synopsis: after yours and taehyun’s breakup, your group goes on tour which is exactly what you needed. a year long world tour to distract you from the pains your heart felt. but once your group comes back from the tour and is preparing for your next comeback, txt is also preparing a comeback of their own that involves your group. you and taehyun have no choice but rekindle a friendship for the sake of your members, fans, and each other.
genre: ex-lovers to lovers, idol!taehyun, idol!reader.
warnings: swearing, alcohol mentions, taehyun is so down bad for reader, make-out session, let me know if I missed anything!
♫“Now that she’s back in the atmosphere with drops of Jupiter in her hair…”♫
Taehyun stood there in shock, a towel wrapped around her neck, sweat dripping down his face, and boxing gloves in one hand, his water bottle in another.
You slowly thinned your lips in a line, not expecting to see him again so soon after getting back from tour.
And the thing was, Taehyun wasn't either. He knew you got back to Seoul a few days ago(thanks to his amazing stalking skills aka stealing Soobin’s phone and Instagram account to look at yours), but he wasn’t expecting you to be standing inside the elevator when the doors opened after he just finished his gym workout.
All Taehyun could do was look at you and take notice of how uncomfortable you looked. It took everything in him to not burst into tears and rush over to you.
You also wanted nothing more than to go to him, but after everything that happened with the two of you…you knew you couldn’t.
“Taehyun!!!” your group members cheered.
It took Taehyun a second to register his name being called by your group mates, he didn’t even realize they were in the elevator with you.
The oldest member, and the leader, pulled Taehyun into the elevator, and the doors closed.
“Perfect timing!” She cheered, “Soobin called us all for a meeting!”
“Did he?” Tae said barely above a whisper, “I had no idea…”
Your leader realized she spoiled the secret meeting, you also had no idea what was going on until you were dragged inside the HYBE building.
And by the looks of it, Soobin kept it a secret from Taehyun too.
You noticed how…sad he looked. Part of you hoped he’d be happy to see you, but you also understood that he probably would have been happy if the circumstances were different.
It’s been over a year since you’ve seen him.
Taehyun and you secretly dated, not from your companies or bandmates, but from the world.
You and your group just freshly debuted and your first album was a major hit. So you all went out to celebrate at a club that the group Tomorrow X Together just happened to be at as well.
And that’s how you met Taehyun. The two of you hit it off so smoothly, even made out in the back of the club. Granted, you both were drunk and out of it, but when you woke up that next morning with a text from him with his name saved as “Tyun💚” saying how he wanted to take you out on a date and properly kiss you…you were so down bad.
He was everything you could have ever wanted. He opened doors for you, and always waited outside your company building or dorm building until you texted him saying you made it to where you needed to be safely before he left. Always made sure you were warm, giving you his jacket or wrapping you closely in his arms. Always making sure you ate and drank water and if you didn’t he would be practically breaking down your dorm or company's door down to give you food. He took care of you.
You fell hard for him and loved everything about him. From the way he has his little shy habits, to the way he said your name and how you looked at you. Loved the way he’d lay you down on his bed and make love to you like you were the greatest thing that was put on this earth.
But as fast as everything came together, it just as quickly crashed and burned.
Rumors between the two of you started circulating, articles being popped out by every famous news site every single day. And it tore at your relationship.
You were ready to go public. Ready to step into that light with him.
But Taehyun…wasn’t.
It was the first major disagreement the two of you had. You’ve had fights, sure, but it was never like this.
To say Taehyun was scared would be an understatement. It was already bad enough that he had to be careful and watch every movement or word he said. The public eye was ruthless and the last thing he wanted was your name to get dragged in the mud. You were Taehyun’s first real relationship, he’s dated around sure, but it was nothing compared to you.
You and Tae couldn’t get to an agreement which ultimately ended your relationship.
“Guess you really don’t actually care or love me enough to go public, because if you did this would be such an easy decision to make but apparently it’s not. Goodbye, Taehyun.”
It was the last thing you said to him as you stormed out of his dorm room, leaving him sitting on his bed watching as you walked out of his life.
Taehyun regretted not chasing after you every single day since then. Regretting not listening to you and giving it a chance.
He was so in love with you, and he wished he could have said that instead of watching you leave.
Not even a week later your company announced that your group was going on a world tour and was hitting the airport a month later.
You felt like you needed this, to get out and away from Seoul and from him. It was the perfect way to get space and to help you move on.
But here you were, back in Seoul and here he was standing in front of you, and your heart still beats for him all the same.
To say Taehyun was pissed would be silly, he was more than pissed. You could practically see the smoke blowing from his ears as he stormed up to Soobin, fists clenched and jaw locked.
