Secrets // Taegyu + Yeonbin FF // TXT FF

Chapter 29: Thanks

"If you wanna yell at me, curse me out, call me names, go for it. Beomgyu had already done that. It can't be any worse than what I've heard."

"Hyung, do you think I don't know you at all? You are too selfless to just break up with Yeonjun-hyung just like that for no reason. I don't know what happened between you two but I'm sure that whatever the reason is, I know that it was for his own good," I said but heard some soft sniffling and realized that I worsened the situation.

"You don't know a lot about me, Taehyun..."

"Huh?" I said quietly.

"You don't know me. Just the same as I don't know much about you either."

"What are you talking about-" I realized that there was no one on the other end of the phone call.

He hung up on me. And actually.. he's right. We know each other only for a year. We call ourselves 'friends', we kept secrets from each other, hiding our true selves.

I really don't know him at all...

"Dammit."

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3rd person's POV:

Days past. Yeonjun was home and it was dinner time. His dad finished early since he has to finish work on his laptop. His mom was already washing the dishes after cleaning up the table, while Yeonjun kept poking the food on his plate.

Obviously, as a mom, the lady noticed her son's odd behavior.

"Okay, tell me what happened," she grabbed Yeonjun's attention as she sat across from him.

"Huh? the boy asked as he looked up, out of his thoughts.

"You barely touched your food.." the mother worried. "And it's not just today. It's been almost a week, Yeonjun."

"I'm not hungry..." the blonde answered, still poking the sticks into his plate, looking nowhere.

"You've already said that. Come up with a different excuse."

Yeonjun was quiet and his mom just sighed.

"Can you tell me what happened? You're never like this," she said in a calm, worried tone.

Yeonjun didn't want to speak.

His mom slowly took a hold of his wrist and then asked her question,

"Did something happen between you and Soobin?"

Yeonjun stopped tapping the plate and his mom figured that her assumption was correct.

"What happened?" she asked softly, letting out a sigh and Yeonjun reflexively gripped on his sticks.

"He..." he tried letting out.  "We broke up..."

"Yeonjun..."

"He cheated."

This took his mom aback in surprise.

"No way-- He wouldn't do that-"

"He said he made a mistake."

Yeonjun's mom kept stroking the back of his hand with her thumb.

"When did it go wrong.." Yeonjun layed his head on the table when he moved the plate aside beforehand.

"Don't blame yourself."

"I loved him so much...!! I thought he did too...!" Yeonjun cried out, his eyes turning glossy. "It hurts... Love hurts..."

"Don't say that. You just had a rough experience..."

The boy tried calming himself down and stop crying.

"This is embarrassing," he said and received a smack from his mom.

"Ow-!"

"Don't you dare say you're embarrassed of crying in front of me, Choi Yeonjun!" she yelled.  "Crying is not something to be ashamed of. You are heartbroken and had been holding it all in the whole time! Do you realize that you've been hurting yourself?? You dumbass, of course you're gonna cry!"

Yeonjun didn't expect his mom to react like that, but her somewhat playful explosiveness made him giggle and brought a smile to his face.

"What are you laughing at?!" she continued shouting in a playful manner.

"You." the younger simply said through giggles.

"YAH, HOW DARE YOU!!!!" his mom grabbed a spoon that was on the table and pretended as if she was about to hit the boy.

The two were now laughing together and then changed the topic.

"But remember, Yeonjun, what Soobin does, is not your fault. It's his own choice," she said as their conversation was coming to an end.

"You seem incredibly calm for this kind of situation-- I was thinking you would--"

"I'm gonna strangle him. ^-^" she said with an angelic smile.

"MOM, NO!!!!"