Reminiscin'
Jimin stood there watching his beloved wife hold his brother's hand as they run away from him. He felt like a criminal. No, She was the criminal, who took his heart and ran away. He's only trying to retrieve it. He didn't mean to hit her. His anger .. just .. exploded. She will hate him. She already does after all those years he could've treated her better but failed to. He wanted to hold her how Jungkook did. See her smile as him as she did to Jungkook. He clutched his fists in a deeper level of anger. He hated being compare to Jungkook.
I went back to the kitchen to help the maids clean up. Suddenly the guards came in. It was Jennie and her maid again. "Master she broke your white porcelain bowls." Jennie looked at me with a glare. "Stealing my husband was not enough for you that you have to destroy the bowls my parents gift me ? With your poor life you won't be able to even afford half of one bowl." I only look down avoid her eyes in respect. Only if she knew that her beloved maid broke them. "Look at me when I talk to you !" I lifted my head and looked at her. "Drag her for a beating, 50 hits." She turned back at me as the guards armed me. "Be thankful I went easy on you." She rolled her eyes and dramatically turned away.
They dragged me to the punishment area and laid me on the plank and spank me with giant wooden spatulas ( 😂😂 what are those called). [Flogging] I can't even have a peaceful day getting beat over and over again. I thought at they spanked me. "Count them." They demanded me.
"1." I held in my cries. "2 ... 3 .. 4 ... " I felt my legs going numb and my lower body started to tang and fuzz to sleep. "... 4.. 47 .." I panted out of breathe as I started to loose consciousness. ".. 4.. 48"
"Keep counting or else it will still be 48 !"
"Stop !" An unfamiliar voice shouted as my eyes drifted off to the different catch a blurry glimpse of the man before it closed tightly.
"On whose command are you beating her ?" The guards bowed. "Sir, it's the punishment of purposely breaking Princess Jennie's white porcelain bowls given from the royals as a wedding gift."
"As the son of the Prime Minister Kim, I order you to stop."
"Sir, she still have 5 more beatings."
"Do you have the guts to beat me instead ?" the tall male challenged them in a dark tone. The two guards looked at each other in disbelief and shook their heads. "We don't dare sir."
"Good. Then we are set." The striking male clapped his hands and ordered the young ladies body to be move. 'From the way she dress she must be a maid from the palace.' He examined her sleeping face full of pain and tiredness. 'She's either way was very beautiful.'
She woke up in a strange room at midnight; finding it empty and unfamiliar with only one candle lighting the room. Possessing the candle in her fragile digits she limped her way out of the dark room. She paused as she got to the front door.
'Do I want to see him after what he did to me ?' I shook my head and walked back to the bed.
"You have the chance to leave why didn't you ?" I turned around shook facing the unfamiliar voice. A man way taller than Jimin stood in front of her. He suddenly smiled. "I'm Kim Seok Jin, son of Prim minister Kim." He held his hand out for me to shake. I only furrowed my eyebrows at him. "Oh.. maybe you're still uncomfortable."
"You should sit first. Your body still needs some rest." He helped me sit on the bed and sat next to me pouring me some medicine. "Drink this. It should help with your wounds." I stared at him unsure of the medicine. "Don't tell me you hate taking medicine ?" I shook my head. "Then drink up. Ahh." He held it against my lips and set it down as soon as I finished it. "Say.. I got something I'm curious about." i looked at him curiously.
"How can a person bare so much pain ?"
He tilted his head and examined me. "See, you've got burns on your body, a wound on your lip, and bruises from beating." I only looked away from him. "It's a maids duty to receive what's given isn't it ?" I questioned him. "That's what people expect." I poured my self another cup of medicine. "Woah lady, careful with the med it's not alcohol." I tugged my arm out of his grip and gulped down the medicine pretending it was alcohol.
"What your name ?" He asked after a few minutes of silence. ".. Yang Thalina."
"Thalina ?" The guy seem to thought to himself. "It sounds familiar."
"Well, you should rest. I won't let you leave tomorrow. From my position I can call you out for a few days. Stay here and heal your wounds first." He walked and then paused, he turned back. "It's a command." With the kind threat he left.
Jimin sat in his bed looking at the door waiting for it to be opened by a specific one. As expected the door to his room did open, Jennie walked into the room. Jimin's brows frowned but his lips curved, curved into a smirk as he noticed she was only in her thinly exposed with night gown with no garments seductively crawling to his lap, grinding on him. "Where you waiting for me ?" She whispered as her lips were only inches away from his.
