Gold

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Jisoo felt herself shudder under Taehyung's heavenly touch. The way his lips brushed against the exposed skin on her back, leaning further and further down towards the outline of her hips. She let out a small whimper, not out of pain. But rather letting pleasure coat her expressions.

His lips stopped at the curve of her back, right above her hips. Jisoo didn't even realize when he had kneeled down behind her, his hands roaming her legs, as if it was the most natural thing to do.

Jisoo felt herself go completely numb when his lips made contact with the sensitive skin behind her ear, he had gotten up. He brushed her hair out of his way, leaning his head on her shoulder and placing a kiss there.

The way his lips lingered at every part of her body, the way he spent at least a minute on every part he kissed her, made Jisoo aware just how much he was craving her. But she didn't move or push him away.

She was craving him more.

It was clouding in her brain, every other thought locked up and thrown away. Out of the range of her consciousness. All she could focus on was the boy pressed against her back.

Taehyung turned her around, placing his knee between her legs, slowly moving it back and forth. He was teasing the hell out of her.

Jisoo gripped onto his shoulders for support, obviously finding it impossible to just breathe. She could let him do whatever he wanted to her all night long but first, they need to talk.

They had to talk.

So, softly pushing Taehyung away from her neck, she caught her breath. Taehyung had a look of frustration plastered on his face, his eyebrows raising a bit.

"We should talk first," Jisoo softly whispered. Her head hung down low. She didn't know what she would do to the bookworm in front of her if she raised her head to meet his dazzling gaze.

Taehyung took a step closer, his head dropping next to her ear, "Talk away, love."

Jisoo gulped at the the way it sounded so good to hear him call her his love, but she shrugged the thought off and continued, "What happened?" She whispered.

Taehyung had left a small kiss against her neck, "A lot of shit went down."

Jisoo was finding it hard to focus on what he was saying when he kept on nuzzling his face in the crook of her neck. Reluctantly, she poked him in his chest. He smiled against her skin, proud that he had an effect on her.

"Taehyung, just tell me why," she whispered, continuing even though it almost felt like she was being choked, "why you felt like you had to run away from me and let someone else rule over you-"

"No one rules my heart other than you. It was a mistake. I've made a lot of fucking mistakes in my life and I'm pretty damn sure letting you go was the worst of them all. I can't even begin to tell you how much I felt miserable during these three months. I felt like maybe if I distanced myself from you, I could forget you. It would be easy. Hell it was so fucking hard. You know how many times I stood in front of your dorm just to see a tiny bit of you? I missed your presence so much, I went around finding anything that smelled like you in my apartment."

Strawberries. Jisoo smiled.

She let him continue, "Maybe it was the fear of rejection or maybe it was the fear of not being enough for you. I have nothing to offer you, I'm just a broken soul with a thundering past that slowly seeps further and further into my soul. I'm not worthy of your time or affection. I thought maybe, just maybe, you were different. And you were. You saw me as a normal person and treated me like I was some sort of king. I don't deserve you, at all. I can only offer my love, nothing else."

Jisoo felt her eyes slowly tearing up, with every second passing by, she thought about how he poured his heart out to her. He was comfortable around her. He was afraid of losing her just as much as she was afraid of losing him.

So, slowly, she pulled back from him. Her eyes pierced through his own as she softly whispered, "I love you."

Taehyung was frozen in his spot.

He couldn't move, he couldn't speak. He felt as if she had put him in her cage and refused to let him leave. His heart was hammering against his hard chest, he was almost sure he could listen to it beating.

And so, without any hesitation, he pulled her towards his chest, holding onto her for dear life. He kissed her hair, her forehead, her cheeks, her nose and then finally her soft lips.

She wrapped her arms around his neck as his hands fell on her waist, pulling her closer and closer towards his warm body.  Taehyung's lips grazed her own in a passionate kiss. This meant a lot for him. He poured every stress, every worry and every despair into this one kiss and locked their love.

They pulled away to take breaths, both panting hard. Taehyung smiled. A genuine one. He wrapped his arms around Jisoo just as she wrapped hers around his waist, burying her face in his chest and inhaling his calming and soothing scent.

"I love you more," he whispered.