Underwear Thief 》 Taekook/Vkook ✔

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"I meant it. Taehyung, you always have and you always will be the most important person to me. I told you I love you, and even if I fucked up before... I don't want you to think that I don't," Jungkook held onto both of Taehyung's hands. Taehyung shook his head and pulled away rapidly, "Enough! Enough, okay? Quit telling me that shit! Stop telling me you love me because you made me start to feel that you didn't! Jungkook, do you know how many nights I spent crying myself to sleep when you were slowly slipping away from me? Do you know how much I asked myself what was wrong with us? What I was doing wrong? Do you know how much I started to hate myself because I felt like I was suffocating you while we were together? Do you know how I almost went insane trying to look for you when you just disappeared for days? You know how hard it was to explain to people why I was so concerned about you after they told me you were just probably sick? How hard it was that I couldn't tell them I let go of myself for over a week because my boyfriend was practically missing and he wasn't replying to me or picking up my calls? No! Because you left me just like that!"

"Tae—"

"I let you go because I saw how happy you were whenever you weren't with me. You were enjoying your life surrounded by new friends. I couldn't take that away from you. How was I supposed to? All I wanted was for you to be happy. I had to respect that you didn't need me anymore. But, you told me before that it was just me and you. That all we needed was each other. I held onto that, you know," Taehyung wiped off his tears and sniffled, burrying his face into his palms and taking deep breaths before looking up to continue speaking, "the night you called me. I rushed to pick up the phone. I thought, maybe it was you calling and maybe... just maybe, we could work things out. But damn, it hurt like a bitch when I heard you tell me to forget whatever happened between us. To never bring it up or talk about it again. That shit felt worse than being stabbed right in the chest. When you said that, I knew that it was impossible for us to be together again. That's why I agreed immediately, since you didn't want anything to do with me, why should I keep relying on you? If you didn't need me, I definitely didn't need you either," Taehyung scoffs, "Taehyung and Jungkook forever, right? Yeah, my ass. When I ended that call with you, I ended everything that had to do with you. I chose to forget you and move on, but lucky me because surprise, you applied to the same university too."

Jungkook didn't completely know how to react to everything his ex-lover just said. He knew he hurt Taehyung a lot, but he didn't precisely know how much "a lot" was. If he knew that he caused him that much pain, then maybe he should've came up with a better solution to his problem back then— instead of choosing to leave Taehyung.

"I'm sorry."

"I told you to stop apologizing. Now, leave me alone. Goodbye, Jungkook."

Before Taehyung could walk away far, "I left you because it was better than being taken away from you," Jungkook called after him, keeping his head low and looking at the gravel below his converse. He couldn't bear to look Taehyung in the eye now. Taehyung was furious, in fact he was just waiting to get hit by him again at this point.

Taehyung snickered, "Better than being taken away from me? Oh for fuck's sake, Jungkook! You took yourself away from me! What the fuck are you saying?!"