Can I help you?

Chapter 57

The next morning" (which is actually their arrival at 5 am) they get to the hotel securely. So far so good, no Italian ARMY's have spotted them because of the early hours. Emma partially planned the arrival so early because of that. But the original reason is very different. Because of the nature of their trip being a kind of travel blog with photoshoots, she and Sarah planned a whole day in the capital of Italy, before moving onto the next city.

When arriving at the small 5 star hotel in the heart of Rome, she lets everyone have their own time, to do whatever they want in their room. Sarah is calling with Ji Hoon. "Yes oppa, I arrived safely." She walks to her room.They will gather in the lounge around 9.30 am. That's the perfect time to do some exploring before it gets too hot to do any big exercise in the big city. They planned to go to the four main sights of Rome. "Guys, now that everyone is here we can start!" Sarah says. The others nod in agreement. "You all know the purpose of this trip, and that's to collect loads of pictures of yourself as a group, or with the ships. You also should actively search information about the buildings we are about to see, to make your blog posts. Best is to keep a personal diary every day or night." Emma adds. "The first on the list is the colosseum." Mary checks. "Kaja! Let's go!!!" Jimin and Jungkook shout excitedly.

3 hours of information searching, exploring and lots of pictures later, they end their visit to the colosseum, exhausted. It is a good thing they went in the morning, because it's getting hot. They eat in the back room of a small family like restaurant. Mary took care of the reservation earlier that morning, because Emma and Sarah were both really busy and Doenja was already taking pictures for the blog. They take pictures with the authentic North Italian food. Sarah is drooling at the sight of the mozzarella and green pesto. She is eating it with so much gusto, it is making the other members smile. She snaps pics. "Sending it to Ji Hoon?" Emma asks. Sarah nods. "He loves Italian food too! You know, he joked about following me here. I told him not to, but I can't imagine him listening to me. I have a feeling he is going to just pop up, any moment now." She looks suspiciously around her. Emma laughs. She goes on to explain the plan for the afternoon. And evening.

Mary, V, Jimin, JK, Jin are going to the St-Peter Basilica and are looking their eyes out at the glamour inside. V feels his fingertips tingle to start painting too. Mary stands on a certain spot in the church and softly sings a hymn, JK joins to harmonize. Jimin stay out because his high pitch would probably break the beautiful windows. Mary runs off and snaps a shot of the vocal line pretending to sing in the choir.

Doenja, Suga, Emma, RM, Jhope and Sarah are going to the Pantheon. Sarah is looking mesmerised at the statues inside from the gods. She is wandering about. Taking selfies with the ceiling. Doenja snaps a pic of the rap line in the lightbeam that shines in through the hole in the dome. They all pose cooly. Emma takes the cam and lays on her back on the floor, making as shot from them with the dome's design in the background. They look so cool. RM helps Emma back up. She dusts the floor off of her. "You are a genius when it comes to photos, don't you?" He laughs. "It's just from a fangirl perspective, nothing more than that." She smiles too. Sarah is still looking at the statue of an angel. The details in this... "Are you going to smyth me? If so, be quick about it..." She mumbles under her breath. Doenja grabs her by her shoulders. "Don't be so quick to get smytheded. Smythed. Smytheth, whatever." Stumbling over the word, she gives up in the end. Sarah giggles at this. Doenja completely curls her arm around Sarah's shoulders and is heavily hanging on her. "Are you feeling happy here? We are finally back on European soil." Sarah smiles. "It does feel good to be back. Wouldn't it be fun to just go back to our old lives again?" Doenja lets her go and looks serious at Sarah. "What do you mean?" Sarah laughs and hits Doenja jokingly. "I didn't mean it seriously, it's just that I was reminiscing about it, being on European soil again and such." Sarah giggles uncomfortably before being distracted and running to another statue. "This one looks like Michelangelo's Madonna with child. But the true copy is in Bruges, in the Our Lady church. Do you think it's a knock off?" She shouts at Emma. Doenja is still a bit in a daze by what just happened to their conversation. As I thought. Something is wrong. Seriously wrong.