like rain in the sunshine

Part 1

“There is a motorway service coming, we should take a break.” Rain said and gestured to a sign on the side of the motorway. Her best friend Brooke was driving for hours now and could easily need a break. They needed to get some fresh air as well.  The two girls were doing a girls road trip to Sapri in Italy and were very excited about it. They were now shortly after Naples and very close to their final destination.

 

When de car stopped on the motorway service station, Rain opened the door and went outside, stretching and moving, taking in the fresh air. Brooke followed her.

“Ahhh, the sun is awesome.” She said and did a little bit of photosynthesis because, why not.

“Isn’t it? I can’t wait to jump into the sea once we are at the beach!”

It was late summer but still enough warm to go into the water. Luckily it was not as hot as Rain had feared since she did not like hot weather at all. She got dizzy and nauseous when it was too hot. In fact, she preferred a colder surroundings but Brooke wanted to go to Italy very badly.

“Lets buy some snacks while we are here. I could use some sugar.”

 

They went  to the restroom first und bought snacks after. Probably too much but the store had cute yummi-gummies and different chips flavors than they had in Switzerland where Rain and Brooke lived. So, arms full with snacks, they went back to the car. But Rain carried to many snacks and a pack started to drop, she wanted to catch it and didn’t look where she was going and when she went trough the door she bumped right into a person. All the snacks fell to the floor.

“Ah.” Rain went down to collect the items.

“Sorry. Is everything alright?” asked the person she walked into in broken English and started to help her collect the sweets. The deep and smooth voice sounded familiar somehow and had an accent to it that Rain couldn’t quite make out but she also didn’t give it much thoughts since she only focused on quickly putting the snacks together so she wouldn’t make a traffic on the entering of the building.

“Rain…”

“Yeah, I’m sorry too. I wasn’t looking.” Rain answered without looking up to the stranger.

“Rain..!”

“Here, you missed one.”

“Thanks.” She gripped the last package that the stranger was giving her.

“Rain..”

“What is Brooke?” She finally addressed her friend who didn’t stop pocking her shoulder and when she looked up her eyes met the strangers eyes and her heart skipped just a beat.

The guy was wearing a black facemask and a cap that was covering his face as well but she most definitely knew those eyes! Rain blinked. Once, twice. She gulped. Heat went straight into her cheeks and her heart hammered in her chest so hart and loud, she was sure everybody could hear it. Something flickered trough the young man’s eyes. Rain stayed up but her legs were kinda gummie like all the gummies she held in her arms. The Guy was following her and she finally saw that there were two other young men standing next to him. Both with facemasks and caps that were covering their faces. But apparently not good enough then as Rain quickly glanced at Brooke, she saw that er friend was staring at the guys. She had recognized them too! They were none other than Namjoon, Jimin and Yoongi from BTS!

Rain couldn’t think. Her heart was about to explode, her mouth dry. Was this a dream? Some kind of joke? This couldn’t be real, couldn’t it?

“Are you B-“ started Brooke who apparently had found her voice again.

“Shh.” Interrupted Namjoon the girl putting a finger in front of his mask. The young men were nervously looking around but the building was kinda empty in the late afternoon. “Don’t say it.” he said. His voice deep and whispering. “Please.” He added.

Rain and Brooke still not really recovered from what’s happening just nodded slowly. They all just stood there and were looking at each other. Rain couldn’t take her eyes off Yoongi. He just looked even more stunning in real life. She wondered how Brooke could look so cool, while she was nervous as hell and felt the adrenalin rush through her veins the blood rustling in her ears and making her face red.

Finally Jimin said something in Korean to his friends. Rain didn’t understand it, whether the question from Jimin nor the answers from Yoongi and Namjoon since she did not speak Korean. They glanced at the girls while discussing and it sounded very sincere. Yoongi got his phone out of his pocket and called someone. Finally Namjoon addressed them again.

“You can’t tell anybody that you saw us.”

“We won’t!” agreed both quickly, since they did understand that the fact that BTS was incognito in Italy would cause a lot of trouble. The boys looked uncertain.

Brooke, the bolder of the two friends, cleared her throat.

