Stigma Love's Algorithm [ A BTS x Reader Poly ]

Chapter 78: Breathless Confessions

But his hands shake, trembling with barely contained rage.

I lift my head-barely. My vision swims. I can't breathe past the sobs wrecking through me.

But I see his eyes.
Dark. Unreadable. Dangerous.

His entire frame is rigid, his jaw clenched so hard I can hear the grind of his teeth.

His breathing is harsh, sharp exhales through his nose, barely controlled.

But his hands-his hands stay soft. Stay gentle.

Like even in his rage, he only ever wants to be kind to me.

Like even now, when he is on the verge of breaking too, he just wants to hold us together.

And then-
He moves.

He moves.

Suddenly, he's right in front of me, his hands gripping my arms, his body so close I can feel his warmth through the haze of my grief.

"Come here," he murmurs.

His voice-It's wrecked.
Thick. Heavy with emotion.

And then, suddenly-he's pulling us in.

All of us.

Jin collapses into his chest, a choked sob ripping from his throat. I fall into Yoongi's shoulder, my face buried in the fabric of his sweater, my entire frame quaking.

And then-his arms tighten around both of us.

Holding. Keeping.

Jin hyung gasps, his breath shuddering against my skin. A strangled sob tears from his lips.

And then-Yoongi hyung breaks, too.

A breath stutters out of him-shaking, hitching. His body trembles, fingers digging into the back of Jin's sweater like he's holding on for dear life.

And then-so quietly, I almost miss it-
his voice-wrecked, thick, raw-

"I love you."

A sharp, wrecked sound bursts out of me, my entire body seizing with the force of it.

Jin hyung clenches his hands into Yoongi hyung's sweater, his entire body trembling, his breath hitching between guttural sobs.

And then-another weight.

Y/N noona presses in from the side, her fingers digging into the fabric of Jin's sweater, her cries muffled against his shoulder.

"I love you," she whimpers, gasps, over and over and over again.

And then-Tae.

He throws himself onto all of us, wrapping his arms around Yoongi hyung's neck, his frame shaking violently.

"I love you," he cries, pressing his cheek against my shoulder. "I love you, I love you, I love you-"

And suddenly-We are all holding onto each other.

Desperately.
Painfully.

Like if we let go, we'll fall apart.
Like if we let go, we'll lose each other again.

Our sobs fill the space, raw and unfiltered.

Jin gasping for air between his cries.

Tae's sharp, hiccupping sobs against my shoulder.

Noona's breathless whimpers between the words I love you.

Yoongi hyung's shaking exhale as he holds all of us together.