While I Sleep? ? ?

19: Truth Or Dare

Taehyung walks into the kitchen and brings an empty bottle of water. He places in on the table and spins it, waiting for it to come at a hault. The bottle stops at Taehyung.

"Hah!" Taehyung claps.

"Okay, truth or dare?" Jimin asks, a mischievous grin on his face.

"Dare." Answers Taehyung.

"Show me pictures of your girlfriend." Jimin raises an eyebrow, looking at Taehyung with a wicked expression.

Taehyung's eyes widen and the confident smile on his face vanishes. He blankly stares at the wicked-faced Jimin and the innocent-looking Jungkook with his eyes wide open.

"Uhm..." Taehyung fumbles, "–I..I haven't taken any." He says.

Jimin snorts, a satisfied grin on his face. He leans back on the couch, his body positioned in a majestic posture.

"You don't have a girlfriend." He chuckles.

Taehyung is speechless. He is well aware that Jimin knows the truth and he knows that his attempts of convincing Jimin will no longer be of use.

"Can we just continue with the game?" Taehyung insists, pursing his lips into a thin line.

Jimin shrugs, sitting up straight again. Taehyung spins the bottle again, anticipating the moment when it stops on either Jungkook or Jimin.

The bottle stops at Jungkook's direction.

A thoughts appears into Taehyung's mind and his excited expression turns into a solemn and dark one.

Jimin's face depicts unsurety too. He hesitantly keeps glancing at Jungkook and then back at Taehyung, as if he in informed of what situation will take place ahead from now.

"So, uhm, tell me—" Jimin starts, trying to fly in the face of the awkward aura when Taehyung interrupts him.

"Where are you from?" Taehyung's deep, husky voice speaks.

The hell? Thinks Jimin.

"What?" Jungkook timidly asks, a little fear on his naive face.

"Where are you from? Where did you live before coming here?" Taehyung asks, his eyes piercing into Jungkook's soul.

"I've always lived here." Jungkook answers in a bold manner. "I just travelled from one end of the city to the other.

[Just so you know, they all live in Seoul. If I haven't mentioned it earlier, here it is. If I have written about it earlier, then it's alright.]

"You lived with your family?" Taehyung asks again, in such a serious manner that it seems that he is conducting an investigation.

"Yes." Jungkook replies.

Jimin sits in the middle, awkward and uncertain among all this dark and grim staring and talking. He bites the corner of his lip, gulping down a lump of his saliva.

"L-let's continue." Jimin insists, spinning the bottle again, not giving either Taehyung or Jungkook a chance to speak further.

~*~

"What in the world of heck were you thinking?" Jimin snaps at Taehyung, arms crossed over his chest.

"You are keeping me up late at night for this?" Taehyung cocks an eyebrow, boredom written all over his handsome face.

"Tae, be serious!" Jimin says again, "–we decided not to talk about such ‘solemn’ stuff in front of Jungkook." He says.

"Does any of this not feel weird to you?" Taehyung protests. "From the day Jungkook has been living with us we have been witnessing strange things."

He says, "One night we see random fireflies and butterflies. The other night I see a dark figure. Suddenly, from the dark and introvert Jungkook, our fellow roommate turns into a jolly person."

Taehyung further adds on, "He keeps getting panic attacks, he starts hyperventilating the moment the word ‘fire’ is mentioned."

"He takes pills which prevent him from sleeping at nights, he goes sleepless. Why?" Taehyung speaks.

Lastly, Taehyung says, "He talks about his hyung in his sleep. Which ‘hyung’?"

He sighs before finishing, "He has told us about his hobbies, his likes, his dislikes, his favourite things to do. The only thing left is about his hyung. Why does he not tell us anything about that?"

"What problem do you have with the kid, Taehyung?" Jimin snaps at Taehyung.

"You forcefully took him to the movies and made him watch a scene of violence. You keep finding ways to make him talk about things which he finds uncomfortable to talk about. Why are you so mean to him?" Jimin says.

"I am trying to help Jungkook!" Taehyung revolts, "I have a different way of helping him out. I may not be as patient as you are but if my ‘wrong’ methods can help Jungkook live in peace, I will not hesitate to follow my methods." He states.

Taehyung heaves another sigh as he exits Jimin's room, shutting the door behind his back in a harsh manner.

Jimin stares at the ground for sometime, thinking over what Taehyung had just said.

Taehyung's got a point. If Jungkook can be so open with them about everything else, then why not this? 

However, Jimin thinks as if Jungkook still needs time to open up about his hyung. Jimin feels as if that is a traumatic experience that Jungkook had been through.

What is the truth? Thinks Jimin.

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A/n:
Unedited.

I dug a little into Taehyung's mind. Jimin has been an explanatory character so far but Taehyung is a chracter which is a little darker. So I dug into Taehyung's mind.

Why am I writing low quality chapters? This chapter was so bad! I'm so so sorry for this low quality chapter. Also, this book gets better from here (hopefully).

If you have reached till here without actually getting bored, if you have enjoyed or liked this books so far, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

❤️BG