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You eye up the doll one last time before settling her in her cozy dollhouse, murmuring a soft tune that your teacher taught you in school, you wish the doll a good night before you decide to step out of your room & look for your mother.
She had sternly asked you not to come out your room without her permission, you wanted to question for the reason behind it, but yet you refrained yourself cuz you knew it would be a vain to try. She wouldn't open up...

" Momma! Can I please come out?" You yelled from inside your room.

No response.

"Momma, are you there? I need to use washroom! Please open the door." You pleaded.

You tried the door knob but to your defeat, it wouldn't budge. Suddenly, you heard the sound of your father's car honking infront of the house.

You immediately ran to your window to watch the sudden commotion this late at night.
There you saw your mother, who looked quite tensed & in a heated argument with your father. They both seemed screaming at each other's faces, maybe not agreeing with what other one was saying.

Suddenly a surprised squeal left your mouth causing you to jump on you feet, as you heard the door knob of your room creaking. You heart thumped against your chest as you mouth gaped in suspicion & you took a deep breath.

You hurriedly looked back again through the window only to see your parents still talking to each other in an extremely heated manner, your mother holding her head in stress & your father seemed as if he was determined to convince her regarding some sort of matter at any cost, as he threw his hand every now & then in air with exasperation.

Your throat dried at the thought that a thief would might've broke into your house who tried to open your door, it couldn't be your mother or father cuz they were out talking in the yard.

Gathering courage, you took a hold of a metallic bed post pole that had broken earlier & was lying in the corner of the room. It was double the height of you, but nonetheless you decided to carry it on for your defence.

You were surprised that your door wasn't locked. You stepped out of your room, your tiny feet tingling after coming in contact with the cold carpeted floor.
Gulping the lump in your throat, you walked silently towards the stairs, running your sight around for any sort of hint, your tongue bit between your teeth in anticipation & fright.

You lifted your right leg to step down the stairs when suddenly the wooden stair creaked beneath your feet, making you flinch & eyes widening in perplexion.

You heaved a sigh when you heard no voice from the dead silent home. With utter caution, & the pole firmly grasped your tiny fist, you proceeded down the hall and that's when you froze at your place, blood rushing to your feet as your mind went numb.

Due to natural instinct, you stepped a few steps back, as your eyes got fixed at a small boy, almost your age crying softly with his head down, squatting near the couch, his hands & legs tied with rope.

You gulped, as your breathing quickened. There was no way that your parents would indeed kidnap a boy. Why would they?

"H-hey who're you? & What are you doing here? I'm asking you buddy?" You said with your tone down, not wanting your parents to hear you.

Response, A sniffle.

He was indeed crying non-stop, as soft broken whimpers were making their way to your ears, making you feel guilt-struck, even though it wasn't your fault.

You decided to go closer to him just once, & so you did.
As soon as you went near & crouched infront of him, he reluctantly lifted his head to make an eye contact with you, & that's when it shook you to the core, his eyes.
Bloodshot & rheumy...as tears trickled down from the corner of his deep-driven puffy eyes, making you gawk at him in pure bewilderment.
You came out of your daze when a deep broken sob left his trembling lips, as he stared at you through his wet & heavy lashed eyelids.

"Who did this to you?" You whispered, broken at his state.
He sniffled yet again, as he tried to gain his breath back, hiccups stringing out of his gaping mouth.
You immediately made an effort to untie his tied hands & legs. Midway when you were untying his ropes, you heard him mumble in broken voice,

" Where's my noona?" He asked you, looking intently, as you watched him with confused eyes.
"I don't know, I'm sorry..." You replied with worry.
He began to weep even harder after hearing your reply, making you panic.
"Oh no! Don't cry...we'll find her together. Just tell me who brought you here?" You asked as you hurriedly untied his hands & legs, feeling raged for whoever did this to him.

He gulped, his droopy eyes staring right in yours.

"I want my noona..." He cried out, tears streaming down his swollen & bruised face.
You felt unsure what you were supposed to do at this point, staring at the boy with your fear-ladden eyes.
" Can you perhaps tell me what's your name? Maybe I can help you find your noona?" You suggested softly, as you tenderly ran your index finger across his bruised wet cheek.