“We won’t tell anybody, we promise!! But.. but could we take at least a picture with you?”

“This is a serious matter.” Pointed Namjoon and looked not happy.

“It is, we understand. But since you really are… you know… it would be nice.” Brooke didn’t let it go.

Jimin again said something to Namjoon and looked then to the girls.

“You can have one picture but you really have to promise not to tell anyone. Especially not in the internet!” He held out his hand for a phone to take a selfie. Rain dropped the snacks she was still holding and took her phone which she then gave to Jimin. Her hands trembling and sweaty. Jimin and Namjoon stood next to the girl and posed for a Selfie. It felt surreal. Jimin even did put an arm around Brooke who looked very pleased and not red at all. Rain envied her a bit since she knew that her face was all tomato red and she tried to put on a nice smile and hoped it wouldn’t look like a gargoyle grin in the selfie. She even managed to make a peace sign.

Right when they were about to take the selfie, Yoongi came back from his phone call. He said something in Korean that sounded very unbelievably and a little bit angry as he saw them posing for a selfie. Jimin just took his arm and put him into the group, before he could say something or could complain. He stumbled into Rain who tried to act calm and normal and was failing very hard. Jimin took the selfie quickly and handed the phone back to Rain who almost let it drop because she was so nervous. Ahhhhh!

“Here it is. You’re welcome.” He said with a smirk to Brooke, which she couldn’t see but feel. “It was nice to meet you.”

“T-thank you.” Stammered Rain and Brooke and they took their belongings aka snacks and they were about to leave, still not really themselves but before they could go, Yoongi griped Rains wrist.

“Wait!”

All were looking at Yoongi in confusion.  They had agreed to keep silent over the topic and also got a selfie. What else could there be? Rains mind was spinning.

“They told me not to let them go.” Yoongi said in English to his friends but kept looking at Rain.

“Who.. what?” Brooke shouted.

“The Entertainment. I called them. They say you have to sign a contract for keeping silent.”

He explains, still holding on to Rains wrist. She was very aware of it. His long and delicate fingers that were barely touching her skin. Barely holding onto it but still holding it. A shiver run trough her spine.

“What does this mean?” Brooke and Namjoon said unisono.

“It means, that they will join us as long as it takes to get the contract and sign it. They were very specific on not letting them go.”

“So they have to come with us? But we are on Holidays!” Jimin whines.

“Are you kidnapping us? We told you, we won’t tell anybody.”

“No, what are you talking about? This is not kidnapping. You just have to stay with us until we have those papers.” Yoongi said in a calm tone but you could hear that it was getting on his nerves. He definitely was not in the mood for trouble.

“But how long will this take..?” asked Rain. Yoongi looked at her and it was as if he suddenly realized that he was still holding her. He let go of her wrist slowly. Apologetically. Rain immediately missed his touch.

“I guess a few hours? They will put on one asap and then send it to us.”

“So we will just wait here. With you.”

“Yes.”

They looked at each other. Rain felt her cheeks burning and bit her bottom lip nervously. Yoongis eyes dropped to her lips but he raised his gaze so quickly that Rain wasn’t even sure it happened at all.

“Okay. Great. So were do we wait?” Brooke interrupted without intention.

“We can wait with the others outside by the picknick table?” suggested Jimin with a light mood as if the situation didn’t affect him much once he had understood that this was merely a short intermission.

“Wait? The others are here too?” Rain and Brooke squeaked in high voices.

Namjoon sighed. “What have we brought us into? Lets go then.” He turned and walked out. The girls looked at each other while following Namjoon. Jimin and Yoongi cam after them.

 

Brook started to grin and Rain did the same. Both couldn’t hold it back anymore.

“Is this real?” whispered Rain. “Did we really met BTS?”

“I know, I can’t believe it myself! This sounds like a really bad Fanfiction.”

They both laughed.

“What are you talking about?” joined Jimin who couldn’t understand them, since they have been talking in German.

“I just said, that this feels like a Fanfiction.”

“I guess it does. At least for you.” Jimin agreed after he gave it a quick thought. “So you both are ARMY?”

“Yeah, kinda.”

