star-crossed | kth x jjk

2004

another year and taehyung still feels that same feeling in his chest when he sees jeongguk. how does he explain it? like... swelling? yes, a swelling. his heart swelling. taehyung thinks he's found out the reason now, but he doesn't want to acknowledge it. it's wrong, taehyung knows. boys and girls are meant to be together. not boys and boys. right?

jeongguk walks up to taehyung, a balloon in his hand. a blue balloon, with a bunny face imprinted onto it.

"hyung, happy birthday!"

taehyung smiles and jeongguk hands the balloon over to him.

"is that a bunny?"

"yeah."

"it looks just like you."

"no, it doesn't."

"yes, it does! look at its front teeth! they're so big, like yours!"

jeongguk sighs and rolls his eyes at a giggling taehyung, shaking his head and walking away. taehyung laughs even harder, running to catch up with jeongguk. he slings one arm over jeongguk's shoulder.

"you know it's true~"

jeongguk grins and elbows taehyung's stomach and taehyung grimaces and bends over in mock pain.

"ouch, jeongguk, have you been working out or something? because you should if you want to actually hurt people by doing that."

jeongguk turns around rapidly and gets into a fighting stance, wiggling his eyebrows.

"try me."

taehyung throws his head back in laughter, patting jeongguk's back.

"come on, let's go home."

taehyung tries to calm his heart when jeongguk rests his head on taehyung's shoulder as they're walking.

taehyung opens the door to his house and rushes into his room, grabbing a pair of scissors and cutting the balloon. he opens the velvet box for the first time since a year ago and stacks the shell onto the heart shape-covered shell.

"rest well. see you in a year."

taehyung slots the box back into its hiding place, smiling contentedly.