Ephemeral meaning: lasting for a very short time.
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"I hate you!" you scream as you collapse to the floor, Tae wraps an arm around you but you push him away.
"Don't touch me," you warn and you hear him sigh.
"I'm sorry y/n," he whispers and this time its you that sighs. You close your eyes, taking in a shaky breath and trying to calm yourself down. You knew he was sorry, and your mind wanted to forgive him, but your heart was telling you something different.
"I know you're sorry Tae, okay I know you are. I am too but sorry isn't alwys going to work," you state, digging your nails into your palms as you try to keep a steady voice.
You'd only been dating a few months, but it was constant fighting, and when you weren't fighting, the happy times were short-lived. You take a deep breath and look at him, he had blue/black bags under his eyes, his face pale, his hair was someting to be desired, bruises and cuts littered his body. And not only all of that, but he was beginning to look thinner than nornal.
You imagined you looked about the sane state as him. He ran a hand through his disheveled hair and closed his eyes tight. "I know sorry won't always work," he whispers, and a single tear rolls down his cheek.
"I know things are bad y/n, I know we're running low on food and I know that we're struggling with bills and rent, but I don't care about any of that shit as long as I'm with you. I love you y/n, more than you could ever imagine. Yes we fight, a lot, but we can fix that." He says and you stare at the ground.
It was true, you worked 2 jobs and Tae worked hard hours. You take a look around the room and see that pizza boxes littered the floor of your small one-bedroom apartment, dirty clothes and clean ones alike were strewn about, there were holes in the walls, dips in the floor, leaking ceilings, and broken glass in corners. "Let's get out of here," he whispers.
You look up at him and his eyes are filled with hope, and hurt. "We can't Tae, you know we can't," you say back, he just stares at you.
"This place, its draining everything out of us," he says and averts his gsze to the window. Looking out, longingly.
"Tae, you know we have nowhere else to go, your friends are tired of housing us, and you know we can't ask my parents," you whisper, you wanted just as badly to get out. But there was nowhere else you could go.
He looks down at you and nods. He holds out his hand and you grasp it tightly, he gives you a sad smile and pulls you up. You wrap your arms around him as he breaks down in your arms. You hold him tighter, whispering calming words in his ear. "Things may be shit, but Kim Taehyung, I love you."
