Caught Up, In Neverland [JM]

[Chapter 20- K-I-S-S-I-N-G]

[Chapter 20- K-I-S-S-I-N-G]

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They begin their very small journey back to the tree. Jihyun hadn't spoken since the words that had left Jimin's mouth a mere few minutes ago and she knows she should say something. But, what can she say to something like that? What does he mean they can stay young forever here?

Where exactly is she?

"Jimin", she stops him after he pushes away some dangling branches away from her path. He turns his head to look at her and he stops moving to face her entirely.

"What's wrong Jihyun", he asks after a minute of silence. She looks at him while biting her bottom lip, fear swirling in her gut rapidly.

"You keep avoiding the question whenever I ask you... but, where exactly are we?"

His eyes flicker from her lips to her eyes once she's finished those words and his expression remains calm as he thinks of the words to form. Finally, he decides to just tell her because there really isn't a point in keeping it from her. She's going to find out eventually.

"I like to call this place", he starts off as he turns back around to keep hiking towards the tree they had come from. He grunts as moves a heavy branch away and he turns his head slightly towards her as he walks up to give her a genuine smile. "Neverland. Now before I here you say anything more, you're probably going to ask why is a place like this named after a place in a children's book, right?"

She nods slightly and mutters in agreement as Jimin's head looks back towards the front, continuing his hike up to the tree. "Well, this Neverland is different, I would like to say. It's quite similar, besides the fact that the landscape itself is different. It's 'out of this world'. This is a place where our worries don't have to affect us anymore and our fears can simply be blown away", he says in wonder and suddenly a crunching noise is heard from behind Jihyun. Her eyes widen and she quickly turns around to see on one else there, just the wind blowing a couple of stray leaves off of the path. Those leaves couldn't have possibly made that noise without someone stepping on them.

"J-Jimin... what was that noise", she says shakily and he sighs with annoyance.

"Come out Taehyung", he calls and a boy with hazelnut brown hair steps out of the bushes with a rectangular smile. He laughs as walks towards the two, carrying a sleeping little girl on his back with her arms wrapped around his neck, her legs wrapped around his middle, and her face hidden into his shoulder as she deeply breathes.

"Sorry if I scared you. I was going for a walk with Mi-"

"You didn't have to scare her like that Tae", Jimin calls him by his nickname with a jingled laugh and he ruffles his hair. On closer inspection, she realizes that the very front tips of the boys hair is a bright green, very noticiable and not easy to miss.

"Wow, your hair", she says to Taehyung and he removes Jimin hand from his head to grasp at his bangs that are colored with the neon green. He smiles thoughtfully and shrugs his shoulders as he shifts the girl on his back higher. Eventually, his mouth turns into a frown and his eyes glance from Jihyun to Jimin.

"Jimin, you know if you really wanted to make it to the tree faster you could always fly there. I don't get why you're wasting your time by walking", Taehyung says in his normal deep voice and he begins to walk ahead of the orange haired boy.

"Well why are you walking when you can just fly Taehyung?" He remarks back and the other laughs.

"Because this little one is terrified of heights, remember", he says and he shifts the sleeping girl higher onto his back. He leaves with a wave and disappears in the tall bushes, the noises of him crunching through the leaves slowly fading away.