Love Like This ( Taegi x Yoonmin)

Chapter 20: We've made for each other

Taehyung remembers that day which took place 2 years ago in Seoul National Hospital.

2025 Seoul; South Korea

Unfortunately,  it was the same hopeless day as usual; No response from the poor boy who has been sleeping there for two and half months and not showing any sign of waking up. His fragile breath comes out like a tiny whisper, making Taehyung wonder how long he is planning to stay like this.

Taehyung attached a new saline to Yoongi's  IV and checked his heartbeat. The machine still shows the luminous green lines are curves in slow but perfect shape, almost consoling Taehyung that he is doing a great job...

"You are doing great"

"His heart still beats thanks to you"

No matter how many times Namjoon and Yoongi's parents try to assure him that way, Taehyung always feels like a failure every time he looks at the elder's fatal form. He tries so hard to ignore these negative thoughts. He does.

He tries to convince his unnaturally demanding heart by telling how hard he is trying, how hard he is taking every chance to see the certain someone's opened eyes. It has never been this hard. The feeling of helplessness has never crawled into his core. It has never been so disappointing when he is trying his best to save someone else's life.

So at the end of the day, one question was left unanswered...

"What makes Min Yoongi this special?"

He can't tell it was all sudden... The weird feelings that have been dancing around his heart since the first time he saw Yoongi at Operation theatre. He felt that strange kind of sparkle the first time he had touched Yoongi. As cliche as it sounds, Taehyung finds that it's getting harder day by day to ignore the strange attachment that unconsciously has been developing towards the pretty pale boy.

He can remember the days he lingers at the doorstep of Yoongi's VIP room, hesitating whether he should go in or not.

He remembers the days he finally gather up his courage to listen to his heart and decide to spend his precious alone time with the unconscious boy, slowly making a habit of mapping the smooth curves of the sleeping boy's tender face with his gentle fingertips, other than letting his consciousness fly far away from reality like usually.

It has been two weeks since he has developed a new habit or two. He started to talk to him.

Yes, anyone would find it weird to talk with someone who has fallen into a coma for 2 and half months, but Taehyung thinks it will work somehow, maybe miraculously. He started to tellYoongi about his day to day life, about his family, his hyung's silly adventures and about his patients.

Then he started to tell him about his mother, he animatedly explained all the good memories he had made with her like the elder was listening to him. There was always a melancholic yet fond smile on his face every time he talked about his beloved mother.

Yesterday, his stories about his mother have ended.

"I don't know whatever the sin I have caused last life hyung..." Taehyung sniffled lightly.

"To lose such an amazing woman at a so young age... How misfortunate we were to lose our mother's love at the moment we need it the most?" Taehyung felt his voice crack at the end of words.

He is trying hard to keep his composure. He has always succeeded for the past 6 years. After he left his country for the USA, he has to repeat this story numerous times. He hasn't shed a tear during any of those times; after the fateful encounter with the mysterious boy, he didn't dare to cry over his mother's death; as he promised to himself. He has returned to South Korea about two years ago, to complete his last year of medicine at Seoul National Hospital.