dear person who's in love

slow motion

Taehyung was woken up by his mother who tip toed into his room.

"good morning, I just wanted to check up on your bruises and wounds, and give you a new plaster on your eyebrow" she said as she sat on the edge of his bed.

Taehyung sat half up on his elbows while his mother slightly pushed his hair away to check his face. "Are you gonna tell Harris?" she asked.

Harris. or Michael B. Harris was the principle of the school. He loved Taehyung and all the English assignments he had written through out high school years. He saw Taehyung as a flawless student.

Taehyung shook his head "unless he found out, I'm not gonna tell him". Taehyungs mother nodded.

"Taehyung why were you attacked by your school mates?" she asked almost whispered, caressing his cheek while.

She had probably thought about it the whole night. Taehyung got home fully bruised and swollen then he suddenly comes out to them. Her mom instincts were probably yelling that something was wrong.

Taehyung had really pushed it away. That he was punched and kicked because he was gay. That feeling hurt.

He felt his throat tighten, tears coming. His mother embraced him, and continued hugging him while he cried.

"it is....it's .. because.. i'm .. in love with Jungkook" he got out, feeling his mother hugging him tighter.

It hurt. Someone really hated Taehyung because he loved a guy. Someone was willing to knock out Taehyung because he was confused about his own sexuality.

She put her hands on each side of his face and pulled his head out so that he was looking at her.

She brought out her thumbs up and dried the tears rolling down his cheeks away.

Taehyung's mother didn't say anything, she was just there. And Taehyung loved that kind of comfort.

They stayed there for a while until his mother was paged and had to leave.

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Taehyung stepped into school two hours later. He used a good 30 minutes to cover up the bruises on his face that the plaster along his eyebrow didn't cover.

He had not come up with a cover story for what the heck happened to his face but he'll just go with it.

He went to biology class, and sat down, people greeted him, some noticed the plaster and was just going to ask but decided not to. Ellie wasn't there.

It was May, that means lots of tests cause school ends soon, and then Taehyung was a senior. He was not doing well lately with school, he was too tired to study, too tired to do anything school related.

Classes went by, Taehyung's head pounded and he felt like he was boiling.

Right when the bell rang he stood up and walked to the cafeteria. He looked for the volleyball girl teams table. He spotted it and rushed over there.

He tapped Jihyo's shoulder, feeling more and more dizzy. She turned around and quickly sensed something was wrong. She stood up and pulled Taehyung out of the cafeteria to the girls bathroom.

She opened a booth just the right time for Taehyung to vomit in the toilet.

When Taehyung was done he sat down, his back against the closed door, Jihyo sat down on the floor beside him.

He inhaled some air and realized the smell was good, he turned his head to Jihyo "it smells nice in here".

"yeah there's perfume, deodorant AND free candy for everyone out on the the sinks" she nodded towards the sinks behind the closed door.