Chapter 7: Painful marks from the past

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      "Can you just shut the hell up and admit you lost?" It's less embarrassing that way, Kim!" the tattooed boy raises his voice while the other one just rolls his eyes.

     "One more time, I had something in my eyes. " Taehyung says as the younger boy just chuckles.

       "Yeah, probably stupidity. " the doll eyed-boy jokes again, then the bandanna-boy shows him, a certain middle finger. 

     After they finished eating and Taehyung paid (to his surprise, Jungkook chose to eat only a sandwich and nothing more), they decided to go to a game room near the campus. And yes, Taehyung knew from the very beginning how competitive Jeon Jungkook can be, he realized this on his own skin. But as soon as they got to the games room, the tattooed boy got out of control. Not only did he want to play every game in the room against Taehyung, but also the very few times when he lost, he started to get angry and ask for revenge again and again. And the fact that Taehyung is extremely competitive as well, has not helped. It's been more than two hours since they have been in the game room, and Taehyung's wallet is crying, but so is his pride. Because yeah, the younger one is really good even at games.

      "Haha, very funny, Jeon. Let's just play one more time! " the older boy says again, and the younger one only yawns later.

       "No matter how much I love beating you up, Kim, we should be back. The campus will be closed in about half an hour. "

       "Yeah, you have right." the older one mumbles, not very satisfied. "But this will change, we certainly be back again here, and I will beat you at all the games. " he comments again and the other one just nods, with a smirk.

       "If you will still have money after tonight. " the younger one says in a mocking tone, and this time, the older one rolls his eyes.

       "Please, I have more money than you could ever imagine. "

      Yes, Kim Taehyung is sometimes proud and likes to brag, but often he does it only in a funny gesture, not superior. And Jungkook managed to figure it out, even though he would always consider him a rich-mommy type boy.

        "And yet, you barely have something in that stupid mind. " Jungkook jokes again, then leaves the game room, and the older boy goes the other way to pay.

       That's not what Jungkook was up to. He had no plans to go with Kim Taehyung out and even have fun. The only reason he agreed to kill his free time with the bandanna boy, was to annoy him even more, but the Taehyung idiot didn't looked very annoyed, but rather, he seems to have had fun too. And that's kind of weird. The two are rivals even if they have only been knowing each other just for a few days, but today they behaved as if actually friendly with one another.

       "Dad, but is his fault. I asked him before I took the drink but he didn't want to give it to me!" a faint voice pulls Jungkook out of his thoughts, then looks at two small children (probably siblings) who appear to be argued by their father.

        The girl does not seem to be more than ten years old, and the boy seems only a little older, with one or two years. Their father looks more than tired, and Jungkook can only smile. Even though he seems tired, the way he holds his children by the hand shows how much he loves them.

       "Yuna, I told you to be obedient. Why did you take your brother's drink if you already had one? " the man asks softly his daughter, while the little girl with the brown hair moves his glance at the floor.

        "His drink looked tastier. " he mumbles and Jungkook can't help but smiles immediately. 

         "Apologize to Yuhan. " the man says, and the girl just nods, then turns her gaze to her brother. 

          "I am sorry, Yuhan, I shouldn't have taken your drink, because I had one too. " she says and her brother smiles.

         "It's okay, you're smaller, you need to grow, more than me. " the boy says and then hugs the little girl, and their father smiles.

      Jungkook tries to remember when was the last time he took his brother in his arms. Or when he went with him and his father somewhere. It certainly was with some time ago.

       "What are you looking at and smiling like a maniac? " he hears then an annoying voice and sees Taehyung on his right side, next to him. "Oh, do you like little aliens? I wouldn't say, you don't look like a big child lover. " he continues jokingly, and the other one becomes serious again, then shrugs.

       "Many people are not really what they seem at first glance. You should stop making an opinion about those around you, without even really knowing them first. " he says in a low voice, then turns his gaze to the exit. "We should go, I really don't want to sleep outside because of you. " he comments after then he heads for the exit, and the other just stares at him.

      His words come to mind again and again, and he doesn't understand why he feels that Jungkook said those words, with some pain in his back. He doesn't understand why the longer-haired boy seems to have said those words, about himself.

       "Many people are not really what they seem at first glance. You should stop making an opinion about those around you, without even really knowing them first. "

       So should he really know Jeon Jungkook first in order to have the right to judge him? Is he another person inside than what he looks like outside? He really has no idea, but one thing is for sure:

       "Jeon, you are a fucking complicated dude."

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     "Pl-please... I am... I am sorry!"

     Taehyung frowns in sleep. He then places a pillow over his face, trying to keep the silence.

        "No... N-No!"

      The scream of his roommate wakes him up, and as soon as he opens his eyes, he tries his best not to throw anything in the head of the idiot who ruined his sleep. But if a few seconds ago he was more than angry, as soon as he notices Jungkook's face, he blinks a little softer.

     The younger boy seems tormented again by what he dreams of. His forehead is sweaty again, and other tears fall on his cheeks. But this time it looks even worse than last time.

      "Jungkook! You're dreaming again! " Taehyung says and then gets out of bed, then approaches his roommate.

      He gets back on his knees like last time, then looks at him more closely. His lips are slightly blue and his cheeks and nose are red from crying. Some hairs  are pressed to the forehead due to perspiration, but still ... he still looks pretty good.

      "Pl-please... he... he is not dead, mom!"

     As soon as he hears this from the tattooed boy's mouth, Taehyung simply freezes. He has no idea what he should do or say, but such a sentence and says with so much pain ... More than likely something is wrong. Those can't just be nightmares.

       "Jungkook, wake up. It's okay now, nobody is dead." he whispers more than to screams as he tries to figure out if he should touch him or not.

      However, this does not seem to have any effect on him. Even more, Jungkook begins to move in his sleep, visibly uncomfortable. Taehyung realizes that this is probably due to the heat.

      "I... Would he feel better without the sweatshirt? " the older one asks himself then straightens his voice.

    Should he help him? Nope.
    Does he will help him? Dap.

    Why? Because the last few days with the idiot Jeon Jungkook made Taehyung feel a little ... relaxed. And maybe he shouldn't have judged him so quickly or placed that bet, but if he still wants to win in front of Jimin, he  first must to gain the trust of the boy with doll eyes.

      So he rolls his eyes and slowly starts to lift the younger one's sweatshirt, with no hidden thoughts, just trying to help him. Because Jungkook looks more than tormented right now, and the other can't ignore that.

    As soon as he takes off the younger one's sweatshirt (and to his surprise, Jungkook doesn't even wake up now) he tries to figure out if what he sees is true, or if he's still too sleepy to see clearly.

      Jeon Jungkook has an enviable body, that's what he has to admit. In addition to the extremely obvious abs he has, his waist is extremely pronounced as well, which makes the other one to gulps slightly in sec. The hairless chest and his niples makes him even more confident in what he already thought: he is not a top, but a strong and bold bottom.

     But what makes Taehyung to remain speechless are small black dots near his torso. All those dots look extremely painful, and have remained like scars. Taehyung can not realizes what the hell happened, but that's probably why Jungkook hesitated to take off his T-shirt or sweatshirt in front of the others. But a thought immediately crushes gis mind: are all these little cuts ... made by him? Did he... did he huet himself?

      "Wha- what the hell?!"
   
     The angry scream of the boy who was crying a few seconds ago, makes the other one to gets out from his meditative state.  Oh damn it, Jungkook looks more than just angry, even though the dim light from the light on the nightstand can not show all the features on his face.

      "You were crying again. You ... you mentioned your mother again. "Taehyung says and the other immediately gets up from the bed, and Taehyung follows his exemple.

     Jungkook desperately looks for the sweatshirt and when he sees it on the floor, he quickly picks it up and puts it over his body again.

      "Why did you take my sweatshirt off? Why the hell did you do that?" the younger boy then asks in a serious, low tone, while the older one looks at him intently.

     Even if he tries, he can't understand the doll eyed-boy at all.

       "You looked uncomfortable and I thought it was because of the sweatshirt." Taehyung then explains and he looks at him just as closely as before. "Jungkook, the marks you have on your stomach ... are ... are they made by you?"

      Stop. What Taehyung said seems to have frozen the other boy. Jungkook shifts his gaze to the floor, confirming the older one's suspicion.  If he learned anything about Jungkook in this short time, it's that the tattooed boy can't lie while he looks you in the eye.

       "Why ... why do you care? Or why you pretend to care?" Jungkook asks at his turn, making the older one to raise his left eyebrow, not being to understand. 

      "Why I care?"
 
      "Yeah, why you pretend to care? You don't give a fuck if I hurt myself, if I decide to withdraw from the team, or even if I die. You hate me, Kim Taehyung, and I hate you as well, don't forget this, okay?"

        The older boy can't understand why Jungkook's words hurt him somewhat. He can't understand if he's surprised that he admitted he hurt himself, or if he talked about death so easily.

      "Don't think you know what's my opinion about you, Jeon. I never said I hated you. Yeah, you are more than just annoying, but the word 'hate' is pretty big, don't you think?"

      Yes, he could have asked him more about those little cuts. He might have found out something more about that, but he'd rather not. He knows Jungkook won't tell him anything, he'll just start screaming. So he prefers to clarify something else: yes, he doesn't consider him a friend, but he doesn't hates him either. Because hatred is as strong as love, and he still doesn't know him well enough to hate him.

     "Then you should start hating me, Kim. It will be easier this way, for both of us."

     That's the last thing Jungkook says before he leaves the room. And even though it's past two in the morning, even though the campus is already closed, Taehyung isn't going to ask him where he's going. Because at the moment, he is way too confused.

      He just found out something important about Jeon Jungkook. And it's not something good.

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