"Of course." He flatly lied hiding the truth that his heart was disappointed, but he too was a man. He at the end didn't acknowledge reminiscing her, he only wanted her to miss him. Jennie initiated the kiss pushing Jimin onto the bed before hovering over him trapping him between her and slowly his hands traveled up her limbs creasing them as there room heated up.
"Hyung !" Jungkook called out from afar as he saw a familiar silhouette from afar. "Look who it is, Kookie." Seokjin called back from afar stoping in his tracks allowing the two to meet halfway. "What are you doing here Hyung ?"
"I heard Jiminie got married a few days ago. Since I returned late I came by to drop off some gifts, but unfortunately I didn't see him yesterday."
"Oh, Jungkookie.. I met a maid name... hmm. Thalina-"
"Thalina ?" Jungkook's eyes widened as he approached his the older male. "Looks like you know her.."
"Where is she Hyung ?"
"Don't worry she's at my place."
"At your place ?" The older male nodded a bit confused, but a gentle smile came across his face. Just from one looks it's was obvious the younger male was into the maid.
His eyes gently opened as the sun peered through the currents. The lady in his arm snugged closed to his body. He gently smile as he wrapped his arounds around the girl he was finally able to wed; recalling the night of their wedding that they-he enjoyed. He snuggled her closer to him, but as his nose picked up the scent of another his eyes widened. Jennie. In his arms, Jennie laid soundly in a deep sleep. Jimin took a deep breath in to realize that she never came back. He quickly got up dressed in his gowns leaving Jennie alone in the sheets.
"Thalina." I heard a familiar voice call me. "Oppa ?" I turned around from boiling my medicine to see Jungkook running to hug me. My face automatically scrunched as he held my waist. "Ah." I yelped quietly in pain. "What's wrong ?"
"She was flogged." The tall male informed the caring male standing in front of me. I watched as his eyes opened and then saddened; he suddenly pulled me close to his chest. "I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have left you last night." I gently pulled away from his embrace. "How many years are you going to keep blaming yourself because of me ? Never was I once hurt because of you."
"Promise one day we will be out from here, you will be free and we can leave happily out there." He said as he smiled helping me bro sit as he pored the medicine for me. For a moment their his Hyung was invisible standing with his arms crossed and far, far from the scene, at least that's what he wanted until jungkook pulled him to join us.
"I can't stay long. I have to find Jiminie." With the mention of Jimin's name I froze, and the burning cup didn't feel too hot on my fingers anymore. Jungkook looked at me as I avoided his gaze. Seokjin on the other hand didn't seem to notice me stiffen. He got up and left. "Pleaser look after her, I'll be back soon."
Jungkook nodded and looked back at beauty in front of him. How he wished throughout the entire earth she was his. He imagined so many places he would take her and show her a new world. Nearby the empty house they sat outside of it, in his mind he pretended that they were married and she bares his child. Within a few months his offspring will be exposed to the world. Oh how he would love them so much. He gently smiled at the childish thoughts.
I looked at him as he suddenly smiled sipping his drink. "Are you really that happy ?" He looked at me smiling even wider as he held my hand in his palm. "I was just imagining.. us." I gently smiled as my heart fluttered letting go of his hand so he wouldn't see me panic. Oh how he was always able to make me feel alive. "Aren't you going to ask me what I was imagining ?" I shook my head. "It's your imagination Oppa you can see anything you want, dream of anything you want." He suddenly leans in close to my face. "What do you imagine about ?"
"That's hard to say."
"Do you think of me ?" I stared deeply into his eyes lost in the galaxy hidden behind his lobes that drew me in, closer and closer as our nose touched. I quickly came back to my sense pulling away from him. "You, should leave." I said in a commanding tone covering my face making him look at me worriedly. Then his expression changed. "Because your Jimin's wife ?" I heard the anger in his tone. "Tell me, honestly..." He pulled my hand away gently forcing me to look at him. "Have you ever felt anything towards me ?" He looked into my eyes again, closing the gap between our lips. "I feel so much when I'm with you." He whispered against my lips.
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I should be sleeping rn. I have an exam tmr ... but my ass won't sleep. I write better at night so I wanted to finish this chapter first. ENJOY !