Worthy Sacrifice chapter 14
Chapter 14
“Khun, I need your help,”
“Hyung, where are you? the poli-“
“I need your help!”
“Jeez! Calm down. What is it?”
“I can’t tell you now. Meet me at Han River, 12 o’clock, alone, and don’t tell anyone that I called you or you came to meet me, you got it?”
“Y-yeah, got it,”
“Good. Or I’ll cut your head,”
Nichkhun gulped, his face turned pale.
***
Jessica slumped her body onto the couch as she huffed a sighed. She puffed her cheeks and pouted as she watched Tiffany laughing across the room. She wanted to snuggle, or even cuddle but it seemed like her girlfriend was busy and happily chatting with the YoonYul couple. It’s not like she didn’t want to join the chat, she just wasn’t in the mood to chat. Jessica was sleepy, and when she’s sleepy, she wants to cuddle until she fell asleep and woke up with Tiffany in her hug.
Taeyeon poke her head and looked at her with a raised eyebrow. The older girl shifted her gaze to Tiffany and back to the pouting Jessica again. Getting the hint, the leader giggled slightly.
“Shut up,” Jessica mumbled.
“Aish so sensitive this kid,” Taeyeon patted Jessica’s head. “What is it? Why don’t you join them?”
“I want to cuddle, not to chat,” she puffed her cheek.
“Taengoo can you help me wi- hey, what’s up with, Sica?” Sunny stopped midway when she about to go to the kitchen with plates on her arms.
Taeyeon shrugged as she helped Sunny with the plates. Taking all of it with two hands, Taeyeon went to the kitchen and whispered something to the younger girl before kissing her nose. Jessica rolled her eyes enviously as she crossed her arms. Sunny chuckled few times after noticing.
“Yah you two, come here and help umma wash the plates! You still have lots of things to do with all the free time you have. Come here fast, now now now,” Taeyeon shouted from the kitchen.
“but-“
“No buts. Come on you two, Taengoo needs some help,” Sunny helped Yoona and Yuri stood up as the two groaned and lazily made their way to the kitchen.
Jessica heard footsteps coming towards her and she stayed still, pouting and crossng her arms. She looked away when Tiffany sat beside her, smiling widely. Jessica huffed then looked away.
“Awww Jessi~ something’s wrong?” she asked. Jessica can feel the younger girl’s chin on her shoulder and her arm on her waist. Jessica stayed still.
“Are you mad at me?”
“No,”
“You are mad at me,”
Jessica looked at her girlfriend on her shoulder and found Tiffany pouting as well. Puppy dog eyes looked at her innocently. The older girl groaned, she can’t lose this time with thos eyes.
“Don’t look at me like that,”
“…..”
“I’m the one who pouted first here,”
“…..”
“Tiff,”
“…..”
“…..”
“pleaseeee?”
“Ugh, fine!”
Tiffany’s smile widened when Jessica dragged her to her room and closed the door behind her. She jumped onto the bed before patting the empty space beside her cutely. The brown haired girl giggled and tucked herself under the blanket, joined Jessica who hugged Tiffany and buried her face onto her girlfriend’s neck. Jessica bit Tiffany’s neck playfully before she look up at the younger girl and yawned.
“Aww so cute!” Tiffany kissed Jessica’s lips before pulling away with a pinch on her nose. Jessica snuggled closer while hiding her blush. The smile never stopped playing on Tiffany’s face. “Sleep,” She said kissing the girl’s crown. “I’ll be here when you woke up,”
Jessica nodded and kissed Tiffany’s collarbone softly. “I love you,”
“Love you too,”
***
“You want me to do what?! No, no hyung, no I can’t,”
“Why? You’re on their side now?! Or all of you are now on their side?!”
Nichkhun sighed and turned around, looking at the orange sky with birds flying around it. He combed his hair with his fingers tiredly. Taecyeon stood not far behind him, fingers turned into tight fists after knowing that the younger boy refused to help him.
“You are… doing too much, Hyung. Wooyoung is still at the police office since last night and the company wouldn’t just sit around about this,” Nichkhun turned around nervously, Taecyeon eyed him disappointedly. “I’m sorry, if you asked me this favor then… I don’t want and I can’t help you,”
Taecyeon snorted. “You’re a coward,”
“Hyung,” He sighed.
