"sunshine and puppy kisses" - [bts x male!hybrid!reader]

[chapter six] - "euphoria"

Y/N awoke the next morning, feeling a pair of arms around his torso. He panicked a bit before remembering the night before. Turning his head, he looked back to see Taehyung laying behind him with his arms wrapped protectively around the smaller boy's waist. He blushed a bit at how close they were but tried his best to brush it off. He moved his hands down to where Taehyung's arms were, carefully trying to remove them from around his lower torso. He was surprised when he heard a small grunt come from the other boy.

"Where are you going.." Taehyung tiredly mumbling, his voice heavy with sleep which only made it deeper than normal.

Y/N began to stammer from embarrassment. "I-I was just getting up to go to the bathroom.. S-Sorry for waking you up.." He said, his face flushed.

"It's m'kay..." Tae said. He let go of his grasp around Y/N.

Y/N stood up and lazily walked to the bathroom. He stared at himself in the mirror as he started to get ready for the day. What seemed to be not that big of a deal for most was a big deal to Y/N. Looking in the mirror felt like his insecurities were confronting him, mocking him, sneering at him from behind the reflective glass. The more that Y/N stared, the more he remembered and thought about all that was wrong to him. Everything bad about him felt like it was lashing out at him, cutting his self esteem and ripping it to shreds. They were yelling at him, screaming at him, clawing at him, breaking his skin. He was never good enough. He was never cute enough. He was never funny enough. He was never nice enough. He was never enough. Tears began to stream down his face, leaving small tracks behind them. He tried to wipe them away, tried to get them to stop, but he couldn't. They just always came back. They wouldn't stop - they couldn't stop - flowing down his beautiful, adorable cheeks. They couldn't stop leaving tracks down those cheeks that he felt everyone hated when in fact, everyone loved them. He was adorable, he was cute, he was everything. He just couldn't see it.

Taehyung heard sniffling coming from the bathroom, so he went to see what was going on. He peeked through the opening in the doorway and saw Y/N crying. He quickly rushed to the hybrid boy's care, wiping away the boy's tears. He pulled the boy close and calmingly pet the boy's head. "Shh.. It's okay, Y/N.." He said in as reassuring of a way that he could.

"I-I'm s-sorry.." Y/N choked out between sobs as he practically clung onto Taehyung.

Taehyung gently rubbed the bases of Y/N's ears, something he learned from research that can help calm hybrids. "Sorry for what, hun? You haven't done anything wrong."

"I-I'm n-not p-perfect.." He cried into the taller boy's shirt.

"Y/N.. It's okay that you aren't perfect. I love you, we love you no matter if you're perfect or not. We love you for you, for your perfections and your flaws. We love you just the way you are." Taehyung said, hoping Y/N was truly hearing his words, hoping that Y/n was hearing the genuine care behind his words.

Y/N sniffled, pulling away from hiding his face in Taehyung's shirt looking up at him. "R-Really? D-Do you really m-mean t-that?"

"Yes really.." Taehyung said, his box smile gleaming on his face.

"We truly love you, Y/N. We'll love you no matter what."

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sorry for the long wait on this chapter. updates may take a while as i've been sort of losing inspirations for this story and have been working on some other works!
i'm so thankful for the support on this book; it really means a lot. i didn't plan on this story getting so much attention, but i'm thankful for each and every one of my readers.
please take care and stay well! hopefully a new update will be out soon. ^^
- jin