In the dark

29

"We have to find her!" Jimin had shouted. All of them had jumped out of their seats, ready to pounce on any idea of where to go to find Peri. Jin needed to put a stop to all of their madness. It was time to let the cat out of the bag.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Jin shouted, raising his hands in the air to get them to halt their steps. "She's in my apartment," he said with a breath.

"What? How? Why?" were all the questions coming out of the men's mouths.

"I went to Tae's apartment to drop off some dinner for him since he didn't come back. I found Peri outside cussing Tae's name out," Jin explained.

"Yeah, she did that before she left. She has got quite a mouth on her!" stated Tae. Yoongi pushed his tongue into his cheek to stop himself from smiling.

"She was threatening to leave Seoul. I had to calm her down."

"How'd you do that?" Jungkook shot out the question after listening to the conversation intensely.

"Told her no matter where she goes, we would find her. Then I promised her ice cream and got her back to my apartment."

"So, why didn't you call us?" Namjoon asked while getting irritated. He didn't like being left out of the loop. 

Yoongi marched toward the door. "We need to go to her right now," he stated.

Jin put his hands up to stop Yoongi from bounding out the door. "Because she needed to rest. She has not slept or eaten for days. She had been walking around the city like a zombie, thinking we were all angry with her." Yoongi stopped moving for a beat. He turned back around and faced all the men. He felt their eyes on the back of his head.

Yoongi's eyes filled with tears to the brim and then came tumbling down. "This is all my fault. What I said to her," he was scolding himself.

"Yoongs, I am not trying to kick you while you are down. She told me everything that happened, and I think she needs to rest for a bit before we all bombard her," Jin told him delicately.

"How mad was she?" Tae asked nervously. He felt guilty for handling Peri very well. He was trying to help her as she did for him.

"Ooohhh, I would give her a 9.5 on the Richter Scale," Jin stated. Tae's face grimaced. "At the beginning, she's calmer now."

"So how do we do this? You don't want us to all go over there at once, but we all want to see her," Hoseok chimed in. "Well, those who can, anyways."

"I thought about what Joon-Hyung said. I think I have an idea for that." Tae added with his index finger high in the air.

"Cause you last worked out so well last time!" Jimin sassed. Tae had a defeated look on his face. He did try to help. He still wanted to help his brother be able to see Peri.

"How about you tell us about your plan, and we can discuss it?" Namjoon offered. 

Tae's face changed to pure joy after hearing what Namjoon said. "Ok! So here's what I got..." Tae proceeded to tell the guys what they thought they should do.

"Do you think she'll believe that?"

"She's not going to like us tricking her."

"But it's for a good reason!"

"You're already in hot water, Tae. Do you want to add to it?"

"This is going to be hard. Can all of us pull this off?"

"I believe it! If anyone can pull it off, it's us!"

They finalized the idea and put it in motion. It was a hail mary, knowing they only had one shot before they left for their tour. If it didn't work, she could leave again. This time she would have a three-week head start on them. The members gathered their stuff and left HYBE to gather what they would need for their plan.