Can't You See Me? ➳ Taegyu ✔

25. Lost

Date: April 19th

After holding it off for as long as possible and apologizing to everyone else, Beomgyu was finally going to talk to Yeonjun, Soobin, and Kai. And of course, they were all together as always at lunch.

"Hey..." he mumbled, sitting next to Kai.

Kai squinted his eyes at him. "What do you want?"

"You guys are the ones who told the principal, right?" Yeonjun nodded, hugging Soobin tighter. "Why?"

What?

Why?

It was so fucking obvious why.

"Maybe..." Soobin started. "You hurt our friend so much that he moved to a different city? Do you know how fucked up that is of you?"

"I came over to apologize, not to listen to your fucking complaining."

Everyone around them was whispering. Ever since Mia left, their group had kind of... disintegrated. And everyone hated Beomgyu and did everything to humiliate him now.

It was his fault.

"Then apologize," Yeonjun said.

Beomgyu rolled his eyes. "I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"Making your friend move away."

"I dont accept your apology."

"Me neither," Kai and Soobin said at the same time.

Another eye roll came from Beomgyu and he stood up. "She didn't say you had to accept it. She just said I had to apologize."

Nobody had forgiven him... which wasn't surprising, but it was finally bringing down his stupid ego. Not only that, but the lack of attention and friendship made him more lonely than he ever was.

"Now you have to apologize to Mr. Kang."

Beomgyu's eyes were bloodshot. He was so fucking done with all of it, and the last person he wanted to see was Taehyun.

"You want me to go all the way to Busan?"

"Yup. Your train will be leaving at five."

At around five, He got on the train, putting his earbuds in to listen to music on the way back. Putting his playlist on shuffle, a song started playing and he thought about something while listening to it.

"As long as they treat you right, that's all that matters."

Taehyun looked at Beomgyu for a second and giggled. "Hyung, you got ice cream on your face. You're so messy." He was a giggling mess while wiping it off and Beomgyu smiled.

"And you're adorable. I guess we're both a nuisance to the other one, huh?"

"Don't call me adorable." Taehyun took out his phone and put an earbud in both of their ears. "BTS released it last year. It's called 'Lost'."

"I've never heard it before-"

"Okay, well shush then."

Beomgyu giggled and listened to the song.

"Tae-" he gasped and hid his face in his elbow to cry while listening to it. "Taehyun."

He went into the bathroom to start sobbing and looked at himself in the mirror. He couldn't even see who he used to be. Who he used to be before all of this happened.

He took a wet paper towel to wipe all the makeup off his face, leaving uneven red marks behind, and then wet his hands to mess up his hair.

The boy next door.

That's all he ever wanted to be.

The kind boy next door.

Not whatever the fuck he was.

"I'm sorry," he whispered, staring at his bloodshot eyes in the mirror. "I'm so fucking sorry Taehyun."