5 W's and a BIG HOW?! ➳방탄소년단 {✔}

Epilogue: "Ready to let go."

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The wind blew gently on your face, the strands of your hair following it ever so slightly. Grasping the flower that you had plucked from the fields, a nostalgic feeling overwhelmed your senses, the memories you wanted to remove resurfacing inside my head. It was uncontrollable, so you had no choice but to relive it again, counting it off as the 50th time this month.

"Both of your parents are the system. Even though they have simple wings, their powers and skills are dangerously high. And with you being their only daughter,  the powers that they had merged...creating this synergy effect. Never have I ever saw a person like you have that much power, that much energy, not to mention your essence...which is unlike any other."

"A phoenix symbolizes strength and renewal, and based on the levels that you have shown...your spirit animal essence is right and just for you. You are on the new level of power Y/N, and this could greatly affect the supernatural world."

Days, weeks, months had went on and not a single moment passed where you blamed myself because of the death that you selfishly caused. Everyone is back to their normal lives, the former guardians being stripped down of their temporary guardian position to help your group, your parents being back to being CEOs in Earth, and the system in the supernatural one. BTS had made it big once more, their popularity rising by the minute.

And you? you were stuck in this endless cycle. Eat. School. Sleep. And repeat.

Seventeen, without their leader, had changed.

They announced his death as suicide, the stress overwhelming him too much that he couldn't take it anymore. With that being said, you were dying inside as their innocent fans blamed themselves because of the unwanted death, never to realize that the one who had caused this is still alive and breathing. No matter how many times they tell you that it wasn't your fault, no matter how many times you fought the overpowering feeling of guilt, you always lose.

And now, you can't even say his name properly without stuttering or wincing internally.

Seventeen, now 12 members are thinking about disbanding, because of their logic that 13 minus 1 is equal to 0 (causing you to cry a little bit more every night) the monstrous guilt inside you weighing bigger and bigger each day. Even though they said that it wasn't your fault, and it wasn't that big, you wanted to scream so badly that yes it was and that you caused it because you weren't quick enough to push him back.

You gasped a little in pain when a thorn struck your skin because of how hard you were gripping the poor flower, who was slowly wilting away. Blood arose from the surface and the urge to cry once more is getting so strong, to scream the pain away, to let the memories relive that you weren't quick enough to push him back, that you were too slow—

"Y/N?" A hesitant voice approached you and you swiftly wiped away the tears that were pooling around your eyes before turning around. Taehyung was beside you now, his movements slow and steady, giving you the impression that you were being treated like a wilting flower, that each move can cause you to flutter away. "Mind if I join you?"

Receiving a nod of your approval, he sat beside you. His eyes narrowed at the sight of the blood from your fingers, and he instinctively grabbed your fingers and gently touched the surface, causing you to release a sound of slight pain. Then, he fished for something inside his pocket, and you were shocked to see a bandaid from his fingers. He placed the bandaid gently on the wound, smiling affectionately at you before kissing the spot gently. "They say that if you kiss the booboos, they will go away in no time."

You pretend that the simple action didn't make your heart flutter nervously.

Ah, another problem. Your feelings for the boys. It was some sort of a platonic-but-not-really relationship. Sometimes you feel like you're a proud mother because of what they achieved in the music industry, and sometimes you feel like a proud and you didn't even know how you got the guts to assume it, a proud lover. And what made you more confused is that you didn't know which member makes you feel like this.