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#taehyun drabbles
rainbowhao · 17 days
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fratboy taehyun
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fratboy taehyun who acts like your boyfriend but isn’t actually your boyfriend—just your high school friend who’s too dense to realize his feelings
fratboy taehyun who is never really surprised to find you walking around campus in his clothes
“oh. so it was you.” he gestures to the sweatshirt you wear
you laugh nervously. “how’d that get there? must of grabbed it by mistake.”
he just pulls the hood over your head before tugging you to your next class. “all the clothes you have and you still insist on wearing mine.” 
fratboy taehyun who is an all-rounder and insists on joining every extra curricular he can yet somehow always finds time for you
fratboy taehyun who acts all serious and tough but would do anything you ask him
“please never contact me again,” he says after showing up to your apartment just to catch the cockroach in your kitchen
fratboy taehyun who is a natural flirt but doesn’t realize the impact he has on you
fratboy taehyun who grabs your wrist when a car’s coming and lifts his shirt post-practice to wipe at the sweat on his forehead—who’s not shy even when he knows you’re in the stands watching
fratboy taehyun who avoids bringing you around his place whenever possible because of his nosy roommates
“i’m helping rearrange around some furniture,” he tells soobin one morning. 
this catches his friend’s attention. “you’re what now?” 
he calmly repeats what he said while slipping on his shoes.
hyuka watches the interaction, grinning manically. “you like them. soobin, he likes them.”
“yes. moving a desk translates to unrequited love.” taehyun rolls his eyes.
soobin hums. “unrequited, huh?”
fratboy taehyun who leaves you breathless even in jeans and a jersey—who meets you in a cropped shirt and backwards hat one warm afternoon and has everyone staring
fratboy taehyun who orders dessert to cool off and doesn’t think twice before wiping off the leftover ice cream by the corner of your lips
“you wonder why everyone thinks we’re dating.” you try to laugh off the situation 
fratboy taehyun whose eyes widen at your joke—who can’t help but think about what you said for the rest of the day and even turns to his upperclassman yeonjun for an outside option
fratboy taehyun who winds up outside your door after a long conversation, quietly knocking in case you’re already asleep (and secretly hoping you just won’t hear)
fratboy taehyun who forgets every word in the dictionary when he sees you’re wearing nothing but his t-shirt, features visibly tired beneath the street light
fratboy taehyun who can only think about how pretty you look—were you always this pretty—and can’t stop himself from commenting on your choice in sleepwear
“you look really cute in my clothes.”
fratboy taehyun who is secretly satisfied when you get all flustered
fratboy taehyun who stays over at your place—something he hasn’t done since high school—and somehow winds up next to you in your tiny bed
fratboy taehyun who doesn’t seem to mind when you creep closer to him in your sleep, eventually entangling your limbs with his
fratboy taehyun who takes off his shirt when it gets too hot
fratboy taehyun who forgets said action and wakes up startled to find his torso bare and your arm across his stomach 
“sorry…” he doesn’t know what else to say.
you’re frozen against his side. you can feel his muscles contract beneath your forearm. “it’s fine.” you gulp, gaze hesitantly trailing upward to meet his piercing eyes
“why are you looking at me like that?” taehyun mumbles.
you can’t look away. “like what?” 
fratboy taehyun who starts feeling things one shouldn't feel about their friend
fratboy taehyun whose breath hitches when he realizes how close you are—how easy it’d be to dip his head down and kiss you just like that
fratboy taehyun who’s convinced his dumb friends put these thoughts in his mind and would rather die than entertain the idea that they were right all along
fratboy taehyun who becomes even more protective over you 
fratboy taehyun who is bold enough to put his hand on your waist when you go to parties and doesn’t let you out of his sight when you wander off with an overly-friendly beomgyu
“you haven’t looked away from them once,” soobin comments smugly while sipping beer.
“really? didn’t notice,” he says absently.
his roommate chuckles. “you’re looking at gyu like you want to murder him.”
“sounds like a normal night to me.”
fratboy taehyun who’s forced into the closet with you after a stupid game of truth or dare
fratboy taehyun who keeps mumbling apologies everytime he touches you—who is starting to feel a little claustrophobic in this tiny dark space
“seems like they really want us to get together.” you break the silence.
“dumb, right?” taehyun chuckles.
“cause it’s me?” you sink back against the wall. “dating me is dumb?”
“that’s not what i meant.” the words are flying out of his mouth. 
fratboy taehyun who says fuck it—friends kiss, right?
“if it’ll get them off our backs.” he tries to play it off cooly.
fratboy taehyun who looses all control when he gets a taste of you, pulling you further against him until there’s no space between your bodies—who’s addicted to the feeling of your lips on his and quickly forgets about the game 
fratboy taehyun who never realized how needy he was for your touch until your hands are in his hair, on his sides, cupping his face—who never wants to let you go now that he has you like this
“think they’ve kissed yet?” beomgyu sighs, legs crossed and leaning against the couch
soobin smirks. “twenty bucks says they're having sex by the time we pull them out."
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inniessick · 1 year
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What the TXT members are like in bed
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Pairing: txt ot5 (separate) x fem!reader
Word count: 1.2k
Warnings: smut obvi, dom!yeonjun, taehyun, hueningkai(?), switch!beomgyu, soobin. kissing, PIV, no protection (dont be silly), cussing, teasing, overstim, titty sucking? (soobin), facesitting (kai), lowkey manhandling (beom, tae), choking (tae), crying (good way, tae), bratty beomgyu, mayhaps that's all lmk if I missed anything.
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yeonjun who can't get enough of being so close to you. he's willing to fuck you absolutely silly anytime you want, even if it means every night. its almost a way for him to show how much he loves you. to be that vulnerable with you. it doesn't matter how, when, or where. he wants to be inside of you in some way. drilling into you from behind while you're struggling to hold yourself up altering cumming for the nth time, "cmon babe, really gonna make me hold you up too? fucked ya too good?" he's dragging his lips along your shoulders and back, lighting tugging your hair. every time you clench around him he lets out a groan or whimper. jjunie is not afraid to make noise and let you know how good he's feeling thanks to you. or, lightly rocking into your cunt in the early hours of the morning just before work. he's not saying much, just "love you, feels good," muttering and holding your back to his chest, taking in your warmth. no matter what though, yeonjun always makes a mess of your cunt. granted, he takes his time cleaning you up, but he loves to see how well you've taken him.
soobin who's such a switch. sub leaning of course. what can he say? he just wants to be taken care of. after all he looks after 4 guys, is it too much to ask to come home and have you ride him till he's panting and overstimulated? he may even let you tie him up and have him sobbing just to cum all for you, "please? let me cum, need to. can't take it anymore," or maybe he wants to suck on your tits and rut his hips into yours. surely you'll be nice to him and just give him what he wants right? after all, he's "such a good boy", until you make him jealous. tables turn real quick. he doesn't care if you "didn't mean to," just what the fuck were you doing choosing to sit with his hyung over him? as if that wasn't bad enough you let him drink from the same cup as you! soobin contained it, until you got home. youre immediately taken to your shared bedroom and pinned onto the bed while he has his way with you. he's grabbing your jaw forcing you to look at him, he's spilt load after load into your pussy; truly not caring how much you've gotten off. "you're all mine, got it? only I make you feel this good, baby. nobody can do it like me. not kai, not taehyun, not beomgyu, and absolutely not yeonjun."
beomgyu whos as much of a tease as he is a brat. he just has to have both. he'll have you crying under him and he works his fingers into you, palm grazing over your clit lightly. it's not enough, you really just need more, more pressure, another finger, anything. "beom, please wan' more. ah- need it, please beomie." "not enough, love? you're still writhing under me. not too sure if you deserve anything else." his goal is to make you beg for him, just for him. after he's done fucking you dumb on his fingers and mouth he'll do it again with his dick. he'll play around and let you ride him, he'll let you be in charge for just awhile, but he won't make it easy for you. "let me be in charge, aren't you tired?" grabbing your hips harshly, "i'm so much better at it too, you'll love it. you always like the way I fuck you." he's already trying hard not to hold you down and paint your insides white, but you dont need to know that. you put your all into your movements, lifting yourself up before sinking all the way back down, attempting to shut him up; but it's beomgyu, in the end he's always gonna win. good thing him winning includes making you cum another couple times.
taehyun isn't here to play games. you're gonna listen to him wether you like it or not. all he wants is for you to be good for him, not that hard right? hes always in charge. you like it that way. rough day at work? he has your knees touching your shoulders, hands pinned to your thighs while you scratch at his shoulders and back. "feels good doesn't it? such a good girl for me, all mine." he fucks into you deeper while littering your neck with kisses and hickeys. everyone knows you're his. "all yours tae. your good girl promise. wanna cum for you, may i? please please." he murmurs a small yes into your neck, bringing one of his hands to your clit making you unravel immediately. he's there to make you listen to him. hand wrapped around your throat, bruises left on your hips from his merciless grasp. he'll bite at your skin, curse against it too. he wants to make you both feel good, just on his terms. you wouldn't have it any other way. not when he kisses every part of your skin, praises you, and leaves you breathless with tear stained cheeks from overstimulation. you bet your ass it felt godly too.
hueningkai.. oh hyuka.. he is there to serve!! tired? let him fuck you to sleep while you cuddle his plushies. want to relax? ride his face please and thanks. wanna stop thinking? he'll make you cum so many times you won't know anything but his name. and hyuka will beg for this, he will absolutely get on his hands and knees and do everything in his power to get you to let him. you won't meet a better service top than him. he's rubbing your back after a bath as you sit on his lap, "you seem real stressed baby." you let out a small laugh, "that would be because i am." you don't know quite how you got there but kai has already taken your panties off and is laying flat pointing to his face, "sit, let me make you feel better," "c'mon kai, you don't have to." "please ride my face, i'll take care of you, just wanna make you cum." he has the most convincing puppy eyes too. inching up more and more before resting your core above his face, not fully sitting. he's gonna change that though. grabbing your thighs and sitting you on his flattened tongue. youre nearing release within minutes. he just knows exactly what to do to get to you; it's his job after all. kai himself is moaning against your cunt everytime you grind down onto his mouth. you're in for a good time alright, he's gonna make sure you relax.
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a/n: oh hey sorry for my lack of posting.. take this as an apology???????? i'm gonna try and get back to it guys i swear.. anyways just thinking about with the whole of txt thank yew. again i apologize for not updating.. i was not living the life. i'm trying to keep writing again now tho! for txt now too 🧌. i'm trying guys pls don't hate me istg. yes hyuka gets extra words bc.. im hyuka biased I can't help it guys I got carried away...
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p0ckykiss · 6 months
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flowers - kang taehyun
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summary - taehyun takes you on a date to the park where you stop to smell the flowers.
-> fluff, established relationship
a/n : haven't posted in a while sorry guys!
taehyun thought you looked beautiful under the cherry blossoms, but as you stroll through the verdant spring greenery of the park, he realizes that maybe you just look beautiful in any setting. your skin contrasts perfectly with the flourishing maple trees and lush grass, complimenting the flowers scattered throughout the park as you bend down to smell them. he stands two paces behind you, watching you with soft eyes as the soft petals of the lilac bush brush against the very tip of your nose. you let out a small huff of air at the feeling, lilac jumping away at the intrusion, and crinkles your nose with a smile. you quickly bring your finger up, like you're about to sneeze, and taehyun can’t help the way his heart squeezes at the sight.
“taehyun, come smell,” you insist, turning to look at him. his heart stops when he gets a full, unobstructed view of your face, full of warmth and happiness. who is he to deny you when you look at him like this?
he steps forward, crowding into your space as he moves towards the bush. his arm instinctually wraps around your waist as he leans forward, pressing the left side of his chest against the back of your shoulder as he allows himself to sniff. it’s fresh, the scent light and so different from the cloying smell of the last flower he’d been instructed to smell. it reminds him of the chilly, post-winter air at the beginning of spring. just warm enough to begin venturing back outside, while remaining cool enough that his lung felt refreshed with every breath.
the lilac smelled nice, but it has nothing on the sharp acidic smell of you that fills his senses as he leans away from the bush and back towards you. you stand with your right arm pressed against him, tilting your head up to watch his reactions to the flower. like this, a few stray hairs brush his nose and he can’t help but take in a deep breath, drowning out the lilac with the fruity scent of your shampoo.
“nice, right?” you ask, reaching out to pluck a large bundle of the small blossoms off the bush. “i think these might be my favorite.”
you bring the lilacs back to your nose, taking in a deep breath before sticking them in your hair. they sit nicely in your curls, just above your ear, but they clash wildly against the vibrant colors of past flowers.
you said that about the roses, taehyun signs, unable to wipe the smile off of his face. and the hyacinths. and the lilies.
you bark out a laugh. “they’re all nice flowers! they’re so pretty!”
taehyun shakes his head, reaching down to pet one of the petals in your hair. you beam at him as he does so, standing on your toes so that he might catch a whiff of one of the blossoms she’s placed there. he indulges you, leaning down, but he doesn’t smell anything other than you.
“come on, we’re far from done.” you pull away, taking a large step back. taehyun yearns to step forward and bathe his front in your warmth once again, but your smile is enough to keep him steady. you reach out both hands, closing your fingers rapidly in a give me gesture that has taehyun placing his hands within your own without thought.
you walk backward, pulling him along the path with light laughter as you meander towards the next group of flowers. you're the only ones in the park, so you don’t bother to look where you're going. you're not going to run into anyone, and you trust taehyun enough to warn you if you're close to falling.
taehyun has never been one for PDA, but as you drag him through the park with bright, loving eyes, he knows he’s made the right decision.
you stop in front of a range of chrysanthemums, dropping taehyun's hands so that you can lean down to smell them. their deep pink color blends in nicely with your skin, the petals reaching upward with a curl that reminds him of your hair. you look at him with another smile, this one more playful than the last.
“i think this one might just be my favorite, come smell.”
taehyun rolls his eyes but bends down nonetheless.
he watches as you play with the petals. cherry blossoms and chrysanthemums are beautiful, he thinks, but they can’t hold a candle to the way you look bathed in the spring sun. no flower could ever compare to the way that you look at him. you can claim every flower as your favorite and taehyun wouldn’t mind, because his only favorite stands just in front of him. and he could never ask for anything more.
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beom1e · 11 months
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5:23 am — no sleep
pairing taehyun x gn! reader. genre fluff. wc 247.
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it was frustrating, the heat was unbearable. you’d been tossing and turning for the past twenty minutes, continuously met with a too-warm bedspread despite your efforts to flip your pillows and shake out the heat from the blankets. taehyun was moments away from begging you to stay still, having been pulled out of his own slumber by you.
‘y/n, stop,’ he mumbled, his body still turned away from you so his words barely reached you. ‘go back to sleep.’
‘i can’t, tae,’ you frowned to yourself. ‘it’s literally hotter than the fiery pits of hell in here.’
‘you’re being dramatic,’ he muttered, his eyes still drooping with sleep. ‘just go to sleep.’
you tried, truly. you closed your eyes and wished for sleep, but to your dismay, you were still wide awake. you continued to toss and turn and and pray for a cold spot somewhere along the sheets, only to be unsuccessful. your next approach was to stay very still, and you began to sweat profusely.
the bed shifted and taehyun had stood, heading for the bedroom door. you sat up, watching him curiously.
‘where are you going?’ you whispered.
‘to the kitchen,’ he spoke as if it was obvious. ‘aren’t you coming? the kitchen tiles’ll cool you down.’
you hopped out of bed happily, following your sleepy boyfriend into the kitchen. he smiled as you fell into step beside him, and he placed his hand atop your head to give you a loving pat.
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kazmura-archived · 1 year
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‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ taehyun x fem, 0.3k, est relationship fluff, ‎‎‎ get your toothbrushes, this time stamp is filled with nothing but sweetness that will surely give you a tooth ache
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As the sun's gentle rays streamed through the curtains, casting a warm glow in the room, you slowly stirred awake, greeted by the peaceful stillness of the morning. The soft sheets tangled around your body, and you shifted slightly, feeling the weight of Taehyun's arm draped over your waist, holding you close in a comforting embrace.
A content smile tugged at the corners of your lips as you turned your head to gaze at him, your heart swelling with affection. His features were relaxed in slumber, his lips ever so slightly parted, allowing soft snores to escape, tickling the skin on your neck where his head was nuzzled.
With a gentle touch, you traced your fingers along his forearm, feeling the warmth radiating from his skin. Taehyun shifted slightly, a contented sigh escaping his lips as he nuzzled even closer, seeking comfort in your presence.
You took a moment to savor the sensation, the feeling of being cherished and protected in his embrace. It was in these stolen moments, where the outside world seemed to fade away, that you found solace and peace.
Lost in your own thoughts, you allowed your fingertips to trace the contours of his jawline, reveling in the texture of his stubble against your skin. Taehyun stirred again, his grip around your waist tightening as he nestled his face into the crook of your neck, seeking a deeper connection even in his slumber.
A tender chuckle escaped your lips, filled with amusement at his sleepy antics. You marveled at the way he effortlessly intertwined his life with yours, even in the simple act of sharing a bed.
You shifted slightly, your movement eliciting a murmured response from Taehyun. His voice, still tinged with sleep, vibrated against your skin as he mumbled unintelligible words.
"You're awake already?" His voice was husky with sleep, but filled with genuine warmth as he gradually became more conscious of his surroundings.
"Mmm, just a few moments ago," you replied softly.
His grip around your waist loosened slightly as he lifted his head, his eyes fluttering open to meet yours. The drowsiness in his gaze quickly gave way to a spark of affection as he took in your expression.
A sleepy smile graced his lips as he brushed a strand of hair behind your ear. "Your beautiful even in the morning."
You felt a blush creep up your cheeks at his compliment, a testament to the power he held over your heart. "Flattery won't get you out of making breakfast," you teased, poking him gently in the side.
