Am I Dreaming?

Chapter 9 ✔️

We finally made it to the others, Jin and V had a nice bonfire started. Everyone gathered around telling jokes and stories, just goofing off. I brought marshmallows, and showed them how to make s'mores—getting them high on sugar. Bad idea. Once I showed them the wonders of junky american campfire food, Jin, V, and Jungkook looked at me like a god. It was pretty entertaining.

Rap Monster then decided to put on some music, and that's when the real party started. They sang and danced, and started jumping around the fire shouting tribal chants—also dancing to their own song Fire. It was quite the show. V came up to me and holds out his hand, "Oh, ani-aniyo, Tae, I-I'm good right here—"

Ignoring my refusal he pulls me up anyway, placing his arm around my waist. Instinctively, I lay my hand on his shoulder, and we start jumping around the fire, dancing. One by one they each took turns and grab me to steal me for a dance.

I don't dance—this is so embarrassing.

I haven't laughed this much in so long. Out of nowhere, Jungkook brings out sparklers. "Oh no, they're either gonna hurt someone or somehow get us thrown off the beach." Everyone grabs a sparkler or two, lights them up, scream and shout in craziness, and start running around like idiots. Soon it turns into sparkler tag.

I see Hoseok with his back facing me and a mischievous grin forms on my face. I run up to him and jump on his back. "Gotcha!"

Hooking my arms around his neck, and my legs cling around his waist. I hear him snicker evilly. He holds me up with one arm, while the other holds a sparkler out in the air, and he starts spinning us around shrieking with laughter.

"No, wait—Hobi STOP!" I squeal as he spins even faster making me really dizzy. Everyone is going crazy and having a good time. Eventually, we start to calm down, sorta, and crash from our sugar rush. We all just sit by the fire and enjoy it's radiating warmth.

It's a beautiful night, as clear as can be. All the stars are bright and twinkling in the dark sky. The moon shines off the perfect dim light and the waves are calm. It was so relaxing I could fall asleep right there. A light breeze goes by with the salty air swarming all around, sending a cold chill down my spine.

"Are you cold?"

"Huh?" I take my gaze off the fire, and meet Hoseok's eyes still playful and full of laughter with a tinge of concern in them.

"Oh, no. I'm ok," I gently decline.

Another breeze passes by causing me to shiver again. He lightly chuckled and takes off his jacket, "You're a terrible liar." I open my mouth to object, but stop myself knowing he was right.

"Here," he put it around my shoulders. "Thanks, Hobi," I give him a shy smile and curl up with the jacket in my chair. It was so warm and his scent still lingered on. I feel someone watching me.

I look up and see Taehyung staring at me with a smug expression bobbing his eyebrows up and down. Jin and Jimin had their hands covering their smiles, while Rap Monster and Suga stared at the fire with mischievous smirks. And Kookie was biting his tongue trying not to laugh, "They totally saw what happened."

I gave them a death glare, "Stop it," I mouth to them. They all shrug and looked at me all innocent. I point to my eyes and back at them, and slice my finger across my neck, giving them the warning sign. They all just roll their eyes, Rap Monster swats his hand at me, "Whatever," he mouthed. I drop the little silent argument and stare back at the fire starting to slowly doze off. I'm not fully asleep yet for I can hear everything around me, but my eyelids are too heavy to open.

Ok, c'mon guys, we need to get going," Jin announces, "it's getting late." Everyone answers with a bunch of whines and complaints, but gather their things and get into the van. "Come on Ollie-yah, we're leaving," I felt someone shake my shoulder, sounded like Jimin. I try to get up, but the only thing that really moves is my leg and an arm, somewhat.

"Just leave her be."

"Yeah, she's exhausted," someone else said. "She'll only slow us down." That was Suga.

I try to argue, but my words are all slurred and non-understandable, and I can barely move my head. "Omo, she really must have picked up some habits from you hyung," somebody laughed, V maybe? So the guys leave me in the chair, while they cleaned up. You can call me lazy all you want, but hey, these guys wore me out.

Someone picks me up. I can feel their arm snake around me and under my legs, as they carry me bridal style, and place me into the van. I hear a bunch of snickering, but I'm too tired to care. I'm consumed by the scent of their cologne, I can tell it was Hoseok. My lips curl into a small smile, "This was a good day."