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Next Day--

You wiped your tears harshly, and were trying hard to keep your voice at the minimum. You grabbed a bag, stuffing a few clothes which caught your eye first. Your phone was kept on the nightstand, you glanced at it but decided not to take it with you. Zipping your jacket up and covering half of your face with the hood, you hung the bag on your back and opened the window.

12:17 am, you peeked down, remembering how Clay taught you to climb down from there. You looked back one last time at your room, the pictures of brothers and you hung on the wall. All smiley faces and beautiful moments flashed in your head. Then their words echoed,

No, I'll be staying at a hotel. I'm not going anywhere.

I feel bad for her.

Don't, its for her own good.

She's too dependent on us.

You turned and climbed on the window sill. Then placed your foot at places like you did the very first time with Clay. Once you were down, the real problem arose. Where to go now? Jake's apartment wasn't an option, your brothers will find you there. You started walking towards the main road. It was dark obviously, and empty, which is also very obvious at this time of the night.

After walking on the streets for about an hour, you felt your surroundings finally look different. It wasn't like the neighborhood where you live. It didn't look like a residential area at all. There were shops and small stalls along side the road. What scared you was the presence of pubs there.

You looked around and spotted a café, which was surprisingly open. Fishing your right hand in your jeans pocket, you checked for the money. You didn't take their black card, just your allowance and your piggy bank money. You found some change and entered the café. The lady smiled warmly, to which you responded with a small bow.

"What can I get you?" She asked.

"Uh..." You thought for a while, but couldn't think of any kind of coffee or drink. Jimin and Jungkook always knew what you wanted.

"Its okay, take your time." The lady said.

You nodded and sat on one of empty tables. There was no one in the café except for you, which at certain level made you a bit relaxed. The lady occasionally glanced at you, it wasn't an everyday thing to have a young girl come to a café with a bag, in the middle of the night.

You counted the money in your piggy bank, and nodded, mentally adding up the whole amount with the little in your pocket. After being satisfied and knowing that it should last for at least three days, you looked at the counter lady. She smiled and walked up to your table.

"Did you decide your order?" She asked.

"Um yeah, a cappuccino please." You said. She nodded,

"Anything else?" She asked. You shook your head, reminding yourself that you need to spend money carefully. She said some formal line which you assumed she says to every customer and didn't pay attention to it.

You stared out of the window, thinking where you should go from here and what you should do now. Running away from home was easy, but staying away from home is hard, you realised. But there's noway you're going back. You thought they loved you, however it turns out they were just good at pretending.

'How can anyone be so good at acting?' you thought. All those hugs, all those kisses, all those promises, everything was a part of their acting?
Every time Jimin said 'I love you more princess' he was faking it?
When Yoongi said 'you are not using us' he was lying?
When Jungkook said 'I will be there with you' he didn't mean it?

You trusted all of that. You cherished every moment with them. But now maybe they started seeing you the way you see yourself. And that was what you were scared of. Now they don't want you near them. You were having these thoughts endlessly since morning, when you heard them talk.

Everything was eating you alive. You couldn't stop blaming yourself. They just wanted you to be away from them. Jimin lied, he wasn't going to Busan, still he wanted you stay at the dorm and not near him. Maybe everybody made them believe that you were selfish and you were using them. So, you decided to run away and never go back to hurt them anymore.

Unnoticingly a tear slipped down your cheek. You wiped it quickly and looked near the counter to find that lady. She appeared after a few seconds with your coffee placed in a tray. She quietly came and kept the cup in front of you. You thought she'd leave after giving you your coffee but when she didn't, you awkwardly looked at her.

"Is anything wrong?" You asked.

She smiled nervously, "Can I take a seat here?" She asked. You started to have this weird feeling now. You didn't know her, but for the sake of politeness, you nodded. She pulled the chair and sat in front of you.

"I'm Aera" she said, "what's your name?"

"....Uh Y/N" creepy, you thought.

"Nice name, how old are you?" She asked. Now you knew where this was going.

"I'm 19" you said, making her laugh.

"Its okay if you don't wanna tell me. I was asking because y'know, I thought we can be friends. It really gets boring here." She said genuinely. She seemed like a nice person though.

"I'm 16" you said, "you don't look like you're from Korea, are you a foriegner?" You asked, observing that she was a different kind of beautiful. Her skin color wasn't dark, but it wasn't that fair either. Just perfect for her. Her eyes were big, complementing her face.

