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I show Taehyung my back yard that consists of a large pool. He opens his mouth in shock and runs over to look at the water. "Can I touch?" He asks.

"You can jump in, it's a pool.." I say, walking over to him. Instead of him jumping in, he pushes me into the pool. "Yah!" I yell at him, furrowing my eyebrows.

Taehyung smiles and jumps in after me. "This is so cool!" He yells, splashing around the water like a little kid. He goes underwater, looking at his hands and swishing them around. Then he holds his hands to his nose and comes back up to the surface.

"I can't breathe water!" He yells, flopping on his back. Now he just floats on top of the water. I facepalm as he discovers the essence of water. Now Taehyung is swimming on the surface of the water like a frog. His legs move in the same form of a frog.

Right when he stops moving, he sinks down to the bottom of the pool. I stare at him for a while, softly kicking his foot to see if he will move. Taehyung smiles at me from the bottom of the pool.

He holds his hand out to me and I grab it. I try to pull him up, but he pulls me underwater with him. My face is just an inch away from his. Taehyung gets up, pulling me with him, as we resurface, I am pushed onto his chest from the pressure of water.

I can feel my face turning red as Taehyung moves around with me leaning on his chest. He moves forward, pushing me along with his steps. "Your heart beat is fast." He analyzes.

In embarrassment, I scoot away from him. "It's because I like the water," I excuse myself. Taehyung stops moving around.

"You are in love with water?" He asks.

"No!" I yell, getting out of the pool. Taehyung smiles and follows me. After he gets out, he starts playing with the leaves on the ground like a kid.

"Do you live around here?" I ask while grabbing a towel from the outside cabinet for both of us. I throw the towel at him and he catches it although he wasn't looking towards me.

"Hmm, no." He says, now playing with the bugs in the dirt near the tree. My body shudders slightly as he picks up a bunch of bugs.

"Um, are you homeless then?" I ask, joking a little bit.

"Without a home? Yes." He replies with no tone of sarcasm in his voice.

Maybe he ran away from home? I think to myself. I can't just let him walk around, especially when he seems to have the mind of a 6 year old.

"You can stay at my place for awhile, I don't mind." I say, hesitantly. Taehyung looks up at me from his bugs. He brushes all the bugs off of him and gets up to walk towards me.

My heart simultaneously starts to beat a little bit faster as he comes closer to me. "My clothes are wet." He says. I rub my eye in embarrassment and dry myself off before heading back in the house.

"I'll get you some clothes to wear. Dry yourself before you come in."

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