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"Fucking dumbass." I cuss out the author, "Waited four whole fucking months to start updating this book again." I cross my arms.

"At least she didn't ditch us completely, she was just busy with college and that stupid Panther book that my friend Jungkook is staring in." He rolls his eyes, sharpening his knife on the sharpening board that's placed on the kitchen counter, "Okay, it's time."

"Time? For what?" I raise a brow.

He turns to me and scoffs, "Did you really forget? Four months isn't that long."

"Yeah, it fucking is. I can't remember the last chapter for shit." I run a hand through my hair, irritated.

"The hide and seek training game. You hide, I seek. Winner gets to do whatever he or she wants to the other." Yoongi stalks up to me with a smirk.

He drags the blunt end of his knife's black handle across the scar on my face - the line that he had previously cut into my eyebrow and part of my eye. The scar is halfway healed somehow even though it would take months in the real world for it to fully but this is Wattpad - anything goes.

"Now go." He grips my forearm, pulling me off of the kitchen island roughly and giving me a shove towards the doors, "You have... " He looks to his wrist at his watch, "Twenty minutes to hide. This place is huge and even more huge in the backyard so I'll be so kind as to give you enough time to explore. I will then give myself an hour to find you and I must within that time or else I lose."

I sigh in relief.

Piece of fucking cake, baby

"But remember," He deviously grins, "If you lose, I can do anything to you. I would be scared if I were you." He slowly raises the sharp tip of his knife to his pink tongue, licking it.

A visible red starts to form on a small line on his tongue and I take in a deep breath, understanding that this man is still pretty much a psycho... but so am I which is the scary part because I can't push my luck too far and girlboss too close to the sun this time around like I usually do.

Or should I 😏

I smack myself hard across my right cheek, rushing out of the huge kitchen.

Even a girlboss should know her limits

I decide to sprint full force as nervousness somewhat begins setting in.

"No way can he win this. If I win, that means I can do something funny or even embarrassing to him to get a chuckle out of this stressful shit. He did say winner can do anything so I might as well go all out." I mumble to myself as I decide what bright embarrassing color I can dye his hair as a punishment for him losing or maybe I could design an embarrassing tattoo for him to get.

Wait

I'm out here wanting to dye his hair as a punishment while that fucker probably wants to cut me up into chunks if he wins-

I get to the very end of the long ass hallway finally and quietly open the tall black door. I look around at the huge game room, a glow-in-the-dark bowling ally lighting up the room while various old game machines line the walls.

"Damn - okay, I see you." I nod my head, acknowledging just how expensive his home is.

I go back to focusing on finding a hiding spot and run through to the next door I see.

"Oh, fuck." I cough out as a gust of chilly night wind whips my face as I walk outside into the backyard.

Or rather, forest.

"Oh, hell no." I shake my head at the sight of the garden that also has a maze made out of perfectly trimmed bushes, the path getting darker until it's pitch black the further the pathway leads into it, "Horror movie tings."💅🏻 ✨

I dodge the sketchy garden, the maze being one of the places he'll definitely check. I walk back inside and spot large, red glowing numbers on the wall opposite of me. The time is currently showing that I've wasted eight whole minutes.

🤕

"Think, Y/n, think." I sigh, rubbing my temples, "If I were Yoongi, where would I look for me." I contemplate, not wanting to run all over the mansion exploring and end up wasting all of my time.

If I were him, I'd check under the bed, in all rooms down that hall, in front of the house, in the garden and maze...

I try to think harder, knowing that there has to be a place that'll almost guarantee my win. Some place where I won't have to worry about him looking for me so soon at.

I stare at the clock. Five more minutes have passed and now only seven remain.

Think

Just think...

I shut my eyes, calming myself down since I would absolutely hate to lose this to him from lack of focus. It's a chance to prove myself to someone who's already so trained and precise at what he does. I just need to hide in a spot where he'd least expect to find me.

That's it-

"Oh my God." My eyes shoot open, a hand slapping my forehead at my realization, "Yoongi wouldn't expect me to be in the same spot, right where I started."

And then I'm off, five minutes left of my time as I carefully race out of the game room and down the hall. The sound of my feet can't be heard thankfully but the sound of my accelerating heart rate beats in my ears as I try my hardest to make it back to the kitchen in time. This plan is perfect, this spot is fool proof but it'll only work if I can sneak in and he leaves asap.

I can only hope that this works out because who would expect the hider to hide in the exact spot they started at?

I finally make it to the doors of the kitchen and slowly peak through the tiny crack between the two doors. Yoongi is turned around, staring down at his watch and the clock on the wall above him shows one minutes starting to immediately count down.

"One minute... " Yoongi mumbles to himself and I gulp.

I take a deep breath and slowly start to push the door open, remembering that all of his doors have been very quiet when opening them and I can only pray that it won't squeak.

50... 49... 48...

I hold my breath while my eyes stay trained on his figure and clock all while I count down the remaining seconds of the last minute so that I get a better knowing of how long I have left. My heart is practically pounding in my ears and I worry that he can hear it too. I slip my body in through the small opening once the door is opened enough.

30... 29... 28...

I slowly shut the door within ten seconds and I immediately get low, softly and slowly stepping while ducked down behind the opposite side of the island, the sound of him scratching his head coming from the other side. I take a few steps until I'm in the very middle, just like how he is on the other side so I can move to either end depending on the way he leaves the room. I move a bit closer towards the end to my left since he'll most likely leave through the door I just came through.

10... 9... 8...

I take a slow, deep breath in and hold it for the remaining seconds as I wait to hear him move.

3... 2... 1...

He immediately begins walking towards the end of the island that's to my right, just like how I expected him to do. I match his steps but take larger ones to move faster while very crouched down and by the time he reaches the end of the island where he would've seen me, I reach the opposite end and am out of sight. He pauses momentarily, the silence too eerie as he's most likely scanning the room. Footsteps then resume and the door opens and shuts as he leaves to find me in another part of the mansion.

I keep quiet and slowly peek my head out from the side to make sure he really left and when I see he's gone, I sigh out and feel a weight leave off of my chest and the nervousness eases up. I stand up cautiously, taking a look around once before stepping to my left and forward to the spot where he was just standing, between the counter and island where I had started at earlier.

I take a seat carefully on the cold floor and make myself as small and comfortable as possible against the side of the island, preparing for the long hour wait I have to endure.

"Check mate." I smirk, seeing how Yoongi is now my pawn in this game since he made one wrong move by not checking this room fully before he left.

It's okay though, I wouldn't have expected me to hide here either.
















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seriously, thank you everyone for waiting for me to come back to this book. for those who didn't know, i only worked on my book panther for four months since i was in college and busy as fuck but now it's winter break and i can pick this book up again!

i'm grateful for those who stuck around! also, this book will be around 23-25 chapters total :)

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