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You know she likes the lights at night on the neon Broadway signs. And she don't really mind, it's only love she hoped to really find. Oh, she's a little runaway. Daddy's girl learned fast all those things she couldn't say. Oh, she's a little runaway. — Bon Jovi, "Runaway" (1984)

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The first thing the group did was an adventure trail. Johnny and Hyelin had signed their little group for an adventure hike in the jungle and Meredith was more than excited to start walking.

The eight adults were still packing their backpacks, packing some lunch boxes with sandwiches and fried rice Johnny had quickly prepared in the morning, before they went to their cars.

Meredith was playing with the Mustang keys in her hand. She knew Seokjin was going to drive with her, which meant that Mark and Yaeeun probably would share a ride either with Johnny and Hyelin or Jaehyun and Baekhee.

The green-eyed monster was sitting on Meredith's shoulder, watching them. She hoped that Yaeeun would just join Jaehyun's car, since it was obvious that Mark was driving with Johnny. No way in hell would he squeeze himself into the tiny backseat of a Mustang.

"Can you unlock the car, babe?" Seokjin said and Meredith turned around to the voice of her boyfriend. A bit of her jealousy washed away when she looked at Seokjin. He wore sweatpants-shorts and a loose Adidas shirt. His hair was messily styled and he grinned happily—excited about an adventure hike in the jungle.

Meredith unlocked the Mustang and Seokjin loaded the trunk. He even took Meredith's backpack of her back and put it in the trunk of the sports car; as Meredith was busy staring at Mark and Yaeeun.

Something had happened yesterday, the Aquarius was sure of it. Otherwise Mark wouldn't be so friendly with her. On the other hand, Mark was a friendly kid. Maybe Meredith was overthinking things and Mark was just friendly towards her female best friend.

She tried to shake the jealous thoughts away and the green-eyed monster disappeared for a while. Johnny told Jaehyun and Meredith the address of their start point and they all got into their cars.

Meredith was right. Mark and Yaeeun climbed into the backseat of the Honda HRV Johnny and Hyelin had rented. She sighed and climbed into the drivers seat of the Mustang. At least she had a nice ride to distract her.

The leather seat felt nice under her and she gently moved her arms over the steering wheel. Seokjin watched her with a fond expression on his face. He knew how addicted Meredith was to sports cars—and cars in general—and the happiness that spread across her face was addicting.

Seokjin never cared if it was Meredith or him who drove them around. He knew Meredith loved to drive so he didn't try to argue if he could try out the Mustang. He knew it was Meredith's car so she had every right to drive it. No matter how fast.

Plus, Meredith looked hot when she was driving. So Seokjin truly hit the jackpot. He could drool over his girlfriend while she got high from driving eighty miles per hour down under. Here in Hawai'i she had to limit herself to sixty mph. But she didn't mind, as long as she could hear the Mustang purr under her feet she was happy.

"One day" Meredith said, when she stopped at a red light, "imma drive through Germany." She grinned and glanced over to Seokjin. "On the Autobahn are parts with no tempo limit and you can drive up to one hundred mph and more." She rolled her eyes in delight and Seokjin chuckled.

"Then you're going to rent yourself an Aston Martin and speed up baby."

"Not going to lie, babe" Meredith continued, "I'll probably rent a Lamborghini or even a Ferrari. One day imma try out all these sweet sports cars and get myself one." She smiled and started the engine once the light turned green.

Seokjin really liked the enthusiast Meredith had for cars, speed and modifying them. She inspired him to do more, study more to become a fantastic lawyer. He just wished Meredith had the same amount of enthusiasm when it came to him.

He was slowly getting more annoyed by the fact, that they didn't take the next step. He had enough of dry humping, hand jobs and all that dry shit. He wanted to fill her cute little body up with him and make her scream his name. He was narcissistic enough to only care about his pleasures and he just wanted to fuck her senseless.

He didn't know how much longer he would have the patience for her bullshit.