“No one cares about me anymore, huh?” He scoffed. “It looks like you guys are waiting for the company to kick me out, yes?”
“It’s not worth it,”
“Sorry?”
“I said your action is not worth anything,” He paused and looked onto the older boy’s eyes seriously. “They’re happy now, let them be. You always made Tiffany as your toy from the first time you decided to have relationship with her. Hyung, you’re hopeless,”
“What?!”
“You’re hopeless, you’re broken hearted and you’re hopeless,” Taecyeon gritted his teeth but it’s not stopping Nichkhun to talk further. “You never know that you loved her that much until she decided to be with Jessica and you denied that your heart is been broken since that day,”
“Shut up, you know nothing,” He said between clenched teeth.
“I’m right, ain’t I? You love Tiffany but you keep on fooling around with another random girl you met at the club,”
“Oh shut up!”
Taecyeon ran and jumped at Nichkhun, sending a full fist punch onto the pretty boy’s face. He stumbled and fell backwards to the ground with Taecyeon atop him, hitting him with no mercy when the younger boy kept on speaking about the truth.
“Forgive your- ugh- self, hyung. You have no- ugh ugh-thing to do anymore. Face it- ugh,” Nichkhun closed his eyes when Taecyeon stopped hitting him and he wiped the blood on the side of his mouth. Opening his eyes slowly, he spit the blood onto Taecyeon’s face and the older boy looked at him in shock. Nichkhun never did things like this and it’s startled him.
Nichkhun pushed Taecyeon from top of him which made him fell back on his back to the ground. He sat there with his elbow on his knee, using his hem for wiping the blood on his mouth.
“You acted like a coward, Hyung,” He hissed when he pressed too hard to his ripped lips. “You can’t accept their relationship because you think it’s wrong,” Nichkhun scoffed. “What’s wrong for being in love?”
“I can give Tiffany a normal life,”
“There wouldn’t be normal life if she is not happy. You can’t make her happy, you wouldn’t, but Jessica sure can,”
“Now you make me look like the bad guy,”
“You’re the bad guy, Hyung,” He sighed and stood up. One hand on his pocket while the other one was still on his pressed lips. He eyed the older boy on the ground coolly. “Act like your age, I won’t be on your side if you act like this,”
And with that, he left Taecyeon there. Taecyeon watched Nichkhun’s car until it vanished on the turn after the traffic light turned yellow and then red. Taecyeon sighed heavily and dropped his body onto the soft grass below him. He closed his eyes and placed his arm on his head. Trying to deny all Nickhun said, he wanted to believe that the younger boy was wrong. That he was not broken hearted because of Tiffany and that he was not in love with the woman and that he… was not the one who was craving for Tiffany’s love.
“I can live without her, can I?” He whispered.
***
Tiffany PoV
I opened my eyes slowly and covered my mouth when I yawned. I looked down to my chest and found Jessica sleeping soundly with an arm wrapped my waist loosely. I smiled at the sight as I caress her face with the back of my fingers.
04.56pm
I looked at the door with my half opened eyes and found seven pair of eyes looking at me in surprise before it shut with a loud thud and squeals came from behind it. I chuckled by their act but stopped when Jessica shifted in her sleep. She climbed up my body a little before she buried her face onto my neck- inhaling and exhaling softly. Her lips slightly pressed onto my skin and I can feel her eyes opening and closing ever so slightly when her eyelashes swept my skin.
It’s calming.
I leaned my head onto hers and placed my hand atop of her arms as I stroke it gently. Enjoying with every stroke I made, I felt her soft and warm skin under my touch. I felt a soft peck on my neck and smiled when it repeated for the second times. I brought Jessica’s fingers onto my mouth and kissed the knuckles softly.
“Hi,” She said hoarsely before she climbed up my body again which made her body situated atop of me. Foreheads and noses touching but eyes kept opened as we stared at each other closely. A sweet smile was on her lips and I returned the smile with my lips and eyes.
“I was dreaming of you,” She said as she pecked my lips.
“Mhmm~ then why are you awake? Is it a bad dream?”
“No,” Jessica pulled away a little bit and titled her head before she leaned in and kiss me deeply. “Because I want to see the real Tiffany and kisssssss her …” She pressed her lips more and bit my lower lip before she pulled away and grinned, “And get lost in her eyes,” Jessica blushed and bit her lips cutely.
