endless • kth

f o r t y s i x

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focusing the rest of that day on his classes was almost an impossible task. taehyung would glance at the small window framed on his classroom door, every time a student passed. the thought of catching a glimpse of the orange-haired just made his heart race.

even if another student confirmed her existence, he couldn't help but think it was still a product of his imagination and that maybe she wasn't ara but a girl who looked pretty similar to her instead.

he had suffered plenty in the recent years. hallucinating visions of her around him. every country he visited he would see fragments of her in other women faces. it was useless. he knew she was gone, and he's been running from the cruel fate of being alone, without her, the past 225 years. 

he thought maybe living in other places, going as far away as he could from the place where he met all the aras in the past, would relieve his pain and eventually all his memories of her would vanish away but he was wrong. time only made it worse, to the point he would wake up in the middle of the night bathed in sweat after having a nightmare with one of them.

taehyung was tired to the point where he even stopped sleeping for a couple of years but it brought big consequences to his body. he had to go under treatment and he finally got his sleeping habits back after a long battle against depression.

without a doubt, the vision of han ara in the present had triggered something inside him. he couldn't believe his own eyes and ears but still, deep inside his heart, a little hope remained at the thought of what han ara said to him in the past, about humans having four lives, he really wished it was true, because if it was, that meant he had met all previous aras in the past and this was probably ara's last life. 

he cleared his throat once the bell rang. "you can go now." he said to his class as he turned around, taking his glasses off, closing his eyes and trying to control his breathing.

it was lunch break and that meant one thing, if ara was truly real and not just a product of his imagination, he might catch a glimpse of her at the cafeteria or the school's backyard. he breathed out as he gathered his stuff and did his way to the teacher's building to leave those books on his office and to collect the ones he needed for the second period after lunch.

he went inside the cafeteria and grabbed his lunch, looking around he noticed how crowded it was, especially the teacher's area. since taehyung didn't know any of them for it was his first week at school, he decided to have his lunch outside. 

there was a quiet area on the school's backyard, on the steps of the football field. the beautiful beach of busan could be seen further, right in front of him. the horizon had a beautiful warm yellow, almost orange tone that quickly brought him memories of someone in the past.

he grabbed his ramen and took a bite of the hot noodles as his eyes were lost in the scenery. when he chose busan, he thought it was the perfect place for him to start again in south korea, since he never lived there before and he never met any of the previous aras in busan. thinking of hiding away or just running away from his fears by going to busan at first was a good idea, but once he arrived and he started seeing visions of her again, his thought of a good idea soon vanished and he found himself trapped in that place, he thought the only beautiful thing was the beach and the view. 

as he was lost in thought he didn't notice when someone was standing a few meters from him, at the entrance of the footbal field's steps. "professor!"

taehyung stopped chewing his noodles as he turned around, looking for the source of the voice calling him. he wasn't used to be called professor yet but he knew if he heard it in the halls or there, it could be refered to him.