The Scent of Strawberries | Hybrid BTS x Reader

07

Chapter 7 | A Feeling
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It's been a few days since Namjoon asked me to try and get Seunghee to talk about her trauma. I did try and sit down with Seunghee to talk about it. Although she didn't tell me outright that she didn't want to talk about it, her body language told me that she was getting uncomfortable with the topic. I quickly dropped it and haven't spoken about that incident since. After all, I didn't want to rush her and have her re-live the trauma and go back on the progress that she had made.

Although she was still fidgety around both Human and Hybrid males, she has been getting used to going out to the park where there are a lot of people. She wouldn't initiate a conversation with people but she did nod her head 'yes' or 'no' to communicate. 

Since it was a really nice day out, Hyojung, Seunghee, and I decided to go out to the park and have a picnic. Hyojung was showing Seunghee how to take pictures with her DSLR while I was lying on the picnic blanket. I loved lazing around and doing nothing.

"Y/N-ah!" Seunghee called out to me.

I opened my eyes and turned to face her, still lying down on my back. I heard a snap and saw that she took a picture of me. I smiled seeing her face light up with happiness. She looked at the picture and giggled. She turned the DSLR around to show me the picture that she took. To my surprise, she really had a talent for taking pictures. 

"How did you make me look that good?" I asked causing Seunghee to giggle.

"Should we head home?" Hyojung asked us. "We've been out here for about three hours already."

"Should we?" I asked Seunghee.

Seunghee looked at Hyojung then me and nodded. We started picking up all our stuff and started walking home. Hyojung and Seunghee were holding hands as they were walking in front of me. I couldn't help but smile at the sight in front of me.

I froze. I could've sworn I heard grunting noises coming from nearby. I turned my head to a street, that was a little more worn down than the other streets in the city. There was a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was wrong and that I should go down the street.

"Y/N-ah?" Hyojung called me out of my trance.

"Hm?" I responded, my focus still in the street next to me.

"Is everything okay?" Hyojung asked as she moved closer to me.

"Yeah," I said, unable to tear my eyes from the street.

Although I was responding to Hyojung, all my senses were focused on the street. Trying to hear something. That's when I heard it, a crashing sound.

Without waiting for Hyojung or even explaining the situation to Hyojung, I immediately went down the street, looking down all the alleyways lining the streets to find the source of the sound. I could hear Hyojung calling my name, but for some reason, I had a really bad feeling. It was something I couldn't ignore.

I stopped short when I saw that in one of the alleyways, two men were stomping down on a Hybrid. The Hybrid was curled up into a fetal position, using his arms to cover his head. 

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" I exclaimed.

The two men stopped midway of their beating and turned to look at me. One of them had a scar on his cheek and the other was bearded. Both of them wore a red hat with a strange symbol in the middle of it. The lower case Greek alphabet 'alpha' (α) was embroidered in white, inside a black triangle.

"What's a cute little girl like you doing in the alleyway?" The man with the scar asked me condescendingly.

"Y/N-ah, what the-" Hyojung began, but she froze when she saw the sight that I was seeing.