— 3rd

It's been a few weeks since the boys came back from their vacation.
And Tae has gone back to being his depressed self.
The boys are so alarmed at his behaviour.
They are so worried.

But they can't worry today as they have some business to attend.
But this schedule does not involve Tae.
So another schedule without Tae.

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Sitting on the bed.
Back against the headrest.
With Tae on his lap sleeping.

"Why are you doing this Tae?" Yoongi whispers to himself in a sad tone.

A stray tears leaks out of his eye and drips down onto Tae's cheek.
Tae feels it and flutters his eyes open.
He touches his cheek and feels wetness.
He looks up at Yoongi and sees Yoongi crying.
Tae sit up and crawls onto Yoongi's lap.

"Why are you crying hyung?" Tae asks softly as he wipes his tears away.

"You Tae. Because of you. We promised each other that we would tell everything. But you Tae, I know you are hiding something from me. I can feel it. You've been starving yourself. I've never seen you genuinely happy smile for a long time now. And I miss that. I miss your happy self. Your happy, precious, cute self. And I want that Tae back." Yoongi sniffs as tears flow down Tae's eyes.

Yoongi moves Tae off his lap and stands up.

"Right now I have stuff to do. I'll always be here for you Tae. And I would do anything for you. But I just wish that you would. Don't you know that I love you so much? With all my being? I can't stand seeing you like this. I just feel like breaking down and dying because you're sad." Yoongi says softly and Tae looks down.

"I love you too." Tae whispers softly.

Yoongi sighs and kisses Tae's forehead and walks out the door leaving Tae in the bedroom with a face full of tears and guilt eating him. His heart breaking at everything Yoongi had just said.

Suddenly the doorbell rings indicating that they had mail.
Tae gulps knowing that it's from Sang Hong.
He walks down and gets the letter.

Walking towards the couch with a heavy heart.
He tears open the envelope and takes out the piece of paper.
As he reads the paper, he cries, cries so much that he almost couldn't breathe.

He cries himself to sleep.

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Tae sleeps for a few hours.
He wakes up and the memories of the letters some back to his mind.
He tears up and starts sobbing.
His heart if scared and hurt by all the cruel words aimed at him.

Suddenly the front door open revealing the members talking and laughing.

The stop as soon as they heart Tae sobbing.
Yoongi's eyes widen and he scurries over and engulfs Tae in a hug.
The rest of the boys quickly rush over and surround the crying boy.
Tae sobs into Yoongi's shoulder.

"What's wrong baby?" Yoongi asks softly.

Tae shakes his head and back away from Yoongi and the rest of the boys.

"Tae? What's wrong?" Yoongi repeats his question, but with a little hint of hurt.

"Y-you'll j-just le-leave me." Tae sobs harder.

"What do you mean Tae?" Yoongi tries to go closer to Tae.

"N-no hyung." Tae shouts and curls up into a ball and cries into his knees.

Tears spill out from Yoongi's eyes seeing Tae like that.
A crying mess.
Hurt. Sorrow. Sadness surrounding him.

Soon, Tae falls asleep.
Again, while crying.

The boys send Yoongi pity looks as Yoongi hugs Tae.

Tae soon wakes up feeling warmth around his waist.
He opens his eyes to find himself in the middle of his members.
And Yoongi was holding on to him with tears all over his face.

"I can't believe I made him cry. It's all my fault!" Tae scolds himself.

Tae sits up and the boys immediately give him their attention.
Yoongi still holds Tae close and smiles a little when Tae doesn't pull away.

"Do you want to talk about it baby?" Yoongi asks softly.

Tae nods as he intertwines his and Yoongi's fingers together.

"So why were you crying Tae?" Jin asks lovingly.

"I-" Tae takes a deep breath.

"It's because of my ex. You see at a very young age, my dad passed on leaving just me, my mom and my brother. My mom never remarried but my grandma moved I with us and helped us." Tae starts with a shaky breath.

The boys look at Tae with so much love and pity.
Yoongi squeezes Tae's hand lightly.

"When I was 17, I had my first boyfriend. His name was Sang Hong. He was like the popular jock that everyone loves. My mom and grandma are very open-minded people and so they were very supportive of our relationship. It was amazing, but only for the first 6 months. He started to h-hit me and s-scold me for certain things. He would threaten me so that I w-won't tell m-my mom, g-grandma and B-Baekhyun." Tae chokes out as tears freely flow down his face.

