Every Time, It's Still You [TaeHyung]

Stress Week

Recap:
"어~ Goodnight MoonStar"
"Your friend better not be a boy 😒"

"Hehe goodnight, it's just Daisy"
"MoonStar? Why are you calling me that?"

"Byul means star in Korean..."
"How do you not know that?"

"Yaaaah don't insult me so deep in the night, go sleep"

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I answered Daisy's call.
"MOONBYULLLL" she screamed across the phone. I stepped out of the room into the hall so I wouldn't wake up the other girls.

"Whaaaat?" I answered, in the same tone.

"I didn't know you were breaking up with me when you left for Koreaaaa" she yelled.

"Hehe what are you talking about?" I could tell she was had been trying to call me for a while.

"MoonByul why don't you ever call me or text me? I'm so lonely without you!"
"I'm sorry Daisy.. I got in a bunch of trouble today."
"You got in trouble? Because you were with TaeHyung?"

I was a bit surprised at first. How did she know? But then I realized she was talking about the incident from a few days ago.

"No, it's because I accidentally slept in today and missed a bunch of my training. They made me stay longer. I just got back to my dorm a few minutes ago." I mean... it's not a complete lie... I did accidentally sleep in...

"WHAAAT?? Are they bullying you?? Don't make me come over there!"

"Haha don't worry! I can defend myself!" I said, trying to ease her mind. She and I have been friends for a long time and she was very protective over me.

"MoonByul, you still haven't told me what happened with TaeHyung! It's been like 2 days now and my imagination has gone wiiiiiild." I knew she would ask me sooner or later... I guess it's better to explain it to her now...

I found an empty common room and shut the door, making sure no one was in the room and no one was outside.

In my lowest voice possible, I told her everything that happened. Except what happened yesterday... Although I was tempted to tell her, I wanted yesterday to be a secret that only TaeHyung and I knew.

"MoonByul, look at you goooo~" she said, a bit hyper. "I didn't realize you were such a man magnet."

"Ew what?" I said. Who even says that anymore? "Ah, Daisy don't tell anyone about what I told you okay? I don't want TaeHyung to get in more trouble than he's already in..."

"Of course I won't!"
"Thank you~"
"Look at you already defending your man, MoonByul" I could imagine her teasing face over the phone.

"He's not mineeee. Stop teasing meee" I could feel my face getting warm. Suddenly I heard the door open, someone walked into the common room.

"Hey Daisy, I should really go sleep... it's really late over here! I'll video chat with you tomorrow! Goodnight!" I said and ended the call.

I got up to go back to my room and I realized that the girl who walked into the common room was one of my roommates. She and I never talked but I could tell that she didn't like me. She looked young... maybe 22?

She and I made eye contact before she made a stink face at me and turned away. Well okay then...

I went back to my room and slept. Like an actual rock. I woke up the next morning with the best rest I had gotten since coming to Korea.

The entirety of the next two weeks were rough. The teachers were strict on me, especially since I was a bit older than the other girls. Me, the girl who had never danced in her entire life, was getting hardcore lessons. They started off with basics but they moved along pretty quickly.

I got home around 1-3AM every night. I was always worn out. However, the timing was perfect to call Daisy every night. In the US, it was afternoon.

TaeHyung and I also texted a bunch over the week. He sent me funny memes and dumb jokes to cheer me up. I'm sure he knows what I was going through, since he's been through it all before.

After two weeks, TaeHyung texted me, asking me if I wanted to hangout with him. He was about to go on tour next week and wanted to play at least once before leaving.

His schedule was worse than mine. Although this year was BTS's 13 year anniversary, they were still as popular, hardworking, and busy as ever. They were constantly releasing albums and doing shows and everything.

TaeHyung loved it. It was his dream. He loved that he got to do it with his members too. He just wished that the company would give him more time off.

Since TaeHyung's schedule was wonkier than mine, we decided to meet at 1:30AM on a Wednesday night, it was after training for me and after a show for him.

On Wednesday, I worked extra hard at training. I tried to get the least scolding possible. I didn't want to be held extra time today. I had places to be.

I finished early! It was only midnight! So I bought some coffee and went to our planned meeting spot an hour early. I called Daisy and chatted for a while.

Daisy was getting married next month. Her fiancé, Daniel, was a professor. A fairly new professor. The three of us went through University together and became really close. Daniel was the one who taught the two of us self defense. He was well trained in karate and taught us basic self defense.

Daisy was making plans for her wedding and would always ask me for advice through video chat. While I was talking to her, someone suddenly appeared in the camera behind me. "Oh!" Daisy said. Her face was shocked.
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