I shut my eyes even tighter and frowned at feeling my body shake. Knowing that it was probably Jimin waking me up, I frowned even more, wondering why he would want to wake me up when I didn't want to face a new day.

"Jimin, stop," I said with annoyance, my eyes shut even tighter. I rotated my whole body in hopes that Jimin would understand that I still wanted to sleep a bit more, but the shaking didn't stop. I heard nothing from Jimin. In fact, all I was capable of hearing after turning my body to the other side was the sound of the water currents and the wind.

For real Jimin?

"What do you want?" I whined then started opening my eyes slowly when the shaking finally ceased. My vision was kind of out of focus, but as I blinked a couple of times, it got adjusted on its own.

I sat on my knees and looked around me. Jimin was still sleeping peacefully on the ground next to me. I frowned at seeing him fast asleep.

So he wasn't the one who shook me?

Suddenly, I felt my body shake again, but this time the intensity of the shake was too strong that I lost my balance and fell on my torso.

There was no room for me comprehend what was happening. The fact that the ground was shaking was written wide and clear in my brain and I didn't need to stay put any longer to find out what was going to happen next because my body went into panic mode.

"Jimin! Jimin wake up!" I shouted as I shook him along with the ground's intense force.

He woke up alerted shouting," What?! What?!"

"It's an earthquake! We have to run!" I shouted and instantly helped him up. There were no trees around us, so all we hoped for was to either find a tree, or just run away from whatever we were going to have to face. As I said before, I wasn't willing to stick around to find out exactly what we should be running from, so I just took my chances and ran either way.

Limping on a stable ground was difficult enough without having to carry someone on your shoulder or to run, so the fact that the ground was shaking and Jimin and I were running desperately for our lives wasn't helping at all. I thought that maybe everything would end with that earthquake and we would eventually stop running, but I was wrong. As we ran as fast as we could, I heard cracking noises and that was when I turned around and noticed that the ground behind us was breaking apart.

"Oh God no!" I shouted.

"What?!" Jimin shouted as he ran and then looked back. Once he noticed the cracking of the ground, his eyes widened.

"Run!" He shouted and so we attempted to run even faster. Of course what we did wasn't even counted as running, but we tried our best. It would be best if we called it fast limping.

We both knew deep down that we wouldn't survive this. If the ground swallowed the both of us, we were done.

Running was the most difficult thing to do at the moment. We were both out of energy, thirsty and also severely injured, so it was completely fair to assume that nature hated us.

Jimin and I held onto each other for support as we ran. The best thing about that situation was that if I had to die, I would've died with him and not watch him die alone, or vice versa. 

We kept on running in hopes that the shaking would cease, but it felt like the magnitude of the earthquake was only getting stronger, that was why Jimin and I both lost our balance and fell. While he fell onto his torso, I was thrown into the water.

"Seo Yeon!" I heard him shout before he could even grunt in pain due to the immense contact between the ground and his fractured ribs.

The second my body made contact with the water, I felt a stinging sensation rush up my leg, causing me to hiss underwater. Before I could even react to my body being underwater, I found myself moving at a high rate towards different kinds of objects. The whole situation was a replica of what I had to go through after being washed away the first time by the tsunami. My body kept on crashing against random objects that were already destroyed or were in the process of getting ruined.

In a matter of seconds, resurfacing was impossible and I struggled to keep my body oxygenated underwater. Due to the lack of oxygen, my chest started aching in an attempt of telling me that it needed some room to breath. Because of that feeling, the first mission I set for myself was to try to hold onto anything to prevent myself from drifting any further, but I couldn't. Whenever I tried to hold onto something, my hand would slip and I usually got scratched, causing the burning sensation that I initially felt to spread all around my body.

As I was being drifted away, a metal bar accidentally found its way to my injury, crashing against it directly. The strong impact made me scream underwater, and I held my leg in pain. While I was bent over, I hit my back onto what I assumed to be a car and then kept on drifting even more.

My whole body was in great pain, starting with the injury on my leg until the newly formed scratches and bruises. The salt that was dissolved in the water didn't fail to find its way to all my injuries, making it feel as though there were a thousand knives stabbing my skin at the same time. My soul felt extremely uncomfortable in its own skin for once and I didn't blame it.

The water currents kept on moving rapidly as though they were racing for the title of "who will reach the end of the world first". I knew that the only way for the water to decelerate was for the earthquake to stop. It wasn't long until I felt like the speed of the water was decreasing, so I immediately tried to resurface and it worked, but for only a couple of seconds since I couldn't use my legs to kick and keep myself floating. My face kept on fighting its way to the surface, but for some reason it never stayed there. There was no hope in using my injured leg anymore, at least not at that moment. I tried my best to move to the land next to me, but the speed of the water was still kind of fast.

Throughout all this, there was only one thought that kept on resonating in my brain.

Jimin. I left Jimin all alone. He isn't in the position to survive all by himself. What do I do now? What if he gets hurt? What will I do? How will I find him again?

