Sterling

Chapter Thirty-One

"What's taking them so long?" Jungkook asked rather impatiently as he paced in the waiting room of the hospital, "It's been an hour and a half. Shouldn't they be done by now?" He kept eyeing the door they took Taehyung behind, yelling for people to get out of the way, yelling orders and demands, not allowing anyone to go back with them as they performed CPR on the small boy.

"Kook, Tae tried committing suicide for the fourth time in the past three years, he had no pulse, he had pills in his system, and he lost a good few pints, if not a gallon, of blood," Hoseok stated gently as he grabbed the younger's hand and pulled him down so he was sitting in his seat next to the older. He wrapped a reassuring arm around the raven-haired boy and a firm side hug as Jungkook laid his head on his shoulder, his eyes suddenly heavy and dry from all the crying he's done.

"Do you remember the last time we were all here?" Jimin whispered with folded arms and a guilty conscience. Yoongi and Hoseok looked over at the smaller male, nodding their heads sadly as the memories came rushing back to them, "Remember how worried we all were? Remember how they wouldn't let us back to see him until the next day?"

"It was a year and a half ago, Chim," Yoongi whispered back as he wrapped his arms around his boyfriend and pulled him into a warm and tight embrace. Soon, Jimin's body was racking with quiet sobs as tears streamed down his face, guilt eating at him as he remembered the last time they were all here because of Taehyung's pervious suicide attempt.

"But we're back here a year and a half later, because of the same thing," Jimin barely got out through his choked sobs, his hand clutching the fabric of his boyfriend's jacket, wetting the thin material with his salty tears, "I'm so pissed off that he didn't tell us what was going on. He should've told us, he should've came to us and told us everything."

"Why? So you can just tell him his parents weren't part of the problem, too?" Jungkook looked over, lifting his head up from Hoseok's shoulder and glaring at the blond. Jimin pulled away from Yoongi, wiping his tears away as Hoseok sighed along with Jin and Namjoon, "I told you something was wrong, and you didn't even listen to me or trust my gut feeling. I told you-"

"Enough," Jin demanded sternly, looking at the younger with hard features. The raven-haired boy shut his mouth, leaning back and sinking into his chair with cross arms after throwing his hoodie over his head, his eyes glued back to the door, "No one could've known this was going to happen, and no one could've known his parents were abusing him. It's no one's fault, besides his parents, okay?"

Jungkook opened his mouth to say something, but he immediately stopped when he heard the door open, his eyes snapping over to see a woman wearing a doctor's coat, a clipboard in her hands, face mask pulled down to her chin as he eyes scanned over the papers she had, "Kim Seokjin?"

The group froze in their seats before Jin stood up and walked up to the doctor, a welcoming smile on both of their faces. They shared a few words before Jin turned his neck and looked at his group of friends, flicking his head for them to follow, to which they did. They followed the doctor and stopped right outside a closed door, before she reached over and and placed her hand on the handle.

She opened it wide enough to allow the boys to look inside the room, seeing Taehyung laying on a hospital bed, hooked up to a bunch of noisy machines. When Jungkook's eyes landed on him, he immediately broke into tears, feeling the hot, salty liquid run down his cheeks at he clamped down on his bottom lip, "Is he going to be okay?"

"That's what I wanted to talk to you guys about," she stated as they all entered the room, shutting the door behind her as he set her clipboard down on a table off in the corner of the room. She grabbed a folder that contained X-rays of Taehyung, going over and placing them on the light-box, flipping in the light to it before turning off the lights to the hospital room, soon walking back to where there were X-rays of Taehyung's body.