the worst part

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summary: Jaebum used to think life without you would be the hardest thing he would have to ever face. It turns out, there was something worse than not being with you.

genre: angst, breakups, commitment issues, post-breakup pining

(reposted because tumblr wouldn’t bring this up in the tags)

Originalmente publicado por moved-to-elfinkyy

There were traces of you everywhere after you left.

Maybe that was the worst part.

Jaebum thought long and hard about what was the hardest part about not having you around. Whether it was that he wouldn’t have his best friend by his side when he woke up or if he was going to forget how you felt in his arms or if he wasn’t going to be able to remember how your hair smelt.

But it wasn’t any of it, Jaebum found out. It was the opposite in a way; it was that you lingered. In every part of the apartment, you lingered. Your essence remained.

Even though you didn’t.

He could go into the kitchen and he would be totally fine until he sees you, perched on the kitchen counter, taking so much of the space that he would have needed for cooking, grinning like the Cheshire cat.

“What are you making for me tonight, boyfriend-ssi?”

He’d blink and you’d be gone. There would be an empty spot on the counter where you should have been. There would be more space for the metal pot and the single packet of ramen - space he didn’t need anymore.

After all, why bother making an elaborate meal when it was going to be just him eating it?

Or he could settle into the corner of the couch, Nora on the other end, Odd at his feet, and the rest of the kids playing elsewhere. He knew it was Nora crawling onto his lap but before he saw Nora, he saw you.

“It’s my turn to pick!” You declared, crawling into your boyfriend’s arm, which curled at your waist automatically.

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