But, I'm Not Gay | Taejin

Chapter 5 - Fissures

The notification light never blinked on Seokjin's phone.

He picked it up again thinking there was a message but there was none. He was restless.

He refreshed their chat box as he re-read their last messages and of him asking if the other got home okay. He regrets not being his chauffeur tonight dreading what might have happened to his friend.

He sighs thinking Taehyung must have gone home and was busy with a woman, he left his phone on his pillow as he rolled on the other side of his bed, it was now 2:30 in the morning.

Out of worry, he could not sleep.

Seokjin - Hi, sorry to bother you. I know it's late, but do you know if Taehyung got home all right?

Jimin - Hi, hyung! Yeah, he got some tonight. 😏😝🤢🤣

Jimin - Why? Is there something wrong??

Seokjin - Oh, no. I was just wondering. I didn't see him off. Thank you! And good night.

Seokjin - Or good morning I mean.

Jimin - Hahaha, he's good hyung. Sleep well!! 😘

Seokjin - You, too.

Now he could breathe. Seokjin left his phone on his night stand and hugged his pillow and finally drifted off to dream land.

Taehyung wasn't aware but he does attract unwanted attention. He only did ever notice women vying for his recognition but there were men who observed him as well.

There had been a few times Seokjin shielded him either from jealous boyfriends or husbands of women he'd flirt with and just earlier that night, he noticed an old man glaring at Taehyung. Seokjin at times would get anxious thinking if these men would corner Taehyung alone and beat him up. And how could he even defend himself when he didn't like lifting heavy weights and was slim and well, even if Taehyung was only maybe an inch shorter than he is, Seokjin sees him as a tiny human being. More so when his white lab coat shrinks him down.

Unsurprisingly, in the other end of the spectrum that gets Seokjin worried and worked up were buff gay men that eyed Taehyung's ass. Without Taehyung's knowledge, Seokjin has made himself a beard at times to protect his friend from hungry men as well. Either he would tell them that Taehyung was straight or that he was his boyfriend just so they won't bother him and back off.

Taehyung just gets painfully oblivious of his surroundings most of the time that he goes on speaking with "friendly" people not realizing their ulterior motive making Seokjin just all the more vigilant for his friend's sake.

He didn't trust that woman Taehyung was having sticky eye contact with because beside the fact that she seemed like she got around, Seokjin just had a bad feeling about her. But even so, he was pacified to know that his friend got to text Jimin and at least let him know his whereabouts.

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A week has passed.

Taehyung still could not get over the night he spent with that woman that had Amethyst colored hair whom he never learned the name of after being thrown out at 6:00 in the morning.

It was an experience he wanted to show off and boast about but he couldn't get himself to because of that one thing that happened that turned his world upside down.