🩹scared | taegyu

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that kind of school

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taehyun stays home the next day too. watching dance moms and reruns of the great british sewing bee. eating dried mangoes and carrots as he deleted half his cameraroll, which is mostly stray kids memes and shirtless pictures of big mathew and jackson wang. which by the way, made him hesitate pressing the delete button.

after listening to suho's album self-portait about a million times, his mum arrives home from work, carrying lots of shopping bags. taehyun helps her unload them.

and can sense she wants to say something. he can feel it when she looks at him. quickly excusing himself to take a shower as she makes dinner. as they sit down to eat, she hits him with what taehyun is expecting.

"raindrop?" she says, running her hand through her black hair. (lol i'm imagining short haired hwasa as his mum oops-)

"yeah?" taehyun shoves a spoonful of pasta salad into his mouth as she continues.

"i met with seulgi earlier. i told you about that right?" taehyun nods.

"and she suggested you'd get a tutor. so you don't miss out on school work when you're at home. i thought i was a good idea, so i asked if she knew anyone from school who'd be willing to tutor you. since students can get extra points or what the heck, on their.. on their what's it called again?"

"their students cv?" taehyun helps and his mum snaps her finger.

"that's it! thank god you're my son." she says.

"so she offered to ask the other teachers if any students could tutor you. she said she'd update you as soon as anyone has given her an answer." taehyun nods, he doesn't really want a tutor. but he knows his mum knows best.

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taehyun snoozes his alarm twice before getting out of bed. putting on his uniform, drinking a cup of coffee with his mum and packing his lunch.

he makes sure to put on sunscreen before leaving to keep his face healthy and safe. his mum helps him put it on his neck too, because his uniform is a bit big around his shoulders.

they listen to hoppípolla in the car and taehyun laughs as his mum pretends to cry as she sings the lyrics to enough. taehyun likes his mum, she's his best friend after all. as they arrive to school, she quickly kisses his cheek and he gets out of the car.

he's there really early, other students don't usually arrive 43 minutes before school starts. but taehyun doesn't want to trigger any type of panic attack so his mum promised she'd take him to school before she left for work.

taehyun carefully walks the halls in silence. there isn't anything to do, so he sits down on a sofa in one of the hallways. he puts his earphones in, playing his frank ocean playlist on shuffle. and plays sudoku on his phone until he eventually grows bored of it and falls asleep. students walk past him, but he is oblivious to the chattering teens.

when he eventually wakes up, noticing he only has five minutes to get to his class. taehyun automatically grows anxious, thinking he is already late.

and as he's about to get up, he watches a tall boy trip over another boy's foot, soobin crashes to the ground as the other's laugh at him. his knees bonk against the floor and taehyun cringes in pain, he can feel it spread through his body as soobin tries not to cry.

at closer inspection, taehyun sees the blue-haired boy, choi yeonjun, as well. but he isn't picking on soobin, he's defending him.

taehyun watches as soobin is being pushed around between a group of older boys, yeonjun on the outside, trying to get his friend out. everyone is watching, no one is stepping in.

"what is wrong with you?" yeonjun yells, pushing at the tallest boy. helplessly hitting them, but they don't budge.

"leave soobin alone!" in response to yeonjun's hitting, he's shoved into the wall behind them.

taehyun flinches, he doesn't want to be pushed like that. yeonjun screams and pushes around even more, but soobin just stands there, in the middle, taking it and not fighting back.

no one is stepping in to help, there are no teachers around. soobin is at the brink of tears, yeonjun is angry and taehyun is scared. students are flocking around them, some even chanting for them to fight. but a sudden yell silences them all.

"what are you doing?" a loud voice yells from the other end of the hallway.

taehyun turns his head, along with the rest of the crowd. it's the grey-haired boy, the dog-petter, it's beomgyu. taehyun swears he only blinks for a milisecond, but when he opens his eyes the 11th grader is right next to soobin and yeonjun, pushing the bullies.

they almost immediately go at him, even though he's a head shorter than them. somehow he manages to land a few punches in their faces, ducking away as they try to fight back. the crowd is hoing and woo-ing, they seem used to this beomgyu's fighting. some are even recording the fight for their snap stories.

taehyun flinches yet again as an older boy calls soobin the f-word. was this that kind of school? he feels his blood boil and it angers him so much his hands are shaking. taehyun feels nauseous, flashbacks from his old schools pop into his head. his breathing speeds up and soon he's only inhaling air.

he isn't paying attention to the fight anymore. you're not good enough. the only thing taehyun can hear are the comments.

why do you even bother?

he has to get out of here. and make it quick. he can't breathe anymore.

taehyun jumps out of his seat, speed walking to the bathrooms as he feels the bile rise in his throat. he shoves the bathroom door open, pushing himself into the nearest stall to throw up. and just as he does, the thought pops back into his head.

was this that kind of school?

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