Going Home
(One Shot)

You x Kim Taehyung (BTS)

Taehyung’s legs, left with left and right with right, are in sync with yours while you walk next to him arm in arm. His fingers tightly intertwines with your fingers as he grips onto your hand to keep it warm from the below freezing wind that keeps brushing against your skin. His thumb overlaps your thumb while you play and fiddle with it trying to escape his playful dominance. He turns to look at you with his big bright smile. You unconsciously mirror a big smile back.

“Ahhhhh!!!” your high pitch scream out of surprise mixed with scare echos down the street. You focused way too much attention to his beautiful presence and you forget to watch where you were walking so the ice that you step on revenges to make you lose balance and almost slip. That is only almost because he caught your arms right when he saw you start to wobble. “Thanks,” you say to him in a silent relief after gaining back your balance. You were feeling so thankful that you did not embarrass yourself in front of him or it would not have been a pretty scene on your half.

You both sit excitedly getting ready to gobble down all the ramen. The bell dings. His cup of ramen and your cup of ramen were finally ready to be eaten. He pulls yours and his wooden chopsticks apart and rubs them together so they would be smoother. “Woahh,” you open the lid and inhale the steam of the seasoning of your delicious ramen. “Yours look good,” he says obviously implying his crave for yours as well. You dip your chopsticks in and stir around to cool it. You pull up your first batch of noodles and blow on them to cool down. You hand him the first bite, “say ahh.” “Mmm!” he says with wide eyes after a delectable slurp. The way he ate your ramen made it look ten times as delicious so you quickly pull up another batch and start cooling it. “Here,” he hands you the first bite of his ramen. You respond with satisfaction after taking a bite.

“What time are you leaving again?” he asks. “The plane takes off at 6:17PM,” you answer after chewing and swallowing your noodles. “So you have to be at the airport at 3PM then?” “Yea. Around that time.” “Sorry I can’t spend time with you tomorrow or send you off that day.” It’s okay. I know you’re busy.” “But today is the last time we get to be together before you leave so let’s make the best out of it!” he says excitedly. “Of course!” you reply enthusiastically ready take on whatever adventures you and him may be going on tonight.

The warmth of ramen broth filled your whole body. It didn’t seem so cold anymore being next to Taehyung this freezing night. He tosses the left over trash away and comes back to where you were sitting. “Let’s go,” he suggested with his hand out waiting for you to accept. You take hold of his hand and get up. “Where are we going?” you ask him with your warm breath released to wave in the cold. “It’s a surprise,” he says making you anticipate where the next location would be.

You and he end up at the corner of a block at an intersection in a quiet street. A random street that you can’t recall has any memorable memory for you except that you’ve crossed here many times before. “Here,” he stops out of nowhere and starts speaking. “Do you remember that day we spent with each other? We volunteered at the animal shelter and played with the dogs, bathe and fed them. We had too much fun and lost track of time.” You nod in remembrance. He turns to lock his strong gaze at you. “We ran here because I forgot I had a schedule later that evening. I don’t know what it was about that day but you looked so lovely. When we had to part here I wanted to kiss you for the very first time.” Your heart starts to feel too light and flutters internally. He leans in and your heart stars to accelerate way too fast for you to handle. You swore it would jump right out of your chest. His chapped lips gently lands on yours. Your eyes naturally close and you lift your chin up. His hand comes up to caress the side of your face with his fingers reaching to your neck meanwhile his other hand is firmly set around your waist. His kiss deepens on your lips. Your hand goes up to rest on the back of his hand that was on the side of your face. He kisses and kisses not knowing whether to take a breath or not. He finally stops and opens his eyes to look at you. You open your eyes to see his sweet, loving eyes staring right into your soul.

