🩹scared | taegyu

🩹twenty-six

being too late and building trust

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

taehyun wakes up to rays of sunshine blinding him. he rolls around in bed, putting his duvet over his head to hide from the sun. wait? hide from the sun?

taehyun never wakes up when the sun's up, he wakes up before that. and it was definetly a school day today. pulling the duvet off his head carefully, peeping his eyes over the edge to look at the clock on the wall. half past seven. 

taehyun is overwhelmed by fear, it sits in his stomach like a christmas meal ready to be digested. it's almost sickening. he would come to school super early to avoid other students. today he'd have to face one of his biggest fears. crowds. 

tears sting in his eyes as realization hits him. and he quickly hurries out of bed to get there as soon as possible. he storms out of his room, up the stairs and barges into his mum's bedroom. hyejin, who was sleeping peacefully just a second ago, is abruptly woken up by her frantic son. 

"oh my god, are you alright?" she asks, almost falling out of bed as she moves towards him to comfort him. 

"we're going to be late!" taehyun almost sobs, trying his best not to cry. hyejin looks over at her alarm-clock on her nightstand. 

"we forgot to set alarms!" they say in unison, both frantic about the time. 

taehyun runs back downstairs, throwing on his uniform, nearly ripping his trousers as he pulls them on. meanwhile hyejin is frantically trying to make herself look presentable for work.

there is no time for breakfast and taehyun forgets to pack lunch. and hyejin can buy lunch at work, so she doesn't realise taehyun has forgotten his lunchbox. 

they hurriedly run around, turning off all the lights in the house. no need to use electricity when you're not home. (plz turn off your lights people) and pull on their shoes as quickly as possible. taehyun has to tie his laces in the car, but that's fine. he makes sure to tie them extra tight, loose shoelaces feel gross. 

taehyun figdets with his hands as they drive to school at seven forty-five. hyejin plays a nice mixture of troye sivan and wallows to calm him down. (her music taste is immaculate in this fic, deadass. you aren't even allowed to disagree)

instead of singing along like usual, taehyun wants to cry, maybe even jump out of the moving car. but hyejin can't do anything about that. it can't be helped. this is a one time mistake, it'll never happen again. and she'll make sure it never does. 

"are you feeling sick?" she asks him as he almost folds himself in his seat in pain.

"just a stomach ache." he answers, forcing his eyes shut as he starts to progressively feel worse and worse. 

"there are peppermint sweets in the glove-compartment." she says, pointing at the compartment in front of his knees. he opens it and sees the box of candies. 

"we have to buy more," taehyun says opening the box, only to see five peppermints inside. 

"i've nearly eaten the entire dooda-" he says, referring to the box of sweets.

taehyun shoves all five in his mouth and nods along to pleaser as hyejin belts out all the lyrics. she opens the windows in the car, letting the wind flow into their car as she drives. the wind blows in their hair and taehyun turns up the music, chewing his mints. 

they sing along to the music as they drive through the streets of their town. passing students rushing to school, dog-walkers talking obnoxiously loud and babies being taken to daycare by overly excited parents. mansard roof  by vampire weekend booms from their cheap car's speakers. (immaculate taste, deadass)