It Has Always Been You!

T H I R T E E N

They walked up the stairs and reached the second floor landing to see a few students gathered. When they walked nearer the students made way for them.

"NO!!!" Rosé screamed at the sight in front of her. Along with her, the other members too held a horrified look. Maybe even just for a second they tried tricking their mind in thinking it was a prank, but their eyes didn't lie.

Hoseok's body lay lifeless on his back on a puddle of blood which happened to be oozing out from a slight but deep slit in his throat. A horrible site.

Rosé was going to run towards Hoseok but Taehyung and Jisoo held her back from both sides.

"No no Rosé you can't go now!!" Taehyung shouted.

"No! Let me go!! Let me go! Please!! Please!" She shouted while tears rolled down her cheeks.

Jisoo and Taehyung had to apply a lot of force to keep her in their grip.

"Please let me go. Please!" Rosé said her voice softening.

"Don't leave me, don't leave me Hobi, please don't leave me..." Rosé almost whispered shaking her head, looking at Hoseok and sinking down on her knees. Taehyung and Jisoo sat with her too, turning their heads away, refusing to see Hoseok in that state.

Jennie had also hid her face in Jungkook's arm, while they both stood near Rosé, in tears.

Rosé suddenly went quite. Her tears stopped. She just had a blank look on Hoseok's body. Taehyung and Jisoo looked at each other, understanding that Rosé was losing herself.

"Rosé! Rosé!" Taehyung called shaking her slightly. She turned her head towards Taehyung, her face expressionless.

Taehyung's tears started flowing more seeing Rosé like that.

"Don't be like this Rosé! Please!" Taehyung said shaking Rosé, as if trying to get a toy to speak up.

He hugged Rosé tightly and Jisoo too hugged them from the other side. She felt two other arms around her. She looked up to see Jennie hugging her and Rosé from one side while Jungkook hugged Taehyung and Rosé from the other side.

They sat their hugging each other in a tight bundle, refusing to get up. Finally, after sometime Rosé again broke into tears burying her face in Taehyung's chest, crying endlessly.

They didn't get to see Jimin and Yoongi, but they also knew they wouldn't be able to take the sight of another two of their best friends laying lifeless in front of them. Losing three of their best friends the same day was too much to react to. They felt they didn't have any emotion left in them anymore. They felt like dried shed leaves ready to be crumpled.

But after seeing Hoseok like that, somewhere they all knew one thing - Jimin and Yoongi's accident was not a normal one. Neither was Lisa's.

Four out of nine members in their group were already dead by some or the other weird incidents. And no other person from any other group died.

Was it only their group that was targeted?

Were the other members in danger too?

They didn't seem to find any answer.

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Snow fall had started long ago and it had continued, turning into a snow storm while they were with Hoseok. The snow fall was so heavy that it had blocked all the roads from the city to the hill. The police were unable to reach the hotel due to that.

The teachers and a few staffs had cleaned up the blood and bandaged Hoseok's throat. The group had managed to get the courage and make their friend look good by cleaning him up and changing his blood soaked clothes.

Hoseok's body was layed down on his bed and Rosé had not left his side for a long time. But she had to finally leave him because the police had asked them to turn on the AC of his room to the lowest temperature and freeze the room.

The group bid their last goodbyes to Hoseok and went out of the room never to turn back again.

On the other side Yoongi and Jimin's case was handled before the storm broke out. It was found out that the brake was missing from their car and the speed, along the slope had added to their acceleration which caused the crash in a more horrendous way.

It was 11:30 at night. It kept on snowing all day and it was still snowing. The five of them were in Jisoo's room sitting together, not a word emitting anyone's lips. What could they even talk about?

After a long dead silence Jennie spoke up."Guys it's late and we all haven't eaten anything all day. I think we should eat something."

The four of them looked at Jennie expressionlessly.

"Look we all are sad. Well we all are feeling something which we cannot describe. But we have to take care of our healths so that we can fight whatever comes our way, right? And also we need to relax our minds." Jennie spoke making eye contact with everyone trying to get them to move.

She was right. They really didn't know what was left to come their way, so they would need to be strong in the ways they can be. Also they all would need sleep and they knew it well they wouldn't get sleep being sober.

Jungkook let out a deep sigh and stood up.
"You can go bring some food and I'll bring some wine." Jungkook said.

They both went their ways to the kitchen and to the bar.

Jisoo was sitting beside Rosé all along hugging her sideways. Rosé liked the warmth, after all, her heart was cold. But Jisoo got a call from Jennie telling that she would need help bringing the food, so she gestured Taehyung to sit beside Rosé.

Taehyung gave a nod and sat beside Rosé hugging her sideways. Rosé rested her head on Taehyung's shoulder, as silent tears left her eyes.

Meanwhile, Jungkook entered the room with a tray of five goblets and a bucket with three bottles of wine. Too much for five but they would need it.

Soon after, Jennie and Jisoo came in with their food. They all sat in a circle, Taehyung poured the wine and Jennie served the food.

They ate the food and drank the wine. The wine started kicking in, making them cry the tears which had dried due to shock. Though the room's heater was on, the wine felt like a warm hug which everybody was lacking.

Rosé was the one who had drunk the most but it seemed she needed some confidence and the wine definitely helped her. After eating their food they decided they should probably go back to their rooms and get some sleep.

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Taehyung was sleeping but his sleep was not a deep one. The effect of the wine was kind of fresh and he was still feeling a little drunk. Suddenly he heard some knocking. He thought he heard it wrong but when the knocks came again he realized someone was knocking at his door.

He reached for his phone on the bedside table and checked the time. 2:30am. He got up from his bed and walked towards the door with uncertain steps.

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