October 26, 20XX - Sunday

Taehyung might've moved 5 steps forward, but the night before made him take 2 back.

I peeked at him as we carried our grocery bags towards the parking garage.

He was just walking beside me, completely serious.

Suddenly, he stopped, causing me to bump into him and an oncoming pedestrian.

Through his peripheral, he looked across the street before flickering his eyes over to mine.

He drew the mask over his face and then pulled my own up as well.

"Keep walking."

I was confused and worried, but Taehyung widened his eyes as if to warn me to do what he said.

Listening to him, I slowly kept walking, hearing him following slowly behind. 

"I knew it." He muttered before swiftly running up to me and throwing me into the alley on my right.

I yelped as I fell over.

What was going on?

Hearing a rush of footsteps, I could only assume that someone had been following us. 

Hearing Taehyung grunt as his body smacked the wall only confirmed things further.

A gruff voice muttered something as he picked Taehyung up and started to bring him into the alley. 

I quickly rushed to hide alongside the dumpster so that I could see what was going on. 

"You're Taeho's boy." He muttered as he pushed Taehyung up against the building, an arm holding him up against his neck.

Taehyung struggled to breathe as he stared back at the guy with ire.

"You killed him."

"Y-ou... turning...me in?" Taehyung managed to get out with a cough.

"No." The guy answered. "You're ours before the cop gets you. Now... where's his supply?"

Taehyung was losing air, his eyes turning red.

Internally panicking, I decided to look into the dumpster for anything I could use to hit the guy with. 

Spotting the mini space heater, I wasted no time in grabbing it and running over to hit the guy once he turned around.

He came down with a groan.

Taehyung landed harshly on the ground, gasping for air as he struggled to get up.

I quickly took his hand and yanked him out of the alley. 

Running and running, we took plenty of turns and twists until we believed that we had lost him.

Who was that?!

Why did he bring up Taehyung's dad?

Taehyung ended up taking the lead and took us back to the parking garage.

Heading to our car, he quickly unlocked it so we could throw ourselves in. 

I closed the door and sat back tightly against the seat as Taehyung sped off.

Taehyung shook as he tried to get as far away as possible, weaving in between cars.

Are we really safe?

All of a sudden, lights reflected in the mirror followed by a siren sounding as a cop car began to chase us.

"Fuck." Taehyung stared into the mirror before putting his eyes back onto the road.

"Pull the stolen vehicle over." The police announced.

Stolen?

"I-It's over. It's all over." Taehyung closed his eyes. "I'm caught."

I stare at him, my heart beating out of control.

I don't want to lose him.

I don't want to be without him.

He opened his eyes and stared at me, taking in how I looked.

With determination, he sped up and made a sharp turn into a one-way street.

"We're going to have to jump."

"Jump?!" I questioned.

"I'll slow down and brake enough for the cop car to hit us. At that moment, it'll be slow enough to jump safely. Then, we run into the fields on the left, you hear?"

I just nodded my head, putting my trust in Taehyung.

Taehyung nodded and watched the cop car come closer to us. He started to slow down.

"Now!" Taehyung hit the brake, stopping the car harshly. In the 2 seconds, before the cop hit us, we jumped.

Ignoring the pain from how harshly I landed, I picked myself up and waved through the smoke to run to Taehyung. 

Taking my hand, he led me into the corn fields. 

We kept running and running until we were sure the cops wouldn't bother to search for us anymore and until Taehyung's legs finally gave out.

I toppled over him, rolling to the ground.

I just laid there for a while as my head pounded. 

Finally catching my breath, I sat up and looked over at Taehyung. 

We have so many scrapes and bruises again.

Tilting his head up, he closed his eyes.

I couldn't help but let out everything I was holding in.

Hearing my cries, Taehyung snapped his attention my way before rushing to wrap his arms around me.

I sank into him and held onto his hoodie tightly.

He whispered, "Are you scared?"

I nodded and as I did Taehyung let out a shaky exhale.

"Don't worry. I won't let this happen again." Taehyung ran his fingers through my hair.

"Because I'd rather die..." he pulled back to look at me.

And in complete seriousness, he said, 

"...than lose you."

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A/N: Almost at 4K. We can do this! I saw that I had more readers. It makes me so happy! I hope that you guys are loving this book as much as I'm loving writing it. I also want to thank  sojunghan_k for messaging me and telling me how much she loves this story <3 This chapter's for you!