He stared at me like he was trying to read my thoughts from my eyes. His blue and brown colour eyes had a spark, they glisten as he studied my face.

"You- You think I'm not ill? You think I haven't gone mad?" Taehyung queried, making his eyes bigger than normal. I nodded,

"Yes, I don't think you are having abnormal disorders. But there is something that always keeps triggering you, perhaps something hideous that happened in your past,  am I right?" I looked straight at him and queried.

He zipped his mouth, sinking into deep thoughts. Taehyung's bangs fell on his forehead, covering his handsome face. I was still holding his hand. His big and long hands were enfolded between my small ones. He looked away from me, glueing his orbs on the ceiling.

It was a guess, a very lucky guess. An arrow I shot from far away seemed to be hit right on the bull's eye.

What I said to him wasn't completely false, it was pretty sure that he doesn't suffer from schizophrenia. But I can't guess the disorder yet. I need time. And in that time, I have to understand him and make him gain faith in me.

He again sank his deep orbs on mine.

He was like a curious little child, he was curious about me, he kept scrutinizing my face.

"I will help you to get out from here, but first you have to trust me." He didn't utter to speak a word. The man kept looking at me as I was a vined talking Chinese doll. He suddenly inched his face to me. My breath hitched as he does an unexpected move.

"Your hair smells like vanilla." He breathed into me. Two of his long fingers started curling one of my bangs. It took me a moment to come back to my sense.

"Mr Kim, you have to concentrate and focus on what I am saying if you want to get out of this mental hospital," I said while slightly pushing him away from me. My words were firm and strict. He looked like he was under my dominance this time. He was listening without causing any distractions. I took his actions as a hint that he's ready to consume what I am going to say.

"I'm listening." For the first time, he smiled. His lips formed into a rectangular boxy smile. It was adorable. I shrugged my thoughts before I get distracted by him.

Damn, he has some mood swings. First, he looked like he would kill me and now he looks like a cute kid listening to his mother.

"First of all, you need to get some air. You need to breathe." He raised his eyebrows with astounding.

"But I'm already breathing,"

He was getting comfortable talking to me. That's a good sign for now. I better keep a close eye on him and examine his moves.

"I don't think so." I stepped towards the window and pulled away from the curtains, letting the sunlight fall inside the room. Taehyung hissed as the bright sunlight touched his milky skin.

"You have to let the sunlight get in here," I opened the window, letting the breeze hug us. The balmy weather outside was so nice. The semi-darkness of the room was gone. It looked like a whole new place. I stepped towards the other curtains and pulled them away as well.

As I was doing that, I watched him from the corner of my eyes. He stepped back till he can hide in the shadows. He had nowhere to go. He pressed his back against the wall and started breathing heavily.

Heliophobia, the fear of sunlight, extremely intense and panic. He showed the symptoms of Heliophobia. This is a sign of a big trauma he had faced in the past.

He started breathing in shorts. He tried to cover himself in the darkness. His head was hanging low, he was fighting to get rid of the anxiety inside him.

He's recalling the memories of whatever the event that caused him to be like this. If only I could make him believe that he will be safe...

I placed my hand on his shoulder. He flinched as he was triggered by something.

"Taehyung, look at me." He was gritting his teeth while squinting his eyes. I shook him from both his shoulders.

"Taehyung, it's alright, look at me. You trust me right?" I looked up at him. He clenched his jaws and landed his orbs on me. I gazed at him with concern.

"It's not going to happen again. You don't have to be afraid of it now," the guy blinked without talking, but from the glistening of his eyes, I could say that he's seeing a spark of hope.

"Believe me, it won't happen again. I'm with you. So you don't have to worry about it." I did my best to convince him. He lifted his head, peeking at the sunlight which was poured into his room.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, there's nothing to be worried about. Come on, there's something you should see," I took his hand. He looked at me with a doubt plastered on his face. But also I could see that he wanted to believe what I said.

"Taehyung, you know you can do it. I know you can do it. Step into the sunlight with me."

I held his both hands and slowly dragged him towards me while walking backwards at the same time. He slowly walked forward, his feet were uncovered, he was only covered with a big plain white shirt and pants. The naked skin of his feet touched the area that was touched by the sunlight. He stepped in while squinting his eyes, blinking. I could see that he was biting his lips.

He was nervous.

Taehyung breathed heavily as the wind blasted through the window, mooching us both from its comfortable brush.

"Calm yourself down, breathe well. Breathe with me." I inhaled air from my nose and exhaled from my mouth. He imitated me. Slowly I could notice that his stiffened muscles are getting rid of their tension.

"Breathe slowly, and deeply. Feel it. Close your eyes," He slowly shut his eyelashes, calmly breathing in and out as I said. His hands were clutching my arms, but as he continued the exercise, his grip slowly loosened, it became gentle.

I kept looking at his face as he does the breathing exercise. His eyebrows were drawn longer with long eyelashes, a perfect jawline and thin ravishing lips. He was a splendid combination of Greek god features and anime characters. Tremendously handsome...

Who are you Kim Taehyung?

He flutters opened his eyes, looking a lot more tranquil than before. Thin lips of him were formed to a small smile.

"Thank you, Doctor," I could feel the amount of calmness he was feeling through his words. I smiled at him,

"Just call me Y/n from now on. Consider me as a friend of yours."

"Friend? But Doctor Kim-" He looked with a question mark on his face.

"Yes, a close friend. And no more Doctor Kim, we both are Kim's after all, " he chuckled as I said.

The man started walking towards the window. I followed him from behind.

"I didn't know the view from here was this beautiful," he said, peeping his head out from the window. The whole city was in front of us. The highways, the buildings, the houses, everything looked like a Lego city to Taehyung's room.

"What's your favourite place in the city?" I asked leaning my body on the edge of the window, standing next to him.

"I don't know," I turned at him as he said.

"What do you mean?"

"I never saw the city. I was transferred here from Daegu. After the," he paused. His face was changing.

"I have something for you," I quickly changed the subject. I ambled towards the box I previously brought.

"He loves to draw"

That's what Doctor Kang said to me before I came to his room. I took the canvas boards out from it and placed them on his table. Taehyung reached me to see what I got for him. He whistled with amusement.

"I want you to draw the view from here. Can you do that for me? " I gazed at him. He nodded as a response.

"I can do that,"

I looked at the clock in his room. It was almost my shifting time.

"I'll be back tomorrow, can you finish this by tomorrow?"

"Of course, I am a pretty good artist." He flashed a smile, showing his pearly teeth.

"I bet you are, You'll have to excuse me, Mr Kim-"

"Call me Taehyung," He beamed at me. I nodded.

"I'll see you Taehyung," I stepped towards the door with many gatherings. As I reached the door, he called me,

"Y/n," I turned at him. "Come back tomorrow," I smiled at him.

"I promise."

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The phone started ringing. Jimin quickly picked up as he saw Namjoon's name on the display.

"Namjoon hyung? What's going on?"

"Jimin, get here as fast as you can. You have to see this. The Kwon residents, road 345." From Namjoon's words and his tone, Jimin could guess that it wasn't a normal case this time.

"I'm on my way."

"Be quick, this is hideous, you have to see it from your own eyes."

"It's not a normal murder scene?"

"It's more than a murder, it's something insane."

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