river - bts

十三

I knew exactly what I had to do.

Go into the other world again.

I mean, I couldn't just leave it alone forever. I definitely couldn't have that image left in me. I realized that I needed to fight against my fear.

I didn't need help from anyone. I didn't think Taehyung listened to me at all. But he did say something about Jin... what did he mean?

"Jimin, do you think you can pick up some food later today?" Hoseok asked.

"Sorry, i'm doing something."

"Like what?" He asked. Suddenly, I saw Namjoon peer out from the wall. He looked down and walked to the fridge, to get a snack probably.

"Uh, I joined a club."

Namjoon looked at me weirdly.

"A club? For what?" Hoseok laughed.

"Oh.. uh.. well.. a book club."

I was the worst at lying.

"Uh... have fun... don't... talk like this." He smiled.

I nodded awkwardly and grabbed a book, for the 'book club.' I put on one of my coats, when really I was going to take it off at the river.

"wait I thought you said it goes on later-"

"it's an all day kind of thing."

I saw Yoongi come into the room, with this look on his face. He was so questionable lately. I didn't understand why he kept staring at me, let alone why he was so interested in what I was doing.

I left the house, holding the book under my coat. when I was walking towards the river, I thought someone was following me. I didn't bother to look back, because I thought it was just my imagination.

I sat down on the bench, taking a break. The river wasn't far away, but for some reason my legs weren't having it today. I looked off into the distance. It seemed like it was going to snow soon, meanwhile I was going to jump into a river.

Suddenly, I saw Yoongi walk into my view. I screamed out of fear and held onto the bench, like he was a criminal of some sort.

"So, where's your 'book club' Jimin?"

I stood up and started to walk away.

"Hey, why can't you answer me?"

I shook my head and held on tightly to my book. For some reason the words couldn't come out of my mouth, I couldn't speak to him at all.

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"Man, it's so cold." I shivered, crossing my arms, trying to make myself warmer.

"Maybe it's because you were dumb enough to forget a coat." He smirked.

"Shush, I'm a young man, i'll be strong enough."

"Shush, you're a human being, you need a coat."

I sighed as Yoongi took off his coat and wrapped it around me. I didn't put it on for a few seconds, because I felt bad he didn't have one anymore.

"What about you human being?" I slipped my arms through each hole and zipped it up.

"I've had it for the longest, we'll switch off."

I saw a random bench standing in the snow. I pointed to it then sat down. It was cold at first, but eventually our bodies heated it up for us.

We sat next to each other, looking at the snow, gracefully falling to the ground, building up. I put my hand out and caught a snowflake. I looked at it carefully, noticing all the beautiful patterns.

"This is you..." I laughed, showing it too Yoongi.

"Why am I a snowflake?" He asked.

"It reminds me of you. You're cold sometimes, but you can be so beautiful and bright." I smiled.

"You're the small portion."

I smacked his arm. He laughed at me and carefully took the snowflake out of my hand. It was melting so his hand now had a small amount of water.

"Kidding. i'm flattered. Thank you for the comparison."

I took off his coat and wrapped it around both of us. It was that big that two people could fit inside of it, without zippering obviously.

We glanced at each other, staring straight into each other's eyes. For some reason my mind cleared out all the memories I had, other than the ones I had with him.

He captured me with his presence, suddenly I felt my cheeks burn up like never before. My heart felt like it was beating in slow motion.

I had the urge to get close to him. I forgot about all the bad possibilities that might happen, and only thought about being with him.

I leaned over slowly to his lips. Our noses touched awkwardly but I still reached to his mouth. I tasted the cold, but soft lips he had.

The only thing that surprised me, was that he kissed back, placing his hand on my neck.

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He caught up to me and grabbed onto my arm, twisting my body back so I could face him. I stopped walking and stood in place, looking at him.

"What is your problem? Where are you going?"

"I don't know why you care about me or whatever the hell i'm doing... you should just stay out of it."

I started to walk away again, enough with everything about him. He stopped me again only to use these words;

"I heard your conversation with Taehyung."

I turned back to face him. I crossed my arms, only to have the book drop to the ground. I didn't really care anymore, the secret was out.

"Thanks for being creepy."

"Oh no.. it was only the other universe part. I'm not that creepy."

"How much did you hear?" I asked.

"You jumped into the river, then you entered this weird ass house, then you saw yourself."

"That's the summary, pretty much." I sighed.

"Why don't you tell everyone else-"

"Everyone else might think i'm insane, okay?! I don't want you guys to hate me more-"

"Jimin, listen. I sound insane, but Taehyung had a point before Hoseok interrupted him."

"Jin? What about him?" I questioned.

"What if he was there?"

I blinked a couple of times, trying to process what he said. I took a deep breath in, like I always do to calm myself down. I was getting too paranoid.

"I mean, there's no way he would disappear suddenly like this... they have to had captured him-"

"Wait slow down-"

"This is pretty straight forward Jimin," he said sternly, "Why wouldn't they want you there? They are hiding something. Jin is there."

"How could you make such a claim?"

"I have this feeling, even though i've never been there before-"

We heard someone yell out. The direction was coming from the river. We looked at each other, both of our hearts dropping to our stomachs. We immediately ran over to there, knowing exactly what was going on.

Except, we were wrong. Nobody was killing themselves. Someone was trying to get out of the water, pulling themselves up, but it seemed useless.

We got there and tried to help them. I grabbed one hand and he grabbed the other. His hair was all over his face, so we couldn't see him at first.

I wiped it off, pushing it to the side. His eyes were closed, some water dripping from his mouth. It took me a while to realize but this young boy looked so much like Jungkook it was too good to be true.

I knew it wasn't our Jungkook, because he opened his eyes.