Waiting for Anpanman

CHAPTER 25: It's Time

"A toast," Namjoon announced as he raised a shot glass to his members, "for another successful Idol Star Athletics Championship!"

"Cheers!" All eight members belted out before drinking whatever beverage they had in their hands. The hyung line downed their shot glasses of soju in one go while Jimin and Jungkook drank from beer cans. Taehyung, on the other hand, refused to drink any alcohol and took sips from his cola bottle instead.

"Hajiman! I still can't believe Yoonsoo hyung lost to Bambam..." Jungkook muttered as he grabbed a piece of chicken from the feast laid out in front of them. "I mean... hyung's supposed to be good at fighting because he does all that secret stuff but he still couldn't beat Bambam."

"Yah!!! What part of unfair don't you understand? That match was clearly set up so that I would lose!" Yoonsoo scolded Jungkook but everyone knew he was just playing. Yoonsoo was the least bothered by the fact that Bambam put him down in five seconds. Like Jungkook, he was busy stuffing his face with food.

"Did hyung really know how to fight at all?" Jimin's eyes and lips turned into crescents as he teased Yoonsoo. "It didn't seem like so in the wrestling match!"

"Jimin-ah! If it were the kind of wrestling that I am used to, Bambam-ssi would have gone to the hospital after just five seconds in the ring with me." Yoonsoo raised one eyebrow at Jimin as he smirked.

"Geumanhae..." Hoseok interrupted their banter as he smiled brightly at his members. "Let's just enjoy this beautiful moment. Okay? Good food, good drinks, and good people!"

"Yah! Why do you people keep on swearing! Do you want to get punished!?" Seokjin belatedly realized what the words being thrown around were. He was too immersed in making himself the perfect lettuce wrap that he hadn't noticed.

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Yoon Soo stood at the edge of the roof top he hanged out at. With one foot propped on a discarded cement block and both hands in his pockets, he surveyed the urban night scene below him with a frown. Occasionally, on days that Yoonsoo felt especially contented and happy, he would have sudden bouts of overwhelming sadness. Those episodes were triggered by the realization that, sooner or later, he had to leave Bangtan Sonyeondan behind and he would no longer be a part of their world. It was one of those days.

He had so much fun during the ISAC and even more at the mini after party that the band had. It made him suddenly wonder what it would be like when he was no longer there. Would the members still laugh and have a great time? Would they even remember him after the initial shock of his disappearance passed?

Of course they would remain happy. They were already successful and contented before I came... They deserve to be happy. D*** it! Why're the weather and my thoughts conspiring to make me feel even worse tonight!? So cold...

Yoonsoo hugged himself tighter as he re-entered their building through the access doors. When he arrived, their apartment was dark and quiet, the members fast asleep because of their drunkenness or exhaustion from the day's events. And now that he was finally indoors, too, he could feel his bed calling out to him. Yoongi and sleep were things he couldn't say no to.

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"Are you sure it's the corn-haired one and not the grass-haired one?" A dark figure harshly whispered to his companion.

The figures stood at Yoongi's bedside as one of them tried to slowly pull his sheets away from his sleeping form. They were about to uncover his face when all the lights in the room flipped on. The bright artificial lights revealed the gleam of a gun in one of the figure's hands which made the entering person panic.