the end of the world | KTH

| Chapter Nine - Only for a moment |

Silence falls on the pair of you as his arms wrap around you tightly, holding you against his chest on the couch. The alarm on the television is blaring every few seconds to remind you the world as you know it is over. So many unspoken words linger in the dense air.

It feels so unreal to have him beside you, to have his strong arms warmly hugging against your skin. This feels like every dream you've ever had of him, except this time you really feel the warmth of his body.

"Why didn't you ever respond to my text?" He asks thoughtfully, a softness to his baritone voice to break the silence after the long pause.

"I was scared." You admit with a quiet voice, tangling your legs with his for extra warmth and comfort. "I was scared of the future, of us never being able to work it out, of you breaking my heart."

"Did I?" He questions, sucking on his bottom lip nervously.

You glance up at the pained expression on his face, and your heart aches a little at the thought of him hurting. "No," you say, "I broke it myself."

His grip on you loosens only to pull you both to a sitting position, placing you to sit on his lap. Your eyes connect with his, and the pained expression doesn't leave him. He only takes a few moments to search your eyes before leaving a light kiss to your jaw.

"I'm sorry that I made you choose this," he says with a shaky breath.

All you can do is shake your head at him incredulously. "You aren't responsible for my dumb decision. I should've talked about it with you; we should've worked things out before I made the ultimate decision. We might have spent another year together if I wasn't being a selfish idiot."

He wipes under your eyes at tears you didn't even know you had left. "No more regrets."

You nod at him, holding back a sob as you smile brightly at the man in front of you. He kisses the other side of your jaw, peppering kisses over your chin, nose, forehead, cheeks, eyes, and landing a final one on your lips.

"I love you," you say as his lips leave you. "I should've said it a year and a half ago, but the scaredy cat in me was too nervous to ever tell you. I thought you were better off not knowing, but god- Taehyung, I love you so much.

"There hasn't been a single day that you weren't on my mind. I was starting to think it was getting easier to see your face everywhere, but my mind always wandered right back to you without permission."

He hums before kissing you again. "I don't know what I would have done if you got over me. I pushed myself harder with work for the group, hoping it would distract me from everything. I had a few thoughts about moving on, but I couldn't stop wanting you."

The annoying alarm is drowned out by the feelings the man you love is letting flow from his lips. Here: he is finally in your arms. You no longer want to take love for granted, refusing to let him slip away for whatever time you have left.

You run your hands in his now raven hair, different from the last you saw him. Your fingers grip tightly before you decide it's your turn to tease kisses on his face. A kiss to the forehead, to the cheek, to the beauty mark under his nose. He grabs you by the waist, pulling you closer on his lap and connecting his lips to yours. You move together, moaning into his mouth with the feeling of pure bliss spreading throughout your body.

He quickly stands up, and you wrap your legs around his torso without breaking the kiss. One hand holds your ass while the other rubs up your back lightly. He walks past the kitchen while smirking into the kiss before approaching your bedroom. Your tongue swirls along his before you take your teeth and bite gently on his bottom lip. He growls at you, shutting your bedroom door and trapping your body between him and the closed wood.

You moan when you feel his hard body against yours. Lust takes over, and your hands roam all over him, remembering every detail just as it was the last time you were able to have him like this.

With a quick push off the door, he throws you onto the bed. He's breathing heavily as he throws his sweater over his head and starts to fumble with the button on his loose khakis. You follow his lead and get on your knees, but you slowly and teasingly pull your shirt over your head. This earns another growl from the man as he yanks it up in the air, causing you to gasp and bite your lip in excitement. He pushes you back lightly, pulling at your ankles to strip you of your pants.

In only your underwear, he climbs on top of you and connects your lips back together. You feel his hot flesh against yours. It isn't just lust, you notice, when he pulls away and looks at you with worry in his eyes.

"Is this okay?" He asks quietly, taking in a few more deep breaths.

"I love you." You nod, a growing smile on your face as his hands roam your body this time.

Love.

How cruel to keep apart two souls madly in love, but how kind to bring them back to each other...even if for just a moment.