"Ah I got the looks from my mother, she was an indian. But my Dad is from Korea, so I lived here almost all my life." She said.

"You look beautiful...uh unnie?" You said. She chuckled.

"Yeah, I'm 26" she said.

'she is older than Jimin' you thought.

"Can I ask you something?" She said. You nodded not really analysing her words as you were too emersed in the hot drink. It was too hot, burning your tongue. You hissed and kept it back on the table. Aera stood up and brought a bottle of water from the fridge for you. You drank it and thanked her.

"You remind me of my sister" she said and chuckled. You didn't wanted to say anything at that, so you stared at the table. And like she got the message she cleared her throat and focused back on whatever she was saying earlier.

"Uh what are you doing alone here? At night.." she asked. Your body froze at that question. For now, you wanted anything but this. "I mean your family must be worried for y-"

"No" you said coldly, but instantly hid it, "I mean, they won't worry about me. They're busy with work. Plus they don't live here." You told her, and blew at your coffee, carefully sipping it. Aera nodded hesitantly.

"So you're like alone here?" She asked.

"Well, yeah. My family lives in" you thought of some place, "America" you said, "Vegas". Vegas because you want to go there.

"Oh" Aera nodded.

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06:15 am.

"Y/N get up, its time for school" Jimin knocked on the door. On getting no response he shook his head and opened the door.

"Princess its t-" He stopped, noticing the condition of the room. "Y/N, are you in the bathroom?" He asked, when he saw the bed empty. He waited for a while then decided to open the door. An uneasy feeling crept in his body, seeing the mirror shattered into peices on the floor and the counter.

He opened the closet door, to see a few empty racks and a few clothes on the floor. He gasped, and rushed back. The window was open. His eyes landed on the study desk, and found a small note, which he wasn't sure was for him or not.

You all were so good at pretending that I couldn't tell it wasn't real. I'm sorry.

It read. Jimin felt his organs sinking inside him, he ran out and called for boys to come down.

"What happened Jimin? Why are you shouting in the morning?" Namjoon said walking down. Jin and Hoseok were already up and sitting next to a distressed Jimin. Yoongi came down, throwing daggers at whoever was being so loud.

"Jeon Jungkook! Kim Taehyung!" Jimin yelled in frustration, "are you both fucking deaf?! I said come down right now!!"

In a matter of seconds, Jungkook and Taehyung were standing in front of him with a scared expression.

"What is it?" Yoongi asked annoyed by Jimin's behaviour early in the morning.

"She left" he said, making the boys frown in confusion. "Y/N left. She ran away."

"What do you mean she left?" Yoongi said. "She should be in h-"

"She's not in her room. She's nowhere in the house 'cause she ran away." Jimin said.

"How are you so sure that she ran away?" Yoongi asked. Jimin glanced at him and gave him the note.

"She took her clothes and her piggy bank. The window was open. And her room was a mess. H-hyung she left. My Y/N, she- she thinks we don't love her. we were pretending..." Jimin said with his voice trailing off.

"Jimin don't worry, she'll come back. We'll go and find her." Namjoon said sitting next to him while Jin rubbed his back, trying to comfort him.

"I shouldn't have said about sending her to the dorm" Jimin spoke.

"No Jimin its not your fault, you were thinking good for he-"

"But I ended up doing bad!" Jimin said, grabbing his hair.

"Jimin please don't stress too much. She'd be fine." Hoseok said.

"I- I don't even know where she is, if she's okay or not. She barely leaves my side, how am I supposed to believe she's fine without me? You all know her right? She doesn't open up to people. She forgets to eat, if we don't tell her. She hated herself, thinking she was selfish. She was hurting herself. After all this, h-how should I believe she's fine?" Jimin spoke, as a tear escaped his right eye.

Jungkook quickly knelt in front of Jimin and hugged him tightly. He hugged him back, patting the younger's back. He knew Jungkook himself was shocked by the news, and if Jimin starts behaving like that, then who will comfort his younger brother? He wiped the lone tear and looked at Jungkook, giving him an assuring look. He regretted saying all that in front of Jungkook.

"Don't cry Kook" He spoke, wiping Jungkook's tears.

"H-Hyung what if she's h-hurt? What if somebody di-"

"Shh...don't talk like that. We'll go and find our Y/N, okay? Hyung is here nothing will be wrong."

'I hope...' Jimin thought.

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