After their mum died Jimin's grandparents took the kids, so they wouldn't have to live with that terrible, terrible man ever again they tried to make sure they were happy.
Jimin luckily loved his grandparents and to him they made the death of his mother bearable, but Jungkook still felt like an outcast that nobody loved or wanted. He wouldn't speak to anybody besides Jimin, he would curse at his grandparents, at his teachers, at anyone who looked at him wrong.
They tried to get him therapy knowing it's just the constant abuse and neglect and the sudden death of a parent that made him act out, but nobody could figure a way to get to him. Besides Jimin.
Jimin was the only one he actually trusted, and little by little his supposed enemy Kim Taehyung, he felt comfort from the constant bickering, he felt like it kept him grounded between all the chaos his life has come to, until one day a few months after his mum's death he was having an arguement with him about crayons.
"We don't even go to the same class you dumb bitch! How the fuck do you think I could've taken your stupid crayons!?" As I said, cursing at everyone, obviously it was upsetting to see a nine year old using that language, so Taehyung obviously scolded him.
"Don't speak to me like that Jungkook! I'm still older then you, and if you didn't take my crayons then why are they the only ones with no labels! I'm the only student that tears off the labels!"
At this point Jungkook had gotten so fed up with him and grabbed his crayons off of his desk, "What the fuck do these look like?! They very clearly have the fucking label on you stupid cunt!" Jungkook threw his crayons at Taehyungs face and caused him to fall over, and at just the right timing the teacher ran in and only saw Jungkook, already the trouble maker throwing somebody with crayons and she immediately grabbed him and slapped him, yelling at him once again that he'd be expelled if he keeps on doing this.
Jungkook was about to give up after winning the arguement and proving he didn't take the crayons, but from the floor Taehyung had to say something stupid, "This is why your mum died, Jungkook! You were such a burden that both of them rather died then stayed to raise you!" Immediately after saying it Taehyung regretted it, knowing that he went to far by bringing up his parents.
Jungkook froze staring at him and the teacher saw the regret in Taehyungs eyes and already knew that she didn't even have to say anything and that Taehyung would apologise on his own, so she kept quiet and watched the boys as Taehyung slowly got up and went near Jungkook, touching his arm gently.
"Jungkookie i-" Taehyung didn't even have time to say anything before Jungkook slapped his arm away yelling in tears, "You don't have a fucking idea what happened to my mum so stay the fuck out of it!!"
He ran away immediately, running threw the school in tears as he ignored the calls from Taehyung and the teacher.
Taehyung started crying looking for him too, constantly grabbing the teachers arm and shaking it in worry of what he said, "What did I do miss!? I didn't mean to! I don't know why I said it!" Taehyung was starting to get hysterical so the teacher tried to calm him down, Jungkook could see him from the first floor and saw the teacher comforting him and babying him.
He looked at them for a moment and ran back home crying, he couldn't understand why no matter what he did he was always wrong, Taehyung had said something unforgivable and the teacher was on his side and didn't even care about him.
He reached his house and ran to his bedroom, grabbing his biggest backpack and filling it with clothes, a hairbrush, a toothbrush and toothpaste and his favourite plushie Jimin's mum gave to him.
He couldn't take being the hated burden anymore, he wanted to just disappear from all this so that's exactly what he did. He disappeared and wasn't planning on coming back, he ran into the woods to the orphanage and fell onto the floor scraping his knees and hands badly with broken glass and sharp sticks and stones.
He looked at the blood on the floor and on his hands and reminded himself of the time Jimin's mum took care of his injuries, he stared at his hands and waited for someone to come and help him, Jimin, Taehyung, his mum, Jimin's mum, and yet there's no one. He crawled into a corner and made himself into a little ball crying, he felt ashamed of himself, he wanted so badly to disappear and yet there he was, wanting someone to help him.
He stayed like that all night, freezing in the unforgiving winter cold without any warm clothes or a blanket. He cried for hours to a point he had no tears left to cry, his eyelashes were frosting and he could feel himself slipping into the cold.
He didnt know what to do, all he wanted was his mum, he wanted Jimin's mum, she died before he could even tell her how much he loved her, but she wasn't coming back and he knew it.
The next day Jungkook was awakened violently by a gush of wind coming threw the windows, he was honestly shocked he was still alive after that cold.
