Chapter 30
Taehyung and jiya are sitting on the floor in the kitchen and kneading a big dough in a big steel bowl. Today they plan to make lots of dumplings and store them to the fridge so they can eat later too. Four hands of them are trying to do the work perfectly but taehyung’s hands are mistakenly scratching his sister’s finger while trying to knead the dough.
“Show me how long your nails are. From how many days you did not cut them?” jiya says taking taehyung’s hands off of the bowl. “You stop. If i could finish it 5 minutes ago alone but because of you it takes 10 minutes.”
“Then what should i do?” taehyung asks.
“Grind the meat on the mixer. I’ll cut the vegetables now.” jiya says.
Taehyung washes his hands and takes out a big bowl of meet from the fridge. Just as he washes them and about to put on the grinder, he hears his phone ringing.
“Taehyung your phone is ringing.” jiya says.
“I can hear. But i Won’t receive any call now.” tae says, turning on the mixer.
Even in the loud sound of mixer he still can hear his phone ringing continuously. With an annoyed face he turns off the mixer.
“If someone is calling me unnecessarily, I’ll kill them now.” taehyung says angrily and finds his phone. But instead of receiving he stares at the phone screen.
“Who is it?” jiya asks.
“Jungkook sir.” taehyung says itching his head.
“Is he going to ask for money or what? Appa still couldn’t manage even 1 million.” jiya says worriedly.
“I know. This man is money hungry, greedy and miser.” taehyung says.
“At least you can’t call him a miser. He spends money on you right? Just today he bought you 15 kinds of chips and 10 packets of ramen..” jiya says. Today taehyung has left the office after half time. And jungkook bought him some chips and ramen from the company vendor machine that taehyung wanted.
“That’s what I’m saying. I picked only 15 packets on chips and he bought me exactly 15 packets. He should have at least bought me 20 or at least 16 packets. Doesn’t he know people should offer more than the requested amount? He doesn’t even want to spend 1 extra cent even though he is so rich.” taehyung says.
“Stupid..” jiya says. “Pick up the call. He is calling repeatedly.”
Taehyung clears his throat and receives the call. “Jungkook sir, hi!” he says with a cheerful voice.
“Jungkook sir hiii…” jiya mimics her brother’s voice.
“Where are you? Why are you not picking up the call?” jungkook asks.
“I told you, noona and i are going to make dumplings today. So I’m working.” taehyung says.
“You say you Don’t know much about cooking. Then what are you going to do?” jungkook asks.
“I have seen some YouTube videos and going to try the methods..my noona can cook everything. I have a feeling that she is going to open a foodshop with her poor boyfriend in future, that’s why she is practicing cooking.” taehyung says with a low voice voice and laughs loudly.
“Show me how do you cook.” jungkook says.
“Aren’t you at the company right now?” taehyung asks.
“No i have come back to my house already.”
“Okay, hang up this call. And video call me after a few minutes. I’m grinding meat currently.”
“Okay..”
Taehyung hangs up the call and begins his work again. On the other hand jiya cuts vegetables and mixes them with meat. Both siblings sit together to make dumplings. Jungkook hasn’t called him so taehyung decides to video call him and put the phone in front of him so the camera doesn’t show jiya.
“What are you doing sir?” taehyung asks checking jungkook being so close with the phone screen.
“I was bathing. Are you going to start now? You do…I’m watching. I’ll heat up some foods for myself.” jungkook says.
Jiya shows him how to wrap the dumplings and taehyung tries to follow her.
While heating up his food on the oven, jungkook stares at taehyung. The boy is wearing a dirty white loose tee shirt which looks like unwashed since it was made. He is wearing a pink strip shorts and sitting with crossed legs, giving a good view of his thighs and legs.
Taehyung has a honey skin tone, he is not as fair as jungkook but his skin color is more beautiful looking than milky white skin. Jungkook is sure he can see body hair on taehyung’s legs.
Maybe he doesn’t shave. Not like It’s necessary to shave the hair of legs and hands. Taehyung always wears long pants outside so It’s not a matter.
Jungkook can see taehyung’s collarbone clearly as the tee shirt has a big neck cut. The way his collarbones are prominent, jungkook wonders if taehyung is under weight. That day when he picked up taehyung on the street, he felt taehyung is thin compared to other boys of his age. But the way taehyung eats whole day in the company, he shouldn’t be under weight at all.
