ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴍᴀᴢᴇ • ᴠᴍɪɴ & ᴛᴀᴇᴋᴏᴏᴋ ꜰᴀɴꜰɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ

47. Hidden Lovers Love Quietly

The coldest yet toughest heart needs just a little warmth to help it melt away just a little, to break through that covering and reveal that gentle core that has always been sitting untouched, protected by its covering all the time.

Dowoo took ages to protect his inner child, to shield his gentle core by this covering of toughness but the warmth of those he loves would always have him breaking it.

Like his brother who he loves the most in the whole world.

Taehyung has grown up with him and seen his brother carrying out his personality to be the one he has today, a personality of a tough man but deep inside he knows he's just a silly stubborn kid who requires just love on a daily basis.

It hurts him just as much as if someone has physically hurt him, it causes his heart to ache and his brain to worry and with few words shared the twins ended up sharing tears together that night.

Taehyung didn't let go of that hug until he knew his brother needed him, until he helped him break some of his shell and let him cry which he needed to.

He needed to let some pain go to waste because he had been carrying it a lot all the time.

The elder just cried like he won't stop and Taehyung let him break down on the couch of their living room, embracing his brother as if he was a little child who needed nothing but his presence and comfort.

It was not him who was crying, it was the child in him who didn't get a chance to live his childhood properly. And Taehyung knew it.

As much as Dowoo loves his people, he tends to mistakenly always hurt him and that's how he ended up distancing himself and acting like he doesn't care while deep inside it would kill him.

From his parents to his brother and friends, he has just fist full of people in his life, for them he would even compromise his own life if he has to.

Little him grew scared of being loved because it would seem unnatural to him, a made up lie because he found himself worthless and someone who can't be loved.

And to grow up with Jimin and ending up realizing how he was loved by this certain someone had him fearing love all along.

And in order to not hurt Jimin, he ended up hurting him again and again, countless times and Jimin's words and actions had hurt him all along because for him suddenly he was nothing more than just a brother of his best friend.

This thing to this date haunts him, pierces his heart and hurts him. He can't even say it out loud because it's not him, he doesn't know how to share his feelings because he grew up to always keep them and not bother others. He grew up to numb himself which always added up to it and today he is just a failed example for himself.

But to Taehyung that's not true, his brother is his shield, his knight guard, his friend and his bickering mate whose every I hate you kept nothing but love inside. No matter how annoying they seem to each other, their lives won't mean a thing without each other as well.

Taehyung didn't ask him questions because he knew his brother was too wasted and let him cry until he couldn't and ended up falling asleep on the couch.

The younger one fixed his posture and let him lay like that, wiping the extra droplets of tears off his lashes with his sleeves before running his hand through his hair once.

"You haven't changed a bit, you still cry inside, you always do." Taehyung whispered to his sleeping brother who, with his exhausted body, didn't move a limb and just lost himself to slumber.

The younger stood back wiping his own tears before making his way to his brother's bed to get him a sheet to cover.

Dowoo would carry him and throw him to his bed but Taehyung knew his limits so he let him sleep like that but didn't forget to cover up him in the warmth.