🩹scared | taegyu

🩹twenty-four

feeling as if you might explode

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

the rain pours down as taehyun walks the streets. his fringe is sticks to his forehead. it's only been five minutes, but his clothes are already soaked. a small river runs past him as he continues downhill. it's only april, why is the weather so bad all of a sudden?

taehyun feels sad. his mum has to work overtime today, which means he has to be home alone for longer than he is used to. this sucks, he thinks to himself. rubbing the rain out of his eyes. his hands are cold, so are his feet. everything is freezing. 

but he can't help but think about beomgyu and that day his dad picked him up. how warm he felt inside when beomgyu hugged him back. the boy hadn't showed his face at school in nearly a week after what happened in the locker rooms. taehyun missed seeing him around school. 

"wait, i miss him?" taehyun whispers to himself, in disbelief.

the rain continued to hit the sidewalk with a steady pace, as loud foot steps emerge from behind him. the person splashes into the puddles on the pavement. as they're just a metre away him, taehyun closes his eyes. worried they'll run into him from behind.  

"taehyun!" beomgyu smiles widely as his purple umbrella is placed above the younger's hair. taehyun jumps, heart beating loudly in his chest as he struggles to catch his breath. when he realizes it's beomgyu, he smiles a little. 

after a few moments of calm breathing, beomgyu looks at him, still smiling. "why isn't your mum picking you up?" he asks quietly, holding the umbrella over to taehyun's side. 

"she's working over-time." taehyun answers, running a hand through his wet hair. 

"you should've texted me! i could've met you outside." beomgyu says, almost whispering the last words. seeming as if he regrets them as soon as he lets them out. 

"where have you been, hyung?" taehyun asks, looking over at the other with a worried expression. beomgyu grows silent, looking away.

"i wasn't very well. but now i'm fine again-" he smiles, gasping in horror as he steps into a deep puddle. taehyun brushes off the odd gut feeling. laughing at beomgyu's foot, pointing a finger at his drenched shoe. 

but his smile falters when he notices that beomgyu is getting wet, because he isn't completely under the umbrella. "hyung, you're getting wet!" 

taehyun instictively moves closer to him. and for the first time ever, beomgyu makes taehyun's stomach flutter with butterflies. just the thought of beomgyu letting all of taehyun walk under the umbrella, to keep him dry makes said boy weak in the knees. even though beomgyu's own shoulder poked out and got wet, he wanted taehyun to be dry. 

taehyun knowns he's reading into things. they aren't in love. beomgyu isn't at least. he said he was straight just the other day. plus taehyun has just always wanted a romantic moment like this with someone. and now that someone just happened to be beomgyu. 

beomgyu who held his hand as he called taehyun's mum for help. who stayed behind with him in the park. beomgyu who keeps popping into taehyun's head. maybe he'd even settled down in there? he doesn't seem to leave, taehyun thinks to himself.  

"you have to catch me!" 

beomgyu interrupts taehyun's thoughts, before running off down the street. leaving the other under the pouring sky without a shield to protect him from the rain. taehyun shrieks, following quickly after the older, giggling a little as he tries to catchs up with beomgyu. it's difficult, beomgyu is on the track team. 

"stop! hyung, i'm getting all wet!" taehyun yells, laughing out loud. people walking past send them amused looks, smiling to themselves. taehyun feels happy. he feels properly happy with someone else, that isn't his mum. 

beomgyu stops running, wafting his purple umbrella playfully in the air. he sends the other a goofy smile as he waits for taehyun to catch up. when he does, the older can't keep his eyes to himself. he scans taehyun's face, almost memorising his expression. when had they last been this happy?

"i'm only kidding, lets go!" he smiles. and taehyun swears his breath gets stuck in his throat as the other pulls him closer, so they both fit under the umbrella. holding an arm securely around taehyun's shoulder. 

butterflies flutter in taehyun's stomach as they walk under the pouring sky. taehyun almost blushes as beomgyu tightens his grip on his jacket when a cyclist zooms past. he lets out a small yelp in surprise and beomgyu chuckles. 

"we have to study for your history quiz about world war two." beomgyu states, patting his hand against taehyun's wet jacket. 

"mhm-" is all taehyun can let out. 

he's freezing, excited to get home to his warm bed. shivers run down his spine as his teeth chatter loudly. it only makes beomgyu pull him closer. taehyun may be cold on the outside, but being held like this by a friend. immaculate, it feels friendly, lovely and welcoming to him. 

taehyun is nearly overwhelmed by the sudden urge to scream out in joy. the butterflies swarm in his chest as beomgyu tightens his grip. taehyun hides a huge grin behind his scarf, feeling as if he might explode. 

  

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