The Quiet Boy

Chapter 12

"Let's go meet my mom." he smiled and pulled Taehyung along with him towards the kitchen.

Meet his mom? He won't be able to talk. He's gonna embarrass himself. He can't do this but he also can't tell Jeongguk that he doesn't want to meet his mom. That would be rude. He's his friend and that's probably not something he should say.

"Mom," Jeongguk called.

"What is it, sweety?" she said as she went to grab a small rag for her hands.

"I want you to meet a new friend of mine."

Quickly she turned around to face the two boys. "Hello." she smiled. "What's your name?"

Taehyung breath caught in his throat. He has to speak or else he'll be considered rude and he didn't want Jeongguk's mother's first impression of him as the rude kid.

He opened his mouth slightly but nothing came out. He could feel the knot in his chest form and begin to tighten. He tried to bypass it and continue to greet himself.

"H-h-h-hel-hel-el-el-" he couldn't do it. The pain in his chest and everything else that slowly came along with it began to grow too much for him. He gripped Jeongguk's shirt and gave two tugs.

"H-hold on, mom," Jeongguk said and pulled Taehyung away from the kitchen into the living room.

He sat Taehyung down on the couch and he crouched down in front of him. "Relax, Tae," he told him. "Remember the trick?"

Taehyung quickly nodded.

"Come on then. In and out."

Taehyung closed his eyes and did what Jeongguk had told him to do. He did it a few times. Breathing in and out slowly.

"Better?" he asked as he wiped the tears that had spilled down Taehyung's cheeks.

He nodded once again.

"Is everything alright?" Ms. Jeon asked as she entered the living room.

"Yeah." Jeongguk stood up. "Everything's okay." he looked at his mom and saw that she had a bit of a worried looked mixed with an 'i want to talk to you' look.

Later. He mouthed.

She gave an uncertain look but sighed. With a single nod, she headed back into the kitchen.

"Let's go to my room with the other's and wait till the foods done." Jeongguk gave a sweet smile.

Taehyung nodded and stood up and the two began to walk upstairs to the other male's room.

The two entered the room and Taehyung was amazed. Jeongguk's room was bigger and so much nicer than his but it was pretty dark the light was off and there was a large window on the other side of the room. The curtain for it was down and a window on the slanted part of the roof and the curtain for that was also down.

Next to the door were two large cubby holes built into the wall and under them was a shelf. In one cubby hole was filled with color pencils, markers, pens, crayons, blank papers, papers with drawings and three sketchbooks. The cubby hole next to it had a red and gold mask. He had never seen something like that but it looked like a robot? Whatever it was it looked cool to him. On the shelf was full of books and under the shelf were two small square wooden boxes filled with jeans.

Next to those was a closet with a thin sliding door. It was full of shirts. In front of the small closet were a guitar and a round one person couch. A small white and brown carpet was placed under the couch. The carpet reminded him of a cow.

Straight across from that was a desk, which Yoongi was currently sitting at. He had a laptop opened and on in front of him along with a computer. Taehyung had no idea why he needed both but he was apparently using the two at the same time. His eyes rapidly switching between both screens and his hands typing and using the mouse on both.

Passed the desk to the left was a TV that hung on the wall. In front of that was Namjoon and Jimin who sat on two large pillows and behind them was Hoseok who sat on the bed. The three were playing a game and seemed to be somewhat yelling at each other but were laughing none the less.

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Jeongguk's room

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