I Need You (Kim Taehyung)

6

"Psst," Jungkook whispers, shaking me slowly. I moaned lowly, wiping my eyes. "What? Nightmares again?" 

"No! Are you coming with me?"

I groaned, my head pounding from how much I cried last night. "Jungkook, what time is it?" I open my eyes slowly, wincing at the sunlight. Jungkook checks his watch. I notice he's already dressed. "It's almost 10. Hurry before the guys wake up."

I stood up and walked to my bag for clothes. I walk into the bathroom and quickly shower in under seven minutes. "Where's Hobi?" I ask as I walk out, drying my hair putting on my glasses. He shrugs and looks at my clothes. "Why do you wear that?" he complains as I slip on my shoes. I sigh. "Now what's the problem with my clothes?"

"The shorts." I chuckle and look down at them. "They're longer than the one's I wore yesterday." He tilts his head to the side. "Change them." My mouth drops. "Jungkook!"

"They're short," he laughs out. "No, they are not!"

"For your thighs, they are." I pout and grab my jeans. "Not those. Too tight in places they shouldn't be." Oh my god. "No, They are not. They are not a size smaller nor a size bigger. Eomma said they fit fine."

"Eomma doesn't see the way boys look at you in those, so change." I growl and grab the other ones, sticking out my middle finger when he begins to say something about the cropped t-shirt I'm wearing.

~0~

"Be nice." Jungkook pleads. I glare at him. "Have I ever been mean to her? I have no reason to treat her like shit." He sighs and closes the truck door he had once opened. "She thinks you and JaeHyun hate her." My heart cringes. "We never said we did."

"You never visited either." I sigh shakily. "She asked us not to, Jungkook. Does she know I'm coming." he thinks about it for a second and shakes his head. I weakly smile. "We never came because she asked us not too. All this time, We thought she hated us." I whisper. Jungkook reaches for my hand and gives it a squeeze. I look up into his eyes and smile. "Let's go."

I walked up the stairs with shaky legs and frantic breathing. My once strong legs felt weak and useless as stood in front of her apartment. "Jungkook," I said as he raised his hand to knock. He looked at me. "Please don't feel as if you owe her anything. Remember he isn't--"

"I know, Tae." he smiles genuinely. He looks at the door. "But she was once someone I deeply cared about."

The minute Ahro opened the door, her smiled dropped as her eyes went from Jungkook to me. I gulped and forced myself to smile to mask the millions of emotions running through me. "TaeLyn," she croaked, breathing out shakily. I let the smile on my face drop as I stepped forward and embraced Ahro. The tears fell from my eyes as she returned the hug and silently sobbed at the door. My brother ignored us, walking into her home and over to the little boy with chubby cheeks. He was sitting on a play mat with his, eyes concentrated on the TV. I gasped the minute I saw him. It had been nine months since I saw him. He was just a newborn then. Flushed cheeks, small eyes and a small patch of black hair. "He looks like him," I whisper, not having the strength to walk closer. Ahro sighs with a smile on her lips, nodding. "He's a lot like him too." I smile as the little boy giggles at my brother, clapping his hands as Jungkook sings along to the Little Einsteins theme song. "How have you been?" she asks me as we sit in the dining room table. I sip my water and avoid eye contact. "Fine." I see her lips twitch. "You can tell me, TaeTae." she whispers. I begin to think she knows something I haven't told her. It's as if she knows what's been going on. Not even Jungkook knows, so how can she? "Jaehyun visited a few months ago." She answers my suspicions. "Does Jungkook know?" My blood boils when I hear that tone in her voice. "Does he know what you did with Jimin?" I finally snap my head to hers and glare. There's always a snake in the garden. Ahro was ours. "We did nothing," I spit. Her lips quirk up. "But you almost did, didn't you?" Tears fill my eyes from rage. "No, we didn't."

"You had to be the naive one and believe his shitty lies, didn't you? You sympathized him even after what he did to me--"

"You didn't even tell him about YooJung--" I exclaimed. "He didn't deserve to know!"

"Woah! What's going on?" Jungkook steps into the kitchen. I sigh shakily and wipe at my tears, turning away from Ahro. "I'll wait in the truck."

The crying caused my headache from this morning to return. I leaned my head against the window and began to feel even more disgusted by myself than I already did. She's right. Even after knowing what he did, I let Jimin have his way with me. If I had let it continue the way it was, I would be her as she was a year ago. A baby bump, alone in another city and shamed by her family. "You okay?" I don't answer my brother. Cause I'm not. And he knows it.

"I'm going to my room," I tell him as I walk past all his friends and our older brother. I close the door behind me and leave out the fire escape up to the roof. I walk to the farthest corner and sit on the edge, my knees up to my chest. I sob silently, closing my eyes and trying to stop my tears.

"TaeLyn." I sniffle and lift my head to look over my shoulder. I look away before he can see my puffy eyes. "Go away," I softly say, staring at the city below me. My heart crinched as her words repeated in my head followed by flashes of Jimin and I in my room. I whimper as another wave of pain and I can't contain the sharp pain in my lower abdomen from letting out a sob using my own throat. I shake harshly and whimper repeatedly, climbing off of the edge of the roof and sitting in the little corner. I let out a loud sob and hiccup. The cringing in my heart won't stop and the flashes in my mind keep playing. 

~0~

Taehyung's heart broke whenever someone cried. It shattered when TaeLyn sobbed loudly and shook as she sat in the corner of the roof. He slowly approached her and sat beside her, stretching his legs. His arm went around her torso and pulled her closer to him. TaeLyn let her legs drape over Taehyung's like she did with Jungkook during the rare times she'd cry. Taehyung couldn't stop TaeLyn's confession and sounds of struggle from the room beside him, from last night, circle in his head. He didn't want to hurt her. He thought long and hard over everything that has happened before yesterday and he noticed all the small things she did. How could he have missed them?

"Tae," he whispered, catching the broken girl off-guard. She lifted her head and blinked at Taehyung with puffy eyes. "Why didn't you ever tell me?" He asked, looking away from the floor of the roof to red eyes. "Why didn't you ever tell me that you liked me?"

"I told you yesterday." She croaked,  blushing more than her flushed cheeks already were colored crimson. "That was a story." he said. TaeLyn's shyness towards Taehyung seeped in and she looked away. She moved to remove her legs from Taehyung's lap but he held it in place. "Look at me." She couldn't. Not when her face resembled the nail polish on her hands. "TaeLyn..." Taehyung pulled her closer till she was on his lap. She gasped, turning to look at Taehyung and beginning to protest. He held her hands to his chest with one hand gripping both TaeLyn's wrists. His empty hand gripped her chin, using it to look at him. Her heart stopped when she looked into his eyes. His lips quirked up slightly. "Why do you look like a tomato?" he mumbled before leaning forward and joining his lips with hers.

Introducing Ahro. Thoughts?