freckles

* chapter fifty five *

Claudette sat in her seat respectfully, her legs crossed, back straight, eyes on the floor. In the cup holder beside her was the smoothie Jungkook had bought for her, half  drank, the rest slowly becoming warm.

They all sat in their terminal, waiting for their plane to be ready for them. Due to lack of staff and help from BigHit, they were on a regular flight. Normally they would be on their private plane so no 'outsiders' would mess with them, but this time there were. Of course the flight was extremely nice and they got their first class tickets, but they had no clue who else would be on the flight with them. THere was a chance an ARMY could see them, or even be a flight attendant.

Yoongi smacked Taehyung's arm, the younger boy taking off his headphones, about to bark at Yoongi, but Yoongi pointed at Claudette. "You want your time with her, go ease her nerves about the flight."

Yoongi is a good boyfriend. He is extremely observant and respectful. He will know if something is wrong with you just by how you sit. Of course he had a million things to say to Clauette to ease her nervousness, but he is respectful of the others. Taehyung whining about not getting time with Claudette has been in the back of his mind for  a while, and wanted to let the younger one help her.

Claudette and her anxiety is not going away and every boy should be able to help her, or should learn to. It couldn't just always be Yoongi.

But Taehyung was a bit different. He doesn't exactly know how to help, or does so differently than most people. It has something to do with him not understanding everyone else. He did not understand why she was afraid of flying. It was just a couple of hours, and a couple thousand feet, but what else?

"Heyyyyyy Fluff Bunny." Taehyung dragged Namjoon out of his seat and sat next to Claudette instead, Namjoon rolling his eyes and taking Taehyung's seat beside Yoongi. "How are you doing?"

"I'm a bit nervous." Claudette responded with a shy smile, hugging herself tightly, an attempt to make herself smaller. She didn't understand her fear either. How could she be afraid so something she's never done? "What does it feel like?"

"Flying?" Taehyung asked, Claudette nodding. "Well, it's a bit bumpy and rocky at the beginning, but really, it feels like a car ride."

"Is it really high in the air?" Claudette asked her next question. After repeating the question in her head, she realized how dumb it sounded. Of course it's high, why wouldn't it be?

"If you don't think about it, it doesn't feel high at all." Taehyung smiled, Yoongi nodding once he heard his response. "You don't have to look down, you can close the little blinds thing on the window and you'll be in a car!! A really, really comfortable car."

"Tae?" Claudette put her hand on the arm rest, not able to find the confidence to hold his hand. "You said something about it being bumpy and rocky?"

"Yeah, it gets like that in rough weather." Taehyung nodded, Yoongi narrowing his eyes, knowing there's a chance Taehyung could spark a new fear inside of her. "But I don't think we have to worry. How about we ask the flight lady how the weather is and what the flight should feel like?"

Jungkook smiled, staring down at his phone, the album cover of the song he was listening to on the screen. He had paused once Taehyung had started to talk to Claudette, curious about what he was saying.

He was proud of his boyfriend. Taehyung likes to show affection through physical actions and touches. He himself knew that Taehyung wasn't very good with words, and hearing him calm down Claudette was definitely something huge.

Jungkook pretended he was listening to a song through his headphones as the two walked to the lady hand in hand, Taehyung in charge of talking. 'He'll definitely hug her or something,, there he goes.'

Taehyung had stood behind Claudette, wrapping his arms around her and resting his chin on her head while he talked, Claudette laughing softly. Based on their reactions, the lady had probably said something about a smooth flight and good weather.

"Claudette!" Hoseok waved as he and Jimin walked back from the shop they were at. "We bought you something!"

Claudette looked up at Taehyung, their fingers still interlocked, looking for permission to go join them.

"Go on Cheese Square." Taehyung chuckled, giving her a gentle push before she ran off to see what the two had found for her.

"What kind of nickname is Cheese Square??"

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Claudette stared at the ceiling of the plane. God she really had to pee. But her fear of standing up on the flying machine that was in the air beat her need to pee.

Until now.

"Shit." She mumbled, sitting up. She really had no strength to walk by herself without her knees shaking so much from fear.

There was only one person who was at arms length.

"Yoongi?" She whispered gently, shaking his shoulder lightly. "Yoongi, hey?"

"Hm?" He groaned softly, pushing his face mask up and off his eyes, opening them to see his girlfriend's awake face.

"I have to go to the bathroom." Claudette whispered, extremely embarrassed of what she was saying, but she had to go!!

Yoongi blinked, staring up at her as he let her words process with him. "Alright, let's go." Yoongi pushed his blanket off of him, finding his slippers with his feet. Claudette let out a little sigh, so thankful he wasn't questioning or denying her words.

Yoongi walked around and held out his arm for Claudette, assuming she woke him up because of her fear, and of course, he was right. Claudette linked her arm with him tightly, letting Yoongi lead them down the aisle slowly and steadily, the two almost silent in this asleep plane.

Claudette waved a small goodbye before closing the door to the bathroom, Yoongi waving back before turning around respectfully and crossing his arms, waiting for her to finish.

She took a bit, her not used to the small and cramped space, but the couple was soon reunited, Claudette at ease now and could finally relax.

Yoongi didn't mind helping her with her fear, especially since it was something as small as walking her to the restroom. Yeah it sucked that she woke him up, but he really didn't mind in the long run.

Once Claudette laid back down in her little first class pod thing, Yoongi was the one to throw the blanket over her body. He helped adjust it so it was around her perfectly and she wouldn't be cold during her sleep.

"Everything good?" He smiled down at her, pushing her hair from her face, his eyes falling to her warm smile.

"Mhm!"

"I love you." Yoongi bent over and kissed her lips, brushing her hair back one last time as he stood up. "Sweet dreams my love."

"I love you too Yoongi."

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i apologize for the extremely late and over due chapter, but, yeah. i'm sure some of you have seen my announcements

i'm tired.

and for those of you saying "how come you love us and support us and give us body confidence but don't do the same for yourself?"

ahem,
do as i say, not as i do
to put in simple terms

i want to be your safe place, well, my words, my stories

i love you all, and i'm here for you all as well. don't forget your smile and don't forget i'm here to help.

drink water lovelies i love you