Candle Lights

Bang!

"Argh, damn it!" - I rubbed the back of my head I banged as I was straightening up to look in the next cupboard of the kitchen. The candles had to be there somewhere! I kept rummaging through the dark kitchen, as my phone battery had abandoned me five minutes into the task, until my hand reached something I needed. Matches. Not candles yet, but the search was half done.

I left the little box onto the center table of the kitchen, and directed myself to the last row of cupborads and drawers of the kitchen. I opened the right door of the first one, and finally luck turned my way. Feeling the slightly sticky wax rubbing against my fingers, I gently placed the three candles each one in a plate, and lit the first one. I lit the other two. But then I decided it would be safer to walk with one at a time, as I could be a bit like Namjoon myself. That though made me laugh slightly, as I was walking back to the living roo where I left the boys.

I should have noticed the quietness, the calmness in the air back then. I was so distracted that I didn't even realise when the house went so quite, I mean, just 10 minutes earlier, there were 7 hoarders in my livingroom. ANd then, there were none. It took me two seconds to process the information. What the hell was going on?

"Boys?" - I called in the darkness, waving the light of the candle - "Where the hell did you go?"

I started to slightly freak out internally. You know when your brain suddenly decides do get creative and somehow forges a pattern of how your present situation resembles pretty much every single horror movie you've ever seen? The strange boys in the alley, how hungry they were, the lights suddenly going out, your lack of communication with the outside world... It was quite a gloomy pattern indeed.

While arguing internally with my own brain (what are you looking at? that's absolutely normal!), with that last brim of lucidity I still had, I started to sort out a few logical solutions for whatever had happened to make them dissapear. It didn't take more than a few seconds for me to join the dots.
"I know you're trying to scare me or play hide and seek. Either way, you're the ones who are going to have a bad time" - I annouced evilly for all the souls present in the house followed by an ominious laughter.

I knew the house perfeclty. They didn't. I was going to use that to my advantage. I left the candle on the center table in the livingroom, and hid inside the huge china cabinet. The room was lit by the lonely half dim flame of the candle, making the atmosphere perfect for what was to come.

I waited for a little, and put all my hair in front of my face, except for an eye. Soon footsteps came slowly yet steadily towards the light of the candle. From my hiding spot I could see colored heads popping up from the most diverse hiding places and steping into the room, all while shushing one another. They realised i was'nt there and V took hold of the candle, imitating my gesture from earlier, trying to spread the light futher away in the room.
That of course until he turned around and faced me... Cahos ensued.

"AAAAAAHH!!!"

"AAAAAHh!!!"

"WHAT THE HELLL??!!"

"HYUNG SAVE ME!!"

"TAKE THEM, I MUST SURVIVE!"

"I'M TO YOUNG TO DIEEEEE"

"OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG"

"OMMAAAAAAAA"

I stepped out of the furniture, and rolled on the ground, my legs shaking too much because of my laughter. Soon I was joined by them, well... Some of them. Suga, Namjoon, Jin and Jungkook laughed it out, as they had barely been scared, and most of the shouting had been made by the remaining three victims.

"Why would you do that to someone's heart?!" - V was still taken aback.

"Aish, I think I just aged 20 years" - Jimin said placing his hand on his chest.

"I won't ever get to sleep normally again" - Hopie said sweating a lot and calming his breath.

"That's what you get for trying to scare me" - I managed to say once my stomach wans't hurting so much anymore.

"That was not my original idea, but it got a lot better than predicted" - Suga commented still amazed with how well it worked. Then he high fived me - "You are officially accepted on the preankster team"

"Dude she's worse than Suga" - Namjoon was clearly wipping off his laughter tears.

"She still has things do before she gets to my level though" - Jungkook regained his breath and his cockyness.

"Of course, your level of disturbance is out of this wolrd" - Jin commented under his breath, to which Jimin strongly agreed.

"Okay, how about you guys helps me light up the house?" - I asked them after all the laughter settled.
We worked together and light spread out through the house quite quickly. Or at least in the rooms we would mainly be staying, like the kitchen, the living room...

It was already close to midnight, and the storm had gotten really strong, without truce. The boys were clearly tired from the waiting and had probably had a long day. Suga was continuously yawning, probably not even noticing it. I decided it was better to offer them to get confortable, as they seemed yet to shy or uncomfortable to ask for anything, much less for it. And by now, their manager probably wouldn't show up until the morning, at least.

"Boys" - I spoke up, getting them to look at me - "I think I'm not only speaking or myself when I say it's pretty late and you must be tired as well. How about we setlle you guys here for the night?"

"No, we're okay really! Please, we don't want to bother you" - Jimin ushured to answer, kicking Suga who was yawning in the process.

"Hey, it's not bothering, I can see you're all tired. Besides, I won't just go to sleep without installing you guys, and there's no way you're going out now, especially under this storm."- I open the curtains for them to notice that indeed, the snowstrom was ruthless.

"She does have a point" - Jin said - "But really we can all just stay here in the living room, there's no need for anymore than what you've already given us."

"Yah! You are my guests now, and under no circumstances am I letting you just sleep on the ground of my living room, when there isn't even any electricity" - I argued, hoping to convince them that they really weren't a disturbance.

"Yah! Did you just say 'yah' to Jin?" - Rapmonster spoke up, making me realize what I had just said.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I forgot... I'm confused... I'm really sorry" - I felt ashamed.

"Hyung, there's no need to be angry about it, come on. She's not even from our country or culture, but she still insists on respecting them with us" - V intervened calmly - "Well, at least she tries to."

"V's right guys, she's not even used to the formalities. Can't you see she's feeling ashamed now?" - Hobi came to the help me as well. I could feel my cheeks slowly grow red as I could feel their glances land upon me.

"I'm sorry, I only spoke on impulse. I shouldn't have been so hard on you" - Namjoon came up to me, and bowed sligthly.

"If anything I'm the one who has to apologise. I was impolite, and I should have been a better host. So even though it stills makes me a bad host, I'm going to need your help to put all the beds up" - I bowed back, and smiled at their expressions of disbelief.

"You're not giving up, are you?" - Suga asked

"Nope!" - I answered and they laughed - " Now get off your butts and help me out!"

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