He looked at himself and noticed he was covered in the clothing he had brought and wrapped like a burrito with a small, thin and very worn out blanket, he was confused and got scared that someone else was here, he didn't remember doing this. And the way he was struggling to get out showed that there was no way he could've done this on his own, he couldn't see anyone in the immediate vicinity and quickly gathered his clothing and things into his backpack, finding it too creepy and leaving immediately after waking up.
Along the way of running around hopelessly it somewhat got hotter and he was very grateful, how ever he dropped down into a ditch after tripping over a tree trunk.
He fell into a small ditch and got trapped, he tried desperately to get out but it seemed impossible, he gave up and just sat there, crying once again and eventually falling asleep, the previous night being far too cold to get a good night's sleep.
The next time he woke up the sun had already gone down, he had no idea what time it was but honestly he didn't care, he was so scared and he felt alone, he just wanted his big brother but he was starting to think that would never happen.
He laid in that ditch for days, he was starving, and tired, and cold, and dirty, he thought this would be the end of his life and at this point he wasn't sure if he was sad or not.
Suddenly a voice came out of the distance, "Jungkook! Jungkookie please!" His ears perked up as he heard his grandfathers voice calling out for him, he at first got super excited and called out but found himself stopped, he thought for a moment and considered it.
Either he stops suffering and he gets something to eat and a warm place to sleep, or his family continues suffering by having him around again.
His eyes watered as bad thoughts started going threw his mind, at first he only wanted to disappear, run away and start a new life where he can't bother or burden anybody, but now he was considering if he wanted a life at all.
Feeling such strong emotions towards death was overwhelming to say the least, he's still just a kid, hes barely lived and now he was considering ending his own life? This isn't how the story goes, it's not supposed to be like this, he's far too young.
All these thoughts clouded his mind as he crawled up in the most unseen corner, unless you know the ditch is there, and you've looked into it specifically you would never know he's there.
The calling of his name got louder and louder, he knew he was about to get caught, he wished to the gods he wouldn't but at the end of the day it was unavoidable. "Jungkook!" His ears perked once again hearing his older brothers voice right above him, he grabbed his mouth and kept it shut so no one would hear his soft sobs.
Without warning he heard a loud thud and a body suddenly inside the ditch with him, Jimin had tripped over the same tree trunk Jungkook had and fell into the ditch with him.
It was like a scene from a movie, the light was shining straight onto Jimin like a spotlight, it looked Ethereal as Jimin slowly sat onto his knees having took a hit to the head and feeling a bit faint.
Jimin looked up slowly not yet having spotted the younger boy in the dark, the light shown in his face and created a wonderful masterpiece of young, elegant beauty that only Jungkook could see, it was the most beautiful thing he's ever laid his eyes on. It was a saviour even though his mind told him he didn't want one.
At that moment, looking at Jimins pale skin, his lips, his eyes, his puffy cheeks all displayed perfectly for Jungkook, he fell in love.
There was no dought about it, Jimin was only eleven and Jungkook was only nine, but there was no dought in his mind that he had fallen in love with this boy. Slowly he edged closer, out of the darkness, he stared intently not even realizing the noise he was making, he wanted to see Jimin, he wanted to hug him, he wanted to be near him.
Jimin looked over at the darkness, he hadn't even had time to feel scared or yell for help, he still felt light headed and dizzy, he looked over at the darkness, suddenly getting scared not knowing yet what's coming closer to him.
His vision cleared up from his light headedness and he was able to see a small boy covered in dirt and darkness, only when jungkooks face came into the light he jumped up and hugged the younger tightly, tears in his eyes already.
"I'm so sorry! I love you so much, you have no idea! Please don't ever run away like that again!" Jimin constantly bombarded the younger with apologies and expressions of love, it overwhelmed Jungkook so much he started crying too.
Over the past few days Jimin has been the only thing on his mind, he thought he'd never see him again, but now Jimin was right there hugging him and telling him much he loved Jungkook.
Jungkook hugged him back tightly hoping it wasn't a dream, and that Jimin was actually here to save him, and luckily it wasn't.
Jimin quickly called out to the rest of the search party, and while looking to where the heck they had gone a police officer fell in too, he smiled when he saw the oldest clinging onto Jungkook like he would never let go, he took Jimin and lifted him out of the ditch, then carefully lifted Jungkook not knowing what kind of injuries he might've suffered.
