he wouldn't have died. You know, jumping off the building didn't kill him. After he jumped, and was sprawled on the ground, he must have realized that he needed to do more to end his life, so he crawled his way to the road, where he managed to get up, and fall in the path of an oncoming car. And that is what finished him. Not the jump, although it must have taken a lot for Grimm to step off, and fall, no drop down. But surviving the fall gave Grimm a second chance. To take back his decision to leave. To leave Taehyung all alone. But no. Grimm had made up his mind to leave.

Taehyung often wonders what Grimm must have been thinking before finally jumping. There was no letter, no nothing that was found of Grimm's last goodbyes. "Perhaps," Taehyung thinks, "Perhaps he felt as he had nothing to say to anybody."

Grimm had few friends. Although Taehyung had always been popular, and seemed to thrive off of other's, all that Grimm needed was Taehyung. Even though Grimm knew that Taehyung was the kind of person who shines when is shone upon by many lights, and was the kind of person that was shared, Grimm didn't mind. For Grimm, all that he needed was Taehyung, and even if they were together for five minuets everyday, Grimm could make due with that. Because that is the kind of person Grimm and Taehyung were. 

It felt as if Taehyung was alway the one who did the talking when they were together, and Grimm was always the one who would listen. Although they did have their moments of friendly banter, it was as if Grimm understood everything Taehyung told him. Rarely did Grimm express what he was feeling to Taehyung. No, Grimm had it all hidden under his mask.

And now Taehyung has no one willing to listen to him.

Taehyung continues to look out over the city, looking at the view that Grimm had.

How many people felt the way Grimm did... and how many people actually decided to carry it through?

"Grimm, are you proud of me? I'm now more interested in other humans than I am of aliens?" Taehyung asks, looking up into the sky. "And what I wanted to tell you that day I saw you in the consoler's office was 'cool, can we hang out again after school. You still need to give me those saxophone lessons', and I probably would have given you a peck on the cheek, and then have invited you over for dinner."

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A/n

Hello lovely human beans~

I know that it has been tough for Taehyung recently, and I hope that with this vacation that BTS has that he takes time to rest and recover. 

Thank you so much for reading my book! I know I'm a sucky writer, but anyways...

Remember, you are never in it alone. I'm here for you, BTS is here for you, LOVE YOURSELF!

Canada:

Kid's help phone: 1-800-668-6868

Trans Life Line, All Ages: 1-877-330-6366

LGBT+ Hotline: +1 415-989-7374

USA:

Suicide Hotline: 800-784-2433

Crisis Call Center: 800-273-8255 or text ANSWER to 839863

*Note: I don't really know if these phone numbers are accurate cause I pulled them off the interweb... and I'm Canadian, so idk if the USA phone numbers are correct, but there are hotlines out there that you can talk to if needed. I'm sure it will be easier for you to find your countries hotline if you search for it in your own country with your computer set to local numbers or services near you. *

Peace out.