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001: flying

chapter 1: flying
location: croton-on-hudson, ny

"So what do we do now?" Seokjin asked. All seven boys had arrived at the train station, in the middle of nowhere.

"There's a small town here," Namjoon said. "I bet we're hungry."

They were, so they walked to town. It was small, quaint, definitely way too big for seven college boys and their city fashion. "We stand out too much," Namjoon said.

"Look!" Jimin said and pointed. "A stoplight in the middle of the road!"

Sure enough, there was a spotlight smack dab in the middle of the road. It sat on a brick pedestal, with a couple of "no turn on red" signs.

"It still works!" Taehyung said with a laugh. "That's so sweet!"

"Totally," Yoongi said, rolling his eyes. "Let's get food."

He dragged everyone across the street to a diner. "So now what?" Seokjin asked as they sat seven to a table.

"Namjoon," Hoseok said as he leaned in, "do you have the money?"

"I do," Namjoon said as he pulled out a blue cash bag. "One hundred thousand American dollars. In cash."

The boys clapped. "Nobody can trace us now!" Jimin said.

"We'll be together forever," Seokjin said. "Just like we promised."

"I can't believe we're really doing this," Hoseok said. "It feels like we're flying away from the real world."

"From all of our responsibilities," Jimin said.

"From our future," Namjoon said, lost in thought.

"Hey," Jungkook said, "we get to make our own future now, right?"

"We do, but we still have no clue where we're going," Yoongi moaned.

The waitress brought everyone water, and Yoongi got a coffee.

"There," Yoongi said as he got his coffee, "Namjoon has a hundred thousand dollars, and he gets to spend it on me first."

Namjoon gulped.

"Well," Jungkook said, "if we're gonna be on the run, the police are gonna start looking for us. So we need to keep moving. The question is, where do we go?"

"As long as we're together," Seokjin said, "I'm happy. We could live out of a van for all I care!"

"Aww, Mama Jin, that's so sweet," Jimin said with a smile.

"I've thought about this," Namjoon said. "And the best thing we should do is get ourselves a van that we can all fit in. That way if we need to sleep in it, we can."

"Can we drive a van?" Taehyung asked. "I thought we were only allowed to drive cars."

"Who cares?" Hoseok said, doing a dance in his chair. "We're on the run, remember? We break one rule, we break ALL the rules!"

"Shh," Yoongi chided. "We won't be breaking any rules if we get caught NOW."

They ate and joked, switching to Korean for most of their conversation. That way, nobody would know what they were really talking about...being on the run from the cops, staying together as a family.

After the meal, they left and went to a phone booth. Namjoon looked up a used car sales place that looked just skeevy enough to not run a credit check.

"We need something quick," he told the salesman, who looked the definition of slimy.

Yoongi, standing by him, nodded. "And big."

"For seven people."

"And what are you kids planning on doing with this vehicle?" the man asked.

"We're flying away," Yoongi said, before Namjoon could stop him.

The man took them all the way to the back, where there was a purple van sitting there. "This thing is huge. Horrible gas mileage, but it'll fit twelve people. So, plenty of space. I can get it off the lot right now if you want."

Namjoon flashed the money, and the salesman smiled. "I'll take that as a yes!"

They all climbed in. Namjoon drove; Hoseok sat by him. There were three rows in the back. Jimin and Taehyung took the first row. Seokjin and Jungkook took the second. But it was Yoongi who jumped in first, claimed the very back row, and fell asleep.

Namjoon started up the van. It clanked and clattered a bit, but worked fine. "Where to?" he asked Hoseok.

"A gas station first," Hoseok said. "What's that button for?"

"Hmm?" Namjoon looked down at the dash, at the button that said Supercharged. "I don't know."

"Press it!" Maybe we'll get to the gas station faster."

"Ehh, okay." He pressed it. It seemingly did nothing. "Well, that's broken."

"Oh, well. Let's get out of here."

Namjoon nodded, put the van in gear, and they drove on down the road, unaware of where the adventure would truly take them.