" My name is Ki-"

"Y/N!!!! What are you doing there?" You heard your mother's loud voice yelling at you.
You immediately stood up in terror as you turned around to face your vexed mother.
She came stomping her way towards you, before grabbing your wrist forcefully, dragging you away from the boy.
" How dare you disobey my orders? Huh?!!" She spat wrathfully, infuriated by your behaviour.

You flinched at her sudden enraged demeanour. As you made an attempt to look at her face, her fuming eyes boring into your shaken self.

"I'm sorry mumma, I just-" You tried to excuse before you felt your head snapping rightwards as the sudden stinging pain surged into your cheeks & then your entire body.

She slapped you.

You couldn't help but let the tears prick your blurry eyes.

"So disrespectful! Talking your mother back?! Since when you became so fearless,huh?! Tell me!!" Your mother awfully screeched as she tightened her hold around your arms, hurting you.

"M-mumma, i-it h-hurts..." You stammered, traumatized by your mother's irrational behaviour.

" What did you talk to him? What he told you! Tell me now!!" Your mother asked, provoking you to speak up.

"Nothing..." You muttered as you side-glanced at the boy, who was apparently gazing back at you with petrified eyes.
You again snapped back when your mother furthermore prodded you to answer her questions, to which you just silently lowered your head.

You'd nothing to tell her.

" Let her go now, we'll deal with her later on. Get ready fast, pack your essentials. We gotta rush soon out of the city. " You heard your father voice out from behind your mother in his grave tone, devoid of emotions.

You felt bothered as to why you were leaving the city in such a rush? Something was definitely wrong & you could sense it, but pauperised beyond your control, you couldn't really voice your uncertainties.

Your mother instantly hauled you with her upstairs in a tow, not even allowing you to spare a last glance at the boy, which apparently ached your heart.

You genuinely wanted to help him.

You witnessed extreme chaos in the household at midnight as you saw your parents making hurried arrangements before moving out of the city. You felt gut sick about the whole situation, as you held your doll close to your chest, deeply invested in your own little cloudy thoughts.

The next thing you knew, you were sitting in the car with your parents as well as the boy.
His hands & legs were once again tied with the rope. You could still hear his sniffling as he weeped unaudibly.

He was seated at a one hand distance from you, his head buried in his neck, not even daring to look up... whereas, you were desperate to get a glimpse of his face, even just once, & ask him if it were your parents who'd kidnapped him?

Your father & mother were seated in the front seats, as your father drove through the deserted streets like a ricochetting bullet, as every now & then he peered momentarily at the rear view mirror to ensure that nobody was following your car.

You father suddenly took a sharp turn, causing your body to lunge towards the boy a little, as you made a futile effort to ask his name at that very moment, to which he immediately raised his head to look at you with unknown eyes.

" What's your name?" You mouthed.

He shook his head in denial, as his agonised eyes stared at your parents.

You pointed at your parents hesitantly, as you mouthed, " They kidnapped you?"

Your jaw dropped when the boy nodded his head in agreement, tears once again welling up in his eyes. Your mouth gaping in shock, as you covered your mouth as to not let out any voice.

You were scared to think that your parents were this inhumane?

Before you could confront your parents, you felt your ears going numb by the sudden piercing noise of of the bullet shots being fired upon your car as the back window of your car shattered into pieces, & the car took a huge gallop, going out of control as you screamed your lungs out in fright...

"NOOOO!!!!"

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You sat up abruptly on your bed, wheezing & breathing heavily as a result of overwhelming turbulence of your troubled mind. You touched your forehead as you felt cold sweat dripping down your face. Your throat felt scrotched & undeniably dried as well your lips that parted in shock.

It was all a nightmare...

You sighed in relief, as you realised that it was a nightmare that actually felt so real. Though this was a fact hard to digest that you'd got the same nightmares a hundred times before as well, and each time it felt so real, that it practically became impossible for you to think that it was actually a piece of your nocturnal imagination.

Everytime the dream would be so on point, nothing would be changed but indeed new things would get revealed each time, & it came true this time as well.

This time you came to know that your parents kidnapped the boy, as previously you would get the same dream again & again where you were helping the boy & getting scolded by your mother.

You could never bring yourself to think as to why your heart always forced you to think that the dream was actually true? As if, it really had happened back in sometime when you were a kid.

