Warning: There will be a very brief fade-to-black type of smut at the end.
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²⁵ "This is Hayeong, my girlfriend."
Time stopped around me, my mind becoming a hollow mess for a brief moment before it was filled with intrusive thoughts. My inner voice was screaming at me, telling me to run away and never look back, but all I could do was stand there, succumbing to my thoughts that tugged at my heart until it dropped like a falling tower.
The silence surrounding me turned into ringing, the loud thrumming now filling my head and pounding inside my brain. All I could do was try to remember how to breathe.
"Maya?" Yoongi called out, his voice faint behind my swirling thoughts, but another voice broke me out of my trance.
"Is she okay?" Hayeong asked in an annoyed tone, side-eyeing me as she moved closer to Yoongi, placing her hand on his chest.
²⁶ "S-Sorry," I stuttered, shaking my thoughts and emotions away. It wouldn't make any sense for me to be so affected by hearing this news, since I had only been friends with the boys for a few months, as far as they knew. But behind it all, I had to make my lovers forget me and take them back to their home, finally separating myself from them.
But to them, I was just the girl that found them hidden away in the woods, and someone they were just getting to know. To them, I was a new person. They didn't share the same memories as I had.
"You okay?" Taehyung asked, standing up from the couch to come over to me, placing his hand on my back. His touch made my breath hitch, and I had to force myself to hold my tears back.
The boys looked at me, concerned, and at that point, I was more worried about my reaction to Yoongi's relationship than the reveal of his relationship itself. I had to come up with an excuse.
"I'm sorry, I just. You look just like my friend, Hyunae. I lost her a few weeks ago," I lied, looking up at Hayeong, hiding the venom in my stare.
"Oh, sorry to hear that," Hayeong said, not sounding sincere at all. Without another breath, she looked at Yoongi and continued speaking. "I'm sorry, who is she?"
"Oh! Right," Yoongi smiled, grabbing Hayeong's hand to bring her over to me. They both stood before me and Taehyung, who was still comforting me with a hand on my back. "Babe, this is Maya. She's the woman who found and rescued us from the National Forest."
Hayeong looked at me, raising an eyebrow quickly, then replaced her rather abrasive demeanor with a bright smile. She extended her hand out, and I slowly took it, shaking hands with her.
"So you're the girl who found my boys," Hayeong said, almost questioningly.
Her boys?
I forced a smile onto my face when Hayeong suddenly tightened her grip on my hand, her nails digging into my skin.
"What an honor to meet you," The woman continued, letting go of my hand and pulling her own away, returning it to hold Yoongi's. My eyes followed her hand, but I quickly looked back up and returned my hand back to my side. Crescent marks were left from where Hayeong's nails dug into my skin.
"I, uh... didn't know you had a girlfriend," I laughed awkwardly, now turning to Yoongi.
"Jimin and Hoseok do too!" Yoongi beamed, looking back at Jimin and Hoseok who were lounging on the sofa, listening in on our conversation. "They're in the same group as Hayeong."
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{HIATUS} Éternel: Between Two Worlds (#3)
Fanfiction{ CURRENTLY ON A PUBLISHING HIATUS} "I am no longer the weak little girl I once was. I will not stand and watch the world burn around me. I will do what I was born to do. I will rule. And if need be, I will be the one to burn the world down." ✧┈┈┈┈┈...