The thought itself made me cry. I couldn't even distinguish between my tears and the water I was drowning in because they were both somewhat salty, so they mixed in together pretty well. Yes, you could say that I was drowning in my own pain, my own dismay.

I was all alone, again.

Now that I lost Jimin, finding Taehyung will be impossible as well.

At that thought, I let myself get swept away.

There was nothing for me to hear but the beating of my own heart. Hearing it beat only made me even more terrified because I knew that a time would come at that moment when I wouldn't be capable of hearing it anymore. The more my heart beats fastened, the more I felt as though all hopes of me surviving was getting drained away. Even if I did survive, I was going to be on my own all over again with nothing but the moon. I was also scared of how the moon was going to look at me at night. Remembering how bright the moon was, how it glowed beautifully everytime I looked at it ever since I found Jimin, made me feel scared that when I happen to see the moon again, it wouldn't appear as bright as I used to view it.

For a moment, I gave up. My whole body felt numb, and to me, there was no use in fighting back. I did what I thought I would never do: I closed my eyes and let the water take me away to wherever it wanted to. I would've probably been dead by the time I landed anywhere, but I hoped not.

I held my breath tight, waiting for the right moment to release it. I was too tired to attempt breathing in more oxygen from the surface, so I just figured that I should make use of the oxygen that I already had in me for as long as I possibly could.

"You were a good woman Seo Yeon. You really were. So just imagine heaven and once you open your eyes, you will find yourself there," that was what kept on playing in my head.

But then, out of nowhere, I started hearing a voice so sweet and soft. Hearing it made my heart beat even faster and my desire to cry increased.

It was Jimin's sweet voice.

"But still. You already entered this road, so you might as well work on being special at what you do. Don't let the fact that you hate this subject bring you down. Prove yourself through it."

"Good. That's good news. I'll ask your parents you know, so you better keep this promise."

"Maybe after all this is done, and we all go back to our own lives, we can still be friends."

"You are such a nice girl, Seo Yeon. You really are."

Jimin. I'm really sorry. I promised you that I'd stay with you. I promised that I'd find Taehyung. I promised the moon that I'd find my parents. But it was all a big fat lie. Who am I to fight off nature? I'm just a twenty four year old lady who studied something she hated and now she can't even live her life happily. There is nothing I can do.

I let another tear escape my eye and disappear in the middle of the water that trapped me.

The oxygen levels in me were decreasing rapidly by that time and I felt extremely suffocated.

"Seo Yeon!" I heard Jimin's voice scream in my head. I furrowed my eyebrows due to the intensity of his voice.

I got loads of flashbacks of the time I spent with Jimin, and all of my life memories up until the tsunami. My parents. My friends. My Bangtan.

No Seo Yeon. Fight. If you have a chance of living then take it. You might die and then regret not trying. Can you live to eternity while regretting the cause of your death? Can you Seo Yeon? Can you?

No, I can't.

I slapped myself mentally and let my instincts which I have shut down, take over. The first thing I did was fight my way upward. The moment I was out, I gasped for air.

I kept on going upwards and then sinking back down due to my injured leg, but I kept trying.

Come on Seo Yeon! You can do it!

The water currents were too strong, and it was getting harder for me to keep myself stable. However, just then, out of pure luck, I saw a branch of a fallen tree stick to the side of the water.

If I can adjust myself and hold this branch on time, then its game over for this earthquake.

I win.

I immediately started trying to move towards the direction of the branch, but I knew I had to make it quick. The water was moving too quickly and if I missed this branch, then I lost my chances at living.

The moment I felt like I was in the right direction, I let the water push me away, but my eyes never left the branch.

Okay. There we go. Focus Seo Yeon.

Three.

Two.

One.

I raised my arm upwards, closed my eyes and waited for the impact of the branch, but it never came.

However, I felt as though my body stopped moving. The water was brushing against my body really quickly, but I wasn't getting pushed away.

I decided to open my eyes to see what had happened, and once I did, I didn't know how to feel.

My eyes just widened.

If this is coincidence, then I don't know what to say. If it is pure luck, then I sure contain the luck of the world! If I died and now am in heaven, then great! God had mercy on me.

All I could look at were the gentle, chocolatey, brown eyes of my bias, Kim Taehyung.

His face was bleeding and had a bit of swollen areas but he was still recognizable. He was lying flat on his torso and had stuck his arm out in the perfect time. If it wasn't for him, then I couldn't even imagine what could've happened.

But, how?!

A smile slowly crept up my face as I registered what I was seeing.

I kept my promise. I found Taehyung. Or he found me. Maybe we found each other. It doesn't matter. We are both together right now.

Where are you Jimin? Your brother saved me.

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Hello my lovelies....

Aaand there you go.... I dont know whether or not you expected this... but meh... that was what I had in my mind.

That gal sure is lucky

Give me a just a tiny bit of her damn luck!!!

Don't forget to take care and love,
yourselves,

Thank you all,

I love you,

-R 💜💜