Fragile Longing (Taekook)

Chapter Fifteen

Rhododendron poof
and purple fumes fill my world
Lavish, rich nature.
Maroon like the dawn of days
greeting the sun's honey glaze.

Saffron finch descends
to join the elegant crowd
vast and varying
in colors of the rainbow
that keep me at the window.

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He was not the clingiest person. In fact, Kim Taehyung can count on one hand about the times he let anyone cling to him except his sister. He has always avoided it. So he was a little confused about why he was not doing anything for the past half an hour where a kid has been sitting on his lap, holding onto his neck, face squished on his chest.

He doesn't know why he couldn't push him away when those big eyes looked at him as soon as he tried to. "You know, we have to get up now right? Those people won't hurt you." It was him who had that ability but this kid doesn't need to know that.

"Don't want to." A coconut head moved ferociously.

"Then let's keep sitting here. I mean we don't even need to go back to Seoul. It doesn't matter if your friends die with worry. I mean, I know this place doesn't have electricity and have mosquitoes flying around in night. Also let's not talk about the ghosts that roam at night." He looked at the body then sighed when this have no effect on the one who was still hiding his face in his chest. He tried his last card. "You have to sleep in dark at night." He knew Jungkook hated darkness. He has seen this kid more than just one time to finally understanding it.

That's why he knew it will work.

Just as he thought, two eyes finally met with his, big, bright, suffused with tears that already stopped. "No..no light?"

"Hmm. Absolutely darkness."

There seems to be a tsunami going in that mind before those eyes met with his again, his fingers fumbling with the hem of Taehyung's robe. "Will you..will you stay with me when it will be dark?"

He was confused. In place of fear, as he assumed there will be, it was fearlessness with an unknown kind of peace flashing in those eyes. As if this one already know the answer.

"I will." But so what? So what if he will be there? Why is this one finally smiled a little after hearing it? So what if that smile was turning his upside down? So what if he refused to accept that he was getting addicted to it slowly? So fucking what?

"Then it's ok."

"Why? Why it's ok? It will still be dark, even if I am there with you."

Those bread cheeks puffed out as that head find it's place again on his chest. "Because..."

He knew that kid was going to say something else too when Ethan's head again popped between the doors. "Hopefully I am not disturbing."

"No, you are not. We were just about to come out too."

The huffing sound he got from the one in his arms was clear enough that this fluff ball didn't agreed.

"Great. Everyone is eager to meet you. We are gonna have feast tonight for you guys. Also My Papa bought Ice cream and Banana Milk.."

"Banana milk?"

Finally that coconut head spring to life, still sitting on his lap while looking for confirmation from Ethan who just smiled in return.

"Yeah we have that too. My sister like it too much."

That was all it took for that one to jump to to his feet, a wide smile spreading across his lips. Taehyung was sure that if he looked carefully he really would've been able to see two bunny ear wiggling in happiness.