With Bangtan Boys

I'm Sorry

[MAX POV]

Okay. Summary.

Earlier I felt pity for you-know-who and that feeling's growing (worse). Now I bailed out on Kyu Hyun and the others. I end up all alone.

Great. Just great.

I slumped down a wall on the back of a flats building. Night had fallen, and I was terribly exhausted. My nose still ached from Jin's punch and my head hurted real bad. I took a deep breath to try and ease it.

My thoughts raced back to when Tae Min aided me. I kept remembering his face, the look of horror, as if I grew an extra head or something, and the way he frantically spoke. Then Bambam appeared. The smile on his face when he spoke with "kindness" as the others would call it. That one smile ticks me off. It's as if he's hiding something, trying to act all happy the goody-two-shoes he is. It's innocent appearance and it's devilish reality.

I saw BTS. My mind flashed back to the day when I first arrived at school on my first day. The seven boys were all laughs and happiness, pure happiness. J-Hope frequently telling jokes... Su Ga and Jung Kook arguing over their food... Ji Min and V acting like twins... Jin the fatherly... And then there was Ji Ryeong. Beauty fooling us to fall easily for her trap, suiting her perfectly with her kind and shy personality. No wonder we boys go crazy for her... Kyu Hyun and Tae Min had to ruin it. Brats.

I heard a bark, a small squeal actually, and I turned to find a tiny puppy, wagging It's fluffly tail. The puppy barked again and I felt laughter build up inside of me.

"Hey there," I cooed. "Chu doing out here alone?" I thought perhaps the puppy had a collar but as it stepped out into the moonlight I saw that the dark shape around its neck was a patch of black fur. The puppy jumped onto me and started licking my face. "What the-! Hey stop! Stop pleasepleaseplease stooooooop!" I found myself laughing at its ticklish tongue, lapping saliva all over my cheeks.

I lifted it in front of my face, my hand comfortable in the soft white fur, so it wouldn't lick me anymore. The puppy barked and I smiled at it. "Really now, go home!" I ruffled its head with my free hand and it snuggled into the touch. Sheesh! What a child!

I got up to leave and walked on, completely forgetting about the exhaustion. The pain in my nose reduced to a dull throb and was hardly noticeable until I pinched the bridge to (try and fail) relieve my headache that still resided.

I walked on in silence for about a few more minutes and I reached a neighborhood. As I walked past the houses, I felt the same feeling as I had earlier. I somehow regretted being involved with TNM and that I wanted to change sides. I dreaded the moments of war against BTS, and I wanted to start things over, I wanted to go with them.

Ji Ryeong... I'm so sorry. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. I promise that I will never do what those evil bastards tell me to. I promise I will help BTS and your brothers protect you. I promise this.

Promises, once made, can't be broken, now I have to keep it.

Wait. Since when did I start speaking philosophy?

I heard a bark (again) and I saw a small shape dash past me. It paused to turn at me and bark again and I saw that it was the same puppy from minutes earlier. Oh, what's up with this lad? It's beginning to become a nuisance.

It suddenly broke into a dash again, this time barking along the way. Involuntarily, I ran to catch up with it, turning curves some sharp and some lazy. I somehow recalled Ji Ryeong's address, and it wasn't long before I realized that I was headed there.

[MEANWHILE]

[JI RYEONG POV]

"Ouch..." Min Woo moaned in pain. I was applying an antiseptic to his bruised cheeks from the attack he said about.

"Sorry," I replied. "Guess I didn't add too much to make you scream." I snuck a laugh at my sarcasm.

"Zip it," Min Woo snapped and I sighed.

"Yes, my Lord," I added and pretended a bow.

"Seriously appie?" Hyun Dan laughed from the other side of the bed. Jin was wrapping his sore leg in bandages and currently tying them together.

"Well she is one hell of a sister ya know," said Jin. He twisted the ends of the bandages together and made a knot. "Done. Ji Ryeong, do you need any help?"

"Nah, I'm finished as well." I stuck a few bandages on the bruises and sighed. Min Woo was asleep and Hyun Dan's eyelids were drooping. He wrapped himself in a blanket and immediately set off to dreamland.

I looked at them for a while. Even thought they were fast asleep, they didn't look peaceful like they normally do. Min Woo had dark circles under his eyes that were so prominent that it looked like eyeliner. Hyun Dan looked weaker, his small and thin frame appearing more fragile. I felt a tear go down my cheek. These boys weren't the brothers I knew.

I was so immersed in the thought that I totally forgot about Jin's presence because I jumped in surprise when his finger touched my cheek, wiping off the tear.

"Tired?" He asked gently.

I nodded. Yep, sure I was. The whole day was spent tending to my brothers and I haven't noticed my tiredness until Jin mentioned it.

"There's a little space here," said Jin, patting the mattress next to Hyun Dan. "He'll be in between you and Min Woo. Get some rest while you can." With a groan, I laid myself on the bed. My legs were sore from dashing about to get medicines and painkillers, so it took an effort to get them on the bed. Jin aided, sliding his palms under my shins. I blushed furiously before my head hit the pillow. I felt the blankets roll over me before I slipped into empty blackness.

[A WHILE LATER]

[JIN POV]

"Hey Jin," said Su Ga from the dining table, breaking the silence. I was at the counter, stirring some coffee.

"Jin, I'm talking to you," Su Ga said.

"What?"

"I have a question." He sat down on one of the chairs in front of me.

"Say it then. I want this over with."

"Um... Do you love Ji Ryeong?"

Huh. Like that's a question. Isn't it obvious. Oh wait, the boys don't know.

"What makes you ask that?"

"Well... I just thought of it. You know me. I'm nosy."

"Then I suggest you fix it."

"Can't help it. Whatever, just answer me!"

Should I... Should I not... Should I... Should I not... I guess I'll go with option one. But I won't explain, even if he threatens me to.

"Well... Yeah. Problem?"

"No. Nothing. Just wanted to know is all."

Just wanted to know? Su Ga was never not this nosy before. I opened my mouth to say something when something bolted inside through the door flap.