Taehyung went home and placed the gift in his drawer before picking his phone and opening up his Instagram account. He saw a lot of people had shared the same picture he was shown in the mall and the guy did seem awfully similar to Taehyung.

Usually Taehyung would have laughed and talked about it for a long time but now he couldn't. If anything he felt exposed and it only made him want to disappear.

Taehyung checked his dms and saw a lot of his 'friends' had asked him about it. He checked them one by one and closed them when he found nothing interesting.

Fab_forever

Yo isn't this you?

I mean damn! That's hot af

Thedrugyouneed

You never took off ur shirt before

Why the sudden change?

Not that I mind 😉

Princesspeach

Wtf man?

U gonna turn all guys gay

Take it down

Abra_ca_debra

So when r u going to put up one of ur own?

Ur doppelganger didn't hesitate

Thedroppedapple

U hv been challenged ma man

Show em the real thang

Cruelladeville

Do u know this kookcancook person?

He has been commenting the same thing on all of these pictures

Check it out

Taehyung reread the message and wondered if he should have hope or not but decided to ignore it.

/What's the point?/

He checked the other messages too and found same thing over and over. So he just started to scroll down aimlessly but stopped suddenly and scrolled back up. There was a message thread of kookcancook. Taehyung didn't hope for anything when he opened the text.

Kookcancook

Tae, is this u? This ID I mean. Is this urs?

It's me Kookie

Please reply if u r

And I'm sorry if u aren't

I'm just looking for someone

Taehyung shut the application off and threw his phone away before going to bed.

/I'm even imagining things now./

Taehyung stayed up till midnight setting up his table with cake, candles, balloons and his gift before sitting down and waiting for the clock to strike twelve.

"Happy birthday to me~
Happy birthday to me~
Happy birthday to lovely Taehyung
Happy birthday to me~"

Taehyung clapped his hands as he sang and said to himself.

"Now make a wish, Tae."

"I wish.."

All the memories with Jungkook came flooding in his mind as Taehyung sat there and watched the candles burn up like his heart.

"I wish to see him just once more."

And he blew the candles away before clapping again. His phone kept buzzing and he knew they were heartless texts from his 'friends' none of whom was the person he wanted to talk to at the moment.

Taehyung cut the cake and placed one slice for himself and one for Jungkook. He ate a bite from each alternatively as he talked thinking Jungkook was there with him.

"You know, at first I thought you wouldn't be any different from the other people I met before but I was wrong. I was so wrong. You weren't just different you were almost hopeless."

He laughed slightly as he recalled his first conversation with Jungkook.

"You irritated me so much at times but I never realized that I would miss it all one day."

Taehyung cut another slice for Jungkook as he continued.

"That time when I saw you at the hotel after months, that was when I finally accepted to be in love with you. Funny right? I didn't know it myself before that."

He scoffed as a tear hung on the tip of his eye.

"But I didn't do anything back then. I just ran away. I was just too afraid to handle the possible rejection so I ran away like a coward."

Tears came down his face as a hopeless smile stayed on his lips.

"I might have cursed your wife but I didn't do it intentionally. I mean I did want you but I didn't want to do anything about it myself so I guess I wanted luck on my side."

He wiped his face quickly and laughed a little.

"Even you thought I cursed you, didn't you? But I'm sorry that I was actually a little happy to hear about the death of your.. your wife and the kid."

Taehyung felt guilty for saying that but he wanted to let him know anyway.

"Because I thought now I have a chance with you. But why did you leave me?"

Taehyung stared at the empty chair as if he could see Jungkook sitting there.

"Why did you leave me behind without telling me where you were going? Did you not love me anymore? Was I not worthy anymore? I mean I know I'm not a very good person but I really really really loved you. Only you actually. So why did you do that? Where did you go? WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME YOU FUCKING BASTARD? WHERE DID YOU GO? WHERE?"

Taehyung swiped everything on the table and it all fell on the ground with a smash. He picked up the glasses and threw them on the wall in front of him as he growled on top of his lungs. Taehyung's feet started bleeding by getting cuts from the broken pieces of glass on the floor but he seemed to not feel anything.

"WHERE ARE YOU? ANSWER ME!"

Taehyung broke the glasses, plates, frames, vase, TV, lamps, whatever he could get his hands on. He kept smashing and throwing things until there was nothing left. When he ran out of things to break Taehyung growled again before everything started to blur. He shook his head and tried to kick the junk in his feet but lost his balance and slumped down on the floor becoming unconscious due to loss of blood from his feet and hands.

His neighbours called the police thinking of it as a crime scene and soon there were two police cars outside Taehyung's house. They barged in and found Taehyung sprawled in the rumble with blood around him. They quickly called for an ambulance and searched the house in the meanwhile. Taehyung was taken to the hospital immediately while the police investigated the neighbours.

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