Red String of Fate (Taekook AU)

Chapter 58: The Truth Untold

13th of November 2071, Republic of Daegu

(🎶Music tip: The Truth Untold by BTS🎶)

This garden is filled

With blossoming loneliness

I tied myself

To this sand castle filled with thorns

What is your name?

Do you even have a place to go?

Oh could you tell me?

I saw you hiding in this garden

And I know

Your heat is real

Your hand picks the blue flowers

I want to hold it but

This is my destiny

Don't smile on me

Light on me

Because I can't go to you

There's no name to call

A car was moving fast through the road. The landscapes were changing, becoming one mix of colors and smudges in front of Jimin's eyes.

He had his temple pressed to the cold glass. He recognized the shapes, but nothing was going through his mind. As if he wasn't even there... Inside the car his dad was driving.

Yoohyeon was sitting in the front seat, turning to look at Jimin from time to time. She was worried.

He suddenly got so silent... As if he closed himself inside an invisible glass cage, when nothing could reach him.

'Minie...' Baekhyun looked through the rear view mirror. 'Are you okay?'

In all the chaos he didn't know anything that happened on the battlefield. But he knew his son enough to realize something was wrong.

'Yeah...' Jimin whispered, but his fingers squeezed the paper he was holding. 'M'fine.'

Bam, who was sitting next to him, crawled to him more and pressed his nose under Jimin's palm.

Jimin bent and hid his face inside Bam's furr.

'I'm fine...' he repeated.

He was holding the paper with the lyrics, left under his pillow, desperately.

A messege to him...

An unspoken confession... 

The Untold Truth.

The words were jumping under his closed eyelids. He read them so many times, he memorized them.

They couldn't leave his distraught mind...

You know that I can't

Show you me

Give you me

I can't show you my weakness