The living room fell into a heavy silence after Jimin left by slamming the door shut.
Now it's just Taehyung standing in their empty apartment with nothing but silence engulfing his whole body. he looks down at the floor with a blank expression. His eyebrows were situated together thickly upward his eyes. The blazer slowly slides down from Taehyung's arm and falls over the polished marble floor as the older slumped his shoulder in exhaustion.
He sighed heavily and then walks away from there and heads towards their bedroom. Taehyung opens the bedroom door and saw everything was neatly placed in its position. He slowly walks towards their bed and stands at the edge of it. He then lowered his body and gets on his knees. Taehyung stared at the pillows for a few seconds before he took the pillow that Jimin sleeps with knowing the other slept here last night.
Taehyung took the pillow and guided it towards his nose. He flutters his eyes shut when he smelled his husbands scent from the pillow after a long time. The pillow was slowly losing Jimin's scent from it. Hell, even the whole room was losing his aroma from there. Now, it's again replaced with his scent that Taehyung craves so much.
But Taehyung snapped his eyes open when he got another smell that is totally different from Jimin's and that's when he realized it was coming from his body. Taehyung placed the pillow over the bed again and smelled the scent out of his body with a frown. Tease Perfume from Victoria Secrets, that's what the second scent smells like with a slight hint of white choc chip cookies and choc chip cookies with condensed Milk.
[A/N: Google says that's how Jungkook smells in real life. IDK though.]
It's not even his scent then what- wait, does that mean? Taehyung raised his both eyebrows in realization when he finally recognized who's smell was coming from his body.
Taehyung squished his eyes shut and fumed with anger and disappointment. Why? Just why did all of this have to happen with him? After being loyal to his husband, he never thought he would fail like this. And to whom? His husband's fucking best friend.
Yeah, Taehyung is aware that all of this happened when he was drunk. He wasn't in the right mindset. But the guilt is still there, the thought that he slept with his husband's best friend is enough for him to feel blameworthy and disappointed in himself. Now, even if Jimin accuses him of cheating on him, he can't defend himself confidently. Because though he didn't technically cheat on Jimin, he DID sleep with someone who is not his husband.
Taehyung stood up from his kneeling position and heads to the washroom. He one by one unbuttoned the buttons of his shirt while walking towards the shower glass. He stands before the glass door and lets the shirt slide off of his shoulder and falls to the ground. He got rid of his pants and boxers too before opening the glass door and stepping inside.
Taehyung turned on the shower and soon the warm water began to pour over his numb body. He placed a hand over the marble walls while looking down with both eyes shut. Taehyung hissed when the water made contact with the long scratches all over his back muscle. He hates to get reminded of where or who did he got those scratches from.
After a few minutes, Taehyung gets out of the shower and heads to the closet to dress up for work. He really isn't in a mood to work but he's a fucking CEO, so he has to drag his broken ass to work.
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The elevator door opened with a 'ding' sound. Taehyung comes out of the elevator and started his way to the office room. The workers and employees bow down to show respect when they saw their boss has arrived.
Taehyung responded to them with a small nod as he walks beside the cubicles. Finally, he reached his office and gets inside.
Taehyung's office room was huge and there was an equally huge glass wall right behind his desk that shows the whole Seoul city. The CEO sighed as he casually walks to his desk. His nicely polished shoes making tapping noises over the black tiles.
He then pulls the leather chair slightly backward and sits on it before turning on his laptop and making a call to his assistant to pay him a visit.
After a few minutes, there was a knock on the door. "Come in," Taehyung responded which allowed his assistant to walk in.
"Good morning, sir," his assistant greeted him.
"Good morning, Min. A coffee please, as usual. Thank you," Taehyung requested all in once as he already started his work on the laptop. His fingers dancing over the keyboard effortlessly.
"Sure. Uh, also your brother is waiting for you for a while now. Should I send him in?" The assistant, also known as Min said with a monotonous tone.
Taehyung stopped whatever he was doing on his laptop and looks up at his assistant. "Brother? Which one?" He asked.
"It's NJ," Min replied.
"Oh. Sure, send him in, and don't forget to bring some coffee for him too," Taehyung gave his permission before going back to work again. Min nodded and bowed his head before turning around and leaving the office.
As soon as his assistant left the room, Taehyung dropped the pen that he was holding and facepalmed hardly. He pinched the skin between his eyebrows and groaned while mumbling something under his breath like, "Why do all the people in the world decided to visit me just today?! After I woke up I didn't even get the opportunity to spend some alone time with me and get a hold of myself. First, I had to deal with Jungkook, then Jimin, and now my brother."
"Don't blame me if I lash out on someone, fuck!" He grumbles to no one as he gets back to work again with a heavy frown visible through his attractive feature.
After a few minutes, there was another knock on the door. "Come in," Taehyung said without looking up, knowing it's his brother.
The door opened and a pair of black polished shoes stepped in. The person closed the door after they stepped inside and made their way towards Taehyung's desk.
