혼자 No Longer Alone •Reverse Harem•

Chapter 10: Blood Tears

Desiree wakes up in the morning, and the first thing she does, is thinking back to yesterday evening. When they finally drove her to the Bed & Breackfast last night, she felt a need to hug all the men who were with her.

It was the hardest thing the woman has ever done: resisting her instincts and need, turning around and running away to her room.
But now, as soon as she wakes up, she realizes that when she runs and rejection, has only made everything worse.

Her left arm hurts, as if burning embers are pressed to her skin, and when she looks down to her Bond sign, she immediately regrets. The once black marks on the skin are now raised and red. She understands almost immediately that the red she sees is blood. Blood that seems to come out of her skin pores, from wounds that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Her head bursts and her breath comes out fast and fast.

"Well ... Fuck!" she says clutching her arm to her chest, trying to ease the pain and stop the bleeding.
She begins to sweat profusely, her hair sticking to her forehead, her body shaking from too much pain, tears in her eyes and feeling retching that makes her drag to the bathroom, seconds before her stomach empties completely.

After there's nothing left in her stomach, she passes out. The pain too intense for her body to be able to bear it any longer.
When she finally wakes up hugging the toilet bowl, she tries to stand up, but her muscles are too sore from the previous spasms, and she eventually gives up and lies on the cold floor on her stomach, staring at the ceiling.

"Bond sickness doesn't work like that!" she thinks angry: "The first symptom should only be cramps! Not hellfire in the veins! "

She remains staring at the ceiling, her body trembling from the cold and the pain that still does not cease.
Tears stream down her cheeks, mingling with the sweat and blood and falling into the hair scattered around her head.

After a few unsuccessful attempts to get up, she decides that the best way to get around is to drag herself, thus reaching the shower.
She opens the water, which hits her like a thousand blades, making her scream in pain and squirm in panic.

Cold water does little to appease the burning skin, the fire that is burning from within her body.
She watches with macabre interest the red water that flows around her. The arm now inert at her side.
Desiree is freezing. She wants this pain to go away, but she doesn't know what to do, and so she stays in the shower stall as the water continues to run down her body. She takes off her shirt slowly, trying not to make sudden movements and squeezes it between her teeth, just before screaming again.

She remains motionless for hours crying. Screaming in the shirt now between the lips when the pangs of pain are too intense. She rationally knows she can't stay that way for too long, and although the very thought of moving is terrifyingly terrifying, she finally decides to crawl out of the shower and back into the bedroom, leaving a trail of water and blood behind him.

She needs someone to help her and can make this pain go away.

She can't call her mother or her friends. They are on the other side of the world and could do nothing but worry.

Calling emergency services is out of the question. Doctors would see that she has her soul signs and they would see that she is not yet registered as bonded.

She has only one option left. Or seven, to be precise.

"Help me...." she whispers on the phone, when she hears the man on the other side answering and not letting him say anything. Just before another scream escapes her lips, now no longer muffled by the shirt. She drops the phone by his side and lies down in the dark room.

Jung Hoseok is in the living room with the BTS members, where everyone is relaxing and chatting, when he hears his phone ringing.

Seeing the sender of the call, he smiles automatically.
But after answering, the smile disappears. The scream on the other side of the phone is heard by all the men in the room, causing them to freeze in their seats.

As one man, they head to the door to go out, without thinking or asking for anything. Everyone knows who the scream of pain belongs to.

They reach the place where she is staying, thanking her for having accompanied her yesterday and therefore knowing where she is, and they run to the reception to get her room number.

After a lot of persuasion work and killer looks from the younger ones, they finally manage to get the spare key and go to Desiree's room.

What they see when they enter makes their hearts stop, then make them beat wildly.

The room looks like a crime scene. The blood that stains the floor and the sheets of the bed. The water they hear flowing from the bathroom that creates an even more macabre atmosphere.

And then they see it. Lying on the floor next to the phone. The left arm inert, from which the blood still flows. The chest almost motionless.

A nightmare.

Hoseok runs to the unconscious figure slumped on the floor, immediately squeezing her in his arms.
Jimin and Jungkook huddle close to her too, with everyone else orbiting people on the ground taking towels and anything on the street, handing them to the men on the floor to stop the bleeding. Worry and pain are the only emotions they show on their faces.

As soon as Desiree's body is squeezed and touched by her soulmates, she stops shaking and her face, first with a grimace of pain, now relaxes.

"Why is she so sick?" Hoseok asks anyone and everyone, stroking her hair and rocking her, while Jimin and Jungkook hold the makeshift bandages on her arm.

"Maybe it's because he has seven soul mates ...?" Namjoon says questioningly, moving around the room, turning off the shower and grabbing more towels. Just to be able to keep his hands busy.

"But last night she was fine ..." Yoongi says, his eyes darting over the motionless body in his friend's arms, and lingering on his arm.

"Keep her between you and put on some dry clothes. We pack her suitcase and take her to the dormitory. Namjoon calls our Manager and tell him we need a way to take her with us immediately. We need to show her. Immediately! Taehyung calls our doctor for a home visit within twenty minutes. Yoongi go to the reception to check her stay here and sort out anything. I tidy up here. We don't have time. So, let's hurry up! " Seokjin orders around, much to everyone's relief that they finally have something safe to do.

They each go to do what they are told.

Nightmares can also exist in reality, and they are much scarier when you are awake.