Quarantine

16.In your arms

Taehyung entered the apartment in a wave that hit you like a ripple of softener and rain as he slammed the door shut.

You stood there, heart thumping in your chest, pressed against the wall as you both have seen each other for the first time in a month.

There was nothing else clouding your features. Just the sound of your heart loud enough for him to feel, strong enough to overwhelm everything but those inquisitive eyes.

You liked to talk and he didn't.

You steadied yourself and he didn't, allowing the magnetic pull he felt within to pull him close to you until the distance between your eyes narrowed along with the space between your bodies.

Arms wrapped around you as your body fit perfectly in his embrace.

"I'd like to kiss you without asking permission, but I can't" Taehyung said and you couldn't control the flutter within, the lump in your throat, the violent heartbeat.

"I shouldn't" he swallowed hard as his hand slid down on the white satin frock you were wearing.

It sent impulses to your spine as he pressed a little harder against you until his cheek brushed yours.

"I won't" he parted to look at you. "If you don't want me to" he said, staring into your eyes.

Adrenaline rushed. So much of it that you nearly forgot to breathe, eyes jumping from his lips to his eyes, your heart a ticking bomb.

Holy Mother of... you gave in, parting your lips only to feel his pressing like an artist's brush against a canvas.

Intense, smooth but contained until your hands, with a mind of their own, took hold of him and everything accelerated.

The kettle on the stove whistled. But Taehyung didn't seem to mind as his thumb was throbbing at the hollow of your neck, rubbing up and down, pulsing warmth as his tongue conquered the depths of your mouth.

Hungry, consuming, pulling you into the warmth of him as if he mastered the balance of gravity, until you pulled away.

"You shouldn't have kissed me like that" you found yourself gasping, caught between an array of feelings and trying to regain sense in his arms.

Taehyung's half-closed eyes were now wide open.

"How...how would you like to be kissed?" an alarming curiosity washed over his features. He was scanning you for answers.

You were stunned at yourself, at the man in front of you who was overpowering your consciousness, at the enticing flavor of the lips you found yourself longing for.

It took you a split second to give into them again, surrendering to the downward force pulling you under.

Taehyung lifted you up, allowing your legs to wrap around his waist while slightly parting away, only to see your flurried face, searching for reassurance.

You did like being kissed.

Giddiness took over both of you as you mirrored a dumbstruck smile and lightness to each other.

Whatever rush this was, whatever his lips brought, you wanted more and-

"KIM TAEHYUNG!" the alien sleeping in the car's back seat heard a voice, causing him to wake up in a jolt.

"Oh, samchon" Taehyung said. "We've reached the apartment?" he asked out of excitement to his uncle who was standing outside the car, holding open the car door on his side.

He couldn't even make a call to you since there weren't enough facilities in his countryside place.

And a few times when he tried making a call to you from the town area, your phone number was out of service. But then he remembered that you were going to buy a new mobile number.

So he concluded that you must've forgot to inform him, though he knew that you'd never fail to tell him something.

Taehyung immediately got out of the car so that he can run into that familiar building to finally get back in your arms, to where he belonged.

But his boxy smile disappeared as soon as he realized that his uncle has brought him to his house, not to the apartment.

"Samchon, I have to go home soon" Taehyung said. "Y/n must be waiting for me" he said while turning around to face his uncle.

Taehyung didn't even stay in his uncle's home when he was studying because, sometimes, he was uncomfortable while staying close to more people. His uncle already had his three little kids and wife in the house.

So, Taehyung was confused on why his uncle would make him visit his house out of the blue.

"Taehyung, can we get inside the house?" his uncle asked, making the boy blink his eyes in confusion.

Sighing while looking down, his uncle slowly held Taehyung's forearm and walked him inside the house.

Once they got in, the middle aged man made Taehyung sit on the couch.

"You were sleeping when we reached the apartment" his uncle started. "The apartment's residents have been shifted to somewhere else" he said.

"Why? Y/n is in some other place?" Taehyung asked questions. "Then let's go there" he urged the middle aged man.

And from the corner of his eyes, Taehyung could see his aunt, his uncle's wife, standing while one of her hands held the table.

"Two days after you left, a woman who just returned from New Zealand moved in to the apartment" Taehyung's uncle said while looking down at his hands which were clasped together.

Taehyung didn't like it. He didn't like the way his uncle was trying to say something. Not even a bit. And Taehyung was sure that it was not going to be something he'd want to hear.

"S-Samchon, then let's go to the place Y/n is living now" Taehyung stuttered. "Or l-let's bring her here. Why are you-" Taehyung halted on his words as his uncle stared into his eyes.

"The woman who moved in is now in the hospital. Y/n too, Taehyung" his uncle finally let out, making Taehyung's stomach churn.

Taehyung didn't want it to turn out like this. No. He was not going to accept it.

"S-She's okay, right? N-Nothing happened-" Taehyung's words were cut off by his uncle.

"Taehyung-ah," he started. "She has been affected by the virus," he said, and Taehyung could feel his heart shatter.