He chuckled, the sound reverberating through his chest and sending vibrations against your back. "Only if you promise to stay in bed a little longer."
You nodded, your heart swelling with affection as you leaned in to press a tender kiss against his lips. The world outside the room seemed distant and insignificant, as if nothing else mattered except this quiet, shared moment.
As you pulled away, still relishing in the connection, Taehyun's gaze held yours, "I love you," he whispered, his voice laced with sincerity.
"I love you too," you replied, your voice barely above a whisper.
With a contented sigh, Taehyun nestled his head back into the crook of your neck, his breathing gradually evening out as he succumbed to the gentle pull of sleep once again. And as his breathing synchronized with the rhythm of your own, you closed your eyes, surrendering to the blissful embrace of dreams.
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sungbeam · 2 years
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𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘄/ 𝘁𝘅𝘁!
txt ot5 x gn!reader
1.2k words, FLUUUUUFF, kith for yeonjun?, barely proofread but it's v soft, except for beomgyu he's just hot.
a/n: ykw,, , i'm single asf.
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CHOI YEONJUN … treats you to a shopping trip! (retail therapy is incredibly important, everyone)
You didn't realize when Choi Yeonjun was going to tag along with you, that it would end up with him trying on just about a dozen lipsticks and glosses. The two of you were in the high-end cosmetics store at the mall because you wanted to pick up this one birthday gift set for your cousin. Somehow… somehow, Yeonjun had convinced you to let him drag you all over the store as he hopped from brand to brand, swatching lip products on the back of his hand in differing shades of red. 
"What about this one?" He asked you, and he turned around from the small mirror on the shelf to show you. He pursed his lips in an adorable smile as he showed off the shade of glittery scarlet red. "It's pretty, no?"
"It is very pretty," you agreed. You took the tube from him and examined it. Smooth, glossy, and most definitely transferable. 
"Hey Jun?"
"Hm," he hummed in reply while hunting for his next tester. 
You gently took his chin in your hand and turned his head to yours. His eyes were wide as you pressed your lips to his with just enough pressure to transfer the color onto your lips. 
The kiss was short-lived, and Yeonjun chased your lips when you pulled away. 
You smacked your lips to spread the color around. "What do you think?"
Yeonjun looked at you in what could only be described as pure fondness. If he were a cartoon, he might have had love hearts floating from his head and popping out of his irises. "Perfect."
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CHOI SOOBIN … holds a spa night for you!
"Sooobin-ah!"
Choi Soobin's head perked up at the sound of his voice as he shoved another slice of cucumber into his mouth. "Huh?"
You grinned at the sight of his slightly chubby cheeks, most likely filled with the five or so cucumbers he had just cut. You had just finished showering and brought down your little box of nail polishes from your upstairs drawer. "Bunny, if you eat any more of those, we won't have any left for our eyes."
Soobin pouted innocently as you came up to where he stood at the counter and gently took the knife away from him. "I was hungry."
"We had dinner thirty minutes ago," you quipped back with a laugh as you began quickly slicing the remaining cucumbers. 
He pouted even deeper, wrapping his arms around your waist from behind so he could tuck his head into the crook of your neck. His damp hair tickled your freshly washed face. "We only need four slices, though, honey."
You sighed, taking a couple pieces and holding it up to his mouth. He took them between his teeth and you ruffled his hair. "You're too cute, Bin. How can I resist you, hm?"
He giggled and hid his face in your neck. "Can you paint my nails blue?"
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CHOI BEOMGYU … serenades you by starlight!
Why play Spotify when you can have a live concert, baby? Was what Choi Beomgyu had told you when you had suggested firing up the Bluetooth speaker. Your fingers were deftly occupied with braiding the bit of hair Beomgyu had grown out into a dark wolf cut, while he carefully reached over to the electric guitar propped up against the end of his bed. 
"How's it lookin'?" He asked you softly from between your legs where he sat on the floor, and you the bed. He turned on the speaker hooked up to the guitar, tongue poking outside his lips as he turned the volume down just slightly. 
"It's…" your words faded from your tongue as he began to strum, the sound echoing off the walls of his bedroom and filling you with a sort of warmth. A shiver ran down your spine, and you knew Beomgyu was smiling to himself because he knew it, too. "You look good as always, Beom."
He let out a husky laugh. "Thanks, baby. You do a good job every time."
You finished up braiding as much as you could before securing it with a small, black elastic. As his fingers strummed his guitar—the tune was familiar, but you didn't really care to pin it with a name—you wrapped your arms around Beomgyu's shoulders and rested your cheek against the top of his head. 
He let you lay there, your bodies pressed together and swaying slightly to the music he made. 
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KANG TAEHYUN … takes you on a reading picnic!
There was something so soul-soothing about sitting on a grassy hill overlooking the calm waters of a lake. The weather was warm and comfortable, the tall trees towering around you shading both you and your partner from the sun's rays. 
Kang Taehyun had his eyes mostly focused on the pages of his book—mostly. He did, however, occasionally (frequently) cast a glance down at you. You laid in his lap, hair falling slightly in your eyes with the way you were lying, your eyes running across the page of your own novel of choice. 
There was a picnic basket on the opposite corner of the blanket, left untouched since you and Taehyun had cracked open your respective books. 
"Is your book not interesting enough for you, Tae?"
He blinked, snapping out of his daze. "Hm? What makes you say that?"
You smiled and laid your book face down on your stomach as you shifted to stare straight up at him. He did the same, setting his down on the picnic blanket to give you his full attention. "You've been looking at me more than the words on the page."
From your point of view, he looked nothing short of dreamy, with the gentle wind blowing through his strawberry blond hair, white button up sleeves rolled to expose his forearms. You could get used to this.
"Well, you're just a lot prettier than words on a page, darling," he replied with a smile curving up into his cheeks.
Yeah, you could definitely get used to this. 
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HUENING KAI … indulges you in fresh bakes!
The sound of "Fresh Bread!" rang true like a doorbell as you and Huening Kai stepped through the door of the 85℃ Bakery and Café on the block. You inhaled the smell of freshly baked bread and pastries as Kai went to grab a clean, plastic tray and a matching pair of tongs. 
"Doesn't it smell good in here?" You chirped to him as you helped line the tray with a blanket of parchment paper. 
Kai chuckled at the adorable way you bounced on your feet as you surveyed the dozens upon dozens of options surrounding you both. There were far too many pastries lined up in each glass case, all crafted to mouthwatering perfection. "It does."
Cute, he thought as you carefully lifted the glass door of one of the cases to pluck a loaf of brioche with the tongs. He balanced the tray for you to place the bread on top of. 
"Hey baby, can you get me one of those marbled taro buns?" He asked you, inclining his chin toward the respective glass case. 
"Oh, sure!" You shuffled over and grabbed the pastry, then set it down on the tray. "Maybe we should get two," you said upon further consideration of the pretty, little lavender and white colored pastry. 
"Why don't we share one?" He suggested. "Lady and the Tramp style."
You giggled, and the sound was marvelous to Kai's ears. "Hyuka, how do you Lady and the Tramp a taro bun?"
"There's just a lot more kissing," he grinned.
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a/n: skfnkejf literally speedran to finish this and format this >< gonna go to bed now @_@
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beomglocks · 2 years
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oh! it's just like magic! : k.th
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☆.。.:*summary : if you could you would shove him back in his stupid little jar. you never want to see him again, not even if your face heats up a little when he gets close to you...nope!
☆.。.:*pairing : demon!taehyun x witch!reader
☆.。.:*warnings & other : mini drabble, spooky season fic finally, demon taehyun bc obviously demon fic from user beomglocks, "summoning a demon and now they live with me" trope, enemies to less hated enemies?, enemies to 'there is sexual tension here but no one wants to acknowledge it'
☆.。.:*w/c : 1.4k
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"if you're gonna live in my house could you atleast have some form of decency," you exasperate at the demon currently lounging on your couch.
the demon in question, taehyun, scoffs. he smacks his lips loudly as he munches on some of your food and you swear the vein on the side of your head pulsates which each obnoxious sound. he's doing it to aggravate you, you reason with yourself.
"you tipped over my urn... so no," he giggles, shoving more food into his mouth. you exhale, "i told you a thousand times already! i was cleaning out the collection room and didn't know the cleaning spell on the broom would go haywire."
taehyun shrugs. "ever heard the phrase never keep all your eggs in one basket? no one told you to keep all of your dangerous, haunted items in one room, this isn't the conjuring babe."
you gape at his audacity, choosing to ignore the sudden petname, "shut up, how do you even know what that is." you roll your eyes at him, regaining your attitude.
"what? am i not supposed to know what pop culture is just because i was locked away for thousands of years? i may not have had netflix in there but i have ears," he rolls his eyes at you. "humans are all the same..always looking down on everyone else," he sucks his teeth. you groan miserably at his remark. "that's not what this is about," you whine.
you wished you had just been at least a little bit more careful when cleaning. earlier in the week you had been consoling a grieving woman about her dead boyfriend. she had come to you to find a way to contact him beyond the living world.
despite the many times you'd done this with other people, this time it didn't work. you didn't know why but you had a good clue. perhaps you shouldn't have brought it up with her though.
"did you maybe have some sort of falling out before he died, maybe he doesn't want to be contacted." that was the spark to push her over the edge. you sat in shock afterward as she yelled at you about how perfect her relationship was and how you'd never find anything as real as what they had.
to your absolute horror, she started tossing everything off the table, including the incense and water you used to sense vibrations. you had promptly told her to leave after that.
grumbling and annoyed, you decided that you were way too tired to clean everything manually so you used an auto-clean spell on a broom to do the work for you. unfortunately, your emotions were too much for the spell and it ended up flying everywhere, knocking items and bottles off shelves, causing even more of a mess.
you hadn't even noticed when the broom had knocked over one of the more rarer urns. when did you even acquire this one? you wondered to yourself as you knelt down to inspect the damage. you weren't dumb though. you knew there could be some kind of entity in there who was now loose and to your horror there was.
he was standing over you with a frown and his arms folded across his chest in a disapproving manner. his hair was an ashy gray color and some strands fell over his eyes intentionally. he was good looking, as you'd expect any demon to be and along with that graceful face came even more graceful words.
"look at what you've done, you stupid witch," he mumbles under his breath. the problem with pretty demons is that they lose their beauty once they start insulting you. you had rolled your eyes at this, choosing to ignore how his biceps bulge when he tightens his arms across his chest.
"im sorry ok..." "taehyun" you sigh, "right..taehyun, im sorry."
he tsked, mindlessly kicking the shattered object away from his feet. he looks you up and down and you swear you can see the gears turning in his head. "so what are you gonna do about it?"
you scoff, standing back up only to find that even standing up the demon was taller than you. "seriously, its going to take weeks for me to even find a spell to properly fix this, let alone master it to get you back."
he raises his eyebrow at you and smirks. taehyun shrugs as he paces around the room, toying with the other objects on display.
"well...i guess this means you owe me a new home and I'm stuck with you."
taehyun suddenly appears in front of you, effectively making you drop the broom in surprise. "what the hell do you think you're doing?" you glare up at him, annoyed that he took you out of your flashback.
he doesn't answer right away and you want to hold your glare but you swear you see the tiniest bit of...something other than utter hatred in his eyes and it makes you falter. "w-what is it?" you try to shove him back but he holds his position.
"honestly y/n.." he looks down at you. you feel your face get hot at the sudden seriousness of the situation. he scans your face for a while before the look of intrigue is replaced with disinterest. "you were spacing out and kept staring at me, could you be any less irritating."
he steps back but not before he flicks your forehead with his long fingers, snickering at your flinch.
you watch him saunter back to the couch as if nothing happened but you can't help but feel odd. as the days went on you slowly learned how to co-exist with the annoying demon in your house and a part of you think you might be growing to tolerate him just a bit. he still annoys you but it feels playful rather than spiteful sometimes.
you stare at the back of his silver head in thought until he speaks up. "stop staring at me, you're being obvious." you fold your arms across your chest. "i wasn't staring at you, you're ugly and a demon. two strikes."
"oh really now?" he scoffs, not bothering to turn around. "so if i wasn't a demon would that change anything?" you roll your eyes but bite your tongue at the implications. "no because you'd still be ugly and now you're getting a third strike for being annoying."
you hear him laugh and shake his head. he knows that you know that he's not ugly in the slightest bit. if anything, he's the most good looking person you've seen in a long while but of course you'd never admit that.
you sigh heavily plopping down next to him on the couch as if the tension wasn't high enough. he glances at you through the corner of his eye trying to bite back his smug smile. "why are you sitting next to me y/n hm?" he scootches closer to you to make you uncomfortable. it works, seeing as you scootch away closer to the arm of the couch.
"what the fuck do you mean, you keep forgetting this is my house, i can sit where i want," you scoff. you don't see it but his fingers twitch at this. he places them on his lap to not seem obvious. "whatever, it's our house now."
your mind is practically yelling at him to shut up. why does everything he say sound like a weird relationship innuendo?! you shake your head. no, you refuse to fall for his charms. he's a demon, he's supposed to be good at things like this. on another note, he's been terrorizing you since the moment you mistakenly freed him. there should be nothing to find attractive about him.
not even a couple days later, when you accidentally walk in on him exercising. his muscles bulged with each pump of his arms. the tee shirt and shorts he wears leave nothing to the imagination. before he can even realize you stepped into the room, you are out of there. how is he making you flustered in your own home?! you can't continue like this or else you won't be able to walk into any room in your house without having to do breathing exercises.
"it's our house now." you wanted to erase those words from your mind. they haunted you every time you saw him smirk at you whenever he caught you staring too long. every time he walked past and said something snarky. those words were like a verbal contract, signifying the day you brought this annoying demon into your life.
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itgirlgyu · 11 months
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love's worth | kang taehyun.
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ζ‧₊◜ kang taehyun x fem! reader.
.....ノGENRE : drabble! reincarnation! au, soulmate! au, heavy angst.
ヾ word彡count: 1110!
warnings!! - blood!!! taehyun's punches a mirror, there's scars on him ₍ ! ₎  this is part of a miniseries based on reincarnation! read the soobin one here!
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is love ever worth it?
what is it other than a specious conundrum that overtakes your life—and provides nothing but aching burns that last over a few lifetimes. the scars of audacity burned into the souls of those who have dared to let the mindless feeling consume their entirety; submitting themselves willingly just for mere moments of sight of their lovers—merely moments, when in reality aeons fall short to sink in their lovers' features into every cell of their body.
what is it but an act of foolery?
taehyun certainly thinks so; bitter chuckles cascading from his honeysuckle lips, his hands in the shade of cherry blossoms; which he isn't able to discern. his falcon gaze scans across the most beautiful time of the year—well to most, but taehyun, it's nothing more than just another inadequate day; a tirade of debilitating minutes that refuses to fizzle away.
perhaps the exhaustion has caught up to taehyun, leaving nothing but a shell of what he once used to be; but ridiculously enough, with all the otiose emotions carved into his being, hurting him like barbed wires around the supple flesh of a human—digging in vehemently to remind him of his purpose.
the creator of all the skies, who created him: if he wanted to make taehyun so fragile, so frail, why must the great god put him through so much agony? did his misery—her misery mean nothing to their divinity?
why must taehyun still crave the things he has for years that he cannot simply count in fingers? when he cannot ever truly attain it. was it not enough? was all the days he has spent learning to love the greyness of his world not enough for his lord? why must he go through the repeating carnage once again—why must he let himself be coloured into her hues once more, only for it to be tainted with a scarlet shade of separation; death, and to awaken once again into this world, for another round of suffering.
to taehyun, it is worthless: love. he has been hurt enough times. he is exhausted, he wants to live. just exist, with no binding feelings of love, pulling him back to the acataleptic inescapable playground. thrashing him around, beating him mercilessly while dangling the price of love above his eyes. and taehyun? ceaselessly letting himself get deluded with the faux hope of finally possessing the one thing he is never destined to gaze his eyes upon, let alone his dirty fingers even daring to touch.
but how can he? when flashes of your radiance torment every bit of his monotonous existence. his silent world, painted in muted shades of black and white, you come to him each night into his dream, humming your tunes of yellow, and pinks and greens. you teach him greed, to want more. to keep going on, to touch your fingertips so he could experience the blessing of colours once more. idly allowing him to change his mind again and again, and awaken the thirst he had subdued years prior.
your face; taehyun aches to bathe in your golden aura, to immerse himself into the warmth and taste with his own mouth.
love is insane, it's immeasurable. how easily you waver the stone cold heart of taehyun's to the rhythms of waves. lifelong promises he had made to keep his sanity intact, in attempts to glimpse at your halo, he willingly submits at your feet.
the story had been written ages ago, ancient ink concluding the story, already marred with the similar shade of mirth, and salacity.
you're bound to find taehyun each life. no amount of seas, nor mountains clouding your vision, and he's meant to love you, again and again, each time with the same promise of a happier ending.
they say love is able to move boulders untouchable by the tenuous hands of mortals, so what difference would make taehyun's brittle heart?
taehyun's head rings, reminding him of the impending change that he is about to experience, he is unbothered. fury coursing through his veins as he stares at himself in the mirror. the guilt of wanting to witness all of the colour, his lover once again, the want—the unbearable want. to touch her, to love her, even for a while, eats away into him. he curses himself for being so weak, for making the same mistakes again, and again.
taehyun's fist comes in contact with the frail glass of his mirror, the shattered debris falling everywhere as he hopes for the pain to mask the insatiable desire to succumb to love—it disgusts him when he wishes to view the shade of the fluid that drips from his knuckles. the vile longing already smearing all over his chest, before he could even stop himself.
with each hesitant step taehyun takes, he notices the world around him embracing the nature of a kaleidoscope. he remembered colours—albeit not that strikingly, but the faint saturation lights his senses on fire and, he wishes to burn in it. there's a fluttering tinge of excitement and shame inside of him, and he is at the crossroads with the guillotine hanging above him like a pendulum.
there's not much time, before he meets you, and he can finally quench his curiosity as his eyes take in the wistful colour of crimson on his knuckles, seeping from the ivory of the bandages.
the guilt builds up like bile in taehyun's throat, threatening to spew at any moment when he notices the tears falling from his eyes to his hand, before someone else's dainty fingers ghost over his injury, and then to the scars that spread over his hands like stars scattered in a night of a holy reunion.
taehyun's doesn't need to look up to gather who had appeared before him—whose hands hover on top of his hands with childlike manner—touching each scar that tells the story of every lifetime they have fallen in love, with a futile attempt to heal him even if the cuts has already sunken deep enough in his bones.
the tears don't stop falling from taehyun's eyes. how was he supposed to deny this love? how was he supposed to deny you?
