Twenty Four

Chapter Seven

*Taehyung POV*

At seven they all start to pile in.
We gather outside of Seokyi's room for a meeting.

"So Tae and Hope, explain this idea you came up with." Jungkook starts.
"So the idea-" We both start at the same time.
"Let me explain-" We begin another argument.

They all look at us in disapproval

"Don't start again please," Jungkook says, annoyance lacing his words.
"I can't believe they survived a whole day together," I hear Yoongi whisper.
I eye him.

He shrugs, "I'm not wrong."
Honestly, he's not..

"Fine, let the nerd explain," I offer.
"I can do it better anyways," she says

Before I can retort, Joon gestures me to stop.

"Our idea is that we should try to connect with him deep inside somehow and wake him up. We don't...know exactly how..but..it's the best we've got," she ends, suddenly almost hopeless.

Which is a surprise to me. I always thought she's full of 'hope'.

Hobi notices as well and pats her back.
"Hey. It's okay, we'll give it a try," he comforts her.
She nods sadly.

I envy her. She has so many people that love and care for her, especially Hoseok.

"Who's going first?" Jimin asks.
"I think Tae and Hope should go last," Jungkook suggests.
"Alright then. I'll go, than Hobi, Joon, Jimin, Jungkook then you two," Yoongi decides for us.

No objections so that's the plan.

Unfortunately, all their attempts were unsuccessful. As each person walks away unsuccessfully, the thing called hope is slowly thinning away.

I reach into my pocket, my finger makes contact with metal.
My chain.
A chain with seven links, each link representing each of us.
It was a gift from my hyungs and Jungkook on my birthday seven years ago.
We never saw each other anymore and they understood my pain, not to the extent, but enough. They created the chain and shipped it to me for my birthday. They know this chain means so much to me, no one touches it, it's more valuable than anything else in my life.

It helps me so much.

I hope it can help Jin hyung as well.

We all watch attentively as Hope walks up to Jin and crouch down shakily.
"Jinnie..." She wraps her hand around Jin's.
"Look at me, it's Hope."

No response. As expected.

She tries to talk with him, tears starting to form in her eyes.
Moments pass, we're losing hope. Even Hope is losing hope.
We watch as Hope tries to continue painfully.
"Please....Jin," tears start to roll down.

She starts to get up, but she stops at his cheeks.
She closes her eyes as another tear roll down her face and move forward.

She pecks Jin's cheek.

Whoa. Since when? I knew they were close but not that close.

She stands there for a couple more moments before starting to make her way back.
"H-hope.....my baby sister," suddenly we hear a voice croak.
We all turned in a speed of lightning.
Jin responded.
Hope turns back at him wide eyed, she runs up to him and gives him a full hearted embrace.

No response. But at least he responded once.

She stands up and gestures for me to try.
I slowly walk up to hyung.
Fear creeping up my spine.

What if nothing works? What if Seokyi never wakes up? What will happen to Jin?

I display a hard face, no emotion showing. I'm skilled at hiding my emotions.