Love Me Again |TAEKOOK|

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Next Day:

Tae leaves faster cause she got a call from Jimin saying they have an important meeting.

She kisses his forehead and writes a letter to Kook and leaves from there, saying bye-byes to Mrs. Jeon.

Later:

Kook wakes up when he no longer felt the warmth. He was confused when he did not find Tae beside him.

He thought it was all his imagination until he saw the scarf, the scarf which Kook gave to her when she lost it. Then he felt like everything is real.

He took it into his hands, and something fell from it.

Kook: "Letter."
He mumbles with a smile.

Letter:

Good morning, Koo baby.

I know you might have felt like everything is a dream, but no. It's not a dream. I need to rush cause I have an important meeting today. But I didn't want to leave without telling you this first.

Thank you for yesterday. For the truffles. For the song. For just... being you.

I think I've written this letter in my head a hundred times. Maybe more. And still, my hands shake while writing the real one.

You were my best friend before anything else. My person. My safest place. And when you left, it felt like someone took the gravity out of my world. I floated for too long, pretending I was fine.

But I wasn't. I missed you. In the smallest ways and the loudest silences.

Your toothbrush still sat in my bathroom for months. I still made two cups of tea out of habit. I wore your hoodie when it rained the one you said made me look like a soft cloud.

But I never told you how much it hurt... because I thought if I held on too tightly, you'd run further.

Mrs. Jeon told me once, "He's scared because he cares too much. Not too little."

And now I see that. Clearly. You didn't leave because you stopped loving me.

You left because you thought your darkness would dim mine.

But love... it's not about staying only when it's bright. It's about holding hands through the dark until it's light again.

I'm not angry anymore, Kook. I'm just... ready.

Ready to stop surviving without you.
Ready to let you in again.
Ready to love you, not like before... but better.

If you're ready too. Meet me where we used to go after school. The swing set by the old tree. I'll wait. Just like you did for me.

I don't know what tomorrow looks like for us. But I do know that last night, it felt like home again. And I want more of that.

I'll see you soon, Koo.

— Yours, Bear."

Kook sat on the edge of his bed, holding the letter against his chest. The scarf lay beside him, soft and worn, but the letter, it burned warmth into his ribs.