Through the Vents [Kim Taehyung F.F.]

Chapter 8

Third Person POV

*time lapse; eight months*

maria hadn't cut since her incident. bambam hadn't let her touch a single sharp object in his presence. lisa never did cut, she never needed to. sure there were a few scrapes, but there were always bandages that healed the thoughts of cutting; maria, amisha, mark, yugyeom, jr, jb, jackson, youngjae, bambam, jin, j-hope, jimin, suga, namjoon, jungkook. so many people, but no one could heal as fast as tae healed her. amisha was as blunt as ever, still her spicy self despite her sugary love.

each girl was gaining happiness, gaining love. but amisha couldn't help but believe they didn't deserve it. they only got the opportunity because of a middle school vent and altered reality. all the girls felt guilty deep down, but none wanted to act on it. other than blunt amisha of course.

"we really need to talk." amisha said to the two youngsters, "privately."

"what do you mean privately, its just me, you and lisa. oh, and mark." maria laughed, "you feeling okay."

"room now." amisha ordered, having suspicion of the fluffy looking dog. even though she was an animal lover, she didn't feel right about mark the dog. she didn't even know where he came from.

"fine." maria got up and headed to the master bedroom, lisa doing the same.

"unnie, why couldn't we talk in front of mark? he's just a dog." lisa questioned, as she and maria plopped onto amisha's bed, amisha sitting at her desk and turning to the computer.

"i, uh, before i start; don't think i'm crazy." amisha sighed, turning to face us.

"okay." lisa and maria chorused, slightly questioning their unnie.

"the dog is the voice." amisha spoke calmly, "the voice from project t.m.x. and the only reason it's here is that if we spill about the machine, we would be murdered. just like the people before us, except they deserved it. if we tell anyone, just mention it; we're dead. all three of us."

"i-is that--do you have proof?" maria asked, the thought scaring her as it did lisa, but at the same time she didn't believe it.

"see, that's the thing. so i propose a test. we have a conversation about telling our boyfriends in front of the dog that we were going to tell them about the machine and that's how we got here." amisha said slowly.

"b-but wouldn't it..kill us!" lisa exclaimed, fear dancing in her eyes.

"it would try but it embodied a dog. so the only way to kill us is to bite us. and if it tries to, we shove him in this cage." amisha told them, pulling out a cage from beside her desk, "so is that a yes or no?"

"y-yeh. just to see." lisa stuttered, hesitantly nodding with maria.

"okay, and one of you ask why i had to bring you into my room to tell a joke." amisha instructed, getting up with the cage in hand, "for authenticity."

all three girls exited the elder's room, maria following her unnies order in which amisha just shrugged in response, easily forging an act.

when the three entered the living room where mark was laying right by the hallway, his ears turned to us as we walked.

"guys, i feel guilty. I'm dating tae and it's just -- we don't deserve it. we altered our lives for our own greedy purposes." lisa said, proudly showing off her skills.

"don't you think we should tell them. I mean we're dating idols, we're living false lives, it's been eight months and all this time we kept it from them." maria said to them in response of what lisa told them. mark's head raising at her words.

"yea." they both said, nodding in agreement.

"i guess we should tell them, we've skipped about seven eight's of our lives. it's better to end all the lying." amisha said. Mark started barking.

"we have to tell them or we'd have to keep lying to them." lisa said, the other two nodding. "well i'm going to get water." lisa got up, heading to the kitchen with mark following.

as lisa got to the kitchen, mark started barking aggressively at lisa, she knew what the dog was trying to do so she jumped on the island as mark continuously growled at her. amisha and maria came into the kitchen, amisha with the cage and maria grabbing the dog trying not to get bit and putting mark in the cage. "oww. mark fucking scratched me." maria hissed, looking at her arm.

"at least mark didn't bite you." lisa shrugged as she got off the island, getting a bandage to wrap up maria's scratch.

"so what do we do now with ma - t.m.x voice?" lisa asked, lisa giving the bandage to maria. the other two shrugged, looking at the cage that held a glaring dog.

Maria's phone ringed as bambam was calling her, she looked at the rest as they motioned her to answer since bambam was very protective over her. "hey." maria greeted as she put bambam on speaker.

"hey can we come over later." bambam asked. she looked at both of them and lisa mouthed, "we need to tell them sooner or later."

"sure bambam."

"well see you later soo young." there the call ended, a smile obvious in bambam's voice, "we'll bring v and suga hyung! oh, and mark."

each girl was quiet after that, all engrossed in their own thought.

If we do tell them it can change everything, Lisa thought with a frown

What happens after we tell them? Maria questioned herself.

we don't know if it would even change anything. and if not, we don't know if the change is for better or for worse. amisha thought.

they weren't the only ones thinking, the boys were also thinking. though, their thoughts were just slightly related to the topic of what amisha, Lisa, and Maria were thinking.

Bambam, suga and taehyung all had something in their mind that had to do with their future.

but the question is; would their future with them even exist at all after the news had been told?