"i am sorry," your broken gasp is what crumbles his vain attempt to appear strong.
if this is the price of love, he's ready to pay it. time and time again.
love is worth it. it's every maddening decision, each and every scar. it's worth every second of torment—even if it's unending, that one saccharine moment of reunion, is worth it.
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cafeseoulmate · 1 year
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Kang Taehyun’s Hot Boy Summer Destiny
time, mystical time cutting me open, then healing me fine. were there clues i didn't see?
featuring: child of athena!taehyun x child of apollo!gn!reader
genre: fluff, angst, pjo / greek mythology / demigod au, childhood best friends to lovers, idiots to lovers au, soulmate au, slowburn, mutual pining
wc: 14k
warnings and other notes: cursing, blood, injuries, graphic mentions of murder, alcohol consumption, charmspeak, insecurities, cliche upon cliche upon cliche, reader is a psychic
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You had a dream—or a vision, what have you—that you gave your childhood best friend, Kang Taehyun the son of Athena, an elaborate hot boy summer makeover in a span of two months and had him meet his soulmate at the Summer’s End bonfire. It came to you just last week, the same night you dreamt about the quest you sent your half-sibling Hueningkai in the other day and how exactly you will slay the minotaur terrorizing the camp borders right now—which is why you can confirm, as a child of Apollo, that it was a very much prophetic and bound to happen soon.
“Apparently, I gave you a wardrobe update, a haircut, and introduced you to some Aphrodite and Hermes kids under the half moon—watch out!” You continue to explain as you lure the bull-headed monster further away from the camp gate, dragging Taehyun by the arm and picking up speed when the beast swings its ax exactly as you remember in your dreams. “So what do you think?”
You then aim your crossbow at the minotaur’s ankles as Taehyun instructed you earlier, shooting it with a specialized poisoned arrow. As expected, it takes a moment before the poison takes effect for a beast as large as the minotaur, effectively paralyzing it anyway right as you reach the clearing in the woods and giving you and Taehyun time to charge towards it this time.
“I think you’re properly crazy!” Taehyun belatedly yells back at you, heading straight for the minotaur’s horns while you set your crossbow aside on your shoulder in exchange for your sword. When the two of you near the minotaur’s laying on its side, your best friend swiftly releases one of the specialized net traps Yeonjun made, one that magically adjusts to the minotaur’s size and strength as it traps the beast in place. “I’m not letting you give me a makeover!”
You groan in annoyance even when you already expected this as his answer, kicking the minotaur to lay on its back and stabbing it down right in its torso while Taehyun digs his boot on its neck, slicing one of its horns off.
Up close, the yells and growls that the minotaur releases into the peaceful air is enough to burst a human’s eardrums off. Instinctively, you protect yours and Taehyun’s ears by manipulating the soundwaves and shutting up the minotaur.
“Not even if you’ll meet your soulmate at the end of it?” You ask as you hold the minotaur down by your sword when it starts to flail around the net trap, moving only with half its strength with the poison quickly spreading in its veins. You feel a slight sting on one of your arms but decide to quickly ignore it as you busy yourself with the monster's frantic movements. “I literally just mentioned that I saw them from behind at the end of the dream—red string and all—and you’re not even just a little bit curious?”
Taehyun briefly pauses, the blood on the minotaur’s horn in his hands dripping down his elbows as he looks at you incredulously, before definitively shaking his head. “The future’s still subject to change, even in your dreams, remember?” He counters matter-of-factly, stabbing the horn straight into its heart and effectively killing it once and for all. “You could still dream about something different later on.”
You roll your eyes, removing your sword from the minotaur’s torso right before it fades into dust right in front of you. “The vision should happen in two months, I’m not going to dream of anything new about it at this point.” You counter, jogging over to Taehyun’s side as he gathers the net trap back in its pouch. Once he’s done, the two of you get your bearings and walk back to the direction of camp. “And before you argue and use my dream journals against me again, I re-checked them all as soon as I wrote this vision down so I can confirm that I have no other unrealized visions that says anything else about what’s destined for you this summer."
“Whatever. I can meet my soulmate fine even without a hot boy makeover, thanks.” He chuckles in amusement in front of your oddly determined expression, wiping the blood off of his sword with a cloth from his bag. “A haircut would be nice, though.”
You bump your shoulder harshly against his as you also wipe your sword, returning it to the sheath on your hips and making a mental note that you'll clean everything thoroughly tomorrow. He retaliates quickly and you give him a glare. “You’re mocking me.”
“I’m not, my hair really is getting longer. It’s annoying.” 
“Why settle for just one if I can give you a full makeover, then, genius? It’s not like I won’t ask for your input at all or make you do something you don’t want to do.” You pull your best puppy dog eyes despite the blood drying off in your hands this time, looking up at Taehyun with wide eyes and pursed lips. “Plus, I objectively do better makeovers than half the Aphrodite kids! The muses are literally my godmothers!”
It’s not hard to miss the small smile that briefly breaks out on Taehyun’s usually stoic face even as the two of you trek through the forest this late in the afternoon, the sunlight filtering in through the towering trunks of trees illuminating his face just as you spot the tiniest hint that you’ve broken into his tough facade successfully once more.
“Beomgyu’s gonna get you for that comment at the next Capture the Flag.”
“Only if you tell him which I know you won’t because you’ll be teaming with our cabin again in the next game.” You scoff, waving your hand dismissively. “So, what’s it going to be, Tyun?”
Taehyun shakes his head. “Still a no for the whole makeover but a maybe on the haircut.”
“Are you serious?”
“Tell me this, then: what does my soulmate look like, oh great Seer?” He smirks teasingly. 
You huff in exasperation, kicking a branch that happens to be in your way as the camp gate comes into view. “I already told you, I only saw them from the back. I woke up before they could even turn around.”
“Yeah, so what do they look like from the back?”
“They were in bronze armor and had sheaths for a sword and daggers on their side.” You recall, jogging over to the camp gate and into safety. Taehyun follows close. “It could literally be anyone in camp.”
“Exactly, so why bother dolling me up if they’re probably just someone we’ve been camping with since we were kids?”
“They could be a new person in camp for all we know.” You retort swiftly with a hopeful smirk. “Or a visiting Hunter! You know I dreamt that they’re coming this summer.”
“Whatever, they’re still people we meet everyday.” Taehyun shrugs before gesturing to the direction of the Big House. “I’ll report to Chiron. You should get that gash checked at the infirmary.”
“What gash?” You ask dumbly, to which Taehyun rolls his eyes before taking your hand in his and showing you a gash running down the outer side of your arm. “Oh. Well, shit.“
“The minotaur probably clawed you while you held it down.” Taehyun tsks softly, examining it for a bit longer before gently releasing your hand and smacking your forehead. “Stupid. For a child of Apollo, you should be more aware of your body when you get hurt.”
You hold the spot where he just smacked you, furrowing your brows. “Ya!”
“I’ll see you at dinner! Don’t make detours and get that checked out with Soobin!”
You groan in exasperation, digging your boot deep in the soil as you watch Taehyun’s retreating figure disappear in the dirt path. Once he’s gone, only then do you begrudgingly turn around and head to the infirmary with a sigh, focusing your remaining energy in the meantime to at least disinfect the wound with your own vitakinesis.
You had a dream—or a vision, what have you—that you gave Taehyun an elaborate hot boy summer makeover in two months and had him meet his soulmate, red string connecting their wrists and all, at the Summer’s End bonfire. As his best friend of 13 years who’s also secretly pined over him for at least a decade of that time, you know that it’ll take all the brains and brawn at camp combined to convince him to follow his destiny at the end of summer. 
It’s no easy feat but Apollo and your mentor, the Oracle of Delphi, is not raising a quitter of a demigod.
♡  
Taehyun’s hair is growing longer as he’s mentioned and you’ve expected, bangs sticking closer to his eyes when you spar and your view of the back of his head when you try to surprise him from behind seemingly shaggier. The natural blonde roots of his hair are also starting to grow back as the dyed purple ends he did at the start of Spring are fading into a dull gray, signaling the change of the seasons along with the increasingly hotter weather. 
You already know that he won’t give in that easily when it comes to buying him new clothes and forcing him to socialize at camp functions. Taehyun’s stubbornness and logic are, from your point of view, his worst features when you know you’re about to lose your case to him. But, after letting your friends in on your agenda last week (and both Hueningkai and Beomgyu laughing in your face before you pushed the two in the lake) and consulting with the Oracle of Delphi yesterday, you’re hopeful that you’ll get him to agree to the rest of the makeover by virtue of either peer pressure or another vision of his future this summer—whichever works on him first. 
For now, you focus on the clippers you borrowed from one of your siblings in your hand, leaning forward in your own seat as you work through the section above his right ear. In front of you, your best friend calmly skims through his copy of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, occasionally glancing at you through the bathroom mirror. 
As cabin counselor, you’ve cut your siblings’ hair far more times than you’ve actually done much more important leadership duties such as turning off the lights exactly at midnight or constantly reminding people to clean up after their respective areas. As the one who’s been insisting that you predicted this specific situation, you’ve also dreamt of giving your best friend a smooth haircut, noting in your dream journal about how this part of the overall vision was relatively quick but you still managed to remember Taehyun’s smile when you woke up. 
Regardless, a looming feeling of dread stirs at the pit of your stomach and you unconsciously hold your breath as you snip at the hair right above his ear. 
“Relax.” Taehyun suddenly mumbles, head still hanging at the angle you instructed him to but his eyes moving over to your direction. “You being nervous makes me nervous.” 
“I’m not nervous.” 
“You’re not even breathing right now.” He points out sharply before moving to another page, careful not to move his shoulders too much as he dusts off chopped hair from the previous page in the process. “Breathe.”
You ponder on whether you should tell him that you’re worried, partly about the fact that you’ve never cut his hair yourself before but mostly because this is exactly how the dream played out in your head so far and, for some reason, fulfilling your own personal future is often daunting. Regardless of how long you’ve been having visions and fulfilling some of them yourself, you still worry that something unexpected will happen. In this case, the last thing you want to do is to accidentally nick your best friend’s ear. 
There’s also the fact that you’re doing all of this to lead him to the path of his soulmate in the end and as much as it pains you to not be that person for him, it also worries you being the one to have to lead things until they meet. You want to put your best friend’s happiness first and that includes making sure that everything goes according to destiny.
“You won’t hurt me.” He adds softly almost as if reading your mind, pausing briefly as he reads one more paragraph in his book. “Anyway, you brought this to yourself because you kept insisting about your dream.” 
You roll your eyes, the worry quickly dissipating when he chuckles right next to your own ear. “I’m not worried about that, not anymore at least.” You reply with a soft exhale, moving your chair behind Taehyun as you finally move on to the back of his head. “And I’ll make sure I see my vision of you fulfilled at the end of this summer no matter what.” 
Taehyun hums in thought, shoulders tensing slightly when you place your hand over it. You snicker in response, knowing full well that it’s because he’s ticklish, before continuing your work. 
“So, how did you exactly see my hot boy makeover in your dream?” 
You unconsciously furrow your brows as you work, carefully dusting away the hair that sticks to the nape of Taehyun’s neck when it builds up and holding the clippers in your other hand away when he flinches in response. “What do you mean?” 
“Last time, you just said everything you generally have to do but how did you actually see it in your dream?” 
You take a moment to gather your thoughts and recall the dream itself and how you wrote it down in your journal, filling in the silence with the faint buzzing of the clippers as you even out everything nicely. “Well, it started out exactly with this very moment: me cutting your hair and doing an awesome job. Then, when you stood up and admired my work in the mirror, you let me drag you to a bunch of flea markets that were right outside the cabin for some reason.” You narrate slowly, occasionally pausing between words as you bit your lip in concentration while simultaneously thinking about how you’re going to proceed with telling him the rest. “The more we moved between stalls, the more trees turned into the buildings at the Lincoln Center until we reached the end of it all where the campers were all partying by a bonfire in front of the Met.” 
Taehyun chuckles, most likely as he tries imagining your dream for himself. Pausing again, you also laugh at how silly it all sounds being spoken out loud. 
You continue after you’ve gathered your thoughts once more. “You talked to some Hermes kids and Aphrodite kids until it turned into night—with the half moon out as I mentioned before—and you got so tired that you excused yourself to the buffet.” At that, you finish the back section of his hair, moving your chair to Taehyun’s left side. “I watched you talk to your soulmate from the sidelines after that. They came into the scene right as you grabbed a drink, mentioning something about the bonfire and showing the red string around their wrist. I woke up right after and wrote everything as I remembered it.” 
You sigh in relief under your breath after your mini speech, mostly at the fact that you were successful in not accidentally letting slip some details the entire time. Though it makes you feel guilty not sharing everything to Taehyun sometimes, you particularly omit the parts you think he doesn’t have to know—the way his dream version’s smile made your dream version’s heart skip a beat, the way his dream version held your dream version’s hand through the flea market, the dread of knowing that he was going to meet his soulmate that you were unconsciously feeling the entire dream, and the way your dream version actually ran away from the scene before you woke up. 
Besides, if Taehyun knew about these things, the teasing would never end. 
He has a soulmate and it’s not you, you remind yourself again internally for good measure, Stop having weird thoughts, Y/N.
“So you just concluded after that this will all happen over the summer?” Taehyun asks after a moment, darting his eyes over to his left this time as you continue working. 
“Sometimes, I get that instinct of important details I have to know when I dream, like my subconscious telling me that I have to know this and that while interacting with the people in my dreams.” You shrug, bending down to the level of his left ear this time. “At that time, my subconscious kept telling me that time was passing as we moved places then your soulmate confirmed it towards the end when we reached bonfire.” 
“Did you tell the Oracle about this?” 
“Oh, right!” Your gasp, suddenly remembering what you’re supposed to also tell him today. When he looks up briefly and steals another glance of you, you quickly return his gaze with a knowing smirk. “I almost forgot to tell you but I visited them yesterday to consult about my vision. I was hoping I’d get a second opinion from them because, knowing you, you won’t easily agree to letting me give you a makeover unless something important comes up.”
Taehyun seems unfazed despite your best impression at being menacing, shrugging as he follows along your train of thought. “Okay, and?” 
“And I asked them about my vision about you and if they’ve seen other things lately. Guess what?” When Taehyun doesn’t ask the question back, you roll your eyes and continue, “They also saw a flea market and Lincoln Center in one of their visions about you and me! Apparently, they saw both places in a vision about Chiron’s next quest for us!” 
In that moment, Taehyun’s calm and composed disposition immediately does a 180 as his mouth forms an ‘o’ shape and his hands unconsciously move to close his book in shock. “Oh...” 
“So...” You drag out, just as you finish working on the left side of his head. Untying the top section of his head, you then switch your clippers for scissors and a comb before moving in front of Taehyun with a proud grin on your face. Dread, on the other hand, dawns on him in an instant. “I guess prepare your money because we’re going shopping in Manhattan after our next mission!” 
Taehyun groans, sinking deeper in his seat while you bend down and comb down his hair. “Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me...” 
“You can come with me to my next visit to the Oracle if you want to confirm it all but they’ll probably just get annoyed by you asking the same questions I did yesterday.” You chuckle, tapping his shoulder as a signal for him to sit properly. “So I guess the only thing left for me to do is to get you to come to at least one party this summer and everything should be good.”
He glares at you from behind his bangs. “You always have to have the last laugh, huh?” 
“Well, I am the one with the prophetic visions in this friendship.” You shrug with a laugh, gathering some of his bangs in between your fingers and carefully trimming the ends. “Anyway, I’ve thought it all over and tried recalling my vision as much as I can and we won’t actually be buying a whole new wardrobe. At the very least, there’s this shirt I have to buy for you because you were wearing a flannel I couldn’t recognize towards the end.” 
“Is it at least my style?” It’s his turn to frown and pout which you giggle at as you work in front of his face.
“Very much, yeah.” You nod confidently, cutting another inch off of his bangs before ruffling his hair. “Trust me, Tyun, I got you always. Also, I’m done with your hair.”
You stand up and move to the side, setting your tools away in their proper bathroom basket while Taehyun shakes off all the hair on his clothes and move forward to the mirror.
“Do you want me to dye your hair too?” You ask, crossing your arms and leaning your whole body by the marble sink. “I think either Beomgyu or Yeonjun have leftover purple dye in their cabins.”
“Did you foresee it in the future?” He asks with a defeated sigh, inspecting his bangs and the back of his head meticulously.
You shake your head. “No but I’d be happy to dye your hair for you if you want. It’s the least I could do after trapping you into your own worst nightmare.”
Taehyun shakes off more chopped hair from his head and his shirt, stepping aside the pool of purple hair littering the very center of the bathroom. “It’s not that it’s a nightmare for me, it’s just—you know how I feel about destiny and soulmates.” He sighs, moving to the side to change into the extra camp shirt he brought with him. “I’d rather just make my own way without thinking about it too much and meet whoever’s out there for me when I do meet them.”
