"I'm not on the angel's side..."

LEE MINHO

OCTOBER 24

10:34 AM

I skimmed through the pages again, currently seated inside our office. The records look creepy as they should, but something about it was foreign or Strange. "Minho" I jumped out of my trance, hearing my name. Jungkook has returned from the cafeteria, two cups of latte in his hands and an infectious smile on his face. Taking one of them from him I smelled the caffeine as the aroma provided me a sort of reassurance. Jungkook takes a glance at the file. "Damn, you're still worried about it?" He questions as I shrug in return, incapable to construct a quick response.

"It's not because I'm scared. I just-" I was abruptly cut off when the rest of the team barged in, having sunny smiles on their faces. Hoseok; our team leader had the widest one, excited about the project more than anyone else. "The meeting's up in three, let's go!" Jimin announced loudly pushing and pulling everyone to the hallway. On the way to the conference room, Hoseok slightly held my shoulder, stopping me from walking.

"Don't worry too much. It's just like any other case. Relax" He whispered in my ear his hot breath sending chills down my spine. Despite my timid crush on him, I was unable to feel warm to his closeness. Something was bizarre. Nonetheless, I smiled at him with closed lips, though they quivered scarcely. Squeezing my shoulder for the last time, he walked in front and conversed with Jimin. "Would you look at that lovey dovey~~" Hyunjin cooed, hanging his hand around my shoulder with Seokjin nudging me from my side. I wasn't in the spirit to deal with them both, the most theatrical pair. Resorting to rolling my eyes, I pushed his hand away, seeing the conference room up front.

Our boss; Mr. Zhang stood proudly beside the screen as we all found our seats around the long glass table. He was the youngest CEO in the entertainment industry, managing more than ten different TV shows, he also found a particular interest in our crew. Presumably, because we were the current best-selling show and people from all around the world watch us. A group of ten young men hunting supernatural and paranormal tales around the world is, intriguing isn't it?

"I know you all already know about the place, but we are doing a final check right now" Mr. Zhang declared, smiling lightly as he leaned on the table. His reflection was blurry on the glass with the red silky suit appearing blood-like. As if it's showing the reflection of a dead body though it's just Mr. Zhang. I shook my head timidly, surprised by the thoughts running through my mind. The reflection has changed, he was not wearing a red suit that day, it was white. A bead of sweat rolled down the back of my neck as I could hear my own heartbeat, which was not rising, it was lowering. The noises around me began to fade, but a hand suddenly touched my shoulder and I was thankfully back to the conversation at hand.

But I was standing alone next to the door while everyone sat. Then who touched me?

"This is rather an interesting place you see, 100 miles away from civilization in the deep center of the forest" A few gasps left the member's mouth, Hoseok finding extra interest in the info presented. He was a scaredy-cat to be candid. But when we go to chase these things, his passion takes over fear. I admire him for that.

"This asylum; Daegu Danse asylum to be exact, has been closed for a long time. People who visited confessed that the place was haunted and some went insane, killing themselves most absurdly and disturbingly possible. Minho, Namjoon, and Hyunjin did some digging and handed me some interesting info" I took a moment to look at the two, a smirk on Hyunjin's face as I expected. Namjoon, having those dimpled smiles. Hoseok glanced at me before turning back to Mr. Zhang Yixin, he's strange, in a good way.

"According to the reports when they closed down the asylum there were still patients inside. No one wanted to deal with 'mental' people... so they locked 'em up there, they starved they died. That's what some people say, not sure if there was an actual death of a patient"

"That's horrible," Jimin said mostly to himself, he was the kind of person, who doesn't care who they are or what they did, he just wanted them to feel love. A small ball made of kindness, though he's taller than me. "It is sad, but the interesting part is that the patients in there were not only Koreans but also foreigners. Demonic possessions, bipolar diseases, hallucinating, and normal mental illnesses were the major cases there"

Everyone nodded taking in the information, we have seen many kinds of supernatural stuff, so we never really questioned the words 'demon, possession, imaginary friend, and so on. We have seen so much more than that maybe... wendigos? That's an exaggeration, We never saw a wendigo, although I wish we did.

"From kids to old people there were different kinds of patients, who knows you might come across some hot American chick" Mr. Zhang joked, adding a wink as he did so. "Maybe" Taehyung grinned at him. Hyunjin pretended to gag, throwing Taehyung a disgusted glare.

