Dreams of Arcadia

18

Was that disgusting guy following me? I kept stopping just to see if anyone was coming out of the shadows, but each time the footsteps stopped too. As I walked past an alleyway from which there was an echo, I was no longer sure whether it was really just one person. But it could also be the echo, which is why the footsteps sounded double. After a while, I'd had enough and turned around angrily.

"Park Jinyoung... if you don't stop following me, I'll rip out your ugly crippled legs and you can try to follow me while jumping on your ballsack." I shouted into the darkness, which suddenly erupted into giggles.

"How do you talk to your hyung? And how do you know it's me?" I heard an all too familiar voice and even as my eyes widened, I bowed deeply to him to apologize.

"I'm so sorry, sunbae.... I thought it was the other one..." I said hastily as I stood up again and saw Jinyoung and Youngjae standing in front of me. Jinyoung looked at me skeptically, while Youngjae couldn't stop laughing.

"Could you please not mention me in the same breath as this something that just happens to have the same name as me? I'd be very grateful for that," he said, visibly repulsed by the thought of his former boss.

"If it wasn't so funny that little Changi got you mixed up, I'd be upset now that the puke is here too... you wish him dead for years just so he dies with you and you're stuck with him forever... great..." Youngjae then said.

"Well, be careful with your wishes, they could come true..." muttered Jinyoung with a sigh.

"By the way, he's not far from us, we should get out of here before he sees us and wants to make friends with us." I informed them and their eyes widened.

"Then chop-chop, let's make landfall." Jinyoung urged us stressed, whereupon we continued running.

"Is there anyone else from GOT7?" I asked and saw Youngjae shake his head.

"No, we were there alone, Jinyoung really wanted to see Dreamcatcher's performance and because he had to follow Jiu, dragged me along... we ended up here." Youngjae complained.

"I'm sorry too... How many times do I have to apologize?" Jinyoung asked his friend.

"Yeah, it's fine... at least you can tell her I followed you to your death, marry me Kim Minji..." he imitated kissing noises and got a little slap on the back of the head, which made me laugh. Even though I had enjoyed the solitude at first, it was nice to have company again. Now I just had to find the others and see who was here. We walked for a while when we passed a paper container whose lid was closed, but from which you could hear rumbling and shouting.

"Oh come on Yeosang, let me out again. I was just joking, if Yoongi is your bias then that's ok.... I was just saying that I've texted him Yoongi marry me before too, but that was just a dare San had given me on Truth or Dare.... Sangie... let your hyung out again... please?" we stopped and looked at each other, giggling.

"Should we let the little one out?" asked Jinyoung.

"Is this even something to discuss? Yeosang is over the hill, he'd leave him in there for months." I laughed before opening the lid and finding a visibly surprised Hongjoong.

"Well, haven't you got your members under control?" Youngjae asked with a laugh, earning an annoyed snort from the Ateez Leader.

"He's gone, isn't he?" he wanted to know instead of answering. We looked around and then nodded.

"Is there a naked man running?" he then asked irritably and I dreaded it... please don't let it be JYP...