Run Away // TXT

P R E S E N T

I walk around the halls of the school searching for Taehyun. I hadn't seen him after the first period.

He hadn't attended the second and third periods and I was getting worried about it.

"Have you seen Taehyun?" I asked a classmate who had gone to the cooler to fill her water bottle.

She shook her head and I excused myself.

Where can he even be?

I walk up the stairs and open the door of the terrace. "Taehyun you there?"

There was no answer. I close the door behind me as I let the fresh air hit me. It felt good up here. Away from the crowd...

"Taehyun?" I look around when I see a pair of shoes from the corner of the broken tiles. I turn round the corner to see him with his air pods in his ears, his head leaned against the grey walls and his eyes closed.

I crouch down in front of him as I stare at him for a moment. His forehead slightly exposed as the cool breeze blew his bangs to the side.

"Taehyun." I say a bit loudly as I take out one of his air pods.

He opens his eyes when he realized that I was there and looks at my hand which were trapping his air pod now.

"Give that back." he said absent mindedly as he leaned forward, attempting to grab the air pod but I was quick enough to get back and out of his reach.

He groaned a bit frustrated and got up to come towards me. "I asked you to give that back Hyun Ae!" he exclaimed.

I frowned and put my hands behind my back. "I won't." I said. "Why did you go away from the class?"

"I didn't feel like staying." he said bluntly.

"What the hell?" I narrowed my eyes at his careless attitude. "Look Taehyun... I know you're upset... Even I am... But..." I paused as my eyes wondered round the ground.

"Don't you miss them at all Hyun Ae?" Taehyun's question totally caught me off guard.

"Taehyun of course I do... I knew them for a much longer period that you ever did–" my heart ached in my chest as I said those words. The images of Yeonjun, Beomgyu, and Kai came flashing in my mind to the point it made me break down to tears. "It's been a year Taehyun... We need to move on. They're not coming back!"

Taehyun frowned and moved towards me threateningly as I stepped back. "Don't you dare say that Hyun Ae! I met them just a while ago... Yeonjun said he misses you... Kai was again apologising to you and even Beomgyu asked about you... And you... You are acting so insensitive towards them!" he yelled on my face. "I go on lying that you miss them and want to meet them but here you are who has nearly forgotten them!"

I widen my eyes and before I know it I slapped him. "Shut up!"

He looked up with a hand over his cheek and his eyes reflected my anger. "Truth hurts right?" he said sarcastically.

"Taehyun stop it!" I exclaim as my tears flow down.

After a few months of them passing away... Taehyun started acting weird. He said that he met a boy named Soobin who was capable of doing magic. Real magic. I couldn't understand...

He told me so gleefully that Soobin agreed to be friends with him and let him meet Kai, Yeonjun and Beomgyu as well. He hopped and skipped around me telling about their adventures. How he talked to his friends all thanks to Soobin. That even Soobin is good friends with them now.

But that wasn't possible. I, sadly couldn't ever see Soobin... Because he never existed. Taehyun went crazy and couldn't accept the fact that Yeonjun, Beomgyu and Kai weren't between us anymore.

He created Soobin... An imaginary friend, who would take him and make him meet the other three boys. He insisted me to believe what he said. Only if he realised that what he said, made no sense.

"You can't freaking meet them!" I yell back at him and he seems quite offended.

"You know why you can't meet them Hyun Ae?" he said boldly pointing a finger at me accusingly. "Because you don't want to." and then I saw him walk him.

Leaving me in a state of anger and sadness. I tried to help him several times, but he just won't listen. Soobin was stuck on his mind.

I grip the hem of my shirt and let out silent tears as my shoulders shake from the impact. My head was hung down as I fall to my knees and bury my face in my hands and cry.

Only if they would've been here... None of this would've happened.

Yeonjun said he misses you...

Kai said sorry...

Beomgyu asked about you...

Only if it had been true.

I look at the ground with my empty dark eyes as I think back to those times. Those happy times we all spent together.

Only if I could relive them...

✯ to be continued ✯

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