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-', ❝(030: 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆) ꒱ ↷👽🛸❞
"서른"
TIME IS AN ODD THING. Aspen always always considered time to be a good thing, a chance for you to grow, to get better, to be better, to forget old mistakes and to look forward towards the future.
Now, Aspen was a prisoner of time. With time, the pain only grew. The mourning loss of her lover was something...that debilitated her. It was the final blow to her already wounded heart. Now the remaining pieces were unrecognizable.
The pain didn't grow alone, no, it had a friend in it's wake. A baby.
It was still small. Only the size of a lime at this stage the doctor tells her. There's only a small, subtle swell of her stomach now, still completely unnoticeable if you didn't know she was pregnant.
He had left her pregnant. Guess he was human enough to impregnate her.
It was hard trying to explain where Taehyung went to the others. At first, she simply excused him from their meet ups with something like work, or that he had other plans, but that could only work for so long.
"He left." She finally told them and almost immediately, the room fell into silence. They all stared at her. Pity, sympathy, shared sadness. She told them that it wasn't his fault, that she told him to leave when he was the one who wanted to stay.
Jin was the only one she told her pregnancy about. She swore him to secrecy, she made him promise. She could only hide it for so long, but she wanted to tell the others at the right time. She needed to find the right way to tell them so she didn't make Taehyung out to be some deadbeat who walked out after finding out.
She didn't even know until a week after she left.
Fuck. How had her life so quickly gone to shit?
Aspen stood in the kitchen, a gentle hand caressing her stomach while she made herself some tea to help relax. She would never get used to silence. She once craved it, but now, she despised it with all her being. Nothing would ever be the same.
It was just her and Yeontan, just as it's always been, even with the small blip of Taehyung in her many years alone.
It truly was a day like any other. Winter was coming to an end and it was beginning to get warmer outside. She didn't feel that anything was different from what it normally was.
She had stopped looking for Taehyung to return a long time ago. For hours on end, she would sit in the backyard and simply wait to see if her lover would return. It was wishful thinking, really. She was the one who told him to leave and there she sat waiting for him to delibrately go against her wishes.
Taehyung was always so obedient.
But maybe he wasn't.
Yeontan was rather quiet for these past few days. He never barked unless something dangerous was around. It was a very sudden shift in the small dog's mood. He was sleeping under the coffee table and then only seconds later, he bolted towards the door, barking like crazy. Yeontan leaped and scratched and barked at the back door.
