Hoseok stretched his arms behind his head. "So... Why did the loop reset that time?" He asked. "Did I 'not make enough of an impact'?" He said in a mocking tone. His room was empty but he knew they were listening.

"Don't bother pretending you don't hear me," Hoseok grumbled as he got dressed for the day.

"You aren't allowed to tell people about the loop." 

Hoseok laughed. "I've told Jiwoo about the loop before, it didn't reset then. Are you just upset because I'm happy with Yoongi?" He asked as he clicked his tongue. Although he already felt the loop resetting. 

Hoseok sat up in his bed. "You resetting the loop just confirms my thoughts." 

He got no response.

"You're a cowardice entity you know that?" Hoseok said as he bent down to tie his shoelaces. "You never show yourself. You're just a voice, that only I can hear. How do I know you're even real?"

Hoseok looked up to see a figure standing in his room. "WHAT THE FUCK-" He leaped behind a piece of furniture, holding a pillow up to shield his face.

"You shouldn't talk back to me." The entity said, although their lips didn't move. "I control the loop." They were a faint grey color. Appearing almost like a ghost would on TV. 

Hoseok got an uncomfortable chill down his back as he looked at the entity closer. They had no eyes, soul-less empty sockets remained. Although they weren't there, he still felt their strong gaze. 

"So, are you going to tell me all the things I'm doing wrong again?" Hoseok asked setting the pillow down. 

The entity hummed as they stepped forward. "Would a different form be more comfortable for you to view?" 

Hoseok blinked a few times, it wasn't Yoongi standing in front of him. It wasn't Yoongi. It was the fucked up entity making him do this. "Listen, I've been friends with Seokjin for YEARS! If you think I'm above fighting a sky entity you're dead wrong!"

'Yoongi' stepped closer to him. "Really? Hoseokie? You'd hurt me?"

Hoseok wavered. "I wouldn't hurt Yoongi but you're not Yoongi."

"You'd never hurt me?" 

Hoseok gripped at his hair. Standing out in the middle of the street, the views of his bedroom long gone. Yet, the fake Yoongi was still there. "You're not real."

"I can control when and where you wake up in the loop." 

Hoseok blinked again and he was at the school. Students walking around him in the halls. Paying him no mind as he tried to process his surroundings. "You're just fucking with me again."

He was getting a headache from all the switching. From everything, he was seeing. Maybe throwing hands with a sky entity with the power to control the universe, wasn't a good idea?

Hoseok squeezed his eyes shut, waiting for the world to stop moving around him. When it did, he found himself staring at his ceiling again. 

"Hi, Hoseokie." A voice was heard beside him.

Hoseok jumped again scooting away from 'Yoongi'.

"What? I thought you said you wanted to wake up next to me every day." The fake Yoongi said. "I'm giving you a taste of what you could have." The entity's voice went back to normal. The one that sounded like it was in his head, and not coming from in front of him.

"I don't need a taste," Hoseok said, which only seemed to piss them off more.

"You don't?" They asked.

"I don't. And I'm never going to believe your little mind games. You know why?" Hoseok gritted his teeth. Standing up and looking at the entity. "Because you ARE NOT Yoongi, your little illusions and nicknames and sweet talk don't work. It's not genuine and it doesn't come from the real Yoongi, MY Yoongi. You don't act like him."

The entity narrowed their eyes, or eye sockets rather. "I don't get you Jung Hoseok..."

Hoseok dropped his arms to his sides. "Wut..."

"It's my job and my purpose to figure humans out. And I thought you were simple. Yet, you keep surprising me." The entity explained.

"I guess that's someone you and I have in common..." Hoseok sighed. "We can't figure each other out." 

"You sure acted like you had me figured out." They said, seeming to shrink to a smaller size.

Hoseok shrugged. "Truthfully I'm not sure..." He told. "I don't get why you enjoy tormenting people. Not just me, Jin too! And I don't know what the hell even went on in his time loop but it sounds WAY MORE COMPLICATED than mine." 

"Creating time loops to teach humans lessons is my job. Thousands of time loops are happening, different realities for different choices. But like I said... Yours interested me the most." They told. "Tell me more about love."

"Love?" Hoseok asked. "Is that really why you are doing this?"

To his surprise, they shook their head. "No, but your reason for continuing the loop. Through all my tricks and stunts I've pulled on you."

"It's for Yoongi. I've told you multiple times." Hoseok crossed his arms, suddenly growing annoyed again. 

"Yes, but most people in time loops use crossovers, make the loop work in their favor. Get rich, achieve everything they wanted. Yet, you... Have used hardly any. You wake up on the same day and have the same purpose." 

Hoseok thought for a moment. "I'm worried I'd lose myself along the way. I don't want to use this extra time to get rich or learn every single language to exist. I'm doing it to save Yoongi, you used to torment me about saving him but that's really the only reason I bother to continue the loop. And when... or if, I come out of the loop. I still want to be the same person Yoongi knows me as. So, the love is genuine. No one can replicate it or fake it. Because what I have with him is special."

The entity nodded its head. "You continue to interest me Hoseok. If you ever beat the time loop... And join the few who have saved themselves... Maybe we could see what happens."

Hoseok watched them fade away, followed by waking up in his bed again. Hoseok sighed as he shook his head. Another try at the loop. Reaching for his phone and texting Yoongi before the 'Good Morning!' text came through. 

"I LOVE YOU!"

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Sorry, this is a little late I got distracted. Tomorrow might not be out until late in the night as well because I have exams in the morning and afternoon.