JIMIN'S POV

Ignoring Taehyung’s voice, I ran as fast as I could, trying to look for Minnie everywhere.

She was just about managing to be happy again, she was just about laughing and smiling with all her heart, why did Taehyung have to break it again?

Why does he always do this to her?

If he loved her, he would worship the ground she walked on and would never let her be upset. 

If it was up to me, I’d give her all of my happiness and would survive with just seeing her smile.

I was so pissed off; I hope she wasn’t crying because seeing her tears would break my already destroyed heart.

Actually, it was partially my fault; I should never have let her come back with me to look for my phone. Then at least we wouldn’t have walked around the building to check on Taehyung to see how his detention was going.

I went back to check in the sports hall, everywhere outside and on the grounds, no sign of her.

Running back in the building, I raced to the fifth floor and checked our special room but still no sign of Minnie.

After catching my breath, a light bulb went off in my mind as I instantly knew where she would be.

I sprinted up the flights of stairs and hurled open the roof door; it was quite a windy evening.

I checked my watch and it was now 6 pm, I should get her home quick before her family start to worry.

Slowly walking around the roof, I finally saw her sitting on the edge, looking down below and leaning on the safety fence.

I took a deep breath and walked slowly towards her.

“Minnie?”

I slowly sat down next to her and put my arm around her shoulder, she was shaking and I didn’t turn to look at her face, scared that I might see her cry.

But she immediately turned to me and rested her head on me.

Oh god, she was absolutely devastated yet I selfishly hoped she’d never remove her head off my shoulder.

Her touch gave me power and happiness that I couldn’t explain.

We both remained in this position sitting silently together, looking down at the empty school grounds before she sniffed and lifted her head.

“Jimin, this is all my fault. If I never allowed Jackson in my room, Taehyung would never have gone on a break with me and he’d never feel the need to...feel the need to...” she trailed off and put her face in her hands.

I closed my eyes and bit my lip, hearing her speak like this made me want to kill someone but I knew I’d have to be supportive and comforting for Minnie’s sake.

“No. Minnie, don’t you dare try to blame yourself. You did not do anything, arasso? None of this is your fault whatsoever,” I firmly held her by the shoulders, trying to make her understand.

She looked down before looking back up at me, her beautiful hazel eyes b with sparkling tears.

“Am I not good enough for him?”

I stared back at her; my heart was exploding hearing these words, if she only knew how perfect she really was.

“Don’t talk nonsense; you are perfect and any guy would kill to have someone like you by their side. Taehyung is just too blind to see this. You are too good for him, that’s why he messes up.”

“Oh Jiminie, why was I such a fool to e-ever consider a r-relationship w-with T-T-Taehyung?” She was trying to speak, but her voice trembled as her tears began rolling down her flawless face.

To stop myself from crying, I pulled her in gently and hugged her as tight as I could. 

She hugged me too, gripping my back with her hand as she was bawling her eyes out on my shoulder.

“Shhh, it’s okay. I’m always here for you. I promised to protect you and keep you happy all those years ago until now and I will do so as long as I'm breathing, just stop crying please,” I pleaded, my voice quivering.

“Wae! W-why was I foolish enough to give him e-everything? He has my h-heart and my s-soul, Jimin, I’m nothing without him!” She gripped my back tighter and she was shaking.

I tried to soothe her as best as I could, rubbing her back and telling her it was going to be okay.

I knew it wouldn’t be okay, I know her better than she knows herself. 

She would never be able to get over Taehyung, even if she tried.

I ran my shaking fingers through the love of my life’s silky, brown waves and drew circles on her scalp, hoping she’d calm down.

God help me, I’ve never stopped loving Minnie.

Everything she does, everything about her makes my heart do somersaults.

But I knew my brain would have to control this crazy heart.

Minnie desperately loves Taehyung and her love is very true and the most pure I’ve ever seen.

She hasn’t got eyes for anyone else and she has such difficulty expressing how she feels to anyone. It would take her forever to get over what her eyes witnessed.

But I also knew Taehyung very well and there must have been more to what we saw.

He’s a bastard for letting Sooyoung get anywhere near him, regardless of the situation. 

He can’t take it if Jasmine is inches near another boy and yet he can allow Sooyoung to kiss him and expect her to be okay with it?

Aish, but I know he hates Sooyoung’s guts, what the hell actually happened?

Minnie was now silent and still in my arms and as I lifted her head to check if she was alright, I couldn’t help but chuckle.

She had fallen asleep.

I tapped her cheeks lightly to make sure she was actually sleeping, and her head rolled back into my arms as her smooth lips partially opened.

My index finger was shaking as I slowly touched her lips, writing my name on them.

Park Jimin and Song Jasmine.

I knew they could never be mine in reality, but at least whilst she was dreaming I too could share a dream.

I gazed at her face, she was absolutely beautiful.

Her angelic eyes were closed and her cheeks were a rosy pink from the heat. Her already plump lips had swollen from crying and her bangs were messy over her forehead.

“What are you doing to me?” I quietly asked a sleeping Minnie as I straightened her bangs and brushed them off her forehead.

