Laundry

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Taehyung worked the evening shift at a 24 hour laundromat and to say it was boring was an understatement, he never understood why out of all places a laundromat was opened for 24 hours. Like who in the right mind will just walk in at 12am to wash some clothes!
But he was in need of money so there he was sitting in an empty laundromat late at night having the time of his life, that was until one night.
That night it was raining like there was no tomorrow and Tae could hear and see the lighting and thunder flashing and rumbling outside the laundromat, he snuggled himself deeper into the blanket he had wrapped around himself burrito style as he continued to watch a Korean drama on his laptop as he tried to ignore the weather outside, lightning and thunder scared Taehyung and being alone right now wasn't helping his situation
Suddenly the doors of the laundromat flew open as a huge crack of lightning flashed outside, Taes almost flew out of his seat, his heart was racing, someone ran inside and closed the door behind them, Tae peeked from his blanket and saw that it was a guy about his age. Tae unwrapped himself from his blanket and cleared his throat,
"Good evening sir, how can I help you?"
The boy was currently shaking the rain out of his hair and as soon as he heard Taes voice he threw his hair back and looked at Tae and his eyes widened the boy behind the counter was so small and cute and he had a frightened expression in his face and Hoseok just wanted to run to him and cuddle him till the sun rose.
"I got kicked out of my now ex-boyfriends house and got caught up in the rain and have no where to go." Hoseok said and smiled brightly.
Tae was confused, how could someone that had no where to go be so smiley right now?
"O-oh" Tae replied unsure of how he should respond to such tragedy.
"Your clothes are wet," he ended up saying
"Really?" Hoseok said as he started looking at himself, "Strange, I didn't seem to notice"
Tae blushed, as Hoseok chuckled and walked over to the counter where Tae was comfortably eating and watching his K-drama, as Hoseok got closer, Tae lurched forward and slammed his computer shut.
"Porn?" Hoseok asked amused
Taehyung was blushing profusely and shook his head.
"Do you want me to dry your clothes, you could get sick." Tae asked hoping to change the direction of the conversation.
"Oh yes please, but unfortunately these are the only clothes I have at the moment."
"Well you can take them off and wrap yourself in this blanket," Tae suggested and handed Hoseok his grey fluffy blanket.
"Oh that's a good idea," Hoseok said as he started pulling his wet shirt over his head, Tae was shook with the view in front of him, the boy had abs and beautiful pale skin, he quickly looked away hoping Hoseok hadn't notice him staring, Hoseok then proceeded to take his pants off and dropped them to the floor and wrapped himself in the blanket and snuggled into it, Tae giggled and moved from behind the counter and picked Hoseoks clothes and threw them into the nearest dryer and pulled out quarters to start the machine up.
He turned around and saw that Hoseok had sat down in one of the chairs and had his eyes closed.
"They'll be dry in 40 minutes," he stated
"It's okay, I can wait. Besides It's not like I have anywhere to go." He said without opening his eyes. Tae felt bad but said nothing, instead he went and poured him a cup of hot chocolate and went back and gave the cup to Hoseok.
"Here drink this so you don't get sick," Hoseok opened his eyes and took the cup from him and took a sip and shivered as the warm drink went down his throat, ignoring the burn on his tongue.
"So what's a guy like you doing in this place in the middle of the night?" Hoseok asked with his eyes still closed.
"Well I kinda need the money and this was the closet job close to my home," Tae answered while scratching the back of his neck.
Awkward silence then filled the laundromat as neither knew what to say.
Suddenly Hoseok bolted out of his seat, threw his empty cup out and grabbed a laundromat cart and pushed it Taehyungs way, once he stopped the cart in front of Tae he held onto the edges and jumped in and sat crisscross applesauce with his back facing Taehyung.
"Push me!" He exclaimed and threw a fist up in the air, Tae chuckled and decided he liked Hoseok, despite the crazy circumstances he was in the boy never let it get to him but instead found ways to have fun and that screamed strong and brave to Taehyung so without any objections he grabbed the sides of the cart and started running while pushing Hoseok around. Soon they were both laughing their heads off, Taehyung forgot about the storm outside and Hoseok forgot about his problems for a bit.
Moments later they both were sat on the floor and against the wall trying to catch their breaths when Hoseok laid his head on Taes shoulder, Tae just smiled and wrapped his arm around him and pulled him closer and closed his eyes, soon they both drifted asleep, smiling and a little more happier.
What they both didn't realize was that, that night they had found each other.
Taehyung found his knight in shinning armor that would protect him from all storms and dangers of the world including the danger inside him, Hoseok always made sure from that point on that Taehyung knew how special, beautiful, and unique he was.
Hoseok found his partner in crime, the person that would join him in all the crazy stunts he wanted to do, like dancing in the rain, running around the streets for no reason. Taehyung bought so much joy to Hoseok he helped him ignore that sadness that was once consuming his will to live but now all he wanted to do was get up and have another crazy day with his beautiful baby boy by his side.
Laundromats were now Hoseoks and Taehyungs favorite place for they found each others missing piece.

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