BTS SMERALDO THE NOTES 2 (Edited & Translated)

Taehyung: 21 May Year 22

I Will Not Give Up
Part 17

I got to the closed down swimming pool before the others. As I lay down on the mattress in the pool, dust clouded around me. I didn't really mind it. It felt like I was in an empty ocean. I lifted my hand in front of my face to shield my eyes from the sunlight. I turned my hand around. Yesterday's wound was still there. It wasn't bleeding, but it felt as if should by the way it was still hurting.

It has only been a day since I'd been home and seen my father attacking my sister. For a moment, my mind had gone blank. I felt nothing but the need to protect my sister. And so I'd attacked my father and cut my hand on a shard of glass. When I finally came to, I'd looked down at my hand and seen the blood.

My sister cried in the corner and Hoseok was by me, shaking me, telling me to snap out of it.

And Seokjin watched me kill my father.

That was how the nightmare always ended. The nightmare I'd had and the reality of what happened yesterday became meshed together in my mind.

"How did you know?" I'd asked Hoseok.

"Seokjin called me. He told me to come here and check up on you," Hoseok had explained. "He told me to ask you if you'd like to go to the sea."

I lay on the mattress now, recalling all of this. I could still feel that same rage and despair now as I'd felt when attacking my father. I didn't know how to deal with all these feelings now.

When I slowly came to, I started to remember seeing Seokjin in front of his map in his apartment, Seokjin showing up at Yoongi's motel room.....

And the phone call Seokjin made.

"If Kim Taehyung gets in trouble again, please contact Jung Hoseok."

Were Seokjin's appearances coincidence?

In my dream, Seokjin simply sat back and watched everything happen. He stayed out of it.

But in reality, Seokjin was everywhere. He was always there when we were in trouble.

How could I discern reality from my dreams? I still couldn't get Seokjin's face from my dreams out of my mind.

Was he here to help us? Or to guide us down the path to our fate?

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This is the final part of
the first section
I Will Not Give Up

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