Through the Glass k.th [HYYH pt.1]

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"If I only I could do that, how nice it would be. If only we could go anywhere to eat and watch a movie comfortably. I would do anything..."

~Just One Day-BTS

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Taehyung bit his lip. "Um... Hello..." He said. She was so...angelic, looking at her even in her school uniform, she looked so beautiful, he felt like he didn't have a right to talk to her, seeing how very f*cked up his life was, what he'd done, where he'd been.

She didn't look up, maybe she didn't hear him. Maybe she doesn't care. Taehyung thought about just forgetting about it, but when he glanced back at Jimin, he shook his head.

He took a deep breath, then slid onto the bench next to her. "Hello." He said a little louder. She still didn't look. Taehyung reached up tentatively and tapped her shoulder.

She dropped the bread she'd been slowly feeding to the birds and looked up at him, surprised. Maybe she hadn't heard me. Her pretty eyes stared at him, wide, scared at first, then she seemed to recognize him and calm down.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you..."

She was quiet, then she nodded.

"I just...What's your name?" Taehyung asked, at least then he'd be able to put a name to her face, at least then he'd know what to call her, what to think of her as when they took him back to the padded room.

She looked to the side, biting her lip. Then she looked back at him blankly, frowning.

His heart was already in pieces, the fact that she didn't even want to tell him her name just crushed him. Am I that bad? Jae-hwa must have already told her, she must hate me. "I'm sorry." He cleared his throat, looking down at his hands in his lap as he messed with a fingernail. "I didn't mean to..." He wasn't sure what he was saying sorry for, but he felt sorry.

He stood up, about to leave when she grabbed his wrist. Taehyung looked at her, confused. She just released his wrist, looking down again, then she looked up, shaking her head at him.

Taehyung sat back down. He was even more confused.

She pointed to her ear and opened her mouth, shaking her head.

Taehyung licked his lips. She was so pretty, her lips were so perfect. But he had no idea what she was trying to tell him. "Are you sick?" Was all he could come up with, and he felt terrible as soon as the words escaped his mouth. They called me sick, called me a murderer, said I needed medication.

She smiled, pointing to her ear again, then shaking her head, she mouthed something that looked like, "Nom, nom nom." then shook her head again.

Taehyung tilted his head. "...I'm sorry, I don't..."

She held up a finger, then searched the ground for something, then picked up a twig and wrote in the dirt, I'm sorry, can't hear, deaf. =) Then she smiled at him.

Deaf? Taehyung studied what she wrote again, then looked back at her. She surprised him by pointing to him, then at her chest, then running a finger down her cheek before tilting her head. He swallowed. She's deaf...

I wonder how much that hurts? How much it hurts to know you can never hear anyone's voice? "Crying?" He asked. She nodded, pointing to him. "Me?"

She nodded, then pointed to herself before taking the twig again and writing, Jae-hwa in the dirt. Then she looked back at him and pointed to him and then herself again, then running her finger down her cheek again.