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There he is again. You didnt consider yourself a paranoid person but this was starting to get on your nerves. This coffee shop is your place to relax, to get away from your parents, to forget about school and the future. You come here every Sunday morning with a thick book, a fully charged phone filled to the brim with music and your favorite pair of earphones. You sit in the same sofa in the corner of the shop and order the same drink with the same chocolate chip cookie. It was your system, a mantra of sorts. It is weird, you know it, but you just like things to be done a certain way in a certain order.
When you picked this particular place you made sure that it was faraway enough from your house and school area so you wouldnt coincidentally run into someone.You valued your alone time so dearly that you didnt even consider the 40 min bus drive there an inconvenience. That is why the last thing you expected was to have your alone time disrupted by none other than Kim Taehyung.
Dont get me wrong, its not that you want to monopolize the coffee shop and let it sell only to you, you only had so much money from that part time at the library. But couldnt your secret place have been discovered by some one less noisy? Yes, Kim Taehyung was in theory the most popular and charming boy in school, but, frankly, you didnt see the appeal.
The first time your precious system had been messed with had been the week before last. You had gone into the shop, looking down at your phone, concentrated on reading the sequel to this particular fanfic you had been waiting to be updated for what seemed like forever. With your head down, you walked directly to your usual self proclaimed spot, and realized as you looked away from your phone that for the first time, it wasnt empty. You stopped right in front of the sofa, a bewildered look in your face.
You had been standing there for about 10 seconds, when the intruder in your spot looked up, confused, at first, and then amused to see you frozen in spot in front of him.
“Do I know you?” He asked.
His voice managed to get you out of your bewildered state.
“No, I mean yes, not really…its just youre in my spot…”
“Oh” a surprised look came to his face “Are you implying I have to move?”
“No, no its okay I mean I dont own the spot, its just…nevermind”
With that you turned around still trying to wrap your head around this unexpected change in your carefully planned out day. Why was he there? Kim Taehyung of ALL the people in your school? It was nothing personal really its just the guy was too excitable or at least he seemed to be from the other side of the cafeteria which is from where you usually saw him. Nevermind that, the real problem is he was now going to make this place noisy too! Oh and how hard it had been to find the perfect place! Well for today you would have to make due with sitting on the table near the window since that was the one farthest away from Noisy Taehyung. You ordered your coffee and started reading already anticipating the inevitable group of people that would surely come keep Famous Kim Taehyung company…except almost an hour passed and they hadnt come. To your inmense surprise, Taehyung hadnt made a single noise either. Confused, you glanced over to where he was sitting and for the first time noticed he had his earphones on and was transfixed watching something on his tablet. Your insterest piqued, you decided to watch him for a bit, people watching was, after all, one of your favorite pastimes. As you watched,Taehyung would occasionally grin to himself with that big boxy smile of his. You found yourslef wondering what could be so interesting that could even keep even eternally energetic and noisy Taehyung occupied and entertained for so long.
You didnt know how long you had been staring at the boy when suddenly he flipped his head up and looked you directly in the eyes. You immediately darted your eyes towards the window pretending to be very nterested in your reflection while actually trying to hide the blush that had come from getting caught. You heard footsteps coming your way and you hoped to God it was just someone in need of the restrooms a few tables back. Your heart dropped when you heard the footsteps stop right beside you and you noticed someone else reflected in your window. Reluctantly, you looked back at Taehyung trying rather unsuccesfully to appear unaffected by having been caught.
“Umm Hi! Can I help you?” you said a little too quickly.
“Is your “spot” so important to you that you would stare at me for the past 40 minutes almost?” He asked with a raised brow.
“No -I - uh. I didnt- I mean, yes I did but not because of the spot, I just…”
“You just what?
“I was just wondering why you were sitting here alone on a weekend instead of being out with friends”
At that he smiled, that signature boxy smile, that in the course of the past hour had alreay grown on you.
“I could ask you the same question” He said
“I suppose you could except Im not Mr Popular, Always Noisy, Always Accompanied Kim Taehyung”
He outright laughed at that and you wondered why you hadnt appreciated that laugh before. It was so..genuine. You were still in the middle of proccessing it when he abruptly sat down in the chair across from you.
“Even noisy people crave solitude once in a while” He said and winked at you, why?…youre not exactly sure. What you do know is that you have to get out of there before this gets any worse.
