35: Jimin

I entered her room, but it was empty. I turned around and made my way over towards the dining room. All of my brothers were seated around the table, she's nowhere to be seen. "Have either of you seen, Zoey?" I asked hopefully. They looked at me confusion painting their complexions. "Are you sure that she's not still in her room? We have yet to see her this morning," Tae asked. I gave a loud irritated sigh. "I just came from there," I confirmed. "Maybe she got tired of seeing your face and went for a walk," Yoongi's response were harsh. It hurts. I left without say a word and walked around. I searched everywhere. High and low, to no avail. Every little nook and cranny that I could think about were scanned thoughtfully. Where could she have possibly gone? This isn't like her, not at all. An uncomfortable feeling surged through me. What if something happened to her? I turned on my heals and went back to my brothers. "I can't find her anywhere. Something seems off." Dread lays thickly in the air. They all offered to help me. For a second time around we searched all over, with no luck. I even asked Eros to search for her from higher ground. My courage sunk into my shoes, when he returned with nothing but doubt. It's like she vanished from the face of the earth. Nothing. Nada. Where is she?

Tae rushes past us and followed behind him. We entered the library. What is he doing? We don't have time to relax, I wanted to remind him so badly when I saw a few pages of paper on his hands. To my surprise he chanted the old familiar piece. Like earlier this week the earth shook beneath us. It doesn't bother as much as it had before. Luekosia appeared before us. She scanned the room and asked worriedly, "What's wrong?" I inhaled deeply. "She's gone. We can't find her!" I spat to my dismay. Horror struck her face. Does she know something that we don't know? She paced up and down in the room. "This is bad," she spat uncontrollably. Before I got a chance to ask her about, she concluded: "I was afraid of this. They must have found her. My sisters must have taken her hostage." I inhaled sharply. That doesn't sound good. "Why?" Jk asked an one word question. I don't want to hear to answer to that question, but it's not like I could block it out. "Their going to offer her to the waves at the next blue moon, to lift the Sirens' curse forever." My heart shattered into billions of pieces. She informed us that we have about sixty hours left until the next blue moon appears. We have to save her.

My heart's shattered. Tears threatening to fall. Luekosia gave me a kind smile and said reassuringly, "They can't lay a finger on her, until the blue moon appeared." Seven questioning expressions, including mine, stared at her. What could she possibly be meaning by that? "Touching her would internally hurt them. It would feel like their blood had turned into lava." Somehow her statement had me a little bit at ease, but not completely satisfied. We're running against the clock. I would much like to see her, before life close in around me. At midnight, life as I know it would end. We picked books up. Served the internet. Reading and searching for some kind of solution to our current problem. There has to be a way to save her. Luekosia helped, but still we came out empty handed. The hours ticking by. The end is getting closer and closer. I am going to miss my brothers. I was selfish, I should have allowed them to kiss her. I should have thought about mankind. Now I'm taking away their one true promise. The river of colors that appears after a downpour. Without me the rainbow would surely vanish from existence. In a few more minutes she will only be an illusion of my heart. I hope that she could at least remember our moments together. There I go being selfish again, recalling it would most likely cause her heartache. A lonely kind of pain that I don't want to bestow upon her. Thank you for loving me, Zoey McClare, I thought as I closed my eyes.