Serein | Phase I

14. Still With U

You can listen to the above song along with captions before reading the chapter♡

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They laid him on the floor, his head was in TAEHYUNG's lap and was surrounded by his other hyungs, the seven trainees silently looking at them.

"His body already feels like boiling, we need to get him changed. We can't risk going to a hospital at this moment." SEOKJIN said.

"I have some clothes in the other room but I ain't sure if it would fit him." hoseok said thinking.

"It would fit him, come on let's get them" HOSEOK said and walked along with his younger self out of the room. They were back within minutes.

"Hyung take these," hoseok said to JIMIN.

"Hyung I'll still be younger to you, you need not use honorifics for me," JIMIN said taking them.

"Yall please move out of the room since your jungkook is not comfortable in changing front of you, don't make him uncomfortable by staying here," NAMJOON said which was a cue for the eight other guys in the room to move out to the hallway.

Mr Bang asked the staff to search the whole building and find if there were any blankets, luckily they found two and brought them to JUNGKOOK.

One of them was placed under him and one covering him. JUNGKOOK was woken up but he wasn't yet totally conscious, more like dizzy it was done just to make him change himself and then put to sleep.

Finally, the six guys took a breath of relief.

"Why didn't he eat anything?" SEOKJIN asked out of nowhere.

"He didn't eat? We thought he did which is why he didn't have an appetite," namjoon replied, confused.

"No he didn't and he didn't sleep as well," YOONGI said.

"Hyung how are you sure about that?" jimin asked.

"Jungkook won't pass out like this by normal fever or tiredness, if he can make through a whole concert with extreme fever, rain was nothing for him." TAEHYUNG replied.

"Something is wrong... you all have any clue on what was bothering him?" NAMJOON asked thinking.

"He said he wanted to be back with you guys, we didn't dig much in since he was not much comfortable with it." Mr Bang replied.

"Who used to wake him up?" Asked SEOKJIN.

"No one since he would be awake already," said hoseok.

"Impossible!" JIMIN.

"He would never get up on his own, he might have never slept," YOONGI said.

That's when something struck jungkook, he has a habit of writing down many things which he doesn't like speaking up about. He got up, gaining the attention of all elders in the room. He picked up the notebook his older self was using.

"You should look here, I like writing everything which I don't want to share, maybe older me also does the same," He said passing on the notebook, SEOKJIN took it.

"Thanks Kookie," He said opening it, the younger smiled at the nickname.

There were a lot of scribbles here and there, the words felt like lyrics to them. SEOKJIN passed it on to YOONGI and JOON since they have a better lyrical perspective. The lyrics read:

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That faint voice of yours that grazed me
Please call my name one more time
I'm standing under the frozen light, but
I'll walk step by step towards you
Still with you

We laugh together, we cry together
I guess these simple feelings were everything to me

When will it be?
If I face you again
I will look into your eyes
And say I missed you

That moon looks lonely
Feels like it's crying in the bright night sky
Even though I knew it was going to be morning one day
I wanted to stay in your sky like a star
Every day, every moment
If I had known this was gonna happen
I would have kept more

Behind the faint smile that looked at me
I'm going to draw a beautiful purple light
We may not be on the same page
But I want to walk this path with you
Still with you

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"He feared being left behind in the past," YOONGI said, reading it.

"Yes, he did say he was scared... is that what he wrote?" Asked jimin.

"He just poured out his thoughts here in the most beautiful way, in the form of a song," JOON said, sighing.

"I guess this is still incomplete " YOONGI said glancing at the note once again.

"I didn't know Jungkook can write that well," hoseok remarked in amusement.

"Kook is good at all things so this one was obvious," SEOKJIN stated.

"PD nim, do you have an umbrella?" HOSEOM asked.

"Uh....yes I have one, why?"

"Can we borrow it, we need to go out and get some clothes or we'll catch a cold in these wet ones" He replied, pointing to his own attire.

"I'll come with you too," JIMIN said.

Both of them went out to a store nearby, changed one of the trial rooms and took four more pairs of clothes for their members.

They got back to the building passed on the casuals to the members and sat beside their maknae.

While they were gone, bts were discussing over the way they'll look in the future, Taehyung looked so damn handsome that he was shook upon seeing himself, Jimin was happy to see on how thin he looked then, Namjoon was surprised that he looked good and didn't need any of those glasses, Hoseok who thought he isn't much good looking but was also in awestruck by his older self's looks, Yoongi was silently watching himself he wasn't much cold but at the same time gave the coldest vibe, he liked it, Jin on the other hand was having an inferiority complex seeing that now there were many in the room who looked more handsome than him, even from his own older self.

The hyung line went away to get meds and somethings to eat. They came back and handed everyone's favourite shakes and juices to them. The younger ones noticed at how well they knew about each other's preferences and brought the drinks without even asking the others.

[ — — — End of Flashback — — — ]

[I know yall forgot that this was a flashback (☞ ͡° ͜ ʖ ͡° )☞]