INSANE ✓

08 | the liar and the key

C H A P T E R
E I G H T

taehyung:
❝ i can't— ❞

taehyung:
❝ what if i just kill
myself? ❞

taehyung:
❝ i can't choose to save
one of you ❞

[he wants to sit there all day, and cry, but he has to make a quick decision, because deep down, he knows that he is afraid to die too soon]

 
taehyung:
❝ fuck! ❞

taehyung:
❝ fuck this! ❞

  
[he wipes away the teardrops that are falling down on his cheeks, and snifs the air through his nose before asking his friends a simple question]

 
taehyung:
❝ guys, you know that i
don't have much time,
right? ❞

taehyung:
❝ i am forced to play a
game on my birthday ❞

taehyung:
❝ a deadly game ❞

taehyung:
❝ i don't want to kill
any of you, but i need
to know who has the
key to the next room ❞

taehyung:
❝ i need your help ❞

   
hoseok:
❝ i have the key ❞

  
seokjin:
❝ he's lying ❞

  
hoseok:
❝ no! ❞

hoseok:
❝ you're lying! ❞

hoseok:
❝ i have the key! ❞

hoseok:
❝ you need to believe
me, taehyung! ❞

hoseok:
❝ i don't want to die ❞

  
taehyung:
❝ you don't want to die,
or you have the key? ❞

taehyung:
❝ these two are different,
you know? ❞

  
seokjin:
❝ he is not lying ❞

seokjin:
❝ he has the key ❞

  
hoseok:
❝ of course i do! ❞

hoseok:
❝ i can feel it right in
my back pocket! ❞

  
taehyung:
❝ hoseok... ❞

  
hoseok:
❝ get me out of here! ❞

 
taehyung:
❝ you don't have the
key ❞

  
hoseok:
❝ i told you i do! ❞

taehyung:
❝ you're lying to get
seokjin killed ❞

taehyung:
❝ you're lying to save
yourself ❞

hoseok:
❝ no! ❞

taehyung:
❝ i'm sorry, hoseok, but
i need the key so bad ❞

taehyung:
❝ goodbye ❞

[knowing that how much this is going to hurt his soul, he presses the right button, and chair which has been keeping hoseok standing tall, breaks into pieces]

[watching his friend gasping for air, makes taehyung cover his own eyes in order not to witness how his friend is dying]

seokjin:
❝ what did you do? ❞

seokjin:
❝ what did you do,
taehyung? ❞

[the silence fills the room, and with a short beep, the iron bars go up in order to let taehyung free the one who is still alive]

seokjin:
❝ w-why? ❞

seokjin:
❝ why d-did you save...
m-me? ❞

[taehyung helps seokjin to get rid of the rope around his neck, and removes the scarf which has been covering his eyes this whole time]

taehyung:
❝ i did what was the
best ❞

taehyung:
❝ he was lying ❞

taehyung:
❝ i had no choice ❞

taehyung:
❝ i had to save you ❞

seokjin:
❝ but... i-i don't have
the key ❞

taehyung:
❝ you can't be serious ❞

seokjin:
❝ damn it, taehyung, i
said that i don't have
it! ❞