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

2022, Apr 21 - Taehyung (Map On His Wall)

[Places: Road, alley, Kim's house]

Seokjin hyung did not pick up again. Ever since I heard he came back, I had called him everyday. I looked down at my phone. Kim Seokjin. His name looked oddly unfamiliar. What should I do? I gave it a thought and just started walking.

My nightmare kept coming back after that day, and I woke up soaking wet. I felt I could ease my anxiety if I could talk to him.

It had become dark by the time I passed the Joongang Park and go to the place across from the Songju Cultural Center. A ritzy area which I usually had no reason to be in.

I stopped in front of Seokjin hyung's front gate. I was there, but I had no plan whatsoever. Cars with headlights on whizzed by me. I headed to the alley next to the gate. It was bit uphill, where I could look down on the garden of hyung's house. The garden looked lush with green grass and leafy trees. I don't know how long I stood there. I saw the light being turned on in a room in the second floor of the house. And someone walking behind the white curtain. It was Seokjin hyung.

I took out my phone. I waited to be connected. But hyung stayed motionless, looking at the wall across the window. I heard the automatic voice message, and hyung walked away and disappeared from my sight. As he stepped aside, I could see the wall that had been hidden from him.

I was too far away to see it cleary, but there was a map on the wall. A map of Songju with my neighborhood, Joongang-dong and Yeongsan-dong. The map had several post-its on it and some area highlighted with a marker. I craned my neck to see it better. When I realized what I was looking at, I was able to see it better---the school, Gyeongil Hospital on the righthandside, and Mokryeon Apartments, where I lived.

And hyung came back to the map and marked a place on it. I thought about where he had marked. The area planned for demolition. Why was he marking the place? I thought about calling him again but decided not to. I didn't know what he was up to, but whatever it was, I was certain he didn't want to tell me about it.