No girls allowed (Jaeyong)

29. Guest in the rain

So Taeyong has never appeared on his party and Jae got back home early. He spent the rest of the summer at home becoming more and more miserable. Ten brought news about Yuta leaving, he told that the boy made a huge goodbye party, but of course Jae and his friends weren't invited. Ten got some news from Mark and found out, that Taeyong was at Yuta's that evening, so Jae became even more frustrated and sad. Soon Yuta left the country and Jae wondered how the approaching school year will look like. What will Johnny, Hansol and the rest of the clique do without their king?

It was two days before the official start of the school and Jae was home alone, because his parents were visiting friends. It got dark, but he never bothered to turn on the lights in the house. A rain played it's music against the windows of the living room and Jae felt the atmosphere fits his mood. Will Taeyong even come back to school? Will he ever see him again? They haven't spoken for over a month and Jae tried to settle with the thought, that it's over.

A knock on the front door made all his hair stand up. Who could visit him today? Doyong would have called the same applied to Taeil, so it must have been the little forgetful and always cheerful Ten. The person knocked again, so Jae groand moving up from the couch and walking to the door. He opened it and his mouth fell open, he definitely wasn't expecting this guest.

There was a frozen girl on the doormat, with wet clothes and dripping long dark hair, and Jae shivered.

"Laufen," he stuttered her name, but instead of saying something, the girl fell on him and hugged him tightly sobbing in his chest, and Jae stiffened.

No girl has ever hugged him, or cried into his clothes and he felt so hopeless.

So he stood there like a sculpture and waited, till she calmed down, and moved away from him.

"I'm so sorry, but you're the only person I could think of. I need someone to talk," she tried to wash her tears away.

"Oh come in," Jae opened the door further and hurried to turn on the light.

"No you can leave it like that, I look horrible, my make up is all gone by the rain," whispered Lauren and Jae froze with his hand on the light switch.

"Do you need a towel?" asked Jae, when she took place on the living room floor in the dim gray night light, that was falling through the windows.

"Would be nice," she said and Jae ran to the bathroom, found a fresh towel his mom used, then hurried back.

He gave the towel to the girl and she started to dry her hair with it, while Jae sat on the floor next to her.

He felt strange. They were alone in the darkness, but not him and Taeyong, just him and Yuta's girl.

"I'm sorry again, but I can't deal with it, and you're the only one who understands," Lauren blew her nose into the towel. "He's gone for four days and I can't find any place, where I could live. No matter if I try to sleep, walk, or sit, watch movies, read, or dance, I can't stand this emptiness. It hurts so bad I could scream day and night," she spoke and Jae felt how close it was to what he experienced during this month without a word from Taeyong.

"So talk I'm hefe to listen," he said feeling she's someone, who could also understand his pain.

"I had months to prepare and I tried, but I've never been ready fo this. It's beyond anything I could imagine," she took a breath and in the dim light Jae noticed fresh tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Do you call him?" asked Jae.

"Of course I call him, we skype each day, but it's way not enough, I need his presence, his touch. My skin is burning and I feel like someone crazy, because it hurts physically to be without his touch," she spoke and Jae felt, that maybe it wasn't that bad, that he and Taeyong kissed so rarely.