🩹scared | taegyu

🩹fifty-four

finally together.

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

taehyun's heart stops as he hears beomgyu's confession. and when beomgyu comes closer to him, his heart starts beating so fast he's convinced it's going to explode in his chest, as if it was a bomb. 

"don't lie to me." taehyun whispers, moving his shaking hands up in front of himself to act as a shield when beomgyu inches closer. 

"i'm not lying, hyun."beomgyu whispers, sniffling his nose. they're a metre or two apart and taehyun is scared of what beomgyu is about to do. he doesn't want to go through that heart-wrenching pain again. 

"you are," taehyun whispers, "last time you came this close to me with that look in your eyes, you kissed me and broke my heart, hyung."

beomgyu's breath hitches, because this time it's different. this time he won't push taehyun away, this time he won't run. "but i'm staying this time."

"you're lying to me," taehyun sniffles, "you're not in love with me, beomgyu."

"i am in love with you, taehyun!" beomgyu cries out in frustration, he almost laughs at taehyun's sudden disbelief. didn't he just say that all he wanted to hear was 'i need you'?

"then prove it!" taehyun says, stepping closer to the other. the hundreds of butterflies flutter in his stomach as he feels beomgyu's breath on his face. 

taehyun knows what he's doing. he's pushing beomgyu to do something that makes him scared, he's pushing him to his limit. they're out in the open, in the middle of the pavement, taehyun knows this is too public for beomgyu to prove anything to him. but they're too far away from taehyun's house to be spotted by people who know them. 

beomgyu stares at taehyun for a second. their height difference is almost to die for. the sun gives taehyun's eyes this magical sparkle as he looks up at the other. he's almost like a human version of the emoji hoseok is so obsessed with. 

"prove it, beomgyu." taehyun whispers, he doesn't know which of beomgyu's eyes to focus on and swaps cutely between left and right. it makes beomgyu want to scream. 

and instead of being a coward, like usual, beomgyu moves even closer and pulls taehyun's hood over his head, which confuses the other. and then beomgyu does the same with his own. "i'm not a liar." 

taehyun's heart almost explodes as beomgyu comes even closer. and taehyun watches him smile, before they both close their eyes. this is the moment he has been waiting for, this is beomgyu's limit and he's crossing it. 

beomgyu kisses him carefully. his lips taste like tears and orange flavoured chapstick. taehyun kisses back with a warm feeling in his chest. he loves this feelings so much. 

"do you believe me now?" beomgyu whispers as he pulls away from the kiss. 

"not quite yet." taehyun smiles, playfully pulling the older by the strings of his hoodie and reconnects their lips. 

beomgyu laughs into the kiss and it makes taehyun's heart swell in his chest. this is the best feeling ever. the older's fingers are tangled into the his hair as they continue giggling onto each others skin. 

but when a car toots it's horn, taehyun jumps away from beomgyu. he recognises the car with an angry pout. yongsun smiles cheekily from inside her car as she rolls down the window. "get in, love birds."

a blush spreads across the pair's faces and beomgyu doesn't even remember the last time he was this embarrassed. taehyun runs back up the street to fetch bubbles sitting patiently on the pavement. he sits in the front seat with taehyun and beomgyu nervously gets in the back seat.

"does hyejin know about this?" yongsun asks in a surprisingly serious tone as she drives them all back to the house. 

"yes, i talked to her less than an hour ago." beomgyu croaks out from the backseat. taehyun can hear that he's scared, so he snakes his arm behind the car seat to let beomgyu hold it. his heart flutters when beomgyu grabs it quickly and holds it tightly.

"are you staying for dinner, gyu?" yongsun asks and taehyun doesn't hesitate to respond, "of course he is."

   
   
      

    

beomgyu sits across from taehyun by the dinner table. hyejin is too busy shoveling pasta salad into everyone's bowls to notice how worried he looks. and yongsun is obliviously pouring everyone a glass of water. 

but taehyun notices and he wishes yongsun hadn't plopped down next to beomgyu before him. they've hardly met before, and taehyun knows how scared the other is. he puts his foot ontop of beomgyu's to tell him "i'm here for you, don't worry." 

it makes beomgyu smile and put his other foot ontop of taehyun's. without the ladies realising, the pair play a quiet game of footsies under the table during the entire dinner. 

beomgyu feels less anxious fairly quickly and puts a big spoonful of salad in his mouth. taehyun likes watching him eat comfortably and as much as he wants to. 

"so are you dating?" yongsun lets out after a minute of silent eating. taehyun almost chokes on his food. he looks eyes with beomgyu from across the table, the other sends him a toothy grin.

"not yet," beomgyu smiles, "but i'll make it happen." 

     

  
   
      

taehyun feels weirdly awkward as he lays on his bed with beomgyu's arm wrapped around his shoulder. his laptop is placed on beomgyu's thighs and some annoying american tv-show is playing at low volume.  

"do you want to be my boyfriend?" beomgyu suddenly asks, sending taehyun a grin. it takes taehyun by surprise and he starts laughing. 

"why are you laughing!?" the other lets out in a confused tone. he hits taehyun on the chest, but the toothy smile doesn't leave his face. 

"take me out on a date and ask me again." taehyun smiles back, turning up the volume on the laptop.  he can see beomgyu's big pout in his peripheral vision. it makes him laugh even more, but beomgyu doesn't think it's funny at all. 

"but then it'll be ages until i can kiss you again," beomgyu whines as he turns towards taehyun on the bed. 

"who said you had to be my boyfriend to kiss me?" taehyun says without thinking twice. beomgyu's eyes widen cutely and a blush spreads across taehyun's cheeks. the older shuts the laptop and swiftly shoves it off the bed. 

and before taehyun can count to three beomgyu is already halfway on top of him, smiling like an idiot. taehyun pulls beomgyu's hood over his head to tease him and wraps his arms around his neck with a smile. 

but beomgyu's doesn't do anything more. he just sits ontop of taehyun's stomach for a while, admiring the boy he's finally brave enough to love. 

"you're so pretty," beomgyu gushes with a shy smile on his face. his eyes scan over ever single part of taehyun's face. memorising  what it looks like, as if it's for an exam. 

"thank you, hyung. you're pretty too." but taehyun, however, is impatient, so he pulls himself up by beomgyu's neck and locks their lips. 

because they've been waiting for this for what feels like an eternity. and now they're finally together. 

    
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i hope this chapter made you as happy as it made me when i wrote it.

have you had a nice day today?