“And I promised you before, we’ll move along this whole thing at your own pace—or when things present themselves.” You assure, quickly looking away when he takes his shirt off in front of you with a nervous gulp. “Like you said, the future’s still subject to change, and like what my dad always says, the visions are often just guidelines into the future.”
“But does fate really think I need a makeover right now?” Taehyun asks more to himself than to you, his voice muffled only at the start as he pulls his shirt over his head. “I mean, besides the haircut, I don’t think I need a whole new look right now. I’m perfectly fine.”
In the meantime, you busy yourself with crossing the bathroom without peeking at Taehyun and grabbing a broom and a dustpan in the cleaning cabinet, sweeping off the hairs on the tiled floor while keeping your head down.
“Maybe it’s not going to be about having a brand new Taehyun—like visual-wise,” You suggest, only glancing up at him momentarily when he tells you he’s finished changing before moving the hairs you’ve gathered to the trash can. You make sure that your tone is sincere, mainly thinking about how, in the time since you’ve known him, Taehyun really is a person of work and routines and not much of relaxation and doing little things for himself. “maybe it’s just about trying new things this summer. Who knows, you might discover that you actually enjoy shopping in Manhattan flea markets the most after this or that you can finally tell that one kid from the Aphrodite cabin—Haneul, was it?—that you’re not interested in her advances.”
There’s a pause that momentarily hangs in the air as Taehyun combs his hair down absentmindedly by the sink, dirty shirt in his other hand. “Did you rehearse that beforehand?” He says with a teasing smile, one that you easily catch over the mirror and immediately recognize as the same that you dreamt of.
Witnessing it in person pushes heat on your neck and up to your face, your chest feeling light when he chuckles at the way you frown at him. “The one time I'm actually being sincere to you and you ask me if I rehearsed it beforehand.”
“You never know with children of Apoll—ow!” You smack him in the chest in a heartbeat, his hands swiftly moving up in front of you before you could deliver a second blow. “I was kidding!”
You roll your eyes, fighting back a grin when you pretend to hit Taehyun again and he instinctively holds his arms up in defense. “Gods, you children of Athena are so annoying. Do you want me to dye your hair or not?”
“Not right now but definitely the next time we’re both free.” He grins. “Thank you for the haircut, by the way. Hyuka's right, you should start charging people for this.”
You unconsciously annoy yourself with the way your heart starts speeding up as you take a proper look at your work on his hair. Get a grip, he’s just complimenting your work, he always does that when he needs to. “Oh, I will be collecting my fees in our next sparring demo at the arena.” You retort, hand reaching up harmlessly this time as you fix his bangs. "Gods, you better sweep your soulmate off their feet when you meet at the end of the summer with how well I did your hair."
He briefly freezes under your touch before visibly relaxing his shoulders as you ruffle more fallen hair off of his scalp, following you carefully with his eyes the whole time. “Y-Yeah, I got it. Well, future Taehyun does.”
In the back of your mind, a small feeling of dread starts seeping into your thoughts—the exact same dread you felt in your dreams that anticipates the arrival of the stranger that is Taehyun’s soulmate. But at the same time, your heart skips a beat as you glance up at him again.
Gods, you are fucked.
When Chiron inevitably gives you and Taehyun your next mission a week later, you find out that the quest you’re embarking on has to do with retrieving a demigod and one of Persephone’s pearl that has somehow ended up in a nearby flea market.
You retrieve the demigod Kazuha first, explaining everything to her over the course of three days before killing the harpies that have been stalking her by disguising themselves as potential sponsors for her ballet school. Given the hassle of commuting back and forth to Long Island, however, you let her tag along with you and Taehyun on the second part of your quest right after—even helping you narrow down the possible flea markets when you let her in on the information Chiron gave you about the pearl’s previous whereabouts.
(Taehyun initially insisted that he can just call Yeonjun to pick up Kazuha but you insisted otherwise, citing that you don’t want to bother Yeonjun and that Kazuha is a natural with your extra bow and arrow. While partly you have a feeling that Kazuha is one of your half-siblings, there’s also the way she held onto your sword when you let her borrow it that gives you a strange feeling about something that you’re not sure of yet.)
So what was originally two people scouring the Greenwich Village flea markets becomes three as Kazuha links her left arm with your right and asks you all sorts of questions about camp. To your left, Taehyun is loosely holding your other hand as he often does in big crowds of people, eyes examining your surroundings carefully.
Taehyun's hands are cold despite the humid weather but you don't pay much mind, not when your own hand is warmer than normal as a child of Apollo and balancing everything out.
“Oh we should buy this!” You exclaim as you see yet another pair of earrings that catches your eye, Kazuha immediately agreeing with a nod and a grin as you inspect the vintage sunflower-shaped accessory. “It’s so cute!”
Taehyun rolls his eyes from behind you, letting you drag him along by the hand anyway as he carries a paper bag of all of your combined purchases in his other hand. “Ya, I know I said we can stroll around but we really need to find the missing pearl and get home before sundown.”
You ignore his words, turning around with a smile and hovering the earrings next to your face. “What do you think?”
“Beautiful. But you have so many sunflowers at home already.” Taehyun calmly points out, glancing over your shoulder as he tries to inspect the merchant’s items but to no avail. You hope he misses the way your knees almost physically buckle in front of him. “I’m actually starting to think that your dad is also symbolized by the sunflower.”
“But I don’t have sunflower earrings yet!” You retort before turning to Kazuha. “What about you, Kazuha? What do you think?”
“I think yellow brings out your complexion pretty well! It's wonderful!” She flashes a thumbs up of approval before lowering her voice for her next words. “And I think it’s pretty fitting for a child of Apollo!"
“Thanks, Kazuha!”
Taehyun squints his eyes at Kazuha, shaking his head in disapproval. “Don’t entertain them too much, it’ll get in their head.”
“Jerk.” You scoff, removing your hand from Taehyun’s to elbow him to which he only smirks at you before you face the merchant again. “How much for this, ma’am?”
The old woman leans over the table to inspect the earrings, pushing her eyeglasses higher up her nose before smiling warmly in recognition. “For you, I can give it away for six dollars.” She answers, voice simultaneously hoarse and small. “Great choice, child, it would look very lovely on you.”
You smile at her, before glaring up at Taehyun playfully. “See, a compliment isn't so bad every once in a while.” You scold him before taking out your wallet from your slingbag and handing the old woman your six dollars. “You have really lovely items, by the way, ma'am.”
“My, thank you!” The old woman smiles before moving to the clothes rack on the side of her table. “Feel free to look around, my dear. I’m sure your sister and boyfriend can also find something that they like around here.”
You almost choke on your own spit and Taehyun, though seemingly unfazed, coughs awkwardly before moving to the clothes rack. Then, on your other side just witnessing it all, Kazuha giggles behind her hand.
“Oh no, ma’am you must be mistaken. We’re not—“ You shake your head wildly as you put the earrings on and take a step away from Taehyun, heat rising up your face uncomfortably despite the scorching hot afternoon sun beating down on your backs. “He’s not—he’s not my boyfriend.”
In the meantime, Taehyun busies himself with combing through the clothes on sale, eyes abnormally wide in what you’ve come to know as his go-to flustered expression before pulling out a green plaid flannel. “How about this, Y/N?” He asks, trying to keep his voice monotonous even when he knows full well that you can decipher his embarrassed feelings through his voice. “About that thing you mentioned last time?”
“What thing?” You and Kazuha ask at the same time.
“The thing.” Taehyun repeats with more emphasis this time, waving a green plaid flannel in front of you before showing you another hanger with a blue flannel. “This too.”
You open your mouth to speak but no words come out, Kazuha ending up speaking on your (and, unknowingly, your vision) behalf. “Um, I don’t know what the thing is but I like the green one.” She says, pointing innocently at the exact same flannel you’re belatedly registering as the one from your vision. “But the blue one is cute too.”
Taehyun nods in thought, ultimately returning the blue flannel and folding the green plaid one over his arm. “Kazuha, you can look at this too if you want.” He suggests, beckoning her over to his side. “Y/N, I thought you wanted to shop for more clothes.”
Kazuha’s expression brightens and she’s quick to jog over to Taehyun, relaxing immediately at Taehyun’s first gesture of hospitality towards her. “Oh, right! Sure!”
You, on the other hand, remain at the very front of the stall, watching the two interact on the sides until it hits you, the same sense of deja vu you always get when parts of your vision unfold in reality.
The way Kazuha held your sword last night, her passing comment about wanting to learn how to work with daggers, and the way Taehyun also visibly warms up to her in real-time when she suggests a second and a third shirt for Taehyun to buy for himself.
“Holy shit.” You mumble to yourself, coincidentally spotting a familiar ocean blue pearl in a pile of brooches that the old woman brings out when you look away from the two at the same time.
Taehyun looks over his shoulder to you in concern, following your gaze to the brooches. “Y/N.”
You meet his gaze, eyes widening as you quickly pick up the pearl brooch and show it to the merchant. “Excuse me, ma’am, how much for this brooch?”
“Oh, that’s something a neighbor just gave me to sell away this morning. A dollar would do, darling.”
You sigh in relief, handing out an additional dollar to the old woman before thanking her then joining Kazuha and Taehyun near the clothes racks.
“Okay, I got it. Easy enough...weirdly.” You declare, showing Taehyun and Kazuha the brooch in your hand then quickly averting your gaze to the clothes in racks and boxes around you. Seeing the two up close, the total weight of your realization slowly starts uncomfortably settling on your chest, making you cough awkwardly. “What else do they have?”
Taehyun, meanwhile, takes the brooch and leans close to pin it on your sling bag, patting it down on your chest. You unconsciously hold your breath the whole time.
“Let’s keep it here for now so we don’t accidentally crush it on the ride home.” He whispers low, glancing up at you before quickly leaning away. 
You nod meekly, belatedly exhaling as your eyes follow Taehyun’s figure when he turns around and pays for the clothes he’s picked up—including the green plaid flannel you’ll see him wear at the bonfire.
“Y/N, do you like wearing silk scarves?” Kazuha asks from your opposite side, showing you a whole band of patterned silk scarves. “They’re pretty trendy this summer!”
You nod again absentmindedly, fighting the urge to blurt out what you’ve just realized about Kazuha and Taehyun right now as she shows you a bunch of silk scarves you can try.
You try looking for the red strings for the rest of that flea trip market and the subsequent subway ride back to Camp, discreetly inspecting Taehyun when he slots his hand back into yours when you move on to other stalls and making sure that you lead Kazuha to the right subway by hand when you go home. Though you don’t have the ability to do so, it was worth the try anyway in your head, anything to further confirm your suspicions. 
Taehyun definitely noticed, though, but chose not to speak on it until after dinner when you’ve introduced Kazuha to Yeonjun who’ll be her temporary cabin counselor.
“There’s no string, not one I can see anyway.” He states on the walk to your cabin, holding his arms up to show you his bare wrists.
You frown when he takes your hand back in his after, both in frustration and the uncomfortable feeling of being hyper-aware of how his thumb rubs the back of your hand. “Maybe you won’t see it until later? You tell me, I'm pretty sure you've read all about it before."
“There aren't much books on it actually. Anyway, didn't you dream of it for Soobin before?" He points out, referring to last summer when you helped the child of Poseidon actualize a vision you had of him befriending one of Hades’ children. In that particular vision, you also dreamt of a red string but your subconscious instincts (also confirmed by the Oracle in your later session together) only told you that the future anticipates it to be platonic. "Did he say anything about it?"
“I didn’t think they’d date, I just predicted they’d be good friends because my subconscious told me so. The Oracle also didn’t see it coming either, you know.” You clarify. “And, no, Soobin hasn't mentioned anything about seeing the string on himself. He did mention that there are older Aphrodite campers who can see them but they’ve all left camp before we even came in. No one in camp right now has the gift.”
"Then maybe it's just a metaphor for connection in your dream. Simple as that." Taehyun shrugs.
"Still a connection and clearly pointing towards something important." You insist, finally reaching your cabin and getting bombarded by the sounds of Sunwoo’s electric guitar and what you can identify as Soyeon making up a tune on the spot. “Who knows, the red string in my vision may actually be platonic or romantic like what happened with Soobin!”
“You’ve known me for 13 years. What do you think?”
You stop on the marble steps leading up to the entrance, instinctively raising your hand up to the door and manipulating the sound waves escaping the walls to form a bubble around the cabin. The house mutes up from the outside in an instant. “I just told you what I think?”
Taehyun rolls his eyes, gesturing to himself then to you. “I mean what do you think about us? Suppose we have a red string to each other, what does it mean to you?”
Your entire body tenses up, eyes looking up to inspect every inch of your best friend’s face for any signs of breaking out into a laugh and revealing that he’s messing with you.
Taehyun furrows his brows in thought, anticipating your answer with bated breath and a seemingly erratic heartbeat that reaches your ears when you unconsciously focus on it.
You gulp, the sound seemingly louder in your now quieter surroundings. When you focus in on the sounds around you once more, you also hear your heartbeat uncomfortably pounding in your eardrums at the sudden tension.
“You’re my best friend, my first friend here and the longest one I've been with, actually.” It takes all remaining strength in you to answer, coughing awkwardly in the silence. “We grew up together, went to school together until the 12th grade, and spend the holidays alternating with your dad and my mom. We train together on weekdays, and we go on quests together all the time because we always insist to Chiron and Mr. D. that we’re a package deal. Not to mention, we've already gotten ourselves stuck in the Lotus Casino for a whole six months before. I think that's already pretty epic enough in itself."
“If we were tied together,” You add, hesitantly hammering in the final nail in the coffin. “I think it’s just platonic like all of our other connections with other people. If we’re anything else, something would've happened long ago."
Taehyun takes an abnormally long moment to reply, his expression morphing into something undecipherable before he lets out the breath he's been holding. It makes you frown and you ponder on asking him if you said something wrong until he beats you to it.
“Exactly my point." He coughs awkwardly before taking a step back. "Like us, it could be friendship for all we know in the end. Soobin's was just a whole different case."
Your heart sinks somehow, as if you were expecting him to say something different in the back or your head. “Then we’ll never know until next month.” 
Taehyun hums with a nod, the loud music coming from your cabin gradually returning as you dispel the sound bubble you made around it. 
You want to ask his question back to him, the words at the tip of your tongue and hoping he’ll actually say something completely different from you until they dissipate as Taehyun pats your head goodnight, a strange smile on his lips. “I’ll be off, then. Sweet dreams, stupid.”
“Night, genius.” You greet back instead, the feeling of dread you’ve been holding back for weeks now momentarily slipping up as your voice shakes towards the end.  
You don’t end up sleeping at all that night, all sorts of thoughts—from anxiety you’ve been feeling as your summer unfolds similarly to your vision to the possibilities that Kazuha could be one of your siblings and Taehyun’s soulmate—keeping you up with your siblings’ loud music until the next day. So instead, you reread all of your recent dream journals entries with your live journal, correlating each event and detail with each other: the time Taehyun had you cut his hair, your quest of finding Kazuha, all of Kazuha’s comments that could possibly be clues, the flea market trip today, and Beomgyu’s brief mention of a beach party co-hosted with the Hermes cabin and the Dionysus cabin before you embarked on your latest quest. 
Taehyun’s hot boy summer was unfolding in real-time with some contingencies your vision didn’t warn you about beforehand. On the one hand, you’re glad that it’s happening generally as planned at least, with only the beach party and the bonfire left to fulfill. But on the other, you feel somewhat conflicted and overwhelmed—anxious of seeing the rest of the plan through, conflicted about having an inkling of who your best friend’s prospective soulmate might be before the bonfire, and resentful that, for some reason, you suddenly and selfishly don’t want it to be anyone else but you. 
(Soobin ends up having to fight an internal battle of not to laugh in front of your face when you report for a volunteer shift at the infirmary the next day, dismissing you quickly and letting you sleep in one of the cots.
“This better be a life-changing realization if you have eyebags this bad.” The older boy sighs with concern as he brings you an extra blanket from their supply closet. “What is it this time?” 
“It’s nothing.” You grumble, draping the blanket over your legs as you lay down before lifting it over your head.
“Are you sure?”
“Go tend to your patients, Soobin. Someone’s gonna come in in 10 minutes with a concussion.”)
The Saturday of the beach party, Kazuha is coincidentally claimed as a child of Aphrodite in the middle of the beginner's archery class that you teach. Though the strong gust of wind brought by the doves that welcome Kazuha as one of Beomgyu's half-siblings eases your worry about her discovering her godly parent and the possible difficulties that may happen if she ends up as your half-sibling, it is an inconvenience to your class and a tell-tale sign that Beomgyu and the Dionysus cabin counselor, Hyunjae, will bring in more ambrosia and alcohol for reckless campers to consume.
Forcing Taehyun to socialize with the Aphrodite and Hermes cabin kids suddenly seems like the worst idea, your suspicion immediately proving itself true when you arrive at the beach later in the evening and scour just how many people are already drunk by 8 PM.
"Drinks?" Taehyun asks you after you've congratulated Kazuha on her claiming, gesturing over to a group crowding around what seems to be coolers of beer and soju and a table of snacks and ambrosia. You've bleached and re-dyed his roots in his cabin over the course of the week, his hair looking as bright as it did in the Spring, and he's allowed you to style him tonight in a crisp white printed shirt you ordered for him online, a cropped leather jacket, and jeans. "If you're making me talk to a bunch of Aphrodite and Hermes kids, I'd probably need two bottles of beer first."
You look up at him as the two of you walk to the drinks, actively avoiding his hand reaching for yours when you feel your knuckles bump against his.
"I mean, do you still want to, looking around?" You chuckle nervously, instinctively ducking along with Taehyun when a beach ball gets tossed in your direction. You then quickly pick the ball up and toss it back to Chaewon who thanks you appreciatively. "Everyone definitely sounds and smells like they're pretty buzzed already."
