[A/N: Song recommendation: Still with you by Jungkook BTS.]

A stormy rain, roaring thunder and blinded windows.

The more she gazed, the more she found the similarity between the windows being washed with the heavy showers outside and the current state of her mind.

It’s been a couple of days Angel stopped taking her prescriptions discarding them hidden from the sight of the Jeons but that did her no good and only ended up snatching her peaceful sleep at nights and relaxed brightness of the days.

Her mind was clouded with so many things but it seemed blurred just like the window she was gazing towards for the last two hours. Whatever was on the other side of the glass seemed like hues of different colors through the sheathe of water, just like the faceless colorless figures in her mind. There were so many flashbacks that kept occurring to her breaking her bond to the present occasionally. Yet those were all distorted memory pieces it only made her more confused over who she is, where she is?, with many why’s and who’s?

The nightmares were becoming more and more usual with every passing night, mainly showing where she died or was killed. But, no matter how hard she tried to think she never got to see their faces. It was always a blurry vision directed to her bloody hands, the only thing she felt in those nightmares was the unbearable pain cruising through her existence.

But, surely leaving the prescription did reveal some unspoken secrets on her. She felt less obliged to bright and fluffy things and felt more attracted to dark and intense stuff. The Jeons felt less of a stranger now and that was something that made her more curious of how is she connected to them.

Day and night, she thought and thought trying to gather more puzzle pieces and putting them in place to complete the picture but with so much out of place, it was not possible. Yet, she knew whom she was to target next to carve some information out and it was certainly not going to be fruitless.

“ANGEL” Yet again called the familiar voice from behind. This time with Angel waiting for his arrival since the little kid was her next target, no one other than Jihyun. As always Jihyun was to come back home today for the weekend. The voice brought her to turn around and get tackled like always by the sweet ball of fluff.

“I MISSED YOU.” He chirped as always meanwhile Jimin tried to towel the boy’s hairs that went a bit damp from the rain.

“You always do, I missed you too.” She hugged him dearly making Jimin blossom into a heart-warming smile gazing at the two.

“Eomma, I’m hungry.” Jihyun spoke to Jimin cuddling into Angel curling his lower lip outwards making Jimin bend low and pressed a warm pack of kisses against the kid’s smooth forehead.

“I’ll set the table then.” Jimin straightened his back and turning on his heels, he walked out of the living and towards kitchen.

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Jihyun and Angel were sat down in the TV lounge while little mermaid played on the TV meanwhile Jimin was busy stitching the bullet wound on Jungkook’s shoulder but away from the eyes of these two. Angel looked back towards the closed shut door to the Jeon’s bedroom and looked back to Jihyun. Nibbling on her lower lip Angel gave a confirming glance to the door that it wasn’t open. Scooting close to the boy she leaned in whispering to his ear.

“Jihyun?”

The kid turned his head towards her and peered to her with his doe eyes.

“Yes Angel” he replied just like her, in a whisper.

“I want to play a game with you.” She whispered again to which Jihyun puckered his lips forth forming a shape of ‘O’.

“Really? Tell me.”

Seeing this Angel smiled and stroked the kid’s soft hairs.

“Well, it’s called truth or dare.” She smiled wide.

“Oh, I love that game I have played it with my hostel mates, it’s really fun.”

“Mhm, I know right okay let’s play you and me, and promise first that whatever we say stays in between us, Okay.”

“Haha, you are saying as if we have really big secrets to reveal.” Jihyun giggled making Angel smile.

“Well, you never know.” She pulled her shoulders in a shrug and giggled.

“Okay, what we say stays between us only.” He nodded and turned towards the girl now holding her hands.

“Wait there should be a treat to right?”

“Treat?”

“Yeah wait.” Angel got off the couch and hurriedly tip-toed towards the refrigerator grabbing the bowl of icecream. She shut and and grabbing two spoons from the dishes rack she walked her way back to the kid.

“Here.”

Jihyun gasped seeing her with the whole wide bowl of icecream.

“You brought the whole, we’ll be doomed if Eomma knew we ate all of it.”

“It’s okay, I’ll handle it. don’t worry now now let’s play.”

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“So, you mean you have seen the Outside?” Her curious eyes were stuck to the boy’s face wanting know more.

“Yeah, speak low.” Jihyun looked back to the still shut door of the Jeons and looked back towards Angel.

“I have seen a lot of it. Now, now my turn.”
Before Angel could ask more Jihyun spoke putting a spoonful of icecream in his mouth.

“This reminds me of the Icecream platter you bought me back in Seoul. And it was the best.” Jihyun mumbled and smiled but Angel clearly heard him.

“Seoul?” she asked. Hearing the girl Jihyun looked up to her and realized she heard him.

“I-I said it’s my turn, so tell me truth or dare?”

Knitting her brows hearing the small guy, she picked this information storing it up thinking about the new name she learned. ‘Seoul’

Hm, Is it perhaps a place from Outside?

Did we perhaps live there before?

What sort of place is it?

If we lived there, then why’d we come here?

“Angel, truth or dare?” Jihyun shook her arm gently.

“Ah yes yes dare.”

“Give me a popo.” Jihyun leaned forth and tapped his cheek smiling wide to which Angel smiled and pressed a pack of warm kisses on his cheeks and forehead to which he giggled.

“Now you, Truth or dare?”

“Dare.”

“Jihyun tell me a name of a person you know and I don’t?”

“But I said dare-….”

“Tell me, and I will tell you a bed time story tonight.”

The spoon still in his mouth that was sticking with chocolate strawberry icecream left overs. Jihyun peered to her with his shinning doe eyes and even if he didn’t mean to say it. seeing her, he was always reminded of this special person.

“Kim Taehyung.” He spoke muffled but Angel understood.

“Kim Taehyung? Who is that?” she asked curious with demanding tone making Jihyun break from his trance as he blinked and slowly he realized that he thought aloud.

“NO, NO YOU NEVER HEARD THAT, It’s no one.” The boy waved his both hands in the air shaking his head in a denial. And right that moment the door to Jeon’s bedroom opened as Jimin stepped out drying his hands.

“You two….. I told you not to eat that too much, you’ll get sick.”

“Oppa, I wanted some.” Angel curled her lower lip out into a pout making Jimin sigh as he shuffled his feet walking towards the couch he kissed the top of her head.

“Just be careful.”

“We will be.” She smiled meanwhile Jihyun was sitting there will a pale face dreading over if Jimin heard his child disclosing the forbidden secrets or not.

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In her room, in the middle of the night she was again standing next to the same wall with the mirror off of it now.

“Kim Taehyung.”

Angel whispered to herself as she carefully dragged the red crayon against the smooth wall writing down the name. Encircling it many times she dragged an arrow downwards and wrote again.

“Seoul”

Finishing it, she placed the crayon away as her gaze was now stuck forth to the wall. She tilted her head staring at it as if trying to see the hidden secrets behind the two words.

“Who are you Kim Taehyung? Do I perhaps know you or were you in my past?” she mumbled tracing her fingertips over the waxy letters that were mute yet roaring when met in a living form. Angel didn’t know whom she was getting so curious for and certainly she was soon to step into the mess Jeons have been trying so hard to avoid.

After all the water was aggressively struggling from both sides to meet then how long would a little block keep it away. And, things have just started…

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𝔇𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡: 22/09/2021
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