"Why are you making me do this?" Sydney has been whining and complaining to me ever since we left my place this morning. "How can I live for a week while avoiding your Dad at all cost?"

"Please Syd? I owe you my life. I swear I will repay you." I was pleasing to her beside the bus that the team is going to use.

Sydney placed her hands on her hips, "When?"

"I don't know yet. Someday?" I gave her a smile and a big hug as everyone started to board the bus. "I'm going now. Thanks Syd!"

She angrily yelled after me as I got inside and waved at her from the window. The driver asked for everyone to be seated and all of our things in it's proper places. The bus is quite small, considering our number and so it was mostly full by the time the person before me took a seat. I spotted Mark at the back. Alone. He looked at me and I avoided him as always. It was his fault that he's alone. Nobody asked him to join the team now he'll be with us the whole week. I noticed that Yoongi was alone in his row so I put my bag beside him.

He lifted his head from his phone and looked at me, "Sorry Vee but that seat is taken."

"Really? By who?" I asked, confused because everyone was seated already.

"By me." Yoongi replied, "Sleeping in a sitting position is hard so I'm gonna need this extra space to curl up."

"That's not fair." I told him. "What about me? Where do I sit?"

"You can sit with the new guy at the back." Yoongi craned his neck to look at the back where Mark was seated alone. "Or.." He smiled, "You can be seat mates with Jungkook."

I looked again at Mark who was minding his own business on his phone, probably checking if his popularity has gone down since he decided to lay low. There's no way I'm going to put myself beside him for five hours. No. Freaking. Way. Then, would I rather sit with Jungkook?

"Everyone settled?" The couch was at the very front row. He saw me still standing idly and called my attention, "Venus, we're about to go. Take a seat."

"Uh, yeah." I answered absent mindedly, making Mark look at me as I made my way towards Jungkook. I put my things beside his on the floor and he pulled one earphone out of his ear.

"What are you doing?" He asked as I took a seat.

"Sitting." I answered him, making myself comfortable even though I'm not.

"I know that." He sharply responded. "What I meant was, why are you sitting here?"

"There's no other seat available." I told him. "I'll be quiet. Don't worry. I won't even talk to you."

Jungkook faced the other way and pulled the hood of his jacket over his head, "It's okay if you talk.. just don't be too loud. I'm going to sleep."

After three hours, everyone was either asleep or busy with their phones. Jimin and V sat across us. Jimin was curled up by the window, sleeping, his hair that used to be pink was now a toned down peach. Meanwhile, beside him was V, watching his dramas on his phone. I could tell by the look on his face that he's totally engrossed in it. Beside me, Jungkook has been in the same position since we left. How can he sit still like that? My butt would've screamed at me for torturing myself. He seemed deeply asleep.

It was raining heavily outside even though the weather forecast this morning stated that there will be no rain clouds today. Apparently not. And then all of a sudden, the bus jerked to a stop. My face would've hit the seat before me if I wasn't able place my arms in front of me. The jolt made everyone curious so it began to get noisy again.

"Did the bus break down?" I heard Jin saying from behind us amidst the chaotic atmosphere.

"Calm down all of you. We just have some engine problems. It'll get fixed in a few minutes. Go back to your seats." Coach instructed everyone but the noise didn't die down that easily.

"Hey, do you think we'll get stranded here? You know just like those in horror movies?" V asked Jimin while looking like a terrified boy. He scooted closer to Jimin and added, "I watched a slasher movie called Wrong Turn last night and it's very similar to what's happening now. We're in this secluded place and in the middle of a storm then we'll be forced to find shelter somewhere.."

"You watch too many horror movies." Jimin acted out, trying to cover up his fear by pushing V away from him. However, he miserably failed when a thunder roared and the both of them jumped up and held onto each other.

In the corner of my eye, I saw Jungkook become stiff. I chuckled, "What? You scared of a little thunder?"

"As if." He cleared his throat and relaxed, "What can be more scarier than being stuck here with you?" Jungkook smirked, turning the tables.

"Your fear of girls?" I told him and went back to texting Syd, smiling. I told her that we're currently stranded in the middle of a highway and that things aren't going quite well. Coach came back with an umbrella and a raincoat over himself after he had helped the driver fix the engine.

"It seems like the engine cannot run well because it can't carry the weight of you lot." He announced, "So we need everyone to get off the bus. Get your bums out and help push. Come on."

"Everyone? But it's a storm out there." Yoongi complained. I was worried about that too. It is a pretty heavy downpour.

"Are you deaf? I said everyone." Coach said and went down himself. Everyone groaned but followed the instructions given to us.

We took our jackets off and went out to be drenched instantly by the cold rain. All of is helped push the bus from behind until we heard the engine roaring back to life. I was shivering by the time we got back inside. The air conditioning were turned off as we dried ourselves. My hair is dripping wet and so is my shirt that's stuck like glue to my skin. My mood has gone from bad to worst in just minutes.

"I need to change. Can I just strip here?" Jin asked and nobody was bothered when he took his shirt off. Nobody cared actually. "You guys need to change too or you'll catch a cold."

"But how 'bout Vee?" Namjoon raised the question. Their heads turned to me and the atmosphere became really awkward.

"I can just change here too." I said, surprised at myself. "I don't want to get special treatment just because I'm a girl. As much as possible, I want to be treated equally. Besides, you guys aren't perverts right?"

"Uh. Well." Yoongi glanced around, "I don't know about the pervert part but we are men. So.."

"Just do your thing and I'll do mine." I said. I don't know where I got the guts to do it but I wasn't completely being rational as I pulled my shirt off over my head, quickly putting on a new shirt.

There was a curtain that separated the driver's seat and where Coach was seated from the rest of us so I didn't have to worry about that. On the other hand, Jungkook was trying not to look when I was changing my shirt but now he was just blatantly watching me. All of them are. I could actually feel their stares on me as I undo the button of my jeans. I figured now is pretty much a good time to die.

"E-Everybody turn around and let Vee change first." Hoseok said, making the boys turn their backs on me.

Jungkook pulled me back and switched places with me so I would be by the covered window, hidden from everyone. I thought it was sweet and thoughtful of him but he's Jungkook. He's not sweet or thoughtful. I shrugged it off and quickly changed into a pair of sweatpants since I only brought one pair of jeans.

All of the guys began to take their shirts off and change into dry clothes while I face the window, just awkwardly sitting there until they're all done. Jungkook now sat in my place and I sit on his, we were both quiet until I attempted to break the ice.

"I just want to thank you for switching seats with me." I told him as he played a game on his phone.

"It's common sense." Jungkook replied, "Why are you thanking me?"

"I don't know. I just felt like I should?" I said and them we fell back to silence again. "So, I changed in front of everyone.. does that make me part of the team now?"

"Yeah. I guess." Jungkook forced his eye shut and turned his back to me, "Don't talk to me. I'm going back to sleep."

author's note;
i apologize for the slow updates. :(