he created me ᵛᵐᵒⁿ

chapter 19

¤Namjoon sighed and looked down at the beautiful mess he had created¤

They walked into the hotel conscious of the tenseness in the air. Tae flopped down on his bed looking up at the ceiling "so are we going home?"

"no"

Tae was aware that Namjoon was slightly pissed about something, but he himself was pissed about something so he didn't really feel like being nice to him. "I hate it here" he mumbled.

"I don't really care and from my perspective, you were having a hell of a time the last few days" Namjoon retorted.

"I don't like Jungkook either," Tae said turning around.

"You deserved what he did because you were being rude" Namjoon said pressing his lips into a thin line with his arms crossed on his chest.

"If he didn't start it I wouldn't have been mad," Tae said to the cream-colored walls.

"He is allowed to talk to you as he sees fit" Namjoon didn't need to say it because Taehyung already knew it.

Jungkook is ranked above him.

"Just because I wasn't made like the rest of you doesn't mean anything," Tae said holding a pillow in his arms.

Namjoon sat on the other bed looking at the boy's back. "That's not how everyone sees it"

"I'm not a pet," Tae said burying his face in his pillow letting out a few tears.

"Tae, he only said that because I made you" he sadly folded his hands together finally getting to the root of the problem.

"I'm not your dog," Tae said more muffled. Namjoon didn't have to see his face to know the silent sobs and uneven breaths coming out of his slender body.

"You're not my dog" Namjoon confirmed.

"I don't want to be around Jungkook anymore," Tae said.

"I can't do that" Namjoon said looking at the lump that had calmed down.

"Why are you so mean?" Tae cried at sitting up throwing his dampened pillow at Namjoon.

"Calm down right now" Namjoon spoke "I am trying to be patient"

That only set Taehyung off more because that was the advice that Jungkook had told the elder. Being patient with a pet or child.

Tae suddenly calmed down as his anger settled deep into his bones. He rolled under his blankets with a blank expression. "Why are you so mean to me?" he whispered more to himself than Namjoon who was watching him with concern.

"I'm not trying to," Namjoon said, "you make me do stupid things."

Tae held a new pillow to his chest and rolled his eyes. A very disrespectful move that he had picked up on from the television.

"I don't get it," Namjoon said "I try so fucking hard to be nice to you"

"I know," Tae said yelling back.

"Then why are you still mad at me"

"because you let Jungkook call me a pet and you didn't do anything and then he got mad at me for being mad"

"I already told you that you were not my dog," Namjoon said "why are we still talking about it"

"I still don't feel good" Taehyung said.

Namjoon suddenly remembered the puking incident this morning and felt bad for forgetting his medicine.

"I'll be right back," Namjoon said standing up and exiting the room with his wallet.

By the time he had gotten back, Tae was all snuggled into his blankets.

He took a seat at the edge of the bed that the boy was on opening the bottle and pouring some into the little cup. This shouldn't harm him.

"Swallow" holding it to his lips.

Tae drank the bitter liquid as it drained down his throat. He felt the shivers travel down his body with the medicine. He decided that he hated grapes right then.

"I'm sorry," Namjoon said still seated incredible close to Tae.

"It's okay," Tae said.

"Like I said earlier. I haven't been acting like myself for some time" Namjoon said.

"why?"

Namjoon sighed and looked down at the beautiful mess he had created. He knew what it was. He had known for quite some time.

"Because of you," Namjoon said.

Tae was still wrapped up in the blankets with his hands settled in his lap.

"I'm sorry" he fiddled with the texture of the comforter.

"I'm happy you did" Namjoon softly smiled.

"I don't understand," Tae said looking up at the elder with confusion.

Namjoon pulled Tae up into a hug bending his head down a little lower to put it in the crease of Tae's neck and shoulder breathing in his natural aroma.

"I really like you Tae," Namjoon said and after a second thought "not in the friend way"

Tae let a small oh fall from his lips. He was already hugging Namjoon because that didn't happen often. His own head was settled next to Joon's ear.

"In a romantic way"

"Yeah," Tae was shaking a little.

"Like in the movies"

"yeah"

"okay" Tae stated feeling Namjoon's body heat warm him "I like you too," Tae said that would explain a lot.

He couldn't hold Namjoon tighter or at a better angle because the blankets were wrapped too securely around his body. But Joon hugged him more securely his arms completely wrapped around the boy.

His long hair tickling his nose. He didn't really know where to go from here so he laid down with Tae in his arms and they were lulled to sleep by the sounds of each other's breathing.