Promise Me / Yaksokhae • K.T.H

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"I have bad news for you."

"What is it?" I answer quickly, not wanting to wait any longer.

"Kookie got hit by a car Raihe-ah." She says slowly in a quiet voice.

No way.

"Please be joking!"

Kookie always plays outside on the empty street. Maybe, just maybe something did happen to him.

"Tell dad to take him to the vet. I'll try getting off the bus okay? Just be careful with him, tell Zach or Obaid to go with dad." I say trying my best to stay calm and to not panic.

"There was a lady who checked his pulse, she said he was already dead."

"Mum." I say as I start sobbing.

"Muuum don't joke it's not funny." I say as my sobs get heavier. 

"I'm hanging up now, your dad is going to bury him in the front yard. Don't worry too much, it happens. One day, I'm going to be gone like that aswell so treat me well so you won't be regretful later. Also, your dad says don't cry too much and that it'll be okay." My mum says to me as I cover my mouth, doing my best not to be heard.

"Dodo! Kookie was the best pet anyone could ask for, he was like another one of my children, I'm upset over it too. Don't cry too much, this is what life is like. It must've been for the best." He says, trying to reassure me. Nothing helps, as I lay my head against the window, warm tears running down my face.

I hang up and put the phone next to me as I try my best to cover my face.

Kookie was going to be almost a year old in January, meaning I'd have almost spent a year with him ever since I got him. He was famous around my neighborhood, everyone treated him like their own pet.

My face is drenched wet with my tears and my sleeves are dirty because of my runny nose.

I put my head in my hands, still crying as memories of my cat flows through my head.

"Yah yah Taehyung-ah." I hear a familiar laugh.

Namjoon..?

I check my phone to see if I'm playing a video on my phone but I see that all my tabs are cleared.

I look up from my seat to see a tall man dressed in a brown long coat with a black scarf wrapped around his neck, his back to me.

Am I hallucinating now?

I shake my head as it gets heavier in pain from the news. Putting my head against the window I let my tears flow with the memories of my former cat running around in my head, earphones plugged in my ear again, the smooth voice of Jungkook lullabies in my ear, almost as if he's here, caressing my hair as his hug tightens on me.

                        • Third Person POV•

Namjoon steps up the stairs of the bus as he talks to Taehyung, both of them arguing between Hoseoks favourite rapper. Namjoon reaches the top stairs as he turns around to Taehyung who is still coming up.

"Yah yah Taehyung ah." He says as he waves his hands around, something he does when he's trying to prove a point.

"Hobi never said he likes his raps. Just because he dances to his songs." He says, chuckling as he covers his mouth.

"We'll ask hobi hyung when we get back." Taehyung puts his hands in his coat pockets, he looks at the empty seats in the front of the bus. "Wah we get the top to ourselves." His eyes scrunch and his mouth opens, giggling.

Jungkook follows Namjoon suit as they both take a seat in the front seats, taking Taehyung's spot.

"You can't do that to me." He whines, as he points at him with pouting lips.

"Your name isn't on the seats, hyung." Jungkook says as he looks at Taehyung who's standing in the middle of the two seats.

The bus starts going as soon as Taehyung holds onto the edges of the seats, slightly stumbling. He turns around to find a spot somewhere else where he can quickly sit down, but before looking towards the seat behind him on his left, he hears a sob coming from the very back.

A girl in her teenage years is sitting in the very back, her face covered with a cloth as she cries into it. Her pale face is drenched with tears and her cheeks are a bright pink.

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I finally finished this chapter AND I'm on my way to school right now *cries in pain* the chapter wasn't that well written but I still hope you like it. They've finally seen her, well not entirely yet but how do you think they'll react to her?