Jiwon snatched the paper out of Hani's hand.
"Where are we?" she asked.
"That's what we don't know Ms fancy pants," Hani pointed out. "Maybe if you would've brought out this energy before, it would've been helpful."
"So you're blaming ๐ฎ๐ฆ for this," Jiwon turned towards Hani.
"Never said that," Hani said snatching the map out of Jiwon's hand again.
"You two were the ones holding the map throughout the whole thing and you're blaming me for this?!" Jiwon's voice was now raised.
"Guy's, stop it!" Soomin called. Minji was already separating the two.
"I never blamed you for anything, I just wanted you to be more part of the team instead of complaining about everything," Hani yelled as Soomin stood in front of her trying to block her view.
"Hani stop! Please!" Soomin pleaded. She sat her down by a tree and calmed her. Minji seemed to have calmed Jiwon down.
Soomin sat with Hani trying to figure out which route to take. After they had decided they came back together. Although there was an awkward tension between the two, they all continued with the path in peace.
"I'm hungry," Minji complained from behind. Soomin dug into her jacket pocket and handed her a muesli bar that she had saved for later. "That's all I've got for you love."
"Thanks, it'll be enough."
๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ'๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฉ
They continued walking.
"Guy's look," Soomin called out, everyone looked where she was pointing to. It was the camp. They had found it!
"Ahh Thank God!!" Jiwon said and started to run towards it as if all her energy had revived. They all happily ran towards the camp, but to their alarm, things weren't right.
"This isn't our camp," Hani said slowly. There was a moment of silence as the girls observed the camp. The tents weren't in their right positions.
"Check for people," Jiwon ordered and everyone did, but they found no one.
"Who's could this be?" Soomin asked.
"Another team who's camping?" Minji shrugged.
Soomin gave her a ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด-๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ-๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ-๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ-๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด look and she just smiled in return.
"Just take whatever you find and let's go," Jiwon said.
"But that's stealing," Minji mentioned. "What if they're gonna come back."
"I'm sure they won't mind and I'm hungry, so either you can enjoy some food now or you can starve," Jiwon said as she opened a box that was full of cupcakes.
"Who brings cupcakes to camp?" Jiwon muttered. Hani heard her and rolled her eyes. '๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ'๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ถ๐ฑ๐ค๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด,' she thought. Hani wasn't planning on eating, especially when Minji had called it '๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ'. Minji sat beside her, while Soomin looked at the map.
๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ท๐ถ'๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฉ
"What are you guys doing?!"
Minji turned to see a group of people standing there confused at their presence. Everyone was on their feet now.
"Oh, Hi," Minji said taking a step forward and immediately stepping back when one of the guys moved forward with a knife clenched in his hand.
"Would you like an introduction..or what?" Minji said, trying to sound as nice as she could, even though her words weren't that nice. The boy stared at her with narrowed eyes.
"Please," he had said.
'๐๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ,' she thought.
"I'm Minji, this is Soomin, Hani and Jiwon," Minji stopped. "Your turn."
"I'm Jin, that's Hoseok, Jimin, Ava, Kate and Emily," he said.
"What're you doing at our camp?" Kate spoke.
"Oh, we seemed to have stumbled upon it by accident, we mean no harm, we've just lost our way around and we're hungry," Soomin took over, glancing sternly at Jiwon who was still holding the box of cupcakes, she got the hint and immediately put it down.
"Guess you've stumbled to the wrong place, we're lost too," Kate said as she walked over picking up a backpack and walked over to Jiwon and picked up the box and shoved it in her bag. The rest were close behind. They all picked up their backpacks.
"We're moving to a clearing up ahead, where we might be able to start a fire," Jin said.
They all stood aside watching as they packed up. Once they were done, Jin led the way with Kate, Ava and Emily behind him.
"Ladies."
Minji looked up to see Hoseok gesturing for them to move forward and they did.
They all walked towards what Jin had called a clearing. The area was filled with trees, but the surface was smooth. The three tents were once again put up, each one next to a tree.
The group sat together to decide how the tents would be shared. Because there were a lot more girls than the boy, the girls split into two tents and the three guys got one to share.
Jiwon, Hani, Minji and Soomin were in one tent while Ava, Emily and Kate were another, leaving the boys to occupy the final tent. Once that was decided and the flames were burning they sat by it while the food was being warmed up. The food was soon handed out to everyone.
Minji saw as Ava got up and disappeared into a tent. When she came back, Jin was following. Once they had all finished eating, Jin ordered them to go to their tents and they all did. Once they were inside everyone easily drifted off. After a long hike, of course, they were exhausted. But to Minji's disappointment, she was unable to sleep immediately like the others.
Suddenly she heard rustling outside. She stared at nothing for a moment before she unzipped the tent, letting the cool air burst in.
In the distance, she saw Jin sitting near the campfire which was about to burn out if more wood wasn't added. She watched as he realised, got up and added a little more.
Minji decided to talk to this guy. She got out of the tent and walked towards him. Suddenly, she heard a twig snap under her feet. She looked down and when she was looking up again, Jin was looking back. She smiled sheepishly, but Jin turned back. She sighed and sat down leaving a distance between them.
*******
๐๐ถ๐ป'๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฉ
She came and sat next to him.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"Shouldn't you be asleep by now?"Jin asked completely ignoring her question.
"I can't sleep."
He let out a deep sigh
"Is everything ok?" She asked again.
He was about to say something but Minji cut him off. "Look i'm a stranger to you so you don't have to tell me what's wrong, you just seem...stressed."
He looked down.
"How long have you guys been lost?" Minji asked.
He pondered if he should tell her how long they were stuck but he didn't want to lie, he didn't know how long she had been stuck here for so he chose for the truth.
"Four to five days probably."
"WHAT?!" she yelled, then quickly clasped a hand over her mouth. Jin's eyes were wide.
'๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ? ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐!?!' He thought.
"Keep it down, young lady."
"Sorry, but you guys have been stranded out here for about five days, this is bad! Are we ever gonna get out? I'm sure we're not that deep in....." she continued.
Jin tried to think of her name.
'๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ? ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ช? ๐ฏ๐ฐ. ๐๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ '๐'...๐๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ, ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฐ? ๐ฏ๐ฐ. ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ? ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ต.'
"Minji!!!" he spilled out which immediately got her attention. She was staring at him now, confusion written all over it.
Jin looked around nervously
"uhh Calm down," Jin reassured. "We'll get out."
"What if we don't? What if we can't get out?"
'๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ.'
"We'll get out!" he said firmly. "We can, okay?"
She hesitated but nodded at him.
"Don't worry, we're a team, we'll protect each other and get out together."
'๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต!!!'
Jin had not planned to say that but it seemed to make her smile so he let it be.
'๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ. ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐!!' He quickly ignored that thought.
"Ok, now go back to sleep," he told her and she did.
Jin was more worried now. He had told Minji they could get out so confidently he didn't know if that was true. If it was, they would've been out of here by now. It was as if she had hope that he could get her out and he was worried he'd let her down.