time // taegyu

2 | back at it again

5.4.2019

beep. beep. beep.

"taehyun....taehyun!", a frantic voice of a woman called out.

the said boy slowly opened his eyes. the light was dazzling. he struggled to open his eyes and felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. it took him a few seconds to adjust to the bright light. he opened his eyes and saw a white ceiling above him. he was lying somewhere, on a bed. a monitor somewhere beside him kept on making beeping sounds. and the boy could figure out that he was nowhere but at a hospital. an iv drip was attached to his left hand.

the boy slowly turned his head to see a familiar face of a woman who sat beside his bed.
taehyun took a few seconds to adjust his eyes to the woman.

"Y-YOU'RE AWAKE! y-you got me so worried", the woman said while looking at him with a relieved face.

"m-mom?"

"oh god! you've been out for an hour!", the woman cried out and embraced taehyun in her arms.

just an hour? didn't i die?

"w-why am i here?", taehyun muttered.

"you've fainted taehyun!"

fainted? i'm sure i was murdered.

"weren't you supposed to be in australia though?", taehyun asked with an absolute confused face.

"a-australia? what are you talking about? were you dreaming?", his mother gave him the same confused look and pulled out from the hug.

what the fuck is happening??

"i was hit on the head by a guy as far as i remember."

"your nightmares must be really traumatic", she sighed.

nightmare? what is she saying?

"IT WAS NOT A NIGHTMARE MOM! I WAS HI-",
he was suddenly cut off by his mother who embraced him again and rubbed circles on his back making him calm down.

"it's okay taehyun. i'm here.", her sweet and low voice surely did help taehyun to calm down but internally he was going crazy. he couldn't catch an idea about what was happening.

"you were in the college canteen when i got a phone call from your principal, informing me that you fainted, so i rushed to the hospital. you have no idea but my heart was about to fall off.", she told him, still holding the boy in her arms.

c-college? but i graduated three years ago?

this was not what i remembered. i was murdered by that fucker. i-i was hit. fuck.

"mom?"

"yes, sweetheart?"

"what year is it?"

"it's 2019. why?"

"y-you're joking right??"

"i'm not? you can check that calendar", she pointed towards the calendar hanging on the wall.

she is right. it is indeed 2019. but how is it possible?

taehyun remain frozen in his bed, unable to digest the words that came out of his mom. though it only took like a minute for him to steady his breath. he managed to spat out some words, "i-i want to g-go to the washroom"

"oh sweetheart! help yourself"

taehyun weakly got off from the bed and got out of the room. he made his way to the washroom while walking along the hospital corridor.
when he reached the washroom, he decided to face the huge mirror. and when he did, his mouth dropped open. his face looked way different and his hair was black. his vision was slightly blurred and he remembered that he wore glasses in his college years due to his poor eyesight. he got them removed by early 2023.