Fall (Bangtan Sonyeondan BTS Alternate Universe)

52. Visitors

After a few more days of being locked away inside, I had had enough. While Yoongi, Star, and Namjoon were out, I managed to slip past Hoseok and Jimin in order to get out of this place.

Jungkook and Angel were somewhere upstairs, so I rushed into the cover of the deep woods before they could chance a look out of a window and end up seeing me.

I hadn't thought this through well enough, and after a few hours of walking, I realized that I was hopelessly lost. Strangely, the thought didn't alarm me too much; in some ways, I was always lost, and I wasn't keen on returning back to that building that seemed to turn into a prison ever since I had returned.

I would no doubt be in trouble when I got back to the building. But I didn't really mind; at least I would be noticed again, that way.

It was wrong, and I knew that this wasn't the kind of attention I wanted from them, but I was tired of being ignored and dismissed. I had returned to them, and this was what I got in return? I had done it for them.

And for myself, in some ways.

I decided against turning back; I wasn't ready to go back. I figured I was already lost, it couldn't get much worse at this point, so I kept going.

While I walked, my mind was running, thinking back on everything that had happened since I'd arrived here.

It had almost been a year now.

I wonder if there were people still searching for me, if I was still on missing persons announcements, or if they had given up on me. Or perhaps, figured out what had happened, where I really was. Who I really was.

I wonder if my family even cares.

I wonder, if things had been different, what Angel and I would have done here. We had so many plans, so many aspirations, but they didn't seem so important anymore.

Now, my goals were vastly different from what they had been. For example, I had to get to the bottom of the entire Jin situation. What had happened to him, why, and how he had ended up, well, dead.

And then, there was the whole 'protect everyone from Seung-Jae'. That was pretty important, I must say. I had no idea how I was going to do it, but it was an absolute necessity.

And, of course. Something that had plagued my mind since I had first seen it.

Namsan Park. I wanted a future there. I wanted to move there, with Namjoon of course. I wanted to get one of the Hanok village houses, and live there with Namjoon. We could have a garden, and every day we could walk the path, seeing the beauty of the flowers, the vivid scenery all of the time. Then, at night we could watch the sunset, and see the moon rise into the night sky, and try to point out every star we could see. And if we didn't make it to the moon, well, that was fine, as long as we were doing something together, at least.

Maybe.....

Maybe we could even have a family. Raise the kids there, away from any of the torments that we had to go through. And the others could visit us as often as they wanted.

It could be something. We could be something. Maybe. If we wanted to. If he wanted to.

I wanted to.

A rustling nearby alerted me, pulling me from the fancies of day dreaming, and I continued walking casually, although now I was carefully listening to every sound, however minute.

I could make out at least 2 people flanking me a few paces away, and closing in.

If it was just them, I could probably have a fair chance at beating them, or losing them.

But I had a feeling they weren't lost like me, and if they had friends, then I wouldn't be so lucky. This was a big forest, and every tree could be hiding someone, waiting to grab me.

But when was I ever lucky?

By the time I noticed the people ahead of me, it was too late.

A hand clamped over my mouth, another wrapping around my waist, and I was being dragged, the leaves yelling for help as my feet struggled to catch something, anything to stop my movements.

As I disappeared deeper into the forest, the trees sighed, and the leaves gave up on helping me.