"Let's wrap up, and pack up, for your journey" His not-so-funny rhyming joke had a few chuckles from Seokjin, earning a disapproving look from others. Done with the short meeting and bidding our boss goodbye, we waddled out of the conference room.

The clock had already reached past eleven, and we were still at the company. "Let's go and get our stuff" Yoongi the silent one after me finally spoke something. It wasn't much of a shock for us to hear his raspy voice out of nowhere. His childhood had a great role in making him almost mute. All the abusive and drunken shit happened in his life. It didn't last long when he moved to Seoul with Taehyung.

It was a miracle that yoongi was willing to be friends with Tae. Now we are going back to Daegu, his hometown. The city stands third for crimes in south Korea, which makes it more palpitating. All of us hurriedly entered the black van parked outside. The happy and passionate atmosphere gives out a euphoric feeling to me. I felt like I can be assured in this journey.

Nothing's gonna happen.

"Hoseok, why did you order a camping van? Our normal travel van would have worked" Jungkook questions, to which Hoseok happily replied the following. "Well... we have a long way to go and I'm pretty sure we'll have to rest so..." He trailed off, hoping we would get the point which we did, surprising our stupid brains.

Seokjin, the eldest one was the journey's first driver. "So let's hit the road! Fighting!" Hoseok cheered and we chorused back our reply. "FIGHTING!!"

Hoseok was now driving, and Seokjin having a small afternoon nap. It was pretty much obvious we'll only reach the asylum at night or dawn, considering we has to travel through a forest next. I slowly stood up from my seat, careful not to trip over Namjoon who was sleeping next to Jimin and was snoring louder than bombs. Taehyung, me, and Hoseok were the only ones awake. Taehyung somehow found the new cheesy Chinese drama interesting and his eyes harshly moved up and down, trying to read the subtitles.

Hoseok gave a slight nod as I placed myself next to him. He looked back towards the road, a small smile was seen tugging his lips. "Was Namjoon loud?" He jokes as I wave my hands in denial. "just didn't want our leader to feel lonely up here" I told him, rummaging my mind to find a topic to talk about. Knowing Hoseok, he's most probably gonna talk about the Asylum and my worry. He sighed before leaning back, and from his looks, I'm sure he's gonna talk about something serious.

"Minho... you don't have to worry too much about this project. I know we haven't been to an asylum before... But this one- it's going to be fun" He assured me, squeezing my palm in with his. His hands were cold from the air conditioner but it felt soothing. Unknowingly I held his hand tighter, finding some kind of warmth in it, a warmth I could not describe.

"Should I drive?" I offered which he denied without hesitation. The rest of the journey was smooth, the radio playing soft Korean songs, then Hoseok and me occasionally singing the verses of the songs we knew. It felt like we were the only ones there. His company makes me feel complete.

"Gay!!" Felix screamed suddenly, making me quickly untangle my hand from Hoseok's. Way to destroy the mood brother mine. "someone teaches this kid what is called silence" Yoongi huffed pinching Felix's ear, to which he replied with a whine.

Seems like most of them woke up and Taehyung was the one sleeping soundly, despite our loud noise. Seokjin came towards us pushing Yoongi and Felix away in the process. "Can we take a drinks break?" seokjin questions, making hoseok think for a moment. Our 'drinks break' most of the time turns into one hour feast, not that I'm complaining though.

"There has to be a restaurant near here, we can grab something to eat too" Hoseok spoke, Jin let out an excited 'Yes!' at that and sat down behind me. I slowly let out a sigh and fished out my phone, unlocking the device, The screen still shows the records of the asylum, just where I left them. The van came to a sudden halt as Hoseok yelled out that we had reached the restaurant. Time is running so quickly these days.

I was going to get up before Hoseok pulled me back down. I looked at him with confusion, while he was looking at the members getting out. Hyunjin jumped out being the last, accidentally falling over Jimin.

"just so you know... If anything happens I'll always protect you" Hoseok said before hopping off the driver's seat in a rush. I blinked a few times before getting out after him. He'll always protect me? A blush slightly appeared on my face, Hyunjin the shipper not failing to see that. As I exited the van, Hyunjin ran toward me with a sly smile on his face. I widened my eyes thinking about what kind of teasing he's gonna do now.

"Cheesus!" I screamed before running off to the restaurant while Hyunjin ran after me. I could hear a faint 'stob it's from Jungkook followed by the laughter of the others. How I wish we always be like this. Except for the running llama behind me of course.

"I'm with the demon"