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"Hey guys! The sky is starry tonight!" J-hope said rushing back in not too long after he went out. The rest of us went out and stood, staring at the stars that scattered all over, twinkling and winking down at us.
"Woah! This is beautiful!" Jimin said
"They look like light sticks. Like so many light sticks" suga said looking around for confirmation
"Yeah!"
"You're right"
They responded smiling at those words.
She looked at the stars quietly, listening to them talk as she wished her siblings—especially her younger brother—was here to see this. They would've taken so many pictures of the sky with their phones because the stars are rarely this full at home.
She felt a hand go around her shoulders.
"Have you enjoyed your stay so far?" Jk asked.
"Yeah! Of course. It's everything I've ever wished for" she responded smiling at him
He smiled back and ruffled her hair playfully and she frowns.
"Come on guys let's go back in, it's cold out here" V says
"You guys go in. I'll stay a little longer, I feel inspired by the stars" Suga said
"Oooh!!" Everyone chorused
"Don't stay out too long though.." jin said patting his shoulder
"Hyung nim, should I get you a jacket?"
"Would you like some coffee too?" Jimin and V asked almost together
"No there's no need. I'll be in soon"
"Ok!" They both responded together this time
"Hey! Stop repeating what I'm saying." Jimin said to Tae Hyung
"You also need to stop saying the same thing with me" V responded
"Hey!" Jimin shouted making V to run towards the house
We laughed as we went in together.
Inside the House
Bark! bark!
"Hey YT" she said, crouching to touch the dog. But, suddenly he wasn't there anymore, like he vanished
"What.. just. happened?" She asked scared and confused at the same time.
Jk smiled sadly at her.
"It's time to go" he said
"What? To go where?" She asked getting more confused
"What does he mean by that?" She thought
"I mean it's over, you need to go back" he said as he wrapped her in a warm hug.
"What is over? Go back to where? What are you saying?" she felt tears build up in her eyes as a very well hidden fear crept to the surface
"No! no! no!… this can't be happening!" She shouted in her head.
"Please don't let it be what I'm thinking!! please don't let be!!" she chanted furiously in her head
"When you go back, we will be there to sing with you and work hard to make more beautiful music for you" He said pulling back halfway and wiping my spilling tears with his hands. "Ok?" He asked smiling at her
This can't be happening! It can't be what I'm thinking that's happening right now!!
"But..um...but I...um...but I don't want to go back" She said as she tried to stop her voice from trembling as she wiped the tears from here eyes
"But you have to. Everything that has a beginning must have an end, and this is the end for….."
"No! No, I don't accept that!" she shouted cutting RM off.
She backed away and continued "I'm not ready...I don't want to leave. At least not yet!". Eyes down with her hands folded in shock, she tried to think of how and at what point all this became a dream because it all just seemed pretty real to her.
"It's all right. But you need to hurry and go now" suga said.
Everyone turned towards him and watched as he came forward and gave her a hug
"It's been fun SD, I'll miss you" he said and smiled before moving away, when he saw jin and Jimin coming towards her together to say goodbye.
"I don't want to go..." She said to them with watery eyes
Jin rubbed her hair and gave a a hug too.
"Stay safe ok? Eat more often too" He said smiling at her
"Mmmm" she replied smiling at him, withholding her tears from dropping
Jimin came close, eyes red, with a smile on his face
"Mochi!" She said as she hugged him. She cried silently into his shoulders, while he looked up and blinked severally to prevent his tears from falling.
They stayed that way for a while, then he said " please don't be sad. I hope you get back safely"
"Please don't skip your meals anymore and rest more ok? " she nodded and wiped her eyes
Those words, so caring yet so painful to her because right now they meant "good bye" . Thinking about that, the tears she thought had gone back, came rushing, flowing freely without her control.
"But I really don't want to go. I.. I... I may not see you all like this again, what should I do about that!? I really don't want to leave. Please!" She said grabbing the sweater of J-hope that had come to say goodbye and was crying also
"I'm... sorry but.... You really should go back. Your friends, your parents, they will be worried about you "J-hope said to her, wiping his own tears from his eyes because he wanted to stay strong for her
She looked around and saw that most of the pictures, chairs and other furnitures were no longer there. The living room was mostly bare.
"Oh!" She cried more as she saw the table disappear along with it's memories. They had eaten together there this morning Or so she thought
"Oh Ese, you are going to be fine, I promise. One day this is all going to be real. Maybe not the visiting or spending time together, but you will attend concerts and we will take pictures together ok?" RM said as he gave me a tight hug
"Ok!" She nodded while gripping his shirt with reluctantly
"Good…Now, you need to get out of your imaginations…It's not good for you there"
V suddenly said, and she joined him halfway.
She looked up and saw him standing close to her.
