Through Time

VII

Taehyung's/Tae-Suk's POV

4 hours earlier

After paying for the books, we soon went out of the bookstore. The sky was already orange. It was already afternoon.

"I hope the book I bought was worth the silver." Min-ji whined, since he paid for all of the books we wanted.

"May I borrow your book sometime?" He asked me. 

"Of course Hyung, it's your money anyway." I replied.

"Aish, do you guys remember that we should be back at the Hwarang House by the night? Or else the headmaster will get mad at us, and probably we'll receive another set of punishments." Gi-yun suddenly remembered.

"Oh. Dang." Kuk-jung said, then immediately ran, which we all followed and also ran afterwards. The bookstore was at the other end of the capital, and the Hwarang House was also in the other end, which is quite a long walk. Well, the parade wanted to display the beautiful men, so why not go from the other side to the other side, right?

Halfway, I saw the bookstore girl who wrote the book I bought. I kept staring at her, she was indeed cute.

But I suddenly bumped into Min-Ji, as for some reason he stopped running.

"Ow. Hyung? Why did you stop-" I cut my own sentence after seeing a familiar face. He was also wearing a Hwarang uniform, like the ones were wearing.

"Hyung Hyun-baek, are you perhaps going back to Hwarang House aswell?" Jun-nam asked him politely.

"Yeah, we are. Should we go back together, Bangtan?" He suggested, and suddenly, his groupmates in Hwarang popped up. 

We stopped near the Public Market, so probably that's where they went.

For some reason, they all had familiar faces. All 9 of them.

"Sure thing. So we can share the punishments with Eksong-hyungs." Jun-nam replied, joking.

The guys akwardly laugh at this so lame joke of his.

While walking, I kept thinking of the word, 'Eksong'. It sounded so familiar, along with their faces. Like I met them before.

"Dongsaeng, what are you thinking about? You seem to be having deep thoughts." The guy with large whites on his eyes asked me.

"It's nothing, hyung." After replying, I looked at his face, and suddenly...

"Do Kyung Soo?!" I shouted out loud. Woops. It was pretty rude to call a hyung with the word, hyung.

Fortunately, the street was so noisy that only him heard it. The boys were busy walking back to the House.

He gave me a glare, well, a joking one, of course. It looked scary though.

"Haha, Tae-suk. My name's Do Soo-kyung. Not Kyung Soo, you must've forgotten again." He replied, and chuckled.

Suddenly, I realized that nearly all of their names are basically just reversed. And Also, I realized that Eksong is basically 'EXO'.

"Jin-suk..Seok-jin.."

For some reason, Jin heard this and suddenly turned his head to me.

"Yes?"

"Ah nothing."

Luckily, we got to the Hwarang House just before the sky turned dark. Eksong and Bangtan are safe from punishments, for now.

I turned my heard before entering and so a glimpse of the bookstore girl I met earlier. She entered a large house, so I asked the guard standing at the gate.

"Ahjussi, may I know who that girl is? And who's house is that?" I politely asked.

"Ah. That's Master Park Ji Mong's house, the minister of war. Also, that's her daughter, Park Ji-ahn. She owns a bookstore over there." He pointed to nowhere, since it was really, really, far.

"Kansaha-" Before even I could finish thanking him, Kuk-jung pulled me inside.

For some reason, Eksong and us were still together. And we were walking to the same quarters. But why?

Since I already came into realization that their names are actually reversed, I tried to call the guy that looks like Suho. I bet he's the leader.

"Myung-jeon hyung!"

He turned is head and I felt relieved that my guess was right.

"Yes, Tae-suk?"

"Why are you following us into the quarters?" I asked, and for some reason, Min-ji and Soo-kyung bursted out into laughter.

"Have you forgotten? We're just next to our room. You're funny." He replied.

"Ah.." I awkwardly laughed. Just in time to break the awkwardness, we finally got to the quarters.

"We're here!" Kuk-jung shouted.

"Shh. Don't disturb the others. You don't want to see the Bibang's anger."

"What's bibang?" I asked.

"There, the other group that sleeps at the room at the other end of this hall." In-jong replied.

We walked towards our room. Hyun-Baek and their group was the first to go in their room, since our room was next to them.

"Good night!" He said to us, and we replied "Good Night to you too!" in unison.

We opened the door, and finally, I can lie down in my bed. The beds were double decked, and I was in the one on the right. And I was at the bottom bed, while Kuk-jung is at the one above me.

We don't normally turn off the candles since it would be hard to find another set of oil to light up of the candles if we do need it.

"Good Night!" We all said in unison. But really, we won't sleep yet. 

We started reading the books we bought.

"Inside Hwarang..Park Ji-ahn. Seems good." I mumbled while reading the cover aloud.

I chuckled at what the writer imagined at this book. There was romance and such. I felt honoured to be part of this book, though.

After a while, I finally felt sleepiness and slept.

I was the last one to sleep since everyone already gave up reading their books since they were so sleepy.