something new ¡! baekyeon

chapter fifteen

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Taeyeon wakes up to a throbbing headache, and an unbearable pain in her stomach, feeling as if she'll throw up at any second. 

It is the second day of her period, and usually whenever she's on it, she takes a four-days break because her body fails to move or do anything productive because of it.

And that's exactly why today, she has woken up 2 hours after midday. 

As soon as she gets out of bed, Zero enters the room, cutely barking as he runs towards her. She smiles at him and pouts when she realizes that he wants her to lift him up and remembers that the cramps will probably not let her bend down peacefully; so she won't be able to pick him up.

Once in the kitchen, Taeyeon makes herself a healthy breakfast, along with chamomile tea, and puts some snacks into the huge tray she takes out of the cabinet, so that later on when she gets hungry while sitting in the living room she will find food in front of her, and she won't be forced to stand up again.

"Zero!" She calls him while putting down the now-full-of-dog-food pot on the ground, and only seconds later he happily shows up, approaching the pot. Taeyeon chuckles at the sight of him smelling the food before having a taste.

After finishing her breakfast, she walks to the living room, deposing the tray on the low table. Then she picks up the remote control, slumping onto the couch as she turns on the television.

Drinking her chamomile tea, she keeps switching channels until she finds a good drama, and she sits back in the couch, wrapped in a warm blanket, watching it for the next few hours.

Taeyeon's phone rings when it's night and she's already eaten half of the snacks in front of her, and as she leans forward to grasp it, she notices that Baekhyun is the caller.

With one involuntary groan, she swipes her finger across the screen, bringing the phone to her ears.

"Hi babe." Baek greets through the line and Taeyeon playfully rolls her eyes while smiling -still not used to the way he started addressing her with.

She hums in response, too tired to form actual words. Stupid period, she thinks to herself.

"Are you alright?" He asks, and she finds herself peacefully closing her eyes as she listens to him.

"Just a little bit tired." Taeyeon replies, her eyes still closed.

"Ahh-" He says in his I-see manner. "Then we won't be able to go out."

She can already imagine him pouting out of slight disappointment and it makes her grin, shaking her head as she stretches her legs over the low table in front of her. "It's such a loss, I know."

"Nah, it's not that much of a loss. I'll come to you in half an hour."

"No don't come!" Taeyeon exclaims, panicking. Her house is such a mess at the moment, and she knows that she looks like shit -so obviously she doesn't want him to come.

Baekhyun giggles through the line. "Why?"

"Because,umm.." She searches for a lie but her mind comes up with nothing, dumping her when she needs it to work the most. "Because-"

"Are you trying to hide something from me?" He questions and her eyes widen. 

I would never try to, she answers him in her mind. Well basically that's what you are doing right now,  that one voice in her mind snaps back at her, telling her once again, the bitter truth she doesn't want to hear.