Melodies || TK ✓

36.

▶ 10,000 Emerald Pools ~ Børns

Jungkook didn't understand what went wrong.

It has been ten days.

Ten days since he's seen Taehyung.

Ten days since they kissed.

Ten days of unanswered texts, missed calls, unopened doors and ignored letters slid under the door.

He was running out of ideas to make the older talk to him and running out of patience. Tae hadn't rejected him. He had said "take care of me".

Was he having cold feet so soon? What had changed?

Jungkook would come home exhausted from his day and his new job and wait for an hour outside Tae's flat. They didn't even cross paths in the elevator. Halfway through the first week, he was wondering if Tae was even home.

Then his annoyance turned to worry.

On the sixth day, Jungkook called Wooshik and Bright in frustration. They hadn't been able to reach Tae either. Jungkook was livid and heartbroken, to know from Wooshik, that Paris had been finalized.

Did he go to France already then? He left without telling me?!

Kiara's words were running in his mind.

Is this Taehyung's way of telling me that we are done here?

Jungkook turned to go back to his flat, sighing when he saw it was almost 3 am. He had come here from his shift at the club again, hoping Tae was home.

But, today was a no show again. He was wasting his time.

Maybe I should accept that this is the end.

"Kookie?"

Jungkook's head shot up, the familiar rush going through his whole body at that voice. Taehyung left the elevator, trailing his suitcase behind. He was dressed in all black.

"T-Taehyung?"

"What are you doing here? It's so late."

Jungkook snapped.

"What the fuck?! You've been ignoring me for ten days and you have the audacity to ask what I'm doing here?!"

Jungkook couldn't help it.

He was pissed and relieved and just seeing Taehyung so casually show up asking him what he was doing outside his house, made him completely lose it.

"I've been waiting everyday for you like a moron! You could have responded to ONE of my million texts?! I wouldn't have wasted so much time trying to reach you if I had known you weren't even in town! But no, you want to be so hard to get! You don't even fucking communicate!"

Taehyung sighed.

"Kook - "

"No. I don't wanna listen! You walked out on me after we kissed and then just fell off the face of the earth? Tell me I'm supposed to believe that! Did you go to France? Did you not tell me because I begged you to not go? Guess what, that felt worse than you actually telling me you were going! Did you want to guilt trip me and make me feel like I was trying to hold you back?"

"Jungk -"

Jungkook stepped closer, fuming. He was livid right now.

"I called you a thousand times, Taehyung. I felt like I had offended you! Like I did something wrong, said something wrong! There were so many thoughts running in my head! I was so fucking worried! The least you could have done is fucking reply to me?! Nobody could reach you, even Jimin or your friends! What if you were hurt! But no, you were in fucking France, enjoying the weather weren't you!"