Fading Away | Taekook

2 - Grave

"Fuck, fuck, FUCK! What a terrible way to die!", Jungkook sighed as he shivered from the cold inside his car.

Almost three hours after leaving Busan, he found himself needing to pee, so he pulled his car to the side of the empty road and emptied his bladder on the grass.

Feeling relieved Jungkook went back to his car and tried to start it, but it was dead. No sign of life in the goddamn thing.

The boy was on one of his alternative routes along the more rural isolated paths, without knowing where he was exactly as his car apparently suffered an electrical breakdown and died, causing him to lose access to the GPS and his beloved phone was resting in peace with zero battery on the passenger seat.

Sounds like something that would happen on a horror movie, he thought.

It was a desolate place, pure vegetation and some sort of farming that he could not define what it was. Green (with a layer of snow) as far as the eye could see, with no sign of intelligent life or civilization.

The boy's first reaction was to sit down and wait for a car or someone to pass by and help him in some way. Whether it was with a phone call to a tow truck or a ride, but as the night fell, the snow got heavier and the weather got colder, Jungkook decided to randomly pick a direction and walk, praying that luck stand by his side and he would see a person, city, house, store, anything.

After half an hour of walking and still seeing no sign of life in the area, Jungkook decided that would be smarter to return to his car and try to protect himself from the late Decembers fucking cold that was punishing his body, so he went back.

In one last attempt, he tried again to jump-start his car's battery using the portable jump-starter he had in his trunk, but without success.

With his face already numb and his nose running, he went back into his car, opened his backpack and began to dress in as many clothes as possible to try to stop the shaking of his body.

The boy wasn't sure how much time has passed, he is not sure if his body has warmed up or if he has just started to stop feeling the ends of his feet and hands because his body is still spasming.

"What a terrible way to die".

Tired and with no other alternatives, he closed his eyes.

"Dark, cold and silent. This is my grave," he thought.

With his eyelids still closed his eyes caught a light.

"Oh, the infamous tunnel."

And then a bang.

Jungkook screamed.