An Analogous Universe

Chapter 36

I had received an internal shock after hearing out Hoseok. His story had an inexplicable twist to it. The thing I'm sure everyone would wonder after hearing this story is,

How is a person capable of being like this after what has happened to him?

I would've stayed quiet for the rest of my life. Rumors say, Taehyung has had a little more difficult past. But now, he and Hoseok are strangely alike. They must've suffered a lot, yet look at them now. They look like they were happy since born.

Why do I always bring Taehyung in everything?

Guess it has become a habit of mine.

"Come on, give me a hint?" Rie said. If you're wondering what's happening- I asked them a question. What happens if a yellow stone drops into red water. The first one to answer was Rie. She said the stone would turn orange. After hearing that the answer was wrong, she gave an indescribable look whilst Yoongi was still deep into thinking.

"Can you repeat again?" Yoongi asked me.

"Yeah. What happened if a yellow stone drops into red water?" I told him again. He seemed to relax as if it was an easy question for him and sat on the couch like a pro.

"Simple. The stone would be wet." He said as he smirked slyly as a hint of his intellectual. I looked at him with a baffled expression on his correct answer.

"Correct!" I sneered at him, pointing at him with my index finger as I snapped in front of his face. He gave me an arrogant reaction as if it were nothing to him. Well, it did seem like he was struggling at first.

"Have any harder one?" he asked me, as if he was challenging me. I thought inside of my mind for a second. I knew I was capable of remembering those non-sensible quizzes some crazy students made just for fun and fooling. Let me ask him one of them.

"Okay, this time, I can guarantee you would fail." I challenged him. We both faced eachother with a competitive look on our faces, determined to make the other opponent lose. Well, I am very much competitive. I wont let him win.

For this quiz, I had to speed up my vocal to the speed of Eminem, which is impossible. But I will try.

"SupposeYouAreACaptainOfaLargeShip." I said in a speed of light and I was quite impressed at my rapping skills. Couldn't be said that he didn't understand anything but there was a look of understanding on his face. He was rapper himself. Duh- Aera.

"The ship is very very big. It's length is 100 meters and width is 50 meters. It can go 15 kilometers per hour and has to rest after travelling every 367 kilometers. It has the space to maintain a total of 14,000 people and 100 of them being staffs, 5 of them being ship controllers and 7 of them being janitors. It has 160 rooms in its deck, 3 of them being large store rooms." I stopped to catch a breath as I steadied myself to speak out the main question.

"What's the age of the captain?"

I smirked to myself as I saw him totally flabbergasted. I knew this was a tricky quiz and it might look like easy if one is reading because you could see the answer at the top. But when you are speaking, it all just goes above your head. The big description of the ship completely sways out the first information out of the head.

"Uh-u. Whatcha looking at?" I teased him as I nudged his elbow, his hands absentmindedly sliding down the table making him retreat back to his chair, stumbling a bit. He only looked at me as if I had said the unsaid, had did the undid and had made the impossible, possible. It was making the Min Yoongi want to strangle his mind.