Chapter 17

The idol is currently enjoying a vacation of couple of days and right now he is in busan, staying with his parents. It has been long since he came to busan last time.
Now he is sitting in the front yard of the house and eating some seasonal fruits while scrolling his phone.

At the moment his phone begins vibrating and a caller id pops up which says “live radio”.

” why is he video calling again?” the idol speaks to Himself and receives the call but keeps his camera off.

“SIIIIRRRRR LOOK WHERE AM I?” taehyung screams as soon as jungkook receives the call. He moves his phone around him to show his surroundings. He is standing on the roof of a half contracted building.

“Why are you calling me?” jungkook asks.

“Sir, either you take back your 10 millions dollars demand or i will jump from this 10 storey building and give my life. I even wrote a suicide note blaming you.” saying taehyung pulls up a small paper from his pocket and reads a loud for the idol to hear. The note says, ‘I’m giving my life because of the greedy, money hungry, idol jeon jungkook who demanded 10 miions dollars from a poor boy like me. Even if i work my whole life still i Won’t be able to earn 10 millions. So It’s better i leave this world for good. I blame the idol jeon jungkook for my death. Please put him in jail and confiscate his whole bank balance and property.”

“Such a boring suicide note if you ask me.” jungkook says. “Should i write one for you?”

Taehyung frowns hearing the idol in a way which almost makes jungkook laugh. But he controls it.

“Sir I’m serious. I’ll jump from here if you Don’t take back your demand.”

“Can you reschedule your suicide plan? Postpone it two days later. When i go back to seoul i want to see live how you jump. Send me the address and postpone it. I’ll be present there two days later.”

Listening this, taehyung widens his eyes in disbelief. “Are you joking about my death?” taehyung speaking, almost hissing like a literal snake.

Jungkook puts away his phone and suddenly lets out a laugh. Then he again composes Himself and holds the phone in front of him. “Why are you behaving like a snake? Did any snake bite you?” he says. Taehyung looked so scary yet funny while doing that.

“Stop joking. I’m going to jump from here abd blame you. Your career will be ruined completely. This is a 10 storey building and if i jump I’ll die.” taehyung says making a very serious face as if he was the president of the United states.

“I can see the small mango tree behind you which is as the same height as the building and i can easily say It’s a single storey building. Quit your drama.” jungkook says sitting on the chair properly.

Taehyung rolls his eyes. “So what It’s a one storey house. I can still jump and blame you.” taehyung says.

“Go ahead and jump. I’m watching. Don’t dare to threaten me with police or law.” jungkook says strictly.

“You are so heartless sir..” taehyung speaks. “Why Don’t you just forgi-AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH SIR SAVE MEEEEEEEEEE!”

Jungkook suddenly hears taehyung screaming and the call gets disconnected. “What the fuck just happened? Did he really jump or what?” saying he dials taehyung’s number but it says switched off.

“With who are you talking?”
Hearing the voice jungkook looks back and sees his mother is coming toward him.

“A staff from the company.” jungkook answers putting away his phone.

“What is he saying?” his mother asks sitting beside him.

“Attempting suicide and blaming me.” jungkook says lazily.

“What are you saying? Why is he going to suicide and call you?” she panics.

“Nothing serious eomma. This boy is a total crackhead. Nothing will happen.” jungkook shrugs.

She frowns. “Tell me who is it? Why is he calling you before suiciding?” he insists.

“That boy is a literal kid but a stupid too. You can’t believe what he did.” jungkook says.

“What Did he do?”

“He made me sign some papers when i didn’t pay attention much. I thought they were some kind of autograph papers or maybe work related paper so i signed them without reading. But later turned out those were different papers.”

“What papers?” she asks.

“Those were marriage contract papers. That stupid made ne sign wedding papers. Now I’m legally married to him out of nowhere. I didn’t even Know i got married until i got a call from the court asking me to pick up the registration papers.”

“What? What are you saying?” his mother nearly screams. “This can’t be true!”

“It’s is true eomma. And the worst is, he did it for a fun bet. Someone asked him to sign anything paper from me without me noticing and they would buy him dinner for a whole month. And he did it.” jungkook explains.

“Oh my god! How can he do this? Is he mentally sick?” she asks in disbelief.

“Almost.”

“Why did not you tell me it before jungkookie?”

“I thought of telling you once i come here.”

“So what did you do with him?”

“Going to divorce of course. But i need to teach him a lesson. So i have demanded 10 millions dollars from his family as compensation.”

“10 millions? Ha ha ha… You are not real. Can they pay it?”

“I Don’t know. Let’s see.”