Yoongi tightens his hold on Tae.

"He would h-hit me u-until d-dark b-blue and b-black marks w-would be left all over my body. H-he wanted to h-have sex with me once b-but I wouldn't a-allow and so h-he h-hit me and k-kick me. And t-that n-night he-he r-raped me." Tae sobs into his hands unable to meet anyone's eyes.

Yoongi felt a rush of anger flow through his veins.
How could anyone be so cruel to his baby?
He was furious.
I guess the rest of the boys felt his anger and they moved back just a little.

"H-he w-would s-sometimes d-drag me b-back to his a-apartment after sc-school. T-this went on f-for a-another 6 m-months u-until one of my friends n-noticed the d-difference in my b-behaviour and he d-decided to f-follow me one day. He s-saw S-Sang Hong h-hitting me and he s-stood up for me. My mom, grandma and brother found out about it and they i-immediately r-reported this to the p-police. S-Sang Hong was taken to prison." Tae sobs even more.

The boys feel so sorry for all the horrible events that Tae had gone through.
The squeeze Tae's hand.

"W-when BigHit had a-auditions, my m-mom, grandma and Baekhyun forced me to t-try. And I got in. I was the happiest I was e-ever after t-the incident. I g-guess now he's out of p-prison and so he sends t-these letters to me. It st-started with t-text m-messages b-but now it's gotten to letters. A-all those insults h-he used to t-throw at me in the p-past came back to me w-when he s-sent the l-letters. And I s-started be-believing in them." Tae ends up cries harder.

Yoongi rubs Tae's back soothingly and kisses Tae's forehead.

"It's okay baby. Shh." Yoongi whispers.

"Hyung? Please d-don't l-leave me. I'm r-really scared." Tae whimpers.

"Baby, I'll never leave you. I'll protect you. I promise kitten." Yoongi whispers and hugs Tae tightly.

The boys smile a little and hug the duo.
Group Hug ! :)

Tae sniffles.

"T-thank you so m-much. And I'm so s-sorry for all t-the trouble I've c-caused." Tae mumbles and looks down.

Jin lifts his head up. "You've not caused any trouble Tae, we're just worried sweetie."

Tae smiles and cries again.

"I r-really don't d-deserve this. Thank you so much." Tae whispers.

"Alright enough crying! Let's have lunch! I'm starving!" Hoseok says trying to lighten the mood.

Tae giggles and wipes his tears. "Me too Hobi hyung!"

The boys laugh at the change of behaviour of Tae.

"Alright, I'm going to get started on lunch." Jin says and walks to the kitchen with Namjoon and Hoseok following.

Jungkook and Jimin hug Tae again and walk to their room.

"Baby?" Yoongi says.

Tae doesn't look up.
Yoongi lifts his head up with two fingers.

"I'm so sorry hyung. He threatened me to not tell anyone anything." Tae whimpers.

Yoongi hugs Tae. "It's okay baby. I understand that you were afraid."

"No hyung. I was so dumb. I couldn't even stand up for myself. I really sorry. You should be mad at me." Tae says.

"Baby. You're not dumb and it's okay if you can't stand up for yourself. You'll grow stronger baby, I'm sure of it. And I can never be mad at you baby. Sure I was sad at first when you didn't tell me but now I understand why." Yoongi smiles at Tae and wipes his tears.

"Thank you so much hyung. I love you so much, words can't describe how I feel." Tae whispers.

"I love you too baby. So much. You're my everything." Yoongi whispers back.

Yoongi leans into Tae and captures his lips in a sweet, innocent and beautiful kiss. Filled with so much emotion none of the boys could describe. Overflowing with so much love for each other.

Yoongi pulls Tae onto his lap with his arms around the brunette's waist. Tae wraps his arms around Yoongi's neck.
Their lips dancing with each other happily.
They pull away but with their foreheads touching.
Tae smiling with tears on his face and Yoongi smiling while rubbing Tae's lower back.

They lean in and kiss again.

"Alright horny boys, time for lunch!" Jin shouts.

"Okay, enough kissing guys. PDA!" Jungkook says and everyone laughs.

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Hey guys!
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Mianhae!
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Keyword : COMING.
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Taegi getting married and a hiatus for BTS?
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