This is the final chapter.

We've officially fucking made it.

Thank you for everything. I appreciate every single moment you took out of your day reading this. If you could take some more moments and check out my new book, "PARASITE", i would also cry.

**bum pat**

you deserve world, each and every one of you so thank you.

with that being said, shall we get into it for the final time?

(of course we should)

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"Romeo, I love you. I love you more than anything and everything." Taehyung said as he rested his head against Jimin's hands fanning over his cheeks, "And I will love you each and every second until we find our way back to one another."

The crowd watched in silence, eyes glimmering in awe. I fake wiped tears as I stood in the background under the warm, yellow lights, watching them sadly as the handmaiden I played.

"I love you more, my darling, Julio," Jimin responded, peppering kisses all over his lover's hands, a faint tear streaming down his face, "Always."

"You must go now before they see you. Run into the daylight and find your way home...home back to me," he released Jimin, pushing him away to the off stage, "Go, Romeo, go."

The scene ended cryptically with a pained look of regret and love between the two star-crossed lovers as their tangled hands finally parted, eyes leaving one another as Jimin ran off stage. Taehyung dropped to his knees and held his heart while the curtain began to drop.

Applauses, whistles, and hoots could be heard as we quickly rushed off stage and sprinted towards our stage managers who helped us strip and prepare for our next scenes.

Luckily, I had none until the very last scene so I watched everybody in the play pull off amazing performances that actually got a tear slipping from my eye.

Taehyung really killed it, it's like he was in his fucking element being a distressed Julio, hopelessly in love with Romeo, aka Jimin who was also nailing all his lines perfectly.

There were many times where our eyes would meet off stage and he looked like he wanted to telll me something but always decided against it. One stage as well— we had this one scene, he talking to the handmaiden, making sure Romeo and Julio's passion was kept a secret and even then, he looked like he was ready to jump out of his bones when our hands brushed and scream.

I shivered and kept my cool, attempting to be professional about the whole situation.

We were finally heading towards the end of the play where Julio played dead and Romeo was there, heartbroken and drunk on grief as he fell to his knees at Julio's side.

Jimin's acting was spot on as I watched the two of them in silence, pretending to cry as well while he poured his heart out to his dead, motionless lover.

The crowd was sad too, I even caught some of them wiping tears away from their faces, murmuring in pure admiration at the endless cries that spewed from Jimin's mouth.

It was beautiful, all of it, and I was proud of how well this play truly turned out to be.

But as I watched on, my heart continuously ached in pain. It felt like everything was a success except the one thing I wanted that failed miserably.

It was unbearable having to avoid the only person I wanted to talk to and kiss at the same time, the person I hated the most but loved insanely all at once.

Jimin kept me up at night and the thought of him kept me stumbling through the day. I didn't know how I made it to school with a smile on my face everyday but I did even though I was dying inside.

I wished things could've been fixed, that it didn't have to be this painful for us to just be us but it all seemed reprehensible to the point of no return.

I sniffled as Jimin pleaded with Taehyung to open his eyes, squeezing his lifeless fingers.

"You said to come home to you," He cried, "I was, sweetheart, I was on my way but you already left."

He dropped his forehead against Tae's.

"But I will follow you whether it be from this life into death," he whispered, "I'll always be beside you. You'll never be alone again, I promise."

His fingers grazed his cheeks.

But just as Jimin's lips were going to brush Taehyung's, he paused, eyes fluttering open.

"Wait," he murmured and I could see Taehyung smirk, hearing his best friend stand to his feet as he faced the crowd.

Everybody in the crowd gasped in shock and confusion, Mr. Chung literally having a panic attack in his seat as he rose.

Jimin faced the crowd awkwardly while everybody whispered beside me. He glanced at me before turning and looking back at the people who held pamphlets in their hands, flipping through the script to understand what was happening.

The lights queued on him.

"Hi guys, I'm sorry to do this in the middle of the play, at the ending, but I have no better time to confess my love than right now."

My eyes turned to slits as I tried to understand what was happening. I think everybody was and from the constant muttering from Mr. Chung that slowly began to turn into quiet huffs, I could tell he was not only pissed that the play he had been working so hard on was officially going down the toilet but wanting to kill all of us.

He slumped into his seat while Jimin stepped forward.

"I haven't been a good person, the person I wanted to be since the beginning of forever," he spotted his parents in the crowd and looked at them, "And my parents they give me everything, they take care of me, my friends too but they don't know me. Nobody does."

It was getting quieter and quieter until it was dead silent.

