"We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us"

-Charles Darwin

Yoongi's morning was delightful. A warm body was intimately pressed against him, captivating figure of his precious girlfriend lost in drowsiness, her head snuggling resting on his bare chest, sun rays illuminating her morning face accelerating his heart, scaring him that it would awake the sleeping beauty. He adoringly kissed her bare shoulder, nestling his face in between her collarbones. His chest puffed in pride, thankful to the deities for creating a sculpted goddess, which have brightened his life.

Since high school, he was wrestling with everything. Struggling to convince his parents of his passion, struggling as an introvert among the outgoing classmates, struggling with only a single bestfriend maintaining the minimum social life. His boring life and surviving mentality changed when this angel came.

Yoongi was never the one to like clichés but he found himself throwing all sappy and cliché flirtings for the only girl who took his breath away. He never took her for granted and reminded her everyday that how much she means to him.

'She is the optimum of beauty with brains, not that he is sexist, but she's the best' he thought.

"Mmm" she stirred due to the tinglings on her neck.

"Good morning beautiful" he wished then continue the assaulted on her neck with kisses in order to wake her up.

"Morning, cutey patootie" She said. And her obsession of giving him new nicknames never stops.

"What-cutey pattotie? Where this coming from?" He couldn't help but laugh at his girlfriend's weirdness while sitting up straight to start the day.

"From your cute face" she reasoned breathly in between kissing his beautiful doll like lips and sat up too, without caring of her bareness.

"Sore?" He worriedly asked while drinking in the curvy body of his girlfriend which dares him to make a move but he knows better. "A little sore" she replied.

"Let me prepare a bath for you" with that he quickly sprinted inside the bathroom carefully carrying her in his arms.

"Thank you Yoongs. I love you" she kissed his jaw in appreciation, enjoying the free ride.

"Love you too"

"Morning love birds, ready for the adventure" Jimin reminded them as he prepared the food while the others descended from the upstairs carrying their own bags.

"Hell yeah" Yoongi replied nonchalantly, making the two laugh at his antics. "I am glad you are on energy-saving mode because we are going to need that later" Jimin mocked him.

Double-checking everything, Jimin locked the cottage's door and joined his friends who were walking ahead, hitching his bag higher on his shoulders, throwing cheesy jokes here and there.

Soon, the group of three friends departure for their adventure, decided to go uphill which was famous among the trekkers. The path consist of narrow terrains, forest and rocky hill at the end.  Jimin had packed a generous amount of food for lunch whereas Yoongi had packed the essentials like medicines, bandages and sprays etc. Hana had attached a polaroid on her neck which she bought recently expressing her desire to capture every moment of the vacation.

The foothill was barren and had manmade steps, built to ease the path for climbers and tourists. They began to surpass the thick bushes as Yoongi had grab a sturdy, long stick and strike every thorny stems while walking ahead so his companions can walk without any difficulty.  Exhilarating, they mounted upwards and beat the small bushy terrains, entering the dense forest. 

Jimin had instantly secured his place on the last, a silent rule among the macho men to safeguard the only girl on which Hana rolled her eyes, remembering how she would be the one to safe them in high school from pricks.

"Imagine if this scary forest had dangerous animals, it would be more haunted then" Jimin  commented aloud reminiscing the local news giving the surveys that no animals habituated here since years. The last racoon was seen about 2 years ago which had escaped the zoo. The place is literally void of animals although home for insects.

"I am tired" Yoongi complained and Hana huffed in annoyance "but it's been only 10 minutes".

"Feels like an hour" he irritated her even more. "You're so lazy, Yoongs" Jimin laughed aloud.

Hana felt something off ever since she had entered in the forest. They had estimate the uphill's distance and it was not that long than twenty minutes. Beside she have been checking the time on her leather watch and it's almost passed an hour. There is an strange, eeriness in the surroundings and dare she say that it feels like they have been walking round in round despite the walking straight The hill is barely high but she felt difficulty in breathing like the oxygen-level is decreasing. A sudden dizziness hit her and she staggers a bit, catching her breath, she took support beside a tree.

"Hey Yoongs, you have the map right?" she asked.

"Yoongs? Jimin?" she turned around after not getting any answer but there was no one behind. She was all alone and, since when she didn't want to find out.

"Hey it's not funny. Okay" she yell in despair as her headache increased.