But now with her brother and this Mark Lee dude around, Seokjin knew he had to walk carefully. Johnny Seo looked scary. If he would put his finger on Meredith, when she didn't give him the green light, Johnny would be more than capable of knocking him out.

Last night he almost had her. But she chickened out. He had felt the tension growing between the pair, but as soon as it began to get more steamy she jumped up and literally fled from him.

Meredith was looking onto the street in front of her. The GPS was navigating her through downtown Kahului. She could see Jaehyun and Baekhee's Ford Kuga in her rearview mirror and saw Johnny's car in front of her.

"I hope we're soon out of the city so I can step on the gas" she mumbled as she took a right and drove onto a country road. Meredith smiled. As if she had manifested it, a huge empty street appeared in front of it and the GPS told her that the next corner was seven miles ahead.

A smile spread onto her lips as she looked over to Seokjin. "Hold on tight, babe" she whispered, put on the indicator and overtook Johnny's Honda HRV with great speed. Seokjin grinned and leaned back into his chair, as the Mustang rushed down the road.

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Their Tourguides name was Healani and he was a mid-thirty year old man with tanned skin, traditional Hawaiian tattoos and big muscular arms. He was waiting for the group by the parking lot.

Meredith skillfully parked the Mustang and turned off the engine, before climbing out of the vehicle. Healani smiled towards her. "Aloha" he spoke and Meredith quickly greeted him as well. She shouldered her backpack and watched Seokjin greet the tour guide as well.

The couple was the first of their group to arrive at their designated meeting point.

Seokjin took the time to grab onto Meredith's hand and gently rub his thumb over the back of her hand. She smiled up at him. Moments like these were her favorite in their relationship. Just a simple gesture like this and Meredith would melt into a puddle.

"I'm so happy we got to travel together" she started and leaned her head onto her boyfriends shoulder. He smiled down onto her. "Me too" he grinned, "starting from September we'll both be very busy with our schoolwork so we have to take every chance we get to be together, aye?", he asked and Meredith nodded.

She was aware that their future wasn't clear yet. Meredith would finish studying faster than Seokjin—and she already had plans on moving back to Chicago. Would they manage to keep up a long-distance-relationship? Meredith didn't knew if Seokjin wanted to go back to South Korea once he became a lawyer.

They had never talked about their future.

She quickly shook her head when they heard a honk. Meredith turned around. Johnny and Jaehyun's cars were driving onto the parking lot and parking next to the Mustang. The other adults climbed out of their vehicles, shouldered their bags and walked up to Healani.

Johnny greeted the man and Healani nodded politely.

Meredith waved Mark, who shyly waved back before averting his attention back to Yaeeun who was apparently telling him something while walking towards Seokjin and Meredith. The ugly green monster kicked Meredith's stomach and she quickly turned away.

She didn't like this feeling. At ALL.

"Everyone's here?", asked Healani and Johnny nodded. "We're very excited for the adventure hike Healani" he smiled and Healani nodded at the tall male. "This is an all-day adventure tour" Healani introduced todays activity. "First, we're going to hike in the rainforest, followed by kayaking down rivers."

Meredith eyes got bigger. This was exactly what she loved to do. She looked towards Seokjin, her eyes sparkling just thinking about sharing a kayak with him and watching the nature pass them, as they shipped down the river.

"Everyone's ready?", asked Healani and Meredith never felt more ready. She wanted to take Hawai'i by the balls and make it her bitch. She was so ready for an all-day adventure with her boyfriend and her loved ones.

Even if it meant to look at Yaeeun making moves on Mark.

The group started hiking through a breathtaking and green scenery. Plants, trees, vines and the water were in close distance. Healani explained a few things here and there as the group made their way through the rainforest.

Seokjin let go off Meredith's hand and poked Yaeeun's shoulder. "Last by that big ass tree has to buy the other one a pack of cigarettes" he grinned at his best friend. "YA! Seokjin, that's not fair!", Yaeeun yelled and ran after the tall male.