“Taehyung, where are we going now?” you ask him as he leads again. He doesn’t reply this time. The road becomes familiar as you’ve walked here many times as well. You two end up at the gate of your University. The lights were all off but a few to guard the campus. “I’ve always wanted to be a campus couple,” he says. No wonder he has a backpack on. He takes your hand and savors his time walking up to the main building doors with you but you could feel his excitement. “Which of your classes do you like best?” he asks you. “Psychology,” you tell him. “Which room is that in?” You head him to your Psychology classroom. “Go in first,” he insists. Thankfully it wasn’t locked. You go in and turn on the lights. On your way to your seat he yells to you “I’m the new student okay?” and closes the door. You chuckle to yourself. You sit in your seat to wait his next move. He enters dramatically with the doors flying wide open to softly bang against the walls. His runway walk trails him to the front of the class. You uncontrollably laugh at his exaggerated confidence. “Hello!” he bows to the empty seats and you. “My name is Kim Tae Hyung. I am a new student.” He looks over to the podium where the professor would be. “Okay, sit over there?” he nods and points to the seat next to you. He bows to the imaginary professor and comes to sit next to you. He bows before sitting and you bow back. “Hello. This seat is vacant right?” “Yes,” you tell him. He pulls out the seat to sit next to you. “My name is Kim Tae Hyung. What is your name?” he asks. You tell him your name. “You don’t look like you’re from here.” “I’m not. I’m a foreign exchange student. I’m just here for a semester.” “I’m from Daegu. Where are you from?” The conversation proceeds smoothly and he charms you in all the ways he possibly could. “You’re really pretty. Don’t you think we’d be a perfect match?” he asks. “Would you like to be my girlfriend?” he suddenly asks making you surprised. “Sure!” you happily said. “Okay! You’re my girlfriend now. We will be the best looking campus couple out there!” he confidently says causing you to laugh again. “Baby,” he says with cuteness fluttering your heart once more. You blush because of him.

“Remember when I had to piggy back you all the way to your dorm?” he says while you and him walk in the direction of your dorm as the night is coming to an end. “You were so heavy!” he teases! You pout and punch his arm with playful anger. “You’re not a manly man then,” you said. “I’m just kidding,” he redeems himself. You two reach your dorm and walk around to the back to sit on the back door steps so you two could talk a little longer since he can’t enter your dorm. “Tomorrow I have a busy schedule but I’ll be sure to text you in between,” he says making you feel so loved. “You don’t have to if you’re busy,” you let him know. “I will be packing all day tomorrow so I’ll be busy too. I’ll be thinking of you though,” you tell him. “Not as much as me,” he says to overpower your sentiment. “Make sure to eat as much as you can before you go,” he says. “You won’t be able to eat Korean food easily where you live.” You nod to agree and understand. He grabs his back pack and put it on his lap. He s it and pulls out something. “Don’t miss me too much,” he says handing you a stuffed animal as a gift. “I sleep with this cutie every night and I’m giving him to you. There will be an empty spot on my bed now but I know he’ll be safe with you so please take care of him well.” You hug the stuffed animal tight and you could smell that he has Taehyung’s scent captured onto his fur. “I will never let him get dirty or hurt. I will always protect him. You can trust me,” you ensure him of any worries.

One last kiss is implanted on your lips before he says good night. His hug embraces your whole body tightly never wanting to let go. That second, it hits you and you realize it really is the last hug before long until you can get to see him again. His powerful but genuine affection of love rushes a stream of warmth all over your body down to the tip of your toes. Water starts to fill your saddened eyes. You can tell how lonely he will be without you there with him. Letting go of his embrace was not easy. “Guess what one acorn said to the other acorn?” he says randomly confusing all your senses. “What??” you ask. “”my hat is prettier than yours!” And the other acorn replies, “no. mine is prettier than yours!”” His nonsense made your brain sigh. It only makes you know you’re going to miss his stupid, nonsense jokes even more.

You head up to your dorm room and sit on your bed to reflect on the night. “How was it,” your roommate asks you. Vaguely you reply, “it was okay,” but really so much had happened. All your emotions ran wild that night and there were so much to explain so you just kept it all to yourself since you were so exhausted. “I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow. I’m going to shower and then go to sleep.”