"I-i" she began to hypervalent when suddenly someone jolted her from behind.

"Hahahaha. Your face." Yoongi laughed and cracked on the ground on her funny expression.

"I hate you" she whined while squatting down the grounding covering her face.

"Hey baby, are you crying?" he worriedly asked when her shoulders shook. "I-i didn't mean it baby. Please don't cry" he tired to touch her and force her hands down. But only got gigglings in return.

"Now, who the foolish one?" She laughed at his dumbfounded face who was trying to put two and two together.

"Oh, You got me right there" he finally understood her dramatics.

"And where is Jimin?" She asked the question which was ticking her off for sometime. She had not seen him for quite sometime. 'Is he also hiding somewhere?' she thought.

"Jimin! come out!" Yoongi shouted while patting his jeans.

"Jimin, you have been exposed" she mocked him wanting to end his prank despite feeling that something is really wrong.

"Jimin! Oh, he's not here" he checked behind the tree but founded nothing.

"Are you sure? He's here, maybe he hide somewhere else?" She asked checking in the bushes thinking that he might have fainted just like in past.

"Yes, I signaled him to hide here" he confusedly replied.

"Maybe he didn't get the gesture and hide in other place" she tried to not only convince him but also herself.

"Maybe" it was becoming hard to remain positive.

"Jimin! JIMIN!" the panicked voices were shouting non-stop. They had waited for further five minutes but got no clue of Jimin. Thus, decided to look for him in the forest, but only the echoes were returning.

"Jimin!" Hana dejectedly whisper as her throat become sore from all the screaming and shouting.

"I am worried Yoongs. Maybe he went back" she said to her boyfriend who was looking more pale from tension.

"But he would have informed us" he had checked his phone numerous time but there was no single at all. Then how the hell Jimin will contact to them? But he didn't want to leave his friend when he could be wailing somewhere for help.

"Yes, it's not like him" she stood up from her crouch position in determination to find her bestfriend.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh" a terrific scream broke out in the silent forest. And the couple instantly froze on their places because it was familiar. They could recognize the shrill voice among the thousand one and it was definitely Jimin's.

Not caring about twigs, bushes or small rocks which were blocking and being the obstacles on their way to Jimin, they helplessly ran. Hana's arms were adorned in many cuts from the sharp branches and prickly trees but she didn't care, Jimin was in danger. Yoongi was lost in his own, focused on finding the way where the scream had come.

"NO!" Fortunately or unfortunately, the voice again bloomed, indicating that it was near.

Hana couldn't breathe properly, being running breathlessly and tossing away the wrost  scenarios happening to Jimin.

"HANA!" Yoongi shook his dazed girlfriend who unknowingly was murmuring and shaking like crazy.

"Snap out of it! We are gonna find him but first, you get a grip okay!" he pleaded desperately.

"Y-yes" she hummed and went along with him, noticing that he is going into a more dense area. Before she could ask, he began to sprint in full speed as the crying voice of Jimin's was heard close by.

Yoongi pull and almost broke the thick branches aside to reveal a small barren area in the middle of forest but what shocked him more was a man pointing a shotgun on the laying figure who was covered in mud and leaves and barely recognizable but from the familiar hiccupping, they were sure that it was Jimin.

Yoongi, without wasting any time, ran towards the assaulter before he could fire at his friend.

Hana was not that far away from the scene and bravely went over to secure her helpless friend or hide him behind, with her body but she was too late.

A loud noise erupted amidst the silence of forest. Scared birds flew away sensing the danger, crows began to caw endlessly celebrating the sign of death. Everything was dead silent, all the screaming, hyperventilating, shock caught in the middle of throat because a bullet had been fired.

Dazed with less-to-no understanding of surrounding, the tearful girl crawled towards her friend and checked his shaking body to find the red platter.

Jimin, however stopped her from further examining. "I-I am not hurt, Hana" but she pushed his hands and checked his pulse not minding his pleading. "Hana, I am not hurt" Jimin yell in his cracked voice and hugged her to stop her actions. They cried and embraced each other.

"Y-you are not h-hurt right?" she asked again.

"He couldn't have hurt him because I shot the bullet" an unfamiliar voice said and revealed himself from the thick branches and pointed his gun towards the assaulter.

"You are Lucky, Kim Seokjin that I didn't put the bullet on your head"

~by dork