Remember Me? | Kim Taehyung

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I feel my cheeks go red as I slowly turn my gaze down to where Taehyung's arms are wrapped around me. I feel his chest against my back and his chin on my shoulder. I don't say anything, I can't. My breath hitches for a moment. I feel Taehyung pull his arms from around me and spin me to face him. He's so close I have to tilt my head up to see his face, and his head is tilted down to meet my gaze. I swallow somewhat nervously and feel his arms wrap around my waist again. He looks away from me, his eyes on the water behind me.

"Remember summer?" he asks softly. I am a little surprised at first, firstly because he certainly didn't act like he remembered the summer, and secondly because in the time that I've known him, he's never spoken quite so softly before. It takes a moment before I realise that he is waiting for my answer. I nod quickly.

"The water looked like this.." he trails off, his words lost in the noise of the waves gently lapping at the supporting beams of the boulevard. He looks back down at me, his head tilted a little to one side. I reach up and wrap my arms around his neck, and he takes it as encouragement to pull me closer to him, until his forehead is on mine. I hear my heart in my ears, my cheeks burn and I wonder if he can feel the heat coming off them. A cold breeze plays with my jacket and lifts it up, making me shiver in his arms and shrug into him.  I feel his hot breath on my cheek and his eyes bore into mine.
Taehyung leans in to me and his lips touch my cheek, pulling away to see my wide eyes and his box smile lights up his face. He places his forehead on mine again, and then I remember something.

"You're such a douche." I tell him, pulling back a little. He smirks.

"How so?"

"You pretended not to know me and nearly pushed me off the roof." I say, pulling my arms from around his neck and crossing them across my chest. He doesn't let go of me. His smirk disappears.

"ah.. That.. That was because.. When Bangtan find out I like someone they'll try to take her away from me just to piss me off.." he says slowly.

"Well you didn't have to be such a dick about it.. Jungkook and Jimin are always so nice to me.. Maybe I like them instead.." I say. I isn't true, I mean sure I love them as my friends..but Taehyung doesn't need to know that.
His eyes widen and his grip on my loosens. The light seems to leave his eyes and he looks at his feet.

"oh.." he turns away, beginning to walk slowly down the pier away from me. I smile evilly.

"Taehyung." I call, and he stops, turning around to me. I run up to him and through my arms around his neck again. "I was joking."
His boxy smile returns and he wraps his arms around my waist, pulling me into him. His lips meet mine. It's short and sweet.. Or at least the first one is...
I hear footsteps, but I don't think much of it until-

"Hyung? Y/N?"
Taehyung and I pull apart quickly. Jungkook is standing infront of us. His eyes are sad, and I notice he is wearing only a shirt, no jumper. Then I realise that the jacket I am wearing is his. Jungkook looks at me, smiling weakly through his shock, before quickly turning and running away.

"Shit.." Taehyung mutters.

"Jungkook!" I yell after him as he runs, but he doesn't stop, and he doesn't look back. I pull away from Taehyung, stuffing my cold hands in the pockets of Jungkooks jacket and beginning to jog in the direction in which Jungkook had disappeared.
How did he even find us?
I run down the street with Taehyung close behind me, checking all the roads leading off of it but I can't see Jungkook. My head begins to pound and I stop suddenly, my chest heaving.  Taehyung stops beside me, still looking around. My phone buzzes in my jacket pocket. I pull it out.

2 unread messages.

-Suga
Jungkook just turned up at my place..

-Suga
He's crying

Taehyung reads the messages over my shoulder. I hear him curse again.

"What do we do?" I as quietly. He just shrugs.

Taehyung takes me home. He hugs me in the doorway and kissed me again, before running down the garden path and down the street towards his side of town. I run to my room, collapsing on my bed, my face buried in my pillow. I don't know what to do. He looked so hurt.
My phone buzzes again.

1 unread message.

-Chim Chim
You OK princess?

I look up to see him watching worriedly from his bedroom window. I smile weakly and I text back.

-Me
Yeah I guess so, just tired and really fucking cold.

I see him smile as he reads the text. I decide to call Jungkook. I didn't think he would pick up. He didn't the first time, or the second. I didn't expect him to. But on the third try he finally answers.

"Jungkook?  Where are you?"

(Yoongi-Hyung's house..)

"Are you ok?"

There is silence. I can hear that Jungkook is still there,  but it takes forever for him to say anything.

(yeah..)

"no you aren't"

Again he doesn't respond. I remember what he had said to me on our last call

-flashback-

(are you ok?)

"yeah.."

(no you aren't.. Do you need me to come over?)

"yeah.."

-End of flashback-

I try to think of something to say, anything that will vanish the painful silence even for just a moment.

"I still have your jacket.."

(I know..)

More silence. The phone line crackles. Just when I think he has ended the call he speaks up again.

(I'm happy for you, Y/N... I love you.)

The line goes dead.