You felt that these days you're getting this nightmare a lot, & somehow you needed to get rid of it. It wasn't a joke, as everytime after the nightmare, you would feel extremely weary & drained out, apparently driving you out of sleep for the night, even if you tossed & turned or mediated to fall back asleep.

You decided to get some fresh air, as you cautiously stepped out of your warm duvet & gulped down a full glass of water down your thirsty throat, before walking mutely towards the window, to open it wide enough to get a glimpse of the breathtaking dark canvas glittered with starry twinkles.

A grin crept on your face as you settled your arms against the window frame, gazing at the twinkling stars with goofy eyes.
You sighed in tranquility as a soft breeze hit your body, making you slightly shiver, yet it felt oddly good.

You looked around for awhile as you worshipped the beautiful cityscape with your dreamy eyes, before turning back on your heels to go back to your warm bed, when suddenly something strange happened to catch your attention.

You glanced back down on the lane of your neighborhood, as you got stupefied to see a familiar person, draped in black hoodie talking to an another strange person. You tilted your head slight forward, your eyebrows furrowed in confusion, as you squinted your eyes to get a better view of....eh?

Jungkook.

You backed away immediately, contemplating as to what might be the reason that Jungkook was out this late in night, atop of being dressed unusually strange.

You flew your gaze to look at the other unknown person to whom he was talking to, with such a serious demeanour that you'd never encountered him before. But to your dismay, you couldn't really catch a glimpse of the stranger, though his physique was quite familiar to you...

You shuffled around on your feet, desperate to see the stranger somehow, standing over on your toes & even popping your head out of your window. If somebody saw you at the moment, they would think that you were surely upto something malicious. Though you wouldn't care...

Suddenly, you felt the ground crumble beneath your feet when you saw something that flabbergasted you beyond repair.
You witnessed the stranger out of the blue grip the throat of Jungkook, which even took Jungkook by surprise though he seemed unfazed, as he hold onto the hand of the crazed man.
You gasped out loud, when the eccentric stranger tightened his grasp around Jungkook's throat, making him choke & pant for air as he wiggled in his hold.

"JUNGKOOK!!!!!" You wailed out hoarse & loud, which without a second wasted caught the attention of both the parties.
Your heart pounded relentlessly in your chest as you caught the teary eyes of Jungkook looking straight ahead at you. You vigorously turned your head to take a look of the stranger when your heart momentarily stopped beating, & stood still in terror & mixed emotions.

You mouth fell open as your eyes caught his burning ones, you could feel his mismatched eyes on you even from a distance. A demonic smirk plastered on his dreadful lips, as you witnessed him drilling holes in you without even batting an eye.

You instinctively break out of your trance as a sudden painful cry left your mouth, not having the guts to lose someone as close to you as your own little brother to such a heartless & damned being.

You swiftly turned away from the window as your feet dashed towards your door and made their way downstairs, your breathing nowhere to normal but your willingness determined to save Jungkook from him at any cost, even if it costed you your own life, that wouldn't matter.

You hastened your way out, opening the door with a loud bang before running breathless outside where you'd saw them before.

You stood in silence, as the only sound that reached your ear was the erratic thumping of your palpitating heart, & the distant noise of night owls.You ran your eyes around desperately & hopeless, your mind struck with despair. What if you couldn't make it in time?

There was no one, just the cold wind, the street pole blaring light at a distance and your messed self.

A broken sob left your trembling lips, as you breathed out Jungkook's name.

"Jungkook..." You whispered looking all around but no one in your sight.

Your throat dried as you palmed your temple in utter defeat, wheezing out of breath.

You took a few steps forward looking for any signs as you pierced your gaze on the ground where most probably, they stood earlier.

But before you could do something, you felt a fistful of your hair being grabbed by someone behind you, automatically causing you to jerk back & stumble on your feet, as you felt a strong arm covering your mouth with a handkerchief which smelled formidably sweet, making your head go hazy & out of consciousness, & stifling your scream down, as you wiggled around to free yourself till your last bit of strength.

The edges of your eyesight went blurry as blackish spots blanketed your dizzy vision, shrinking your field of view slowly & bit by bit.

Before you could process anything, the last thing you remembered was the deep trenches of his demonic eyes & the devilish smirk on his face peering at you with sardonic face, under the flickering of yellow streetlight falling on him as same as the flicker of your sight.

"You're good for nothing Kim Taehyung."