"Hello, brother," A deep voice said which caused Taehyung to stop working, and he looks up. He didn't smile, there wasn't any change in his expression. He just blandly stares up at his brother because let's be real, who the fuck shows extra emotions when they see their siblings?
Taehyung pointed to the chair in front of his desk, silently telling his brother to have a seat which his brother accepted gladly.
"How was your one-day trip to America?" Taehyung asked while his eyes were glued to the files. His brother is an equally successful businessman as him.
Taehyung has two elder brothers. One is a businessman just like him, and the other one is a professional psychologist. His both elder brothers are unmarried where Taehyung is the only one who got married at a young age compared to his elder brothers. He got married when he was just 26 where his brothers who are both in their early 30s and are still unmarried.
"Oh, it was stressful. Going America then dealing with new faces and meetings and then coming back right after. All of this happened in the span of two days." His brother explained, his voice already sounds tired and lacing with weariness.
Taehyung sighed and drops the pen from between his slender fingers to the wooden desk as he looks up at his brother.
"Did you take a rest, Namjoon hyung?" He asked in concern.
"Yeah, I took enough rest. Don't worry." Taehyung's brother, now known as Namjoon replied as he flashed his younger brother a smile that caused his eyes to disappear and his cheeks to break into two dimples.
His ash grey hairs pulled backward, showing his godly forehead which was shining with the reflection of the lights.
At the same time, the door of the office room opened again and walked in Yoongi with a servant who was gently whirling forward a tray with two cups of coffee on it. The servant mixed the sugar after she asked Namjoon how much he wants. She didn't ask Taehyung as she already knows how her boss likes his coffee as it's her everyday routine to serve Taehyung his coffee.
"Tell me about you. You're not looking quite well yourself." Namjoon asked after he thanked the servant and picks up his cup of coffee and took a sip from it.
Taehyung sighed, of course, his brother noticed he's not looking well today. He whirls the teaspoon into the pool of brown liquid as he remains silent. Waiting for the servant and his assistant to leave the room. After both of them left the room, Taehyung looks up and flashed a fake smile towards his brother.
"What are you talking about? I'm perfectly fine," He said and took a sip from his coffee too.
"You and I both know that you're a bad liar, little brother." Namjoon deadpans with a slight chuckle as he placed the coffee cup over the saucers and gazed down at Taehyung, "Now tell me what happened. Or let me guess, had a fight with Jimin again?"
Taehyung looks up at Namjoon with a hard gaze. But the hard gaze wasn't for Namjoon, it was just there because he was getting pissed again after what his brother said. "It's almost like a normal thing, right? Having a fight with my husband?" He let out with bitterness. Eyes flaming with anger and annoyance.
"It's almost like an everyday thing," he said through his gritted teeth as his hands balled into a fist.
"Hey, it's not like what you think. I'm sure everything is going to be alright." Namjoon said, trying to console his brother.
"No, nothing is going to be alright. It's been over a year Hyung. Especially, Not after—" Taehyung paused after he realized he almost spilled everything that happened last night. He's not ready yet to share yesterday night events with anyone because he's sure he's going to be the one who'll get misunderstood.
Especially to Jimin. He doesn't want to ruin everything that is already on the verge of getting damaged.
A simple wind can break the entire house of cards that was once built by love and passion.
"After? After what?" Namjoon asked with creased brows after Taehyung paused in mid-sentence.
"Nothing," He replied as he picks up the pen and drown himself in the mountain of files.
Namjoon sighed and shakes his head. He knows his words can't comfort his brother because Taehyung is someone who runs along with logic and reality. He knows the few simple words of wisdom can only give you hope when in reality, things are more complicated and tough.
But at least he tried.
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The day went faster than Taehyung could imagine. The sun was setting, birds were returning home under the beautiful yellow, orange, and red gradient colors of the sky. Taehyung was driving his car currently. His car whirled over the infamous Han River bridge of Seoul city.
Where he is going? Of course, to Jimin.
Throughout the entire day, Taehyung couldn't concentrate on his work because his mind was stuck in the thoughts of Jimin accusing him of cheating. He didn't cheat, none of this happened in his will. So it's not cheating.
His stomach hurts and there's an uneasy feeling bubble inside him at the thought of Jimin thinking he cheated on his husband. But then something clicks to Taehyung's mind that caused him to grow desperate inside to leave his office and question his husband then and there.
What if Jimin thinks Taehyung has been cheating on him for a long time?
That thing caused him to leave his office at an instant and make his way to Jimin's law farm. He needs answers, he needs to know if Jimin thinks Taehyung has cheated on him before too. He needs to know after being so loyal to his husband even though Jimin has treated Taehyung nothing but like dirt, he needs to know his husband's point of view over him.
He just wishes he doesn't stumble into Jungkook.
Taehyung parked his car in front of the law farm and gets off of it. He walks in and straight went to Jimin's office. After Taehyung was in front of his husband's office, he sighed softly before knocking on the door. He heard a faint 'come in' from behind the door which allowed him to twist the doorknob and walk inside.
