19th February, 2021

03:34 pm

"So you're telling me the Rose building didn't have any watchman?" Jungkook asked.

"Yeah." Namjoon replied as he took a bite of the burger.

Today they were going to question the watchman of Lotus building, Hwang Daejoon. To say Jungkook was mad, would be an understatement. He was furious. Why? Well apparently, there was no watchman on duty the night robbery happened. They'd look after it later, right now questioning Daejoon was more important.

"He's here." Kwon informed them both and Jungkook nodded.

Usually Kwon would have thrown a snarky comment towards Namjoon, but Jungkook looked so determined to only work for the case, he didn't. He didn't had the guts, so he quietly informed the two about Hwang Daejoon sitting in the interrogation room, while he gave a peace sign to Namjoon who in turn ignored him.

Namjoon and Jungkook walked inside the very familiar interrogation room, they both saw the watchman sitting still, keeping his eyes on his shoes, patiently waiting for the officers.

"Hello, Jeon Jungkook." Jungkook introduced himself as he took a seat, Namjoon imitating the action.

"Why am I called here?" Daejoon nodded his head.

"For a simple interrogation, Mr.Hwang." Jungkook replied.

"Go on, sir."

"So, Mr.Hwang as we already asked you a few questions the night the murder happened, could you please tell us more about that day?" Namjoon questioned the watchman.

"Like I said, my shift starts around 6, I was a little late though. But nothing unusual happened, except for Taehyung coming. He gave me the box of sweets and walked towards Jinyoung's apartment."

"Alright. Did you hear any unfamiliar sounds, like someone falling down after Taehyung left?"

"No sir, I didn't."

"Think clearly, Mr.Hwang."

There was a few moments of silence before Hwang replied with a no.

Both the officers nodded their heads.

"Mr.Hwang, there's a CCTV footage we have. We are going to show it to you, please tell us if you can recognize the face or anything."

The CCTV played, it was CCTV of Rose building, wherein they were able to see the robber's side profile. Jungkook was keeping a close eye on the watchman to decipher his reaction, but the watchman seemed frozen once he saw the robber.

"Turn it off." Jungkook ordered and Namjoon turned the footage off.

"Mr.Hwang do you know who it was? Do you perhaps know the robber?"

Hwang shivered as he looked at both the officers and sighed heavily.

"He's my brother." Hwang mumbled, loud enough for both of them to hear.

"What?"

"My brother, h-he was always like this. He never had any intentions to work. God! What has he done."

"Wait, you mean to say the robber is your brother?"

Jungkook and Namjoon both were shocked at the new found information. It was twisted, like Jungkook always said.

"Yes he is." Hwang said it without hesitation.

"Please officers, catch him, he has to go to the jail. If he stays out for long, God knows what he'll do." Hwang continued.

"What's his name?" Jungkook forwarded the glass of water to Hwang.

"Hwang Daeil."

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Taehyung was only twelve when his world had came crashing down, reality hitting him.

With no parents and an aunt who hates him from the bottom of her heart, he had nowhere to go. Nothing to do.

In the morning he would wake up, make his own lunch, go to school, get bullied, come back, do the work his aunt made him do in the afternoon, study in the evening, make dinner later for everyone and the worst part he wasn't allowed to eat with them. He would eat the leftovers later, if they saved any for him.

He didn't have any friends, he didn't have anyone to talk to. He had made his teddy bear his bestfriend. The teddy bear was a gift for him from his parents. Their last gift to him.

He would daily talk to his little teddy bear, he had also named him Tata. He would tell tata about his day, when his aunt would beat him, he would cry holding the teddy bear.

"This world doesn't love us Tata." He had once said to the ripped teddy bear when a bully had stolen it from him.

The bully had stolen the teddy bear and ripped it into two. He knew who the bully was, but he couldn't do anything, couldn't stand up for his own self. His aunt had made him throw the ripped teddy bear away the same day. He had cried, alot.

That was also the first time he felt angry.

He felt immense anger.

The next day while going back home from school, he went to washroom. His bully had occupied a stall and Taehyung doesn't know what came over him, but he locked the door. He locked the bully, a twelve year old boy, inside one of the stalls in the school's washroom.

No one knew what had happened.

The bully was found unconscious the same night, when his parents had came searching for him.

No one knew who had locked the boy inside.

Not even the boy himself knew who locked him in.

And after that day, the bullying stopped. The boy never bullied Taehyung.

However, Taehyung only felt proud of himself for doing this and getting away with it, he felt no other emotion.

No regret.

Taehyung was sixteen when he had his first boyfriend, Park Bogum.

Bogum was a nice, fun guy. He had proposed Taehyung by sending him love letters.

Taehyung felt loved.

As a result, he had accepted to date Bogum.

But as days started to pass, Taehyung felt like he was the only one taking efforts to be in the relationship.

Bogum was very casual about it. He hardly spent any time with Taehyung, he hardly took the younger on a date.

Taehyung felt hurt.

Taehyung had asked Bogum about their relationship and the older had replied with 'Come on, don't be a bitch about it.' Laughing on Taehyung's face, he had left the younger to cry by himself.

The next day Taehyung broke up with Bogum. The older only nodded his head and continued to laugh about something with his bestfriend. Totally ignoring the younger's presence.

After a week they broke up, a video of Bogum was spread in the whole school.

A video of him getting dressed up as a girl.

No one knew who had done that. Bogum was very embarrassed. He was being bullied. It was something he had kept to only himself and might have told his bestfriend and ex boyfriend. So who had done this?

Yes.

It was Taehyung.

Since when he was young. Taehyung was always interested in computers. Not to play games, but to hack stuff. He was a ten year old kid when he first hacked a game's all levels.

Without anyone knowing.

Taehyung had taken Bogum's video when the older had dressed up for him.

That was the same video that had spread in the school.

Bogum then changed schools.

And Taehyung felt proud, again.

No regret.

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