"You're my best friend, Chim. I can live with you being happy with someone else but I can't live with the sin of being the person who kept you from your happiness."

Jimin looks at him and it's like when he saw the cat. But much more. So painfully much more.

"I want you to be happy."

His eyes begin to well up.

The laws of Thane bound two people, with the help of their certain criteria, from the moment they are born. Who they will marry and who they will spend the rest of their lives with are bounded by the law. He and Taehyung have been bounded. He is supposed to marry Taehyung and be together until the day either one of them vanishes.

Taehyung is the best person at Thane for him, who understands him and is great at making him laugh. He is his best friend. He is happy when he's with him.

But his eyes don't light up when he talks about Taehyung the way it does with Jungkook. His heart doesn't feel anything but happiness until he met Jungkook.

Is that love? he muses.

"Our bond and law dictate us on Thane. But we're now on Earth," Taehyung continues, knowing exactly what the other is thinking.