SIMULATION / BTS [DISCONTINUED]

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HOSEOK POV

after having that argument with taehyung, i had decided that i would look for yoongi myself. he couldn't of gone far, so i thought i would be fine on my own. and i know that this forest place is really big but i can make my way through. it'll all pay off if i find yoongi.

the sun was starting to set as i took one last step before taking a break on a smooth rock. the setting was gorgeous. the green trees towing over me, a painted pink sunset, and small patches of flowers scattered around the base of the trees. it felt like i could just stare at this scene forever, but i had to keep moving.

with each step i took it felt like the only noise was my feet, and it was. it was oddly silent. not a single bird chirping, or whisper from the wind. that silence stayed until i found the quietly crashing waterfall from earlier.

maybe he went in the cave.

i walked towards the waterfall, the crashing quiet no more. it was getting darker and darker, but i had to check if he was in this cave. i was about to put one foot into the pond underneath the waterfall but then i saw that the cave was... gone?

it couldn't have just disappeared, it's a cave! maybe this was the wrong waterfall, or the simulation just decided that this cave wasn't important anymore and closed it up. suddenly. see now that just doesn't make sense.

a small, separate woods intrigued me, but it was getting darker and darker. but, if i didn't find yoongi he's gonna be alone and somewhere in the woods all night, and i can't do that to him. so away we go.

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"yoongi?" with just enough moonlight, i could see a small frame kneeled on the ground, surrounded by deep red roses. his wrists had small pokes all around them, which i assuming were from the thorns. the light sobs from him were now almost all i could hear.

i startled him, even though i was speaking softly, and ran up to him immediately. i spotted the holes around his wrists and noticed that they were bleeding and deeper than i thought.

"what happened? are you okay? why did you leave the group? was it that voice? what happened with these roses. are your wrists okay? im sorry for-" he cut me off by hugging me and cried into my shoulder. after seconds of me letting him cry, he spoke.

"i-it was that voice and it t-told me to come here so i w-wouldn't be alone." he stuttered as the wind became cooler and the moonlight became dimmer, but nature couldn't stop this. he continued to cry into my shoulder as he apologized for leaving.

   "it's okay now, we'll get you back to everyone else. they'll be happy to know you're okay." i know i lied about people wanting to see him, but i needed some way to reassure him, and it worked. he started to calm down and stopped crying. "now what's up with these roses?" i asked as i helped him up.

   "i don't know they just started to- t-to-" he couldn't get it out.

   "it's fine you can explain later, you're probably really confused right now. so am i but i'll be fine. really, i will be." we both knew no one who entered this simulation would be fine.

TAEHYUNG POV

so how are you?

what the fuck, who is this?

don't worry about that, someone knows who your are.

of course there people know who i am what do you mean? and you better tell me who you are or i'll-

you'll what?

i ignored him.

"hey uh, guys? do you hear that too?" i asked the whole group but only got some of a reaction to from jungkook and jimin. jin and namjoon both ignored me, probably because they were mad at me for fighting hoseok. i just don't... nevermind.

"no, are you sure it isn't just their conversation?" jungkook gestured over to the two who were choosing to ignore him.

"yeah im sure it was like they were in my head i don't know how to expla-"

"hey guys! look who i found!" it was hoseok and yoongi. and hoseok cut me off, because who else? and now this got jin and namjoons attention. they're probably the nicest out of all of us but to the wrong people. or was it to the right ones...

how did they get around? it's dark, really dark. we have no sense of time here but it's probably past at least eleven so, weren't they scared? why should i care?

a tap on my shoulder shook me out of my own world as i perked my head up. it was jimin. he was the first one to leave hoseok and yoongi alone, they just walked a mile at minimum in pitch black darkness I . but again, why should i care?

"are you still mad at them? and are you even really mad at yoongi? because he didn't really- i don't know im just confused." he sighed at the end of his question rant and i really didn't know what to say. was i mad at hoseok still? eh. was i necessarily mad at yoongi? not really.

"i don't really know jimin, we're all just confused and mad and sad and probably regretting all of our life decisions. but, we gotta finish this one way or another. we won't just wake up tomorrow and be at home, we'll be stuck here. with some people and we like and some people we don't. this kinda sounds like school. minus the learning and shitty teachers." i spoke the truth. jimin lightly chuckled at my strange way of thinking out loud and looked down.

"i guess you're right. i still don't understand why we're put in these situations though. maybe yoongi had to do something like you did, or worse or better or something that could've changed the whole course of the game at our lives."

"our lives? this is just a simulation though."

"our game lives, i mean."

"yeah our game lives."

there's no such thing as a game life. only life and death.