🩹scared | taegyu

🩹twenty-three

please don't leave

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

"turn on the lights!" soobin yells, fumbling to get his phone out of his pocket. 

taehyun runs his hands across the walls, looking for a lightswitch. camera flashlights light up the locker room and soobin stumbles towards beomgyu. 

huening kai shines his phone's flashlight all over the room. where is the damn switch?

taehyun watches as soobin throws off his backpack, wrapping his blazer over beomgyu's shoulders. holding around him with a tight grip as the lights flicker on. beomgyu is redfaced, shaking as he lets his friend comfort him. 

as soobin comforts beomgyu, taehyun thinks about their friendship. the other boys sometimes joke about how they can drop soobin any day, any time. actings as if they'll be fine without him, but they definetly won't.

soobin is always there first when the others are in trouble. when someone needs a hand to hold, a spare pair of trousers or when someone needs to hear comforting words. he's there first. and the others take that for granted. 

beomgyu clutches his hands around the wooden bench he's sitting on. squeezing until his knuckles turn white. he's having a full on panic-attack. gasping for air as his legs jump up and down. his eyes are shut and he's fighting the tears that are threatening to fall. 

"calm down, beom." soobin says, rubbing the boy's back softly. taehyun doesn't know what to do. he feels really out of place. 

huening kai has left to confront the boys outside. taehyun can hear yeonjun yelling as rocky barks loudly. huening kai is trying his best to calm the blue-haired boy down. 

taehyun watches as soobin is tries to keep it together. but beomgyu is in shambles. completely out of it. he feels trapped, small and scared. taehyun doesn't like the way beomgyu looks right now, it's painful. and he doesn't know what to do. 

beomgyu body is tensed up as he jolts in his seat. soobin tries to calm him down. but beomgyu can't calm down, gasping for air as he starts to feel light-headed. his eyelids grow heavier and everything seems to close around him. 

the walls are caving in around them and beomgyu feels strangely claustropobic. he can't keep himself upright anymore, swaying back and forth in his seat. soobin only just manages to grab onto him as the boy goes limp. beomgyu slouches against him, like a sack of potatoes. 

"taehyun, help me!" soobin yells at the younger for assistance, growing frantic.

taehyun doesn't know what's happening. the boy with the glasses tries pulling beomgyu off the bench. wanting to situate the grey-haired boy on the floor. taehyun realizes beomgyu has fainted and tries to help too. he takes off his backpack, dropping it on the ground. 

soobin tries pulling beomgyu towards the floor again, but almost drops him. taehyun jumps forward, catching the older by the shoulders right before he hits the ground. together they turn him around, placing him on his back on the dirty floor. soobin puts beomgyu's feet up on the bench.

taehyun had read about that. feet above heart-level gets your blood flowing back to your brain. soobin must've read about it too.  

"ergh-" soobin lets out, dumping down next to beomgyu's head. pushing the boy's fringe out of his eyes. 

"huening kai should've helped me lift him." he says with a sigh, "sorry you have to deal with this. it must be weird and uncomfortable." 

"it's fine." taehyun says, sitting down next to the two on the dirty floor.