Crown of Eight | Bts royalty au

Chapter 32

Don't freak out, it's really not the time to do that, I said to myself when I heard the words of what I assumed was a guard. It didn't take long until more footsteps could be heard in the walk-in-closet and I tried to think but it was like my brain had given up. All it wanted to think about was the horrible consequences I would be exposed to if I got caught.

It was not much time left until a guard was going to search through the shelf I was sitting on. I had heard how they were increasing in numbers and how they were spreading themselves in the closet, so it was just a matter of time. In panic I looked around only to see pretty dresses, a wall and myself. Fuck, fuck, fuck. I'm dead. I'm trapped. I will freak out.

With wet eyes I continued looking around in the little space I was sitting in although I knew there was nothing I could do. My eyes moved down and even though it was dark I could still see the buttons glistening on the guard's uniform I was wearing.

Wait a second.

I was wearing guard's clothes.

I did not look different to anyone else in this hall.

I could act.

I could pretend I was one of them.

I swallowed hard and stood up on the shelf since the shelf above was placed quite high up so I fitted perfectly in between them. Just do it... I thought while keeping my gaze low, pushing the hat down as far as I could and pulling up the collar to cover my face. There's no time left.

With force I pulled away the dresses and jumped down from the shelf. My heart was beating fast as hell and sweat ran down my face like a river. I didn't know if any of the guards saw me when I jumped down, but I didn't want to guess so I spoke.

"Nothing there." I stated with a dark voice and moved to the next shelf, acting like I was searching. As I checked more and more shelves I meanwhile moved closer and closer to the main door. I had a bad feeling in my stomach telling me that at least one of the guards had noticed something odd about me or my voice or about the way I was behaving. But nothing of that occurred. Neither of them didn't even glance at me so when I had approached the main door and sneaked out, no one noticed.

Damn. I'm smart as fuck.

The time was about to slip away since I had to be beside Yoongi before he woke up. As I rushed towards the forbidden hallway, I memorized the system one last time to make sure I knew it to 100 percent, even though I knew I already did. As soon as I approached the guards that were protecting the wide hallway and what was hiding behind the doors inside of it, I just did what I had planned to do in my head. My feet moved like I had seen those guards do, with quite straight legs and good posture. I took a place beside the guard that was standing at the far end of the line along the wall. I nodded to him without having eye contact, like I had seen them do to each other earlier. He nodded back and walked away, letting me take his place. I didn't know if the guard that actually should replace him would come here soon, but that was a problem I would deal with later. Now I was in the line and it was moving. It was moving just like I had thought it would.

Right, Forward, Backing – Quickly and then Right, Left, Right, Left – Slowly.
Right, Forward, Backing – Quickly and then Right, Left, Right, Left – Slowly.
Right, Forward, Backing – Quickly and then Right, Left, Right, Left – Slowly.

I felt that terrible and wonderful mixture between anxiety and excitement. My breathing was rapid and shallow and I did my best to make it stay in a normal pace, but it was impossible. My legs were shaking and as we followed the system closer to the door I was afraid to death that I would trip. The hallway was dark so it wasn't until I was standing very close to the door that I could see how the guards protected it and also the things inside of it. While trying to be as discreet as possible and at the same watching carefully how the guards walked in and out of the door, I swallowed hard. First of all I was extremely happy that we actually got to go inside and second of all I was extremely terrified that it wouldn't be the same system inside there. Maybe they have another structure to make it harder or something.