Before You Go • VHOPE [On Hold]

Chapter 14: Serious

"H-Hoseok? You're nose bleeding,"

"Huh?" He said and touched above his lips. He looked at the blood on his fingers. His eyes widened and he quickly used his jacket to smear the blood off.

"Are you okay? Hoseok?"

"I'm f-fine. This is normal," He mumbled out without thinking.

"Normal?" Yoongi's face softened, "Hoseok, what are you talking about?! You have regular nosebleeds?"

"No! It's fine I said! I'm getting treatment, it's getting better." He lied.

"Treatment for what?"

He turned silent. "Uh.. flu.. it happens because I catch colds and stuff often so.."

Yoongi wasn't replying as he kept looking at him. Hoseok was the only one who nervously kept going on.

"Anyway, it's nothing serious." He lied again, "So please don't tell Taehyung or the others. I don't want them to be worried."

"Okay..." Yoongi said slowly and nodded, though not looking very convinced.

"Let's go back then." He turned to leave and stepped forward.

"Wait," Hoseok quickly checked once again to see if his face is clear of blood, and then looked at Yoongi, "If you can, please forgive me. I had my reasons, and it's selfish to ask you to understand. But all I can say is that you've been a really precious part of my life."

Yoongi turned back around fully to face him, his hands inside his jacket. He was a little taken aback by the oddly expressive words. "You've been acting very weird, Hobi."

Hoseok was stirring a lot internally. He looked away, not being able to meet his eye. The current situation was very dreadful for him.

"But just so you know, I wouldn't give up on you over such disagreement. If you're apologizing this much, I guess it's selfish to not try to understand you." He patted his shoulder. "It's alright, Hoseok. Now let's go back before they start to think something's wrong."

"Y-you won't tell them about the nosebleed, right?" He asked with big anxious eyes.

"Of course not." Yoongi gave him a pressed smile.

"Thank you." Hoseok titled his head forward a bit in gratitude. Yoongi patted his back and brought him closer, wrestling him a bit to make him walk forward. They both laughed a little, the old distant yet reminiscent time of their past returning back to them.

"I missed you, Hoseok."

"I missed you too." Hoseok said while Yoongi's hand was wrapped across his neck, side-hugging him. Both of them walked back to the party like that.

Back at the place, Hoseok saw Taehyung wasn't there. He asked Yoongi, who then went on to ask someone named Nama-.. Namjoom.. Namjoon. Ah, and this time he properly noticed the guy (who was right now very drunk) he met back at the party. Seokjim.. Seokjin.

Namjoon pointed towards the direction, though Hoseok already noticed it before him. He wasn't far away as he was sitting on the sand.

"I'll go talk to him.."

Yoongi gave him a thumbs-up amidst his attempt to take the drunk Seokjin to lay down in one of the tents.

Hoseok walked over to Taehyung and took a seat beside him on the cold sand. "Hey"