“I..umm.. I have to leave since its getting late and I gotta take the bus home and umm I have to umm feed my cat so yeah umm nice to meet you,” you said hurriedly as you packed your stuff and walked out of the restaurant as fast as your feet could take you without it looking like you were running away..which was exactly what you were doing but HE didnt have to know that.
After that day you restrained yourself from going back to the coffee shop in case he was there again. Now two weeks later, you took up the courage to come back. Who was he to keep you away from your oasis? Why were you so concerned with his presence anyway? It was definitely NOT because you liked him…NO definitely NOT…you just didnt like the noise. “He wasnt noisy the last time though” a little voice in your head said. Well nevermind that.. two weeks have passed, he is bound to have gotten bored of this place.
Your were still trying to convince yourself of that as you entered the coffee shop only to find yourself attacked by a mixture of relief and anxiety. He had come back! and to make things worse he was sitting in your seat again! Inmersed in your own mind battling out the pros and cons of telling him to move or just getting another seat, you didnt notice that Taehyung had stood up and was walking towards you. It wasnt until a tall shadow loomed over you that you decided to look up and noticed none other than Kim “Seat stealing” Tehyung was standing right in front of you.
“You do realize you are blocking the way for anyone who would want to come in right?” He said, looking at you as if he didnt know he was the reason you had been standing there like an idiot.
“I..well.. its your fault anyway!” you responded, flustered by his proximity.
“My fault?” He said laughing,“How is it my fault?”
“Ugh Nevermind..just..nevermind” You said going around him towards the window seat you had taken last time hoping to God he wouldnt follow you.
But he did. In fact he even had the nerve to sit across from you! Uninvited!
“So,” he said, “I realized last time you suddenly left and never told me your name.”
You just stared at him, still trying to wrap your mind around the fact that he was in fact sitting across from you and actually trying to have a conversation with you.
“Why would I?” you blurted out.
“ Well,” he said leaning closer to you from across the table, “I just think its unfair how you have the pleasure of knowing my name but I dont have the pleasure of knowing yours”
“Oh…oh..uhm Im Y/N” you said flustered by his comment.
“Well Y/N its a pleasure to meet you” He said holding out his hand to you.
Still a little confused, you took it never expecting what came next.
Instead of a regular handshake, Taehyung grabbed your hand in both of his and kissed it.
Your were paralyzed. What was happening? Did he actually do that? WHY?
After the initial shock had passed, you inmediately stood up, ripping your hand away from Taehyung´s who had yet to let go on his own.
“WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?”
“Do what?” He asked , looking the picture of innocence.
“You know what!” You said, trying to ignore the fast beating of your heart and internally wondering how the whole world couldnt hear it when you felt it was about to burst from your chest.
You then watched as he stood up and went around the table coming closer and closer to you. Unknowingly you had been taking steps backward until your back hit the closed window and you ahd nowhere else to go.
“I couldnt resist,” he said, so close you could smell his coffee and chocolate scented breath.
“Wh- what?” you breathed out.
“Ive been coming here everyday for two weeks already, hoping to run in to you”
“What..why?”
“Well for one, you called me noisy so I wanted the chance to get back at you. Havent you ever thought that maybe youre the one whos too quiet? The other reason is..”
You were waiting for him to finish his sentence when suddenly his lips were hovering right over yours.
“…that apparently our physics teacher was right” he said, right before he touched his lips to yours.
The kiss was so unexpected you inmediately closed your eyes and just stood there, at first, hands fisted at your side. Slowly,however, your hands started moving of their own accord until one was fisted on the front of Taehyungs shirt and the other was tentatively placed across his cheek. The kiss was incredibly sweet and intense at the same time and your mind vaguely registered the lingering taste of Taehyungs mocha. As unexpectedly as it had begun, the kiss was over.
Taehyungs hands were still at your cheeks when you finally opened your eyes.
“Why was Mr, Park right, Tae?” You finally managed to say, unsure were the nickname and the courage to say it had come from.
“Tae?..I like that,” he said with a wide boxy grin
He then picked your cellphone from the table. You just watched as he unlocked it and dialed a number and called it. Before whoever it was could answer, he hung up and proceeded to save the number to your phone.
“Whenever you feel smothered by the quiet, call me” he said as he was walking away.
You looked at your phones screen and saw he had saved himself as “Taetae <3″
“TAE!” You heard yourself say. He turned back at that, that cute boxy grin back on his face
“Why was the physics teacher right?” you asked again, still not understanding.
“Opposites do attract” he said with one final wink before he was out the door.