My Beloved Rival [Kim Taehyung FF]

Chapter 11- Don't worry, I got your back

"He's my ex... also, my first-t boyfriend," I said with tears welling up in my eyes. I looked down, avoiding his gaze as I let the tears fall on the ground. I gripped tightly onto my skirt when I felt someone hug me. I opened my eyes to meet his warm brown eyes. 

"Y/n, from now till the next few minutes... I'll be your comfort zone and no one can hear or see you so you can cry and yell as much as you want. No one other than I can hear or see you so don't worry, I got your back" He said while tears rolled down as I started crying. I cried for five minutes straight and he didn't let go of me once. Why do you always prove me wrong that you are not like others but you are different? 

"Umm... Y/n... I don't want to interrupt your crying session but... I feel like you gonna drain the 70% of water in your body if you cry for a few more minutes" I heard him say only to get pinched by me as he yelped in pain, finally letting go of me.  

"Here you go... your nose is red like Rudolph," He said handing me his handkerchief 

"Shut up" I mumbled. I started walking towards the wall and sat down leaning against it while Taehyung followed me and joined me. 

"I need to change my shirt," He said looking at his shirt which was almost completely drenched

"Don't ask me for the money for dry cleaning, you proposed this offer, not me" I said 

"You are one ungrateful girl you know that?!" 

"Shut up" 

"But Y/n, I'm curious of one thing" He spoke looking at the sky

"What is that?" 

"What actually happened between you two?" He said as my movement halted. I gripped onto the handkerchief, afraid that he'll say the same thing everyone else ever told me. 

"I know this might be uncomfortable for you but... I really want to know your story, even if it's something you can't tell, I'll listen to it and not judge you" He said and his words made me smile. Taehyung... you always prove to me that you are different from others and I'm no longer afraid whether you'll judge me or not. I smiled and looked down before saying,

"Isn't it a miracle, when your crush tells you that he likes you back? That was the same thing for me. It was the first year of middle school and I didn't know Ji-ah or Jungkook or Jimin back then. Before I became friends with them, I had a crush on this guy... he was the school topper and every student and teacher admired him as for me, I was just an average student who couldn't even score marks which would even match his standards. He was Lee Ji-hoon. Popular among teachers for his academic and sport skills and popular among the girls for his looks and behavior.

I was the type to admire him from far but one day... the teacher made us sit together so that he could help me with studies. The feelings for him which I had buried somewhere deep inside me started to come out with every action of his. I knew he would never date someone like me but he proved me wrong and one day... he asked me out but everything started going wrong from that moments onwards"

"What happened after that?" 

"The teachers started comparing me to him because of our difference in marks, the girls who liked him started bullying him but I never complained to him because I just wanted him to smile but I could feel myself getting crumbled down. I felt like I lost myself. Whenever I wanted to talk to him about this he'd always say, 'can we talk- later? I'm busy right now'. Everything was destroyed when our results for mid-term came out. As usual he had topped but as for me, I had scored really bad marks because of what had been going on. I was called for counselling and the bullying increased but that wasn't what hurt me, what hurt me more was that despite knowing everything, he just stood there and did nothing" 

"Y/n..."

"I couldn't after that anymore. I broke up with him after that incident and he changed schools not caring what aftermath effect it would have on me. Everyone blamed me for this. They called me names and treated me like nobody. That was the day I decided that I will let no one crumble me down. I studied harder than ever and improved my rank by 10 places. Everyone was shocked by all this but they still said, 'anyone can do this'. That's when I realized, if you aren't the top, everyone is going to treat you like nobody, be it your teachers, your so-called classmates or your own boyfriend" I said as I looked at him who was already looking at me

"Wait... is that why you always compete with me for the first place?" He questioned making me nod

"Woah! And I couldn't figure out for two years why the hell do you always compete with me no matter what is it! But I would've never known about the story behind it if you hadn't told me about it" He said

"Now that you know it, can you get less marks for once and let me win for once?" I said with puppy eyes to which he smiled before saying,

"No, Ms. second place" The last three words were emphasized once again and I felt arrows being shot right in my heart. 

"Oh god I hate you so much, Taehyung!" I said

"I know, that's what rivals are for but... I hate you more than you hate me" He replied

"Oh now you challenging me again?! Fine! I hate you more than the hate you hate me with thinking I hate you less than that!" What I said was totally nonsense

"So you gonna take it like this? You know what, I hate you more than you hate me thinking you hate me more than how much I hate you but I hate you more than the hate you give me" 

We kept blabbering nonsense as we finally started laughing out loud. Even if he's my rival, I would be lying if I say that he did not make me laugh the most in these two years of my high-school life. But little did we know someone was watching us from afar.

'When did you change so much... Y/n?'