After dinner everyone settled down in the cabin, No noise but the sound of the windy snow storm outside. Bingu had fallen asleep and I tucked her in making my way towards the kitchen to help Jin with the dishes and what not. As I arrived I see Hyungwon there by himself. Lifting up my arm sleeves,
"Let me help you." I say as I stood next to him.
"No, It's okay I got it." He said focused on washing the big bowl.
I scooch him over with the side of my waist moving him aside.
"With this many dishes I'm pretty sure you won't be done till late tonight." I say rinsing the bowls he placed on the other side of the sink.
He gave a short laughter and turned my way, "Why are you so nice to me?" He said placing another bowl onto my side of the sink.
"Why shouldn't I be?" I open the dishwasher placing a bowl on the bottom rack.
"Well, I don't know it's just-"
"We're all humans here, maybe the last ones in fact. We're going to have to get move along with whatever happened and make up with each other. Plus, its nice knowing me and Bingu aren't the only ones alive in this apocalypse. The more humans we find the more we get to feel like ourselves again. " I look up at him who was focused on my eyes.
It was like this for a second or two and I broke it off sprinkling water on his face, "Y-Yah." I giggle.
He laughed sprinkling water back as well but with bits of soap with it.
We became a laughing mess.
"It's really nice to see you laugh." I say as we got back to doing the dishes.
He took a breath, "I don't remember the last time I've laughed like this before."
"It's nice isn't it?" Jimin chimes in from the side.
"eh?" Hyungwon lifts his head.
"Laughing, in a mess like this." He sat on the counter looking up as we met eyes.
"It's Jaeyoon." He says with a light smile on his face.
"huh?" I say feeling my heart skip a beat.
"You bring us, laughter. Happiness. Something none of us never felt in a long time." Jin said coming from the hall way.
"You're really something." Jimin looks down to his hands.
"We're all really thankful to have you here with us." Jin said with a smile on his face.
My heart felt renewed after hearing those words and returned a smile back, "I'm thankful to be here with you guys too."
"Yeah, I mean if it wasn't for V I don't think we would've found you." Jimin said lifting his head up.
I felt a pause moment go through me and I shook my head.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
Then it got to me, How did V ever find me and Bingu in that building? How did he know what room I was in?
"We were looking for Suga because he'd gone out to get water for us. V felt unsafe about Suga going alone so he went to go with him but only watched his back from a far in case anything would happen to him." JImin hopped himself off the counter.
I rinsed my hands drying it onto my shirt.
"And he said that's when Suga was in danger but saw you save him. He came home later that night saying there's two more survivors who saved Suga and we figured we would welcome you into our home the next morning. But we didn't realize that morning those things had broken in. Then V without hesitating just went in to save you both." He grabbed a cup from the cabinet to grab a cup.
"Oh.." I say in disbelief.
So V was watching all along.
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After dishes Hyungwon went straight to bed sleeping on the couch. I walk my way to my room and run into V who's bad mood washed over me.
"Tae-"
"What?" He turned towards me.
I should just tell him the truth, Everything. Because now I want answers, I want to know why he didn't show up that night. I want to know why wasn't he there when I wanted to tell him my love for him.
"I remember you.."
His head lifted meeting eye contact with me.
"I remember you, Kim Taehyung."
