Chapter 22: To the most beautiful moments in our lives pt. 1

'If you focus only on the hurtful things, you will suffer till the end. But if you focus on the lesson, then you will grow.'

Past

Focusing on the hurtful things is natural, especially for a human like us. Grief is something we cannot avoid. We tend to focus on the hurting then the healing. That's what makes us human-like. Passing the stage of grief is something not everyone can do.

Even if you do, you'll need to sacrifice a bit of yourself to feel the numbness of happiness.

Because who could be truly happy when their dark thoughts are laughing?

"Hoseok... I'm going off to college now!" a girl with wavy hair shouts. She had a beautiful arch of a smile. Her prominent feature of the heart, smile and smiling eye make everyone know who she is. A copy of Hoseok himself.

"Noona! Please be careful, alright! If anyone is bad and –"

A joyous laugh could be heard, "You – I'm older here... but you act much more mature than I am."

Hoseok ran to the door and smiled, "You know why... there are many crimes here in Gwangju. I don't want you to get hurt."

"Of course... I'm just going to class, and I'll be back. You don't need to worry." The girl then hugs her brother before shouting goodbye.

"Please stay safe, Dawon...." Hoseok whispered."

But those darkest thoughts are why humans are what they call alive. There should be the bad in the good. If there's no bad, then what is good?

You have been walking beside Hoseok, who was trying hard to find a way out.

"Hoseok... please, we need to go back and save everyone –"

"And what? Get yourself killed? Is that what you want? Get in your head!" Hoseok shook your body, "Can't you get it, Dawon? I can't afford to lose you again."

"Dawon?" You asked, and Hoseok took a breath before he hugged you tightly.

"I miss her so bad... I told her not to go away. She just slipped into my grasp, and then Taehyung too... I can't – I can't lose you too."

"Hoseok..." You hugged him back, "You're not going to lose me... we're going to get through this together, it's us against Jungkook, we can do it – "

"No... if I do something... I would have to pay for the price."

"Then I'm willing to pay for the price," you said, "I will make sure we can... I promise you we can go back together."

"We can?"

"I promise you, we can." Hoseok then took a deep breath and sighed. He then took something out of his pocket, what it seems like a tracker.

"Come on... we need to get going. I think they are searching for you. But it looks like –" hands busy playing the tracker –" They are looking at Jimin's old office."

"To the physician's room?" Hoseok laughs a bit.

"A bit of a mad scientist lab, but I guess that works." Hoseok begins walking. You couldn't help to smile and congratulating yourself, hoping Hoseok's bipolar mood wouldn't worsen.

"I'm sorry I acted like that. I should probably ask for forgiveness for scaring you all," he whispered, "I couldn't help it."

Jung Dawon, Hoseok's big sister. She was Hoseok's number-one inspiration. He worships her more above than his parents. Their parents had to work every day, and not a single day where they would show their faces to Hoseok. It was always Dawon.

She became his favourite home, the person he consulted when he was down. Despite an 8-year age gap, it didn't matter for the Jung sibling.

They had been living a bearable life. They were enough, but, of course, they still needed a bit more. So, Dawon had to work for the family, sometimes leaving the lonely Hoseok at home.

They had to move out of Gwangju since the place was unsafe, and criminality still lingered in the dark. She needed to bring Hoseok out of the town, somewhere safer.

That is, until a specific day changes everything. On a particular cloudy Wednesday, Hoseok begged Dawon to stay home. The crimes lately were getting higher, and Hoseok was worried.

"Hoseok... I promise you, alright?"

She had told him, so he waited for her that day. The lingering feeling that something was about to happen kept creeping inside Hoseok that day.

When they told you to follow intuition, they were not wrong. Because since then, Dawon never came back home. It causes a big ruckus in the Jung household. Everyone was panicking over their daughter and sister well being.

"Hoseok..." It's been three days since Dawon had gone missing, and no one knows where she was. Their parents had filed in a missing person, and the house was chaotic.

So, it was a bigger surprise when she appeared in front of the house, all batter up and out of breath, she was still wearing the same clothes she had left.

Their parents had left to fill out files to the police and instructed their youngest child to take care of the house in the hope their daughter might return.

"Dawon! Dawon, please hang on and –"

"You need to get out – out of here... They are looking for – no, he's looking for –" A crash could be heard outside, and Dawon's face goes white.

She had pushed Hoseok inside their gates. She had shut her brother's mouth.

"Hoseok listens – listen," She took Hoseok's face in her petite hands, "I'm going to go outside and check, alright? I will come back here, and we're moving, alright?" She had to shake Hoseok, shaking, not knowing what to do.

"My baby brother is all grown up," Dawon looks at her brother, "You will one day be a great help and protector. I know you are."

"Please remember to keep fighting on, alright?" Dawon kissed her brother's temple before leaving the gates.

A/n; So sorry for the super late update, I just want to tell you guys, that the italics and no spaces are the backstories, which will be more prominent in the story starting from now. An insight on the boys past :)  I might frequently post each of the boys' back stories and then disappear for the next arch of the people behind the first book's logs.