First time I met you

Camping Day- 0

Song- Starboy

         I just cannot stop my eyes from looking at him again and again. Like how? HOW IN THIS WORLD IS THAT POSSIBLE? One hour flight seemed like a day long. The corner of my mind starts thinking about how Violet and Nina would react when I tell them all this happened. The thought kinda excites me and scares me at the same time. 

We landed and his seat was ahead of mine. As we started deboarding I tried my best not to stare at him, well I was too late for that as he caught me looking. I turn away in reflex, embarrassing myself even more and I get off as soon as possible. I am just so grateful I lost him and now that I’ll never see him again it’s such a relief. I see the placard held by some mid forties lady that said, SEOUL CAMPERS HERE! I go straight to the lady and she shows me the direction towards the pickup bus. I find the bus, put my backpack in the luggage compartment and take a seat behind, next to the window. I sigh as I finally remove my mask. The thoughts come again, oh wait it never left. Should I have asked for a picture or something, I ask myself. But ew, no way, he’s here with all that disguise for a reason, how cold are you to be even thinking about it. A girl’s voice shakes my overthinking thoughts. “Hey there, I’m Ji-Ho, what about you?”, she says excitedly. Thankful that she interrupted my stupid thoughts I say, “Hello, Y/n here”. “So where are you from?”, she asks, leaning forward. “I am from Y/country, just here for the holidays”. She makes an O with her mouth in understanding. “I am so excited for the climb, aren’t you?”, she almost squeals in excitement but in a low tone. “Yeah me too”, I say, trying to match her energy. 

She lets me be and as the bus starts moving I could feel my eyes slowly give up. I wake up at the noise of people moving around and a faint voice slowly increasing its volume wakes me up. “Y/n wake up! We’re here!”. Hoping I wasn’t drooling, I anyway wipe my mouth and sit up straight. “Look outside your window, it's so beautiful”, she says. I turn my head to face my window and say, “Damn IT IS!”. God forbid me! This place looks so freaking beautiful. I can’t wait for this whole thing to start. 

 I follow Ji-Ho’s lead and we both pick up our backpacks. I try to scratch as we are asked to gather at a higher place near the entrance of the dorms. All of a sudden I have no idea what got into Ji-Ho, she starts jumping in tiny, squeezing my hands as another bus stops next to ours. “Woah, what's going on?” I ask in pain, trying to pull my hand away as her nails dig into my arm. “I completely forgot to mention about this rumour I had heard about our phones being picked up for the rest of the camping!”, she says as I look at her confused. She tries to calm herself down and asks, “Okay, do you know bts?”. Oh no, that one question sends a thousand arrows into my heart. I know where exactly this is going, I start praying hoping it's not what I am thinking or I am gonna faint for no reason! “Yes”, I say, staring at the people getting down from that bus. My eyes know what exactly I am looking for, that hoodie, that cap, that mask and that pair of eyes. 

I spot him. But surprisingly there is no one around him making a fuss. But I am sure as hell if possible every eye watching him and only him would jump on him at any given chance. Especially the group of girls behind me, who I’d avoid all kinds of conversation with. I can almost hear them squealing but a little twenty times more than Ji-Ho.

He’s walking with someone, also talking with him, I think so. Boy’s already made a friend, of course he would, not like it's impossible or he’s me for that matter I think, completely forgetting about Ji-Ho beside me.  

We all gather up in a huge circle for a quick briefing of the activities and schedules. I don’t know why but my eyes start looking for him and I find him standing exactly opposite to me, already staring at me, with no mask and no disguise.

For what I don’t know, but I could feel my ears turn red, well I might be wrong there because my whole face must be flushing as I don’t have my mask on too. Ugh, why do I keep looking at people I shouldn’t? Embarrassment 3.0.

Once the briefing was done, we were all allowed to pick our dorm mates for now. I see Ji-Ho walking towards me with a girl, gesturing that she’ll be with us and I reply with a cool. As we were busy picking our backpacks from the entrance, mine was trashed so far from my reach. So I make my way to the back and pick my bag. I see the boy I mentioned earlier who was with Jungkook, struggling from afar to reach his bag. “Do you need help”, I ask. “Yeah please”, he says pointing at his backpack. “Here you go”, I say as I hand his huge bag over to him. “Thank you so much”, he says, “No problem”, I say smiling. He pulls his mask down, bowing slightly to return the gesture, AND I think my soul just lost it’s balance inside me. 

How. Did. I. Miss. This. ?. 

JIMIN?