Jungkook also looked like he'd cried. His cheeks were puffy, and his eyes were red. I gave him a small smile, and he attempted a smile back, but he ended up shaking his head and turning away,  heading inside the building.

~♡~

We had all gone inside, and though I knew everyone noticed both mine and Jungkook's faces, as we  received several glances, no one asked us any questions.

RM thanked everyone for their hard work today, and told us to go home and get a good nights sleep because tomorrow would be just like today. He'd glanced my way a few times, and looked concerned, but made no move towards me once he finished speaking.

I didn't wait around long, heading for the door within seconds. I just wanted to go home and sleep. I was about to step onto the elevator when Jimin grabbed my arm, stopping me. He pulled me into a room across from the box that was just waiting for me to step on, and closed the door. A few more seconds and I'd have made it.

"What happened?" He was looking at me intently.

"I don't wanna talk about it right now."

"Well neither does Tae and I can't find Kookie, so you're the only one left. I'm worried about all of you. Why does Jungkook look like he's been crying? And why were you crying?"

"Jimin...I...I don't know. I'm tired. I only have 14 days left. I want Tae to find me, because I love him, and I don't know how I'm going to live without him now that he has been a part of my life. But I'm not going to have a choice, so I don't want him to find me, because it'll hurt too much to have him in my life and only be able to be his friend. I don't want him to love me, because I don't want him to be hurt. But he said he loves me. He shouldn't love me Jimin. He shouldn't..."

The tears were rolling down my face again. Jimin stood there, dumbfounded, for maybe 10 seconds, and then he was hugging me. I let him hold me, and I sobbed, not even sure how I had any tears left.

He rubbed my back, and let me cry, not saying anything. Finally, I pulled back, and he held my shoulders, looking down to catch my eyes.

"I'm not sure I understand where this is coming from, or why Kookie was crying. But it's okay, I don't need to know right now. Just relax, everything's going to be okay."

There was a light knock on the door, and it opened, revealing Tae, who looked relieved at seeing me.

"Thank God, I didn't know where you went, and I was worried after what happened in the car."

Jimin raised a brow at that. "What did happen in the car? She's been crying, and I'm not sure I understand what's going on, but I'm trying to put the pieces together."

Tae sighed. "Can we go home, and I'll tell you? Delaney too, she's coming with me, I'm not leaving her alone tonight."

I didn't want to, yet I did. I was so confused. I wanted to stay as close to Taehyung as I could, but I was so afraid that it would just make this all worse somehow.

He must have seen the fear on my face, because he frowned, and took my hand, pulling me from Jimin's arms into his.

"Don't shut me out Delaney, please. I know this is going to be hard, but I can't bear for you to push me away. We'll figure this out. I promise."

I shook my head, pulling myself free.

"I can't right now. I can't...I need to go. I just...need to be alone. I made a mistake, wishing for what I did. I never should have made this wish."

I looked up, seeing Taehyungs eyes filled with pain, and it broke my heart. I was the worst human being on the face of this God forsaken planet. I had been so, so selfish. So self serving when I'd made that wish. I'd made it over, and over, and never once thought about anyone but myself, and what I wanted.

Was that the lesson God was trying to teach me? Was that the reason all this pain was going to fall upon the most amazing person I'd ever known? Why his heart was going to break? Why he was going to hurt?

Tears started to fill his eyes, and I couldn't stand there and watch him cry, so I left the room, and didn't look back. I waited for the elevator, and stepped on when the doors opened, getting off in the lobby and walking out the door. I walked the short distance to my lobby, riding the elevator up to the 5th floor, and letting myself into my apartment.

I was numb, and I liked it that way. I didn't want to feel. I just wanted to sleep. I set my alarm for 7am, and removed my shoes and pants, climbing into bed and staring at the ceiling, waiting for sleep to come.

TAEHYUNGS POV

I couldn't find Delaney, and it bothered me that she had slipped out without me noticing. Jimin had been asking me why she and Jungkook looked like they had been crying, but I couldn't be bothered with that. except that in stopping to listen to him, I'd taken my attention off her long enough for her to have disappeared.

I looked everywhere in our area, but she wasn't there.

I finally decided she must have just gone home. I headed for the elevator, my intentions to go to her apartment, but I thought I heard Jimin's voice from the room across from the elevators. It was an office that wasn't being used at the moment.

