Among The Stars - A BTS Fanfic

Chapter 17

It was eerily quiet as Tae and I step into the studio. Only RM and Jin were there, even though we were not early. If anything, we should be a bit late.

"Where is everyone?" Tae asks as he sits down on a vacant chair and pulls me with him.

"They should be arriving any minute now," Jin replies while he takes over the speech that Tae hands to him.

Soon enough, he turns to the computer and starts making the necessary adjustments.

"Unusual choice of words V." Jin says as he types."It makes sense to me." Tae hums as he taps on the desk.

"You did not want to add or change anything Y/N?" Not to say Jin sounded slightly judgmental, may be skeptical.

"I trust you guys to know what you are doing," I state shrugging. "I would have no idea what to do or say without you all. I appreciate you doing all this for us."

"Not like we were given a choice in the matter," Jin mumbles, too quietly for anyone else but me to hear. His words slightly shook me, however, I chose to ignore them.

One by one, the rest of the boys start gathering in the studio, I notice the air is becoming thicker as more of them arrive. It is almost impossible to breathe. None of them seem to be in the mood to speak, and it is starting to make me slightly uncomfortable.

I smile as Jimin and Jungkook finally join us, but my smile quickly drops as I see that neither of them even looks at me and Tae. They are clearly against this.

I start to have second thoughts about all this. I had the chance to take it all back, make it all go away. Why did I choose not to? And also why did I not care until now? I mean everyone else, save for RM, is clearly against this too. Why did it only bother me after Jimin and Jungkook entered the room?

It got to the point that I didn't feel comfortable anymore sitting on Tae's lap. I quickly get up, making an excuse saying I needed to stretch my legs a bit.

I watch while all the boys give input on their part of the speech, most of them want to either add, take or change something. Eventually, it was time to record it. I had my part memorized, so I just flew through it.

"You're a natural," Tae says and kisses my cheek and I smile while I hear someone gag. Unaware of who it was I choose to ignore it kissing Tae back, on his lips instead. The only worry on my mind is that ARMY really sees through this act.

The evening passed as quickly as a bolt of lightning and somehow, by some miracle, ARMY chose not to vote me out.

It had been a very close call, but they choose to let me stay, at least for now. I don't think I will survive another vote.

After the celebration of my stay, to which I have to add only half the people of the house joined, Tae and I excuse ourselves and head to the hammock. Both of us were slightly tipsy, but still completely in control of our actions. Tae was the one to suggest it, I think he sees that not having Jimin there was having an effect on my mood.

"I'm sorry he didn't come." He says as we are laying there next to each other, cuddling, rocking from side to side, and enjoying the little stars that are still visible through the light pollution coming from our fully lit house.

"It's okay, he will get over it," I say, snuggling against him a bit more and closing my eyes.

The rocking of the hammock made me so relaxed I almost want to fall asleep there. If it wasn't for the slightly cool breeze of the summer evening, I probably would.

"Are you sure it was the right decision to make?" Tae asks, making me open one eye to look at him.

"What do you mean?" We came this far, if ARMY was to be pissed then the harm has been done. They know it's fake, the haters will hate it no matter what.