Your Color Has Faded [Complete ✅]

Chapter VIII: Let's talk

Jungkook woke up first, Taehyung turned his back towards him at some point in his sleep. It felt wrong, but he let him stay in bed a bit longer. After crying so much the night before he would most likely need to rest some more.

He got up to have a quick shower as they didn't even manage to change out of their clothes. He quietly picked some underwear, sweatpants and a t-shirt from his wardrobe before leaving for the kitchen. He decided to wake Taehyung with some breakfast, hoping it would help lift his mood.

He checked his fridge and freezer, there were still some frozen strawberries and ingredients for pancakes. He transformed the strawberries into an amazing sauce which he drizzled onto the layered pancakes. As a drink he prepared hot chocolate with whipped cream. Perfect.

After arranging everything on a tray he headed back to the bedroom. Taehyung had already left for the bathroom. Jungkook was a bit sad as he wanted to wake him with the surprise. He turned around and went to the dining table to set everything up.

While waiting he prepared some coffee for himself, then sat down at the table and waited. After ten minutes had passed he grew impatient and went back to the bathroom to check on Taehyung. He knocked before entering.

Taehyung was still inside the shower, motionless, just letting the water fall onto his head. "Tae?" Jungkook called out to him softly. "Are you okay?" The other turned around, eyes red from all the crying. He seemed to have started where he had left off the night before.

Jungkook rushed into the shower to turn it off. It startled him as the water was ice cold. He grabbed the towel off the rail and wrapped it around Taehyung. The skin he touched was really cold. He pulled him into a tight embrace "Tae, what are you doing?" then helped dry his hair and body.

There was no reaction coming from the older who just let everything happen. Somehow he seemed so out of it. Jungkook placed a delicate kiss onto his lover's cold lips. No reaction. He worried even more.

He pulled him out of the shower and back to the bedroom, then pushed the other onto the bed, making him sit down. Jungkook headed to the wardrobe to get a set of clothes for both of them as he got wet again when he jumped into the shower.
"Here, wear this. And I made us some breakfast." the older looked at him and spoke for the first time since last night "I'm not hungry."

"Then at least wear some clothes for now." he went over to the bed and shoved the clothes into his arms. He changed into a dry set, then threw the wet clothes into the bathroom for later and sat down beside Taehyung. His eyes were locked onto the sorrowful face and red swollen eyes.

After two minutes he grew impatient and got back up. He started to dress his motionless lover. How could he get him back to his senses? He didn't like this silence one bit. He grabbed his arm and pulled him back up, dragging him to sit at the dining table.

"Here, at least have some hot chocolate to warm up again." he pushed it toward him.
Jungkook was lost. He didn't know what to do nor what to say. Tears started running down his cheeks again, dropping onto the dining table.

Taehyung finally snapped out of it. He couldn't stand the sight of Jungkook crying. It broke his heart hearing the beautiful voice sobbing and his sniffling. He rushed around the table, kneeling next to him and placed a hand onto his lap.

"Kookie" he said with a raspy low voice. He cried so much at night his throat had gotten sore.
The reason he wasn't able to stop his tears was because the news of Jungkook being stalked made him feel helpless. He felt like he couldn't protect his lover. He was useless. But he didn't want to hurt his love like this.

"I am sorry, my love. Let us finish the breakfast you prepared and try to talk about it, okay?" he reached for Jungkook's cheek, wiping away the tears that flowed endlessly. He nodded in a weak motion, then wiped the remaining tears into his sleeves. He tried to smile at Taehyung, but failed miserably. They were both too shaken from their emotions of last night.