Between Pastries & Binary Codes | CaptainxTae

♡ 2. ♡

If you can even call that separating, they were still glued to each other. One wrong move and they'd be kissing.

Shit, Tae really wanted to kiss him though. This was not helping his poor heart pounding in his chest.

Please have mercy on me Captain, I'm not that strong...

"Oh uh...um..." Captain struggled to find an excuse. He didn't think about the next morning when his instincts to cuddle Tae took over last night..

"You uh- You were having a nightmare last night and I comforted you. I guess I fell asleep right after too."

It's technically not a lie. He was having a bad dream and he did comfort him, but his intentions were a little more selfish than that.

He wasn't about to confess any of that though.

"Okay..." Tae's bewilderment only grew. And he couldn't, for the life of him, figure out why they were still holding each other and neither of them was pulling away.

Please get out of my immediate proximity Captain, or I will actually die if I don't get to taste your lips.

"Are we gonna stay like this all day or..?" he cleared his throat in an attempt to speak like a normal person and not like the mess he was currently feeling from their shared proximity.

Why was he suddenly so nervous around him? This is definitely not gonna end well for him.

"Right! Yeah, sorry..." Captain pulled back and moved to a sitting position, ushering Tae to do the same.

However, he had no idea what to say. He came back with the mission to apologize for leaving out of nowhere and go back to their normal routine. This awkwardness between them now is most definitely not their usual normal anymore.

Last night changed everything and Captain is unsure on how to approach whatever they have going on at the moment.

"I'm sorry.. for what I said and how I acted." Tae spoke first, his eyes never meeting Captain's. Instead, he was fidgeting with his fingers on his lap, taking great interest in the patterns of the carpeted floor. He lifted his eyes and took a peek at him when he heard no response after a few seconds.

"Tae.. It's okay. I'm sorry too. For leaving and for being an annoyance. I'll do better in the future." Captain gave him a sad smile and Tae has never wanted to turn back time and undo every single word he had said more in his life.

"No, don't change. Not for me, not for anyone." Tae sighed and looked down to the floor once again, ashamed to even look at him after hurting him enough to want to disappear from his life.

"I was an idiot and blew up at you because I was stressed with work and I'm really so sorry about that. You didn't deserve it, you don't deserve to be treated like that. I never wanted to hurt you and I wish I could turn back time and undo everything.."

"Tae" Captain tried to interject.

"I don't expect your forgiveness, in fact I'd deserve it if you hated me forever. But I'm still selfish enough to not want to lose you. I still hope that you'll forgive me one day and we can go back to how we were. But I get it if you don't want me in your life anymore."

"Tae..." Captain had never actually heard Tae ramble on this much and he somehow found it really cute and incredibly endearing.

The boy struggled to maintain eye contact and all he wanted to do was pull him in his arms and reassure him that he'd never ever hate him.

How could he? It's impossible not to love this adorable nerd.

"But Cap, I was miserable without you. These last few weeks were torture and I- I'm not sure I'm ready to let you go and that's why I'm so selfish and stupid for ruining our friendship over a damn work project. It's my fault, please don't hate me though, I'll do anything to have you back, I need you, I nee-"