😍 Love Yourself 😍

Chapter 1: The End of the World

"Where are you going y/n?" my mom said. My mom always carried her signature beautiful smile with her. Whenever I was with her I felt safe, like there was nothing in the world that could hurt me.

"N-nowhere," I said. At this point, I was a giggling ball of joy. I quickly swerved around countless cars trying to not get tickled. Getting tickled wasn't fun. Ok, maybe it was just a little fun. 

The parking lot we were in was the closest thing we had to a "playground". Our family was one of the many that had become unemployed during the weeks after the fall of Fin Industries. It didn't take a genius to understand that we weren't rich anymore. 

During my adventurous run, I ran head-on into the boy from next door. "Hey, you got in my way!" I screamed at him. The innocent boy only stared back at me. Not understanding why he was getting scolded, he could only start crying. Great, just great.

"Oh no, don't cry," I tried to distract him. "My name is Y/N."

"My name is Jungkook..." He answered hesitantly, sniffling while doing so.

Satisfied that he even gave me an answer, I turned around to see my mom catching her breath with her hands on her knees.

"Hey mom, I'm going to play with Jungkook, ok?" My mom flashed me a thumbs up, letting me know that I could play with him. I whipped my head around back to Jungkook.

"Jungkook do you want to play hide and seek."

"Sure Noona!"  For the first time since I met him, he looked excited.

I gave him 10 seconds, and then the chase was on. I saw him run and hide behind a red Nissan car. He was oblivious to the fact that I had been watching him for the last few seconds. I decided to give him a few more seconds before I began hopping around pretending to look for him.

"Come out, come out wherever you are!" I heard faint giggling coming from behind the red car. It was nice to hear laughter caused by me. Most of the time it was as if I didn't exist to the kids around me. There was no one who knew me, let alone someone to laugh at my jokes. Except for my mom.

I slowly crept to Jungkook's hiding spot, tip-toeing my way there, careful to not let him hear me coming.

"BOO!" Jungkook let out a bloodcurdling scream. Poor kid was a scaredy-cat. Unfortunately, this won't be the first time he screams because of me, I thought.

Now that I had found Jungkook, I couldn't help wonder where my mom had gone off to. I heard loud horns behind me, but I saw no sign of my mom.

"Mom? Mom where are you?" I made my way around the parking lot to no avail. I was about to give up and take Jungkook back to his house when I saw blood coming from near the car that was honking. I looked up and screamed. That was when everything came crashing down. It was when my world ended.

My head throbbed as I regained consciousness. I tried to focus on the faint voices around me but doing so only caused more pain. Nevertheless, I forced myself to fight through the pain and fluttered my eyes open.

There was a news reporter on the screen who was practically screaming her lungs out, I couldn't tell if it was caused by astonishment or fear. Or maybe it was both. THE END OF THE WORLD IS NEAR   was written in red bold letters. Well, that was new. If anything I expected the end of the world to have been sooner.

That was when I saw her.

She was an exact replica of me, or was she me? Was she a long-lost twin sister I didn't know about? Was she a government spy who got plastic surgery to look like me so that she could kill me and then take my place?!!??!?!?!?!?!?! I didn't want to die, at least not without getting back at Jungkook.

To my surprise, I saw the same thoughts appear on her face.

"Who are you?" I croaked out.

"I'm Y/n. The real question is why do you look like me?" She snapped back.

"You can't be Y/n, I'm Y/n."

"Listen to me whoever you are. I am the real  Y/N."

I let out an exasperated sigh sensing that this wouldn't go anywhere. Ignoring the other "me" who was now just as annoyed, I looked back at the TV.

"All around the world, people are meeting their doppelgangers. Many accidents have occurred as people are appearing randomly," Reporter 1 said. Soon her doppelganger joined her in announcing the news. 

"Scientists are unsure as to how this happened. They think it may be caused by parallel worlds colliding. We'll provide more updates as soon as we learn more. As always, make sure to stay safe. Have a good day to both you and your doppelganger." 

The news ended leaving me alone with my friends and the other "me". By this time there were doubles of Yoongi, Jimin, and Namjoon.

I made eye-contact with the other "me". For the first time since we met, she smiled at me. Maybe this would be fun.