HUNTER. || KSJ

TWENTY-THREE

'I brought you something.' Jin said, coming walking up to me. I was outside, in the courtyard, playing ping pong with Jimin. The younger man had come to me earlier, holding two paddles, asking me if I was up for a 77-point game. Because I had nothing to do after training with Jungkook that morning, and because Jin had gone out for groceries, I had happily accepted his request.

Ping pong wasn't one of my talents.

'What did you bring me?' I said, putting my paddle down, curiously turning towards the broad-shouldered man, who - by now - was smiling as well. From behind his back, a few packets of Pocky appeared, making my eyes widen.
'I ran out of those!'
'I know, that's why I bought them.' He laughed as I took the packages from him, immediately opening one. 'I noticed there weren't any in the cupboard anymore and I haven't seen you walking around with them in the last couple of days either.'
'You're a hero!' I held one of the sticks out to him, offering him a share of my newly acquired loot, but he declined by raising his hand and shaking his head.

'Yah, you never bring me anything.' A pouty Jimin said, also putting his paddle on the table.
'Don't lie; there's honey butter chips upstairs for you.'
'Honey butter?' When Jin nodded, the younger guy immediately ran inside, shouting that we'd finish our game at a later moment. That was alright with me: I wasn't good at this anyway.

'Were you at least winning from him?' Jin said, leaning against the table. I scoffed and looked up.
'I suck at this. You came at just the right time.'
'Then I probably shouldn't ask you to play with me.'
'Why? Are you good?'
'You may not know this, but I'm a ping pong pro.' He cockily crossed his arms, looking quite amused. I just nibbled on another Pocky stick.

'Is that so?'
'Mhm.'
'Show me, then.' I put my stash of snacks safely aside and picked up my paddle again.
'Are you sure?'
'Yes I am, mister pro gamer.'
'Okay, but only if you promise me you won't cry when you lose.'
'I won't.'
'Promise?'
'Yes, promise. Come on, play.' Without questioning my future emotions any further, he picked up the paddle. Sadly, we didn't get an actual chance to play, since Hoseok called us just as Jin was about to serve.

'Sorry to interrupt your game, but Namjoon called us. It's mission-time.'

Yoongi already sat behind the wheel when we arrived at the van, with Namjoon next to him, putting the address in the navigational system. Jin and I took place on a two-seater in the back, with me having a window seat. Behind us, Jimin and Hoseok were laughing about something, and Jungkook and Taehyung were sitting all the way in the back, playing some kind of game together. I was happy I'd taken my Pocky, as we'd left before we had a chance to get dinner. It had also instantly made me into the most popular person in the van, me being the only one who had something to eat.

'Okay, listen up. We have quite the disturbance today. Hotel, now abandoned. It closed after multiple unexplainable deaths of guests. At first they were all believed to be suicides, but there have been reports of an unknown, female voice.' The idea just gave me the chills. So far, they'd only taken me to simple houses, which had already terrified me. The idea that now, we were going to a hotel made me even more anxious. There was something about hotels that just creeped me out; especially the idea of an abandoned one.

'Hotel? Oh, nice, at least we'll have beds to sleep on afterwards!' Taehyung yelled from the back. I knew this whole hunting business was something he grew up with, but sleeping in a place you just hunted evil things in? How on earth was that something that'd even come up in your head?

'We're not sleeping over at the hotel. It's not that far away.'
'Oh. So we'll just go home tonight?'
'Yes, we'll just go home.' At least that was a relief.

I thought I'd hate to see a full-on abandoned hotel, but seeing it looking as if nothing was wrong inside of it - as if everything was normal, fine and definitely not haunted - was way, way worse.