"I never showed up," Taehyung admitted with a bitter expression on his face. "After my dad was taken, I was at a loss of what to do for a while."
"You could have come to me-" Jisoo said quietly. "You should have."
"I considered doing that," Taehyung said as he glanced at Jisoo once more, hoping to look her in the eyes, but she still wasn't. "After all, you came looking for me back then when you fought with your dad too. On that day, I was in a bad mood because my dad had just beaten me up. Seeing you made me feel better, so I thought... what if I went to look for you this time? Maybe we could overcome this together."
"But you didn't."
"I didn't because I simply couldn't," Taehyung said with a frown. "When Seokjin-ssi called me to meet him, I knew he was going to say things to me, but I thought I could block them off. I thought I was immune to any of his comments, and told myself that I'd never let them get to my head. But I was wrong - at this time, when I was at a lost of what to do, there was only one sentence he said that repeated over and over again in my head - 'how will you make her happy?' And that's when I realised - if I went to you, I'd become nothing but a burden to you, so I needed to go - I needed to run as far as I could from you."
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"And that's why-" Jisoo finally looked up at Taehyung with tears in her eyes. "You dumped me on text, and disappeared into thin air. Is that so?"
"You will never understand how conflicted I was on that day," Taehyung said softly. "How much I longed to run to you. Doing it all over text was the best thing I could do... for the both of us."
"That should have been for us to decide, since it's not just your own sake we're talking about."
"I'm sorry."
The two words that left Taehyung's lips calmed Jisoo down a little, as she pursed her lips and glanced up at him once more. "Where have you been all these years then?"
"I went to Thailand, met a kind family who took me in-" Taehyung explained softly. "That's Lisa, and her family. They paid off my debt and groomed me to become an interior designer at their company. I worked hard for two years, and finally managed to repay them. That's when I decided to come back and look for you."
"You ever came back to look for me?" Jisoo's eyes widened, as she stared at Taehyung in disbelief. "No way."
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