i'll try not to miss you // taejun

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going to the beach wasn't the plan. it was so early in the morning when yeonjun came knocking on taehyun's dorm room, his lips trembling and eyes red with remnants of tears, and he didn't need words to know that holding yeonjun was a start to where they'll be later.

and now, yeonjun was standing on sea stones, pressing the sole of his shoes. the calm sand was trampled on from early footsteps and playful fingers that drew words. if taehyun didn't know any better, he'd think it was a secret language that they only shared, now gone from the sea waves that climbed their way up with a mission to efface every single one.

"the sun is rising," taehyun said behind the phone, holding it up for the camera to hit yeonjun's eyes. "do you want me to take pictures of you?"

yeonjun smiled. "yeah."

will you remember this? taehyun mused with short breaths in every take. he was still too young to know why yeonjun looked so pretty even after he cried. eyes twinkling and hair falling all over the place, dancing in the wind with the flush of his cheek. on moments when questions don't belong are moments when reasons don't matter, yet taehyun already knew the alibi to his weak knees when yeonjun smiled with the redness of his nose at nineteen.

"do you want to ask about what happened?" yeonjun asked in the air. unconsciously bringing taehyun's head back from the clouds when their eyes meet one-sided. the camera falls low enough for taehyun's face to show, but he lets out no answer. "i broke up with soobin."

"oh," was what taehyun could only find himself to say. words didn't seem fair when they started scrambling away from his mind. "that sucks," he mustered up to babble like an eloquent scholar he was.

but it was enough for yeonjun to crack into a fit of laughter. "you're not great at this, aren't you?"

taehyun shrugged, hands having a mind of its own when the camera came back up. it rendered silly candid shots of yeonjun making fun of his pathetic talent to comfort people, yet he's never seen anything as pure as it. "did the sea not give it away?"

"no, i don't need the sea to feel better," the shaking of yeonjun's head wasn't enough to paint him every picture of what he meant. taehyun forgot that despite not having anything to offer, yeonjun still came to him. "but the sea seems to always go with you, taehyun."