Do you look at other people the way you look at me?

With love?

With pity?

Because it's never one without the other.

🐘🐘🐘

"(Y/n)?" Yoongi called, entering her room.

The bed was empty.

"(Y/n)?" he asked again, panicking. Did she get past me somehow? Where could she have gone? What if she's stuck somewhere, hurt?

"(Y/N)?!"

Yoongi spun around and started running down the stairs only to trip and fall, slamming into the wall. He cursed, putting a hand to his head. Nothing was broken, but he had a killer headache and his ankle looked to be sprained.

Just then, (Y/n) appeared at the top of the staircase.

"Yoongi?"

He stared at her. "Where- where were you?"

"In the closet." She frowned. "We were playing hide and seek."

Not now. But years ago. Did she get confused?

"You were supposed to find me," she said, upset. "But you didn't find me."

Yoongi hesitated, his ankle throbbing as he tried to figure out how to make everything right and okay again. "You win," he said, forcing a smile onto his face. "You had the best hiding space. I never even saw you."

Her face took a second to brighten but then she smiled. "I win! I win I win I win!" She threw her hands over her head, one of her hands still faintly yellow. Yoongi was about to tell her to be careful and grab the railing when he saw a familiar purple bracelet on her wrist. His forced smile fell.

So she's wearing that again...

Why had she taken it out after all this time?

She'd leave it in the box for weeks and then put it on one day, and every time that happened, Yoongi's heart broke a little bit more.

She doesn't remember. She probably doesn't know who it's from or what it meant. She just thinks it looks shiny.

But Yoongi hated the purple bracelet and he wished he could rip it apart and throw the beads out into the intended garden where they'd be lost forever. He didn't want to see the beads on (Y/n)'s wrist, because he knew who they came from and what they meant.

But he sighed, because he couldn't tell all of that to her. "Let's have breakfast," he said instead, and she smiled.

"I want to use the new plate!" she said, and Yoongi nodded.

"Yes ma'am."