“I wish you could hear my thoughts, I wish you knew that in this world full of lies and in my nervous heart, the one person I believe in is you. Ya pabo, you’re the love of my life,” I sighed and chuckled at my twisted destiny.

Just then, her phone which was halfway out of her blazer pocket started to ring.

I quickly picked it up, not wanting to wake her up and it was Taehyung.

“Minnie, please tell me where you are! Everything you saw, I swear on my life it isn’t what you think!” 

“Taehyunga it’s me, Jimin,” I replied plainly.

There was some silence before he continued to speak, “Jiminie! Where are you guys?”

“It doesn’t matter, we are okay. Tell me what really happened then,” I replied firmly.

Taehyung sighed and his voice broke before he took another breath and told me everything that happened.

“Taehyunga, why did you let her get so close to you in the first place? You should’ve pushed her off and left the room when you had the chance!” I shouted at him in disbelief.

“I know, that’s the one thing I regret so bad right now. Is Minnie okay? What is she doing right now, Jimin I don’t know what to do,” Taehyung quietly said.

I could tell he was holding back his tears and I needed to stop being so selfish. 

They loved each other and I should be the driving factor in making sure they stick together.

“She cried so much that she fell asleep. Taehyunga I know you love Minnie, but you need to drastically improve your attitude towards her. All those years ago I was there for her, today I am here for her and in the future I will always be by her side. I cannot sit here and let you hurt her anymore; I can’t bear to see Minnie cry, especially not over you. Only make things better if you know you can sustain a relationship, arasso?”

I heard Taehyung breathing heavily down the phone for a couple of minutes and he started sniffing, “Jimin, help me.”

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath in, knowing I'd regret this later, "What do you want me to do?"

I changed my tone as I  knew he was deeply upset.

“Keep her smiling until I make things better, I know you always make her happy. Please get me some time, I promise I’ll make it better,” Taehyung sobbed.

“That’s what I’ve been doing, she was so happy until what she saw. Don’t say anything to her tomorrow and just give her some alone time. I’ll do my best,” 

I sighed and cut the phone before looking down at my Princess.

I slowly shook her as her eyes started rolling and her brows furrowed.

“Minnie, wake up. I need to take you back home,” I gently said, her soft cheeks.

She slowly started to wake up and her beautiful hazel eyes landed their gaze on my face. 

I smiled and jumped up, giving her my hand which she took as I lifted her up.

“What happened?” She asked dozily.

I didn’t say anything as I bent my knees, “Your cart awaits you Princess Jasmine. Jump on Aladdin’s back and he’ll take you home!”

I tried to lighten up the atmosphere and she didn’t say anything but jumped on my back which I took as a sign that she was reciprocating my goodwill.

“All aboard? Choo choo!” I made train noises as I picked up her bag and gave it to her.

“I thought Aladdin had a magic carpet, why are you a train?” She asked as I laughed.

“Haha great observation skills princess! But this is the 21st century now, trains are the new carpets!” 

I gathered all my energy and ran as fast as I could down the flights of stairs, out of the front doors all the way until we left the gates and right the way down the massive hill.

“Hahaha oh my gosh Jiminie that was so fun!” Minnie squealed and although I was sweaty and breathless, I felt rejuvenated that she was now laughing when some time ago, tears were falling from her eyes.

I dropped her down and caught my breath as I walked her to the train station.

“Jimin, tell me what I should do,” Minnie asked me all of a sudden as she stared into my eyes with great determination.

I brushed my hair back, “What does your heart tell you?”

She sighed impatiently, “I don’t want to listen to my heart, I want proper advice from you. Am I better off without him?”

I gulped and put my hands on her shoulders, “Minnie, sometimes even eyes can be deceiving. Taehyung saw Jackson with his own eyes, yet there was a background story. I’m pretty certain there’s a background story to what we saw today as well.”

She didn’t say anything, just stared at me for a long time before nodding her head.

“I’ve told Halmeouni you’re coming to visit tomorrow, please make sure you do.”

“What? Why did you do that?” I asked in shock.

“Because everyone misses you so much and you haven’t visited them once since I left,” she answered.

I noticed there was a change in her tone, she sounded much more distant and impartial ever since she woke up.

“I guess I’ll have to then. What time is your train coming?” I changed the subject.

“In a couple of minutes, take care Jimin and get home safe,” she answered and she gave me a long hug that I returned, my heart jumping with joy at her warm embrace.

I watched her get onto the platform and hop on the train.

As it zoomed off into the distance, I desperately prayed that she wouldn’t shed any more tears for Taehyung. 

Someone as beautiful as Minnie should never be allowed to cry unless it’s out of happiness.

One day, I'll give her all the worlds happiness. 

When I become someone famous that has the world in their hands, I'll knock on Minnie's door and give it all to her.

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JASMINE’S POV

“Minnie, wait up!”

I turned around and saw Jimin running to me so I stopped and waited for him as we walked into class together.

I tried to walk past him because he was with Jungkook who as usual was giving me evil looks.

It was now last period and all day I’d been ignoring Taehyung. 

How dare he play around with me like that? He was such a liar and smooth talker.

