✔️The Girl From Busan || OT7

Chapter Twenty-Five

"Can we talk?" She repeats his words

"Yeah... I saw a path not to far away. Just a couple minutes of conversation... please?"

"Okay..." she reluctantly agree as she walked out of the cottage with him close beside her.

They found the path rather quickly; Sera admired the scenery and the sounds of the trees rustling their leafs and birds singing their songs.

She smiled to herself.

"H—how are you?" Taehyung asks breaking her from her daydream

"Good... my children are good so I'm good." She answers

"And we..." he points between them, "We're good?"

"Why wouldn't we be? You've always been my beast... my tiger..." she chuckled, "You of all never wronged me Tae—"

"I feel like I did... I didn't look hard enough... when dad told me to break it off with you so that I could be taught the business to take over his role... I never fought for you. I gave a weak 'yes father' and left Funny," Taehyung says "Now I'm not even a businessman... I'm a photographer." He says softly

"A handsome one!" She eagerly adds and he laughs

"I—I have a question I always wanted to ask."

"Well... you can tell when I lie... soo..." she coaxes him and smiles

"All those years ago... did you even love me? I mean of the seven of us... Was I someone you truly loved? And cared for? You didn't choose me to be your diary, you didn't choose me to tell about your pregnancy... you didn't choose me as your support—"

"Taehyung...When we were younger... do you remember the night the eight of us went to the fair?" She asks as they continue to walk down the path.

Taehyung tucks his hands into his pockets and chuckles, "Which time?"

"The time we went as a couple." She answers, "For the first time."

"Yea... Jungkook and I took you into that haunted attraction and it was so frightening that even Kook got scared."

She smiled as she too thought about it.

"That day I chose both of you as my confidant. That's the day I knew if I ever needed someone that it'd be you or Jungkook." She says

He stops walking and stares at her, "Then...Then why—"

"Taehyung...." She stops and turns to look at him, "Do you also remember a few weeks before our big fight?" She asks

His eyes soften... "My grandma passed." He muttered

She nods and gives a sad smile, "How could I drop the news of pregnancy and things onto you? How could I hurt you more when I knew my time with Ja-Won would be coming? And now with Namjoon's intelligence... I know you were all already hurting at the fact that I wanted our relationship to stay a secret." She states

"Always looking out for others but never looking out for yourself?" He says sadly

"Besides... I also know that you were all leaving too..."

"Your disappearance did change that as well. We had the courage to rebel against the paths our parents chose for us because there was no leverage over us anymore. You were gone." He said

Sera wanted to dwell longer on that but decided against it.

"Look..." she steps closer to the man, "I loved you—"

"Loved?" He asks as he too takes a step closer to her

"I love you, Taehyung... I'm sorry you felt... neglected and unloved but Taehyung... I wouldn't be complete without you... without all of you." She says as she places a hand on his cheek