No Strings Attached || ON HOLD

Chapter 14

(Readers' Pov)

I woke up feeling feverish and numb, my limbs reluctant to stretch out. The duvet was up over my face. I lifted it up, exposing my eyes to the dimly lit room.

How long had I been sleeping?
It Felt like forever.

The last of my memory was curling into Anna's lap, grateful for her soft pats on my head. Everything felt alright when Anna was there with me.

"You're up!" I heard Anna's voice and lifted myself up on my elbows.

There she was, walking from across the room to my bedside.

"What time is it?" I mumbled, my throat dry and voice hoarse from the slumber.

She pulls the curtains apart slightly, giving me a view of the night sky.

Wait-Night?!

"It's 8:30, hun" she replies."You were asleep for almost 24 hrs"

How could I...well this was certainly not good.
I tried lifting up my body to sit upright against the headboard but the movement gave me a sharp flinching pain in my head.

Fuck, Migraine!

"Headache?" Anna said, knowing me all too well. Oversleeping always gives me the worst migraines so a sleep of over 20 hours sure had me at my worst.

"I'll get you the medicines and something hot to drink, but first you need to hydrate–" she pushed a glass of warm water in my hand by the aggressive force of a mum and I drank up without resistance.

"Here"–she handed me a couple of pills. I didn't know what they were for but I recognized them from the time when I used to have anxiety meds. She still carries them with her, just in case if something happens.

Yesterday something did happen.

A knock on the door grabs my attention.

Anna let out an exhaustive sigh.

"That's The BTS members checking up on you for the millionth time! I have been shooing them away throughout the day...do you want me to let them in?"

"Umm no I-I don't feel like talking much right now..."

"Okay, if that's what you want" she replies and goes to the door.

She cracks it to open a little and I hear the buzz of their noises faintly though I can figure out Taehyung's voice distinctively.

After a while Anna walks back in and climbs on the bed, sitting cross-legged while facing me.

"I have sent them away for now but Tae made me promise to him that you will meet him later in the night. he wants to take you 'sightseeing'! " she exclaimed, mimicking commas with her fingers.

It made me laugh and we both giggled for a few seconds before the reality again hit us.

"Do you wanna talk about it? you shouldn't keep it in..."

She was right. I shouldn't keep it to myself. It will only pull me down further.

"What happened out there? tell me from the start..." she said, encouraging me to go ahead.

I recalled the whole incident in my head, trying not to waver and slip down again in the spirals of fear.

"I was waiting outside the coffee shop when umm I felt this -I felt like someone was standing behind me. I shrugged it off first but then I heard him. and I knew it was him-" I stopped , breathing in deeply.

I couldn't let my emotions take control of me again. "–and then I heard him. And I knew it was him. "

"Who, y/n?" Anna asked though I could tell she already knew the answer. "Mark?" she whispered hesitantly and I nodded.

Because it was Mark.

"Mark?" She asks again, reassuring herself.
I mumble a yes. I know she doesn't believe me. I wanted her to believe me. I know I will tear up again if I think down that road.

"Hey, hey, look at me..." she said, shifting closer and taking my hands in hers.

"I believe you, Y/n, I do. it's just that- you know he is in jail, right? that too in London! It's kinda impossible for him to be here..."

She gives me time to think. I stress myself to recall deeply yet still I'm sure it was him.

However weird and impossible it may seem, I'm sure it was him.
I would never forget his voice. I have tried.

I could never.

But then again, Anna's argument was right too. He was in jail. How could he be here in France of all the places?

Was my head messing with me again?
Why is it starting to mess with me again?!

"You are right , Anna...it's probably just my mind playing games again..I'm sorry –I must have troubled you" I finally say, though my mind refuses to be at rest.

A voice inside my head keeps saying that it really was Mark.

Anna hugs me, and I embrace her warmth, trying to ignore the voices inside my head.
I have to keep sane.

"Whatever it was- it's in the past. Now just focus on having fun here, okay? Go out with Tae and have the time of your life !" She says excitingly and I force a smile too.

Thankfully, the thought of spending time with Taehyung did make me feel a little better.
It gave me a reason– He gave me something to look forward to.

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