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Chapter 33: Pears

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Ignore the mistakes plz :)

Third Person POV

Taehyung cuts the wrapping paper completely wrong for the nth time since he's started. Not to mention that the wrapping part isn't supposed to be the first step for now yet he started it like that and right now, there's a mess of papers around him, on the counter and on the floor as well.

He's huffing with every cut that he gets wrong and the flowers next to him on the counter feel the wither of his emotions as well and he frustratingly cuts it wrong again and again.

It's so obvious how much he's hating being out of his bed right now. He couldn't sleep much last night for obvious fucking reason as well and now he's messing up something he's an expert in.

He knows Yoongi has arrived in the shop too and he's giving him all the space he needs before either he goes to Yoongi or the other approaches him, all on his call of course.

But Taehyung grabs the paper and crumples it and throws it away yet again.

I wanted to stay. Taehyung hates how easy it is for some people to lie and make it appear like a truth with the way they say it.

Jeongguk said he wanted to stay but it was such a lie and he said it so---so perfectly like a truth. Taehyung knows the reality. He never wanted to stay because that's why he left.

That's the real truth. It's all Jeongguk wanted from the beginning. To use him, use him so nicely and politely and trap him. The the grand fucking finale, hurt him so bad that he'd not recover from it.

Even it's also Taehyung's own fault. He knows it is. How could he forget that Jeongguk is the one who insulted him in their first meeting, not felt adored by him. He hated him and Taehyung never knew he still did it so much to go all out and hurt him like he just did.

Don't want you away from my life, petal. Fucking liar. He did it all just to keep him away from his life because he's a coward who can't admit---

Admit what?

Taehyung grabs them papers, the flowers and the scissors and hurls them hard towards the wall, making the mess of it and knocks a few ornaments off the wall as well, a clattering noise fills the otherwise silent shop.

Soobin peeps out of the side to see what's going in, finds Taehyung hunched over the counter and breathing heavily as Yeonjun joins him too, both sharing a worried look.

"What happened?" Yoongi asks as he looks at the two boys. "Did you two---".

Yoongi walks further and looks at Taehyung's counter and at him first, the flower boy slowly running a hand in his hair, gritting his teeth in utter frustration.

Yoongi then looks at the cause of the noise and there lay flowers, Taehyung would never ever throw them like this, not even a single flower but there they were, scattered and messed with the papers and scissors, the small vases on the wall also broke over them.

"Taehyung." Yoongi says, as gently as he could.

Taehyung closes his eyes and takes a deep breath, swallows the lump in his throat because he's done crying. He cried a lot yesterday. In front of Jeongguk, alone in his room, even in the morning and he doesn't want to do it again.

Yoongi gestures the two boys to get back to their work and approaches Taehyung who looks up at him with his eyes swollen from last night and less sleep and he visibly looks exhausted.