Scripted

Part 12

And boy does Jeongguk want to do well on that promise. Now that there's a chance that Taehyung definitely likes him back and maybe loves him back, he is planning to never let go. Because he can't. He has never been able to imagine his life without the older boy and now there is no chance of him wanting anything else. Heck he gets jealous of Taehyung's friends, and he'll be damned if he slips up and Taehyung chooses another life partner. Jeongguk will die of heartbreak and jealousy. His epitaph will read as much - Jeon Jeongguk, dead from heartbreak, because Kim Taehyung chose someone else over him.

It's suddenly that simple for him. It's like the moment Taehyung walked into his arms today and leaned into the kiss, everything just fell into place. All his questions, gone. All his confusion, cleared. All his thoughts, organised. All his fears, vanished. It was like he has been waiting for this precise moment all his life. He is grateful that Taehyung likes him back - oh he is so damn grateful. Because he really doesn't know what he would do with all the feelings that are overwhelming him currently.

"So you're saying we have to thank Hobi hyung for opening your eyes?"

"Later. Let me thank you properly first for returning the kiss"

"Hey!"

"What? It's been five whole minutes of no touching of lips. That's not allowed when you're sitting on my lap anymore"

"Really now?"

"Yes. Let me prove it."

"Hold on. Hold on. So I am not going to be sitting on your lap anymore in front of people?"

"Why wouldn't you?"

"..."

"Ohh"

"You didn't think it through"

"When it comes to you, I hardly ever have to think. Everything just flows naturally, baby"

"Ba... what?"

"What now? Can I please kiss you again? It's seriously been too long"

"No. No. Don't pout Guk. I will kiss you again, promise. But we need to talk."

"We have been talking. Too much talking for my comfort here"

"Listen. What did you just call me?"

"What did I just call you?"

"You called me baby"

"Ohh," crimson red, "do... do you not like that? It just slipped, I guess. I didn't think"

"Hey, no. I love it. Umm... I love it, baby," more crimson red, "but that's what we need to talk about"

"Explain baby"

"Jeongguk-ah!"

"Ok ok. We'll talk. As much as you want. When have I ever been able to say no?"

"It's not that, Guk. It's not that kissing you isn't all I want to do right now. Trust me, it is. But we're not regular people...I know, I know, you hate this talk. But that's not going to change the fact that we're not regular people. Shhh... don't frown. I know between you and I everything falls into a rhythm so easily that we don't need to think much. We're just that compatible. I think that's what gradually developed into our feelings... it was inevitable, destiny... I like to think. But not everyone knows us the way we know each other. Even the hyungs are not party to everything we share, are they? So we have to talk about the way forward from here. Of course, I'm assuming that we don't stop at the feelings and the kissing... or, am I wrong?"

"You talk so well"

"Jeongguk-ah! I am serious here"

"Ok ok... no you're not wrong. I am not letting this go. I want to be in a relationship with you, Voo. Fuck. My life is a lie"