Mask

• T W E L V E •

"Hey, wake up." A hand grabs me by the chin and shakes my head back and forth. I slowly open my eyes and squint, trying to focus my blurry vision on the face infront of me.

Sweat beads down my forehead because of the heat in this cell. The heat of the summer air is beaming down on me from the now open window.

The window's open.

My vision focuses on the window. The plane of glass is wide open, large enough for someone to crawl through.

"Lisa, hey."

I turn back to the blurry face, and I squint further. Jimin's face appears in my line of vision.

My bent neck shoots upright and my eyes are now alert. Jimin's here.

"What—"

He covers my mouth with his small hand and shushes me. "We don't have much time, come one, let's go."

He uses a bobby pin, which I'm surprised he has, and picks the lock. Suddenly my whole body weight falls to the ground. He hastily picks me up and starts making his way to the window, but our little escapade is put to pause when the cell door flings open.

"Oh no, you don't." Taeyang lunges forward and grabs Jimin by the shoulders, then rips us away from the window.

I'm thrown from Jimin's arms and land on the ground. I roll over, clutching my side as pain sparks in my hip. My eyes find Taeyang shoving Jimin to the ground, then he punches him in the face.

"Tae, stop." I whimper. His eyes are crazed as he delivers blow after blow. "Please."

He ignored me, continuing to give Jimin a beating. I slowly stand up and felt my knees buckle, but I hobbles over to the two of them. Pain sears up my back and along my limbs, but I managed to swing my heavily cuffed wrists towards Taeyang's face, hitting him square in the nose. His head whipped back due to the impact, causing him to fall on his back. I looked over at him and found him knocked out. At that, my knees got the ground and my back errupted in pain.

Jimin groaned from beside me, slowly sitting up. His face was a bit swollen, his lip split and his cheek purpling. He had a cut on the other cheek and his eyes was going black.

He grabs onto my shoulders and lifts me up, then maneuvers me towards the window. Outside, I spot Hobi with a gun, waiting for us. When he notices my upper body exiting the window, he immediately helps me out the rest of the way.

I lay on my back while Jimin crawls out of the window, breathing raggedly. Sweat falls down my face, chest, and back, stinging when they touched my wounds.

Jimin leans forward and scoops me up, placing his hands on my back. Pain radiates up my spine, and I whimper, involuntarily crying.

"Okay, you're okay." Jimin cooes, then the two begin running.

We arrive to a white van, similar to the one we ditched in the woods a few days ago. Hobi opens the door, revealing the other five Bangtan members. Jimin gently places me down on the floor of the van next to Jungkook, who doesn't seem to be in that bad of shape.

He gently lifts me over to him and lets me rest between his legs, my back laying against his chest. He wraps his strong arms around me, almost as if he were protecting me.

Almost on cue, a loud bang echoes through the air, and I flinch. A bullet has lodged itself into the door.

"Not again." I cry. Yoongi and Namjoon swing open the door, revealing my very own ex-best friends in a Jeep, driving after us. Jennie has her whole upper body stocking out the window, a gun gripped tightly in her hand. Rosé's in the passenger seat while Jisoo drives the vehicle.

The two boys aim their guns and fire, hitting the windshield and the hood of the car. Jennie retreats back into the car, narrowly missing a bullet that could have buried itself in her head.

Yoongi suddenly shoots the two front tires, causing the car to swerve. Jisoo attempts to regain control of the car, but fails and drives it into a tree at almost full speed.

The loud crash causes me to shriek. Everyone stops for a moment, and the hood of the car catches fire. My stomach begins to feel unsettled.

"Stop the van." I say.

"What?" Tae asks from the driver's seat.

"Stop the van!" I yell this time, scaring the others.

The van halts to a sudden stop and I crawl over to exit the van, podium blossoming up my back.

"Lisa, what the hell are you doing?" Jin hisses.

"That car could explode, we have to get them out." I breath out, wincing in pain as I try to jog to the crash sight.

I reach the car. I can already hear the metal parts combusting in the hood. All three girls are unconscious, their head pressed against the airbags.

I pry the passenger door open with little to no strength and free Rosé and Jisoo from the front seat, then pull Jennie out of the open window of the back seat.

"What now?" Yoongi asks, him and Namjoon joining me at the scene.

"We bring them back. They can help." I say. Maybe this is the drugs talking, but they could possibly help.

"You're joking." Yoongi chuckles, as if I were being funny. He watches my face remain in its neutral expression, and raises his brows. "You're not joking?"

I shake my head. "They're my best friends. Please."

They give me frustrated sighs, then begin hauling the girls into their arms. Namjoon takes on Jisoo and Jennie, while Yoongi scoops Rosé into his arms. I limp after them towards the car. Just when we reach the van, the Jeep explodes. The impact causes us to stumble forward, my weak body hitting the edge of the open van. I crawl I side and replace myself against Jungkook.

He carefully wraps his arms around me. "That was nice of you."

I shrug. "I'm full of surprises." I try to grin, but I just cough, a bit of blood landing in the palm of my hand. I guess I'm not reacting well to the drugs.

Soon after, I rest my head against Jungkooks collar and close my eyes, listening to the quiet time of the car engine as I slowly fall asleep.

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A/N: hi babes! I hope this chapter was worth the wait, and that all of you are staying safe, what with this COVID-19 quarantine most of us are put under. I've been away from school or any form of socialism for the past week, and I'm sort of scared that the two week 'break' is going to be prolonged until May. MAY.

At this point, I'm scared I won't pass this year at all.

Anywho, I hope you are safe and like this chapter! Don't forget to wash your hands!

Lots of love!

- bangtan_bomb_♥