Jungkook was carried back to the closest vehicle while Jimin held his hand tightly, they drove to a hospital with Jungkook and did all the needed legal things and medical things and soon enough Jungkook was back at home being scolded by his grandparents.
"You could've died Jungkook! Are you that reckless?! Look how much weight you've lost! You almost gave us a heart attack! Jimin got sick of worry and you were simply hanging out in the forest!" Yelled his grandmother, his granddad seemed to be more on his side then his wife's and thought that instead of yelling at him they should calmly talk to him and explain the situation he caused threw words that he would understand so he immediately calmed his wife down and told her to go to the bedroom to catch a breathe, and luckily she understood that yelling won't solve anything and went to calm down with a cup of tea.
Jungkooks grandfather started calmly speaking to him about why what he did was so wrong while Jimin was spooning Jungkook and had the younger between his legs even holding him with his legs too, he swore to himself that he would never let go ever again.
"Grandma said that Jimin Hyung got sick because of me..." Jungkook mumbled after giving everything a good listen and understanding what he did was a horrible thing to put his family threw, but still he only really cared about Jimin.
"You were gone for almost seven days, Jungkookie, he wouldn't eat, he wouldn't sleep, he got very ill...." His granddad explained, "But that's all in the past now, he's safe and healthy and so are you. So let's all just move on and take care of each other, Okey?" Jungkook nodded and held onto Jimin's hand tightly, he looked back at Jimin and whispered 'im so sorry hyung' while cuddling his face into Jimin's shoulder.
Jimin smiled and cuddled back hoping Jungkook sticks to his words and never runs away like that ever again.
The next few months Jimin was constantly making sure that Jungkook was very emotionally stable and wasn't gonna leave again, he showed a heck loud of affection and completely ignored any kinds of 'no's when it came to physical touch.
And when it came to Taehyung Jungkook absolutely fucking ignored him, he barely acknowledged his existence and that made Taehyung angry because all he wanted to do was apologise, and now he was being treated like a monster.
Karma.
One day Taehyung had had enough and got extremely irritated with Jungkook, grabbing him after only a small arguement and physically forced Jungkook into a closet and locked it from the outside. And given it was the end of the school day the school day no one heard his cries for help.
And after the traumatic event that's just happened to him Jungkook was scared out of his mind, so many things was running threw his head, 'what if Jimin thought he left again?' 'What he gets sick again?' 'What if no one comes and gets him?' 'What if Jimin got mad and fed up this time?' 'what if he didn't care' 'what if granddad is gonna yell at him just like grandma did?'
'What if'
'what if'
'what if'
At the end of the day he had made so much noise that the security had ran here instead of doing his usual routine of starting at the far end of the school and coming down slowly, "What happened to you child?!" The man yelled, jungkooks hands were almost covered in blood from his finger nails being ripped off as he scratched at the doors in panic, he was fully having a panic attack by the time the security got there.
"Jimin Hyung! Jimin hyungie!" The little boy kept repeating Jimin's name, and unfortunately the security man thought he was trying to say that Jimin did it to him.
He quickly took Jungkook home threw vag directions from the kid, and spoke to his parents about what they wanted to do about what the security described to be 'assault', Jimin's grandparents were about to blow up, but seeing their younger grandchild running to Jimin and clutching onto him like theirs no tomorrow made even the security second guess what Jungkook was trying to do.
Jimin hugged the crying child tightly and comforted him until he was able to give a conscious statement of what happened, "What? Jimin Hyung? No, Taehyungie did it, I just wanted to sure Jimin wasnt sick again." Jungkook said confused, not even comprehending the amount of shit he's just caused for his enemy.
The next day Jungkook hadn't seen his mortal enemy at school and assumed he got suspended again, but then three days past... Then a week.... Then a month... Then three months...
And only at the end of the school year did it really click with Jungkook that he had gotten Taehyung expelled, for some reason with the thought that he might've ruined his life and that he'll never be able to see him again, Jungkook sat in his bedroom staring at the floor, soon his eyes started tearing up slightly and within twenty minutes he was hiding underneath his bed clutching his mouth to make sure no one could hear his crying, he wanted to run away again, he wanted so badly to go find Taehyung but something stopped him.
Jimin stopped him.