No thank you (Taegi)

#redshoes

who do you think Tae is gonna end up with and why?

🐢warning: this chapter contains horrifically bad content. In short terms it's trash. Viewer discretion is advised🐢

As soon as he was hidden away safely in a stall he leaned against the door and let out a long sigh. The burning sensation behind his eyes just wouldn't go away and he had to bite down on his lips to stop them from trembling.

"What are you crying for..." he groaned out, scrubbing his face with his hands. Tears brimmed over making his cheeks itch as they slid down and his eyelashes stick together. "Stop crying!" But the tears just fell faster when he tried to force them to a hault.

In his mind he tried to conjure something of comfort and when it came he mumbled it past chapped lips "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl" it was something namjoon always used to say to him when he felt discouraged. Everytime he was was turned down by a family back in the orphanage. It was times like this that he really appreciated how persistent his brother was.

Sliding down to sit on the tile floor Taehyung cradled his legs. He sniffled loudly and proudly as he was sure nobody else was in the bathroom with him. He'd checked all the stalls.

At least he was sure until a loud bang came from the stall to his left.

"Hey dude. Kinda hard to do my business with you sniffling over there."

He nearly jumped out of his skin at the scratchy voice directed at him. Through a hazy gaze he glanced over to peep under the divider separating the stalls only to find a pair of ruby red sneakers glowing in the harsh bathroom lighting. Black sweatpants pooling around the strangers ankles.

Tae blushed "oh sorry.."

"It's okay." There was a long pause. "Is something wrong?"

Was something wrong? Well it certainly wasn't every day that he found himself having a breakdown in a public bathroom though bathroom encounters seemed to be a trend. But then again it wasn't everyday that someone found themselves in a basic love triangle with their dead best friend and said best friends ex gang banger school pal.

"No. I'm fine." He lied. When all he really wanted to do was scream out for this stranger to save him. Instead he locked his fingers together and gently banged his head back on the stall. His face was extremely warm and he was sweating a bit.

His red sneakerd companion caught on though. "Wanna hear a joke?"

No.

"S-sure.."

"What's the difference between a piano, a tuna fish and a tub of glue?"

The other waited for any responses. He only received a sniffle but continued anyway.

"You can tuna piano but you can't piano a tuna!"

It wasn't very funny. Not at all really but Taehyung could not help but wonder. What about the glue?

"And now I bet you're wondering about the glue. Well I just knew you'd get stuck on that part!" The guy burst out laughing. His infectious chuckle bouncing off the bathroom walls. "Did I make you laugh?"

"No"

The frown was evident in his voice "oh, really? That joke always gets Jooheon."

"Sorry." Tae mumbled. Whenever yugyeom told bad jokes bambam laughed. Regardless if he found it funny or not. It was the polite thing to do but at the moment he couldn't find the care to mind his manners.

The red shoed boy stood up then. Pulling up his pants and and flushing the toilet. " ready to tell me what's wrong?" He asked over the loud noise.

"No." Tae shook his head "You're a stranger."

"A stranger trying to be kind . Do you want me to start crying too?"

As compelling as it seemed, he couldn't stand the sound of others crying. So he sniffled one last time before spilling his guts.

"I'm on a date."

"...congratulations?..."

Taehyung rolled his eyes " I'm on a date with my old best friends old best friend while my current best friend is at home crushing on me. The best friend."

It was mind boggling. When his companion went silent for a while he thought he must have snuck out to avoid the awkward, but surprisingly there was a knock on his stall door.

"Occupied."

"It's still me you idiot! What's your name?"

Give his name out to a complete stranger? Why not? Maybe he'd turn out to be a serial killer and end his suffering. "Kim Taehyung"

"Cool , you can all me Wonho. Now open up. I need to hear this face to face in order to give you advice."

I just remembered that wonhos name is also hoseok. So yeah. We sticking with wonho.

But to carry on with my endless authors notes. This chapter was bad. I know . I'm sorry. 😬 I do bad. My writing on the whole is bad. It was way better before and I don't know how to fix that so 🤷🏽‍♀️ . 

- Ashanti