Hung Up On You | KNJ

Formation

The next few days were quite awkward you didn't know how to begin the conversation with Namjoon to ask what had happened. You weren't sure how to bring up what went wrong, if anything had gone wrong at all. You began to shrink into yourself completely at the idea that the woman you would later know as Emily Benedict was becoming a stronger fixture in the house.

When the holiday weekend rolled around, and all of your brothers came home, you insisted that Yoongi spend time with Hoseok and Jungkook spend time with Jin. It became vital for you to pretend that things were normal because things were going so well for your brothers in their own lives.

In your life, it took only overhearing the voices of Namjoon and Emily entering or leaving his apartment for you to retreat into your room and your studies. During that weekend you spent as much time as possible pretending to be devoted to your studies as deeply as you were during finals week. You made time to hang out with Jimin and Taehyung since they didn't come back very often these days and listened avidly to every story that they told you about their experiences so far. Who they had met, what clothes Jimin and Tae had worn and who designed them. How Jin was holding up without Jungkook and how things were going in general. Anytime the conversation moved towards yourself or Namjoon, you deftly avoided the topic change. Then brought up another topic as fast as you possibly could. Tae didn't notice, but Jimin did. He went to go find Jungkook who refused to talk about it and sent him instead to Yoongi.

Yoongi was upset and disgusted with both you and Namjoon. He desperately wanted to kick Emily out of the house and only Hoseok had held him back from doing so. Jimin at first agreed with Hoseok that they didn't know enough about what was going on just yet.

"Yoongi-hyung, if Livie won't talk about it and Namjoon says he's too busy to talk to any of us right now, do we really know what's going on," asked Jimin.

The question caused Yoongi to deflate a little bit but not too much. It did however give Jimin a thought.

"Yoongi, why don't Taetae and I switch rooms with Livie? That way she'll be with you and Jungkook on the same floor. Namjoon can have the bottom floor to himself and this new girl, whoever she is. Maybe that would help Livie a little bit. And if he doesn't want this new girl, he knows how to walk up the stairs to find Noona," Jimin asked, and Yoongi nodded.

Yoongi and Hoseok agreed with Jimin's idea and went to go grab Jungkook for help. The three of them gave Hoseok the task of breaking the news to you because only Hobi was able to break through the fog of your self-imposed banishment.

Over the course of a couple hours while Namjoon was out of the house, Tae and Jimin moved all of their remaining things down into the main room. You moved all of yours up the stairs with the help of your brothers and into their old space, then came back downstairs and helped Jimin and Tae arrange everything in their new space.

Namjoon seemed to notice right away when he saw Jim and Taehyung go in and out of the door of your old apartment, but he still didn't say anything. Now Jin and Yoongi were worried about Namjoon. They tried to catch him, to sit him down and have a discussion, but he was so busy. He needed to get back to the library he said, and though they wanted to argue with him, in the end they chose not to.

In August, after weeks of barely speaking to each other, you turned over a folder that had gotten lost in the move and found the ideas that you and Jungkook had brainstormed the day you had gone to the café and seen Emily in the house for the first time.

You worked through the ideas and decided they were still solid and that if ever there was a time to think about a launch it was going to be now before the awards season started for next year. Before Christmas. Now was going to be the time that needed to get the ball rolling.