“Want to tell me why this was kept as a secret!?!”
Soobin just stood there, an awkward smile on his face as he glanced between his bandmate and your group, “Surprise?”
Oh, Taehyun will show him a surprise later. Of his fist meeting Soobin’s perfect nose.
It didn’t take long for the rest of the TXT members to appear, everyone giving their greetings and hugs.
“It’s nice seeing you again,” Yeonjun said, pulling you into a tight hug, “How was your tour?”
You hugged him back, “It was great, seeing the world is always fun.”
Yeonjun smiled at you. You could tell he was genuinely happy to see you again after so long.
Besides, both your groups got close during your time dating Taehyun.
Once both groups settled down, your leader and Soobin announced why we were all gathered here today.
A collaboration.
And also apparently everyone knew about this collaboration…except you and Taehyun. Because of course, why not?
The song would be a love song(because of course, it would be). It would be so upbeat and happy. The choreography would be of two lovers dancing together in perfect harmony. The promotions would be through TikTok with the challenge, along with posting them on Instagram and Twitter. It honestly was a great idea and really beautiful, whoever came up with this idea was a genius.
But the problem was you and Taehyun.
After the breakup and going no contact, the effect on the media was…well negative. Went just about as good as you’d thought. Mostly after both you and Taehyun “admitted” to the media that there was no relationship at all.
You were both awkward, not looking at each other or even interacting at all during the whole meeting.
This is exactly why Soobin didn’t tell Taehyun and your leader didn’t tell you.
Once you and your group left, Taehyun was both in his fierce anger, “Why didn’t you tell me Bin?!?”
Soobin shuddered under the use of his nickname being thrown out of the younger mouth the way it did.
“Because I knew you would either have A: not shown up, or B: busted down the doors and made it even more awkward between the two of you.”
Point…taken. Tae knew that if he did know about this collaboration, he would have done everything possible to make himself look presentable for you.
Man was so down bad for you still and it showed by his actions throughout the following week.
Anytime you needed water? Tae was jumping up to grab you a bottle. Hungry? He was rushing to grab you a snack.
You sneezed? He was grabbing the tissue box.
You had to admit, it was cute and you adored it, but it still felt so awkward and everyone else was noticing it too. You two barely spoke to each other at all but he was at your every waking call.
Before you knew it two weeks had flown by and the song was officially recorded and completed. Now all that was felt was finishing up the choreography, filming the music video, and making the TikToks, which was the real challenge.
Mostly because your groups decided to put the two of you together as the “lovers” of the music video and dance challenges in a way and hopes of getting the two of you to rekindle and make up.
The group practices were awkward and nerve-racking.
You didn’t understand why both leaders decided it was a good idea, why any of this was a good idea.
You both had comebacks soon, shouldn’t each group just be focusing on that?
You arrived at the HYBE building early for practice, wanting to get a head start and prepare yourself for the next two hours.
Today would be the day they finally have you and Tae work together on the dance. Before today it was just the two of you mirroring the choreographers, but today was the real deal.
Unfortunately for you, Taehyun had the same idea.
You walked into the practice room, already seeing him in the middle of the room doing stretches.
His heart nearly dropped seeing you, “Oh, hi YN…”
“Hello..” you softly whispered back, making your way into the room.
He didn’t know what to say. Everything was so awkward, and he had no idea how to fix it.
“I’ll just…” he pointed to the door, slowly starting to walk out.
“You don’t have to leave,” you quickly said, “We have to practice together today anyways, might as well stay.”
Tae just nodded, trying to think of anything to start a conversation with you. But failing anyway.
“We don’t have to do this,” you finally said, sitting down on the floor to start your own stretches, “Let’s just get through this until the promotions are over.”
Without understanding why, your words were all it took for him to cut his shyness away.
“Is that really what you want?”
The way he said it was enough to send chills down your spine, he wasn’t stumbling over his words, showed no sign of being awkward, and it was so clearly cutthroat.
You just shrugged, “It’s probably what you want.”
Taehyun scoffed, “There you go again acting like you know what I want.”
And now you were pissed.
“Excuse me?” You snapped, jumping to your feet.
“I said what I said, YN,” He said with a roll of his eyes, “You’ve been acting like you know what I want ever since our relationship went toxic.”
“Oh, please then Kang Taehyun, tell me what it is you want since I seem to be unknowing.”
He folded his arms over his chest, “I want us to drop whatever this is, and rekindle our once friendship, we are stuck with each other whether we like it or not.”
You knew he was right, and it would benefit both groups to just… makeup.
So you nodded, “Fine, we can do that.”
