An Indescribable Feeling

Building Up Confidence

Lunch passed by with the same controlled chaos that BTS seemed to do everything. The clear-up was just as organised, showing the teamwork they had built up over the past ten years. This was one of those moments where Anna felt like an outsider. They all had their roles. After years of going away together, they worked in sync, while Anna hesitated, unsure what to do. However, before she knew it everything was taken care of before she even had a chance to help.

The afternoon was spent with everyone doing their own thing. Seeing Anna dithering about awkwardly by herself, Hoseok grabbed her hand and led her to the living room where he had set up the craft kits that he had brought with him.

Anna enjoyed their bonding time. She was reminded of him making the glider in In The Soop, and how he struggled and got confused by the instructions. As they worked, she glanced over at Hobi and had the urge to help him. She even started to reach out but stopped herself. She didn't know if he would want her help, and she didn't want to come across as overbearing or make him believe that she thought he couldn't do it by himself. She would wait and see if he asked for help.

"How do you do this?!"

Anna glanced over again at Hobi who had thrown his hands up in the air in frustration. When he looked over and saw that she was calmly and proficiently making her way through the project, his eyes widened.

"Wow Anna! You are so good! Can you help me please?"

With Anna helping Hoseok they both managed to finish their activity before dinner time. When Jin came round asking for someone to help him with dinner, Anna volunteered since she hadn't helped at all at lunch.

It seemed to have become their tradition to have Korean English lessons while they cooked. Anna and Jin had a lot of fun while they worked. Jin did his best to make Anna laugh by making fun of his own pronunciations. It made him happy to see her laughing. He knew she had been on a rollercoaster these past few weeks and he hoped a week away here would help her catch her breath.

After dinner, they decided they would play card games. While Hoseok and Taehyung handled the washing up, Jimin and Jungkook chose to set up the karaoke machine. Anna sat next to Namjoon in the living, the leader had started to read his book until he saw what the younger boys were planning on doing. She laughed remembering how Namjoon had trouble finding a quiet place to read his book the last time he was here.

Although she didn't recognise any of the songs they sang, Anna still had fun watching her soulmates. Whenever she used to watch them on screen, she was constantly amazed at how they always seemed to have fun. It didn't matter where they were or what they were doing, they knew how to enjoy themselves and she envied that. Anna on the other hand was pretty sure she didn't know how to have fun.

Meanwhile, Jungkook had noticed that Anna hadn't been singing along.

"What song Anna know?"

"Umm, apart from BTS my K-pop knowledge is rather limited."

"Who else do you listen to?"

"ATEEZ, NCT 127, BLACKPINK, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, ENHYPEN, UNIQ and EXO, and a few other odd songs from k-dramas."

Seeing Jimin looking through the song list Anna started to panic.

"But none of them well enough to sing karaoke!"

"No! Anna good singer!"

Before Anna could argue with the maknae, Namjoon cut in.

"We heard you in the car this morning, Anna. We know how good you are."

"Kook, if you convince her to sing a song in Korean, I will give you one wish?"

"Wish? Really, Yoongi-Hyung? Why?"

"She's cute when she speaks Korean."

Yoongi mumbled the answer under his breath so only Jin who was sitting next to him heard it. The oldest member immediately burst out laughing and the rapper just stared at Jin with a blank expression, along with the rest of the room.

"You're the cute one Yoongi."

Anna's attention was brought away from her two oldest soulmates when Jimin held a microphone in front of her.

"I choose song. Anna sing."

"But..."

"No buts. Up you get."

As Namjoon helped her out of her seat, Anna felt like she was having an out-of-body experience. She was freaking out. All she could imagine was this going very badly, and she didn't even know which song Jimin had chosen.

Objectively, there was no reason for her to get all worked up. It was only in front of her soulmates after all. However, just because they were her soulmates didn't mean she was comfortable revealing everything to them. Singing meant something very special to Anna.

Standing at the front of the room, Anna fidgeted with the microphone in her hands while she waited for the music to start. When it did, she was pleasantly surprised. She looked at Jimin who beamed up at her from where he was sitting on the floor and then at Jungkook who smiled and nodded at her encouragingly before singing the intro.

"Cause I'm in the stars tonight. So, watch me bring the fire and set the night alight."

She started singing and Jungkook faded out after a few lines, except for adding some ad-lib. She was timid at first, but by the time she had finished Namjoon's part she was feeling more confident. When it got to the chorus, Jimin stood up and he and Jungkook started dancing. Anna didn't manage to pluck up enough courage to join in with the dancing as well and none of her soulmates pressed her to either.

Just as the song finished, Hoseok and Taehyung returned from doing the washing up at the upper house.

"Anna is singing?!"

"Yes, you just missed it! She sang Dynamite!"

"What? No! Anna sing again!"

"I thought we were going to play cards!"

"That's right. You can convince Anna to sing for you another night. We said we would play cards tonight."

Ignoring Taehyung's pout the others set up Uno since Anna knew how to play that one. As the evening continued, it was like a replay of Bon Voyage season four. Lots of singing, silly suspense, and a confused Taehyung. Having never played with so many people before, Anna had never participated in a game which went on for so long.

Due to her late night with Yoongi and then the excitement this morning, Anna was already tired. After she had yawned for the tenth time her soulmates told her to go to bed. It didn't take much to convince her since she was almost falling asleep where she sat anyway.

The game continued for a while longer, but when it finally finished, Yoongi announced that he was heading to bed. After all, he had been up late last night too.

"Hyung? What happened last night? We never got the full story. We just woke up with a completed soulmate bond."

"I got home late from the studio and Anna was in the living room. She was worried about the bond. So, I told her that it didn't matter and then we completed the bond."

"You told her it didn't matter?"

"That whatever happened I would choose her."

Yoongi wasn't one for beating around the bush, but despite being used to his blunt honesty the rest of the members were surprised by his words.

"Aww! Our Yoongi can be such a romantic!"

"But then Anna fainted!"

"What!"

"Don't alarm them Tae. She was fine. They woke me, I checked on her and then we put her to bed."

"Speaking of bed, goodnight you lot."

"Love you too Yoongi!"

"Hope you like Anna's pyjamas!"

Yoongi paused at Jimin's words and turned back to see the younger boy giggling to himself. Namjoon also looked at the dancer curiously.

"What's funny Jimin?"

"What did you do now?"