HIS TOUCH || JAEYONG

Chapter 31 innocent

"Ten..." He quickly let go of Jaehyun's hand and stirred a bit farther away from him. His good mood vanished when he was met with Ten's cold glare. He had not expected to walk into him like that, even when the other lived in the neighbourhood.

Jaehyun noticed the change in Taeyong's behaviour but he didn't know the reason for it.

"Ten I-"

"Don't talk to me!" He snapped glaring from Jaehyun to Taeyong. He tried to walk past the two but his arm was suddenly grabbed.

"Taeyong let go-"

"I won't! Can we really not be friends anymore? You're too important for me to lose you over some stupid thing that doesn't even matter," He noticed how Ten looked from his hand, that gripped his arm, to his begging eyes. He was clearly hesitating.

"I- I don't want to..." He stuttered and yanked his hand free. Taeyong just stared after his lost friend walking away.

Jaehyun couldn't believe what he was seeing. He had thought that the two were like really close friends. It didn't look like it anymore. What happened between them? Or...could it be Ten who had made Taeyong doubt their relationship?

Then everything clicked in his mind. He gritted his teeth feeling angry all the sudden. "I'm gonna kill him-"

"No! You you can't do that-" Taeyong stopped him from going after Ten. The younger turned to face him rapidly.

"Why? He deserves to be beaten."

"No he doesn't. Even if he said some awful things to me, he is still very important to me. He was the only one that- that-..." Taeyong had just confirmed the other's thoughts. He had guessed right that it was Ten. How could anyone even do that to their life long friend?

"That?" He noticed how Taeyong's lower lip quivered as he tried to tell him something. He already gave up the idea of chasing Ten down but he would still beat him up if needed.

"H-He was my only friend who didn't leave me when I- I started having symptoms of the phobia you know about. He stayed by my side even when I tried to close myself from everyone. If it wasn't for him, I would've probably become even more worse," He looked at the ground as he spoke, hands slightly trembling.

"I'm sorry...but he still did wrong to tell you all those things," Jaehyun took the other's hand in his and caressed the back of his hand with his thumb. "Are you still up for shopping?"

"Yeah let's go."

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Jaehyun couldn't help but notice how the other was distracted with other thoughts all the time. Taeyong asked him to repeat what he had said multiple times throughout the time they were in downtown. Jaehyun had noticed that he had actually been like that for the past three days after Ten had said something to him. He was worried.

Then there was this other thing bothering him. Taeyong wouldn't let him touch him more that just innocent kisses and touches once in a while. If he tried to initiate anything beyond innocent, he was pushed away and Taeyong lied that he forgot clean a table or made up some other excuse. He wanted to talk about it with the other but he didn't know what to say first.

Taeyong was now laying beside him on the bed, back turned to him. He had even refused to sleep closer to him. He knew that Taeyong wasn't sleeping either as he heard him moving once in a while.