He Whispers ••Yoonmin••

Chapter 25

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself." Albert Camus

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Author's PoV

Jimin once again takes the already known path to his best friend's house walking hand in hand with his boyfriend. All he can think of is how life is just a big messed up game in which no one can win. They can only survive.

Jimin doesn't know how to feel. In the morning he didn't even know that he escaped his nightmare but now someone that became so close to him has to go through exactly the same. And it breaks Jimin. Knowing that his happiness brought pain to Hoseok.

The couple finally reach Hoseok's house and Yoongi doesn't even bother to ring the doorbell, he opens already unlocked door and both boys enter the house. Quickly removing the shoes the boys walk to the living room because that's where the quiet voices are coming from. When Yoongi and Jomin enter the room, they find Hoseok sitting on the couch with Jungkook and Taehyung hugging him. Seokjin comes from the kitchen with a cup of warm tea and when he sees his friends enter the room, he gives them a soft smile as a welcome sign.

"Hey, Hobi, how are you?" Yoongi lowly says while walking to his best friend. The boys who a few seconds ago were hugging Hoseok now move away giving space for Yoongi to sit next to him. Jimin follows right after and comes to the couch.

"I'm better now." The usual happiness in Hoseok's voice is gone and once loud and energetic voice now is barely above a whisper.

Seeing Hoseok like that breaks Jimin's heart. He remembers what it was like to hea the clown for the first time, that was unbelievable, it felt like a bad dream but everything was real. So he knows how shocked Hoseok should be. All Jimin can do right now is hug his friend and make sure that he doesn't feel alone. "I'm so sorry, Hobi." The blond boy mutters so only the boy next to him could hear.

"Don't be sorry, everything's going to be fine. We will find a way to put down this clown once and for all." Hoseok retorts this time with stronger voice. It's amazing how even in the dark situation he never loses hope.

For some time everyone is quiet that's until Taehyung gasps like he just figured out the biggest mystery of the world. "Wait, if Hobi is the one who hears that thing now then Jimin's free. Did that... thing worked out?!" The boy shrieks loudly turning everyone's attention to himself.

Once again the silence surrounds them until the rest of the boys seem to understand what Taehyung has said. "Hold up, you did the dirty tonight?" Hoseok asks looking at Yoongi and then at Jimin and then again at Yoongi. "Well damn, that was unexpected... and it really worked?"

"Shut up." Yoongi murmurs while Jimin just lightly nods finding the carpeted floor more interesting. "So all we need to do is to find someone our Hobi likes and they have to do that!" Taehyung smiles his infamous boxy smile yet for the rest of the group this isn't the best idea.

"I don't think that would be so easy. It was basically a miracle that Jimin found Yoongi and fell in love immediatelly. Usually building a relationship takes a lot of time and the path to fully trust your partner is long." Seokjin shares his wisdom with the others. This boy probably knows the most about relationships and sometimes the way his friends look at love seems really childish for him.

"And even if I found a lover and everything worked out the same it worked for Jimin the clown would find another victim and the cycle would go on. And we couldn't help the other people but if we found the way how to make him disappear forever then we would save many people." Hobi expains to the other boys. The rest of the group just nods in agreement, they understand that finding a solution isn't that easy.

"Hey, where's Namjoon?" Yoongi suddenly asks only now realising that one of his friends was missing. "Oh, he was doing that project for history in the library but now he's on his way here."

"He didn't answer his phone when I called so when Jinnie came, he called him right away. That boy had the sound on his phone turned off but after hearing Seokjin scold him like that he'll be afraid to do that again." Hobi trembles remembering that moment. "It was absolutely brutal... poor Namjoonie." Jungkook adds shaking his head.

As if on cue the front door flies open and very tired Namjoon enters the room. "Oh look who's here... Mr. Ignore Everyone..."Seokjin mocks his boyfriend and rolls his eyes a bit. It's obvious that he's just messing with Namjoon but at the same time he's a bit hurt that Joon had to disappear at the moment he was needed the most. "I already told you I'm sorry, Jinnie. And Hobi, are you okay?" The boy looks at Hoseok worry written all over his face.

"He feels better since the moment I came here." Seokjin answers instead walking closer to the couch and plopping on the armrest. "Okay, stop bickering we have a problem to solve." Kookie speaks up and breaks the tension that was building in the room. "Does anyone have any ideas?"

"Well, I might have found something. When I was at the library 'ignoring' Hobi and Jinnie'~" Namjoon makes quotes in the air eoth his fingers. "Ifound this extremely weird story about war and something about it was just too familiar." Namjoon takes out a book from his backpack and puts it on the table in front of the couch. "I don't think a story about war will kill a clown." Seokjin murmurs still holding a grudge against the poor boy.

"The story isn't exactly about the war itself. I wanted to find something authentic and I found this memoir of people who survived the war. There is a legend about a clown wandering around the camp or just staring. Don't you think it reminds of our creepy dude?"

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"So this clown reaches the times of World War one? Does that mean he's immortal?" A very confused Yoongi looks at Namjoon expecting him to answer.

"Nothing's immortal. We just need to find what others lacked and make it our advantage against the clown. Now I am sure we'll be able to defeat him."

"Okay, smart boy, can you read that book for us now?"