Chapter 17

Butterfly
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Something was about to happen.

Chou didn't know why she knew. Maybe it was the feeling in the air, maybe it was the way the boys were nervously looking around.

"Jungkook!" she called out when she saw him quickly pass by her cell.

He came back. "Yeah?"

"What's going on?" she asked.

He nervously combed his hair with his hands. "You feel it too? Like something bad's about to happen?"

She nodded. "You don't know?"

He shook his head. "I don't. All I know is it feels like something's wrong."

Chou's spirits weren't lifted by this new information. "Where is everyone? Is somebody doing something strange?"

Jungkook laughed, out of all things. "What, butterfly? Don't you trust us freaks?"

Chou glared at him. He stopped laughing. "O-kay, then. Don't take it personally..." he muttered.

He raised his voice back to normal level. "Jin went back to his normal state of never leaving his cell and not socializing with anyone. Hopi is doing... whatever the hell he's doing, Yoongi is outside the block doing some sort of therapy- which I bet is just going great, he hates that nurse, Namjoon is bored without Yoongi to bother, Jimin is obsessively drawing a girl, probably his sister, on the walls of his cell, V is brutally destroying an apple that has a face with his nails and teeth, and I'm talking to you. So nothing is really out of the ordinary, it just feels that way."

Chou stared at him, confused about how the boy knew so much.

"What?" he asked. "I'm bored. I've walked around this block a few times today."

He shook his head and walked away from her cell. "Know what's weird?" he called over this shoulder. "I kinda miss everything being wrong... it was at least interesting."

Chou had to agree.

Eventually, she grew tired of just sitting in her cell and started walking around the block, running her left hand across the wall. The rough material burned her hand after a while, but it was strangely reassuring to have the feeling of the concrete keeping her. It was as if she was protected from the outside world, even though she knew the real dangers were just feet away from her with no concrete wall separating them. That was until the concrete turned into cold metal doors.

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hikari0415 #1
Chapter 21: My third time reading the whole thing again and it still blows me away. Beautiful. ?
halfprince #2
Chapter 21: what a great and beautiful story!!! the plot twist is incredible unexpected! Although it was short but it was very satisfied....^^ thumb up!
marilyn01 #3
Chapter 21: Opened my eyes to something great. Thanks!
restless_maknae #4
Chapter 21: Oh wow! That was such an impressive story with so many twists! Especially the ending got me like wow because I definitely didn't see that coming. It was the best kind of creepy and all of their crimes and disorders were so well-thought and connected to their MV theories, I really loved that! I read your story in one-sitting because I was just too curious to read until the very end. I totally loved that you used the butterfly symbols in such different ways like on the wall in the institute, when Chou was waking up from her coma and even her name meant butterfly. It was really good.
I would like to thank you for raising awareness for mental illnesses, as one who's struggling with one, I'm always happy when someone doesn't romanticise them. Thank you so much for sharing this story with us! It was an outstanding read. <3
lionroars #5
Chapter 21: Damnnn, I remember subscribing to this a while ago and i finally found some time to read it all in one go! It's actually really good! At first I was a bit doubtful about how you portrayed some of the mental illnesses, but im glad i stuck through it because this has been one hell of a ride! Btw, As jungkook was recounting of everyone's crimes, i was like 'this sounds familiar' and realised you were inspired by one of their mvs hahaha (as you can see i havent kept up with bts for a while), but anyway, back to the story.
It's really sad how these 'patients' were treated; i loved how every chapter was short but there was a lot of content, which, in my opinion, is so much better than a really long chapter where nothing is happening lol. The story is quite simple, but you've really managed to pull the emotions of your readers in the right places like omg, especially near the end.
One thing i didn't really like, is the alternate ending (it is an alternate ending, right?) because it's basically telling me that everything was just a dream, so it feels like my emotions were toyed with for nothing. Although it was a plot twist, i think im going to pretend that the story ended on its first epilogue; im not by any means the person who loves sad endings, but felt it was the most appropriate compared to the second. BUT, i did appreciate about the awareness for mental illness you were trying to portray; it did hit home a little, but thats another story to tell haha. It's been a while since ive read something angsty so im just a bit of a wreck right now; this angst is too overehelming for me to handle! Haha
ButtercupRainbowdanz #6
Chapter 21: the last part is ing creepy but the whole story is amazing like why. y u do dis.





wondering if you can come up with another sequel XD
Klunicorn-_- #7
Chapter 21: AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH STOP KILLING ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN
IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO KILL SOMEONE THIS MANY TIMES WITH WORDS????????
ahhhhhhhhhh I have no more energy left to do anything

Ok but seriously that was such a plot twist, where did that even come from? I'm trying to think of how you're thinking all this up in that brain of yours but at the same time Chou's brain is doing all that crazy "you won't understand what I truly am now but when you do and I tell you what I am, you'll feel rather stupid because your brain can't do this" thingamajig with the BTS members in her head and then the coma thing and how she was in a car accident which was also linked to Tae's incident AND JUST EVERYTHING IN GENERAL.

SERIOUSLY MIND IS EXPLODING INTO MILLIONS OF TINY USELESS THINGS RIGHT NOW

I am so done with you and your writing and this story and myself but I can't even pull myself away because IT'S TOO DAMN GOOD

I AM BINGING ON ALL YOUR STORIES NOW AND NO ONE WILL STOP ME
romione_han #8
Chapter 21: This stories is too damn Unrealistically BEAUTIFUL! Im a mess. An official mess. Authornim u should take action.
hikari0415 #9
Chapter 21: Damn beautiful. This just staright out penetrated me.
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