The Crow (Kim Taehyung Hybrid Au)

chapter 12

"Green."

Money makes the world go around.
That's what Mirae knew ever since she was a kid, and it was further established when her parents gave her away once they couldn't afford to keep her.

Everything in this world revolved around money, it was pretty clear.
School, food, clothes and much more was only available to those with money or to whoever had friends with money. Nothing is free.

And now she didn't have to worry about budgets and her rent since Jin would be paying her 80000 won each day she was able to spend with Taehyung without injuries or accidents.

Jin said she wasn't needed on Sunday at the clinic because the local hybrids seemed to be a little agitated with something, and since he didn't want her to be attacked she stayed home.

Now she was stuck at home with Taehyung as he slept in her bed whilst locked inside her bedroom and she sat on the couch to watch the new episode of BTS RUN, the girls were doing a sort of soap challenge.

Without realising it, the time went by and it was already getting dark outside. Mirae had officially spent the whole day watching Tv again.

She looked at the time and frowned, she didn't have breakfast nor lunch today. Taehyung included.

She gasped and rushed over to her bedroom door only to find it still locked from the inside, she frowned and gently knocked with her knuckles.

The door crept open and she was met with a much colder dim lit room than her usual warm bedroom. Mirae took a few steps inside and noticed that the window was open, her heart stopped.

"Taehyung?" She called and soon enough the door behind her closed and her body was met with a sharp pain in the form of electricity. She quickly turned around and pushed whoever was close to her.

She looked up at the taller figure and her eyes met a pair of strangely warm blue ones "You scared me! Aish..." She sighed in relief.

"Where were you?" He asked, his voice trembling and slightly husky.

"I lost track of time?" She tilted her head once noticing how shiny his eyes looked, "Are you...Are you crying?" She reached out to touch him but he began to step away from her.

"You left me alone." He said, a single tear dropping down his cheek and increasing the poor girl's confusing.

"What happened? I thought--" Her eyes were then met with a green flicking light on the metal collar around his neck. Mirae could feel her body tensing up at the sight.

"You thought what?" Taehyung asked, his voice starting to break with each word, Mirae blinked back to reality and finally met his gaze.

"I'm sorry," She sighed and sat on the edge of the bed, eventually patting the space beside her for him. He continued to stand.

"You're sorry?" He frowned, even more tears forming inside his eyes. He looked surprised.

"I forget to eat sometimes. So please call me whenever you're hungry so I won't forget, is that okay?" She gave him a faint smile.

Mirae didn't know why he was being so sentimental all of the sudden, but it had something to do with the collar, that's for sure. It was her first time seeing it flicking green instead of the vibrant crimson red. Something was off.

Suddenly the hybrid placed himself on his knees in front of her, his icy cold eyes now a warm lake as he looked up at her .

"So you still want me here?" He asked, his voice almost a whisper the more he spoke.

Mirae couldn't help but her heart skip a beat as she stared down at him, something in him had definitely changed. She couldn't help but wonder if it were even permanent.

"Yes. I do." She smiled, and right then and there, her heart had been stolen away. Her pulse couldn't help but quicken when he gave her a genuine boxy smile, she could only hide away the grin emerging on the lips.

"Come on, I'll make us some food." She said and stood up to wall towards the kitchen.
She grabbed a few pieces of bread and heat up some bacon and eggs, she placed them together between pieces of bread and eventually set the two into plates.

"Food's ready, little crow!" She called out while placing the plates on the coffe table in front of the couch.

"My name is Taehyung." She jumped when she noticed him sitting down next to her, his voice was cold again and continued to move much stiffer than before.

His collar was flashing a red again.