I knocked on the door, and opened it, peeking in, letting out the breath I'd been holding. Delaney was there, in Jimin's arms, and I knew he was trying to comfort her.

"Thank God, I didn't know where you went, and I was worried after what happened in the car."

Jimin glanced at me, questioning what happened, so I offered to tell him after we got home. I wanted Delaney to come with us, because I couldn't let her go home alone, not as upset as she was. But when I mentioned it, she looked... terrified.

I took her hand, pulling her from Jimin to myself, wrapping my arms around her.

"Don't shut me out Delaney, please. I know this is going to be hard, but I can't bear for you to push me away. We'll figure this out. I promise."

She shook her head, and pulled free of my embrace.

"I can't right now. I can't...I need to go. I just...need to be alone. I made a mistake, wishing for what I did. I never should have made this wish."

My eyes filled with tears, the pain in my heart indescribable as the implications of her words hit me. She regretted making her wish. She would rather never have been here at all.

As the tears started to fall, she looked right at me, and then turned around without a word, and left.

I stood there, in disbelief that she had just walked out, leaving me standing here with tears running down my face. Earlier she'd said she loved me. Nothing made sense anymore.

"Tae?"

I could hear Jimin, but I just shook my head. There was nothing he could say that would make me feel better this time.

"She's just scared, Tae. She knows she's running out of time, and there's nothing she can do about it."

I turned to him, seeing his glassy eyes, his worried expression.

"She regrets making her wish. She wishes she'd never come here, or gotten close to me."

"That's not what she said Tae. She's confused. She knows that once she goes back to her current life, it can never again be like it is now. Even if you find her."

I nodded. "I know that." I whispered. "That's what we talked about in the car. Jungkook and I, we just wanted to see if she could help us figure out a way to remember her name, so that I could find her. But, I got the sense that she doesn't want me to remember. She doesn't want me to find her. She said it was because she's scared."

Jimin took a bottle of water out of the mini fridge behind the desk, and handed it to me. I took it with little interest.

"That's what she told me too. She loves you Tae, and she doesn't know how she's going to live without you. That's why she's afraid for you to find her. It'll be easier for her if you don't find her, because then she gets to just have the memories of her time with you. She won't have to deal with the pain of having you in her life, only able to be friends with you."

I understood. I wished I didn't. Understanding meant I should give up my plan to find her once she was gone. It meant I should just accept that she had 2 weeks left, and make the best of it. It meant I would have to let her go. Forever.

There had been days that I'd wished I'd never been born, feeling like my purpose on this earth was simply to feel pain. Today had become one of those days.

Of course, in my heart, I knew that wasn't true. I knew my purpose here was so much more. But sometimes the pain just overwhelmed me, and caused me to forget that I had so much to be thankful for. I'd experienced unfathomable amounts of pain, but I'd also had so much joy and happiness, so many good things in my life.

Delaney was one of those good things. One of the very best...

I closed my eyes, the tears burning as they tried to escape.

I felt Jimin next to me, felt his hand sliding into mine, his fingers curling thru mine. He was one of the best things in my life too. I knew he loved me, and even if I lashed out at him in frustration, he never left my side when I was going thru a rough time.

"You have to let her go when it's time, Tae-ah. You have to do what's best for her."

I squeezed my eyes closed a little tighter, the tears now forced to roll down my face.

"I don't want to." I said quietly, feeling his fingers tighten against mine. "I don't want to lose someone else I love."

I saw him nod lightly from the corner of my eye.

"I know you don't. I wish I could fix this for you. But I can't. I can only be here for you, and I will, I promise I will, even when you push me away."

My shoulders started to shake as I cried, unable to keep my emotions inside. Jimin pulled me to him, and hugged me tightly, even though I didn't hug him back. All I could do was stand there and cry.

"It'll be okay, Tae. You'll get thru this."

I was going to lose her, and I couldn't do a thing about it. I would have to get thru the next two weeks with the knowledge that in the end, I had no choice but to let her go.

"Lets go home Tae. We need to get some sleep."

I nodded, but I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep.

We left the small office, taking the elevator down, and leaving the building, the walk to the dorm quiet between us. We entered, and I flinched as the four of them all came towards us, questions coming  from them in a confusing jumble, none of which I was interested in hearing, or answering.

I pushed my way thru, and went to my room, closing and locking the door. I wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone right now. Jimin could fill them in. I was going to lay here, and stare at the ceiling until morning.