But the idol definitely finds those prominent collarbones attractive. They look good on taehyung.
He can also see the body shape of taehyung through the loose thin tee shirt. Taehyung definitely has a small waist. The idol has known it since the day he subconsciously touched taehyung’s waist for the first time.
“Jungkook sir look, this is the first one. Slightly ugly..” taehyung says holding the dumpling in front of camera so jungkook gets a good view.
“Stop putting that much meat in one dumpling. If meat runs out then I’ll feed you all the raw dough.” jiya asks.
“Told you sir, noona is practicing cooking to open a food shop. Maybe this is how she is going to scold the workers of her shop to save money.” taehyung says laughing with closed mouth.
“Sir, see… Second dumpling…” as taehyung is about to show his second dumpling to jungkoook, jiya smacks his head which makes jungkook laugh.
“Put less, put less meat stupid.” jiya says.
“Yahh noona, you are being as miser as jungkook sir.” taehyung whines.
“I’m miser?” jungkook asks with raised brows.
Taehyung nods without looking at his phone screen.
“What Won’t make me miser?” jungkook asks. Everyday he spends money on taehyung’s snacks, all the foods that he eats in the whole day in his workplace and all the possibly things taehyung buys these days. Taehyung starts by saying ‘jungkook sir, since you are not letting me have a boyfriend, who is going to pay for my bags, or shoes and other things?’ and jungkook immediately understands taehyung needs money to buy something.
“Donate 35 millions dollars to poor boy like me and it Won’t make you miser anymore. Then i also can pay your 10 millions this way.” taehyung says, carefully making another dumpling.
“You are already planning to pull a hailey beiber on me. What else do you need?” jungkook says with a chuckle.
“I’m not pulling anything.” taehyung says grumpily, still not understanding from where jungkook got to know about hailey beiber thing.
“Anyway sir, do you want some of these? I can bring for you tomorrow…” taehyung asks.
“You want to give me? Okay the-” jungkook is about to say yes but taehyung cuts him off instantly.
“Sorry sir, i forgot you Don’t eat food from strangers. Also we are poor, you Won’t eat foods from our house. I remember you rejected the japchae i offered you.” taehyung says bowing apologetically.
Jungkook stares at taehyung with a done face. This time jiya again smacks taehyung’s head.
“Let him speak first. Why are you cutting him off?” she says.
“Anyway… I need to do something. I’ll call you later.” jungkook says.
“Okie sir byeeee…” saying taehyung hangs up.
“You embarrassed him taehyung. He was about to say yes.” jiya says.
“Doesn’t matter. He once rejected my japchae.” taehyung says.
“That was two days old. Good that he rejected. You always want to bring trouble to people.
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Next day,
“Jungkook sir hi~” taehyung sings cutely, stepping inside the place where jungkook is working.
The idol is back facing taehyung but smiles a little bit hearing taehyung’s voice. Whenever they meet or talk on the phone, taehyung starts with “jungkook sir haaiii” and it melts the idol’s heart Everytime.
“Aren’t you late today? Your work starts from 9 am.” jungkook says.
“Ohh… Today i walked half of the way because mistakenly i carried a torn up note which no one was accepting..” saying taehyung pulls out a half torn note.
“And guess what i bought for you?” taehyung says giving a boxy smile.
“What?” jungkook asks, even though he can guess, but still he can’t help but smile a little.
Taehyung pulls out a box from his backpack. “Dumplings that i made yesterday.” he says opening the lid of the tiffin box and shows the dumplings to the idol.
“I made them. So they are slightly ugly. But tastes good.” the boy says.
“Okay, keep it aside.” jungkook says. “You wanted dubai chocolate yesterday. Go check my bag’s first pocket.”
“Oh em gee! You got dubai chocolate for me? That heart shaped one?” taehyung asks excitedly and jungkook nods.
The boy leaves from there excitedly to get his chocolate but just after 10 seconds he comes back with a serious face.
“Sir?” taehyung calls.
“Hmm?” jungkook hums without looking up from the keyboard of a computer where he is fixing some tunes or something.
