"And where do you think you're going young lady?" a harsh raspy voice had said from the depths of the walls.
I didn't look behind me in fear and continued to run. Every door I opened brought me back to the same exact room. It was an old, broken down bedroom that had a poor maroon shade of paint on its walls. I tried opening the door again and as I walked through I stepped into the room again, but from the opposite side. I heard footsteps from behind me, and continued to run through the door again. I ran through it over twenty times as the footstep noise gradually increased. I stepped through it after the billionth time, and ended up in the middle of the road. I was alarmed by a honking noise and turned to see headlights shining on me from my left side as they got closer, closer, and bam.
I screamed and woke up from the nightmare. I panted heavily as I looked over to Yein's bed to see it empty. I looked at the digital clock located on the mini dresser as it read 10:20.
I got up and went to go take a long warm shower, getting off all the stickiness, after feeling too tired to take one last night. I couldn't help but to think of that weird dream. As long as I could remember I rarely had any dreams, and this was by far the most horrid.
My mind wandered back to the ring Jungkook had.Why did I have to lose my stupid memory? Why couldn't I have a family and grow up normally like everyone else? How did things get so complicated all of a sudden?
I stood there for twenty more minutes and listened to the BTS playlist I had created after meeting Jimin and Jungkook that day. My favorite song, '2nd Grade' came on and I jammed along before shutting the shower off as it finished.
As soon as I walked back into the bedroom with one towel covering my body and another wrapped around my brown hair, my phone rang from the table where it was charging. I pulled it out of the plug and looked to see who it was.
'Jimin' my screen read.
"Hello?" I said after I slid the green answer button to the right.
"Halla!" I pulled the phone a distance away from my ear as I heard screeching and yelling in the background.
"Hey, what's up?"
"I was going to ask you if you wanted to hang out today. If you can hear the boys yelling its because our manager let us off for today." I could see him smiling as he said this.
"Sure, I'd love to." I responded as I searched through my luggage trying to find my oversized white sweater and leggings.
"Great! Have you ate lunch yet?"
I looked down at my stomach and heard it making strange noises.
"Not yet." I replied with a slight laugh.
After rummaging my suitcase, I slid the warm comfy clothes on, along with some tan boots with short heels.
"Do you want to go with me to the mall then? We can get some food along with some other stuff?"
I looked at the mirror and tidied up my outfit. "Sounds good!"
"I'll meet you outside of your hotel in fifteen minutes then?"
"Mmhmm. See you then," I responded while nodding my head.
We hung up and I went into the bathroom to start blowdrying my hair. It hung in loose waves afterwords, just the way I like it, and I quickly did my makeup. I grabbed my fuzzy beige coat and black shoulder bag before walking out of the hotel room.
I approached the lobby of the hotel, and sat on one of the numerous leather armchairs. I pulled out my earphones from my purse, and plugged the pair into my phone. I took out my songbook and started to come up with ideas for a new song.
I didn't realize how long I was there for, until a hand reached down and grabbed my songbook from me.
"Hey!" I yelled before glancing up and seeing a familiar orange haired boy dressed in a black muscle tee and ripped black jeans.
"Hey!" he said in a more happier greeting and mocking me while looking through my songbook.
"Give that back!" I exclaimed trying to reach up and grab it from him, but failed due to my slightly shorter stature.
"Okay, okay. Are you ready?" he asked after making us look like idiots for a few minutes in the lobby.
I nodded my head trying to look annoyed by him as I placed my earphones and song book back into my bag.
I followed behind him as we walked to his car. He held the hotel door open for me and as I walked through. After that, he walked straight to a black shiny car that was parked right outside the door.
"Here you are ma'lady" Jimin said while bowing and holding the passenger door open with his left hand and with his right hand behind his back.
"Why thank you kind sir." I replied back matching his exact posh accent.
The car ride was the exact opposite of what I expected it to be. I had thought that it would be like the normal car rides with people who I wasn't comfortable with where we usually just sit there awkwardly listening to the radio. Instead, within a minute Jimin oppa started belting out to BIGBANG's Bang Bang Bang while shooting imaginary guns with his hands.
After ten minutes, we arrived at the mall. When we walked in, I saw that it had six stories, and was unlike any mall I had seen in California.
"So where to first Halla?" Jimin asked wearing his black sunglasses and shoving his hands into his pockets.
"Not sure. I still don't really know much about korean stores."
"Right...." he said rubbing his index finger and thumb under his chin. "Well I guess we'll have to go through them all!"
"All?"
"Let's get started" he said before dragging my arm towards multiple stores.
Every now and then I'd see a BTS shirt and make Jimin buy me one or an ARMY (Which I have come to learn is BTS' fan base name.) would see Jimin and want to take a picture with him.
Sometime afterwards we ended up with four arm-fulls of bags as we walked out of the mall with random stuff. (And by we I mean Jimin, because he wouldn't let me carry any.) After putting all our new items into the car, we headed to a small restaurant that Jimin recommended us to go to.
I looked up at the sign and saw 'Hwang's Eel Restaurant". Jimin held the door open for me and we were greeted by a middle aged man.
"Jimin-ah! So good to see you again." He said hugging him. "...And who is the lovely lady we have here?" he said smiling at me.
"This is my friend from America. She's a songwriter." he responded.
"Ah, I see. My name is Mr. Kang. It's nice to meet you!" I replied the same to him, and he showed us to a table.
"Your meal is on me today, so please eat as much as you want." he said as we sat down.
"Wow! Thank you," Jimin and I both said simultaneously and he walked away. A lady then approached us, and handed us our menus. I guess she must've heard from before that I was from America, because she handed me an English menu. As I looked at it, I saw familiar faces.
Probably seeing my surprised face, Jimin then asked, "Do you know CNBLUE?"
I nodded my head while I continued looking at the menu, confused as to why they were on it.
He laughed and continued, "The drummer right there" He pointed to his picture on the menu. "This is his father's restaurant. and you just met his father."
I looked at him with the widest eyes. I was a big fan of their music, and had watched a couple of dramas with them in it. I wasn't a stalker fan, but I knew quite a bit about them.
"This is Kang Minhyuk's father's restaurant?" I half yelled, half whispered across the table at him.
He just laughed and kept staring at me the whole time.
"You're so adorable." I heard him say under his breathe.
I looked away from him after hearing him say that. I could feel my cheeks warming up.
"How did you know I liked CNBLUE?" I asked him.
"Lucky guess?" he smiled wide at me.
"I'm joking. I saw that you had one of their buttons on your yellow bag that you had when we met."
I made an o-shape with my mouth understanding him.
"Anyways, what do you want to eat? The food here is really good." Jimin said.
"Whatever you'd like. I'm not an expert at korean food," I admitted.
He looked at the menu and decided for the two of us as I looked around the restaurant. It was "decorated" in sticky notes. I could see they were all from Boices'. It was very colorful and immediately brightened the atmosphere.
"Their most well-known for their signature eel dish, and I really like the pork skirtmeat. Are those to your liking Ms. Halla-ssi?" he said, making the ending sound a little proper.
"It sounds very well to me." I responded trying to sound proper also.
We laughed, then the lady from before came to get our order. We had a great time, and the food was amazing. After we were done I ended up writing a note to CNBLUE and sticking it on the wall next to our table.
We thanked Mr. Kang for the delicious meal, and he made me promise to come visit next time which I gladly did.
We walked back to Jimin's car and ended the day getting bingsu at a small roadside shop.
I couldn't help but think that Jimin really helped me get my mind off of Yein and I thanked him so much for that.