"But then I met someone who did," Bae stood up, a stupid smile on her face in the crowd as her girlfriends muttered praises but a frown instantly replaced it when Jimin continued, "And I really fucked it up, I mean, sorry, my language—" the crowd chuckled, "I really messed it up with her. I've been messing it up since the day I met her all those years ago."

He looked emotional.

"I keep messing things up, I've always done that and because of that, I used her and I lost her and I can't seem to get her back." His voice cracked.

My heart stopped in my chest while Soy nudged my shoulder, the corners of her mouth lifting.

"I have to try right? Like Romeo and Julio, try to get her back, try to get back to her and she's here tonight. I-I don't want to be a loser anymore and I've already lost her but I can't just keep living my life pretending that my feelings will go away, not when I haven't told her how I truly feel."

The crowd whooped.

"So here goes nothing."

"Tell her! Tell her! Tell her!" They began chanting and Jimin chuckled.

He looked on the verge of having a heart attack as he placed a hand over his heart but so was I and as the crowd died down again, I felt like I was about to fucking explode the moment he turned around and his eyes met mine.

I stopped breathing as he exhaled loudly, a small smile on his face.

"Jimin..." I mouthed, eyes widening when he ignored me completely.

"I love you," he said softly, "I love you and I'm in love with you, Y/n. I love you so much it hurts."

I froze in my tracks, eyes glassing over.

The crowd awed as I placed a hand over my mouth.

"I fucked up— sorry—I messed up so badly but I can't pretend that I'm not in love with you every time I hear your voice, every time you pass by me in the hallway, when I see your car drive away from the parking lot, when you laugh so beautifully that my heart flutters. I can't..." he shook his head, voice becoming gentle, "And I'm so sorry and I love you," he shrugged, "Give me one more chance. One more."

I don't know who was playing with the lights but the second they came into focus on me, my anxiety rose to the fucking roof, not to mention that Park Jimin just confessed his love for me in a room full of three hundred people.

I felt like a Disney fucking princess.

The crowd was screaming now as if we were at some concert while I debated my decision.

I loved him, I know I did, and he did fuck up more times than I could possibly count but my heart hurt just not touching him, not letting him invade my thoughts, not being around him. It hurt to function without him.

Could I live with the decision I was going to make?

Walk away?

Or kiss him senseless?

I'm happy to say I chose the latter.

"You stupid idiot," I mumbled as I walked up to him.

I paused when I saw him smile before grabbing his face and smashing my lips onto his.

And the crowd went wild!

I was proud to say this was better than Romeo and Julio because we actually did get a happy ending.

Mr. Chung bursted into tears, Bae was screaming her head off, the people of our high school, and parents clapped like there was no tomorrow while I just made out with my new boyfriend and felt damn good doing it.

He held my waist and made sure to make me feel loved when his mouth sweetly assaulted my cheeks, forehead, nose, and then my lips again. I blissfully sighed and giggled as my face fell into his neck and he twirled me around.

The rest of the night was a blur.

But as I slipped into bed after having the best sex of my life, I pushed my lips against Jimin's chest as his arms curled around me and asked:

"Can you believe that guy who came up to us earlier?"

He chuckled, "What was his name again...? Hoseok? Jung Hoseok?"

I hummed as his hand clutched my ass.

"Scouting us for acting talent? I can't believe he thought we made this shit up." His fingers were already dipping back into my folds as I groaned against him.

"Well, it's a chance I'm willing to take..his offer for acting school. If he thought we were really acting, we killed that shit."

His head dipped downwards and caught my lips. He lifted himself of the mattress and hovered over me while I snaked my legs around his narrow hips and pulled him closer. He breathed heavily against mouth.

"I have something else I want to kill."

"But it's already dead," I said in between kisses, "I'm surprised if I even have a vagina left standing tomorrow morning."

He grasped my chin, eyes looking genuinely vulnerable.

"I don't want to fuck you again," he said softly, "I wanna make love to you."

I laughed and wrapped my arms around him, tugging him impossibly closer as my thumb glided across his lip slowly.

I was so unbelievably happy.

"Well, in that case...."

Was all I said as we fell into our very first part of forever.

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end of book.

i fucking did it bitches.

i'm so incredibly happy with this ending, i'm not sure if i want an epilogue even though i said i might include one so we'll see.

but thank you for reading and begging me to update because i would have never if you did. i love all of you dearly and i hope you loved this ending as much as i did.

see you on the flip side.

(or in parasite because i'll definitely be there.)