“My appa said he wants to meet you.” taehyung says.
Hearing this jungkook looks up at taehyung. “Why? You did something?”
Taehyung shakes his head. “I don’t know. Today when he was leaving for his office, he told me to tell you that he wanted to meet you.” he says.
“Give me his phone number. I’ll talk with him.” jungkook says.
“But he wants to meet you. As soon as possible.”
“Okay. Give me his number. I’ll call him and ask him why does he want to meet. And maybe we can fix the meeting time too.” jungkook says, handing his phone to taehyung. Taehyung types his number on the phone and leaves.
After taehyung leaves, jungkook dials the number with a nervous state. After that day in the court, he hasn’t talked with taehyung’s parents yet. He is nervous that what he wants to say. What if he asks jungkook to stop being around taehyung?
Jungkook stares at his phone till the call is received. He holds the phone near his ear when he hears a faint voice.
“Hello? Who is it?” the idol hears a middle aged man speaking.
“Hello! I’m jeon jungkook. Taehyung said you want to meet with me.” jungkook says, trying to act normal.
“Yes jungkook ssi, i want to talk with you about the money you demanded.” taehyung’s father speaks.
“Oh.. When do you want to meet?” jungkook asks very awkwardly. He Isn’t sure what to call him.
“Is it possible today?” taehyung’s father asks.
“Yeah… We can meet at any place you want. Or if you want, you can come here too. In the company. We will be able to talk privately here.” jungkook suggests.
“Okay jungkook ssi, I’ll think about it and let taehyung know it.”
“Okay.”
Jungkook puts Down his phone and breaths heavily. Now he Won’t be able to focus on his work anymore.
For taehyung, the day passes lazily. He does the bare minimum work because no one really asks him to do anything unless It’s important. Most of the time he only moves when jungkook asks him to do anything.
Around afternoon, taehyung runs- no, he basically flies to jungkoook like a bird. “Sir, my appa says he is coming here after his office ends. Around 6 pm.” he says standing behind jungkook.
“Okay. Take him directly here.” jungkook says, without looking up from his phone.
“Okay sir.. But listen one thing..” taehyung says.
“What?” jungkook asks.
“Look at me..” taehyung whines. Hearing this jungkook finally looks up to taehyung.
“Don’t call my appa uncle.” the boy says.
“Why?”
“You both are almost same age.”
“Tae, he is 20 years elder than me. How’s that same age?”
“I have a cousin in daegu, he is 22 years elder than me. Call my appa as brother okay?”
“You have gone mad or what? I’m not even your brother. Still You call me brother, now i call your father brother too? Are you stupid?” the idol says, genuinely being so angry right now.
“Choose one. Either I’m your brother or your father is my brother.” jungkook adds.
Taehyung huffs grumpily. He thinks for a second before speaking, “then you call my appa as sir, okie?”
Jungkook raises his eye brows. “Sir? Okay you call me daddy right now. Then i call your father as sir.” he says, slightly smirking, wanting to see how taehyung reacts. He wants to see the shy and blushing face.
But instead of getting shy, taehyung looks at him with a dumb face. “If I’m stupid, then you are stupid pro max. Why would i call you dad? You are not my father.”
Hearing this jungkook’s smirks fall instantly. He hides his face with his palm to hide his owm embarrassment.
“You go from here.” jungkook says facing other side.
“Anyway, call my appa as sir since you feel ashamed to call him brother. And give me some money. I need to buy some fruits to welcome him.” taehyung says.
Jungkook pulls out his money bag from his pocket and throws it to taehyung. “Leave.”
“Waahhh… You are trusting me with your whole wallet? But sir Don’t worry i Don’t steal. I’ll report you the exact amount I’m going to spend.” taehyung says catching the wallet. He gives a salute to jungkoook and runs off.
“He lurks in Pornhub but doesn’t know what daddy mean.” jungkook says cracking his neck.
Hours later taehyung comes back holding at least 7-10 bags on his both hands. Everyone looks at him weirdly as taehyung told him he was going to buy fruits to welcome his father. But now he comes back holding bunches of shopping bags.
“Where are the fruits taehyung??” the manager asks curiously, trying to spot any bag of fruits.
