Decoupled • KTH : Book 1✔

Chapter 42

Maya

"What?" Taehyung's eyes go wide, and the tone of his voice perfectly aligns with the shock he feels upon hearing what I just said.

"Yeah, but why is it shocking, though? We never used any protection, did we?" I ask him, quite surprised by his reaction, and he lowers his head a little, nodding.

"I'm not sure what it is, but I have a feeling that it could be something," an untimely smile creeps up my lips as I speak.

"When did you know?" Taehyung asks; his eyes lifting to look at me, making my eyes land on him.

"I'm late by a week, and I have no symptoms of an incoming period," I answer him, hoping that it should be a pregnancy.

But I get it why he might be feeling a little weird, considering the poor timing of this missed period right in the midst of his divorce proceedings.

He remains silent, but I know that something is probably running within his mind.

"I even got drunk a day before I was supposed to start my period, and that's what troubles me," I add worriedly.

Taehyung exhales in an exhausted manner.
"Should we wait, Maya?" His voice deepens as he begins chewing his lips, and he looks at me with a lot of worry and anxiety.

"We have to," I nod my head a few times. "Because today, I want to meet Jang-Mi, and I don't want anything else to preoccupy my thoughts. Let's wait until I'm done meeting her," I respond decisively while I type out a text message to Jang-Mi and get out of bed, pushing this topic away for a better time.

***

A few hours later,
"Maya, I still think this is a bad idea," Taehyung speaks in a concerned manner as he paces the length of the room while I fix my hair and check my reflection in the mirror.

Taehyung plops down at the edge of the bed and pushes his hair back with both his hands. Moving my gaze to him, I notice how tired and worked-up he looks—the worst he has looked in these past few months that we've been together.

Meeting Jang-Mi might put me at a dead end and probably not help with anything at all, but one thing that I'm confident about is that I'm not aiming for an outcome from today's meeting.

Jang-Mi is a woman, a mother, and a wife who must also be going through a very hard phase in life right now with the divorce proceedings and separation from Taehyung. Even though Taehyung seems cool and confident about the divorce, I can still feel the prick within his chest.

It is draining him, making him feel bad. And I'm pretty sure Jang-Mi must be feeling extremely distraught too; she has lived as his wife and a mother for so many years, after all.

I don't have a say in anything regarding their divorce, but the only thing I can do is to listen to them and be a board for both of them to let out their feelings and frustration. Through this hard phase of their lives, I only want them both to understand that there's someone who will always listen to them.

At least if I meet her today and hear her out, somewhere in a corner of my mind, I'm hoping that the guilt which is killing me from the inside would reduce, even if it'd be by just a small margin.

I sit down close beside Taehyung on the bed, placing a hand on his thigh and keeping my eyes on my hand.

"Taehyung, she must be having a hard time too. No matter how hard and bad your marriage with her has been, I don't think I can just watch her suffer like that. I'm already feeling so guilty about everything. You have me, but I don't know if she has someone she can talk to, and today, I'm not going to mediate or convince or accuse her. I would never do any of that. I only want to listen to her and be there for her," my eyes lift to meet Taehyung's troubled ones.