Taehyun relaxed, but not because you agreed to rekindle, but because of the way your eyes glossed over, “Hey hey, why are you crying?”
He walked closer to you, his hands hovering, not knowing if touching you was acceptable. You took a few steps away from him.
“YN, please talk to m—“
“How can I just rekindle everything with you when my heart isn’t over everything? Isn’t over you. It must have been so easy for you.”
Taehyun tilted his head in confusion, “What?”
You wiped your eyes with your palms, “I stalked your socials pretty much every single night while I was gone on tour,” you admitted. If the two of you were going to rekindle, might as well unload everything, “I saw how happy you were, saw all the interactions, and you got over me so easily. Makes sense since you didn’t want to go public about our relationship.”
Taehyun was stunned, how could you possibly think he was over you? He’s the biggest simp for you, has that not been obvious with how he did everything possible for you since you’ve been here? Did you think it was just something he was doing out of pure habit?
“You’re not over me?” was all Tae was able to say, those words repeating over and over in his head.
You rolled your eyes, “Is that all you heard out of all that? Seriously Taehyun? I can’t believe—“
And you were cut off. Taehyun had his arms wrapped around you, lips crashing to yours. His body going on autopilot and pressing you up against the mirrored wall.
Part of you wanted to fight him, the other part wanted to bring him closer. You chose to bring him closer, snaking your fingers into his hair.
“I am nowhere close to being over you,” he whispered between kisses, his hands flying to either side of your head, trapping you against him and the mirror.
You pulled away from the kiss, leaning your head against the mirror, wanting to see the look on his face when you asked him to repeat himself.
“I said I am nowhere close to being over you, YN,” he pressed his forehead against yours, “I stalked your socials with Soobin’s accounts. I watched every single fancam that came out of you. Saved every cute selfie you posted and counted down the days until you landed back in Seoul.”
You took a deep breath and it came out more shaky than you wanted, “Why? You didn’t want to go public with me.”
“Because I was scared,” he took a deep breath as well, “I was a coward, I was stupid. I was scared of how the media would treat you after it was out. I am in love with you, YN, and not a day goes by that I don’t regret the decision I made.”
You kept eye contact with him the entire time he spoke. You knew him inside and out. You could see just how badly this breakup was killing him now that he had broken down those walls.
“I kept praying, hoping that while you were out there amongst all the space of this big ole world that you’d miss me so bad and by some act of fate to bring you back to me.”
Your hands reached up, cupping his face, “I did miss you. More than I can even admit.”
“I am so sorry, YN, and I cannot ever forgive myself for letting you go so easily.”
His eyes teared up, his heart rate paced faster and he felt like if he didn’t push away from you right now he would completely break down.
“Then don’t let me go now.”
He searched your eyes, “What?”
“Don’t let me go,” you pressed your lips back to his, “please don’t let me go.”
It’s all he needed to hear to press his body completely against yours, kissing you so hard and passionately as if these kisses would make up for the year you were away from him.
He parted your lips with his tongue, letting the muscle explore your mouth, a small moan escaping.
“God,” he whispered between a kiss, “I’ve missed your sweet sounds,”
You giggled against his lips, “You can’t just say things like that.”
“I can’t help it,” he placed his forehead back against yours, “You make me crazy.”
Before you could reach up for his lips again, the practice room door opened, forcing Taehyun away from you and you to quickly rush away from the mirror.
Huening Kai was the first in the room, him stopping to raise a brow at you two, barely seeing how you both rushed away from each other, “Did we interrupt something?”
Taehyun hummed, “Hmm? Oh, nah! We just got here early.”
Soobin wasn’t buying it, mostly not after seeing Taehyun’s handprints on the mirror, “I am guessing the two of you made up?”
You and Tae glanced at each other, small smiles filling your faces.
“More like made out,” Beomgyu said, clearly grossed out, “Can’t even hide the obvious boner he has and how fucked his hair looks.”
Taehyun slowly turned and faced the mirror, seeing the state his body was in, “I am going to kill you Beomgyu,”
With the two of you making up, and ultimately deciding to give your relationship a second chance, the rest of the recording of the music video and the TikToks for the promotions went by smoothly.
Once the song was released and all the videos dropped, you and Taehyun were the talk of the town.
The public’s reaction was better than Tae hoped, it eased his mind and he was finally ready to go public with you. Ready to show you off to the world. To let everyone know that he, Kang Taehyun, cuffed you.
And that he was never going to let you go again.
a/n: I am so sorry that this probably sucks...it was very rushed and I lost inspiration for it since this sat in my drafts for so long. I hope you all still enjoy it.
