Perilous

Chapter 15 - Redamancy

They say some secrets are deadly. Sometimes the people die before their truths are ever even told, and the secret dies with them. Some secrets are kept for the better of people, some are kept for the worse of their benefit, and some lay wrapped in vines and flowers behind an enchanted waterfall.

And some secrets create memories that turn into ash.

Solbi stared down at the sand underneath her feet, not daring to look up and face Momo who was already glancing her way. Jimin noticed Solbi's complete change in attitude, wondering if she was shy or someone with them was pressuring her in some sort of way.

He carefully tapped her leg, causing her to look up only slightly. "Are you okay? Your arms are shaking," he pointed out. "I'm fine," she immediately responded, looking back down.

Jimin didn't understand what was wrong with her, before he saw Momo staring back at them. Before looking away once he had noticed.

Solbi felt the anxiety rushing through her body like adrenaline. She hasn't spoken to Momo in so long. Not since, it happened.

All of the memories, of fire and screams, sitting on her knees watching everything unfold in front of her. It reminded her of why she didn't use her powers in the first place. It only caused destruction and harm. As much as she wanted to find the balance within her soul and mind to find the beauty in her abilities, the ashes always followed the fire.

"Solbi..." Jimin called her name, gently grabbing her shaking hand. The shaking stopped almost immediately at the warm touch of his hand, her face blushing.

"I'm sorry, I got too deep into my thoughts again," Solbi nervously said, staring down at their hands and tightened hers around his. His small pinky reminded her of their promise.

She wanted to be honest.

"Honestly Jimin, I get anxiety quite often when I overthink about my past. I don't know how much you want to know...and I don't know how much I want to tell you, but I'm not exactly normal if you can't tell already," Solbi smiled only a little.

"My abilities haunt me with so much remorse and sadness, I can't even begin to describe it. One of these days I will show you, I can't tell you as I've promised to never speak of what happened again. But I will show you," Solbi promised and Jimin felt himself blushing too.

He never noticed how pretty she was when they locked eyes. All he ever noticed was her past and her abilities but now, he was slowly noticing her.

"I am willing to wait," Jimin told her and a smile appeared on her lips, all of her anxiety having disappeared for a moment. "For some reason..you seem like you are more than worth the wait."

"Skye—"

"Y'all are really rubbing pee pee's huh? I fucking knew it," Skye smirked and begun to laugh. "I'll admit you put on a good show..but I saw the sexual tension in your eyes."

Yoongi couldn't help but to mentally smile. Finally. Someone noticed. Namjoon would HAVE to tell everyone now.

"Skye—listen.." Namjoon panicked and pulled away from Yoongi, almost pushing him off which was the opposite of how he thought he would react. "You can't let anyone know about this. We can't...this is forbidden," Namjoon said anxiously.

"Forbidden? How? It's not like you are far apart in age, I don't see the problem. Is it because of the stupid rivalry? What is even the point?" Skye asked with a sigh.