“Yahh jungkook, how does he look? Show me a photo of him.” his mother says curiously.

“Are you for real eomma? Why would i have a photo of him?”

“You Don’t have? Then tell me how does he look.”

“Why are you asking me this?”

“Tell me jungkookahh, how does he look?”

“Eomma stop asking me this.” saying the idol is about to get up to leave but his mother holds his right wrist and again makes him seat.

“Is he beautiful? Tell me. I’m curious.”

Jungkook sighs slowly. “Yeah. Cute. He is 18. What do you expect? Always brags about how beautiful he is and how many proposals he gets everyday. Also he is obsessed with money. Complains about money whole day. If he gives you 1 cent and you Don’t give him back, even after 10 years he will keep demanding his money. If you hear any loud laugh in the company, that obviously him. He is just weird. What else can i say about the boy who made me sign marriage papers for free foods…”

His mother thinks for sometimes…. “Yahhh… He sounds weird. But at least he is openly obsessed with money and does not hide it. You know on, i really disliked the jieun girl you were dating. Well i always tell you i never liked any of your girlfriends. Only that one drama actress girl whom you Were dating 4 years back, she seemed likable. But you broke up with her too. Now look again you are alone..”

“Eomma, being alone is better than staying in relationships that make me annoyed. I only wanted accompany but all of them always yapp about love love love. I’m always honest. If i Don’t feel something like love toward anyone then why would i lie to them and show fake love. I never treated anyone bad. But they always provoked me and i had to response.”

“It’s weird that you never loved anyone. I just Don’t like how you get involve.”

“Yes that’s why I’m going to stay single until i think to settle down with someone.” jungkook says.

“Are you considering this boy?” she asks.

Jungkook laughs. “What are you saying? He is literally a kid compared to me. Also he has a boyfriend who he calls hubby 24/7. He is so in love with his boyfriend.” he says.

His mother widens his eyes. “He has a boyfriend still he got married with you? Oh god!”

“Told you already… He is complete crackhead.” the idol says.

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It’s the day when jeon jungkook’s vacation ends. And maybe It’s the first ever time too when his mind wonders “where is that live radio?”

But he doesn’t ask out aloud and gets busy with his own works. But still he wonders about that one crackhead boy because most of the day when he comes to office taehyung appears to him almost immediately with any excuse of getting money such as service charge for the most random things. But now it has been couple of hours but neither he has seen taehyung nor heard the loud laugh. Because taehyung is actually the only person who stands out most among all the staff because of his crazy personality.

“Jungkook?” the manager calls.

“Yeah?” the idol answers.

“Do you know where is taehyung? Taehyung is the name of your wife..” manager says and jungkook looks at him with rised brows. “No, i mean you never remember his name so i thought you at least remember that It’s the name of your wife..” manager explains.

“Why are you asking this?” jungkook asks.

“He hasn’t come to the company for 3 days if i count today. I Couldn’t reach his phone too. So i was wondering if you know where he is…”

“I Don’t know… ” the idol answers. But he wonders why taehyung Isn’t present for 3 days now. Last time when he talked with taehyung the boy Suddenly screamed and the call gets disconnected. That time he didn’t think about it much, but now hearing from the manager about his absence, he can’t help but feel slightly worried. Did he actually attempt suicide?

It’s the lunch time and the idol is waiting for his lunch in between a short break from his work. He is sitting in a chair randomly scrolling his Instagram, but suddenly he flinches badly and jumps up when a slamming sound occurs just beside him. He drops his phone on the table and puts his both hand on his chest confusedly. Then he looks back at sees taehyung is standing behind him with a very aggressive face.

Not taehyung actually- half broken taehyung. Left arm is wrapped with bandage and it is hanging with his neck with the help of another piece of bandage. His right leg is wrapped with another bandage till his knees and he is holding a supporting stick. And there’s a soft collar around his neck.

Jungkook checks taehyung top to bottom and Then looks at the table where taehyung has just slammed something which looks like some medical tests and prescription.

“Send me one thousand dollars right now!” taehyung hisses like a snake which makes a idol a little bit scared, so he takes two steps back.

“Did you really jump?” jungkook asks cautiously because right now he fears if he says something wrong taehyung will hiss like a snake again.

“I SLIPPED. And i blame you for this. You called me unnecessarily and while talking to you i slipped and fell. My arm is broken, leg is fractured, my neck hurts like someone gave me a whiplash…uffff” saying taehyung makes a very painful sound.

“First of all, i did not call you. You called me. Secondly, that’s what you wanted. You wanted to die. Then why are you complaining now?” jungkook says.