On your right, a bunch of Hephaestus kids and Zeus kids have started an impromptu fire show around the bonfire then to your left, a good half of the Poseidon kids, Ares kids, and your own siblings are all knee-deep in the water and having an intense game of water dodgeball. Then somewhere behind you, some of the Aphrodite kids, Hermes kids, and Dionysus kids have started big circles of the camp staple truth or dare, dragging anyone who comes near while also occasionally playing music on the speakers provided by the Hermes cabin.
Making a whole turn as you walk, Taehyun ends up shaking his head with a laugh. "Maybe not intentionally right now." He answers belatedly, stopping in front of the coolers and picking up two beer bottles for you. In the meantime, you pick up some chips and ambrosia for yourselves. "I'll need to be at least a bit buzzed myself before I let any of the Hermes kid drag me to a conga line
You laugh but nod in agreement, snatching the beer bottles from his hands and opening them simultaneously using both of the caps. You then hand one to Taehyun and take a big gulp of your own. "Okay, so where do you want to go for now?"
The two of you move away from the coolers, scanning the area as you walk and snack on your loot.
"Yeonjun's probably getting pissed drunk with Wooyoung, Haknyeon, and Changbin by now and Beomgyu's definitely making sure that none of the Aphrodite kids end up in places where they don't want to be in tomorrow morning." You start before taking another swig of your beer, the beverage warming slightly in your hands as you harness the sun’s energy through the half-moon. “Personally, I don’t want to be taking care of three more guys later when you’re all drunk and talkative so I’d really like to avoid any 98 liner tonight.”
“I don’t get too talkative.” Taehyun frowns, sipping his beer slower and hissing at the cold temperature running down his throat.
You roll your eyes, thoughts immediately going through all the times he’s jumped on the big rock formations further down the beach and pretended he was Socrates while blackout drunk. “That’s why you don’t remember things when you drink, genius.” 
Taehyun sighs, opening a bag of potato chips whil he drinks. "Whatever. Anyway, we just saw Soobin with his siblings so he's not drinking tonight but I'm not really in the mood to get in the water.”
You nod in agreement, immediately moving away when the water climbs closer in the sand. "That leaves us with Hyuka, wherever he is right now." You point out, snatching a handful of chips from Taehyun’s bag. “Come to think about it, I haven’t seen him since lunch.”
"Me too. Where could he even be?" Taehyun squints his eyes under the dim lighting of the fairy lights haphazardly set up around the beach, turning his head on both sides as you walk past the fire show that has now quieted down with the kids preparing DIY fireworks on the spot. "He's not with Soobin or Hiyyih. I doubt he’d be with Yeonjun and Beomgyu at a party too unless he’s drinking tonight.”
The two of you walk further down the beach, examining every face and group you pass by, occasionally making small talk with the other campers, and making sure that your respective siblings are still drinking safely and responsibly. Some of the Demeter kids hand you more food and drinks while some Hermes kids invite you to do shots and drinking games with them as the night progresses further and you momentarily forget about looking for your half-sibling, feeling light-headed from all the beer mixed in with ambrosia while Taehyun gradually loosens up as well right next to you the more freely he converses with the other campers.
You take more and more notice of the Aphrodite and Hermes kids approaching Taehyun much like in your vision, complimenting his outfit with flushed cheeks and cheeky grins in real-time before running away to gossip among themselves. Though you realize early that you’re feeling quite tipsy already, the amount of people that crowd you for Taehyun every now and then effectively keeps you awake with a strange feeling bubbling up in your chest.
“Do you think it’s weird that Eric just called my outfit nice after I pushed him off the climbing wall on Wednesday?” Taehyun hums at one point, glancing over his shoulder as the said son of Ares joins his friends at a new big circle in the sand.
It's almost an hour later when you've scoured the whole beach for Hueningkai but to no avail, finding it weird even in your light-headed state that your half-brother is not at the very center of all the festivities.
In the meantime, you shake your head, dragging Taehyun to your opposite side when you see another child of Aphrodite, Haneul, try and approach you two. Glaring her down until she backs off, you then muster up an answer for Taehyun, “It’s not weird. He probably thought it’s nice to see you out of your polos and sweatshirts for once. You’re overthinking it.”
“I like my polos and sweatshirts. I mean…I’m glad you reminded me that I own a leather jacket but I like my other clothes.” Tipsy Taehyun pouts at you with his eyes blown wide and his cheeks flushed, linking his arms with yours as well which you don’t mind as much now compared to earlier in the evening when you were sober.
After probably three or four bottles of beer and a gods-awful lot of shots, the drunk Taehyun you know was slowly coming out with the long but slow sentences and the darting eyes. “You know, I was wearing a yellow sweatshirt when we first met.” He adds belatedly, finding interest in the sand.
You nod, slowing down in your walk as the breeze picks up and smacks your drunkenness in your face. When Taehyun stumbles slightly in the sand, you’re slower in pushing him back on his feet as the two of you stand near a smaller bonfire made by one of the Hephaestus kids. 
“Yeah, you let me borrow it when I arrived in the dead of Winter without a jacket then you gave it to me a week after when I couldn’t sleep well at the Hermes cabin. We didn’t know I had limited thermal manipulation that time.” You try your best recalling, finding it now a good time to sober up a bit as he tries talking your ear off. “Ya, you literally saw me wear it with my sunflower earrings when we had workshop together on Thursday.”
“Right, right! Soobin and Hyuka complimented you after breakfast too.” Taehyun grins and chuckles, nodding along. “I remember because I was there and I was proud they complimented something of mine without knowing!”
“Right, Hyuka. We haven’t seen him all night.” You frown, taking your last sip of your fourth bottle before disposing it in one of the trash cans set up near the bonfire. “We should look for him soon.”
“Wait!” Taehyun suddenly exclaims when you walk ahead towards the more secluded area of the beach. When you turn around, you then see him shrugging off his leather jacket and passing it to you. “It’s cold!”
You raise a brow and nod. “Yeah, so wear your jacket, genius.”
Taehyun stubbornly shakes his head, pushing the leather jacket to you. “No, I mean it’s cold so you wear my jacket!”
You conclude that Taehyun is more intoxicated than usual at this point with the way he’s just casually forgetting who your godly parent is. The thought makes the more rational side of your brain, currently pushed away in the deeper recesses of your mind for tonight, emerge back further and laugh.
“Oh, we’ll have to get you water soon. You’re literally forgetting who your best friend is.” You tsk softly, taking the leather jacket and wrapping it around him again. Your fingers end up grazing his exposed collarbones in the process, hotter than normal after a few drinks. “I’m hoping you still know how to put on a jacket, at least, given you just removed it a second ago?”
If Taehyun was taken aback by how hot your hands suddenly are, he doesn’t visibly show it on his face. “Why are your hands so hot all of a sudden?”
“A family thing, I guess. I learned it after you gave me your sweatshirt.” You shrug teasingly, already feeling yourself sober up the more Taehyun uncharacteristically keeps his head in the clouds with the final sip of his beer bottle. “If you remember, you also called me a portable furnace when that snow storm hit in the 3rd grade then avoided me like the plague when that heat wave came the summer after.”
“I would never do that.” Taehyun frowns as he discards his own beer bottle in the trash can, almost missing it by a literal hair and hiding his embarrassment by taking your hand in his. “Well, not the me right now, at least. I guess kid Taehyun had more sass."
You chuckle lightly. Your rational side, wanting to come back to your full senses, wants to take your hand back immediately but the remnants of the alcohol in your system holds you back from actually saying it. "You're still pretty sassy most days. Family trait too, I'm guessing."
“I wish my hands could also heat up like that, though, especially on colder nights like these.” He sighs to himself as he pushes his arms through the sleeves of his leather jacket again and rubs his hands for extra warmth. “But then I won’t be able to hold your hand whenever I want to since we’d just burn each other.”
You almost choke on your own spit, coughing as Taehyun obliviously leads the two of you to walk around the beach again. “E-Excuse me?”
“I like holding your hand.” He squeezes your hand once for emphasizing before shrugging, as if it was the most casual declaration in the world right now. “Anyway, let’s go around and look for Hyuka once then if he's really not here, let's just join the Hephaestus kids by the smaller bonfires.”
Dumbfounded, you just let him led you down the sand path of the beach with your hands swinging gently between the two of you, almost missing the way tipsy Taehyun smiles to himself after glancing down at your hands.
Eventually, you find your aforementioned younger half-sibling with Beomgyu, Kazuha, and the Aphrodite kids in a rockier and more secluded part of the beach of all places, right at the center of a truth or dare circle.
"Hey, you guys came!" He exclaims giddily, running over to you with a peculiar skip in his steps before wrapping his arms on both yours and Taehyun's shoulders. "My other other other favorite sibling and the guy who's been stealing them away from me!"
"I wouldn't say stealing your sibling away. I just needed help with my hair." Taehyun rolls his eyes as he helps you pry Hueningkai's bigger frame away from the both of you. "I didn't think you'd be drinking tonight."
"Me too, actually! But I got apple juice to go with everything so it's been pretty fun!"
"How many bottles have you had even?" You ask at the same time, more sober now that you’ve walked the entire stretch of the beach. "Gods, you stink! Did you come in straight from sparring?"
"I made it to three bottles today!" Hueningkai proudly slurs his words in answer, taking both yours and Taehyun's free hands and dragging you to the circle. "And I was dared to bring in two more people so I guess that's you guys!"
You glance over at Taehyun, raising your brows in question to which he answers non-verbally by shrugging.
"Come, come!" Hueningkai tugs you closer before you could protest, sitting you down next to Beomgyu while Taehyun is dragged over to Kazuha and Yuna. "Sieun, you’re next! Truth or dare?”
Though you end up witnessing Yuna getting dared to do 10 consecutive soju shots, an elephant spin, and then a whole somersault, Taehyun reciting the multiplication table backwards and revealing the campers he’s not very fond of, and Jeongin revealing the names of all the people and nymphs he’s ever had a crush on, this circle of campers is relative tamer than the others you almost got dragged to previously. It’s a rowdy bunch with too many bottles of ambrosia and soju swiped from the main party (courtesy of Beomgyu) but you find yourself easily tipsy again and laughing along to your friends’ antics, leaning your half of your body weight on Beomgyu next to you and even picking dare twice to entertain yourself and everyone else.
(The first time, you ended up getting in a competition with Hueningkai and Yunjin on who can raise their body temperature the highest then on your second dare, Kazuha dared you to mute Beomgyu until his next turn.)
“Oi, Beomgyu, truth or dare?" Sunghoon asked once the said child of Aphrodite’s phone pointed towards its owner five rounds later.
You then manipulate the soundwaves in the air with a snap, allowing Beomgyu to immediately and excitedly blurt out, “Dare!”
While everyone comes up with a new dare for him, Beomgyu then shoves you away from him playfully because of how you muted his voice out for 15 minutes, making you laugh.
“Dude, that was awful! I wanted to yell when Sunghoon jumped in the water!” He exclaims to you, making you and Ryujin on your opposite side laugh. “Then when Kazuha prank called Eunchae and Taehyun did all those ambrosia shots!”
You shrug teasingly, raising your hands up in defeat. “Well, it was nice for us being slightly quieter for 30 minutes!”
“Ya, come here, you little—!”
“Okay, we dare you to use charmspeak on anyone in the circle!” Sunghoon interjects with an excited yell, eyes then landing on you. “How about on Y/N?”
Your eyes widen as your mind quickly goes blank with all eyes on you. From the corner of your eye, you see the same indecipherable expression on Taehyun’s face and his body visibly tenses up despite the soju bottle in his hand.
At the same time, Beomgyu’s hazy eyes brighten up in an instant before turnjng to you with a menacing smirk. “Oh, revenge is coming early for you!”
“It’s just for a minute, though!” Hueningkai points out. “Just make Y/N do something small. Nothing too weird or dangerous please, they have two siblings here!”
“Wait, let me think of something!” Beomgyu raises his right hand in front of him with a chuckle while his left raises his soju bottle on his lips again. “It should still be interesting since this is my opportunity at revenge!”
You glance at Taehyun again from the corner of your eye, almost flinching in the sand when you meet his eyes, then at Kazuha two people away from him with wide eyes and mouth forming an ‘o’ shape curiously. When you focus on Kazuha and Yunjin, you can faintly hear her ask about charmspeak as an ability of Aphrodite’s children.
Gulping down another sip of soju, you suddenly find yourself shrugging and agreeing to the dare. “Fuck it, okay, sure. Give me your best shot, lover boy.”
“Okay, okay. Geez.” Beomgyu rolls his eyes, irises turning pink right after. “You’ve always been curious about my charmspeak, huh?”
Without even thinking about it, your mouth suddenly blurts out, “Yeah, sure.”
Your circle of friends gasp in surprise, having never really seen you entertain requests like this before, and you also gasp at the very recesses of your thoughts, belatedly realizing what is going on with you.
Beomgyu smirks and clasps his hands together in content. “What should we have you do? What do you want to do, love?”
A force settles itself on your shoulders, moving your muscles around like a puppet. This time, you shrug and gesture over to Beomgyu in a daze. “Whatever you want me to do, it’s fine.”
“Y/N, truth or dare? I think another dare would be good for you this round, don’t you think?”
“Ya, Beomgyu, careful there.” Jeongin warns, to which he earns a shushing gesture from said child of Aphrodite.
“I choose dare.” You answer back monotonously despite your efforts to fight back whatever force is making you answer before you could even comprehend anything, worry settling in the back of your head as a mischievous glint crosses Beomgyu’s now blood red eyes.
“I dare you to kiss the prettiest person in the circle!” Beomgyu declares, glancing around. “If you can’t decide for yourself right now, you can pick me or Kazuha or Sunghoon.”
Beomgyu’s name somehow pushes itself to the front of your mind and the tip of your tongue, pushing Taehyun’s name of all people. “I choose—“
“Beomgyu, that’s enough.”
Taehyun’s low and commanding voice is enough to snap you out of your trance, blinking twice and turning your head towards him, and disrupt Beomgyu’s concentration, much to everyone’s chagrin. His stoic expression remains the same but if you focus on the fainter sounds around you, you can clearly hear him gritting his teeth and huffing.
Next to you, Beomgyu raises his hands up in surrender, a small hint of a knowing smirk on his face. “Okay, okay, calm down. I was going to stop there, actually.” He replies with a light-hearted chuckle, eyes going back to their natural brown. “Should we move on? Taehyun, truth or dare?”
Instead of answering, however, Taehyun stands up and storms off, leaving his soju bottle in the sand and walking to the direction of the path back to the cabins.
“Tyun—“ You try standing up and going after him, only for Beomgyu to hold you back down by your elbow. “Gyu, let go of me!”
“Are you crazy? There’s literal steam going off of his ears right now, I’m not letting you go after him.” Beomgyu retorts calmly, tightening his grip on your elbow when you flail around. “Let him cool down for a bit.”
“I swear to the gods, Choi Beomgyu—“
This time, it’s Hueningkai who interjects, “Dude, no, he’s right. Let’s leave Taehyun alone for now, I don’t want you getting thrown off a tree or something.”
“But—“
Beomgyu shakes his head. “No, nope, no buts. I think that also checks out for our game tonight.” He interjects, standing up and dusting the sand off of his pants. “Come on, guys, let’s clean up and head back too.”
You groan, standing up last and helping everyone clear out the mess. “I don’t even know why he’s so upset.” You mumble to Hueningkai after, heading back to the more crowded area of the beach to discard your empty bags of chips and soju bottles. “It was just a game.”
It takes your half-brother a moment to ponder on your question, opening his mouth multiple times only to close it quietly. When he does answer, he says, “E-Eh, well, it’ll probably go away by morning.” Shrugging, Hueningkai then offers to walk you and Yunjin back to the cabin after finding Hiyyih by another bonfire. “Taehyun was probably just upset by charmspeak, child of Athena and everything. Don’t worry about it.”
It did not go away by morning, not even in the weeks that followed. Though Taehyun was civil with you—continuing to spar with you on weekdays, accompanying you even on smaller solo quests, and even partnering up with you during one of your assigned strawberry picking days—it was the kind of civil you’ve associated over the years as him being cross with you. 
For one, he’s suddenly quieter than usual and only speaks to you when it is absolutely necessary, which in Taehyun talk would only be when he has to ask a direct question about your work or if he has to clarify something. He doesn’t even ask you anymore if you got hurt during sparring sessions or what time you finish your beginner’s archery classes, the longest he’s spoken to you in the past three weeks being the time when he asked you and your fellow cabin counselors the details about the arrival of Artemis’ hunters to camp. 
Though Beomgyu’s apologized to you and to him multiple times, you’re also quick to catch onto Taehyun tensing up whenever the three of you are within five feet of each other before ultimately moving away. He’s mostly hung out with Hueningkai and Yeonjun in the meantime and you’d often find the three standing together even when they’re not teammates for an activity, leaving you to resort to drilling your half-brother with questions about Taehyun at the end of the day. 
(But even Hueningkai is no good help most times because he’s decided that he’d rather keep some things between him and his friend rather than open up to you, his literal sibling. You also had to find out from Yeonjun that it was Hueningkai himself who proposed that they talk via text messaging when they’re together, knowing that you can focus on sounds well.) 
But most importantly, Taehyun, whether he’s doing it intentionally or not, has been harsher on you than everyone else during team games. As you’ve observed before in all the other times when he’s held grudges on you or other campers, it’s his way of letting off steam: being more critical of you during brainstorming sessions, yelling at you a little louder in the field, and pointing out all of your mistakes with a harder expression on his face after. Though it was nice that he’s at least not giving you the cold shoulder, there have been times in the past few days that you’ve wanted to just tear his head off or stab him with a poisoned arrow in annoyance because you knew him well enough to know that he doesn’t fully mean what he’s saying and that he’s just projecting. 
