The Perfect Mistake COMPLETE

# 30 By Your Side

"So, now what?" Kibum questioned. In his mind he could see the nightmare he was so afraid of became real. "Are you gonna turn me in?"

„Why should I?" Jonghyun asked in confusion. "Don't you understand, Kibum? I don't care what your name is. When I confessed, I meant it. I love the person standing in front of me. I love you."

"But you don't know me." There it was again, the part of him that constantly kept away people who loved him. The part that was afraid to be loved. The part that kept whispering he wasn't worth it.

"Do I not? I know you cook when you're sad and bake when you're happy. I know you look out for cars from both sides even when you're crossing a one-way street. I know you like it when I play with your hair. I know you always pay attention when I talk about my boring job, even though you don't have to. I know you said you don't want to have children and yet you'd always smile every time you passed by a baby."

"Do you think that's enough? Because you know how I cross the street means you know me? You don't know my family, my friends... or my past. What makes you believe you wouldn't change your mind?"

"Is that what frightens you? That I would stop loving you once I get to know you?" Jonghyun replied, his lips formed a smile, but his eyes were full of sadness. "If that were true, there would have been plenty times when I would stop being with you?"

"Which times?"

"The time when I know you weren't Lee Taemin, when I found out you're the heir of a syndicate or when you suddenly became Rambo?" Jonghyun shrugged off Kibum's "stupid" question. His words seemed to affect the younger. Kibum wanted to believe this man in front of him. He really did.

"Don't you see it, Kibum? I didn't run away, and I won't go anywhere. So, don't be afraid. Show me every piece of you and I will love every single one."

"You say 'love' like it's nothing."

"I don't use that word inflationary. I said it because I was sure you are my soulmate and I haven't changed my mind. Beside my family I haven't said it anyone other than you."

"You haven't?"

"No, so trust me. I mean it when I said I love you. What about you? Did you mean it when you said you loved me too?"

Without thinking twice Kibum nodded. His head wouldn't stop going up and down as if he was afraid Jonghyun wouldn't believe him. And for some reason, Jonghyun was able to read his mind. The elder gently placed his hand on Kibum's cheeks. Just a slight touch of Jonghyun and Kibum calmed down. Jonghyun's touch warmed his whole body. At that moment, Kibum knew Jonghyun was right. This person was his soulmate too.

"Kibum," the way Jonghyun called his real name, he still couldn't get used to it.

"Your father. The prison director hasn't made it public yet, but your father is badly wounded. It's a long drive. We need to go." Jonghyun reminded Kibum of the reason why they were having this conversation in the first place. After so many days full of anxiety, today could have been the best day since forever, if there weren't his father being stabbed. Sure, he hated his father, but which son would want his father dead?

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As Jonghyun said, the drive was long. Yet, being alone in a car for hours was exactly what the couple needed right now. That way they could talk about everything. Everything, really. When they arrived at the hospital, there were no more secrets between them, and they had promised each other there would never be any secret again. Never in his life had Kibum made a promise that he was as determined to keep as this one.