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Nights can be easy.
Or so taehyung thinks. Hidden in the safety of night he can live how he wants. Spend his time laughing and drinking in the many bars of Seoul, waiting for someone to walk through the door and sit beside him like always. Give himself to the freedom the darkness bring.
Many would turn their nose up on how taehyung lives his life. Sleeping away his mornings and beginning his day when many go to bed. But those people live their life in the warmth of the day, lost to the fun the setting sun brings.
Lost to the nights waiting for someone to knock on his door and whisper secrets into his skin. Lost to rules he left himself.
Mornings can be hard.
In the harsh mornings Taehyung can really see what his life is like. The bruises on the soft skin of his hips and wrists, the teeth marks left on his collar bones and neck all left by someone he cannot openly say the name of. The want deep in his soul for the man to still be there with him when he wakes, to have his strong arms still wrapped around Taehyungs waist holding them close together as lovers would. But there is no love here, that is for people that deserve it, not Taehyung. Not in the world taehyung lives. He peels himself out of bed and winces at the pain shooting through his body. The deep disgust of himself begins to fill his mind. He doesn't want to live this way of life anymore, living in the night doesn't hold the same charm for him anymore. Not since he found what it was like to give yourself to someone completely. To value life more than material worth. To value more of yourself. His apartment is deathly silent as he shuffles from the bedroom to the kitchen mindful of last nights clothes littering the floor. There is no one here to surprise him with breakfast or a cup of coffee like lovers would, only a folded piece of paper sitting on his small dining table and a cold shiver running down his back. After making a cup of coffee taehyung settles into one of the kitchen chairs, a shaky hand reaches for the paper.
This is the last time.
You have been too careless, I can't have anyone finding out.
This should have never dragged on this long.
Don't try contact me.
I don't want to hurt you more baby. But I will destroy you if you try.
Double the amount has been left in the usual place.
Goodbye Taehyung.
Taehyung doesn't know when he started crying, only realising when he could no longer read the letter in his shaking hands. He should have known, nothing good stays with him.