Sometimes the person you want the most is the person you're the best without...
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25 June 2028; 7.48 pm
-[Jimin can you please bring me my brown handbag to the hospital? Taehyung is in the company so I can't really disturb him]
I stared at May's text for a moments before quickly typing my reply-
[Ok, I'll be there in 5 min.]
-Seen
-[Gr8! I'm just standing outside ok? Come ASAP! 😉]
[Alright]
-Seen
I switched off the television and kept aside my half-eaten packet of chips before getting up to get changed.
Seriously? This girl doesn't even let me rest for a second! Annoying piece of shit!
I threw a red sweatshirt and changed into a clean pair of jeans from my shorts.
Yesterday we all had a mini get-together party at my place. I was not at all interested but still accepted unwillingly. However hard I tried, I couldn't at all bring myself to separate from my brothers with whom I've spent countless golden memories. I couldn't just wipe it all off ever.
Maybe May had forgotten her bag yesterday. I headed towards my living room and noticed a brown bag lying on my couch.
How come I didn't notice it earlier?
Just as I was about the pick up her bag, all the contents inside came hurling down in front of my feet. I looked up and saw the zipper of the bag was opened and it somehow went unnoticed by me.
Seriously a careless piece of shit!
I bent down to gather her stuff as I realised I was running late.
May didn't exactly tell me what actually was her problem for which she needed such a long-term treatment. And that too, which needed quite a huge sum of money.
I shrugged off those thoughts and picked up her things, placing them carefully inside the bag. A pink money purse, a red polka-dotted handkerchief, a few hairpins, a strawberry lip gloss (which was one of the several reasons why am I so much attracted to her lips), a compact and a.... a..
a pair of alpaca printed socks???
Just how many bottles did she chug down her throat yesterday??
I doubted if it's due to the random soju shots or her another attempt at annoying me. Because if I remember it clearly I did mention having a pair of puppy printed socks. And these are Jin's!
And they surely smell..!! I threw away the pair on the floor before going back to my work but my hands stopped their job when I suddenly happened to notice this paper.
A prescription...
I know it was wrong but fuck my curiosity! I slowly unfolded the paper. I had to know what is it that May was suffering from.
But I guess I shouldn't have. I immediately regretted my decision of having accepted her request to take her handbag to her...
For the first line in that paper was enough to freeze me at my spot.
I held on to the wall for support as I suddenly felt dizzy. My vision started to blur out. Each and every puzzle piece, now, seemed to finally fall into their places becoming the whole picture, all clear and finished.
Suddenly everything made sense.
So this is the reason why she remained absent for such a long time, she worked as the barista, didn't at all take care of herself and this is the only fucking reason why she stays away from Taehyung?!!
Somehow, I got up and went out of my house to reach the hospital.
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25 June 2028; 8 pm
'You're a lil late pabo,' she snickered as soon as she saw me.
I jogged towards her and dropped down on a steel chair, trying to catch my breath. 'Well, I guess you told me you'll wait outside?' I signed.
'Ohh then I wonder who told me that he'd be here in 2 min?' she snapped back.
I held my hands up in defense. I handed her the bag and stared at her searching the bag thoroughly. I mentally smirked as I already anticipated this happening.
'Are you looking for this?' I held up the prescription in front of her shocked face.
'Give that back to me right now! Don't you know you shouldn't touch somebody else's thing without their permission?' she snarled as she tried to snatch the paper out of my grip.
Nahh! Not today baby..!
She made multiple attempts of reaching out for the prescription held a little too higher for her height.
Man, she looked so goddamn hot while annoyed!
And never have I been so much grateful for my height before!!
'Well well, you are too short. I've never seen such a careless girl like you ever. You left the first chain of your bag open either because you deliberately wanted me to have a look inside whatever you've in possession or the soju shots really did hit your system hard,' I signed, still smirking, looking at her helpless state.
She looked at me disapprovingly and slumped on a chair with a huff.
'First things first. May I've seen everything and now I want to know the reason why you hid such a big thing from us,' I signed.
She pursed her lips stubbornly instead in response.
'Fine then. If I don't get an explanation right away then this thing will be going in your boyfriend's hands, I promise,' I signed.
May gasped and shook her head immediately. 'Fine I'll say everything but please... Don't utter a single word about this to Taehyung,' she whispered.
I nodded.
'Yes... It's true...
'that I'm suffering from Breast Cancer,'
YOU ARE READING
If I Could Tell You
Short StoryPark Jimin, the member of the biggest boy band BTS, falls madly in love with a college going student, May (the reader). But he's scared.. scared that he'll get rejected once again. And is it the only thing that stops him from voicing out his feeling...