“Kinda? How can you kinda be ARMY? Even you are ARMY or you are not.” Namjoon asked while Jimin laughed.

“In this case… we are ARMY.” Admitted Rain. “But it feels weird to tell your Idol that you joined their Fanclub.”

“It also feels weird for us.” Said Yoongi from behind them.

“It does?”

“Mhm.”

“Yoongi’s right. It’s because you never know what the Fans know or what they will do since Social media sometimes goes really crazy.”

“That’s true. But neither Rain nor I are crazy.” Brook told Jimin who then looked at Rain.

“Your name is Rain? Like the weather? Really?”

“Yeah.” Rain was used to people making fun of her name so she prepared for some lame jokes.

“It’s beautiful.”

Rain shot a glance at Yoongi who was now walking beside her and tried to hide her surprise.

“Uhm.. thank you.” She murmured irritated.

 

They were walking over the parking spot to the picknick tables on which they saw the other members sitting. All in disguise with facemask and hats but clearly members of BTS.

“And what’s your name?” Jimin asked Brooke.

“It’s Brook. Not as special as Rains.”

“I think it’s really cool too.” Said Jimin. “I like that you both have uhm.. nature inspired names.”

“Heyyy!” J-Hope joined them loudly asking something in Korean.

“This are Brooke and Rain!! Our new friends for the next couple of hours!!” chirped Jimin in his broken English. The boys looked perplex. Taes eyebrow went up very high as he looked up from his phone.

“Yeah, Jimins right. Yoongi just walked right into them and caused traffic.” Namjoon started to explain.

“Heyy!” Yoongi complained.

“What? You literally jumped into Rain!” Jimin laughed.

“I did not jump into her. I just… might not have paid enough attention and-“

“It was not your fault, I wasn’t looking. Shouldn’t have bought so many snacks.” Rain quickly tried to explain. She laughed nervously and finally put those damn snacks on the table. Jungkook immediately took a pack of chips and opened it. He looked happy to finally get some food.

“Ah, no it totally was my fault.”

“Suddenly it is?”

“Anyway, we do not look as incognito as we thought we are looking and the Management told us to stay with them until we get a contract to sign for them for remain silent.” Namjoon interrupted Jimins teasing and finally explained the situation to the others.

 

Since everything made so much sense, they decided to just wait until the contract arrived via email. They all sat down on the large table under the trees. Jimin and Hobi went back to the store to buy more snacks, since they all would have to stay a little longer. When they came back and everyone had something to eat and drink it went silent on the table. It was indeed a very strange situation. Rain was feeling very uncomfortable and she really wanted to talk to the boys but also didn’t want to be rude or obtrusive.

“So where are you from?” Namjoon tried some small talk.

“We are from Switzerland.” Explained Brooke who was sitting next to Jimin. They boys nodded in approvement and they started to ask the girls questions. What they were doing in Italy and where they were going.” It quickly wasn’t awkward anymore and the conversation went smooth. Jin even made some lame dad jokes and Rain had to laugh so much she choked and Brooke had to give her her coke. Taehyung patting her back lightly and asked if everything was okay. Rain put her head into her hands in embarrassment. Her face once again turning red she just nodded and wanted to dig a hole to hide. This made the others laugh and they started to tell stories about them choking on some food to made Rain feel less embarrassed. It was very nice and also very BTS-like. The time passed but no email arrived. When Jungkooks stomach started to growl Namjoon decided to call the Management. When he came back he looked uncertain.

“What’s it?” Tae asked.

“There are some problems with the contract, and they won’t be able to send it today…”

It was silent on the table because nobody knew what to say.

“Okay, well this is a little problem. What are we gonna do now?” Jin pointed out the obvious.

“I guess you can’t just let us go..?” asked Brooke hopefully.

“No, sorry.” sighted Namjoon.

“Mhh.”

“But it’s getting late and we can’t just stay here.”

“That’s true.”

“So where are we going then?”

“I have an idea.”

“Ah Jimin are you sure you have an idea?” teased Hobi and earned a deadly look from the other boy.

