🩹scared | taegyu

🩹twenty

before you go

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

the front door unlocks and a jingle of keys echo from the living room. hyejin's quickly takes off her shoes and heads for the bathroom. she pops a worried head in though the bathroom door. beomgyu hides behind taehyun as hyejin enters. 

"are you alright?" she asks, hurrying towards the pair by the toilet. 

"i'm feeling better now." taehyun says, as she squats down next to him, engulfing him in a hug. he immediately feels small and fragile as she wraps her arms around him. wiping his teary eyes as she strokes his back.

"i'm here, raindrop. it's okay." hyejin says in a soothing voice, rubbing a hand on the youngers back. 

when they let go of each other, hyejin looks towards beomgyu. who wears his usual scared expression, because she's there. his cheeks are tinted a dewy pink and his eyes are still glistening with tears. we look so fucking stupid right now. 

"beomgyu, i-" hyejin doesn't even know what to say. 

"blossom, i know you're not very fond of me." she says, beomgyu nods, she isn't lying. but taehyun smiles, his mum has already invented a pet name for beomgyu. raindrop and blossom. 

"and i'll try to prove to you that i'm safe to be around. but i need you to trust me." beomgyu continues to nod, biting into his bottom lip as she scooches closer to him. 

"can i at least give you a hug for now? i feel so bad for you two." beomgyu nods, freezing as the woman wraps her arms around him. she smells like oranges and rain. he closes his eyes and carefully rests his arms behind her, relaxing as she draws patterns onto his back. 

his eyes begin to sting. when was the last time someone had welcomed him into their arms like this? the tears prickle quietly down his cheeks and taehyun pats them dry with a piece of toilet paper. 

"should we eat something yummy?" hyejin asks, releasing from the warm hug. the boy lingers a bit, wiping his cheeks with the sweater as he lets go of her.  

"bananas on toast seems like the best option right now." she adds and beomgyu's eyebrows scrunch upwards in confusion. taehyun smiles, he looks so cute. with puffy eyes, pink cheeks and clothes two sizes too big. had beomgyu always looked this adorable?

"it helps settle your stomach after throwing up." she says, to clarify for beomgyu. 

⭒❃.✮:▹

"mum?" taehyun asks as they're plating the banana toast. 

"mhm, raindrop?" she looks over at him, raising her brows. 

"can we ask beomgyu to stay over? it's late and i-" taehyun stops, should he really be saying this to her?

"and what?" she asks, sprinkling rainbow sprinkles on beomgyu's toast, at his request. taehyun bites his bottom lip. 

"i don't think he has it okay at home.." he continues, "and he's my friend-"

"raindrop, he can stay over if he wants to. just ask." she says, gesturing towards the boy on the sofa. beomgyu had huddled himself in the throwblanket on the sofa as soon as the three had left the bathroom. and hadn't said a word.