so far away | yoonkook

night : 01

but yoongi didn't tell hoseok where he was headed. he realizes this when he gets on the night bus—approximated travel time is three hours from daegu.

if he includes the infant sleeping in a woman's arms and the driver himself, there are four other passengers riding with him.

they're all on the opposite lane.

yoongi observes this one fellow who has his hood over his head. the lull of gears and wind pushing against the vehicle swirls with the occasional profanity and low synthesized tune coming from the guy's earpods. he switches his music off when he catches yoongi staring and decides to take a snooze.

everyone's quiet, as expected from evening commuters. but yoongi can't let go of the fact that the lack of noise bothers him like hoseok's absence does just as much.

maybe he was wrong to leave in such short notice, maybe he was wrong for not writing his parents a proper explanation.

what good would "I'm going out to buy materials for this project" do? he knows his mother's going to call the police by eleven o'clock. he knows there are cameras set up at pedestrian walkways and public transits and that he was so easily traceable. he knows that he might not be able to last a week with the number of bills remaining in his pockets.

amid these assumptions, still he perseveres. even if he knows it was wrong to leave hoseok hanging or anyone else who even cared for him.

but true friends would understand, right? true friends would allow other friends to run away if it meant keeping their sanity—if it meant keeping them alive, even.

the funny thing is, yoongi's more worried about the possibility of hoseok avoiding him rather than being in a hell lot of commotion with his parents if ever he decides to come back.

his mother might not forgive him for this, his father's most likely to result to disowning him but it wasn't like it would be the first time for any of such. yoongi's been feeling alienated ever since.

so if the only way he could find himself is if he got lost, then he might as well resolve to it.

to:
hoseok

seoul.

yoongi doesn't have to explain. he's sure enough that hoseok would understand and sure enough that hoseok wouldn't come over to find him. not now that he knows where yoongi was.

that's all he needed after all, to know where yoongi would be.

cutting communications meant it'd hurt less. if he remained out of his and hoseok's way like this, the escape will end up feeling realer.