“Why don’t we just take Brooke and Rain with us, just for tonight, and tomorrow when we get the contract, we separate? After all its kinda our fault that they are stuck here.”

“Uhm.. we actually could do this.” Namjoon stated. The boys were nodding in agreement. Brook looked at Rain.

“What do you think?” she asked her friend in German.

“I think it is okay?”

“I think so too. At least it is BTS, so we can trust them and… you know…”

“Shhh Brooke!”

Brooke just laughed.

“What’s so funny?” Jimin asked.

“Ah sorry, we were just discussing what we think about this idea.” Rain explained.

“And apparently we like the idea.” grinned Brooke.

“And what about sleeping? Since we only have a hotel room for us. I won’t be sharing my bed.” Jin asked.

“Oh.” Jimin looked confused. “I haven’t thought about this.”

“We can easily ask the hotel staff if there is another room? It’s just for one night.” Hobi was thinking loud.

“Yes, it won’t be that hard.”

“Or we will stay awake the whole night. Wouldn’t be the first time either.”

“True that.”

“So its settled then?”

Everybody nodded in agreement.

“Will we go with our car? Or do you not trust us?”

“I think for all of us it would be better if someone of us is driving with you?”

“So you don’t trust us.”

“I did put it in nicer words.”

“That’s true. So who will come with us?”

It was silent for a little moment.

“I’ll do it.” Yoongi said and sounded very unbothered.

“I can do it too, if you don’t want.” offered Namjoon.

“No, its fine."

So they split up. Yoongi went with the girls and Jimin and Hobi did join them for company and the others went with their own car.

 

“Do you wanna drive? So that there is no chance for us to escape??” Brooke asked Yoongi and you could tell that she was a little pissed that they didn’t trust them. Yoongi did not get the harsh tone or he ignored it completely and just nodded.

“Do you mind if I will take the passenger seat?” asked Rain when they got to the car. “I get nauseous quickly but I won’t be a help for directions.” They did not mind and so they got into the car. Yoongi adjusted the seat and high while the others settled down. When the motor started the music also went on and mic drop boomed through the car. Rain turned it off in the split of a second. Yoongi  gave Rain a sidelong glance that said more than a thousand words could.

“This is… it is not what it looks like.” Stated Brooke from behind. She sat between Jimin and

J-Hope. “I swear we did not know you were here. We are no stalker fans!”

“You sure?”

“Positiv! Tell them Rain!”

“It is true. This is all a huge coincidence.” Agreed Rain who tried to not avoid Yoongis intense look. It was hard tho. His eyes just were too mesmerizing. And he had put down his facemask when they got into the car and so she could see his whole face and she started to stare so she blinked quickly before it could turn awkward. “It’s just our favorite road trip song. I can show you a ton of clips of us driving and singing mic drop.” She started to take her phone out of her pocket.

“It’s okay.” Yoongi gave in while Hobi shouted that he wanted to see it.

“We do not have time for this. The others are already on the highway.”

“Oh you don’t have to watch it. You can drive. But we would most definitely love to see it.” Joined Jimin and took Rains phone before she could say something.

“No! Wait!” she quickly took it back.

“What’s it? Do you have to hide something? Is your folder full of pictures of us?”  Jimin teased.

Rain opened her mouth because, yes, that was the case.

“And what if?” Brooked helped her friend. “I can show you a clip on my phone instead so we can drive and Rain doesn’t get nauseous.”

 

So while Yoongi drove the car and they left the motorway station and entered the highway the three in the backseats were watching a clip of Brooke and Rain on a road trip singing to mic drop in full mode. The car was filled with the unrecognizing song sung by the two girls. Hobi and Jimin couldn’t pretend to not laugh even as they tried very hard. Hobi even had tears running down his face.

“What are you singing?????? What are those lyrics?” he laughed.

“Ahahahahahahahaha but at least they look very confident!” Jimin giggled.

“Hey, those are your lyrics!” Brooke pointed out. “we just sang what we were hearing. Can you imagine how long it took us to get this?”

“Ahahahahahahahaa. Can we watch it again??” Jimin pleaded.

“Noooooo!!!”  Rain shouted, her face between her hands, cheeks bright red.