"Taehyung?" Jimin let out from his desk, a bit surprised.
Taehyung ignored his husband's reaction as he walks inside and closed the door behind. He then pulls back the chair and sits before the desk. Taehyung didn't meet Jimin's gaze, he looks around and licked his lips leaving a thin layer of saliva over his bottom lip that was glazing under the lights.
"Erm, I came here to ask you something," Taehyung asked, his voice thick and deep with nervousness.
Jimin raised an eyebrow before asking, "You could've asked me through the phone."
"I know you don't like me coming here but I want to talk about this face to face and it's not like you ever pick up my phone," Taehyung deadpans as he finally looks at Jimin with a heavy sulk.
"It's because I'm busy—"
"Yeah, yeah, you're always busy and all I do in my office is play monopoly, right?" Taehyung let out in sarcasm as he rolled his eyes.
Jimin sighed and gathered the papers he was working on into a file, "What do you want to ask?"
Taehyung looks at Jimin with a blank stare. He gulped hardly before asking, "How do you see me as your husband?" Taehyung asked, causing the older to get confused. Jimin tilted his head with a raised brow, "What do you mean?"
"I mean to say, do you see me as a loyal husband or not?"
Jimin let out a sigh of exhaustion after hearing that as he secured the file with a string. "Well, what do you think?"
"I'm questioning you," Taehyung replied in annoyance.
"Well, you know where you were last night. Judge yourself by that, my opinion doesn't need here—"
"Of course your opinion fucking matters! You're my husband!" Taehyung slightly shouts out as he scoots up from his chair in excitement.
Jimin sends a deadly glare towards Taehyung before speaking in a low tone, "Don't scream in my office, Taehyung,"
Taehyung let out a disheartened sigh. Every vein of his body was coursing with rage and excitement. His body was growing hot from how worked up he was getting as the second passes.
"Forget about last night. I know very well exactly where I was last night so let it slide. I want to know if you ever doubt me. I want to know what you think about me, loyal or not?" Taehyung asked as he looks at Jimin with pure seriousness flashing through his sharp eyes.
Jimin rolled his eyes and stood up from his chair too. "It's useless to talk about it now, Taehyung," He said as he came out from behind his desk.
"It's not useless, at least not for me. I need answers. Yes or no, Jimin? Have you ever doubt me for cheating behind your back or not?" Taehyung asked again, now in a demanding tone as his eyes followed Jimin's every movement.
The latter made his way outside, Taehyung following him behind. Jimin opens the door and stepped outside but before he could leave, Taehyung yanked him back by his wrist, both standing outside the door. "You didn't answer me."
"You tell me,"
"I asked you!" Taehyung growled out.
"Don't fucking raise your voice on me, Kim Taehyung." Jimin spat back through his gritted teeth as he looks up at his husband with a hard glare, "Leave my hand, you're making a scene,"
"No one is here. Answer my question, yes or no?" He asked again, gazing down at the smaller male with authority.
Jimin let out a frustrated sigh as he closed his eyes shut in annoyance before he finally answered his husband's question, "Yes, happy?"
Taehyung's eyes changed from a glare to shock in a matter of seconds, his grip around Jimin's wrist loosen as he slowly let go of the smaller male's hand. His heart shattering into pieces and there is a sharp wave of pain hitting him like a truck.
So that's what the older thinks of him? That he has always cheated behind Jimin's back? After being so good to him, after trying his absolute best to make their married life healthy again, after crying to bed for his husband's affection but still, he didn't think of touching or getting close to someone else, after loving his husband more than anything in this world, in the end, the result he got is this?
Mistrust and heartbreak.
"So you think I was cheating behind your back the whole time?" Taehyung asked, his voice was heavy with disappointment and his eyes flashing pure regret and pain. Regret that the whole time he expected something from him. At least trust.
"Yes," Jimin repeated without any hesitation.
"You don't even trust me," Taehyung mumbled with a bitter smile as he stares down at the person he loves with nothing but hurt. His heart was aching in his chest that it almost blocked him from breathing properly.
Just when Jimin was about to say something, they heard a door opened and two people walked out. Taehyung looks in the direction along with Jimin and saw it was Jungkook with someone, probably his client. They bid their farewell's and Jungkook finally noticed the two couples.
Taehyung and Jungkook locked eyes and the blonde head was surprised to see the older didn't avert his eyes from him because before the CEO left this morning, he said he doesn't want to see Jungkook again, right?
"Umm, Jimin, you told me to wait for you. We made a plan to have dinner together, right?" Jungkook asked Jimin, "Should I wait outside—"
"No, no, I'm coming," Jimin immediately responded and after giving Taehyung one last glance, he walks away from in front of him. Taehyung kept staring at Jungkook with a blank stare.
The blonde head looks behind his shoulder and caught Taehyung staring at him as he was leaving with Jimin.
Notes:
Poor Taehyung always getting misunderstood