straight // taegyu

twelve

beomgyu stepped off the school grounds, hoping to get taehyun at the busstop that they usually met at to walk home together. but as he stood at the school entrance, he saw taehyun and eric to the far right of the school. eric had his hands on taehyun's waist, and the younger had his palms on eric's chest. beomgyu glared at the couple — how could they act like that in public? it was indecent.

eric seemed to say something and taehyun nodded. eric raised an eyebrow, and taehyun laughed before saying something. eric spoke before taehyun tried to run away, but eric laughed as he grabbed taehyun's wrist quickly, drawing the other into his arms. slowly, he leaned forward and kissed taehyun's lips gently.

beomgyu turned away as they kissed and left the school grounds quickly. his stomach was churning with an uncomfortable feeling, now that he had witnessed his best friend kissing someone (for the second time that day). beomgyu made it to the busstop and leaned against the cold plastic with a sigh.

a few minutes passed, and beomgyu soon felt the arrival of his best friend's presence. he looked to his right and saw taehyun walking towards the busstop with a rather hard expression. beomgyu almost instantly forgot the conflict from that morning and looked extremely happy to see his best friend again.

"taehyun," he said with such softness, such gentleness, it actually broke through taehyun and the boy's eyes teared up. he choked out a sob and beomgyu walked forward quickly and pulled taehyun into a tight hug. they stood still, in each other's arms, gentle sobs coming from taehyun and beomgyu forming some tears of his own.

"i-i'm so s-sorry, beom. i'm an i-idiot…"

beomgyu made a sound of disagreement and pulled from the hug. "no. you're not. i should've seen that you were upset, but i was more concerned about my crush. it's my fault, don't worry. i'm sorry, tae."

taehyun allowed beomgyu to wipe his tears away and nodded, allowing beomgyu to blame himself because it was true. "but still, i'm sorry. i'm not the best friend sometimes, and i'm really petty. i should learn to voice my problems."

beomgyu wiped taehyun's cheek and looked into his eyes. "funny."

taehyun frowned. "what?"

beomgyu smiled. "even when crying, you're still so pretty."

taehyun turned bright red and hit beomgyu's arm multiple times, earning a laugh from beomgyu and the younger blushed profusely. "don't say stuff like that! i have a boyfriend now! that casual flirting from you can stop now."

beomgyu stopped smiling. "boyfriend?"

taehyun blushed a bit and nodded as he started walking away. "yeah. eric asked me out, and… we're dating now. he's really sweet. and he's a good kisser."

beomgyu gagged falsely and rolled his eyes. "yeah, i witnessed. now i actually want to bleach my eyes. but we're still gonna play siege together, right?"

"of course," taehyun smiled. he put his head on beomgyu's shoulder and giggled softly. "always my number one."

beomgyu smiled gently and put his head on taehyun's. "always your number one."