INEVITABLE; taehyung [✓]

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3rd person

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"about?"

baekhyun avoided jenna's eyes, "us."

jenna felt her heart literally drop to the pit of her stomach, her eyes growing rounded and her cheeks flushing. baekhyun was still avoiding jenna's gaze, too heartbroken to meet her eyes, which were beginning to tear up.

he knew with even a single glance at jenna, he would fall back into her spell, but he kept his mind set completely on doing what was best for jenna- and taehyung.

with teary eyes, a heavy heart, and a large weight on his shoulders, he spoke, "i know you're in love with taehyung."

jenna choked on her own saliva a baekhyun's sudden, and extremely unexpected, statement. she smacked herself in the chest lightly to help break up the mucus caught in her throat, and attempted to speak through the coughing, her words coming out raspy and her coughs interrupting her sentence after each word.

"wha- *cough* are *cough* you *cough cough* talking *cough* about?"

"are you okay?" baekhyun disregarded her question, finally looking up from the ground. he watched jenna effortlessly smack herself in the chest in an attempt to help her coughing spell.

jenna held up a finger, causing baekhyun to seal his lips, simply continuing to watch jenna trying to ease her coughing fit further. eventually, she had finished coughing, clearing her throat of excess phlegm before speaking to baekhyun, her voice raspy from the long spell of coughs.

"what are you talking about, baekhyun?"

"i- i know you're in love with taehyung. i heard you talking with hoseok earlier. and i'm willing to put my feelings aside and put yours first, therefore, i'm breaking up with you."

jenna pried her tired, watery eyes open, her heart shattered once she saw baekhyun force himself to look away from her eyes. she felt weak, broken, and vulnerable in front of baekhyun, her shattered form showcasing her inner torment, a torment and hell she couldn't escape without help. and, as sad as it was, both of her helpers were being ripped away from her- right in front of her eyes.

do you know how heartbreaking it was? how unbelievably painful it was for a sad, broken girl who was given a taste of hope and happiness, to have that hope and happiness ripped away from her directly in front of her? to have her world literally crash down in front of her eyes, for her tree of life to die?

when she was younger, she thought she would blossom as an adult, live her dream of becoming a world famous astronomer or a journalist that traveled the world. but, 15 years later, at the age of 20, she was a broken girl, living in a broken world, with a broken family and a broken heart- without her best friend, who was devastatingly ripped from her as well.

she was utterly drained, and completely exhausted, pleading and begging for even a tinge of happiness to return to her life. and, she knew that happiness was just behind that hospital door, lying in that hospital bed, not certain to open their eyes once more.

"jenna, please, don't cry. you've shed enough tears." baekhyun swiped the pad of his thumb against her cheeks, which were becoming flushed and stained from her oncoming streams of tears. she was too immersed in her thoughts to realize that she was crying, and the only thing that seemed to snap her out of her daze was baekhyun's touch, which although she loved taehyung with all of her heart, she craved.