‘Oh Minnie I can’t live without you, my heart has always been yours, I love you.’ It was all complete and utter bull and I was pissed off for letting myself fall into the trap of his words.

No more Miss nice Jasmine.

I bumped into him before school and he looked nervous and shaky as he tried to smile at me, but I managed a poker face and walked right past him as though he wasn’t even there.

He even resumed sitting next to me in double history and for two hours I constantly ignored him. 

Although the smell of his cologne flooded my senses, I was determined not to even look in his direction.

When class was over, he purposely took ages putting his books back in his bag, but I decided to walk the long way around class. 

He needed to know that I wasn’t about to speak to him any time soon.

Jimin called me last night to check if I got home safe and we ended up speaking on the phone for ages.

He reminded me not to jump to any conclusions regarding what I saw between Taehyung and that Sooyoung and just for his satisfaction I said I wouldn’t, but the majority of me had already made the decision to exclude Taehyung from my life.

It was my stupid heart that wasn’t about to let him go any time soon.

For years, my brain had forgotten about Taehyung but my heart was adamant in holding onto the memories we shared in order to make better ones in the future.

It would take a long time to remove him from my heart and it doesn’t help that I see him every day.

“Jiminie, can you sit next to me please? It’s just Krystal isn’t here and I don’t want to feel alone,” I asked Jimin as we now entered Maths.

The class were as usual messing around and throwing sheets of paper everywhere.

Hobie was desperately trying to wake Yoongi up by poking him with a protractor and Baekhyun was chasing Chanyeol with a metal ruler.

Jimin and I started laughing before he smiled at me, “of course I will. Let’s hope the old bat Gang doesn’t move me though!”

I chuckled and sat in my seat as Jimin sat next to me, lightening up my mood by telling me different stories of his week and shouting at Hobie to leave Yoongi alone.

Yoongi turned around and flashed a gummy smile at Jimin as Hobie pouted his lip out, “you guys are no fun, live whilst Gang isn’t here yet! She’ll drain the life out of us!”

“Have any of you seen Namjoon?” Yoongi asked as he slowly turned his chair to us.

“Aniyo, last I heard he was still in Seoul,” Hobie replied.

“What? He’s in Seoul? No one told me!” Jimin complained.

“He left yesterday to finalise the contract and we have to go there this weekend to sign it, I hope you do know that at least,” Yoongi informed Jimin.

“You guys got a contract already? That’s great! With who?” Kai overheard them speaking and  was interested to know more.

Jimin and Hobie looked to Yoongi, as he replied, “Big Hit Entertainment. It’s not like SM at all.”

Kai smiled, “Ya, that’s so daebak! I heard Big Hit have really good producers, anyway best of luck to you all.”

Just then, Taehyung stormed in and sat in his seat which was behind us.

Although I didn’t care anymore, I couldn’t help but notice he had a massive cut on his face. 

Jimin must’ve noticed too as he quickly turned to Taehyung and they started whispered something.

Hobie ran over to Taehyung and noticing the cold shoulder I was giving, Yoongi turned to me.

“Whenever I can’t be asked with speaking to anyone, I zone out and stare straight ahead. When you look straight, you can only see your goal in life and that’s all that really matters.”

It took me a couple of seconds to comprehend what Yoongi told me and once I understood, I beamed at him.

He never gave much advice nor spoke much about his emotions, but when he did he would go so deep that the other person always remained speechless. 

“Settle down you hooligans,” Ms Gang croaked as she had slithered in, eyeing all of us closely as she sat down in her dusty chair.

Even though she was fifteen minutes late, she complained about our noise being heard from down the corridor and took the register.

Luckily she never noticed Jimin sitting next to me throughout the whole lesson as we had to silently complete pages worth of problem questions.

I could deal with sitting alone, but Taehyung was sitting diagonally behind me and having Jimin next to me blocked out his figure which helped me concentrate on work rather than his well being.

Urgh, I need to throw him out of my mind the same way he threw me out of his when he kissed Sooyoung.

I shuddered to even think about it.

Just then, Sooyoung who was sitting in front of us turned around and threw me a note. 

Taehyung can never be mine? Haha he was more than mine yesterday. He told me he never even liked you anyway.

I immediately scrunched the note and stuffed it inside the desk as Jimin turned to me in concern. 

My heart was shattering at the thought of Taehyung kissing another girl and it hurt even more that it was someone like Sooyoung. 

After class was finally over, I dragged Jimin by his arm out of class and out of the school before anyone could stop him.

“Mwo hae? Why did you drag me like that?” Jimin asked once we were outside, as he rubbed his arm which I had applied pressure to.

“Mianhae, I didn’t want anyone to stop and talk to you. Some people love to crave attention, don’t you think?” I replied to Jimin a bit too happily.

“If you want to know what happened to Taehyung, you can just ask me you know. There’s no use beating around the bush,” Jimin edged closer to me as he stared into my eyes.

I looked down instantly and aggressively replied, “Why would I care? I didn’t even say that so don’t even try to put words in my mouth for me.”

Jimin pulled me by my arm quite aggressively, “Ya Minnie, I know you more than you know yourself. Don’t t