Where We Came | TaeGyu

Chapter 14; "Acceptance."

'Acceptance'

"I have to go, I'm sorry." Taehyun stood up and patted his pants that had some spots with sand, cleaning it.

Beomgyu held Taehyun's hand from his spot, his fingertips caressing the younger's palms. He looked up and looked at Taehyun with gleaming eyes, it was sparkling due to the gathering tears on his sclera.

"Taehyun, will I ever meet you again?" He softly asked, almost like a mutter.

"You will someday. But I don't think we'll see each other as.. friends." Taehyun's voice lowered down at the last part, still smiling lightly.

"Hmm." Beomgyu hummed, "Alright, take care." he finally let go.

'Let's accept this. Please, Beomgyu. Don't cry.' He didn't like to appear mentally weak in front of others, his job was to smile and tell everyone he was okay. But right now, he couldn't handle it anymore because of the pain clenching his heart.

Taehyun left his side as his footsteps rang through Beomgyu's mind, after a while - the sky was dark and lots of stars were brightly shining on the sky. He started to sniffle, tears dropping down on the sand, he crawled up into a ball as he wrapped his legs close to his chest.

He cried hard and loudly, his hands grabbing tightly onto his knees.

Taehyun helped Beomgyu conquer and overcome his fears, he made him do the every first things in his life that he didn't even expect himself to do with him, he made Beomgyu truly love someone the most, comforted and listened to him whenever he's talking or ranting. He felt so loved by Taehyun but fate was drifting them apart for the first time.

"Taehyun-ah!" Beomgyu giggled, snuggling in closer to the younger's arms as they lay on the bed.

"Hm?" Taehyun quietly hummed, responding softly to Beomgyu.

"I love you." He said in the friendly way.

"I love you too, hyung." Taehyun smiled and kissed his forehead.

I guess now was actually romantic, wasn't it? Same words, different meanings.

"C'mon, let me buy you strawberry ice cream." Taehyun ruffled Beomgyu's hair as he was sulking. They were not really close in this memory but Taehyun already knew Beomgyu well. They had a small fight and Taehyun was trying to make them up.

"How did you know my favorite flavor of ice cream is strawberry?" Beomgyu gasped, looking up as he untie his arms that were crossing just now, he was sitting on Taehyun's seat while everyone else left for lunch.

"I just know." Taehyun smiled, gesturing with his eyes that they should go now and knew that Beomgyu lowkey wanted it.

He knew many details of me even when we're not close.

Beomgyu was having fun spilling many stories to Taehyun, but then someone interrupted them by saying something offensive. Beomgyu accepted it and apologized quietly. Taehyun noticed that his mood turned gloomy so he attacked back.

"Can't you say it kindly though?" Taehyun spat, glaring at the males.

"Hah, why do you care? Don't you get annoyed? He talks so much." The other guy bit back.

"Why are you problematic? You can just say 'I'm sorry but can you lower your voice down? Thank you' - rather than 'Boy, can you shut the fuck up?'." he mocked and repeated what the rude man said.

Beomgyu was stunned to hear Taehyun swear and see him get mad for someone who got mad at him, the tip of his ears brightly red.

You protected and covered up for me when someone said something bad, comforted me silently by your words when I needed it.