Toilet Paper | K.th

Fifteen

"So, do you become friends with people everywhere you go?"

The silver-haired male conjectures, shifting his warm brown gaze onto Rae as they stroll down the sidewalk. The female smiles softly at his words as she licks her ice cream (she had Immediately went over to an ice cream stand when she noticed it to buy herself one. Taehyung kindly rejecting her offer on buying him one). She shrugs as she looks in front of her, her left arm swinging freely beside her. "What do you mean?"

Taehyung rolls his eyes. "I mean, you met Hoseok and became friends with him, then when we were at the restaurant you became friends with that waiter boy--even while we were waiting in line to get ice cream you started to have a full blown conversation with a pipsqueak boy on why you should never swallow toothpaste." Rae chuckles at the memory of her drastically choking when she had accidentally swallowed toothpaste and it went down the wrong pipe (definitely a feeling she won't ever forget).

She shakes her head of those thoughts and huffs, looking over at Taehyung. "Nah, it's just whoever can handle my rambunctious personality. I mean, we're not friends, so, I can't be friends with everyone." She nonchalantly points out, wincing when her teeth hit the cold treat. "NugGEtS dE PoLlO queMAdOs."

Taehyung was about to say something until Rae's sudden outburst has him second-guessing himself. Did she just speak in Spanish when she hurt herself? He looks away from her, his eyes shifting back and forth.

It becomes quiet between the two as they continue traveling down the street walk. The sounds of fall blankets the both of them in a sense of comfort, no awkward tension muddling around as they both stare at all their dreamer eyes could take in. Taehyung finds himself enjoying this, letting out a small sound of relief to finally feel canny; as if he doesn't have a care in the world at the moment. It feels good. Really. The trees dancing to the winds singing, the small traffic passing by at a calming matter, the stray cats prancing around to their heart's desire, or the moon, watching down on the two and covering the city of Seoul in a toasty blanket of moonlight to distract the busy town of all the chaos in the world. Only thriving in a comforting night as this one.

"Are you crying?" Taehyung asks when his onyx eyes shift onto Rae. He notices a tear slip down her glossy red cheek, the crisp air kissing her nose to pinch a flush hint of red at the tip.

The brunette looks at Taehyung, realizing he was talking to her. She lifts her hand up to her cheek, feeling the wetness the nonessential tear had caused. Rae smiles and chuckles. "Me? No, it's just allergies. Sorry." He nods once, keeping his unsure eyes on her. "Oh, we're here." Rae pipes up, staring toward her apartment complex before adverting her gaze onto Taehyung who quickly looks down and then at her apartment. He makes a 'hmph' noise as they scurry a little closer.

Rae walks up the stairs, about to take out her keys to unlock the front door until she stops and turns around. Taehyung raises his eyebrows at her and waits for what she has to say. She smiles and lets out a sigh. "Thanks–for letting me spend the night at your house and then paying for lunch. I'll pay you back-"

"You better."

Taehyung deadpans teasingly, of course, keeping his lidded gaze on hers. She grins  and nods, keeping the deal to a part of her brain where she knows she won't forget. She puts her hand out, the gesture a bit strange for the moment, but nonetheless, Taehyung accepts the handshake.
"–And for paying for my college tuition. It means a lot, really. That you're doing-"

Taehyung waves his hand in front of him to politely make her be quiet. "I don't need your self-introduction. Go on up, it's late and I'm tired and want to go home." Rae laughs and nods again, waving him goodbye before skipping into the building. He takes a deep breath, spinning around and heading in the direction of his penthouse as he wonders if his roommate had arrived or if he decided to stay the night at his producer boyfriends house. If that was the case, then it meant Taehyung would be up writing and expressing his uncanny thoughts onto a blank sheet of paper that was willing to listen.

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"Yo, Raecoon," The aforementioned grins at the familiar unkept voice, turning her head to be met with her roommate, Jennie, walking into their shared apartment with a male she's never met before. Hand in the others as she drags the guy toward her bedroom. Rae scrunches her nose when the syringe smell of weed follows into the home. "We're gonna be in my room smoking, wanna join, babe?" Jennie stops in front of her room, hand on hip as her lazy gaze looks at the female on the couch.

Rae sighs and shakes her head. "I'll pass, you two can just have fun."

Jennie shrugs listlessly and opens her bedroom door, allowing for the unknown male to enter. "Your loss." Before the brunette could go back to studying like she was doing prior to Jennie walking in, her roommate speaks up again. "Oh, by the way, the pink-freak...uh..I-Iran?" Rae raises an eyebrow, taking a moment to figure out what she was saying until she realizes who she was referring to.

"Irene?"

Jennie points at her. "Yeah, she came over on like...Monday? Looking for you. 'Said she wanted to talk?"

Rae rolls her eyes. "Yeah, I know. She found me while I was at a restaurant yesterday. I hid underneath a table until she left." The brunette says proudly, gaining a nod of approval from the other.

"Weird flex, but ok." With that being said, Jennie turns toward her bedroom and walks in. "Keep being wicked, Raebies." She holds up a rock and roll hand sign before the door closes. Rae laughs and shakes her head at her roommate's creative ways of making random nicknames of her name on the top of her head, explaining to Rae when she was sober that. "'M name 'Rae' is too short for my liking."

And Rae let her, not really minding it at all, the thing almost being a sort of highlight of her day 'What's going to be the new name?' She smiles to herself as she gets back to studying. Midterms were coming up and she needs all the time she can get to study for her hard exams. She knows where her weak points are so she spends a little more time in studying those classes as she skims through notes for other classes. College was tough, but she knows she needs to make high grades in order to make up for switching schools despite her parents telling her not to-

An exasperated sigh leaves her mouth almost immediately after she begins to study again, her hands flinging up to her head to massage the tense areas. "Snack break."

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