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YOONGI and TAEHYUNG

being the quietest, the ride was quietest for yoongi and taehyung. they already were clad in disguises of hoodies and sunglasses so they weren't as anxious. their destination, melany's mysteries astronomy shop, was much farther than the other boys' destinations and would take more than a day for the boys to travel, but it shouldn't be too eventful.

shouldn't is the key word.

along the way yoongi, who had been driving, asked taehyung to check his phone for him. he saw jhope's name and was worried.

taehyung leaned in to detached yoongi's phone from the phone holder stuck to above the radio.

"read the text from jhope," yoongi said.

taehyung read it first in his mind and did a double take before reading it aloud.

"they've been chased?" yoongi asked in disbelief. well—not completely, he figured the police won't sit still with them running away but they chased them to the point where a taxi cab was involved? ridiculous.

"they could be after us too," taehyung sighed.

"whatever that's not our focus, we'll deal with them when it comes to it. let's focus on our destination. what are we even going to ask this "melany". we aren't exactly fluent," yoongi pointed it.

"right, but the same way the article was translated on my phone when i read it, same way we can use google to tell her what we want to say."

"and what do we want to say?"

taehyung was silent for a moment, thinking. "'is the article based on a true story?' 'is it real?' 'do you know jeon jeongguk'  'do you have anything to do with his disappearance?'"

yoongi shook his head playfully, "this is why your character in hwarang wasn't a detective or even a secret agent. you're asking all the wrong questions."

taehyung normally would have been offended but he just lightly chuckled. yoongi smiled slightly, happy the sad boy had been smiling a little.

"then what should we be doing?"

"we go there say we're curious people coming to learn more about the article that's it. act like foreigners just being tourists. we have outfits in our bags to fit the look, we should be fine. we don't have the pressure of being in front of a camera, we don't have the pressure of all eyes on us. it's just us and we'll do what we have to to find that girl and jeongguk."

"that's if we do," taehyung sighed.

"negativity is not what we're doing today," yoongi said as he glanced at the gas meter. "let's be positive and go get some gas."

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THE BECKS

yasmine, yaiza, yenny, yareli, zayden, zayne, zach, zeke, and zander beck were enjoying themselves grabbing as many snacks as they could at the gas station. their older sister, 28 year old yolanda, wasn't too happy to pay for everything, but this trip she was taking her siblings to visiting her college's bts army club that were rallying up everyone they can to prepare to find and support bts and make sure they were safe. she had a big surprise for them her siblings being the most armiest family of armys had to be there. and they just had to buy snacks on the way. it was just a long freeway away from home there's no reason to have to buy so many snacks especially since there would be lots of bts themed foods at her college.

but, oh well, she was getting kind of hungry too.

after noticing the crowds of people making lines she instinctively went to look for her siblings. there were 9 of them ages ranging from 22 to 3, boys were z's, the girls were y's. she knew how to take care of them, no problem after being the oldest after all, but sometimes they could out of hand. (she secretly enjoyed the chaos).