“Inside my Pockets. I have bought two apples, two oranges and some grapes. They have fitted inside my Pant’s pockets easily.” taehyung answers.
“And what are these bags?” manager asks again.
“These… These are somethings i needed for myself.” saying taehyung walks off to find jungkook.
“Jungkook sir, hi! I’m back!” taehyung says grinning, walking inside the room where jungkook is right now.
Hearing taehyung’s voice, jungkook looks at him. “What are these bags?” he asks, already guessing taehyung has emptied half of his wallet.
Without answering anything, taehyung finds something inside his pocket and takes out two Apples, oranges and grapes. Then at last he pulls out some crampled papers and places them in front of jungkook.
“What is this?” jungkook asks with frowns.
“Price memo…” taehyung says not matching his eyes with jungkook. He blows his nails silently.
Jungkook takes the papers in his hands and counts- total 8 price memo. He checks the iteams.
Kookie backpack, a pair of sports shoes, rare beauty lip gloss, miss dior perfume, Johnson baby shampoo, johnson baby soap, baby oil, baby lotion…
“For whom did you buy baby products?” jungkook asks curiously.
“For myself..” taehyung answers. Jungkook already has a guess that taehyung uses baby products. The boy always reeks of baby baby smell
“There are 8 memo. I see nine bags on your hands.” jungkook says. Hearing this taehyung instantly hides a small bag.
“Will you show me or i should use my own way?” jungkook asks.
“That’s nothing. Some private things of mine.” taehyung says backing away.
“Private thing in such a small bag?” jungkook says tilting his head and in a Swift motion he snatches the bag from taehyung’s hand making the boy surprise.
“GIVE ME!” taehyung screams trying to take it. But by now, jungkook has already seen what’s inside the bag.
“Vape? You bought a vape?” jungkook speaks in disbelief finding a pink vape inside the bag.
“That’s not a vape!” taehyung says grumpily, again trying to snatch it.
“Stay away. Stay away.” jungkook says but taehyung does not listen. He still tries to take it.
“TAE I SAID STAY AWAY!” jungkook scolds loudly and this time taehyung stands still a little bit far from jungkook.
“Why did you buy it?” the idol asks with raised brows.
“I want to try how smoking tastes.” taehyung murmurs.
“It tastes like cancer. You are not getting it.” jungkook says strictly.
“No no no… I have always wanted one.” taehyung whines.
“You use baby shampoo for your hair, baby soap for your skin but want to use vape? What a stupid combination. You are not getting it. I’ll give it back to the shop. Your father is about arrive. So cut the fruits you have bought.” jungkook says putting the vape away.
Taehyung angrily stomps his feet on the ground and walks away with those fruits.
Right now jungkook is sitting in an empty room nervously. His hands are cold and heart is beating wildly. Taehyung said his father is waiting outside the comp so he has gone to bring him here.
Soon the room of the door gets open and taehyung peaks a little bit. “Stand up stand up stand up!” taehyung mouths to jungkoook without making any noise. Only his lips move. But still jungkook understands it as taehyung has told him before too that when his father arrives, jungkook must stand up to greet him. But not like the idol would not do it if taehyung hadn’t mentioned it.
Jungkook stands up and the exact moment taehyung pushes the door wide open revealing his father behind him.
“Hello Mr kim!” jungkook greets with a bow.
“Hello jungkook ssi!” taehyung’s father greets back with a bow too. The man has come here from his office directly. It can be understood by his dress up- white shirt and black pant, s black side bag is hanging from his left shoulder.
“Please take a seat.” jungkook says politely.
“Appa seat.” taehyung says, making his father seat forcefully. So jungkook sits too, in front if tae’s father.
“Appa you want cold water?” taehyung asks.
“No.” his father says.
“Then eat fruits. I sprinkled some salt on apples. You like salted fruits that’s why.” taehyung says shoving two grapes inside his mouth.
“Taehyung, you leave.” jungkook says suddenly.
” why?” taehyung asks.
“You are not needed here. Leave.” there is a strictness in jungkook’s voice that taehyung can’t deny it. So he leaves closing the door behind him.
“Yes, Mr kim. Please continue.” jungkook says awkwardly. He can’t understand if It’s appropriate to call taehyung’s father as mr kim.
