A/N: dedicating this chapter to laishermosa for supporting me with my works. Love 💗

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Chapter 3 : Home

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The stars shine brightly illuminating the rising darkness, and creating a ray of hope, the dazzling view from the car's window seems to warm up the cold hands of the brunette. The whole drive is quiet, but it's one of the most peaceful moments of her life, indeed color changing iridescence.

Very soon, the car is being parked in front of a mansion surrounded by a seven feet tall wall. Although the mansion isn't too huge and indeed very small as compared to the ones shown in movies, but is totally chic, with modern designs and seems well planned and implemented with precision too.

While entering the boundary, the gate was earlier closed, but as soon as the car reached in front of the gate, with a remote, Taehyung opened it and drove his car inside. And Lisa amusedly watched the gate close behind their back.

" Lis " Tae pokes her shoulder when she is still consumed in her thoughts, again, or more like eaten up by the view of his home. The boundary is of mediocre size, with different varieties of flowers grown at the edges. There are peach trees too, along with cherry trees that are blossoming at this very time, after all it is spring. The view contrasts against the dark sky fill with twinkling stars, it's rather light pinkish hues along with the light lamps placed on the path. Everything seems like a perfect romantic night, except the fact that they are still strangers.

" let's get out, we're home " he mumbles, meanwhile the brunette is literally gasping at how beautiful the little yard is. It is already obvious that Taehyung is rich. But yet so down to earth.

Soon, Lisa's waiting for Taehyung at the main door, which is turquoise painted mahogany. The structure of the house seems wonderful, and simply too pretty for a house.

Taehyung comes and opens the lock with one of the keys, and welcomes Lisa inside with an endearing smile, and waving his hands inwards. The lights switch on automatically as soon as Taehyung steps inside. And there's this view of the whole drawing room, filled with only mahogany furniture matching with the door frames and windows. The walls painted with light cream colour, and curtains are white-netted embroidered with golden silk ribbons, slightly ghostly, but not enough to scare the shit out, and seemingly a bit too girly designs for a guy.

The spiral black-metal stairs extended and reached beyond the ceiling reaching to the first floor, but there was another set of stairs at the left corner, too. The kitchen was just right to the entrance door, and was huge and inviting with everything a professional cook would dream of, from the non-stick utensils placed at the shelves, to the melanin plates piled up together besides ceramic jars and vases at the showcase, and even the double-door fridge invited the all time hungry humans like Lisa. Well, she is totally awestruck at everything, and she's now no plan of leaving such a good space. She wants to glance each thing at once to absorb the cleanliness and beauty.

“ your home is totally daebak ” Lisa says, with her eyes glinting, and still going back and forth to each corner. She has almost forgotten how much of her feet has hurt and is still aching like every other wound.

“ mind carrying you upstairs? ” Taehyung asks, seemingly worried for her injury, although it isn't bleeding much but still it seemed dreadful to think of how deep the glass bit penetrated inside her sole.

“ sure, thanks ” Lisa shyly replies, turning down her gaze on the white porcelain floor.

A smile spreads through the guy's lips, he then leans forward, and with ease picks up her again in bridal style, and saunter upstairs through the broad stairway at left-front. Even though, it's the second time Tae is carrying her like a light feather, but being under his warmth touch, a feeling of 'home' escalates. And also, being close to his muscular body, Lis doesn't fail to notice how fast his heart is beating, racing against hers. The feeling is mutual ––she thinks, and tries her best to keep track of her outrageous and nervous feelings.

Taehyung passes through two doors and on the way, and reaches the last one, and  pushes it open. “ here's your room ” he says, then ask, “ reach for the switches please”

After the lights are on, he lowers her figure over the bed, where Lisa seats up. “ thanks, and I'm sorry for the trouble ”

“ no, it's alright ” Taehyung says waving his hand deniably. “ stay seated I'll be back in 2 minutes!! ”

The brunette nods. And trails her gaze on the guy who leaves the room hastily, leaving the door wide open, and she's glad for that, too, otherwise she'd have felt insecure. Being at a stranger's home can be nerve-racking and pretty daunting of course, so she's keeping herself on alert to claw the face of the handsome man with her nails whenever needed, just in case. She can't let down her weapons, knowing how unsafe she can be. She breaths heavily and gazes around, and finally noticing how how serene the bedroom is, and so out of league for her. She's been raised in a mediocre family, and there was nothing more than the basics, but it is all she needs now. A family to embrace. She's still not over the fact that how tragically her parents died in a car accident on the highway to Seoul.

Being in this small town, around two hundred miles away from Seoul, it's peaceful and Lisa has stayed all her life here minus her college years in Seoul University for fine Arts, a three year course that she's completed six months ago and even holds the certificate proudly, but the only thing is, it holds almost no meaning without her parents who couldn't even attend her graduation ceremony, and instead she had to go come back here, in Tonyeong-gae, only to complete the rituals.

