Beauty of love (DISCONTINUED)

- 19 -

When we enter my home, Taehyung gently puts me down on my feet. I give him a shy smile before slowly turning to the girls who are waiting patiently at the side. I bite my bottom lip and open my arms, not really knowing how they'll react, but the way Lisa, Jennie and Jisoo all jump on me at the same time to hug me makes me feel relieved.

Jennie's the first one to let go of me and forces the others to do the same. "Now go take a shower and wear warm clothes, I can feel how much you're freezing. We'll let Taehyung explain what happened in the meantime". Said man turns to her with wide round eyes before slowly nodding. "Yeah, I can do that... take your time, Y/N, we'll be sitting right here when you're done" he says while smiling at me.

(I'm sorry I'm lazy, y'all know what happened, I don't want to repeat myself lmao)

I nod and go to my room to get some clothes and a towel before going to the bathroom. I lock the door behind me and look at my reflection in the mirror. I have hair sticking to my forehead from sweating so much earlier and I look like an overall mess with my puffy eyes. The warm water should help me relax from all the stress I lived earlier. Running for my life from a vampire is indeed traumatic enough.

I get undressed and step into the shower, letting the water wash down every trace of sweat down the drain. I massage my shoulders a little to release some of the tension and proceed to wash my body, face and hair. I allow myself to stay a little longer before getting out, knowing that the others won't mind. Today has been intense and to be taking my second shower is clear indication that it was not spent sitting calmly on the couch.

I think back to when Taehyung found me earlier, the way he threw that vampire away as if he was a tiny little rock, how we connected and then bonded. I can't be mad about it really, his presence was highly needed and more than comforting in the middle of my panic. My memory when his eyes stared into mine was of after he left his mark on me. Sweet words of love, no sign of any danger, of any lost control. Just cute smiles and snuggling.

It made my heart fill with butterflies, to know that it was possible to be happy with them even with my condition. It really makes me feel better, to know that my blood won't drive them crazy. Not in small quantities anyway. The mark is a big deal for vampires, so I'm glad to see that it can be beautiful for me as well and not something terrifying like my brain made me believe for so long.

But I can't forget about Yoongi's memory. It concerns me, I'm sure of that. But if I'm not the one he's getting mad at, then who? He looked so broken and none of them seemed to be aware of my presence, as if I wasn't really there. I wish I could dig further, find out why and make sure it doesn't happen, but it's never that easy. No matter what I do, reality will hit me strong and nothing will change. It scares me.

I eventually make my way out of the shower and dry myself off before getting dressed. I brush my hair and step out with a smaller towel to remove the excess water. I see them sipping on some drinks in the living room, the vampires drinking something highly alike to blood, which it is, half of it anyway. All eyes fall on me and I freeze a little, having four pair of intimidating eyes on me is not really inviting.

Taehyung pats the space next to him, so I slowly make my way to him under their watchful eyes. Once seated, he gets the towel from my hands and proceeds to dry my hair softly for me.

"So, Taehyung explained a few things, Rosé did too this morning, about how they're all your soulmates and only found out today. But you apparently connected with one of them some weeks ago and both of you kept quiet because you didn't want this, well, mostly you. Although I can understand your fears, I just don't get why you stayed quiet about this to us. You do realize that you were lucky Hoseok realized the situation when he did, you could be dead by now" she says and I make myself appear smaller under her stern gaze.