Days Thereafter

Ara takes me to Yoongi’s. That night I can’t sleep. I keep imagining both of them back at the dorm. What I might find tomorrow. At 3 a.m. the darkness eventually settles over me, but my deeper, darker thoughts become exposed.
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We’re woken at 9 by noisy neighbors and decide to head back. We meet the other guys out front and head in. I have knots forming in my core just thinking about finding them together. We all head inside, not being quiet, but not being noisy either. Hoseok is the first to peek into the room.

He tries to hold back his laughter and his face turns red.

“Wow, the view is daebak. Jimin is really a man now!”

I look with the others and immediately regret that. Seeing her back exposed and her laying on top of Jimin was enough to make me see red again. I had to leave to the kitchen to calm down. The rest of the day I find myself staring at the both of them and then either shaking or seeing red again. Luckily we have an MV in a few days.
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Every night I report to Ara, nothing exciting happening. Then the day of the MV comes and we leave at 4 a.m. to start filming.
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We come home exhausted to find an empty house. No sounds except for the clock ticking.

“_________?” Jimin calls out. Nothing.

It can’t be Ara could it? Nothing has happened yet… Moments later she walks in with a stranger.

“Yah! What did I tell you!” Jimin runs up to her. I roll my eyes

“I told you to stay here! Oh it’s you!”

Finally something new to report! I wonder what she’ll do with this information.

That night I report the new visitor we have staying with us. She likes the change too. Now we wait till we can make a move.
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I sneak into the bathroom and make a phonecall to Ara.

“What is it?”

“Her friend is leaving today. Nothing’s happened yet.”

“Don’t worry, it will. Do you know what airport she’s going from?”

“The Incheon airport. She’s leaving at 2:15”

“Good boy, now you just make sure you have the news channel on around 2:20 and I’ll take over from here, make sure everyone’s watching.”

“Can I ask what you’re going to do?”

“You’ll see it in the news.” She hangs up on me
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Your POV

The hands on the clock seem to faster today now that Megan has to leave. She’s packing her stuff up, joking around with J-Hope and Kookie.

“You guys are all daebak!” She gives them a big thumbs up. She zips up her suitcase and sits it with another bag by the door.

“Are you really going to leave me now?” I moan walking towards the door with her.

“Duh! I have a fiance to get back to! A very hot one, and he’s waiting for me!” She walks towards me with her arms open wide. I try to make mine even wider and we give each other a giant bear hug.

“You know how much I miss you right?” I whisper with tears making their way to my chin.

“Stop it! I don’t want to look like a mess going to the airport! We’ll see each other soon again! I LOVE YOU BUNCHES!”

“I LOVE YOU MORE YOU WEIRDO!” She steps away from me and starts gathering her stuff.

“Are you sure you want to go all alone? I’d be happy to go with you there.” I offer. She just shakes her head and smiles at me.

“Okay! I’m off!” She goes around and hugs all of the guys and saying farewell.

It looks like we’re being separated by an ocean again.
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We’re sitting in the living room watching a scary movie when I get a text from Megan.

“Woo! Guess what? The airline messed up my ticket so now I have to take a private plane back. #RidingInStyle #BeJealous”

This girl! She makes me laugh. I laugh to myself.

“What’s so funny?” Jin asks me

“Megan, she said the airline messed up on her ticket and now she’s “riding in style” I comment.

“We need her luck! Last time we rode on a plane there was a baby crying for 3 hours right behind us! What type of human can do that?” Namjoon exasperates.

“Hey, lets change it for a second. I hear there’s supposed to be a special program on.” Jin takes the remote and turns it to the news.

“Hyung! This is boring! We’re not that old that we watch the news for fun!” V exclaims

Just then a news caster replaces the weather man.

“We have breaking news that a plane has exploded at Incheon International Airport. We are sending someone to the scene now. We have reports of a fire blazing uncontrolled right now. Besides the pilot there is reported to have been one other person on board. It happened 3 minutes ago. We are gathering more information right now.”

My eyes are glued to the mans face as someone hands him a piece of paper from behind the camera.

“We just got information that it was a private plane and a foreigner was on board. The fire from it seems to be getting bigger by the second. We have footage of the fire now.”

I can see flames extend high into the sky, and where they stop, giant clouds of thick black smoke arise.

“No…” I whisper. This isn't right, we were just talking.

I can feel Jimin’s hand on my back.

“No.” I start to shake my head. This is all a lie, this isn't real. It’s someone else.

“No, this isn't real. I just talked to her!” Jimin stays silent and starts rubbing my back and putting his arms around me, the rest of the guys just look at me. Jungkook turns the volume up a little. I use my shaky hand to grab my cellphone and dial Megan.

“The number you have reached is unavailable-”

“NO!” I throw my phone at the wall.

“NO! I just talked to her!”I scream.

I try to stand but my legs give out on me. They turned into jelly. I look up at the screen and see the newsman show a picture from a cctv. It’s Megan boarding the plane. It’s her leopard print suitcase.

“NO! NO!” I scream. I’m not in control anymore. My body starts to shake and my eyes bleed tears. Hot tears that stroll down my face. The boys are panicking around me. I can hear V trying to calm me down with tears making his voice thicker.

“Mianhe. Mianhe. Mianhe.” He just keeps repeating.

I let the grief take over. I drown out everyone and everything. I only see Megan’s face, our last hug, she’s gone now.

She’s gone she’s gone she’s gone she’s gone

I feel myself being lifted and carried away. The cold air that sways around me making me shiver and shake more.

She’s gone she’s gone she’s gone. I have to tell Connor. I have to tell her family. I have to tell them she’s gone.

“I… nee-d… my… phone.” I say in between my hiccuping and sobbing. The person I assume is Jimin walks away then comes back with my phone. He puts it softly in my hand.

I dial in Connor’s number, almost hoping he doesn’t answer, hoping that I don’t have to be the one to tell him that she’s dead. That she exploded in an airplane. That she’s never coming back to him. She will never marry him. She will never have a family she always wanted. He answers on the fourth ring.

“Hey what’s up stranger?” His happy voice makes me cry even harder. The sobbing becomes even louder.

I’m sorry I’m the one to break your heart Connor.

“What happened?” He asks seriously.

“Megan-” I choke out.

“Please tell me.” He’s already crying, he knows.

“There was a plane explosion.” The words fumble out in a sob.

We cry together for the next half hour before he hangs up to call her family. Something I can’t even fathom doing right now. He mutters incoherently about their lost future then disconnects. Jimin takes the phone from my hand and slips his fingers between mine. He adjusts me towards the middle of the bed and lays beside me, stroking my hair.

I let the tears bleed me dry and put me to sleep, hopefully bringing me closer to Megan.
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Jin’s POV

I can’t believe what I’m seeing in front of my eyes. Seeing her scream in pain and sadness, falling to the floor and being almost lifeless, it brought tears to everyone’s eyes. No one deserved this, especially her best friend.

This is all my fault. I told Ara about her friend and that flight. I killed her.

*buzz**buzz*

1 New Message

“My plan worked. Good job! I think you deserve all the credit for this, I couldn’t have done it without you! Now we just have a few more steps to do.”

I can feel my body shake, but not just from anger this time, I’m angry at myself. The grief I caused can never be undone. I look at Ara’s words, blurred with my tears. I can hear her sobbing in the room.

Everyone is in tears and it’s all my fault.

What have I done?

Notes

So... that happened. This was not easy for me at all! I was bawling while writing this, thinking of my best friend. I hope you guys like it so far. And don't hate me too much! For those who saw the description, you saw what the next chapter was going to be. I had a pabo moment.