The next day was packing day for you and your roommate. All the suitcases were stuffed to their fullest. Every surface was wiped down and cleaned to the reset of when it was newest. It was finally dinner time and so you and a group of friends went out to eat. Taehyung texts you for the first time that evening. Though you were having dinner with your friends you couldn’t help but pay more attention to Taehyung’s texts. You remember Taehyung telling you to eat all you could before you left so that’s just what you did. You crammed everything you could into your stomach that meal only to have diarrhea the whole night which kept you from getting a good night’s sleep. You didn’t even have the energy to reply to Taehyung into that late night that he was still texting you.

You get out of the cab and head to the trunk to get your belongings. You reach in to grab your suitcase but a hand, faster than yours, reached it first. You look up to the owner of that hand to find Taehyung next to you. Your eyes widen in shock. He smiles brightly at you with that innocent grin of his. “Huh? You said you were busy?” you wonder why he’s there. “I was but I’m not busy anymore. I made it.” He pulls your suitcase out of the trunk and set it on the curb. “Baby, I’ll walk you in,” he says. He takes charge of the two suitcases you have while you hold the carry-on bag.

After checking in your luggage you and he take time to sit to talk before you walk through the lines to the other side. “You must be tired,” you said to him knowing he’s had a full day already. “Not really,” he says. “Why did you come to send me off? You said you were busy.” “I was but I made time,” he says melting your heart. “I was doing some thinking late last night,” he says making you unsure of what to feel. Different weights of curiosity fill your heart. Be it bad or good, your heart is nervous and thumping hard. You wonder why he was up thinking so late. “Baby,” he says to you, “I’m going to miss you so much. Just the thought of you being so far from me is killing me right now. You’re going to land and go back to your family and go back to the way you use to live before you ever came here. I’m going to miss you every single day, I’m going to wait for your texts every second and I’m going to count down the days until I see you again. There’s no doubt I’m going to fall apart when you leave. I can already feel the emptiness thinking about my days without you here still. I love you. You know that right?” You nod. “I love you so much that it hurts to know I’m not going to be able to hold your hand whenever I want to or won’t be able to kiss those soft lips of yours whenever I desire to. Waiting for your texts every second is going to drive me insane. I love you so much. I love you so much that I think we should break up.” Your heart dropped at the first syllable of those words. You freeze in shock. What has been keeping you warm all these times all of sudden made you freeze inside. Your mind went blank. You sit there for the next few minutes unsure of what to think. Losing all consciousness, tears start to fill up your eyes and heavily drip down your face one after another without you knowing. What was even happening and what does this even mean? “I love you so much. I do,” he confesses. You come back to reality and wipe the tears off your face and below your chin. You see that his eyes are just as overflowed as yours. You can’t even comprehend how he came to this conclusion. “I understand,” you said. “I have to go now.” “I’m so sorry,” he grabs onto your wrists keep you seated. “I don’t mean to hurt you in any way. I just want us to have some time off. You’re going to have to adjust to your life there again and I’m going to have to adapt to not having you around any longer. It is going to break my heart whenever I think of not being able to hug you and feel your skin against mine. I love you so damn much. You need to know that.” “I do. But I don’t see how you can come to think that I don’t need you in my life anymore. I’m going to go back and have to think of this as if it was only just a dream if we end it on this note. I’m going to go back and think I’ve woken from just a beautiful fantasy because these 4 months that I’ve spent with you have just been so perfect. This ‘fling’ isn’t just a fling for me. I loved you too much to give it up like it was just an imagination or delusion.” “I wish I can stop thinking of you. I really wish I could but I know I will never forget you. We had such great memories together but I don’t think I will be sane enough when you leave knowing you will be waiting for me and I will be waiting for you. I hope you can understand.” “I don’t understand. But if living without me means making your life easier to continue on then it would be selfish of me to want you to keep me in your life. I’m going to go now,” you look at him with all the crunched up suffering sorrow in your heart. He lowers his head with pain and sadness. You grab your bag and head to wait in line. You are quickly and swiftly turned around as he pulls you back and hugs you the tightest that he ever has. You squeeze out your held in cry in his chest as he shoves his face in your hair. Your chest tightens and oxygen seems to run low. You can hear him choke above your head making your cry become even louder.

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