#009: lukewarm
Title: lukewarm
Author:
douxsoleil
Fandom/Characters/Pairing: NCT & Red Velvet, Taeil/Seungwan
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Challenge # & Prompt: #009 - broken
Word Count: 415w
Seungwan is never the destructive type. Neither does Taeil. They are quiet books, flipping their own pages slowly and silently opened for people to see them. They have never seen themselves as beings who are radiant enough to attract others.
The quietest beings have the loudest internal monologue of their own lives. And that is why, they have been best friends since middle sch-
Taeil grunts and downs another green bottle of alcohol, heart burning in dying colours. "He fucking dumped me-"
A small hand pulls the bottle by the neck from his hand. Taeil doesn't bother to look at his friend, more of a mess than he was, gulping down every bits of it.
Shoulders pressed to each other, they stare ahead of the destruction she has caused to her room.
"He fucking left me for another girl-" the grip on the bottle tightened. She wants to smash it to the wall, like all the things that come tumbling down with a broken heart she earned today. "Fuck this shit, Taeil. Jinri, of all people, that bitch-"
"Over a fucking phone call-" Taeil's hand quickly catches up before it ends in pieces. He looks at her, on her way for the third bottle. He doesn't stop her.
They are flowers who grow thorns out of venom and love that destroyed them.
Bloody red locks and mascara running down her pallid cheeks, Seungwan chokes on tears, as if her heart that had been shattered to pieces clog her breathing system. Taeil is heartbroken himself, but instead of a terrible amount of sadness like Seungwan, he only feels empty. He rests both of his eyes to his dear friend who stares in silence to the wall in front of them, tears not stopping itself from falling off her red eyes.
"Taeil," she lets out a breathy and shaky voice. "I loved him so much," her shoulders slump and he can't help but to wrap his arms around her. Like a child, she is craddled and loved by his twisted heart to pieces.
In moments like this, he wishes he could love her in ways all the boys show their love for a girl. He could have made her the happiest girl in the world.
But both of them are broken and their hearts are not halves of each others. Taeil is left to comfort her with his pair of arms who become warm for Seungwan, just because she no longer has one to come back to.
a/n: omg it's been so long since I stopped and I have so many challenges so catch up >.<