And you desperately want to apologize for whatever it is that you did at the party, as evidenced by the growing number of paragraphs on your phone’s Notes app and the amount of times you’ve tried cornerning him at the forge, but you just can’t seem to find the right time—not when Taehyun’s always buried in work, talking in secret with Hueningkai and Yeonjun, or nitpicking at everything and making it an argument between the two of you. As much as it hurts knowing he’ll meet someone new soon, it hurts even more knowing that he’ll meet this new person while being extremely upset with you and won’t let you apologize. 
Gods, you think that you really are fucked. 
By the afternoon before the Summer’s End bonfire, a celebration at the canoe lake for departing campers, you find yourself terrorizing Soobin at the infirmary instead of helping out with last minute preparations on the bonfire. 
Initially, you were going to the big house and consult with the Oracle of Delphi until they kick you out, then you’d stick with the Hunters of Artemis for the rest of the night when the Oracle pushes you to go to the bonfire. However, Mr. D. has closed the big house earlier than you anticipated, pushing you in the direction of the infirmary at its closing time and catching Soobin packing away his things for the day. 
“Have you ever thought about making a cure for any kind of broken heart?” You ask with a sigh as you help fold blankets and fluff pillows. “I mean, I get that most demigods and heroes would rather follow their loved ones to the underworld but don’t you think it’s also good to have a back-up option, especially for us people in the waking world?” 
"Just go up to him, make sure he’s alone, and say sorry like you’ve always done in all the other times you’ve fought.” Soobin shrugs three cots away from you as he makes an inventory of the infirmary’s medical supplies. “I get that he’s a bit intimidating when he’s mad and that you’ll probably need to apologize at least five times but he’s still your best friend. Besides, this isn’t your biggest fight with him, as far as I’m concerned.” 
“It’s not just that.” You whine dramatically, plopping down on the cot in front of you. “It’s also because I—well, first, I’m not exactly sure what I’m apologizing for. For complying with Beomgyu for a dare? Willingly getting charmspoken? He’s upset and he’s valid for that but I just can’t seem to wrap my mind around his point of view that time.” 
“Maybe he was upset on your behalf. While it was a drunken joke for everyone else, it probably wasn’t for him. He’s still a child of Athena and you know how his mom feels about Beomgyu’s mom sometimes.” Soobin suggests. “And you know he’s very protective of you. That and the fact that charmspeaking is done differently with Aphrodite and Athena kids probably agitated him.”
“I mean, still, I was fine and nothing really happened, anyway.” You point out before scratching your head and waving your hand dismissively. “Whatever, there’s also the thing with tonight. I might just ruin it for him if I corner him for a bit just to say sorry. Soobin, he’s literally meeting his soulmate tonight and my instincts told me it’s the romantic kind of soulmate.” 
“Yeah, so? Before this soulmate person, you’re Tyun’s best friend. I don’t think five minutes of apologizing is going to change anything for the rest of destiny.” Soobin retorts expertly and you immediately regret coming to your most level-headed friend in your time of actual stress and dramatics. “I think you’d even make his night if you try and make amends right before he meets this person, whoever they are.”
You pout and Soobin rolls his eyes, finishing up his inventory before walking over to you. He sits right next to you on the cot, sighing as he does so. 
“I didn’t see me apologizing to him in my vision.” 
“You also didn’t predict that you’d be getting into this specific situation in the first place.” Soobin retorts sassily. “Isn’t it your dad who said that your vision are just general guidelines? This isn’t the future you saw back then, it’s your present now and it’s demanding you clear things up with Taehyun as soon as possible.” 
You rest your chin on your knees, whining dramatically. “But Soobin!”
“You’re literally just making up excuses. Take it from me that if you don’t do what you have to do as soon as possible, you’ll regret it when you have to wait for a long time for your next shot.” 
“That’s easy for you to say, you got the girl in the end.” You grumble. 
Soobin raises a brow at this. "So it’s about being in love with Taehyun now?” 
Your eyes widen and your hands immediately find themselves smacking Soobin’s arm. “Ya, I never said that!”
Soobin, however, is unflinching as he maintains his stance calmly. “You don’t have to say it. Yeonjun and I watched you two grow up too, you know.” He states matter-of-factly. “If you really love him as a best friend first and foremost, you’d still go up there even with all of your excuses and conflicted feelings about tonight. I promise you, destiny protects certain events to make sure that they happen so just go up there freely and talk to him, it’s fine.
“Besides, you’ve been putting this up for three weeks now, shouldn’t it be time that you do something about it? Knowing Taehyun and how Athena’s kids hold grudges, it’s probably just as hard on him as it is on you too.” He concludes, standing up and dragging you with him on your feet easily. “He needs you there, Y/N. Don’t keep him waiting for too long.” 
“Will you make that cure for broken heart when he breaks mine right after?” 
Soobin rolls his eyes but proceeds to drag you out of the infirmary anyway. “We’ll just have to see.” 
Taehyun is wearing the green plaid flannel from the flea market over a cream-coloured hoodie and jeans, purple hair styled neatly and a silver earring on one ear. When you spot him as you arrive at the campfire, he stands by the drinks table with a glass of ambrosia and his brows furrowed in thought. Kazuha stands in front of him in full armour and sheaths on her hips, most likely from the games with the Hunters of Artemis that you organized this afternoon, and showing something on her phone. 
The dread you’ve been harboring the whole summer rises up your throat along with the full weight of the last part of your vision happening in real-time. Instead of running away like in your vision, however, Soobin just holds you in place before letting go and disappearing into the party when Taehyun spots you over Kazuha’s shoulders. 
“Y/N!” He calls for you, eyes wide in what you’re surprised to find as worry. Walking past Kazuha, he sets down his glass and takes another tentative step forward to you. “Wait, it’s not—”
“Can I talk to you?” You interject, gulping down your nervousness. You’re nervous about what you’re going to say to him but, most importantly, you worry about the fact that you didn’t see this part in your vision. “Alone, if that’s okay.”
Taehyun immediately nods, almost as if he was expecting you to ask, and jogs the rest of the distance to you. “Let’s go somewhere quieter.” He says, extending his hand to take yours before quickly retracting it and walking past you. “Come on.” 
You follow him away from the bonfire quietly, stopping a few meters from the canoe lake and away from the path campers usually take. 
“Look, Taehyun—”
“Y/N, I swear—”
You both back away from each other in surprise, Taehyun coughing awkwardly while you immediately avert your gaze in embarrassment.
“You first.” Taehyun eventually suggests with another cough, hands digging deep in his flannel’s pockets from the cold breeze that blows past. 
“No, it’s okay, you can go first.” You insist awkwardly, finding interest in the soil under your boots as you avoid his gaze. 
“Y/N.” He calls for you sternly, taking a step forward and making you look up at him. “We won’t get anywhere if we just keep tossing the conversation to each other. Just go ahead.”
There’s a long pause between the two of you as you try and stare him down, but to no avail. Sighing, you then give in and speak first. “I wanted to apologize for the thing with Beomgyu last time. I didn’t mean to upset you by playing along with the dare and letting him charmspeak me.”
“Oh that. No, it’s—”
“I’m really sorry for not apologizing sooner too.” You continue to ramble on, zoning out in your own words that you fail to notice how Taehyun’s eyes have softened from your words. “At first, I thought I’d give you time to cool off while I thought about what happened but then I let it drag on for so long because I didn’t know how to approach you when you were actively avoiding me and everything. I should’ve just went for it instead, like I’ve always done, but a lot of things were holding me back—”
“Y/N—“
“—like you’re always tense when I try approaching, especially when Beomgyu’s around, and you gave me a different position for Capture the Flag two weeks ago. I just knew from those things that you’re more upset than usual and that I should be extra careful with what I say to you—”
“Y/N—”
“—then, there’s also the fact that you’re meeting your soulmate and I kept using it as an excuse to myself that if I talk to you before, during, or even after tonight and mess up, I can’t forgive myself for making you angrier or, worse, ruining your night. Then, there’s also the fact that I—”
“Kazuha’s not my soulmate.” 
You close your mouth immediately, at the same time as your eyes widen in surprise. Taehyun takes the opportunity to step closer to you. 
“But, you were there, exactly like my vision...”
Taehyun shakes his head. “She was showing me her soulmate while explaining how she can see the red strings.” He clarifies matter-of-factly, gradually picking up speed in his speaking once more. Half of the weight on your chest and shoulders leave, only to quickly return when he continues speaking, “Then, she told me something else. Well, confirmed something for me, really.” 
You gulp, feeling your mouth dry up as you ask, “W-What is it?”
Taehyun takes a moment to respond, filling in the silence by finally taking your hands in his. "It’s you, Y/N.” He sighs in relief, catching your eyes with his sincere ones. He smiles softly at you. “It’s always been you.”
When you don’t speak or react beyond wide eyes and a slacked jaw, he continues. “Since I gave you that sweatshirt when you first came to camp and the 3rd grade when you made sure I wasn’t cold by practicing your thermal manipulation on me. Since we were first allowed to head classes on our own and you made sure that I ate and rested between sessions because that was also the summer when we were so understaffed because older campers were going on quests. Then when we got stuck at the Lotus Casino and I didn’t want to tell you what made me snap out of it but I can tell you now that it was my mom getting in my head and telling me to save you.” He releases a long exhale, his normally confident and composed demeanor slouching up to what you couldn’t believe as nervousness. “I wasn’t really upset with you or Beomgyu that night and I really am sorry for how I’ve been acting. I was just angry with myself for not doing anything then—and for not doing anything about my feelings until now, even—and that made me even angrier with myself that I couldn’t bring myself to just talk to you. I was just really embarrassed.
“Kazuha’s not my soulmate, she just happened to be confirming it for me when you arrived. She actually approached me in the first place because she worried about us, mainly you and the red string she’s been seeing around us this whole time. But whatever, red string or not, I’ll only ever be in love with you in this lifetime and the next. It’s you, Y/N, and it’ll only ever be you for me.”
Taehyun’s breathless at the end of his mini speech and you’re effectively caught off-guard, hands unconsciously warming up in his. 
“Y-You...you’re in love with me?” You repeat incredulously, feeling your heart pound in your eardrums. When you try and loosen your hands from Taehyun’s grip, worrying that you won’t be able to control your body heat as your emotions rise, he only resists. 
“If that’s okay.” He purses his lips worriedly. “Look, we’ve talked about it last time. It could be platonic if you want. Like you’ve said—”
“That was before I knew you were in love with me! I was thinking Kazuha was your soulmate that time!” You interject quickly. “I...I just thought that I love you too much and that I wanted you to be happy before anything else.
“Listen, when I dreamt my vision of you earlier this summer and saw someone else with you in the end, I just thought that was it, it was over for me. How can I compete with someone you were destined with? I’m just your best friend who’s stupid enough to wait until I thought I was about to lose you to do something.”
“Don’t say that.”
You sniffle lightly as you speak, not expecting yourself to break this easily with all the overwhelming emotions coming to you all at once. Taking a deep breath, you then continue, “So I just pushed my feelings aside tried pushing you to your destiny because that’s what the Oracle told me to do, that regardless of whether I want the future or not I have to deliver it. I wanted you to be happy first even when I wasn’t and I wanted you to meet your soulmate so I had to say all of those things but I really, really love you, Tyun—as more than a friend, if it wasn’t clear to you already.”
“Did you never consider that it could be you?” Taehyun frowns, cradling your face gently as you catch your breath. “That I’d feel the same way?”
“I didn’t think you’d choose me that way, at least until now.” You shrug unsurely, voice getting embarrassingly small towards the end. Taehyun shakes his head in disapproval. “Not against people as beautiful as Kazuha, at least...maybe even Zeus kids like Yeji and Chan or—”
“That won’t do, my love.” He tsks softly, wrapping his other arm around your waist and leaning closer until his lips are only an inch away from yours. You look up at him with bated breath, closing your eyes when he connects your lips briefly for a kiss. “Don’t ever think like that again, please.”
It’s sweet and chase but also desperate and yearning, Taehyun gently pulling you as close to him as possible while you raise your arms up to his neck. 
“Gods, I thought you didn’t have to worry about things like this. Child of the sun and all.” He chuckles lowly on the crook of your neck, hugging you comfortingly as he moves to littering more kisses down your neck. “But I’ll gladly prove it to you right now and for the rest of time.”
You scoff through a few tears that have slipped down your cheek, patting his back once. “Since when did you get this cheesy, hm?”
“It’s just for you, don’t worry, my love.” He assures, lifting his head up to capture your lips once more.
(bonus)
You had a dream—or a vision, what have you—that you invited your childhood best friend and boyfriend, Kang Taehyun the son of Athena, on a date at the strawberry fields right after a day of patrolling camp borders. You had it all planned out according to what you saw: a nice picnic dinner of yours and Taehyun’s favorite foods that you prepared with Kazuha and Yunjin, a playlist of music you’ve curated for him over the past week (and some from your archives of the past years), your prettiest picnic outfit, candles, your dad’s missing chariot that you may or may not have swiped while he went on vacation to Egypt, and a pair of wings-shaped earrings you’ve been secretly making at the workshops with the help of Yeonjun and Beomgyu. 
(Well, the earrings aren’t actually part of the dream but you did see yourself giving him a gift and Taehyun did mention something about wanting to make earrings for himself for some time now so you thought of going just a little off-course and bring it along.)
“Eight PM sharp tonight! Don’t be late, I have a surprise!” You remind Taehyun as you pass by him on the way to the forge, pressing a kiss up to his cheek before reluctantly letting go of his hand when Hueningkai complains about being late to his session with the Hephaestus kids. “Oh, and wear that fitted black shirt you have! I hung it in front of your closet yesterday.”
“Will do, love. Oh, and I also have a surprise.” Taehyun winks with a grin, ruffling your hair with a fond smile. “Unless you saw it in your dream then just pretend that it’s a surprise.” 
You have a hunch but not because you saw it in your dream, rather because Taehyun’s not that discreet with going around camp with his guitar and because Yeonjun accidentally let it spill to you that your boyfriend had him order something for you a few weeks ago. Apparently, it was something fresh and yellow that he was planning to preserve and you remember mentioning in passing at a workshop class about how you were interested in flower preservation. 
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” You feign ignorance, making him roll his eyes while you laugh. “I’ll see you tonight, genius.” 
“I’ll see you tonight, stupid.” 
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a/n: red tyun on the brain lately 🥴 also happy 500 i love you all <3
taehyun was usually quite a collected person. he tried to tolerate any plans someone made with him even if it didn’t fit his description of a perfect day.
you wish this was one of those instances.
“i can’t believe you dragged me here just to make a stupid cake,” the walking strawberry mumbled for the nth time tonight. it was almost robotic, like every five minutes he has to find something to complain about.
your eyes roll to the back of your head as you grab another ingredient to put into the cart. sprinkles, a very essential need.
“it’s not stupid! don’t be grumpy tiny boy,” you remind him, pushing the cart to the next aisle as he followed loosely next to you. though he’d rather do anything else, he does find some amusement seeing you attempt to steer the contraction on wheels that’s practically as big as you.
choosing to ignore the last statement he continues on. “we’re literally in a grocery store y/n,” taehyun points out, not missing the chance to gesture around to the fruits on display. “if you wanted a cake so bad we could just buy one. why go through all this trouble?”
he’s got a point. but it would kill you to admit that he was right yet again. plus, who doesn’t enjoy baking cakes?
you supply a fresh batch of strawberries into the cart, laying a hand on the handle and the other onto your hip.
“and where’s the fun in that, hmm? baking is fun, you had fun with me last time.” you attempt to persuade him, hoping that the recollection could bring him on your good side again. your first time at baking was with cookies, and it was when you were going to meet taehyun’s friends for the first time. he offered to help you, and it’s one of your fondest memories.
“right, it was during the day though,” taehyun side tracks watching you organize everything that was starting to clash to each other in the cart. “we’re well near ten o clock y/n.”
“so? are you saying you’d rather go back to studying for a test you don’t wanna take, or would you rather occupy your night baking a delicious cake.”
you finally got him.
you sneak around the cart so you’re standing face to face with your best friend. “it’s gonna be strawberry, your favorite. it’ll match with your hair too.”
you grab the end of his sweater that was hanging around his hand all paw like and begin to rock both the sweater and his hand back and forth. he’s looking down at you with slight disgust, almost like he’s trying not to give in.
“plus, more memories together,” a sly smile forms as your eyes rest onto his.
taehyun squints his eyes as his mouth hangs half open, questioning your motives. but if he really had to choose between studying and preparing a cake to treat himself to, he’s gonna choose the ladder.
he sighs in defeat as he gestures a hand to continue forward. “fine, what else do we need then.”
you can’t help but let out a squeal in excitement as you begin to cheerily head to the next aisle, taehyun taking over pushing the cart.
“last thing is flour, oh- it’s right there!”
taehyun watches you rush over to the bags of flour stacked onto each shelf, only the ones on the top are left over. he relaxes onto the cart as he’s ready for what’s about to happen. he watches with a smile.
you attempt to look around to see if there’s any other bag on a lower shelf, but no luck. of course the last few batches have to be on the highest shelf. where you have no chance of reaching.
you’re not the smallest of people, you’re just a little below the average height. but next to taehyun, it’s like you’re an ant. which makes no sense to you because even taehyun himself is the shortest within his friend group. he’s still a tall guy, it just baffles your mind sometimes.
how does that work?
you didn’t even realize you were reaching onto the shelf like a toddler trying to grab cookies on a no touch zone. fully on your tippy toes, not missing the chance to jump higher to yank that bag off the shelf.
you defeatedly stop in your place as there’s only one last thing to do, and it’s the one you dreaded the most. ask your snarky best friend to reach it for you.
embarrassing.
heading to look his way, there he is, leaning against the cart with the biggest smirk plastered on his face. he begins to head towards your direction, standing side by side with you. he looks up to the desired object and looks back down at you.
