10/11 Motionless || k.th ✔️

Chapter 2

I look down at my finger nails. "So did you find your dorm building?" Why am I trying to keep conversation? Why can't I just say goodnight and let be it?

"Oh! Yeah!" His excitement startles me. I look up at him. "Its this one." He points to the building behind me. My jaw drops. "You're in the same dorm building as me?" His eyebrows go up in surprise. "I am? Your dorms in this building?" I look back at the building to make sure. Yup. Our dorm is the only dorm with pink curtains. I look back at him. "Yup. This is my building." I say. A smile breaks out on his face.

"That's really cool. Now I can walk you and it won't be a problem." He says. I try not to blush. "Yeah." Is all I say. I look down at his hand and I notice its twitching a lot. Is that the hand he punched that guy with? I walk closer to him to touch it but he pulls it behind his back. I look up at him. "Tae let me see." I say. He let's me pull his hand back from behind him. I inspect it. There's a gash on one of his knuckles and its horribly bruised.

How did I not notice this before? I intertwine my fingers with his and pull him inside the building. He doesn't fight it or ask me where we're going. I open my dorm door. Lauren runs into me almost making us both fall into Tae. "I've been worried sick where have you-" She stops short when she sees Tae right behind me. She looks down at my hand in his. Her eyebrows go up and she smiles at me. "Whose this?" She asks.

I let go of his hand and take a step away from him keeping distance between us. "This is Kim Taehyung and he's my friend." I smile at him and he smiles back. "And Tae this is my room mate Lauren." He waves at her. She smiles at him. She turned and pulls me. "What is he doing here?" She asks whispering. "Its a long story.. I tell you later." I say and she nods. I turn back to him and I see him looking around the room.

I walk up to him and pull on his wrist to sit on my bed.

He looked so awkward. Lauren closes the door. "Can you get me the first aid kit?" I ask Lauren. And she does so. "You don't have to do this Val.. My hand is fine." He says trying to force his hand out of my grasp. But I tighten it and look into his eyes. "No Tae... This is the least I can do for you." I say. He doesn't say a word he just looks at me. "Here it is." Lauren says as she hands me the first aid kit. I open it and take out my sergical sewing kit that I use for class.

"What are you going to do with that?" Tae asks. I look up at him. "Do you want a gash in your knuckle? Would you rather go to the hospital and pay for it or have me do it and have it for free?" His eyebrows knit. "Fine." Is all he says. I sterilize the needle with alcohol and give Tae the rest of the bottle. "You trying to get me drunk?" He asks smirking. I frown. "Yes." ,"But-" I cut him off. "Do you want me to do it right now so you can feel all the pain?" I ask.

His eyes widen and he shakes his head. "That's what I thought, so drink up Mr. Kim cause I gotta do this." He nods as takes a big gulp from the bottle. My eyebrows go up. He looks at me. "What?" He asks. I bite my lip. "Seems like you've drank alcohol before." He lifts his left eyebrow. "Of course I have.. Haven't you?" He asks. I hear a loud laugh and I know its Lauren, about to spill the beans everywhere. "Val!? Drink!?" She laughs again.

"Val doesn't believe in that. She thinks its bad. She thinks its unholy." She says. I blush as he looks down at me. "Really? You think drinking is bad? And... Unholy?" He asks. I feel really uncomfortable in this situation. I just nod. He takes another gulp of the alcohol. It takes a while for him to finish the bottle and become completely wasted. I finally begin to sew his knuckle.

"Have you ever seen a dog do a back flip?" He asks me as he lays back in my bed. I look at him weird. "No. I haven't. Why?" He just stares up at the ceiling saying nothing. I chuckle and continue. "I'm almost done.. Okay?" I tell him. He just looks at me, not looking at what I'm doing but staring into my eyes. I feel heat grow in my cheeks. Once I'm done I wrap his hand in a bandage wrap. I put all the stuff back in the first aid kit.

I walk over to the cabinet and put it in the right place. I walk back to where he's at and he's knocked out. I rush up to him, "Tae?" I shake him and a snort leaves his lips. He then rolls over and sleeps soundly. I watch his for a little and I notice him hugging my pillow pet. I look at Lauren whose staring at me with the dirtiest smile on her face and is wiggling her eyebrows.

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"Wow! He did that for you?" Lauren asks in complete amazement as I tell her everything. I nod. "And you didn't kiss him?" I smack her arm playfully. "No. I didn't. I barely know him." I say. She raises an eyebrow at me. "So? It sounds like he wanted to kiss you. And don't lie you wanted too. It seems to me that he likes you. " I cross my arms. "As a friend." I say pretending that I didn't hear her other comments. She smiles.

"Doesn't seem like that to me, the way you were holding his hand and blushing." I bite my lip and try not to blush to the thought of me holding his hand, but I fail miserably. "See. Don't lie and say you don't like him okay? Cause I know you." I tilt my head and look his way. "I mean.. He is cute... And he did help me.. But-" Lauren pushes my shoulder almost causing me to fall off her bed. "But what bitch!?" She yells. I look at her and laugh.

"But I barely-" She shoves her finger in my mouth almost making me gag. "Okay. Val. I don't need to be hearing your shit right now. You like him. Shoot. Even I'd give him a kiss after he did that for me. What is your problem? So what if you barely know him." I slap her hand that's still in my mouth. I cough. "Look. I just.." I look down at my pajama pants. "I don't want what happened with Robert to happen with Tae. Okay?" I say.

I hear her let out a breath. "Okay. Fair enough. But. This guy seems way nicer than Robert." She says. I look up at her. "He really is. But I don't want to rush things. And plus. Who knows if he feels the same?" She wiggles her eyebrows at me. "So you do like him." She says. I feel my face heat up and I bite my lip. "Just a speck. Okay?" I say. She smiles at me. "Sure Val. Sure." I push her. "Don't 'sure' me. I'm telling you the truth." I say. She shrugs.

"Okaaaay. What ever you say. If I were you I'd already be swooping this guy up." She says.

I bet she could. And who knows. Maybe Tae found Lauren prettier than me, because she really is. That's what always happens, Lauren is basically the prettiest girl on campus. Well that I know. So she could probably have Tae wrapped around her little finger like nothing. Would they look cute together?

All my thoughts are making me think. Should I let Lauren have Tae? I then look over at my bed at this sleeping guy. His bangs draped over his eyebrows making him look ever so sweet as he slept.

I feel my heart pounding. Do I like him? I bite my lip lightly and furrow my eyebrows, not knowing what I should do.