The People In Our Lives [KTH] ✓

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Chapter 11: Tantrums

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The morning light peeked its way in through the curtains.

The house smelled like tea. Taehyung changed into clean clothes after his shower and checked his phone for any messages. There was nothing just as expected.

Looking at the time, he carefully made his way into the spare bedroom. 

There he saw a grumpy Ella sit sleepily on the bed. Her eyes were shut as she tried her best to fight against the horrible headache. She had drank way too much.

The painkillers weren't helping.

"Good morning."

Taehyung's voice seemed to wake Ella up as she looked at him with half closed eyes.

"How did I get here?" she mumbled groggily.

"You passed out at the pub last night."

Ella knew he hadn't told her the entire truth, but she wasn't sure whether she wanted to know. She couldn't remember a thing about last night. The whole week before that was a daze.

"I changed your clothes by the way. You seemed uncomfortable in your dress."

Ella looked down to see her clad in an over sized hoodie with some sweatpants. It must have been his clothes.

"Thanks."

The silence soon became overbearing. Ella's eyebrows remained scrunched in pain as she rested her throbbing head on the pillow.

Taehyung stood next to the door, waiting for her to spark up the conversation. He had so many questions to ask her.

"What happened to you?"

His question struck a nerve. Her mind drifted to that horrendous memory of last week, when she had to come face to face with the ugly truth.

Her tears had sprang up again. Her headache felt ten times worse.

"My relationship is over."

Taehyung's eyebrows rose in understanding. He should have known. The look on her face almost seemed to mask his.

"Where were you this whole time? I went looking for you everywhere."

Guilt appeared for a second, but disappeared soon. 

"I stayed in a hotel."

Taehyung wanted to question her, scold her for worrying him for the past week. But her short answers and the tone of her voice shut him up.

She was hurting. His doubt was the last thing on her mind.

"What are you going to do now?"

Taehyung almost slapped himself. His mind drifted to last night when she had asked the same question to herself.

"I don't know. I don't want to see him right now."

The man nodded.

"Then for the time being, why don't you stay here?"

Ella let his words sink in. She thought over it but ultimately shook her head.

"No. I couldn't do that."