Witch Academy | TaeKook ✓

LXXXIV

Taehyung let out a soft sigh as he leaned his back onto the edge of the bathtub. The warm water covering his body was enough to relax his muscles and raise his body temperature.

But mostly, since it had made his joints and cheeks red, it was able to hide his embarassment.

He slowly placed his hand on top of his belly underwater and looked down at it.
It had been long since he had seen Jungkook, and also a long time since he had skinship with him. By means, any, sort of skinship.
It was simply making him nervous to be in his sight of view, especially since Jungkook was effortlessly flirty with him.

And now that he remembered, he might've misunderstood Jungkook's persomality back then.
He had always tought that Jungkook was the shy one and Taehyung the assertive, but it had always been the complete opposite.
The misunderstanding was evident already, because Taehyung was rather antisocial in the past and didn't have the need to use communication towards others, which made him clueless about the fact that he was and always has been the shy one.

On the other hand, Jungkook had already been the center of attention, ever since he had appeared. And it was obvious that he didn't have any difficulties or problems with that.

Taehyung let out a loud sigh, slightly moaning towards the end. He then raised his arm up and looked at the long scars, which covered it from his shoulder to his finger-tips.
He must've seemed like such a dissapointment. Despite his suicidal actions and fucked up mentality, Jungkook had been more than caring towards him. Yet all he could do was run off to cool his head, instead of jumping into his arms like he had yearned for, all this time.

He pulled his legs closer before hugging them tightly. He didn't even know how to act anymore, let alone know what to think.

Getting consumed by his toughts once more, he relaxed his muscles and let himseld be immersed into his own world.
While doing so, he hadn't realized the door alowly creak open, only until Jungkook spoke.

"Is there one more place in there?"

Taehyung's body slightly flinched while his eyes widened.
Before he knew it, he dipped his body lower into the water to hide his arm.

"W-wait- i was about to get out anyways- l-let me just-"

But Jungkook didn't mind as he slowly approached him from behind and dipped his body into the bathtub. He sat behind Taehyung, letting his back leam onto his chest, but as soon as he touched him, he flinched forward.

It made Jungkook confused.

"Hey- what's wrong?"

Taehyung looked down, unable to turn around and look into Jungkook's eyes. Because then, he would've known that he was lying.

"N-nothing... just got startled that's all."

Jungkook furrowed his eyebrows, getting impatient. He knew very well that something was wrong.
He didn't know what until he saw Taehyung dip his shoulder deeper into the water.

"Why are you holding your arm? Does it hurt?"

Taehyung didn't say anything- or more like he couldn't. And him being silent meant that he was right about something.

"Show me."

But Taehyung didn't. Instead he swallowed in worry.

"I-it's nothing really- just a scratch-"

Jungkook frowned as he leaned in and grabbed Taehyung by the arm before pulling it up.
But just as he did, his eyes widened, his frown dropping away almost suddenly.