Promise Me ➳ Taebin ✔

17. "Girls' Clothes"

*February 17th*

"Soobin, have you ever thought of wearing... girls' clothes?" Taehyun shyly asked, sitting on the edge of the older's bed.

"Well... no? But there's no such thing as girls' and boys' clothes."

Taehyun nodded. "Well I know. But I just... would it be weird?"

"It's just clothes. Why would it be weird?" Soobin asked, setting his phone down and looking at him.

"Because of the mean people."

Soobin tilted his head and crawled forward to gently caress his cheek.

"Is Taehyunnie saying he wants to try on "girls' clothes"?"

Everything was kind of going by slowly. Soobin was sitting there with his parents, his cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. sitting behind him, along with Taehyun's parents.

The teachers and staff gave speeches, and then Beomgyu and Lia gave speeches since they were apparently both Salutatorian. Soobin didn't find that out until the ceremony started though.

Just another thing Beomgyu forgot to mention.

"And now for the highest in the graduating class. Our Valedictorian, Choi Soobin."

His and Taehyun's moms both started screaming and Soobin covered his ears while laughing at them.

The entire audience started screaming and clapping and heat rushed to his cheeks as he stepped up on stage.

Since he was president of the student council, he always gave speeches. But those were to other students, not adults and parents.

"Um... hi-" his voice cracked a little bit.

This was also his first speech without Taehyun in the audience.

"I'm sorry. This is just hard today. It's a very successful day, but it's hard for me to talk. It's been emotional. My best friend of around... four years made me mad today." He looked at Yeonjun in the crowd and the older nodded and looked down. "But I still love him nonetheless. And I just found out recently that my other two best friends are dating and the three of them are all moving to Busan. Now, you may say that as the valedictorian, I should be able to get into the school in Busan easily."

"So why don't you?" Someone in the crowd rudely asked, getting shushed by multiple people.

"Because I'm not going this year. And I know I'll be missing a lot of scholarships, but I'll have the money to go when I'm ready." He looked around at everyone and took a deep breath. "On March 13th of this year, at 9:57 p.m., I was told by a nurse that my boyfriend showed no signs of brain activity, meaning he was in a coma."

A lot of people in the crowd gasped. Most of the parents wouldn't have guessed that, whereas a lot of students just somehow didn't know.

"He's alive. He's healthy actually. But his brain is just asleep. He's just in a very deep sleep, but he'll wake up at some point. I know he will." He looked down at his locket and sighed. "That's why it's hard for me today. Because he isn't in the crowd listening to me. It's just... people who hate me for being more successful than them."

He smirked at the students who glared at him and everyone started clapping. And then he started laughing and finished his speech by talking about his classmates and teachers, blah blah blah.

After they all got their diplomas and everything, they started taking pictures outside and Yeonjun walked over to Soobin.

"I'm sorry... again. Your speech was pretty cool. Mad respect."

Soobin furrowed his eyebrows and watched him walk away in confusion.

*February 22nd*

"So... I bought an outfit from the store today. You have to promise not to laugh."

Soobin giggled and nodded, watching the cracked bathroom door that Taehyun would emerge from soon.

"I won't laugh."

"It's kind of aggressive. The shirt says a bad word. And I know you don't really like when I use bad words, although you're a hypocrite," he mumbled the last part and stepped out of the bathroom, watching Soobin's face change from impatient to completely shocked. "What do you think?"

"You're right. It is agressive..."

"But it's also very hot."

Taehyun blushed slightly and walked over to Soobin, but there was something about him that was throwing the older off.

"Y'know, if you're gonna be a power bottom, you should do something with your hair. It looks too soft and babyish."

"I can't do something with my hair. This is how it always looks," he said, gesturing towards his soft light brown hair that was falling over his eyes.

Soobin sat up and he pouted, standing in between the older's legs. "Hm..." he pushed Taehyun's bangs back to show his forehead, but it just made him look like more of a baby. "Nope. That doesn't work."

Taehyun sighed. "Can you just like... do it already?"

"Do what?" Soobin asked innocently even though his hands were running up Taehyun's skirt.

Finally having enough of it, Taehyun just leaned in to kiss him, pushing him back on the bed to take control since Soobin wasn't doing anything.