“something you want me to get for you y/n?” you swear you saw a twinkle of revenge in the boy’s eyes and you hated it.
you bite your tongue as you close your eyes and breathe in to contain your annoyance. gotta play nice.
“just grab it.”
and so he does, still letting out a slight chuckle while doing so. although taehyun has to tippy toe a little as well to reach, he’s far more successful than you had been because now the bag of flour is secured. your dignity and pride, however, isn’t.
back at the register you watch your items get scanned by the cashier as you see the price slowly go up with each ingredient.
“we’re not going to talk about that by the way.” you mumble with your arms crossed.
taehyun swipes his card on the machine as he looks at you while putting his card back into his wallet. a small smile on his face, his dimples not going unnoticed. you two begin to grab the bags and head out into the cool brisk of the night.
“whatever you want, shortcake.”
guys if you think about it taehyun is actually a menace i strongly believe he would do this and it makes me so mad.
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sweetiehyuka · 1 year
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I’m sick today and in need of Taehyun fluff where he takes care of reader when they’re sick. 🥺 pretty please?
aweee, baby.... just for you, heres a lil drabble <3 i hope you recover soon my angel, i love u sm. i wrote this whilst listening to love poem by iu, hence the title, as its a song that always is a comfort to me.
Love Poem - Taehyun
summary - reader is sad and sick and their boyfie comes to the rescue <3 cheesy and basic lol
w/c - >0.5k
bzzz...bzzz
Reluctantly, you force your eyes open. Everything hurts. Your head, your eye sockets, your tounge, your throat... you truly feel like your body is made out of brick rather than bone. With a shaky hand you reach over and pick up your phone, and the contact on the screen brings the slightest bit of comfort to you.
'Tyunnie <3 calling...'
After pointing your phone camera towards the ceiling - since he called you on facetime and you really dont want to be seen in this state - you accept the call. Your screen quickly lights up with his pretty face ; sparkling eyes, soft hair, pursed lips.
"Babe?" Taehyun says, moving his head around as if it would give him a better view of the still image of your ceiling. "I can't see you?"
"Tyunnie..." you croak, cutting yourself off with a sniffle.
Immediately, his face softens.
"Sweetheart?" he starts. "Is something wrong?"
"Don't feel well..." you mutter, eyes brimming with tears. You know he probably can't come to you right now because of his schedule, and you hate being alone whilst you're sick. You've tried not to mention it to him yet, not wanting to make him feel bad for being unable to be with you.
"Really?"
He sighs softly, big eyes full with worry.
"Thank god I have the rest of the day off. Can I come take care of you?"
"If you don't mind..." you reply, sheepishly. You already feel guilty, but can't deny how badly you need his company.
"Of course not, sweetheart. I'll be right over. Please take some rest, I can let myself in."
"Okay..."
"Okay. I won't be long."
Before ending the call, he gives you a gentle smile, and it feels as though he's looking into your eyes. As soon as he hangs up, your phone falls from your hand, and you fall under into a slumber.
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When you wake up, Taehyun is nuzzled into you, whispering a lullaby into your hair. You pretend to still be asleep, enjoying the feeling of his arms around you and the sound of his sweet voice a little too much. If not for the heavy pain through your whole body, this would be the perfect moment. He really was everything you needed to feel better.
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gothichoi · 11 months
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Late Night Adventures
synopsis » a midnight drive with him is always an unforgettable adventure. genre » fluff, adventure, romance story type » short story, imagine wc » 885 rating » pg-13 warnings » light making out
© gothichoi, all rights reserved ❀ do not plagiarize my work!
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The cool breeze brushed against my face the more we drove down the deserted street. I felt a low vibration against my hands as the boy sitting in front of me chuckled low. “Hold on tight, sweetheart,” the male said when he felt my tight grasp on him loosen. “I don’t want you to fall off of this bike and get hurt,” he added.
I nodded even though I knew he couldn’t see and rest my head against his leather covered back. “I promise I won’t fall off,” I mumble softly before brushing my face against his back and leaving light kisses soon after.
Comfortable silence fell between the two of us the further the motorcycle went down the dark road.
“Are we almost there?” I ask, glancing over the man’s shoulder as I lift my head up a little.
“Yes,” he responded.
“Do I still have to close my eyes when we arrive?” I ask, pouting softly.
“Yes,” he repeated.
I pouted a little more and mentally rolled my eyes at the boy before releasing a quiet sigh and pressing the side of my head against his back as we continued down the road.
He chuckled softly at my childish reaction and shook his head as he started to slow the motorcycle down.
“Close your eyes and I will guide you off of the bike, sweetheart, we have made it to our little destination,” I heard Taehyun say in soft and quiet voice as he pulled away from me.
Blinking my already tired eyes slowly, I faintly glance around at our surroundings before looking down at the young man’s outstretched hands.
My lips curve into a soft smile at his kind gesture, place my hands into his, and carefully jump off of his motorbike. I laughed softly when his lips brushed against my forehead before stepping around to grab the basket he had carefully attached to his bike.
“Why are we here exactly?” I ask when I realized we were at the beach, rubbing my fingers up and down both of my arms while admiring the small waves that brushed up onto the sand.
“I thought it would be nice to have a late-night picnic at your favorite beach with no little interruptions. Just the two of us,” he said with the softest smile on his face as he walked over to a certain spot close to the water.
I smiled lightly as I followed right behind Taehyun.
“How long did this take you to plan all of this?” I asked while motioning to the blanket he just fanned out on the sand.
The soft smile on Taehyun’s lips started to turn into a mischievous one at my question, and a slight sparkle appeared in his eyes when he glanced over where I was standing.
“That remains a secret,” he playfully says.
My lips form a faint pout at his words which led to him breaking out in a fit of laughter. Before I could say anything else, I felt my feet leaving the ground as he lifted me up into his arms and spun around in a circle, triggering laughter to escape from my mouth.
His joyous laughter intertwined with my own as he slowly walked over to the water.
“You wouldn’t dare,” I immediately said through a few giggles when realization hit me.
“And what if I did?” he asked with a devilish smirk.
Biting my lip in thought, I returned his smirk. “No more kisses for the rest of the evening,” I declared.
I silently watched Taehyun as he clicked his tongue in thought. “Hm, oh, well,” he finally said before gently dropping me; a squeal leaving my lips as my clothes connected with the cold water.
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A playful laugh left my lips as I splashed water towards him before moving deeper into the water. The sound of his joyous laughter breaks through the nighttime air and carries over to where I was floating.
“Get back here or else!” Taehyun shouts through another fit of laughter.
I quietly shook my head and remained where I was.
“Not going to happen!” I shouted back with a wide grin on my face.
I watched him release a defeated sigh before his lips twisted up into a smirk. “If you don’t come here then I will come to you,” he shouts, the smirk remaining on his face.
A light laugh vibrates through my body as I fold both of my arms across my chest, watching Taehyun as he started to make his way towards me.
Before he could wrap his arms around my waist, I moved away and flashed a soft smirk in his direction.
“Come here,” he said, the tone of his voice was soft and sweet.
Both of his arms found themselves around my waist once again, trapping me there permanently. My mouth forms a soft pout as he placed his forehead against mine.
“Now you can’t get away from me,” he whispered under his breath, smiling softly before lifting me up in the air once again and carefully spun around before pressing his mouth against mine as my feet gently grazed the water while he placed me back down carefully.
“This night is magical,” I breathed out once he broke away from the sweet kiss.
“I agree,” he said softly.   
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stardustsunny · 1 year
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Dreams come true;
Word count: 4.3k Pairing: taehyun x fem!reader Genres: fluff, angst Warnings: a kiss?
song recs.: new west - those eyes taylor swift (feat lana del ray) - snow on the beach
Note: the pics of Tyun with the bike were the main inspiration for this. also, it's not supposed to be that big lol and I'm sorry beforehand but the ending might be a suck ㅠㅠ but I still hope you like it!
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It's almost the end of August. The new semester in college will start in a few days. You spend your last days doing nothing but chilling with your best friend Kai. You have known this boy since kindergarten and that's when you two became inseparable. He is your friend for life and you have been together through thick and thin. So now you are lightly swaying on the swing on the playground near your home "Hyuka, are you ready for the second year of this hell?" You asked the boy sitting on the swing beside yours "Nope, I'm not..I wish we have at least one more month to recover from the previous year" he answered sourly.
You sighed, you wished this too, but to your regret, that was not possible. However, there is only one thing that makes you want to get back to college as soon as possible,  precisely speaking certain someone. Kang Taehyun. A well-known bad boy, who happens to be a friend of Kai since the first semester of last year.  You've never thought that he will befriend someone like Taehyun. Actually, you haven't met him properly yet, just saw him a few times when you came to Huening's class before went home together. The longest conversation that you have with him begins with a simple "Hi" and ends with "Bye" and nothing more. Though, it was more than enough for you to develop a really small crush on this boy, that grew slightly bigger once you accidentally saw him getting on his bike. Oh, girl..that's when you fall deeply, even though you swear to yourself it's just a small simple crush, you always tried to find him in the crowd, or you casually hang out near the college sports field where he hangs out sometimes. Every time you wait for Kai you hope to see his new friend too, but it happens to be a kind of rare occasion. 
Kai saw that you spaced out a bit "What are you thinking about?" and that's when you caught yourself on the mindless thoughts about Taehyun, you cursed under your breath "Let's go home, it's getting late" you got up and Kai followed your movements.
These few days flew by so fast, maybe it's because you did nothing but sleep in your bed till noon, hang out with Kai, and playing in some stupid games with him on PS5.
The day when college starts came and for you, it wasn't the best day at all as your morning was like hell. First of all, you forgot to set an alarm and of course, you overslept, you woke up only thanks to Kai's call. You didn't prepare the clothes and you didn't have much time since you were extremely late for your first class. You put on a skirt and a tank top, apply just a bit of makeup, and grab your bag. You were late for almost 30 minutes already, you understand that you won't make it in time, so you messaged Kai that you won't be present in the first class and will arrive before the second.
With this you decided that you should compensate this rough morning with some caffeine and go to this cafe you visited with your friend a few months ago, it's not that far from the college so you definitely won't be late for the next class.
Who knew that it was kind of a destiny that you overslept today and you met Kang Taehyun in that same cafe? You clearly didn't. When you received your order you decided that there is plenty of time before the class and you thought that it would be nice to drink coffee here. But what you didn't expect to see when you looked for a free seat is that Kang Taehyun will be here too. He sat at the table beside the big window, scrolled something in his phone mindlessly, and sipped his coffee. You doubted whether should you approach him or not, but determined to give it a shot, you just hope that he at least remembers your face. "Uh..Hi? Is this seat free?" You were awkward as heck, but you keep going.
He looked up "Yes, why?" What the hell did he mean by "why"? Isn't it pretty obvious that you want to sit here? "Don't you mind if I sit here?" Yes, you are impatient, and? "Ok" and he returned his gaze back to the phone screen. Was he always that indifferent? He seems brighter and friendlier by your friend's side, well maybe it's because he doesn't even remember who you are and that's how he is with strangers. There are a lot of questions in your head so you decided to ask at least one "Um..don't you maybe..remember my face?" You smiled sheepishly watching him as he again looked up at you and raised one of his brows. "No? Why do I have to remember you?``Sure, he won't remember, you didn't even introduce yourself properly back then, so you think it's time to do it now. " I'm Y/n a friend of Huening Kai. We've seen each other a few times, but I guess you don't remember " you felt just a tiny bit shy so you diverted your eyes from his face and to the street out of the window. "Oh..cool. I have to go already, see you around" he gets up and leaves the place, you watch him getting on the bike and leaving.  You feel a bit sad, that he didn't recognize you and was so emotionless and cold towards you, but at the same time, it's fine with you because you are just some random stranger to him. 
Soon you arrived at college and you have a few minutes before the class so you came to Kai's auditorium to greet him and ask about his day. You patiently wait for him to come out while leaning on the windowsill, you check the time every few minutes and there he is. Kai smiled at you and came by to greet you with a hug. You talked for a few minutes but you should have already hurried to your next class so you promised to meet him at recess and tell him about your awful morning.
When you found the auditorium, it was a really spacious one for lectures and there were lots of seats. You decided to sit in the middle row beside the window in case the lecture would be boring so you can occupy yourself with something. 
More people come to the auditorium, some of them you remember from last year and some of them were new to you. It seems like there are a lot of people who decided to choose this class. The professor came in already and started the lecture,  but suddenly the door was opened and the boy with slightly grayish hair came in, he apologized for being late and headed to the seat beside you. Well, everything would be fine if only this boy wouldn't be Taehyun. Is it some kind of joke? He didn't pay any attention to you and you think that it's better to concentrate on the lecture too. 
You peeked at him sometimes, actually, you expected him to do anything but pay attention to what the professor was talking about, also his notes were so neat that you almost felt embarrassed when you looked at yours. When the class ended you didn't even get a chance to say something to Taehyun as he disappeared from the room just like a ghost. 
Finally recess time! You're craving to eat something and meet Kai so you can complain to him about this day. By the way, he texted you a few minutes ago to ask if you wouldn't mind if his friend joined you two, of course, you won't. You are always excited to meet new people.
You took some food in the cafeteria and found a seat that the three of you can occupy.  Soon you heard the sound of chairs being pulled back. You lifted your head up and saw Kai smiling at you and greeting you for a second time this day and when you shifted your gaze to another person you saw him. Again. You hoped that Kai had other friends besides him but to your regret no. Taehyun's face though was surprised "You?" was everything he said to you. There is no "Hi" or "It's nice to see you again" but this dry question. Kai's eyes shifted from you to his friend "Huh? Have you guys met each other before?" he honestly didn't expect that you already knew each other. "Yes and unfortunately it wasn't really pleasant" you huffed out.
"Actually I planned to complain to you about this certain person that was cold and kind of mean to me today" you don't know where this hatred came from, maybe you were just fed up with his coldness and ignorance from only this one day. "Guys..I guess you just need to introduce each other properly, I'm pretty sure you will be able to befriend." Kai smiled nervously. He wanted two of his friends to actually find a common ground. "Let's forget everything that happened before and start from scratch,  okay? Y/n it's Taehyun, my friend and a groupmate, Taehyun it's my childhood best friend Y/n." He pointed at his friend and then at you. Both of you sighed and decided to try for the sake of Kai, you shook each other's hand as a sign of truce.
At first, the conversation was tense, but as time went by both of you tried to make some decent conversation, you even learned that he likes cats and even owns one. By the end of the break, you even cracked jokes to the boys and both of them laughed. Maybe, he is definitely not that bad.
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That's how the next month went. You grew closer to Taehyun with Hyuka's help. Yes, you still bicker,  like a lot, but that's now a friendly one and not the wanna-choke-you-right-here ones. You learned more about him, for example, that all that "bad boy" thing started just because people see in him that clichéd image when you are wearing black clothes, smoking, riding on a bike, and of course skipping classes and being that cold and mean guy to others. But no, he's far from that image, yes, he smokes and has a bike, and yes,  he's skipping classes sometimes but just because they're really not interesting ones for him. Even though he's skipping, his grades are quite high and it turns out he's like a walking Wikipedia. 
Taehyun recently spent more time with you and Kai on the break, he also hung out with two of you outside the school and this only makes your heart beat faster every time you see him. Especially his little gestures whenever you greet each other, he used to hug you and Kai when you were meeting and you want that this hug will last for a few seconds longer. When he pulls the chair for you to sit when giving you his notes if you can't keep up with the professor's lecture.  Everything about these little gestures makes your heart flutter. You still try your best to not show your feelings as you're pretty sure he didn't see you as anyone but his friend.
Today Hyuka asked you to hang out at his dorm, watch some movies, or do anything else to distract yourself from a rough study week. You lay on his bed while he was sitting beside you looking for something you both can watch.
"Well, Y/n, how long will you act like that?" Kai stopped scrolling for a second and diverted his gaze to you. That was such an unexpected question and you don't really get what he means by that. "What do you mean? I didn't act like anything" you looked at him with incomprehension in your eyes. "I mean..you think you didn't think that obvious? With all of your blushes, long stares, accident hands brush, and other things. Anyone could guess you have a crush on Taehyun" he rolled his eyes like this question was the most obvious thing. But that is not what you are worried about, it's that you must be really obvious if even your best friend who usually can't see anything, did notice your crush. You wanted to keep it a secret as long as you could until you actually move on. "I don't know what you are talking about Hyuka, I don't have any stupid crushes on anyone, especially Tae. It's impossible to like someone like him" you laughed nervously, you should keep acting like that, you should convince him. "Y/n do you think I'm stupid or blind? It's the most obvious thing on the planet that you like him! Stop this pretending and just tell me, I want to help you, I want you to be happy" Kai almost yelled at you, that's new. You didn't expect him to yell at you over something like that. But you don't need anyone's help, you prefer to deal with anything by yourself without anyone's help, even if it is your close friend.
"Listen, I really appreciate your trying and understand that you wanna help me and everything but I do not need your help, ok?! I will deal with my feelings by myself. Pretend that you didn't see anything!" You snapped back at him abruptly getting up from his bed, you didn't plan to hurt your friend but you act before you think and that is your biggest problem. Kai's face shows the pain from your words, you wanted to get them back but it was too late. "Okay,  if that's what you want I will, but from now on don't even think to ask me for any help and get out of here I don't want to see you in my room!" That's not how you think this evening will go, if only you won't be that stubborn with accepting others' help this situation won't even happened in the first place. You sighed, mumbled a quiet apology, quickly grabbed your things, and went to your dorm. The heated conversation that happened minutes ago feels like the stupidest thing in the world and you felt so bad acting like that to your only close friend.
