🩹scared | taegyu

🩹twelve

pity party

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"raindrop, there is somebody at the door." taehyun's mum says, pushing his bedroom door open. taehyun peeks out from under his duvet and furrows his brows. 

"who?" taehyun asks, yawning quietly. 

"a beanstalk boy, i don't know, he asked for you." she says, hand still on the door handle. 

"i'm to embarrassed to face anyone right now." taehyun says, scratching his cheek. 

"but it seems important." she walks inside, sitting down on next to him.

"he's waiting at the door, get out of bed and see what he's here for." taehyun sighs, obliging to his mum's words. slipping out from under his covers, biting his lip nervously. he trudges towards the door and pulls his large hoodie further down his legs. suddenly the choice of clothing felt awkward.

taehyun looks up and sees someone by the front door. the curls are a dead giveaway. the younger looks up, smiling at taehyun. he isn't in his uniform, taehyun thinks. because it's saturday, why would he be in his uniform? 

"hi." huening kai smiles, kicking the pebbles on the perron stairs. he's wearing a striped t-shirt tucked into a pair of black shorts. taehyun looks down at his feet, purple vans. they were pretty. 

"do you want to hang out?"

"okay?" taehyun's answer sounded like a question itself. did he really want to?

"me and the guys-" huening kai says, gesturing towards the gate to taehyun's garden, where the rest of huening kai's friends stood awkwardly. 

"we feel bad about your spanish test. we're getting ice cream from the ice cream van by the play ground." huening kai fiddles with his trouser pockets.

"and yeonjun wanted to ask if you wanted to come with us? he isn't brave enough to ask himself, but he wanted to invite you." 

"okay, i'll just change first." taehyun says, huening kai nods. he walk back inside, his mum sends him a weird look. 

"huening kai and his friends invited me to the park to get ice cream." he explains and it makes her smile. as he finds an outfit to wear, his mum chats with huening kai, who's still waiting at the door. 

taehyun puts on a black t-shirt and a pair of green wide-legged trousers. checking himself out in the mirror and adjusts his hair a little. he grabs his wallet on the way out of his bedroom. his mum hands him some money as he says goodbye to her. huening kai smiles and bows goodbye to her as well. 

"let's go." the youngest beams as they walk down the garden path. yeonjun sends a large smile taehyun's way as they walk out through the gate. 

"hello!" the blue-haired boy greets. beomgyu pats taehyun's back as they start their walk to the park. soobin stays quiet. taehyun looks at their outfits, had they gone all out like he had? 

yeonjun wore a pair of beige overalls, with a white long-sleeve underneath and ginormous pair of black boots. he makes sure to keep a safe distance from the older, he doesn't want to be stepped on when he's wearing those. 

soobin however, is in an oversized, grey hoodie, black shorts and orange slip ons. he looks really small, but he's the tallest lad in the group. the shorts make him look super lanky. not that it's a bad thing, soobin still looked nice. 

beomgyu is walking next to him and he looks even smaller. he's wearing a yellow turtleneck and cream-coloured trousers. taehyun feels like he doesn't fit in with the group and that his choice of clothing is bad compared to the others. why does he always feel bad about himself? 

"you look super cool in your after school clothes!" yeonjun smiles at taehyun. it makes him feel a lot better.   

"thanks." he says in a small voice. 

the walk to the park is pretty quiet, no one really says anything. huening kai occasionally let's out a shriek, pointing at some random bird or dog going past them. yeonjun's boots clack against the pavement and the chain belt around his waist rattles with every step he takes.

taehyun is painfully aware of that this is just a pity party. these boys wouldn't have come to his house, inviting him out if he hadn't flunked the spanish test. but he wants to pretend like that isn't the case. these guys just want to be my friends, he says to himself.  

"this is kind of awkward." soobin suddenly says, clearing his throat. 

"and you acknowledging the awkwardness made it worse." huening kai says, letting out an airy laugh. 

"well sorry, something had to be said." the tallest says, rolling his eyes. 

"let's just hurry, before the ice cream van has sold all the ice cream." yeonjun suggests, quickening his pace. 

"hyung, they won't just randomly sell out all the ice cream." beomgyu says, panting a little, struggling to keep up with his taller friends. taehyun also has a hard time following, he doesn't usually work out and this kind of activity made him realize he was pretty out of shape. 

the park isn't far away from taehyun's house, so they arrive quickly. the youngest skips along as they walk through the park's large metal gates. flowers were in full bloom around them and the large trees swayed gently in the breeze. 

they walk through the park, to the centre, were the play ground is located. taehyun is glad he can go with huening kai and his friends, he hasn't been to this park often. and the others know their way around very well. 

children are screaming and laughing, running around on the playground. some are on the swings, sliding down the slides, running around playing tag or playing in the sand pits. taehyun smiles, he remembers how much he used to like playing like that. 

the whitby morrison ice cream van is parked next to the fenced playground. it's really pretty. 

"yes! it's hoseok and the yellow van today!" huening kai squeals, running over to the truck. the other's following right behind him. taehyun smiles, he follows too, but not as quickly. beomgyu stays behind with him. 

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