Amethyst // BTS AU

"One Of Them"

“One Of Them”
The Mall

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Five hours.

Five grueling hours of nothing but blouses, pants, expensive shoes and handbags courtesy of brands Malia could not pronounce the names of. Malia was exhausted to say the least and her eyes ached with the new hazel contact lenses that she wore, but she still followed as her three male companions guided her through a maze known as the mall.

Each shop they entered was not left without at least one item being obtained and Malia was starting to wonder whether it was daytime or if the darkness of the night had been coloured into the sky.

It was Jungkook that finally complained.

"Hobi-Hyung, it has been hours! How long does it take to buy clothes?"

Hoseok, who was in charge of that day's mission, smiled fondly at his younger but scarier looking friend.

"As long as it takes to make our girl look as amazing as she possibly can," Hoseok looked back at Malia whose cheeks grew to a pink colour. She was flattered.

"Our girl?" She thought, recalling the possessive pronoun that Hoseok used to address her.

Jungkook rolled his eyes, shifting a few of the shopping bags around in his tatted hands.

"Well, I'm sure Malia is hungry, much like the rest of us."

"What's the time anyway?" Taehyung interjected, also trying to balance the abundant shopping bags in his hands.

"Time to eat, apparently," Hoseok huffed, leading his three children to the level of the mall with all the food outlets.

The warm smell of grease and fat clogged up the air and filled the lungs of the small gang. Malia felt her stomach grumble. She hadn't even thought about food until Jungkook brought it up. Instead her mind was plagued with her most recent dreams that she had been having.

The same dream that she had the day that she met Jackson Wang, the soulmate expert, had been replaying itself every time she closed her eyes and dozed off. She had not been able to get those same words spoken by her soulmate out of her head.

“You have found me already but who I am is a decision made by you.”

Malia shook her head softly and instead focused on the ache of her feet and the sluggishness of her body. She needed to sit down.

Once the nearest McDonald's was found, a sigh of relief washed over the four worn-out individuals that occupied a table big enough to cater to the burgers and fries and drinks that were ready to be devoured. Malia looked curiously at her burger as Taehyung, who sat next to her, studied her demeanour.

"What's the matter?" he asked, cutely chewing on a fry.

Malia shook her head and copied what he was doing. She only remembered having had a burger once in her life before and a feeling of embarrassment rushed through her as Taehyung's question drew the eyes of Hoseok and Jungkook as well.

"Nothing is wrong," she corrected. "I've just never eaten anything from here before."

Jungkook gulped down his Sprite as he looked at Malia curiously.