Stay with Me
Under the Bridges of ParisTaehyung's POV:
"Woah-ah, it's so beautiful here." I said as I jumped to reach the branch over my head. It was a nice break from all the museums and memoirs. I looked around to see many birds flying around the trees of Parc Monseau.
"Well you said you liked quiet places, Jin hyung and this is one of the quietest place around here." I said while we walking over a small bridge over the pond.
There was some white ducks swimming in the pond. It had some huge bushes of flowers beside it.
"Wait. Let's stand here and ask someone to take some pictures of us." Jin hyung took out both his white polaroid and camera.
"Excuse me, uhm could you please take pictures of us?" Jin hyung said to a blond man who was standing on the bridge beside us in English.
"Sure. With both?" Jin hyung nodded in response. The guy took both the camera and the polaroid from him and went a bit far from us.
We both stood beside with my arm over Jin hyung's shoulder and his one of his arms over my waist. We both showed peace signs at first .
Then I started blowing the bubbles so those are in the pictures too. I love to bubbles so I could say I've become really good at doing it, if one is allowed to brag about bubble making skills.
There was steady wind so the bubbles didn't pop but all of the bubbles ended up landing on Jin hyung. I laughed when a huge bubble popped on his nose. Jin stared frowning at his own nose but then the frown slowly turned into a smile as I attacked him with more bubbles.
One of the most wonderful things was that Jin hyung enjoyed watching bubbles like I loved making them. He would stare at the bubbles with his deep warm brown eyes. He never even tried popping one.
In the end ,we ended up with almost 30 polaroids and pictures of me making bubbles and Jin hyung staring at them while smiling.
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"Hey flower prince hyung look!" I called for Jin hyung to look at me as I tried to attach a white peonie to the buttonhole of his shirt.
"Flower Prince?"
"Uhmm you know you are always well-dressed and you look like a prince who jumped out of a fairytale?"
"I know I'm good looking but this is the first time someone called me a flower prince." Jin hyung smiled closing his eyes.
"You were also born on an island though?" He chuckled.
"Is this another of your puns Jin hyung?"
"Handsome." I felt my cheeks heat up at the compliment.
"Where did you get it Tae?" Jin hyung opened his eyes & shifted his weight as he half-sat and half-laid in a place full of green grass and daisies.
"A little girl gave it to me because I caught her balloon which was almost gone with the wind." I scooted closer to tie the flower with the button at the top.
Suddenly I realized that we were too close to each other than it was necessary. I could feel him breathing ,on the back of my neck. I was sitting with both of my hands on his chests. It felt somehow comfortable to sit this close with him. As if I've been sitting this close to him as long as I remember when in reality it was the first time.
As I finished tying the flower, I opened my mouth to say something.
I felt a drop of water fall at my neck. I looked up at the sky to see...
"Jin hyung it's raining!"
"Do you have an umbrella?"
I shook my head.
"Let's run!"
Jin hyung got up to his feet and started dragging me with him towards the huge gate along gravel streets with him. As we started running a flock of birds standing in front of us flew away. Slowly but soon enough it started to rain in showers.
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Seokjin's POV:
"Your dorm is so far away, Taehyung-ah! You'll catch a cold if you run all the way there!" I said as I tried to push him inside my room.
"Jin hyung don't worry I can call up a cab or call Jimin to drive me to my dorm.."
"You just said yesterday that their apartment was really far from your dorm otherwise you'd get to see Jimin every day of the week."
"Okay." Taehyung gave up after his several attempts."
"Great! About eating, you can eat whatever you want from the dinner below. About clothes I think you should change your clothes. I can definitely find clothes that will fit you well." I said as I opened my closet to find a black sweatshirt and a pair of black & white striped trousers.
I handed the clothes to him and threw a towel on his head.
"You go first." As Taehyung went to change and wash himself up, I called the number downstairs to order dishes of lambs & ducks. I took out a white turtleneck & black trousers for me.
I ran to the shower as soon as Taehyung came out from there.
"I called them to serve up the dishes here. If you want to have anything else." I said as I ran past him.
"Did you order cola?"
"Yes, Kim Taehyung. I'm eating dinner with you. Of course I ordered that." I half screamed from the shower.
I heard him chuckle.
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We leaned across the sofa with my laptop on my lap. We decided to watch movies after a delicious dinner. But we couldn't decide on a single movie to watch so we ended up watching a random movie. The first one Taehyung clicks on with his eyes closed.
And of all the movies in the world, that movie ends up being 'A Train To Busan'.
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After what seems like two hours of clinging onto Taehyung for dear life , the movie ends.
Taehyung pulls me in for a warm hug and runs his fingers through my hair everytime I scoot closer to him.
"It's really creepy Jinnie hyung. We should've watched that action movie instead."
I nod while still being pressed against Taehyung's chest. Taehyung lets out a yawn.
I look at time on my phone.
"It's already past two in the night! Taehyung let's both go to the bed. I don't think either of us can fit one's legs in this couch." Taehyung hums in response.
I almost carry Taehyung to the bed because I think the poor boy dozed off from the exhaustion.
I drop him to right side of the bed and pull a warm blanket over him. It was still raining outside so it was really cold even when the room had a heater. I scoot to the left side of the bed, wrapping myself in another blanket.
I closed my eyes with my back faced to Taehyung. Slowly I drifted off to sleep.
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I could hear someone murmuring and taking deep breaths besides me. My eyes flew open in shock because I slept alone in my room. As my eyes searched around the room, it eventually landed on him. Then I started to remember that I fell asleep with Taehyung.
Speaking of him, why is he shaking in his sleep? Is he having a nightmare?
I went closer to him to find out the reason. He was murmuring something under his breath.
He was talking with someone in his sleep. But I could only decipher that he was telling them to save him.
"Taehyung-ah." I grabbed his shoulder and called out for him.
"Wake up Tae, it's just another bad dream." I hold him firmly with one of my hands and brushed away his green fringes from his eyes with the other.
Taehyung opened his eyes and gripped onto my wrist tightly. Hair dishevelled ,eyes reddened and his chest constantly moving up and down for air.
He pulled me closer to him to wrap me in a hug. I sort of tumbled over him for the sudden pull but I didn't move away.
"Jin hyung, stay with me."
"It's okay, I'm right here. With you." I said as I pressed my lips onto his forehead.
I have no idea what came over me. At that moment I felt a strong urge to do so. So I did.
Taehyung hold me by my waist and shifted me so my head was on the pillow. He wrapped his arms around my shoulder and I still had one of my hands over his waist.
I was so close that I could count every single long eyelashes of him. I could see the moles on his face. I wanted to boop the mole on his nose and hold him against my chest again.
"Hyung can you sing me a song?" Said Taehyung as he broke me out of my daze while playing with my fingers.
"I'm not that good at that Taehyungie."
"I just want to hear your voice."
I cleared my throat and took a deep breath.
In my cracked heart
Your cold sighs
Like a slowly withering flower
Fall onto my heart...
Your cold sighs
Like a slowly withering flower
Fall onto my heart...
"I love your voice,Jin hyung."
Taehyung smiles against my shoulder, slowly drifting off to sleep.
Author's Note: Believe me, I wanted to write only 500 words. But I ended up writing 1•6 K words!
This is Seokjin's fourth day in Paris.
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