25| i'll pay

taehyung smiled when he woke up in jungkook's arms, the younger's chest pressed against his back.

he slowly turned around in the male's hold and pecked his nose. jungkook is beautiful, beyond imagination and taehyung feels lucky to be able to call this greek god his.

his love for jungkook grows with every passing second he can feel the male's warmth and can see him. his heart is literally pounding against his chest rapidly and it's the power of jungkook.

taehyung scooted even closer to jungkook, hiding his face in the crook of the younger's neck, taking in the familiar scent of him.

that's until jungkook's phone buzzed and taehyung raised one eyebrow, questioning who would text jungkook.

he felt bad for doing that, but curiosity took over him and he slowly got up, holding his breath when jungkook moved and took the younger's phone.

and his eyes widened when he read the message and he felt anxiety building up inside of him.

unknown
hello jungkook,
i know i have no right to text you and to ask you for a second chance, but that's exactly what i want. i regret everything that happened, everything i caused you and your mother in the past. my son, i've changed, hard to believe but i have. i took a therapy that helped me overcome your mother's death. i want to see you son.
i'm coming to seoul, because i got to meet an old friend and your grandma told me you live in seoul. i want to see you and apologize. i'm sorry.

your father.

taehyung sucked a deep breath in, quickly putting jungkook's phone away.

he looked at the younger who was peacefully sleeping on the bed and felt his heart shattering. if jungkook sees the message, he'll be sad and it would awake old memories that he had just overcome.

taehyung took jungkook's phone, hid it in the drawer next to the bed and quickly snuggled back to the younger.

he wants jungkook to be happy, and he knows that if he reads the message the younger might fall into old walls. taehyung never wants that. jungkook has done so much for him already, now he wants to do something for him back.

he is doing the right thing, isn't he?

taehyung flinched when jungkook groaned and wrapped his arms around his thin body, kissing his cheek a few times.

the older let a small giggle out and turned to jungkook to meet his eyes. "good morning bun." taehyung whispered and jungkook smiled, pecking his lips.

"morning angel."

"slept good?" taehyung asked, trying to hide his nervousness about the message.

"with you by my side, always." jungkook smiled, pulling taehyung even closer, the older smiled closing his eyes. the warmth radiating from jungkook is everything he needs to feel calm again.

jungkook chuckled lightly, when he looked at taehyung who had his eyes close, lips in a pout, hair messy, while almost falling asleep again and looking like a small puppy next to him. "baby?" he asked softly, but taehyung only furrowed his eyebrows, scooting closer to jungkook.

the younger smiled. "what are you so adorable for?" he asked brushing his hand through taehyung's hair. "angel, wake up please." he whispered and taehyung's eyes slowly fluttered open.

jungkook's breath hitched by taehyung's beauty.

"m'sorry for sleeping again." taehyung giggled sleepy and rubbed his eyes with his small fists.

"what?" taehyung asked, looking up to jungkook, who was just looking at the older fondly, eyes speaking more than words ever could.

there's no other way to look at taehyung, his adorableness and beauty are making it hard not for jungkook to cuddle the heaven out of him. a small smile formed on jungkook's lips, he knew his heart was beating wildly- it always does though when he looks at taehyung.

but right now, he just realises how hard his life has been and how quickly this adorable creature has made it easy for him. taehyung is everything he needs.
he's everything he needs in order to feel happy and to feel secured. to have no worries and to just live life.

"kook, you're staring." taehyung blushed, hiding his face under the comforter.

"shush, let me admire my amazing boyfriend." he laughed and taehyung giggled lightly.

"i love you." jungkook then said and taehyung smiled, looking into his eyes. "i love you too."

and their lips met into a soft morning kiss, which leaded to them getting a little late for school, but it was worth it.

and there was something else that kept them back for a little time. jungkook was searching for his phone, while taehyung was pretending to help him.

the silver haired was scared jungkook will be sad, even though he knows that someday he needs to give jungkook his phone back. "kook, we can look after school, we're already late." taehyung said, hiding the younger's phone in his backpack and jungkook agreed, making taehyung feel guilty. but he'll do anything to see jungkook's bunny smile forever.

but was that a good decision?

"can we go to yours?" taehyung excitedly asked when they left the school building and jungkook agreed, not being able to refuse the male.

"we should go back to yours though, searching for my phone." he said and taehyung shuddered a little.

"are you cold?" jungkook asked worriedly, taehyung shook his head, but realised what a difference it really made when jungkook wrapped his own jacket around the older.

"thanks kook, but now it's cold for you." the silver haired pouted and jungkook only chuckled. "seeing you being warm is enough for me to feel the same." jungkook said, but taehyung squinted his eyes.

he took jungkook's hand, putting it in the pocket of the jacket, fingers still intertwined with his own. "at least your hand should stay warm."

"i'm not cold."

"i don't care. me wearing a jacket and you don't helps neither of us."

"actually, you are warm at lea-"

"shut up jeon." taehyung giggled and jungkook joined, pecking taehyung's cheek.

"do you wanna eat out today?" jungkook asked and taehyung smiled. "i'll pay though, you paid for the pizza last time." taehyung laughed and jungkook wanted to refuse, but taehyung had lectured him a whole hour over that he should never deny when taehyung wants to pay. so jungkook stays quiet.

or not. "we can divide the money." he shrugged, but taehyung glared at him. "shush. we'll drop our bags and go." the older answered and jungkook nodded.

"next time i'll pay."

"next time we'll divide." taehyung smiled and took jungkook's hand. the younger smiled along, whipped for the other.

soon they arrived at jungkook's home, dropped their backpacks off and jungkook changed his hoodie, leading to taehyung changing too as he took jungkook's previous hoodie- but that's another story.

because when jungkook took his keys and wanted to open the door with taehyung behind him, there was someone standing in front of it.

the ravenette looked at the man in his mid 50s with big eyes, before slamming the door shut, hearing a muffled 'jungkook' coming from behind the wooden thing, followed by banging and calls.

jungkook clasped his hands on his ears and closed his eyes, taehyung now eyeing him worriedly. "j-jungkook, wh-what's wrong?"

"don't open the door, tae, please." taehyung looked at jungkook's vulnerable state and decided to bring him away from there, so he took his arm and leaded him to his bed room, closing the door, for security locking it.

jungkook sat on the bed now, body trembling, eyes still closed and hands covering his ears.

taehyung felt tears brimming in his eyes by the view. he knelt in front of him and cupped his face in his hands. the ravenette flinched. "h-hey, bun, it's me. kook, open your eyes please."

jungkook shook his head and taehyung hugged him. "kookie, you're safe, p-please look at me. it's me, tae. i love you." taehyung whispered, holding onto jungkook tightly. he was relieved the shouting and banging has stopped.

jungkook slowly calmed down, his breathing evened and he also leaned against taehyung, hugging him tight- and even though he wanted or needed to, he wasn't crying.

"hey, a-are you alright now?" taehyung asked softly, brushing his fingers through jungkook's hair. "l-let's not go out." jungkook said quietly and taehyung nodded.

"it's fine, koo, it's okay." taehyung placed a light kiss on his forehead.

"was that-

"my father, yes."