하루만 ~ Just One Day (Taejoon)

Just One Day

His bloody dimples can cause enough distraction, like a deer caught in the headlights. I totally forgot what had happened, how our last meeting ended. Everything was lost, and now here he was in front of me.

My first love.

My only love, Kim Namjoon.

Just like that, everything halts, time stops. He pulls me up and I see the others. Jimin, crossing his arms and giving me a Cheshire smile. Jungkook, with those big doe eyes, Yoongi hyung, always that one serious look but with fondness in his eyes. Hoseok hyung, with that bright, big sunshine energy in everything he does.

All of them pull me into a tight hug, and I feel safe. So fucking safe in all of thier arms. Slowly they untangle themselves.

Namjoon hyung slings his hand around my shoulder, Hobi hyung pushes me around and eventually everyone starts tickling, hugging me which causes me to erupt into a fit of giggles. Everyone is laughing along. It has been a long time since we last saw each other. And seeing all of my high school friends after what felt like years, of course everyone will feel ecstatic. But something is missing. Someone is missing.

"Oh?! It's Jin hyung!" Jungkook suddenly says and we all look into the direction he's pointing, and there he was, Jin hyung, standing at the step, with his camcorder. He lowers his camcorder and smiles at us, jumping down.

It has been what, 2? 3 years since I last saw him? It has been years since I last hyung. I don't even remember what our last meeting was like. But Jin hyung is that one person whom I could definitely count on, but somehow could not bring myself to trust. There's always one complicated person who is difficult to understand. And that was Jin hyung for us, or for me.

We both hug each other. "It's been a long time hyung," I whisper out and Jin hyung hums. There's this sort of uneasiness around him, when we rip away from each other, Jin hyung's expression turns to calmness and satisfaction and serenity. For some reason it gives me an uneasy feeling.

"Shoot us! Record us! Let's remember our meeting like this!" Someone suggests, and Jin hyung starts recording us and the uneasy feeling slowly goes away.

Namjoon hyung pulls me into a back hug, we throw peace signs, my heart beating the life out of my chest. I wonder if he can feel it. Jin hyung records everyone. All of us throw signs, Hobi and Jimin start dancing, all of us play random games that we used to play when we were young.

Someone finds an abandoned trolley at the end of the pool. Yoongi hyung sits in that trolley and Jungkook starts pushing him. He screams out of joy, we cheer them on. Yoongi hyung high-fives all of us as Jungkook gives his all pushing the trolley. Jin hyung just stands there recording it.

All take rounds on the trolley. "Do you wanna go next?" Namjoon hyung asks me, and I nod. I sit on it. "One, two..three!" Was all the warning he gave before he started pushing me. The wind was in my face, as the speed picked up, making my hood fall down and flutter my hair. All I can hear is the wind rushing, and slowly that disappears and the only sound audible to my ears are his laughter and his grunts as he pushes me. I spread my arms out. I cheer in excitement. The adrenaline builds up again, but this time for happiness.

Namjoon hyung stops when we reach near others. He's panting heavily and beads of swears visible on his forehead. I jump off the trolley and laugh, spreading my hands. Namjoon hyung pants next to me, grabbing his knees. "Wow...th-at...took a...a lot...of my energy," he says between breaths.

How can someone be so...like him?

The next game we play is that random one, where there will be one person leaning against the wall and two to three people bend over and make a line. The rest jump over them and sit on them? I don't know, this random game we have been playing since middle school. And the hyungs lost in rock-paper-scissors, so Jimin, Jungkook and I jumped over them.