Tear (Love Yourself Tour - Book 2)

Chapter 6

Adeline's POV:

"Taehyung? What. What are you doing here?" I asked surprised at running into him.

"I could ask you the same thing." He said with a boxy smile.

I smiled at him before I turned serious dropping my smile.

"Are you stalking me?" 

The look on his face made me laugh out loud, but I quickly covered my mouth with my hand to stifle it. I gazed around the room to see people giving me irritated looks before I turned my attention back to Taehyung.

"Sorry." I said with a grin. "You should have seen your face. But seriously what are you doing here?"

"Not stalking you for one." He said with a lopsided grin. "Secondly, Youngchul recommended I check out this exhibit."

"Likely story, but I'll accept it." I said with a chuckle.

"How did YOU end up here?" He asked as he turned to look at the photographs on the wall.

"On a whim." I said with a shrug as I followed his lead facing the wall as well.

"I see. Have you been through the other exhibits?"

"Nope. I actually just got here. This was the first exhibit I stopped at."

He stopped walking and turned to face me.

"Really? Me too. Do you care if I join you?"

"Not at all." I said with a smile.

After agreeing to tour the museum together we turned to face the wall walking along it while commenting on this or that photograph. After we finished Robert Rauschenberg's exhibit, we moved on to the next one. It continued on like that. Walking and talking commenting on this or that at the different exhibits.

Outside of the ones having to do with photography I really enjoyed the exhibits - To Home and back: Individualism and Authority in Art*, 1500-1800 and The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy*. I loved European art. To me Renaissance artists were able to paint in a way that was rarely done these days. There was just something about the style of it. After about an hour and a half we had reached the exit to the museum.

"So, what are your plans now?" He asked as I walked through the door that he was holding open for me before he followed through falling in step next to me.

Before I could say anything, my stomach growled loudly. We both looked at each other and busted out laughing.

"Lunch since I am apparently starving. Did you want to join me? I mean, I don't know if you have to be back or not."

"I don't have to be back anytime soon so I can join you for lunch."

I felt relieve sweep through me along with a little bit of guilt at his answer. Running into Taehyung had been a very much needed distraction. Which wasn't fair to him. Pushing those thoughts aside, I nodded as I pulled my phone out to search for a place nearby to eat at. When I found a place that looked good, I sidled up next to him angling my phone for him to see the place I found.

"You want Korean BBQ?" He asked looking up from my phone.

"Is that okay? I mean, we can get something else if you don't want that." I said quickly.

"No, no, that sounds great. I'm just surprised is all."

"Why?"

"I don't know." He said shrugging his shoulders.