“But it’s very cute.”

“I can show you another one if you want?”

“BROOKE?! I thought you were my friend?”

But Brooke didn’t listen and put on another clip on her phone. It was even worse than the one before so that even Yoongi couldn’t help but laugh.

“Ahhhh….” Rain cried. “Here it flies away.. my cool first impression.”

“ This was your cool impression??”

“Just focus on the road, please.”

Yoongi was sideway smiling but actually focused on the road. In the back you could here the tree of them still watching the karaoke video and giggling.

“Ah were are the others?” he asked  after checking the road.

“Uhm… What does the car look like?”

“*insert car lol*”

“okay, I don’t know this car.. what color does it have?”

“You were right when you said you won’t be any help here.” Yoongi said mocking.

“I am sorry. I-“

“Ah! Found them. It’s the blue one over there. Do you see it?”

Rain was searching the highway and finally seeing the big blue car further away.

“Yes, I see it. So at least we are on the right way.”

“I wouldn’t go as far as this. At least we are all on the same road. We will see if it is the correct one. It depends on who is driving there.”

“Great thing that Namjoon can’t drive then.”

Yoongi laughed softly. Rain could feel it all the way down to her stomach were it fluttered softly.

 

Eventually they arrived safely at the hotel they were staying. When they left the car Taehyung cam to them from the building.

“Namjoon is trying to get another room.” He told them and helped with the luggage. They all went to the reception. It was quite an impressing hotel. Very high quality and it looked way too expensive. (in fact, it looked so expensive that it wasn’t even possible that this hotel really existed, so you don’t have to google it!) Brook and Rain just shared a gaze, eyebrows raised.

“Uhm. This is maybe out of our budget.” Rain tried to tell Yoongi who was once again walking next to her.

“Ah, no, you don’t have to pay for it. Don’t worry. The management will cover the costs, since it is our fault that you are stucked with us.” He replayed.

“but-“ Rain started

“We appreciate it. Will we get a separate room then??” Brooke interrupted while she was looking over Namjoons shoulder to get a glance at what’s going on. Then she turned.

“No wait… you won’t give us a separate room, won’t you? Or you will but you also will lock us in? Am I right???” she glared at Jimin who got nervous.

“What? No, no..” He was waving his hands in front of him and  denying it furiously, looking to Yoongi for help.

“What are you talking about?” he looked confused but then quickly got what Brook was talking about. “Nevermind, we probably should lock you in.” he added.

“What???” shrieked Rain. “Me too?”

“No, you can sleep with us.”

Rain seemed very satisfied.

“Whut???” Brooke replied unbelievably and looked between her best friend and Yoongi. “Am I a joke to you?”

“Of course not. You will also be sleeping in our room. Jin Hyung and Namjoon Hyung will be locked up.” Jimin giggled, his hands covering his mouth.

“Heyyyy!!” Jin shouted from the counter.

“I heard that Jimin.” Namjoon turned to them. “Okay listen guys. As awesome as this hotel may be, they don’t have another free room.”

“Ha!”

“Looks like nobody’s gonna be locked up.” Brooke smirked and Yoongi just rolled with his eyes.

Namjoon seemed unbothered. “But since we have the super luxury suite with 7 bedrooms, I think we can give one to the girls and two of us have to share a bed for tonight. I think that’s the best plan.”

“Deal.” Chirped Brooke and put her arms around Rains.

“So how we gonna choose who has to sleep together?” asked Hobi.

“an naemyeon jinda gawi bawi bo!!” Jin basically yelled.

They started to shout and play rock scissors paper enthusiastically. For sure JK won first, because he never loses. They played until there were only Jin and Jimin left who then had to share a bedroom. Jin almost cried a little at his lost and regretted himself. He even started regretting all of his life choices. It was all very dramatically but eventually he gave in.

 

So they went in the highest floor possible and entered the extravagant suit.

Rain and Brooke got the room next to the living room with an amazing view over the beach and the sea. Rain let herself fall on the king size bed and sighed deeply.

Brooke closed the door behind them and leaned against it.

“WTF is happening here, Rain?????”


to be continued