ramenㅣkth

chapter 17

"please, mr. kim! you can't enter, this is a restricted area for only family members and officials!"

"let me in, let me f*****g inside! i need to see her, let me see her!" he screamed, thrashed around, his tears streaming down his face and onto his t shirt.

the guards held him down as he sobbed with anger, fury, depression, and melancholy. he slammed his fist down on the ground as he kicked his legs with force so hard that he heard the floor crack slightly.

"h-how could she have died. how?!" he howled, black covering his eyes.

"i-it was because of her immune system. her body was originally weak but because of her lack of nutrients, she was unable to process the medicine given to her and died. the drugs and the painkillers destroyed a big amount of her white cells. we are sorry that we couldn't revive her. we really are," the doctor from earlier informs with a sad tone.

taehyung cried and cried. he gave up from entering and the guards propped him out on his feet. he wiped his eyes with his shirt and looked forward. the doors were the only thing keeping him and valencia apart. he wanted to see her one last time. he wanted to talk to her more, he wanted to help her more, comfort her, be there for her. all his life he wanted to do something useful and there he went, killing a person he could've saved,

"this is my fault, i should've called the ambulance earlier, i-i should've been there for her when she really needed me," he panicked as he grabbed his head.

"this was not your fault, mr. kim. ms. lee wanted to tell you that it wasn't and that it would be better off for you to forget about her and continue with your life. i know it's hard mr. kim but please-"

"okay. okay, if that's what she wanted... then that's what she'll get. what you said was 100% what-" it even pained him to just say her name,"valencia said right?"

the doctor nodded slowly.

"fine. there's no reason for me to be at this hospital then."

it shattered his heart as he turned away and walked outside, getting farther and farther from the one he failed to protect.

-

"and the winner of today's music bank is not other than, bangtan seonyeondan with their hit blood, sweat, and tears!" the mc announces as the fans cheer, swinging their army bombs in the air.

the mc then passes the mic and the trophy to namjoon, him being the leader and all.

"i just wanted to say thank you so much to our company, our managers, our lovely and beautiful parents for giving birth to us, our make up and clothes crew, our PD-nim and mostly to all our fans out there whether you're in oceania or alaska or anywhere! thank you for supporting us, we love you all!" he shouts as he gives s bright smile to the fans, while raising the trophy.

the mic is then passed to each of the members all saying their thank you's and their shout outs until it came to kim taehyung.

"i wanted to say that every single one of you be safe out there and take care of yourself more than anything thing else okay!" he screamed, tearing up a bit at the roar of cheers coming from the audience.

then as he observed the crowd, all of a sudden, he caught a figure of someone so familiar. he forgot her name but her face, it looked like he had seen her somewhere. and as he stared at her for a long time, the girl in the audience looked up as well and both of their eyes widened with realization.

"valencia?"