Green Love || YuTae ||

10 - A Matter of Time

The new day begins without sunrise, greeted by summer rain and cold breeze early in the morning. The fresh air has painted the nature into brighter colours, bathed under the misty morning and rhythmic drizzles.

It's dark and gloomy inside the vintage castle after hours it was left in tranquil. Before, the castle is smelled like dungeon, filled with a colourless wrath released by the crowned beast and it delivered a foul scent of intent to the other living nature inside the castle. It's began with the glass that had controls over his diamond heart was touched and broken. The thorny rose bleeds, awaken the beast's alter ego. Drowned in the rage, the beast had a murderer's eyes, glaring at the fake residents who touched his precious glass and sending them a death threat with his little power. They did an unforgivable deed, even dare to ask for mercy but the beast was so ready to kill. They ran away, back to the place where they came from. As the beast drove out the sinners, he looked back at the broken glass, wondered and angry. Why the glass is so fragile and easy to break-

"Shit! Why this story feels so familiar."

Taeyong curses but then continues reading the old book he found in the study room and brought it out to the living room. Yuta is sitting quietly next to him, listening to the story he read out loud. The mood is strange yet relieving since Taeyong didn't say a word after the tensed drama, and it does help easing Yuta's growing worries and anxiety just a little.

Even though, the setting looks not so awkward but it's easy to know and understand that everything is not okay. There is a definite expression on Taeyong's face that showing his irritation, disturbed feelings and the mood that intimidate Yuta to keep silent.

At least after two hours, the silence that surrounds the mansion besides Taeyong's tensed voice reading the book is now slowly killing the small peace they have in mind. And the heavy feeling that sitting in between as the story goes on is pressuring and stressful.

Yuta fight the thought of defeat towards Taeyong's intimidation on him as there is urgency to break the silence. Waiting not more than a second, he asks, ignoring the fact that he is intimidated.

"Why aren't you say something?"

"I want to but it will break you in instant Yuta."

The instant reply is short but clear enough to tell everything in his mind, and Yuta couldn't say anything back even if he want to because Taeyong looked definitely not in a mood to talk. He hides maybe a thousand of faces but Taeyong doesn't bother to show his real emotions whether it's good or bad since he clearly want the other party to know what's going on inside his head. Even the hours he spent reading the thick book didn't help to soothes his mind as he already reached the peak of his outrage and barely control his urge to go violent, at least in Yuta's presence.

Though he is easy to read, he also completely hard to understand and Yuta find it's difficult to match his thought with his complicated personality. While being in the state of mess before, Taeyong actually remembered to treat the wound on Yuta's foot, knowing that it's bleeding and worsening. And with all that contradicting acts, Yuta didn't know how to react on his duality, he who cares but cold and distant.

"I'm going to prepare breakfast. You don't go anywhere."

Taeyong says shortly after he took a glance at the wall clock. Before he proceeds to the kitchen, he crouching down to check the bandaged foot because he remembers it did bleed a lot.

"If you decided to get your wound bleed again, you should kick his ass before he come to you. Why did you let him get near and control you? Are you that dumb?!"

When he finally says something about the matter, his lesser mouth running smoothly unfiltered, and it does hurt Yuta's feelings. Thing happens as what he feared, misunderstanding from Taeyong's perspective is the last thing Yuta want to deal with but something he wants to clear and explain too. He prepared a speech to explain his side but his mouth suddenly malfunctioning, fails to say something, not even a word. The overwhelming emotion has blocking his voice from coming out, so he stops trying. The least he can do to ignore Taeyong's inconsideration is by keeping his mouth shut and avoiding the stare.