Chapter 24- Welcome to America

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July 16th, 2015:

We had done several interviews yesterday and the rehearsal had gone smoothly. We were nearing the end of the show now and had just finished the first song of our three-song encore.


"Come off stage," I hear in my in-ear.


I look around confused. Looking to the members for clues as to what to do. We were supposed to start dancing to Dope, but the music wasn't coming on. The lights went dark. What was happening?


"You need to leave. Just wave and walk off," I hear more instructions from the staff in my ear.


Seokjin starts waving and soon we all follow. We wave and walk off stage, leaving the fans very confused and disappointed, frankly, I was too.


"Why did we have to leave?" Hoseok says, inching his way back to the stage.


"What's going on?" asks Namjoon.


"There's been a gun threat," Sejin says from behind us, "all of you to the boys' dressing room".


We all look at him wide-eyed. A gun threat? Who would want to kill any of us? Were my family safe? We're the fans safe?


"Now!" Sejin says loudly.


Namjoon takes the lead as usual, and we follow him to the dressing room as staff surround us.


"What is this gun threat?" Yoongi says once we were in the dressing room.


"Yeah, what the hell is going on?" Hoseok pushes, "we only had two more songs left".


All of us were still breathing deeply and full of adrenaline. Staff came around dapping at our sweat and handing out water bottles, but I didn't want any of this. I wanted to go back on stage to finish the show.


"We've just been informed of a tweet with a picture of a gun and threat to Namjoon's life made by someone that might be in the crowd," Sejin explains.


"Doesn't that mean that fans are also not safe right now then?" Jimin says worriedly.


"We're telling them to safely leave now," Yoona explains.


"What about my family?" I ask out loud, "Can they come back here?"


Everyone looks at Sejin.


"They can come meet you at the hotel," he says after thinking it through, "we just need to get you guys out of here".


"Who would do that?" Jungkook says sitting on the couch crestfallen, "we were almost done too".


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