(A/N : random name, don't know if it really exist. I tried searching a good place/town in SK but ended up failing and plus I do not have much time, sorry)

After burial, she decided to go back but she was slammed back here with the amount of loans and burden her parents left on her shoulders unintentionally. She was oblige to work as waitress, shopkeeper, librarian and even deliverywoman instead of being new to each job. It became even hard to pay the rent regularly as most of the money was snatched away by the loansharks. She'd really zero idea about the fact that her father had risked his low salary in taking such a high interest loan from the moneylenders just because her daughter; Lisa wanted to follow her passion and dreams in art. The fees were quite unaffordable, but still without a single word of reluctance, her father Markus Manoban agreed to take the responsibility of the university fees.

She bits her lower lip, with gloominess dripping down her face. She has struggled worth six months, but still it's nothing in front of the years of struggles of orphans or foster kids, or the one who are being bullied during schooling. Life has never been easy and choosing to end her life was the worst, she could have never forgiven herself for the sin she was about to commit just b'coz she was about to become a victim of assault. She escaped and she should have been thankful, but instead she chose to hug the death, something inexcusably sinful and wrong.

She hears a knock at the open door, which was to grab her attention. “ please, . . . everything will be alright ” he hesitantly says, his hand holds a tray of bowl and cotton plugs and a small first aid kit.

Lisa confusedly look at the guy standing there with slight pity, and seemingly sorry for her condition, but then she realises, her eyes are wet. She's been crying. She quickly wipes em up, with her full sleeves plain shirt.

“ I've warmed some water for your cut ” he informs, and walks towards her sitting form. “ mind pampering you a bit? My lady ” he says playfully, which makes Lisa chuckle lightly. He bends, folding his knees besides Lisa's feet. His one hand lifts up her leg over his lap, “ I've added antiseptic here, gonna sting a little ”

Next he washes it caustiously with the water, then brushes with cotton soaked in water mixed with antiseptic, which causes Lisa to let out a small yelp. “ ouch ”

“ sorry ”

“ no, I'm fine ” she says, defiantly biting down her lips to restrain herself from shrilling.

“ it's almost done ” Taehyung says, consciously cleansing the wound, then continues, “ just this injection, tetanus toxoid ”

“ no no no, I'm totally fine ”

“ Don't you trust me? I mean, I've ordered this especially for you, and I don't want to waste this medicine. And here's the pack of painkillers you might need ” Taehyung says, with a tone of disappointment, seemingly artificial. This guys know how to light up things, and how to persuade people so well, and after all half of the work is done all by his charms and beauty. “ Don't worry, I'm trained. I was about to pursue medical when I was in high school, I might seem amateur but I'm really smooth with injections. ”

“ no ” Lisa says, with a 'run the fuck out of here' smile dancing on her lips. “ I trust you, but it's not required ”

“ fine then, tetanus is very rare, but a serious bacterial infection that causes painful muscle spasms and can lead to death. And nothing more ” he mutters, shaking his head sideways with an inverted U spreading across his lips. “ besides, Mr Park can't come tonight, he's stuck with the emergency ward so he won't be able to help either once you're infected ”

“ did you say death? Okay, inject it. Hurry up ” Lisa quickly asks, terrorised by the thought of being death with just a single infection. She's not ready for it yet, it's her second life––almost equivalent to a reaincarnation and it doesn't sounds too good to be dead so early––she thinks. “ hurry up, and be smooth ”

Taehyung internally laughs at how kid-like innocent and cute she is, scared of injections, but more scared of death. Nevertheless a small smile apparels at the corner of his cupid-bow lips. Lisa shut her eyes tight and clasp her hands at either side of Taehyung's shoulders crumbling his shirt, and he just stays firm, who's practically between her thighs. (not in the other way though) She waits for the pain to register against her skin, few seconds pass by and her grip grows tighter.

“ calm down, it's done ” she hears his deep voice.

“ REALLY ????!” She exclaims. Tae simply laughs at how loud she is.

“ will you let go off me, now? ” Lisa briskly removes her hands off him, and whispers a sorry apologetically. Taehyung arch his brows, too much engrossed in teasing, with a playful grin always making way on his face, “ shouldn't you be saying thank you instead? ”

“ thanks ”

A serene smile creeps on her plump lips, which makes Taehyung's heart beats against his chest in an unsynchronize fashion. What's up with my heart?––he thinks.

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A/N : so sorry for the long wait guys.

And thank you for the support purple hearties.

DOP : 18/06/19

Here's how I vividly imagined his house to be..

Also, a slight self promo, I'm sometimes updating one of my Blacktan book ANGELS DON'T FALL IN LOVE occasionally, please check it out if interested. Although, I'm not writing Taelice there, but still LoL.

That book in my opinion is a one of my favourites out of all my works, but is pretty underrated and my way of writing is quite different there too.

Love,
Lizzy.