🩹scared | taegyu

🩹thirty

aching knees and a piggyback ride

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

"yolo swag." huening kai and yeonjun say in unison as they sit down next to taehyun and soobin on the lawn.

the boy with the glasses doesn't even acknowledge their arrival. but taehyun sends them a wide smile as soon as who they are registers in his head.

"i'm sooo nervous!" yeonjun lets out, showing the others his shaky hands. the youngest shows his own hands and it makes taehyun laugh. both of them are shaking like fallen leaves and they aren't even racing.

"how does this usually work?" taehyun asks the others. and soobin is quickes to answer, as usual.

"first it's individual sprinting, team against team. beomgyu is really good at that. then it's the big relay race, with the batons and teams running against each other. then they jump hurdles, but beomgyu can't do that with his bad knees." soobin explains.

"yeaah! remember that time he almost dislocated his knee?" huening kai says and taehyun's eyes widen.

"that seriously happened?" he asks with googly eyes.

"yes! it was so scary. ning almost cried!" yeonjun says, nudging the youngest's shoulder.

"shut up! i didn't."

"you almost did." yeonjun smiles, running a hand through his hair.

"quit fighting! we're here to cheer for beomgyu."

"sorry." huening kai says, watching as yeonjun runs his hand through his hair again and again. yeonjun pulls out multiple strands at once, without noticing himself. his eyes go wild, looking around for beomgyu running on the red tracks.

"hyung, hands down!" the youngest says and yeonjun's eyes widen, caught in the act. he looks embarrassed as he puts his hands down, clenching the grass between his fingers.

"soon you won't have any hair left to dye." soobin says, patting the back of yeonjun's blue head. the older looks down, almost ashamed.

taehyun feels worried. he doesn't like that yeonjun feels nervous, especially when he's so nervous he tugs his hair out. but a smile tugs at his lips when soobin puts his head in front of yeonjun. "play with my hair instead. i don't want you to go bald."

huening kai and taehyun wave at beomgyu as they see him running on the track. when they make eye-contact, beomgyu jokingly blows a kiss at his friends as he jogs past them. he's busy warming up for his big race and the others are there too cheer him on. taehyun feels nervous for him, but the grey-haired seems at ease compared to the boys on the lawn.

after fifteen minutes beomgyu and the other sprinters are ready, all lined up by the startline. taehyun feels his palms sweat as he sees the other sprinters take off their long training trousers and are all wearing shorts underneath. beomgyu adjusts his headband, ready to give this sprint his all. getting in position alongside his components must give you a sudden rush of adrenaline.

a sudden gush of wind take them all by surprise and beomgyu shudders. quickly asking the coaches for a timeout, the other sprinters huff and seem annoyed that beomgyu is interrupting and using their valuable time. but beomgyu just hurries over to his athletic bag in the stands. pulling out his long trousers and putting them on quickly.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" soobin screams at the grey-haired boy, "they'll slow you down!"

"shut up, soob." yeonjun says, putting a hand over the other's mouth to muffle his complaining.