"But it's my fault that we agreed to be f.uck buddies".

Taehyung stopped doing whatever he was doing. He looked into her eyes. He slowly caught Cherry's wrist without tearing his gaze from her.

"Cherry", he relieved a heavy sigh. "We talked about this. I thought you're over it- I thought you're okay with that". His tone was slightly became more serious and it kneaded with an ounce of worry.

"I am-", but then she shook her head, "I don't know". Cherry pulled away her hand and balled her hands into tiny fists. Her back touched the locked door. And before she knew it, Taehyung was already in front of her, pinning her against the door to avoid her from running away.

"What do you mean, Cherry?", he asked.

"N- nothing- I- I gotta go".

"Not until you tell me. Please, what the f.uck is wrong with me? Or us? Or what- please te-".

"I think we need a time off".

Taehyung loosened his grip. His lips slightly gapped. The crests between his brows got more deeper. He was obviously taken aback from Cherry's statement.

"W- what? A time off- For what, Cherry?".

"I just think I need it. We need it", she dropped her gaze to Taehyung's incomplete buttoned shirt at his chest.

Taehyung forced her to look at him after he firmly placed his hands on the sides of her neck. He leaned so close that his hot uneven breaths can be felt on Cherry's blushing skin. "Look at me, please", he begged, "Please, tell me what happened? Why this all of the sudden? We were doing fine".

The words accumulated inside her barely escaped through her lips when Taehyung descended his head and purposely touched her lips with his briefly. Her limbs weakened at the slight touch and unknowingly followed his intentions. She cursed herself for falling hard under his spell that she being the first to make a move and crashed her lips to his. They needed no longer than a second to match their rhythm and the brief kiss turned into a passionate make out.

The moment Taehyung buried his head at Cherry's neck, a sudden flash of her denial played in her head. She pushed Taehyung gently, leaving an unreadable expression on his face.

"We shouldn't do this", she shook her head. Her palms still flatly positioned on Taehyung's shirt.

"Cherry, please, come clean. Don't f.ucking hide anything from me. I trust you and I supposed you do to as well". Seeing Cherry unable to come up with an answer, he rephrased, "I need you, a- and you need me, w- we need each other. You're my bestfriend". Cherry was surprised to hear those words. Those hurtful truth.

"That's the problem, we needed each other way too much", she raked her hair through her fingers.

"I don't see any problem with that; as a matter of fact, isn't this helped us to be more reliable to one another and have each others' back?".

Damn it. It's because I am starting to fall for you, Cherry thought.

"It's getting annoying", Cherry finally uttered. "I don't want to be around you anymore".

Only Cherry knew how her heart imaginarily bled hard with the lies she had to come up with just now.

Taehyung was speechless and when he fully no longer holding onto her, Cherry took this chance as cue to start her Taehyung-less days, a complete 360° change of life. They mostly did their first times at each other, including sex. Not ready to get more serious and ruin their friendship, Cherry proposed the idea of being f.uck buddies few years back and Taehyung agreed. She initially believed she could handle a friends-with-benefits relationship until few months ago.

Cherry had dated a lot of boys but all ended within few days. And Taehyung was always there to comfort her. He knew what's yes and what's not for her. He never stopped giving her tips to move on and find a better guy. He always be there for Cherry. Right now, Cherry thought of nothing more than blaming herself for proposing such stupid idea. She believed that she should end what she had started. Today.

Cherry opened the door and stepped outside. As she walked, she stopped for awhile and released a heavy sigh.

"I'm sorry, Taehyung".

As soon as she disappeared from his eyes, she knew that things will never be the same again.

To her, all of this is nothing more than a mistake.

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Cherry's POV :

I had sleepless nights for quite some time and I'm practically too numb to feel it before I stared at the mirror on my dressing table one night. I felt guilty for making this decision without empathy.

You're a selfish b.itch, I talked internally.

I looked at my phone to find more than 30 missed calls from Taehyung and almost 50 text messages also from him. I opened my inbox while comfily laying on my bed and read through his texts briefly.

#1 Cherry..

#10 My Cherry, where are you?

#19 Pls answer your phone.

#28 Chaerin..why?

#35 I'm dying to know how the f.uck did I messed up this time

#47 Don't leave me, Cherry. I need you.

I can only pretended not to feel anything for the sake of us. I switched off my phone without leaving any reply to Taehyung and also my bedside lamp. I patted my duvet before slowly sliding underneath it and closed my eyes. Then I think again.

No, it's just me.

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quite short update. i was in the middle of doing something else lol. hope u like this chapter too and pls vote & comment. sorry if there's any grammatical or spelling errors, haven't proof read it. Thanks

ilyall xx