“Cheesy,” I can feel my face turn red and Jessica squealed as she covered her face with both hands. I can’t help but laughed and hugged her tight and buried my face onto her hair.
“You’re so cute!!”
***
Author PoV
“So? What we’ve got here?”
“Oh Sir,” a young officer bowed as his boss tapped his shoulder and eyeing the file his subordinate held in one hand. “These are data of Ok Taecyeon that JYP management had,” he flicked the papers one by one and handed it to his boss.
The head police officer nodded. “I see. Let’s bring him down,”
***
There was a light knock on the door and Chansung ran to the front door with one hand holding a banana. He was hoping it that it would be Taecyeon coming home but when he opened it, his hope washed away. He raised an eyebrow as he looked at Nichkhun before he glanced at the clock at the wall behind him.
“Your schedule is over already?”
The older boy waved his hand and pushed him inside, closing the door and dashed over Junsu’s room to find no one and groaned. Chansung watched him confusedly. He noticed the a bruise on his Hyung’s face. The younger pointed to his own face as he frowned.
“Hyung, are you got into a fight?”
Nichkhun stopped in midair when he about to sit down on the couch. He sighed and signaled the younger boy to sit there with him. Chansung sat there and threw the banana onto the trash bin near the couch. He eyed Nichkhun seriously.
“I met Taec hyung. At the Han River and he punched me,”
“What?? You met him?? Why did he punch you??” the younger boy shifted on his seat and looked at Nichkhun worriedly. He doesn’t even know that Taecyeon can do such thing to one of his co-members. He just didn’t get it.
“Yeah. I told him to leave Tiffany with Jessica and told him-“ Nichkhun sighed and covered his face with both hands. This is frustrating. He groaned. “We have to tell the police about his whereabouts you know,”
“But…”
“He crossed his line already. I know he likes Tiffany but I don’t think he loves her as much as Jessica. Do you know what I mean?”
Chansung relaxed his body and leaned his back onto the back seat. He heaved a long sigh before staring onto the ceiling hopelessly.
“But isn’t it our responsibility to cover one’s fault? I mean, hyung, he’s still 2pm’s member,”
“I know. But not anymore as in covering his fault, or mistakes in this case. I don’t know. But I feel like I’m not on his side anymore,” Nichkhun turned to look at the younger boy and gave him a reassuring look. “There’re always times to not believe in one another if it’s your own family, there’s always mistakes that none of us could help him with but his self. Taec hyung doing things we don’t and never expected him to do, even I don’t know if he knows what he is doing but I’m sure enough everybody does know that he is doing it wrong,”
It was silence for a while before Chansung nodded and smiled weakly.
“We should do something, don’t we?”
***
“You’re now free Mr. Jang,”
Wooyoung looked up and met Junsu’s eyes. He huffed in relief before standing up and bowing to the officer. Junsu smiled at him and tapped his back.
“So the management finally paid them?” Wooyoung asked as they walked to the parking lot. Hands on his jacket pockets, a hat that Junsu brought him rested neatly on his head. The older boy shook his head and answered the younger boy’s question with a low voice.
“No, no of course,” he looked up to the sky and heaved a sigh. Invisible smoke came out from his mouth as he spoke. “I don’t even think he would go about this. As far as I know, he hates Taecyeon so much now. Taec makes our management’s name on the blacklists,”
“Oh I’m sure it is,”
Junsu looked at Wooyoung silently. “Do you know where he is right know, Woo?”
“Trust me, Hyung, the last time I saw him was weeks ago when I found him at the room with Tiffany who’s about to jump from the window. I don’t know what he’s thinking anymore,”
“I know, me too,” He nodded weakly, “What do you think should we do right now? We can’t find him and I feel so useless and messed up as the oldest,”
“It’s okay, Hyung, we understand,” Wooyoung tapped the older boy’s back, “I think… we might help the police to find him. I don’t know anymore what to do except for that one. We never expect him to do such things,”
Junsu closed his mouth again when he was about to respond to Wooyoung’s words and pulled his cell phone out his jeans pocket. Wooyoung leaned his self onto the car, waiting for their manager to come and bring them away from there when Junsu looked at the younger with shock eyes.
“Wha-“
“Khun just met him at the Han River.”
Wooyoung shifted, facing Junsu.
“They both got into a small fight,”
“Let’s… report this to the police,”
Junsu nodded before they ran to the police office.
TBC