On Your Way ✓

Chapter 5.

3rd person POV:

"I'm really sorry last night, seonghee. I've a day off today I just received the message. Let's talk when you're back." Taehyung said quietly as he made himself some tea and helped her chop some vegetables for the breakfast and the lunch she had to pack for herself.

"Ah I can't today. Actually my cousin will be picking me up today and then he will just help me pack some luggage, I'll be living with him for around a week. Sorry." Seonghee said in a tone so void of warmth and emotions that taehyung almost flinched.

And he couldn't blame anyone but himself for that. He remembered last night when he refused to answer her questions and all she had said after that was, "I can't be the only one putting in efforts, taehyung. I am still willingly to work on this and if you're not, the least I deserve is the answers to my questions." And with that she had sighed and left him alone once again when she still recieved no words from taehyung. He hadn't gone back to their room after that and had ended up sleeping in the living room.

"That's fine, are you going to be staying with hyunwang?"  He questioned and the woman shook her head immediately.

"No, not him. You don't know him, he wasn't there at our wedding and just came back to South korea a few months ago. He has been asking me to come and visit him for a while now, though I might as well go and meet him. It's been a long time since we caught up, we used to be really close back then before something happened with him." Seonghee was done preparing the breakfast as she served it on the table and packed her lunch.

"I see. Enjoy." Taehyung said with a small smile, as he sat on the chair while drinking his tea, his wife just nodded in response before quietly digging in.

Soon, she had left for work and taehyung had began doing the chores instead to keep himself occupied and not get lost in his head once again last night.

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Taehyung who was immersed in reading a book in the living area, which was a hard task because of how much his eyes and head was hurting, when he heard the notification sound. He picked up the phone to check that it was seonghee who had sent:

'don't order any food in the evening, I got some packed on the way. Just heat it in the evening. I will be home in half an hour.'

*Attached picture of a tattooed hand with painted nails holding the takeout boxes*

His breath hitched that he had to pat his chest when he saw the manly hand fisting around the handle of the bag with takeout boxes.

Taehyung quickly replied to her before throwing his phone away on the couch as he sighed deeply. "Taehyung what is fucking wrong with you." He whispered to himself as he got up and went to his room to change into better clothes because even though seonghee's cousin wasn't staying for long, he was still a guest and greeting him in sweatpants and a tank top doesn't seem appropriate.

When he was done changing into some brown pants and a white t-shirt, he stood infront of the mirror to fix his hair only to see his red rimmed eyes, the dark eye bags and just overall how pale and tired he looked.

He released a shaky breath as he slowly pressed his fingers under his eyes, he usually hides it with a concealer every morning. It's been a while since he saw himself like this with attention.

"Pathetic." Taehyung whispered to himself. He doesn't remember the last time there were no eyebags under his eyes, the last time he got proper sleep without seeing that pair of eyes filled with tears behind his eyes, the last time he smiled, the last time he felt happy. Was he ever even happy? Who knows.

Snapping out of his thoughts before he got too overwhelmed, he opened a drawer to pick up the concealer from there but before he could even open it and begin to apply it, he heard a knock on the maindoor indicating seonghee was home.

Taehyung cursed under his breath as he put the concealer back and quickly went out to open the door and the moment he opened it, everything stopped.

He felt as if a hand was choking him, his vision felt blurry and he felt his knees giving up but he held himself back from falling down as he clutched onto the door to ground himself.

"Taehyung. Meet my cousin, Jungkook."

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