"When did he get here" she thought
She knew the quote. He had used it when he got tired of the "Taekook" shipping that ended up making their friendship awkward. It sounded cool at the time, she too had been in support of the statement. But right now, it was the least thing she wanted to remember or hear at that moment.
She looked around and discovered it was just she and V left. She looked at him as he also looked at her, both crying and reluctant to leave each other.
"I'll miss you TaeGer" she said crying again
"I'll miss you so much" she said as she hugged him again, this time she held him so tight her arms were aching and he hugged her closely and whispered, "Me too" rubbing her hair softly.
They stayed like that for a while, then he raised her chin and wiped her tears and said; " ok! No more crying! You're an Army and army is strong yeah?"
"Yeah" she responded weakly
"And as far as we are on the same planet, under the same sky, we will always be in each other's universe, and that's great right?" He said smiling at her
"Mm" she said nodding, finally smiling
"Okay! Then you are ready!?" He said and clapped.
"Ms. Ese,I'll see you on the other side." And ran off towards the black space in front of them.
Then he stopped, turned around and gave her a big smile waving both hands at her saying; "Annyeong!... Borahae!... I purple you, they purple you, We all... purple you!" drawing his hands round to make a circle as he faded off, not hearing her respond.
"I purple you all too" echoed in the blankness as the lone figure of a girl was all that could be seen.
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She opened her eyes and looked around and noticed she was back at her real home. The curtains were drawn up, which showed that it was morning and she was the last one to get up.
She tried to recall what had happened in her dream, but only fragments were coming to mind. The reality of it all was beginning to be too heavy to her to hear.
She saw her phone unplugged and hurriedly took it, hoping and praying—even when she knew it was impossible deep down—that the pictures they took would be on her phone.
"No no no no!!" She exclaimed, nearly stoning her phone on the wal as tears flowed out of her eyes
"Mummy she's awake" she heard her younger brother's voice
"Alex! Alex I need a hug" she said.
She and her younger brother's were the huggers in the family so he didn't hesitate and hugged her, despite not understanding the importance of the hug to her at that moment.
" What happened? Why have you been crying?" He asked
"Let me guess, you dreamt of rapture and you didn't make heaven" her sister stephanie said appearing from nowhere, smiling
"God forbid!!" Ese and her brother chorused giving her death glares
"What? That's the only think I can think of right now" stephanie said shrugging
"So why were you crying" she asked with genuine concern on her face.
Ese didn't know where to begin, and didn't want to cry too much in front of her younger siblings. But, she told them anyway, the parts she could remember and her favorite parts.
"Omo! This dream eh!" Her sister said
"Like!? The thing makes sense o" her brother said
"Is it because you watched too much videos of them last night?" He asked probably trying to figure out why such dreams would come
"It's very possible. But wait o, I was the on that introduced you to BTS yet you're the one having dreams? Why am I not having my own dream?" She said
"Stephanie, that is not the point here" Ese said internally face palming
Her siblings laughed and she followed a few seconds later. Her siblings always knew how to cheer her up.
"Ofu BTS nke! This early morning, you all are there discussing. Have you forgotten today is Saturday?" Their mother said
"No ma"
"Good morning ma"
Ese and and siblings said simultaneously
"Good morning how are you? Shey it's because of BTS you're crying this early morning? I have said it before, leave those boys alone. It's for your own good. I'll say it again, nobody should bring korean boy here that you want to marry! I'll chase both you and the boy away" her mum said taking their laundry out after saying her piece.
"Mummy we don't want to marry them oo" Ese and stephanie said towards her receding figure while Alex laughed at them
"Ese it's ok...you see why I don't watch bts videos a lot like before? It'll make you wish you had wings to fly, just so you can get to their concerts" steph said getting up from her position
"Seriously! But If I was the one that had this dream eh, I'll first of all walk up to RM and be like 'Guy, what's up na!?' " Alex said with one hand in his pocket and the other raised for a high five, making his 'cool face'
Ese and steph laughed hard and didn't know when their dad came in.
"This early morning,you talking about BTS that's probably sleeping or have taken their bath. Yet you're here, you haven't even done your chores" he said
"Hei! Daddy how do you know" steph asked laughing
"It's true now...I know their manger he just called me and told me to tell my children to do their work"
They all laughed knowing it wasn't true and left the room together to do their chores.
As she sorted the laundry she was assigned, she couldn't help but wonder if either member had the same dream with her, or if either Lin or the others had the same dream too, because it felt too real for her to have been the only real person there.
This is it guys... the end of Not reality. I want to thank everyone for being patient with me and for finishing the novel with me too.... I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Also, I would like to know the parts you love most in the book and the parts that need more attention because, I'll be editing the book soon and I don't want to find out I removed your favorite part. So please drop you comments as soon as possible. God bless💜
~From Soul Invader⚡