Mark took his chance and slowed down until he was walking next to Meredith. "Hi" he whispered. Meredith looked at him, "Hi." They smiled at each other for a short second, while walking next to each other.

"How'd you sleep?", asked Mark, he held onto the straps of his backpack and kicked and few leaves out of his way. "Jetlag knocked me out before I could say Amen" Meredith chuckled and walked over a vine on the floor.

Mark chuckled. "Bet it did" he grinned. "Mer" Johnny suddenly called, "look there's a black pig!" Meredith and Mark looked at each other and walked up to Johnny. Down in the bushes sat a black pig and Mark chuckled. "This looks like the one that chased you through the forest when we were kids" Mark grinned and poked Meredith's side.

The Aquarius woman pursed her lips. "I didn't know we weren't allowed to touch them" she answered, when she felt two arms wrap themselves around her waist—Seokjin. "What are y'all looking at?", he asked when Meredith nodded towards the pig.

"Oh, that's cute! Looks a bit like Babe" he grinned and kissed Meredith's cheek. "We should go on. Those pigs don't like masses of people staring at them", explained Healani and the group continued on.

They climbed up a wall of vines, walked through a narrow path and up a mountain. "The last part of the hike is climbing up this bamboo forest" Healani spoke, "our kayaks are waiting for us on the other side of the forest."

Meredith walked right behind Healani. She held onto the bamboo trees and climbed up the mountain with ease. She had a bright smile on her lips. She loved stuff like this. Right behind her was Seokjin. His eyes were mostly fixated on Meredith's butt.

Once up the bamboo forest they were met with a dark river. Five kayaks were waiting for the group. Baekhee and Jaehyun immediately climbed into the first one. The blonde-black-haired beauty almost managed to knock their kayak over, but Jaehyun calmed his girlfriend down.

Johnny and Hyelin shared a kayak and Seokjin dragged Meredith to a boat before she could ask Mark, whom he wanted to share with. Meredith had to watch how Mark helped Yaeeun into the kayak.

She felt her blood boiling as she grabbed onto the paddle of the kayak. She bit down her bottom lip. Yaeeun was acting all shy and introverted for Mark to take care of her. She knew this was all an act—still it made her incredibly mad. She had no words for this behavior.

Healani led them through more of the rainforest by Kayak. Meredith sometimes stopped her and Seokjin's boat to take pictures and videos of their surroundings. Seokjin leaned forward and rested his head between Meredith's shoulder blades.

"Can we ditch the others?", he asked and Meredith turned around. "No, we can't we still have to find the waterfall!", she said and Seokjin sighed. "No offense, but I'm here on a vacation with my girlfriend and not a Seo family trip."

Meredith turned around and looked at Seokjin. "You're aware that this isn't a family trip. This is a group trip and we can't just ditch the others?" She furrowed her brows and Seokjin rolled his eyes.

"We haven't had time for ourselves, babe" he said and Meredith breathed out loudly. "If this is about us fucking, then stop. I told you we're going to talk about it."

"But we haven't! We act like we're such a nice couple in front of your brother and friends when in reality we have a big issue between us." Seokjin threw his arms in the air. Their kayak was far behind the others. Meredith looked at Seokjin. "Us not having sex is an issue?", she asked and Seokjin groaned.

"Yes! Every couple has sex! Just not us!"

Meredith looked at Seokjin in shock. "You're saying we have a problematic relationship just because we don't sleep with each other?", she asked and Seokjin rolled his eyes. "Don't you dare throw a temper tantrum right now." She looked at him. Seokjin looked at her. He had an angry expression on his face. Something Meredith couldn't read.

Something that made her feel like shit. Like it was her fault this relationship was problematic. She looked at him. "I'm not talking about this, while we're here" she only answered and started paddling after her friends.

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𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠!

𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞.

𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

—𝕤𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕗𝕝𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕞𝕪𝕝𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕠𝕡