Jimin's Messages

Taehyung:
Jimin where are you?

Taehyung:
Are you at the locker room?

Taehyung:
Can't we meet after school?

Taehyung:
Answer me

Taehyung:
Guess not, okay, I'm almost there

Taehyung:
Jeongguk is coming with me, but he'll wait outside just in case you need help

Taehyung:
Ariana is planning to come over to see if she can enroll  in this school too, but that's not the point rn

Taehyung:
I'm going in the locker room

Taehyung:
I'm calling your name out, where are you?

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Jeongguk's Messages

Ariana:
Hey I'm in the school rn

Ariana:
I'll see if I can talk to the principal and give her the reference letters you guys signed

Ariana:
Maybe they'll accept me🥲

Jeongguk:
They will

Jeongguk:
I'll be by the locker room, it's at the same place we went to when we came for Woosung's game

Jeongguk:
If you get lost let me know

Ariana:
I'll know where it is no worries lol

Ariana:
See you soon❤️

Jeongguk:
Okay❤️

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Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo

Taehyung cautiously looks around the locker room, through every divider of the lockers and benches to look for his roommate, but ended up coming empty handed with a frown.

He said he'd be here.

Maybe we got caught up midway by someone?

Something perhaps happened?

Jimin always keeps his word.

A deep frown fixes Taehyung's lips, looking around before looking back down to his phone to text Jimin.

Yet he answered to none of his text messages.

He hasn't even seen them either.

Looking around briefly, sighing in defeat, and Taehyung goes to where the bathrooms are in hopes he's probably behind a stall or something.

But just as he takes a turn to get inside, Taehyung stops.

Just..... Stops.

Seeing a ghost is nothing compared to what Taehyung saw, or even felt, as he spots the silhouette standing in front of the mirror.

The air stopped moving, in Taehyung's body that is.

A harsh strike plummeted his chest, forcing his heart to skip fatal beats that nearly made him feel dizzy - no, it made him absolutely dizzy.

Fingers now cold.

Blood draining from his face.

Not even feeling his stable legs anymore.

Taehyung completely lost any coherent thought and control over his body.

Karma.....

Karma is here...

"Well, you kept me waiting for a while," The husky cursive voice drawling in French was a double stab to Taehyung's chest, forcing him to stumble backwards to crash to the wall, "Thought you'd rush here quicker for your tiny roommate."

The mere mention of Jimin was the rattle to Taehyung's head, realizing slowly the message and the man standing right before his eyes - who's adjusting his hair with eyes indifferently to the mirror.

Jimin..... He met Jimin.

And knowing Karma, he must've threatened him.

Physically.

He physically threatened Jimin.

The thought was an anchor to Taehyung's subconscious dark thoughts.

Jimin....

He hurt Jimin.

Taehyung glares at Karma, teeth gritted, "What did you do to Jimin?"

Karma irks a smile to himself, one more horrific than his usual signature grin, and he slowly looks to his brother.

And that look....

That look.

Is by far the most horrifying thing Taehyung has ever seen.

He scrambled back, just as Karma steps towards him, "I'm hurt, not even a how are you? How are you feeling? How did jail treat you after I betrayed your ass in it?"

Taehyung trembles, grunting when roughly his brother grabs the collar of his shirt and forces him against the wall, piercing his raging eyes into his, "Huh, dear brother? Didn't expect to see me so soon?"

A frantic huff escapes Taehyung's lips, prying Karma's hands off him, "I'm sorry Karma, I was scared -"

"You were scared?" Karma barks a hysterical laugh, the madness circulating his gaze, "Imagine a kid like me forced into juvenile detention center for defending his brother? My record is fucked because of you. You ruined MY FUCKING LIFE!"

Taehyung is suddenly thrown to the floor, followed by a kick stomping him right in the face.

A screech escapes his lips, gripping his face with his nose bleeding, but Karma aggressively grabs his head and shackles his skull on the ground before holding him up.

And not a twinkle of pity glitters Karma's eyes, only an undeniable impulsive rage.

"You wanna know how the first few months were for me?" Karma taunts, Taehyung just barely being able to see his face, "I had little boys attempting to kill me, every second of my fucking day."

Taehyung stares with him with cry baby eyes, the blood still gliding down his nose, yet Karma was smiling as he said this.

Smiling widely.

"They loved fresh blood Theo, they absolutely adore it," He praises, "And you know what I did?"

Karma leans to his face, giggling, "I stabbed their hands with a fork in their sleep, and forced them to obey me alone, that's how I survived," Taehyung's eyes widen, "Isn't that amazing?"

Taehyung gnaws his bottom lip, hiccupping as more tears pierces his eyes gliding down his cheeks, "Karma..... I'm sorry."

Silence.

Just, plain silence.

Taehyung stares into his brother's eyes, hoping to see if he rattled a string of empathy or pity behind their emotionless orbs.

But instead, Karma's eye twitched, "You're sorry?"

Uh oh.

Just like the twitch of his eye, the corner of his lips twitch to a cynical smile, "Oh Taehyung is sorry!"

And he starts laughing hysterically, "He's sorry? He's sorry!" His voice grows manic, angrier and psychotic, "He's sorry! Hahaha SORRY MY FUCKING ASS!"

And before Taehyung expected it, a punch slams against his face. It seemed as though it never stopped from there since it started.

Scatters of pain like sprinkles of dust slams against his skin, forcing himself to curl into a ball while his brother continues to unleash his unforgiving wrath with his fists and foot.

Giving him anything but mercy.

"I fucking hate you," Karma snarls brutally, just as he manages to land a kick to Taehyung's chest, knocking the breath out of him, "FUCK YOU!"

Taehyung has blood now oozing his lips by now from the hits, yet he still attempts to protect his body fiercely despite how brutally painful it felt to even move.

If he didn't do that, he'd likely would die.

And if Karma copied anything from their dear brother Eden, it's to not give a single fuck.

Up until it suddenly stops.

When the locker room door open.

"Get the fuck away from him!"

Taehyung couldn't move, not a single muscle, but the second he heard Jeongguk's familiar voice, followed by rustling, he couldn't help but immediately look up - seeing through his blurred vision Jeongguk attempting to get Karma off Taehyung while Ariana stood paralyzed by the door with eyes in panic to Taehyung.

Yet that wasn't what shiver Taehyung with an undeniable fear in frantic.

"Jeongguk!" He just barely shrieks out, "Don't! He will -"

Karma aggressively throws Jeongguk against the lockers once he got his hands on him, opens one of the doors and slams it back to him full force - repeatedly.

With all his strength, not giving Jeongguk the chance to even move.

And he won't stop.

He will never stop.

And Taehyung couldn't move to stop him, even when he tried to get to his feet.

But he didn't have to.

Out of nowhere, Ariana suddenly jumps on Karma's back and holds his neck in a headlock, stopping his movements just as it made Jeongguk slump down the locker with a bloody nose and eyes closed as he fades in and out of consciousness.

Taehyung now watches in horror as Karma flings around in attempts to get Ariana off him, fighting his body to get up and stop him despite the brutal pain on his spine, but his heart dropped when he slams his back against the wall, slumping Ariana's movements completely.

Yet that wasn't the end.

Karma turns around, fiercely glaring into Ariana's eyes before placing his brutal hand on her neck - holding her in place.

"KARMA!" Taehyung shrieks feverishly, "Let her go! She -"

"You little bitch," Karma drawls each word mercilessly, chuckling to Ariana glaring into his eyes, "This is what happens when you involve yourself where you're not needed, shit fucking happens."

Ariana doesn't say anything to his slow provocative words, being still with her hands to his wrists but the boy only leans to her face with a slithering sneer, "Say the magic work and maybe you'll be free princess."

"Would you really kill me? Hm?"

"I don't know," Karma sighs lazily, his smile widening, "If I just so happen to squeeze harder, just maybe I'll accidentally kill you."

"Good," Ariana says quietly, her eyes now falling to a familiar emptiness that's been her best friend for the past few days, "You'll be doing me a favor."

Karma's smile immediately falls, a twisted yet confused grin spreading his lips with his head tilted to the side to her sudden words. It took him off guard. Yet that moment of distraction was all Ariana needed to kick the back of his knees with the heel of her boot - forcing him out of balance with a grunt to the abrupt pain. Ariana slams her fists to his inner elbows, releasing his hold on her neck but she grabs his wrist and shoulder and slams him to the wall while she got behind him - a knee pressed to his spine to prevent him from moving.

Taehyung watches with lips parted, shocked, watching as his brother struggles to be released from the hold, but Ariana shackles his arm back that forced a yelp to escape his lips.

"One move and I'll pop this shit out of its socket," Ariana growls lowly, looking down at him with her teeth gritted, "You would think after I've been sexually assaulted and watched my ex-boyfriend get stabbed before my eyes that I wouldn't learn how to defend myself? You picked the wrong person to mess with and I've been holding in a lot of rage lately, you little bitch."

Karma screeches as Ariana grabs a fist full of his hair and hammered his skull against the wall, making her chuckle lowly under her breath, "I've gone through a shitty week, let this be your warning."

Angrily Karma only shuffles from the wall, just as Ariana's gaze falls to Taehyung watching her from the ground, completely beaten up, while Jeongguk still remains against the lockers with eyes closed with blood gliding down to his chin by now - fighting to keep his eyes open.

And that pissed her off.

"On second thought, you don't need this arm."

With a brutal move back, a loud pop echoed the locker room, along with Karma's scream.

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A/N:

Since when would I ever write about a female character being a damsel in distress?

This should be quite... Something.

I PURPLE YOU! <33