Time | Taegyu ✔️

Chapter Twenty Eight

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L i a r

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03/07/2022

No relationship is perfect. Taehyun knew that but he couldn't help but feel that his relationship with Beomgyu was greatly flawed. Trust was important in a relationship. It was common knowledge. And the couple lacked that, specifically Beomgyu. There were so still many questions that left unanswered between them and Taehyun had felt down about it. For the past 43 days that they had been together, Beomgyu never once let Taehyun into his room. Did Beomgyu not trust him enough to share his worries and secrets? They clearly loved each other, so why couldn't they trust each other?

"Taehyun-ah" Beomgyu called out to his now boyfriend.

"Coming" Taehyun shouted and hurried down the stairs. "Sorry for making you wait."

"It's okay" Beomgyu smiled and held out his left hand for Taehyun to hold.

Taehyun looked down at Beomgyu's hand and gladly took it. He intertwined their fingers. "Did you actually warm your hands with a heat pack?"

"I did" Beomgyu let out a soft chuckle. He didn't want Taehyun to hold a cold hand. He wanted to him to feel his warmth.

Taehyun smiled to himself and squeezed his hand as they walked out of the house together.

Beomgyu had overcame his trauma and fear of taking Taehyun out alone. He was also fine with riding buses now and that was what they were planning to do.

"We're wearing something similar again" Taehyun pointed out. Beomgyu wore a plain black vest over his white shirt paired with white pants. Taehyun wore a pale yellow mohair blend striped knit vest over a white shirt paired with jeans.

"Hmm, not that similar."

Taehyun frowned at that. "We're both wearing white shirts and vests."

"Right" Beomgyu said, his tone suggesting that he was uninterested.

The younger frowned deeper and tried to pull his hand away from Beomgyu but Beomgyu's grip on his hand was tight.

"I'm just joking with you" Beomgyu laughed and rubbed his palm softly.

"This is not funny" Taehyun hated it whenever Beomgyu teased him. He always knew how to trigger him and it reminded him of how he used to loathe the older. Maybe he still did.

"I'm sorry" Beomgyu looked at the now pissed Taehyun and couldn't help but find it cute. "I'm happy that we are always unintentionally matching. I really am."

Taehyun was starting to believe that Beomgyu a demon. He sure did know how to play with other people's feelings. "I'm happy too."

The bus was more crowded than they had expected. They had to squeeze in.

"Maybe we should have went by car" Beomgyu whispered into Taehyun's ear, his left hand resting on Taehyun's waist with the latter's back pressed against him.

"You're too close."

Beomgyu could see the tips of Taehyun's ears turning red and this made him want to tease him more.

"Cute" the raven haired whispered again, his breath tickling Taehyun.

Taehyun was honestly glad that Beomgyu was much livelier and cheerful now. He could feel that he was no longer holding himself back and there had been improvements in his control of emotions. He was back to his old playful self and Taehyun wasn't sure if he was supposed to be elated about that because Beomgyu would tease him a lot and purposely provoke him. "Stop it hyung, you're harrassing me, stand further away please."