“Regarding the compensation… You gave us three months. So more Than a month have passed. I’m trying really hard to collect the money. Now i got 3 millions loan from a bank and i want to pay you 3 millions now. I can’t pay all the money at once, so i will have to pay it step by step. I will try my best to arrange the rest of money. But I’ll be really glad if you increase the time.” taehyung’s father says politely.
Jungkook lets out a careful breath. “Mr kim, you Don’t need pay.” he says.
“I Don’t understand, jungkook ssi.”
“I Have withdrawn the compensation case couple of weeks back. So there’s no police case and You Don’t need to pay me anything. Kindly Pay back the money to the bank again.” jungkook says bowing.
Taehyung’s father stays silent for some moments to register the new information. “Are you being serious?” he asks, not believing jungkook.
“I’m being serious. If you want you can check the case again. I have withdrawn it around 2-3 weeks back. You Don’t need to worry about it at all. Pay the money back to the back. You Don’t owe me anything.” jungkook says giving a small smile.
Taehyung’s father looks hesitant. “Umm…. But 2 days ago when i asked taehyung why he is always with you and buying things with your money, he said you threatened him saying until i pay all 10 millions, he needs to be around you whenever you want like a slave.” taehyung’s father says.
Jungkook stares at taehyung’s father with a dumb face. It takes him at least a while minute to understand what mr kim has said.
“When did i threat him? He definitely lied. I have never said anything like this.” jungkook speaks in disbelief.
“You haven’t said anything like this?” mr kim asks for surety.
“I haven’t, mr kim. I’m not that type of a person. Maybe ask taehyung why he lied to you when you go home.” the idol says.
“Oh..okay… Umm… So i Don’t need to pay anything?” mr kim asks Again.
Jungkook laughs slightly. “No, It’s completely fine. You can check the case. It’s withdrawn.” he says.
“Thank you so much jungkook ssi. I’m really grateful.” taehyung’s father says bowing. Then he stands up.
“I may leave now.” mr kim says. “I’m taking taehyung with me too.” he adds.
Jungkook does not say anything, he only bows and calls taehyung loudly. Within a second taehyung appears inside the room. He has been trying to eavesdrop but couldn’t hear anything properly.
“Your father is asking you to leave with him today.” jungkook says.
Taehyung frowns. “But i have some works pending.” he says. He clearly looks reluctant to leave with his father.
“No work is pending. Leave with him. If anything is pending, finish tomorrow.” jungkook says.
Taehyung thinks for some moments. “Okay… Appa you come with me. Wait outside. Jungkook sir is so arrogant that he doesn’t allow anyone around him for long.” he says.
“What are you saying?” jungkook says, being pissed off by taehyung hearing this.
Taehyung drags his father with him and makes him stand outside of the room. Then he runs inside again, to jungkoook.
“Jungkook sir, listen one thing.” taehyung whispers, standing really very close to the idol.
Jungkook does not answer. But stares at taehyung’s face.
“If i leave with my appa, i can’t take the things with me that i have bought today. Appa will question me a lot. So when you go home, will you drop them at my apartment?” the boy says with a low voice.
“What if i Don’t?” jungkook asks.
“A boy who leaves in our apartment has proposed me for marriage. He studies in seoul national University. And i still have 10 proposals pending that i got recently after breakup. And among them I’m considering 5 of them.” taehyung says looking down.
“Are you threatening me?” jungkook asks with raised brows.
“Whatever you think, sir. Will you drop?” taehyung asks.
“I will. But i also want to see how far you can go with all these boyfriend things.
“Okay sir, call me when you are leaving. Pick up my all bags. Okay? Bye sir…” taehyung says waving off to jungkoook.
40 minutes later.
Jungkook’s phone rings loudly showing taehyung’s caller id. He receives the call and puts the phone near his ears, but immediately closes his eyes and put the phone away hearing taehyung’s scream.
“JUNGKOOK SIR, WHAT DID YOU TELL MY APPA ABOUT ME? ABOUT WHAT DID I LIE TO HIM? WHY IS HE SUDDENLY SAYING I LIED TO HIM AND TRYING TO BEAT ME WITH A SLIPPER THAT I HAVE TO LOCK MYSELF IN MY ROOM?”
