Dark Blood, Bright Hope ~ [J-Hope X Reader]

Chapter 10 - Appa

For what I believe is the second time, I shot up in a hospital bed, my body violently shaking. My face was submerged in my tears and sweat, making my messy and long hair stick to my face. My chest was heaving as I lifted my arms to rub them because I was shivering so harshly. 

Then it hit me. The guys! Are they here?! I looked around the room to see 8 worried faces turned toward me. Wait..8? I glanced at each face again and then I caught sight of a woman's face. Omo..Eomma! 

She slowly walked towards me, trying to be cautious to not scare me. Instead of waiting I jumped out of my bed and wrapped my arms around her. She didn't hug me back right away but after a couple seconds, her actions mirrored my own. 

I held my tears back, not wanting her to think something was wrong. I was just full of regret from not remembering anything. Eomma pulled away and stared at my face. "Omo, I missed you Y/N!" Eomma cupped my cheeks in her hands and stepped aside. At first I was really confused as to why she walked away from me, but then I saw 7 beautiful human's waiting for me. I found the 3 people I was looking for first and jumped into their arms one by one.

"Yoongi Oppa!!" I squeezed him in my grasp and kept ignoring the burning feeling in my throat. Oppa hugged me back and pulled away to kiss my forehead. I just just kissed him back on his cheek and smiled. He returned it with his adorable gummy smile. 

"Oppa, have you slept? Your eyes are all red." He just stared back at me with a straight face and shrugged. "OPPA! Wae? I am going to get you now! You should have slept! Now you're going to be too tired to spend time with me!" I jumped on him and showered his face in kisses, making him and everyone else chuckle from my childish action. Then I let go and went to the next important person.

Jimin was sitting right next to Hobie Oppa. They both had their arms open for me with smiles on their faces. A thought flashed through my mind and I slightly smirked. I ran into Jimin's arms and hugged him. I saw Hobie Oppa's expression falter to a pout as he slowly put his arms down and folded them. He expected me to go to him first, I know it. Haha! It worked. I heard his disappointed voice whisper something.

"I thought I was your best friend.." I immediately let go of Jimin and grasped Hobie instead. He didn't expect me to come to him so quickly because I could feel him jump in my arms as I squeezed him as hard as I possibly could, considering how weak I still was. Then his strong arms drowned me in his embrace, him hugging me softly and loosely. I kept my grip the same.

"Aish! Y/N-ah..Let go! I can't breathe!" Hobie tried to pry my arms from him but it didn't work. Huh. I guess I still have strength left. After concluding that I wasn't planning on letting go he mirrored me, gripping me even tighter than him. I couldn't breathe either but I refused to let him win. But unfortunately, he knew my weaknesses. 

Hobie let go of me and made heart symbols with his fingers. He did aegyo, making me forget everything around him and giving him a chance to do what he wanted. The cuteness was too much so I loosened my arms and right after that I regretted it. Hobie started tickling me until I complained about tears coming from my eyes due to laughing so hard and so much. 

"Mianhae, mianhae! Please stop, Hobie Oppa!" He seemed satisfied with me and finally let me go. I stood up, punched him, flipped my hair, and sashayed over to my dongsaeng, Jungkookie.

"Noonnaa! Why did you take so long??" Kookie whined while looking down at my face.

"Mianhae, Kookie! It was Hobie Oppa's fault!" I pointed at Hobie, knowing I was being childish but I didn't care. "Here! I will repay you." I stood on my toes and pecked his nose, a smile forming on his lips in return. 

"Thank you Noona! I forgive you!" Kookie might have been taller than me, but he was still younger and usually acted like a child. He gave me another quick hug and let me advance onto the final person. 

"Ahh, finally. The one and only alien Tae. Come here!" He chuckled and walked over to give me a hug. Then I squealed because he picked me up and was spinning me around in his arms. I ended up giggling uncontrollably as the room started whirl rapidly. A soon as Tae set me down, he fell on Kookie while I fell on Hobie. 

Tae and Kookie fell to the ground from the impact and Kookie tickled Tae for knocking him over. Aish, these boys are too cute! I ship TaeKook ;) My thoughts were clouded with TaeKook as I remembered that Hobie was holding on to me so I wouldn't fall. 

I stood up straight and looked back at Hobie. "Mianhae. I didn't mean to fall on you! And thank you for keeping me up." My voice still had a childish tone to it, making Hobie laugh.

"It's okay and your welcome!" Hobie smiled widely at me as a question formed in my now empty mind. Wait, where's.. My eyes scanned the room, looking for one specific person I didn't see or hear this whole time. 

"W-where's Appa? Wouldn't he b-be here too?" I stuttered a bit because I was surprised to not see him among the 8 other faces in the room. I looked at my Eomma out of instinct, seeing her eyes glisten with tears, most likely from me mentioning Appa.

"Y-Y/N. A-Appa is in the..the Army." Yoongi Oppa gazed at me with pained eyes as I heard the words spill out of his grasp. 

I just slumped in my bed, trying to recall anything about my father but nothing clicked yet. I perked up when a phone started randomly ringing. "Wh-who's that?" My curious eyes found their way to my Eomma again as she pulled out her phone. She shook her head with a questioning look on her face. 

I watched her answer the call and tears plummet down her cheek and to the floor. She leaned her elbow against the counter by the sink in the room and bent her head down a little. 

"Hello?...Ne, this is Y/M/N...O-oh,o-okay...I-it's okay. Y-you don't need t-to apologize. It's n-not your f-fault...Thank you for informing me...Goodbye." She hung up and turned to the rest of us. "I think I am going to go home now."

Eomma left with letting anyone ask the reason why she left so suddenly. Everyone's heads turned towards Yoongi Oppa because his phone beeped. He took it out and looked at what was on his phone.

"Y-Y/N. Appa...h-he is...dead." I could hear the hesitation in his shaking voice as my head began to pound and a gasp escaped my throat. My eyes widened and more memories ran through my brain in little pictures of me and Appa. 

I saw memories of the days when Appa was still living with us; we were sitting in the living room playing a board game, me, Oppa, Eomma and Appa, bright smiles on our faces from the happiness infused in the room. 

In another memory, I was about ten years old, sitting in my Appa's lap sleeping. He held on to me tightly, as if I was a balloon and he thought I would fly away if he let go. 

More and more memories crowded my deserted mind and shocked me. Then what Oppa said finally registered in my head. Y-Y/N. Appa...h-he is...dead. 

I allowed a shower of hot and salty tears make a trail down my cheeks as I hunched over and wrapped my arms around my knees to support me. I buried my head in my knees as I heard a rustling noise, meaning one of the boys were probably going to hug me again. 

About 5 seconds later and I felt a pair of arms engulf me in their warm embrace and a familiar scent fill my nose. Hobie Oppa... I let go of my legs and snuggled into his chest as my tears kept falling, me seeming to be unable to stop them. Slowly, more arms pulled me into their grasp as well, muffling the sound of me sniffing and crying.

Okay, there you go! You have found out the secret of Appa. I know this story is kind of depressing so far but there will be happy moments to come. I hope you like it!

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