BTS HYYH Notes (Book 1, 2, BUS Game) // COMPLETE [Part 2]

2022, May 22 - Seokjin (The Loops)

[Places: Beach, lounge, observation platform]

(A/N: Loop #1.)

I don't know why but I stopped. Soon, Jungkook would say he'd like to take a picture. "In front of Seokjin hyung's car." Jungkook would point to my car, and Jimin would climb up on the hood followed by Taehyung, Hoseok, Jungkook, and Yoongi.

When Namjoon would shake his head as if to say no one could stop these guys, I'd set the camera timer and walk in front of it.

Out of the blue, so many moments swirl around in my head: the pouring sunlight, happy faces, laughter, the fishy smell of the ocean, the camera shutter --- "Hyung, hurry up," the voice calling me. All of it popped up and disappeared before I could hold on to it.

Going through countless time loops, I came here again and again to take a picture, but I had forgotten about it.

I grabbed my head and turned around. It felt as if a sand storm was blowing through my head. Every moment at the beach was bright, painful, and aching. I couldn't bear the torment and sorrow. I didn't know why. Next came the physical pain. The similar emotion and similar pain that I had felt at Namjoon's container. But it was much worse and vicious compared to the last time.

(A/N: Refer to May 15 Year 22.)

"There will be a price."

Is this the price that the voice meant? The unexpected headache I have to endure? I didn't mind it if I could find a clue to end this cycle. Even if I had known that I'd be subject to godawful headaches, I would've chosen to find a clue and pay the price. I had to be cool-headed. More rational. So that I could save myself from the never-ending cycle of time.

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(A/N: Loop #2. Please read Taehyung's POV for this.)

"I don't need anyone's help and I don't help anyone," I told Taehyung.

I had come to this observatory countless times, but this was the first time that Taehyung had followed me here. Each time loop was inevitably different, but this time, it irked me that Taehyung was doing different things.

Taehyung said, "Do you remember the time we came here as high schoolers? We looked for the boulder that was said to grant us our wish, and we walked all the way here, sweating, only to find out it'd been shattered to pieces? Did you make a wish then?"

Instead of answering him, all I said was, "Let's go down. I'm going to go down too." I tried not to sound too cold.

If Taehyung had jumped off from the observatory, everything would have been in vain.

"Remember how you and I went around looking for Yoongi hyung back in those days? We were afraid that he would get kicked out of school because he had been cutting classes, so we went around the whole city looking for him," Taehyung continued. "And Namjoon hyung got sick, so we tried to cover for him at the gas station, and his boss gave us hell."

"Why would I remember that stuff?" I couldn't keep my cool and ended up blurting it out.

Taehyung looked up at me and continued. "Do you remember the first day we met? We were late, and had to clean up the classroom as punishment. And the time you bought me and Jimin jjajangmyeon on the first day of school?" Taehyung spoke in a shrill voice as if he were demanding an answer.

I told him again, "Why would I remember that stuff?"

Taehyung lunged at me and grabbed my shoulder. Caught off-guard, I staggered. For one moment, I almost lost my balance and came close to falling off the observatory. Because Taehyung pulled me, I fell forward on the ground.