An improbable Love Story || kth

In love with you

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It was Christmas time and it sucked.

Our winter break had just started when I got the news that my family decided to cancel the holidays for this year. Apparently my lovely mother had gotten into a fight with her sister and my aunt being the conniving person she is, pulled my dad onto her side in this whole shenanigan. So my mom was mad at my dad and at the rest of the family and her being the glue that usually holds our rocky Christmases together, the whole thing went down the drain.

They wouldn't even pay for a train ticket back home, so here I was stuck at school, counting down the days until Christmas in my dorm as the halls became emptier and emptier as everyone left to spend time with their families.

The weather was horrible as well. Temperatures dropping below freezing and constant snow storms blowing through the chilly streets of New York City. You definitely didn't want to be outside.

To make things worse, my feelings for a specific someone were at an all time high. It was like nothing else entered my mind all day. The only way to distract myself was a movie, but even so, as soon as I paused it I would think of him.

Maybe it was because there was no longer anything standing in our way. He didn't have a girlfriend anymore and Jimin had obviously given us his blessing. There were no more excuses my mind could muster up. There was no reason not to like him. But there was every reason not to be in a relationship with him.

I was in love and lonely as hell. At this point I had to have been the only person on the entire campus. Other than the occasional janitor shoveling snow or keeping the place clean, the once bustling university became a ghost town. I'd always wondered what the school would be like around Christmas and I noticed very quickly that I didn't like it.

So to distract myself, and also because I had nothing better to do since Evie was off on some ski resort getaway with her family, I decided to try and study for upcoming exams in January.

Huddled in my five layers of clothing, I trudged my way to the library to get to work. Even in those few minutes to the main building, my mind wandered like crazy. I knew I must've been reading too much Wattpad again when I imagined Taehyung walking beside me. I imagined his adorable smile that would warm me up in an instant and the way his arms would wrap around me and never let me go. Then his dark eyes would find mine, deep and meaningful and he would slowly lean in to...

Library. I arrived at the library.

Surprisingly, I wasn't the only one there. A few students sat at the tables with stacks and stacks of books surrounding them as they worked through papers like crazy. I guess the super nerds even stay at school to study over the holidays.

Making my way over to the chemistry section of the library, I sighed, knowing there was nothing I wanted to do less than study. But I had nothing else to do. And my thoughts were a mess.

"Damnit", I cursed under my breath after locating the book I needed for my exam. It was about three shelves too high for me to reach.

Cursing some more, I put one foot on a lower shelf and pushed upwards while holding onto another. Yet my arm was still too short to reach the damn thing. Daring another step was most definitely a mistake. The leftover snow stuck to the bottom of my shoe was slippery and made my foot slide right off the shelf. My whole body fell back right along with it.

But I never hit the ground. Instead, two sturdy arms caught me and safely stabilized me on the library floor again.

"Careful there", the figure behind me chuckled in a voice that made my heart flip.