To See The Sun | KTH x Reader

Chapter 3

Your health was deteriorating and there wasn't much you could do about it, the doctor said you were going to have regular visits to the hospital because of this. You had been severely malnourished and it was affecting your organs.

You didn't mind. You had never really expected to live long anyways.

You've been here for weeks now and Taehyung and his grandmother, or as she said to call her, halmeoni, have never missed a day to visit you.

According to halmeoni, it was Taehyung who was waking up early and dragging her out the house each day. Halmeoni had also said that Taehyung hated waking up early, normally, however for the past week he couldn't stop smiling the minute he opened his eyes.

Halmeoni was also helping you to learn the language and you were really improving. You spent day and night studying, not having anything better to do.

You never saw that boy, Liam, again, and you wondered where he could've gone to.

"Y/N!" you heard a familiar voice scream for you. When he enters the room running he's holding something in his hand.

You think before asking, "what is that for?" in korean, struggling a bit but still managing.

"These," he says, stuffing the item in your hands and then starts doing a drum roll by hitting your bedside table, "are flowers!"

You rolled your eyes, you knew that, but you wanted to know why he had them, "but what are they for?" you ask again.

"They're for you, Y/n," he says.

"They're dying," you state, and he just tilts his head confused, and then you clarify, "what I mean is...it's funny... is that the word? Funny?, it's funny to give a dying person dying flowers."

Halmeoni comes in the room and smiles at both of you, "Ironic, I think the word you're looking for is ironic, sweetheart, and suppose you're right, it is pretty ironic."

You nod your head, ironic, you think, trying to memorise yet another word.

"But, you're not dying," Halmeoni continues and smiles, "and, these flowers are to congratulate you, Y/n, you're finally getting out of this hospital and are going to stay in the Daegu adoption centre until they find a foster home for you."

You look to the floor, upset and ask, with a quiet voice, barely a whisper, "will you be leaving me then?"

Halmeoni looks at you and chuckles, "of course not sweetie, we'll visit you"

"But why can't you just take me instead?" You ask. This is what always happens, they give you nice things and then leave, as if that'd be enough to fill the void they leave behind when they're gone.

Halmeoni looks at you with sad, guilty eyes, "trust me, if I could've, I would've"

You just nod your head, still not quite understanding why she was leaving you.

You never really understood why anyone left you, what had you done that was so wrong?

You were just a kid, and yet here you are already failing at life.

Taehyung then speaks up, "I won't leave you Y/n, I promise." And for some reason you believe him.

Taehyung then looks to his Halmeoni, "can we go and play now? Please, please, please?," he begs.

As soon as Halmeoni gives a small nod to Taehyung, he grabs your hand, and with you giggling the whole way, he runs to the recreational centre. It was placed inside the hospital but there was no roof attempting to create this illusion of outdoors and freedom.

The room had a colourful playground which wasn't too small, but it wasn't very big either. The floor was made from crumb rubber which was made with an array of colours such as pink, lime, yellow, and blue.

However, the brightness and colours had always just come off as superficial to you, like this playground was trying way too hard to be something it wasn't.

"What are we going to play, Tae?," you ask him, tilting your head to the side in curiousity. Taehyung had been creating fun games for the entirety of your stay at the hospital. He was really good at it, as someone who was usually an awkward person, Taehyung had made everything just feel so easy.

He made up games where we pretended the floor was infested with snakes and we couldn't touch it. And then, he would make the game so much more fun when he would say those snakes were slowly slithering up and you would both frantically climb up the playground, on top of the monkey bars, seeking refuge.

And everytime, without fail, you would both forget about the snakes, and just talk on the monkey bars about the most random and unimportant things, laughing and giggling like maniacs.

Taehyung makes you feel like a kid again, he makes you forget everything for those much too short moments you're with him, with him, you can feel like you're living a different life. And maybe... just maybe, with Taehyung around, you can.

Taehyung made up so many other games too, ones you hold close to your heart, trying to remember those instead of every other horrible thing you've been through.

"How about..." Taehyung ponders, his pointer finger lightly tapping his chin as he makes a funny face, causing you to giggle at him and him to smile at you, he finally answers, after delaying for suspense, "Restaurant!".

And that's what you both do, where you play the role of the guest, and Taehyung, in his very Taehyung fashion, decides he wants to play the role of not just the server, but also of the chef and of your "date", because according to him you're too pretty to be going to dinner alone and it would be "un-manly" of him to let you do that.

So as you sit comfortably on the floor, because according to the server, "the restaurant's food is just so good, it doesn't need any fancy furniture to make you like it", Taehyung hilariously switches between each one of his roles, giving each one a different accent and position to stand in to differentiate them.

By the end of the day, you're both on your backs, laughing uncontrollably side by side. When halmeoni tells you it's time for Taehyung to leave, you clutch his hand tightly, desperately trying to get him to stay and he clutches your hand right back, not wanting to leave.

But, just as every other day you and Taehyung wouldn't let eachother go, halmeoni managed to separate the two of you and drag her grandson away, even if she also felt disappointed to leave you.

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A/N

Hello my gorgeous, gorgeous readers, how have you been? I'm so sorry for how long it's been, I ended up in hospital for some time, so that kinda sucked, but also nothing I'm not used to either lol.

We've gotten 17 reads, whoo! And have you listened to Hope on The Street Vol. 1? It's soooo freaking good, like Hobi does not get enough credit at all, he's such an insanely talented producer and songwriter.

What's your favourite track? Mine's "lock/unlock", like it's so addicting!

Also, are any of you swifties? Have you heard the new album?! It's so good, but like also I haven't stopped sobbing, and I haven't even experienced most of the stuff she sings about. (in a romantic sense anyways) What's your favourite track on that album? Mine's "I hate it here", like i promise you she actually like wrote that about me lol.

And please, comment, so I don't sound like an idiot rambling to myself, even though that is what I am lol.

Thank you!

Love,

Artemis <3