BTS HYYH Notes (Book 1, 2, BUS Game) // COMPLETE [Part 1]

2022, Apr 11 - Namjoon (Seokjin Encounter)

I hesitate for a few moments before asking Seokjin hyung. "Hey, hyung. Do you have time today? Later-"

"Ya, Kim Namjoon! What's taking you so long?! Hurry up and do your job!" I hear the owner yelling as soon as I begin to speak.

"Ugh, I'll be right back..."

"Yeah, hurry on out. I'll wait here."

An expensive foreign car pulls up to the gas pump. "Welcome! How many liters would you like?"

"Full tank."

"How would you like to pay?" The customer puts a few bills between his fingers and hands them over. I'm not in the best mood after seeing those bills flutter in front of me, but he's not the only customer to ever act like this. The best thing to do is just send him on his way as quickly as I can.

As soon as I move to take the money-

"Ah, butterfingers." Something sweeps past my cheeks and falls to the ground. The rumpled bills flutter around my feet. "What are you doing? Not gonna pick that up?"

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(A/N: Loop #1: Pick up the money.)

I feel like Seokjin hyung watching me from a distance. I can't seem to lift my head up.

"You don't want it?"

But this is a gas station and I work here. If a customer throws trash, I need to clean it up. If they curse, I have to listen to it. And I guess it's my job to pick up the money if they throw it.

I bend down to pick up the money, ignoring the laughter coming from inside the car.

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(A/N: Loop #2: Don't pick up the money.)

I can hear laughter coming from inside the car. But this isn't the first time.

"You don't want it?"

I need to stay calm. But I subconsciously clench my fists. My nails dig into my skin.

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Someone suddenly steps up next to me. "You dropped this." Seokjin hyung picks up the fallen bills with ease and hands them to the customer.

... Hyung?

"Who're you?"

I think about the situation causing hyung to react... It mortifies me. My hands shake. But he continues to stand there between me and the customer.

"You must be busy... So you should leave."

The customer seems to have run out of steam. They take off without another word.

"... Thanks, hyung."

"It's nothing. What were you going to tell me earlier?" He gives me a light pat on the shoulder as he asks me his question.

I force my lips to move so I can answer him. "Ah. I'm meeting up with Taehyung and Hoseok today after work. Do you want to come with me?"

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[Place: Container town]

(A/N: POV #1)

At a distance, I saw the lights from the container. I walked in silence and so did Taehyung who was walking behind me. Nobody told us to, but we walked slowly. As if we were going in the wrong direction, we kept looking behind us. We slowed down more as the lights got closer.

"Are you going to tell them about Seokjin hyung?" When Taehyung asked, I hesitated. "Just that he came back from America."

I remembered how hyung had looked when he showed up at the gas station all of a sudden. His face that looked empty and his dry voice. And I remembered what Taehyung had said: "Was it our choice to have become what we are now, or..." Taehyung didn't finish his question. He was probably going to say destiny. Whether I believed in destiny.

Destiny. I had never really thought about it. I thought destiny was either the environment one's born into or the personality one has. But when Taehyung asked me that question, I didn't want destiny to exist. I didn't want anything to have been decided. I wanted everything to be possible or to be decided by one's choice.

We opened the container door and saw Yoongi hyung, Hoseok, and Jungkook. It had been two years.

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(A/N: POV #2)

I was digging through my shirts that didn't cost much, and Taehyung reached from behind and took a shirt. It had the same phrases printed on as mine. Taehyung smiled at me and took his ripped shirt off. Hoseok looked at me with shocked eyes. Taehyung wore my t-shirt and look at himself through my dirty mirror. And then he laughed.

"I was late because he wanted to do graffiti and got caught by the police, I had to pull him out." I pretended that I was getting angry at Taehyung, and Taehyung acted like he was really sorry.

Yoongi hyung who was sitting in the corner of my trailer walked towards us and hit Taehyung on the shoulder.