The next day Kai didn't show up at your dorm to go to classes together. He didn't even text you something like "good morning", but you didn't either. You didn't see him the whole day and even during recess, he didn't show up at the cafeteria and Taehyun too. The next few days were like this: you saw Kai a few times but he ignored you completely. That hurt but maybe you deserve it for your rudeness. Today was the third day, you sulked even more because you feel incomplete alone without Huening Kai as your second half. You slowly go to college, listening to some calming music in your earbuds, the pout visible on your face, when your eyes caught a familiar motorbike that is parked beside that same coffee shop you were at on your first day of this semester. As you still had plenty of time before the class you decided to grab a latte and find a certain someone inside the shop. 
When you came in you began looking around and spotted him in the far corner of the room, after ordering coffee you went straight to his table. "Hi! Is this seat taken?" You smiled sheepishly looking at him, the deja vu hit you at this moment,  it reminds you of your first proper meeting. Taehyun raised his head up and smiled instantly "Hi, y/n! Nope, you can take it" he scooted closer to the wall so you could sit beside him on the soft couch. While you waited for your order you talked about different things, it's easy to make a conversation with the boy once you know him better. "Y/n, I know it's not my business, but are you and Kai okay?" He looked at you with concern and slight worry. You didn't want to bother him with your problems, you know that fight between you and Kai was a bad one but you will definitely make it up no matter what, you just need some time. "Well..we kinda fought? It was kinda bad considering that we didn't even talk but it will be fine soon.." You didn't realize when your voice started shaking and Taehyun took your hand in his, that small gesture makes your heart flutter. "I'm sure you will make it up soon, right?" He smiled at you softly and squeezed your hand a bit to reassure you that everything will be alright. "Y/n..what do you think about skipping today's classes and going somewhere?" That was a totally unexpected question from Kang Taehyun himself. Yes, he is skipping sometimes but not the whole day. However, your inner voice told you to agree to his proposal and forget about your problems just for a day. "That's nice of you, but are you sure you want to skip the whole day-" you didn't get the opportunity to finish your question as Taehyun squeezed your hand tighter and pulled you out of the coffee shop to his bike. "There, you should wear it, 'cause safety is our first priority" he shoved his helmet in your hands, you wore it carefully and he smiled at you "You're so cute" he called you cute..does he want you to explode here and there? 
Taehyun get on the bike and motioned you to do the same "Did you ever ride the bike?" You shook your head negatively,  obviously, you never had such an opportunity.  "Okay, I bet you like it. Give me your hands" he took your hands in his and set them on his waist, you felt a blush creeping up on your cheeks and you are glad that he can't see you from behind. "Hold tight onto my waist so you won't fall" the next thing you heard is the engine started, you instinctively grabbed onto his waist tightly and snuggled up your upper body to his back. You've never seen it but Taehyun smiled softly at your moves. And with that, the ride begins. You expected that it would be fast, but you didn't think that the speed would be this high. You squeezed Taehyun's waist and the t-shirt out of fear and shut your eyes tightly. "You scared? I feel like you closed your eyes'' he chuckled at you "y/n don't be scary, open your eyes and watch the beautiful scenery around " you decided to trust him and slowly open your eyes, at first everything was so fast you can't make out anything of the scenery but once you adjust your eyes you saw that you head out of the town "Where are we going?" You tried to sound louder so the boy could hear you through the wind. "It's a surprise, you will like it." 
You sighed and leaned closer to his back. Soon you stopped by a gas station to have some coffee and rest for a few. "So will you tell me where we are heading?" You are impatient to know your destination but Taehyun is so secretive about it. "Nope, wait until we will arrive, you definitely like it, I promise" he smiled and handed you a cup of coffee and a cookie he bought for you. "Huh? What if I don't like it?" You watched him suspiciously while sipping on your coffee,  it wasn't the best one but to be honest you don't care about anything while you look into the boy's eyes. Taehyun leaned onto his bike and chuckled lightly "Stop with your silly questions, you mentioned this place once when we were at a cafe the other day. So drink your coffee and take a look at these beautiful yellow trees around" he grabbed one of your hands that holds a cookie and took a bite, smiling at you with a mischievous glint in his eyes.  "Hey! It's mine, you should have bought one for yourself" you did it just to make your feelings less obvious,  but you feel butterflies inside you at his actions. "Have you finished your coffee? We should get going if we want to arrive on time" Taehyun stands up and looks at you as you nod and hands him your cup that he takes to the trash can. Within a few minutes, both of you get on the bike and continue your little journey.  
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In 30 minutes or so, you arrived at a small village. Your eyes were closed due to how comfortable it was to hug Taehyun all of this ride, but suddenly the engine came to a stop and you slowly opened your eyes and saw the seashore in front of you. You hopped off of the bike and took off the helmet and then gasped at the view. "Wow…is this real?" You can't believe what you see, you dreamed of the trip to the sea for a really long time, especially when it's not the season when there won't be many people around. You mentioned it once on your hangout with boys, but you never thought that Taehyun would remember it. "Well, I was right, you liked it" he smiled at your amazed face. He took your hand and led both of you closer to the water. "I never thought that my dream will come true anytime soon and that you will be the one to make it real" you looked him in the eyes softly. "Do you feel better now?" Taehyun is still holding your hand in his hand and gives you a small squeeze. "Uh..yeah, much better now, thank you" both of you smiled at each other. Then Taehyun motioned you to sit on the sand, it was like a silent invitation for you to sit and listen to the waves comfortably. Today's weather is really fine, it's warm and not windy, perfect weather for the sea trip.
But it's still not that warm for you who wears only jeans, a light sweater, and a jean jacket, so you decide to scoot closer to the boy because you feel his warmth radiate. "Are you cold? I can borrow you my jacket if you want to" he tilted his head to see your face and you knew that this move of his is very dangerous as your cheeks became hotter, you pray that he can't see the blush on your face. "N-no, I'm fine, really, don't worry I'm just comfortable like th-" you can't finish the sentence cause you felt the arm wrapped around your shoulders and moved you closer to Taehyun's body. You didn't expect this so your body froze and all you heard was the waves and a little chuckle coming from Taehyun. "Why are you so flustered, hm? Do you like me maybe?" there is nothing you wanna do that badly than wipe his stupid smirk from his face. "W-what?! No, how can I have a crush on someone like you, I d-don't" you tried your best to hide the feelings but the stuttering you can't deal with, that's the thing that always occurs anytime you are nervous. "Really? Are you sure about it? Cause I think it's quite the opposite" he leaned closer to your face, such close proximity only makes you more flustered and there is no point for you to denying your feelings anymore, your body betrayed you really badly. "Y/n..What if I say that I like you? Since our second meeting at the cafeteria, you were so cute when you laughed at this stupid story from your childhood  Kai telling me. Since that day I thought that maybe I will have a chance with you." your flustered state slowly changed to shock ones. Kang Taehyun,  the boy you had a crush on, is now telling you that he likes you. At this point, everything looks just like a dream. "You have. I mean you have a chance..cause this feeling is mutual" you almost whispered the last part of the sentence. The next thing you felt is Taehyun's soft and plush lips on yours. The kiss was sweet and full of tenderness, it didn't last too long and the boy was the first to break it. He leaned his forehead against yours and looked into your hazed eyes. You wrapped both of your arms around his neck and reached for a second kiss, this one was longer and slower, your lips moved in sync, and with every move you wanted more, it felt like a good wine that you wanted to drink more and more without stopping. But eventually, both of you need the air so you break the kiss, through the panting you heard Taehyun's low chuckle "Didn't think you will initiate the second one, but that was hot" you on the other hand used all of your courage so you shyly buried your face in boy's neck "Just shut up Kang Taehyun" you heard the vibrations of his laugh and his hands moved to your waist and hugged you tightly. "So…does this mean you will be my girl now?" Oh.." his girl" you almost squealed at this, it was your dream since day one, and now you hug the boy of your dreams sitting on the shore and he asks you to be his girl, this doesn't feel real. "Earth to Y/n, I'm still here waiting for your answer" you were too much into your thoughts, you raised your head too fast for your liking but still nodded "Yes, and will you..be my boy then?" there is no point asking for it, but you still need it. "Of course, I will" he pecked your lips with a smile tugged on his. That's how dreams come true, unexpectedly but at the right time.
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beom1e · 11 months
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4:17 pm — spring cleaning
pairing taehyun x gn! reader. genre fluff. wc 229.
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as taehyun placed the bandaid over the graze on your knee, you winced dramatically. he leaned forward to place a kiss over the now-covered wound.
‘are you ready to tell me what happened now?’ he spoke, making you flush out of embarrassment.
‘i slipped in the kitchen and hit my knee against the corner of the counter,’ you confessed. ‘after you told me to stay out since the floor was still wet.’
‘and what have we learned today?’ he teased, making you roll your eyes. you looked down at him from your position on the bathroom counter, his head tilted to the side as he awaited your answer. with a huff, you gave in.
‘always listen to taehyun,’ you muttered, much like a child who had just been scolded by a superior. ‘now that i’m critically wounded, can i skip the cleaning?’
it was his bright idea to spend your only sunday off together cleaning up the apartment. ‘it’s spring, we’ll spring clean!’ he’d said, and you’d gave in after zoning in on his bright smile. you regretted it significantly after he’d handed you a duster and asked you to dust every corner and every surface.
‘okay,’ he wanted to be subtle about the fact that he didn’t want to clean anymore too. ‘but i’ll have to keep you company in case it gets worse. snacks and a movie?’
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koosc · 2 years
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ANONYMOUS SENT A MESSAGE
Hello! i hope you are having a good day! anyway I wanted to request txt Taehyun and prompts 3&12
because, you & i - taehyun x reader
warnings/tags: idol!taehyun x reader, slight argument not much, frustrated taehyun and calm y/n we love a dynamic couple
genre: slight angst, fluff
words: 795 words
a/n: hello anonie! yes, I’m having a good day and I hope you’re having a great one! from this prompt list, the lines are “dammit because I love you!” & “why do you sacrifice so much for me?” this took eons and has been sitting in my drafts collecting cobwebs, literally. hope you like this, anonie! this is a repost from my main account ^^
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“all I’m asking you is if you wanted to eat. I’m sorry but I’m not sure how that’s annoying,” you look at Taehyun, who seems to be preoccupied with his phone. “i’ll eat later,” he says as if he’s bothered by your presence.
You sit next to him and take his phone and much to your surprise, he doesn’t protest. Instead, he leans back on the couch, watching you place his phone on the side table.
“question,” Taehyun says randomly after a comfortable few seconds of silence. You nod, “go ahead, I’m all ears,” He shifts so that he’s facing you, putting a cushion between the two of you. “what would you be doing if we weren’t dating?”
“me?” You say and scoffs jokingly, “well, I would be crying my eyes out, you know that. How could I ever pass being with you?” you say good-naturedly, turning to find Taehyun looking at you with a serious expression. You clear your throat awkwardly, “for real?” you start, “maybe i would’ve started my florist business, once and for all. Maybe opened a tiny shop where customers can see the flowers and come to pick it up themselves,” you say truthfully yet wistfully, knowing you don’t have the resources to kick-start your childhood dream.
Taehyun knows that, having heard you talk about it ever since you both were 9. You both used to walk past a florist everytime you came back from elementary school.
“and if you had the resources, didn’t have the restrictions you have now, would you do it?”
“what’s the interrogation, hyun?” you say coolly, “you know the answers to all the questions, it’s not like you know less.” Taehyun sighs, straightening his shoulders, “sometimes, I think, no, I know I’m holding you back,” he says, slowly telling you why he’s been bothered these past few weeks, how sees you sitting around the house bored, purely because you can’t do things any other 21 year old does, because of him.
“Taehyun,” you whisper, feeling bad thats he’s been so guilty, “you have nothing to be bothered about. I’m still doing my course and I don’t even have the guts to do what any other person my age does,” you say sincerely. “you know I’m fine being alone sometimes. Because, at the end of the day, I get to see you and everything’s alright,” You say gently, putting your hand on Taehyun’s face so that he’s looking at you. “I should be asking you all these question, hyunie,” you say regretfully. “why do you sacrifice so much for me?” You ask quietly, “you don’t need to come home everyday, you don’t have to make sure I’m alright. You can go out with your friends, do stuff you want to do.” your shoulders sag, like what you’re saying physically hurts you.
“I’m not even sure at this point why you even stay,” you tell him honestly, “it must be getting tiring, honestly, going up and down and doing so many precautions just because of me. I don’t really why-”
“dammit because I love you!”
You look at him in shock. Love? well, you think it had to happen eventually, long nights of sweet nothings whispered and flour decorating your noses and hair on pizza nights comes back to you in flashbacks. “y/n,” he says, holding your hands tightly, your gaze flickering from your tightly held hands to his sincere face. “I’m in love with you, I’m into you, I’ll tell it how many times you want me to say it, shout and scream from the rooftops if I could, just so the whole world can know I love you, y/n.” You’re in shock but there’s only one thing you know best.
Actions speak louder than words.
You hold his face and bring him into a long kiss, hoping he would feel all your pent-up affection and love. And he does. Reciprocating it and he feels elated, on top of the world. Pulling away and leaning your foreheads on each other, eyes closed and quick, deep breaths taken together.
Together, you muse. Everything always seemed to click with him. Because it’s you and him. Because it’s you and him from day one. Because you held his hand when he fell in the sand box and had bawled his eyes out. Because he wiped your tears when the old grandmother had to close down her flower shop. Because it’s you and him, together. “I love you,” you say firmly, pulling away ever so slightly so you’re looking straight into his starry eyes. They turn into crescent moons, squishing your cheeks together. “yeah?” he says happily, pecking your face all over, brimming with happiness. “yeah,” you say, squishing his cheeks and basking in his presence. Because it’s you and him.
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sungbeam · 1 year
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hello!! i really love your writing oml it's all i've been reading these past few days <3 i hope this request can help you!! 9 + 61 + (opt) 73, fluff/crack (mostly crack i suppose), agent/mafia au with txt taehyun? tyvm <33
𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲
agent!kang taehyun x agent!gn!reader
0.7k words, very humorous/crack-based, bro im sorry but there is no fluff in this 😭 but slightly flirty tae, low-key abrupt ending sorry skcndk, kang taehyun is delicious
a/n: i believe this was my beloved 🌌 anon's request!! (ノ´∀`*) so sorry it took so long for me to fulfill love, but i hope u like it still :')
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The best thing about this city, you decided, was that the nights were warm and lively. Even from your vantage point at the little bistro on the corner of the street, you could watch the groups of people pass by bringing vivid conversation and bright laughter. Along the river, tourists flocked to join in the midnight picnic festivities that this part of the city was known for. 
It was a shame that you were here for work, and not for play. 
You idly sipped your glass of iced tea, the outside of the glass perspiring against the heat and creating a ring on the metal table. “Any day now, Beomgyu.”
“Patience is a virtue, Yn,” Beomgyu’s voice sounded in your ear to the accompaniment of clacking keys. He grumbled, “Usually he’s early.”
“So they're a he?” You mused into your cup. You were currently perched at the corner bistro, not for a nice cup of iced tea (that was an added bonus), but for an informant. Beomgyu had been the one keeping in touch with this certain person. However, this time, he apparently wanted to meet you. You hadn’t even known the informant was a “he” until Beomgyu had just revealed that to you. 
Beomgyu grumbled on the other side of the speaker. "Yes."
"You're pouting, aren't you?"
You could see him sit up straight and wipe the pout away from his face. "No! I-I'm not pouting!"
You chuckled over the rim of your glass as your eyes skimmed the boulevard once more. "So who's this guy?" You asked once more, hoping he would just give in and tell you—
"Oh, just your favorite person." 
You whirled around at the sound of the familiar voice behind you, and you came face to face with a man with strawberry blond bangs falling in his eyes, a smirk settled on his pretty face, and in a dark blue button up that fit far too well on his body. You nearly dropped your glass, but that wouldn't have been very professional. 
Kang Taehyun settled in the seat across from you just as a waiter came by to ask him for his drink order. "I'll have what they're having," he said, gesturing to you. 
You held the side of your face with your free hand. "I'm way too sober for this."
"Then make that two martinis," Taehyun corrected with a laugh. When the waiter took his leave, Taehyun laced his fingers in front of him on the table, head cocked to the side as he considered your mild scowl in his direction. "You seem pleased to see me, love."
Your scowl deepened. "Choi Beomgyu, I'm going to murder you."
A squeak from the other side of the earpiece. 
Taehyun's smile widened. "After you kill me then, I suppose?"
"You're supposed to be at headquarters, Kang," you said to him. You crossed your arms over your chest. "What're you doing as Beomgyu's so-called informant? International burglary isn't even your jurisdiction—" You shook your head, waved your hands; you knew you probably looked like a chicken with its head chopped off. "What're you doing out of the office?"
Kang Taehyun was a formidable agent under your same intelligence organization, but he specialized in the behind the scenes work like Beomgyu; he wasn't a field agent like you. He was out of his element, out of those round spectacles and those smart suspenders and white shirts rolled to the elbow. He looked like an agent in the field, or at least, he looked like any regular, rich tourist who walked this boulevard. God damn him, he looked good, too. (You were this close to making a scene—)
"I'm on reconnaissance," he told you, leaning forward onto his elbows. It wasn't that you weren't pleased to see him, but rather, you couldn't believe it was him. You really didn't like surprises. "And your reaction was truly something I had to experience in person, Yn."
You rolled your eyes, the tension breaking for just a second as the waiter set your martinis on the table and left. "Oh, I bet."
"I thought you missed me," he said, his lips pursed in a feigned pout.
Heat flared in your cheeks and you looked right into his eyes to ask, "Whatever gave you that idea?"
There was that wide, toothy smile of his again. "I just assumed, y'know," his tone was offhanded and casual as he took a sip of his drink, "because I missed you."
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