🍁 MAPLE TREE 🍁

ch 20🍁

Kook had his whole body numbed and he felt breathless for a moment, he still couldn't find in himself to take in the words left out of tae's mouth.

"Wh-wh-what" Kook whispered.

"I-i mi-ss my b-un" Tae said again in a broken voice and kook who was not able to grab the meaning of anything as his brain had stopped working looked confused.

"Tae are you alright" Kook asked but tae just chocked out another cry.

"Tae, I will come to your room please calm down" Kook said and hurried towards tae's room.

He was about to knock but noticed that the door was open and so he just barged in and rushed towards the balcony where he saw tae crouched down while he was crying messily.

"Hey tae what happen tell me, please don't cry like this you will get sick or have breathing problem please calm down" Kook said taking tae in his arms and sat in the floor while tae was practically sitting on kook's lap and kook was rubbing his back.

"Ko-ok i miss him, I really do miss him a lot" Tae said and kook was still rubbing his back in a calming manner.

"He- he has been my best friend, my buddy, we were partners in everything we do either it is to cause trouble or getting scolded for the things we do" Tae again started and kook was completely silent listening to him, he wanted tae to let go of the pain he has been holding inside himself.

"It seemed hard to even be without him for a single day, so I never let my parents stay anywhere more than a few hours or would ask his parents to send him with us, he was really a blessing in my life, his smile used to light up my whole world, his sulkiness would be too adorable to handle, I still remember him crying his lungs out for me when I had injured my hand he had run just in his Underwear to see me even when he doesn't liked to be seen naked by anyone other than his mother but he did and the way his nose was all red and him blowing my hands saying 'hyung you will be alright', I couldn't help myself but laugh and he scolded me for making fun of him but just one pout and he was making faces so that I would laugh again" Tae stopped for a moment and again continued.

"We were like two body and one soul, he was shy type so he never was comfortable with making friends or talking to others but still he had talked to a boy who was older than us and became his friend because he wanted to make sure that I was safe at my kindergarten, he was my biggest support, my source of happiness".

"We had soughted out our future where we had decided that we will study in a big university like those cool big people and than like our fathers work and have our happily ever after but- but I broke each of our plans" Tae said and sniffled as new tears were about to spill out of his eyes while kook was in a dilemma as the things tae said were just like the things he had once had with someone and he was just somewhere having that deja vu right now.

"I left him all alone without even getting to greet a proper goodbye to him to assure him it's not that goodbye we see in sad movies but the ones where there is this promise of seeing each other again soon, the goodbye indisguise of 'I will come back just wait for me', but you see he has been the most selfless  person I know, when he came to know about me leaving he gave me a goodbye gift but here I was without anything to give, he didn't said anything to stop me nor sulked for me no tantrum he threw for me to stay, he bid his bye to me with a beautiful smile but the pain I saw was something which still makes me feel numb, I know I should have tried to do something to stay with him but I just couldn't and so I left him with nobody just him" Tae said and his eyes had again became like a fall, kook whose eyes has also became moisty couldn't help the pain his heart was feeling right now.

"But it's not like I wanted that it was due to dad's tranfer that we had to leave but I never wanted to leave him and trust me I have been punished for that, I never got to see him again nor did I got to hear his voice, he had completely left me, his goodbye wasn't for us to meet but the proper one, did I really hurt him that much that he started to hate me enough to have cut all the contacts with me".

"I really want to meet him, hug him tell him how much I missed him and also to yell at him for being too harsh on me, I really tried to lessen the pain I felt somehow but everything came crushing back down when I saw that tree and our memories flashed before my eyes, I had managed to control myself at that time but I  can't anymore, I just can't, I have had enough of this pretending of being okay when I am not, I just want him even if it's just for a moment I wanna see him" Tae said and kook's hold on tae loosened a little.

"Um...tae what is the name of your friend" Kook asked as he could feel his heart beating in his ears and his breathing becoming shallow.

"I don't know his name as our parents used to address him with the name that I gave him, I used to call him 'bun'" Tae said and kook had his breath stuck in his throat, the eyes which were moisty have started pouring out the unsaid feeling.

"Y-yo-you ar-e m-y my hy-ung"

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