Chapter 21: So as long as I live I love you,Will have and hold you

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(Time skipped for future Just a sneak peek)

2030 Seoul- South Korea

The breeze kicks up while they're waiting and Yoongi shivers, frowns at Taehyung. Taehyung smiles, huddles closer. The aftershave Taehyung uses is comforting. He smells like clean and pine forests and late fall. Yoongi shifts a tiny bit closer. (It's cold, shut up.) Taehyung tugs his hand out of Yoongi's only so that he can pull Yoongi's hood back up for him when a particularly strong gust of wind blows it off. He throws his arm around Yoongi's shoulders afterwards. Yoongi presses into Taehyung's warm side looks down at Holly and tries not to think about how nice Taehyung makes him feel. They were outside to take a walk with their brown poodle, Min Holly..

Right now, they are both relaxing in the living room. Taehyung is reading this book Namjoon lent him, his legs propped up on the footrest. Yoongi is sitting sideways on the couch, his feet on Taehyung's lap, wiggling occasionally. He keeps messing around on his phone in between resting his eyes for so long that Taehyung thinks he's napping. It's endearing.

"Tae," Yoongi says at some point, pulling his legs off Taehyung's lap and shuffling closer. Taehyung turns to look at him, head tilted slightly down. "Tae, you have something there."

Before Taehyung can react, Yoongi's hand is coming up, thumb gently at the corner of his mouth, swiping along his lower lip. Taehyung, focused on the feel of Yoongi's fingers, of his heavy gaze, opens his mouth automatically. Yoongi smirks, but it's soft.

Yoongi's thumb dips into Taehyung's mouth and his tongue comes up to lick at it, brows furrowing when he tastes nothing. "What was it?"

"Pure beauty," Yoongi says, and then his straight face cracks and he pulls away, curling up on the couch as he laughs. "I'm so sorry. I was trying to be smooth" Taehyung drops the book and lurches towards him, arms on either side of Yoongi's torso, sinking into the cushions. He's tempted to let it go because his ears are red and his heart is pounding. And they have a history of letting these moments go.

But Yoongi is in front of him, laughter shaking his shoulders. He's breathtaking in his breathlessness, his eyes squinted, tears appearing at their corners. He hasn't stopped smiling, either, his cheeks pulled wide.

"You think that was funny?" Taehyung mock-glares down at him, his cheeks hurt from holding his own smile back. "Thought my poor heart could take it?"

Yoongi shakes his head, bursting into laughter again, one of his hands comes up to cover his mouth but Taehyung stops it, not wanting to be deprived of that smile. He brings the hand down to Yoongi's chest, placing it in the middle, over his sternum. He presses his own palm over it gently, fingers overlapping. Yoongi's muscles twitch, but he doesn't pull away.

When Taehyung looks back at him, Yoongi's smile is frozen on his face. His eyes are open, alert.

"Is this..." Yoongi trails off. He's breathing heavier, now. Taehyung can feel the rise and fall of his ribcage under their palms. "Are we finally...?"

Yoongi shuts him up with a kiss. Which was, in part, Taehyung intention. But he's still surprised by it anyway. The soft press of it. The warmth spread through him.

Taehyung falls into the kiss as he fell in love with Yoongi. Slow and deep, finding himself lost in it. Wanting more even when he hasn't even found his feet. The feeling swills through him, mellow and comfortable even as something tugs in his gut. Weightlessness. A suspension in time.

It's just Yoongi's hand cradling his face, the other slipping free to tangle in his hair. It's his own palm measuring the pace of Yoongi's breathing, fingertips softly rubbing over the outline of his ribs as they rise. It's Yoongi taking that hand and guiding it down and then up under his sweater. Feeling the smooth skin underneath.

It's letting each other in. Even more, than they already have. It's the physical, but the emotional too.

It's... kind of overwhelming, honestly.

Which is why Taehyung pulls back after a while, giving himself space to breathe, to absorb. To think.

To smile;

To cherish the love of his life...

The second he's near enough, he wraps his arms around him and suddenly the warmth inside the coffee shop seems dull in comparison to this: Yoongi's back against his chest, the softness of his hair as he buries his face in it and breathes it in. They've switched to using this vanilla and honey shampoo that Yoongi secretly loves. And as much as Taehyung likes the smell of it clinging to his own hair, he loves it more when he smells it on Yoongi, when they both smell like each other.

Yoongi makes a sound of disapproval, elbowing him lightly to get him off. "Taehyung," he says. Taehyung only hums in response, moving on to nuzzle into Yoongi's neck. "Come on, didn't you"—Taehyung readjusts, lifting his head enough so he can leave a soft kiss at the side of Yoongi's neck—"Tae, you said you wanted to help, didn't you?"

He lets his lips linger there for a moment before he rests his forehead on Yoongi's shoulder. He did want to help, but now that he has Yoongi in his arms he's not sure if he wants to let go of this sensation that he only gets when they're close like this:

warmth spreading from the steady beating of his heart to the tips of his fingers clutching on to Yoongi's dress shirt, breathing out almost in relief like he hasn't known comfort until they learned to recognize each other's touches, how one graze of a hand could already mean so much. He's glad that even after three years, he still feels like this, that his heart has only grown bigger to accommodate more of it.

Yoongi closed his eyes with a content sigh, tightening his grip around Taehyung's shoulders. He can't express how delighted he feels at the moment, not just at the moment, since the day Kim Taehyung walked into his life on his worst days, he feels like he is the most blessed person in the universe.

When he vowed himself not to fall for anyone after his painful unrequited love for Jimin, Taehyung made it really hard for him. But the day he finally gathered the courage to say "Yes" to Taehyung's invitation to go out with him, which younger has asked quite a few times already, Yoongi knew that he has made the best decision of his life.

Not only that, he understood that he finally give himself a chance to heal; To be loved and cherished as he deserved for a long time.


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