Love maze | taehyung x reader

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*One week later*

*Taehyung POV*

"Let me help you with that," I said, reaching for the bag belonging to the man behind me.

"Thank you," he said as I handed it to him, looking at me over the top of his silver- rimmed glasses. He was slightly older, and reminded me a bit of my dad.

"No problem."

The ride back home had been relatively uneventful- I had slept for the first hour or so and then played games for the rest of the time on my phone,

I craned my neck to look over the line of people trying to get their way out of the train car. The line was not very long at all, and I figured I wouldn't have to wait much before exiting.

As I pushed my way forward through the line, I began to plan out my day. It was around eleven am right now, which meant that I would probably be able to pick my bags and head out somewhere for lunch. Then maybe go to a hotel for the night and start the moving process tomorrow. 

I decided to move back home, and not into a new apartment yet. Maybe I'd go hunting for one later, but for now I figured that I would stay at home. I was just getting out of work, and wasn't keen on getting into more financial work by selling a house or renting one at the moment.

I had two suitcases and a backpack with me, so I needed to find a place to keep them asap, out of the way of other people since there was no trolleys. Hauling them off the train, I made my way towards the exit. The entire place wasn't very crowded, probably because it was the middle of the day.

Pushing my bags to the side after exiting, I looked around to gauge whether I should eat nearby or go and eat at a hotel, where I'd see if I could book a room to stay the night. 

Before I could make a decision, though, I was knocked off balance by something slamming into me. Caught off guard, I stumbled backwards, my arms flailing around for the support of anything around me, but my fingers only grazed my suitcase, not able to form a firm grip on the handle. My body hit the ground with far less force than I had expected, but I cringed when I realised why.

*Y/n POV*

I seriously think there should be an award for most embarrassing thing to happen to you in public. If there was, I would be grand ambassador with what had happened.

Taehyung hadn't told me what time he was coming today, but Yoongi just looked up the schedule online and figured that he was coming in the morning. We were waiting for Tae outside, and when he appeared at the doors, something in my brain just snapped.

I wasn't aware of the way my feet carried me to him and my arms threw themselves around him. All of that had been something of a blur until I realised that I was falling, and threw my arms out to break that fall.

My entire right side was grazed by the tarmac, minor scrapes up my right leg and my palms. The major damage, though, was to my right arm. It had taken the majority of the impact, and though it wasn't bleeding much, it burned like hell. Dazed from the fall, I tried to sit up when he first made eye contact with me.

"Sorry. I'm so so sorry," I mumbled.

I turned away, embarrassed, expecting him to be irritated, but, placing his fingers under my jaw, he turned my face towards his and smiled up at me, as if he was amused by it.

"Y/n," he said softly. "Hi"

Without really meaning to, I broke into a little smile, my face still flushed from embarrassment. "Hi." I must still been in some sort of daze, because it took me way too long to realise what was so, so wrong. We had fallen into an awkward heap on the ground, but as I tried to get up, and Tae had stopped me, my position had shifted.