“I wanted to die because you are robbing us for your greed. But when i slipped, it wasn’t because of my will. It’s because you were talking with me so i slipped. I wanted to die on my own will. But i did not want to slip.” taehyung speaks and jungkook stares at him trying to understand what does the boy want to say actually.

“What is your point? Just speak the bottom line.” jungkook says after couple of minutes when he couldn’t get the logic behind taehyung’s words.

“My father wasted tons of money for my treatment. Now you have to pay me because i were the reason i accidentally slipped and fell on the ground. So compensate me with 1 thousands – oh wait… My phone is broken too, send me 5 thousands as soon as possible. I need to buy a phone. Couldn’t talk with my hubby properly without any phone.” taehyung explains.

Jungkook stares at taehyung for at least 5 minutes. He pushes his tongue Against his inner cheeks and checks taehyung top to bottom. Then he takes the prescriptions and medical tests papers from the table and goes through them.

“Sir, you are an idol, not a doctor.” taehyung says and pulls the chair where jungkook was sitting previously toward him and sits on it.

The idol does something on his phone while checking the papers and after a few minutes he puts down the papers and looks at taehyung with rised brows.

“You treatment costs less than 500 dollars, around 350-400 hundred dollars. But you are demanding 1000 dollars. More than double.” jungkook says.

Taehyung shakes his head in frustration. “I never said my treatment took 1000 dollars. I’m demanding more than double of that cost because i was lying down there for at least 5 minutes without any help. I was screaming in pain but no one was around me that time. Help reached 5 minutes later. So i had to tolerate all the pains and i believe i deserve service charge for the pain i have gone through.” he says.

Jungkook tilts his head slowly. “Do you hear yourself? Service charge for tolerating pain?” jungkook speaks slowly and ends up laughing aloud. He laughs really loudly that couple of staff peaks inside the room to see what has caused the idol to laugh like this.

“Oh em gee! Sir, you can laugh without having any camera in front of you?” taehyung speaks in disbelief. The idol is literally laughing showing his all teeth.

“Sir, what toothpaste do you use? You teeth is so white. Do you mix baking soda with your toothpaste sir? Suggest me the brand sir..” taehyung speaks.

Hearing this jungkook turns around and tries to control his laugh. Few moments later he again turns to taehyung when he has his normal expression on.

“Do you know you are weird?” jungkook says.

“I Don’t know. Give me money sir. Also Won’t be able to work for a days means i Won’t get my salary. I need to survive.”

“You are getting 2000 dollars only.” jungkook says.

“What? No! I need to buy phone too.” taehyung complains.

“And yes, that’s why you are getting 2 thousands. 1 thousands for your medical costs and service charge for tolerating pain. And other 1 thousands are for buying phone. I saw your last phone, it wasn’t expensive. So you can buy a good phone with 1000 thousands.”

“Are you saying I’m poor that’s why my ohone was cheap?” taehyung questions.

“Don’t start baseless argument. I’m sending you money. Go back to your home.” jungkook says.

“I’m not going back to home. I Will still work as best i can. I need my Salary to pay you. My father can’t afford all the money alone.” saying taehyung is about to stand up with the help of his stick but a staff arrives with a tray full of lunch for jeon jungkook. So he again sits down.

“Umm… Sir, i am saying that since I’m sick, i need to eat healthy… And I’m really hungry. Can I?” taehyung asks staring at jungkook with a big puppy eyes.

And yet again jeon jungkook’s heart skips a beat for second time, for kim taehyung.

As he stares at taehyung’s face, specially to the puppy eyes, his heart beat begin’s increasing in rapidly which makes him uneasy. He is not habituated with the wild heartbeat which is for a boy.

“Sir?” taehyung calls again. “Can i eat?” he asks intentionally pouting his lips to make Himself appear as innocent as a new born.

“From when do you ask permission about foods?” jungkook questions and his voice intentionally comes out soft. “Eat.” he says.

He sees taehyung attacking the food like a hungry monster. He still stares at taehyung’s face for a couple of seconds and then walks out of the room. His heart is beating too fast and he needs to come it down somehow, so he just leaves.

He stands in a balcony and looks outside. Only one things is going inside his head, “why am i suddenly feeling like this?”

“Jungkook?” someone calls. Hearing his name jungkook turns and sees the manager.

“Why did you give him all those money? It wasn’t your fault that he slipped and fell. You are giving him more chances to ask money from you.” the manager says.

“It’s just..umm…he…he.. I Don’t know..” the idol says and turns around. He actually doesn’t know what to say or the reason exactly why he did give Money to taehyung like that. He felt like giving the money so he did.