The year someone turns 18 they have the opportunity to be injected with a serum that will produce a soulmate mark somewhere on their body. This serum is costly and the procedure to get the injection is not covered by insurance.
A rare illness cropp...
As we get closer and closer to the Rainforest exhibit a realization slowly begins to hit me. I hadn't completely thought this through. At the zoo closest to my hometown it's not a problem. The reptiles that made me shake in fear are separated from all the others in that zoo. But, what if they aren't in this Rainforest pavilion? I literally stop in the middle of the sidewalk. The others have all been forming a circle around me so the two at my back, Joon and Hobi, are the ones that point out the fact that I have frozen like a block of ice or statue.
"Daisy, what's wrong?" Jin asks when he realizes how scared I must look.
Jimin wraps his arm around my shoulders, and Tae crouches in front of me holding my cheeks in his hands to try to encourage me to try to look fully at him. I grasp his hands in my own before pulling him back up from his prone position. I sigh and take a moment to push past my fear and glance at them all. The concern swimming in each of their eyes has me fully pulling out of the trance I sort of put myself in. "Uh, sorry. I just realized that I might have some issues in that particular exhibit. Um."
"What kind of issues, Daisy?" Yoongi asks. I really am not sure how much time has passed between my announcement and his question, but it feels like we have been standing here for awhile.
"I'm sort of... Kind of... terrified of snakes." I reveal.
"I don't like snakes either." Hobi admits. I turn to look at him. His expression is more one of disgust than fear though.
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"I am sure if there are snakes in the exhibit that they won't be anywhere close enough to bother the patrons." Joon points out, somewhat helpfully.
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When we finally enter the exhibit I am immediately stricken in amazement. It is almost like we were transported to the rainforest. The roof of the building is completely covered by the canopy created by the many amounts of indigenous trees. We are on a stone pathway leading to a wooden bridge that overlooks the habitat below us. There are monkeys and birds above us. I even see the blue fluttering wings of a morpho butterfly, which I only know the name of because I found them to be the most beautiful butterfly I have ever seen. (I had to know the name of them simply because of that fact alone.)
