Her Neonate

아홉 9

Taehyung found himself sitting in Alani's apartment, on her couch with her sleeping silently on his shoulder.
She started crying so hard she nearly choked, but she fell asleep before she couldn't even touch her food and never finished watching the movie she put on.

Taehyung felt himself yawn and his eyelids slowly fell until he caught himself and jolted up.
Alani groans as she woke, "Taehyung?...you're still here?"

Taehyung pulls out his phone and saw that it was ten fifty-nine and his parents restaurant closed at eleven, "Damnit...I'm sorry Alani" he jumps up to put his shoes back on, Alani kept quiet and watched him grab his bag.
He shouts out a quick, "Good night" before running out her apartment complex.

Alani sighs, even though she wasn't even talking to him she started feeling a little better.

The way his cologne smelled reminded her of her father's and his personality was so similar to angel's it was almost as if he had come home and was watching his favorite movie with her ,Alani reaches over for the Lukewarm chicken Lo Mein in a styrofoam box.
"Good night Taehyung..."

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Taehyung sat in front of his mother and allowed her to scold him, he was definitely a grown man but when it came to his mother,he'd turn into such a child.

"Yes mom"

She crossed her arms as she stared down at him mrs.Kim was furious, all of her customers came in and was given free food because of him.

"What was taking you so long?!"

"Nothing..." he said as he held his head low, His mother eyed him suspiciously.

"Taehyung Kim!" She shouts as she grabs a wooden spoon to hit him, Taehyung flinches and looks up "I was talking to a friend"

"A friend?...A friend?! You stopped working to hang out with your friend?!" She hits him with the spoon on his hand and Taehyung shouts "Yah mom!"
His mother's eyes widen she gets up to chase him around the restaurant "You say yah to me?! Do you wanna die, Huh Huh?!"

"I'm sorry I'm sorry!" Taehyung laughs, he turns to try and calm her, "It was an accident, she needed comforting"

And instantly his mother put the utensil down, "Oh she?...You mean a girl?"

Taehyung shook his head, "It's not like that mom" his cheeks flushed, his mom always brought out the child in Taehyung, you'd never catch him blushing outside of the restaurant like this.

"Ah look at you, your face is getting all red, what's her name?" Mrs.Kim asked with a grin, Taehyung chewed on his lower lip, he wasn't sure if he should say her name or a random Korean female name.

"Your mom is waiting" he heard a voice behind him, he turns and sees his father standing behind the counter, Taehyung scratches his heads

"Her name is Na yeon ...Im Na yeon"

His mother smiles, "That's a beautiful name...is she perhaps beautiful girl?"

Taehyung waves his hand "Aish mom it's not like that" he forced a smile, Alani was pretty but he couldn't really see her as a girlfriend.

"Look at you trying to be all coy, I'll leave it alone for now" she nods his way causing Taehyung to return it, she smiles with a sigh before walking away into the kitchen.

"She's not Koreans is she?"

"What?" Taehyung said with wide eyes, his father chuckles, "Is she American?"

"It doesn't matter,I don't like her that way"  Tae shrugs looking away, he heard his dad laugh "We came to the states for a reason, to indulge in the culture that is America...do you think we'd care what color or shape she was?"

Now Taehyung was chewing on his thumbnail, "Dad..."

His dad turns making Taehyung to quickly ask, "How'd you know she wasn't korean?"

"Just like TT ahh tell me that you be my baby" his dad sung off key causing Taehyung to cringe and laugh, "Ahh Dad"

"Just remember what I said Taehyung " his dad gave him a nod before heading in the kitchen, Taehyung smiles.

But he thinks back on giving Alani a korean name, if the relationship was platonic, why did he have to hide it?