BTS Imagines

Taehyung ~ Faint Hopes

REQUESTED BY @-acupoftae

Kim Taehyung is the son of the widowed man who was living next to your house. The first time you met him was when they were moving in the house. He was sitting on the curb when you were passing by, staring at the phone hanging around his neck. As a kid, you were always cheerful and very optimistic. You didn't like the frown on Taehyung's face so you walked up to him and befriended him right away.

"Hi! I'm Celest. I live in that house." You pointed to your house, "What's your name?"

He didn't say a word, choosing to keep his silence as he held onto the phone tighter. He was obviously ignoring you but you weren't discouraged. "From now on, you're my best friend, okay?"

You spent everyday sitting on the same spot with Taehyung. It took him a long while before he opened up to you and eventually warmed up. He told you all about his mom and how he misses him so much.

Growing up, Taehyung was generally a cheerful kid like you. You were so much alike that people thought you were twins but you just laugh it off with him. Taehyung has told you everything. There were no secrets between the two of you. He would tell you his problems with his dad at home, his girl crushes, even his weird and crazy obsessions.

You didn't realize that you actually have real feelings for him, not until he started to get confessions from other girls in your school. Although Taehyung never accepted any of them, you knew that one day he'd find a girl who he'd want to date.

"Sorry." Taehyung jogged back to you after declining yet another sincere confession from a girl in class 3-B. "I really hate confessions. I always feel so bad afterwards, like I'm always the bad guy."

"Hey, you're not a bad guy." You smiled at him, "You can't just date anyone just because they confessed to you. They should know that they're asking for too much. I mean look at you, you're the Kim Taehyung!"

He laughed, "I didn't even know when I got so popular."

"Aye." You sent him a doubtful look, "Are you really asking me to believe that? Admit it." You added, nudging your elbow to his side, "You like the attention."

"I don't!" His eyes got big all of a sudden and you burst in laughter. "What's so funny? Ah, you're making fun of the Kim Taehyung now."

"Omo." You covered your mouth with your hand and judged him hard. "Don't get ahead of yourself."

"Look at you rolling your eyes at me." He chased after you, yelling like crazy on the way to the school's gate. "Come back here!"

"You're not that great, Taehyung!" You teased him more and kept running cause you know he hates running but you didn't realize that he wasn't following you anymore.

You looked back at him, he was just standing there, "Taehy-" you stopped and noticed why he was just standing there.

The way his eyes followed her as she walked past him. It' the first time you've seen him look at anyone that way. You know what that look is, you know it too well to ignore it; it's the same exact way you look at him when you finally accepted that you're head over heels for your best friend.

His eyes went back to you and he slowly walked up to you. As if nothing happened, he put a hand on you shoulder, laughed with you, smiled with you and as if you were never in love with him, you kept being his best friend. You knew the moment he looked back to steal a glance at that girl that you have no chance with him.

He was falling in love and it's not with you.

...

"Hey, is there something wrong?" He spoke from behind you. He found you sitting behind the tree you used to always go to when you're sad. "This is so not like you."