Death and Dying (A~ Got7 Fanfic)

Chapter 11 // Youngjae

In the practice room, Youngjae was digging through his backpack while the other members were doing warm up stretches. He had been searching in his bag for over five minutes now, and the others were eyeing him curiously.

"What are you looking for?" Jackson asked from across the room.

Youngjae didn't hear the question though. He was too focused on the task at hand to notice anything, or anyone, around him.

Jackson was about to ask again when suddenly Youngjae shot to his feet, holding a mysterious object in his hand.

"I found it!"

Everyone else in the room was covering their ears in pain from the deafening exclamation.

Jaebum was the first to recover. "Found what?" he asked.

Youngjae twirled around to face the group with a huge smile plastered on his face. The item in his hand kind of looked like a chime from so far away, but he held it in the air as if it was a trophy.

"Is it a baton?" Mark questioned.

Jackson rolled his eyes, "Why would he bring a baton? It's obviously a wind chime."

"Why would he bring a wind chime?" Mark said with a scowl.

"You're both wrong!" Bambam remarked before facing Youngjae with excitement, "So it's confirmed then? We're actually going to do a pole dancing choreography!?"

"Pole dancing?" Jinyoung blanked.

"That's right" Youngjae said as he began twisting the strange object. After a while it started to extend into a tall pole. "For our comeback concert we wanted to do a little something special for our fans. Bambam and I thought we should pole dance to the song Hush by Miss A. The managers agreed so that's what we'll be practicing today."

Jinyoung, Jaebum, Mark, and Yugyeom gaped in shock.

Jackson shrugged, "They don't call me wild and sexy for nothing."

Bambam flew to his feet and stole the pole from Youngjae. Laughing like a crazed maniac, he began spinning around the room with the pole, nearly hitting Yugyeom in the head. Eventually, Youngjae managed to retrieve the pole from the now dizzy Bambam.

"Ok, that's enough. We need to set this thing up and get to work" Youngjae said as he started to prepare.

Bambam, still wobbly on his feet, started to cough strongly in his arm.

Jackson started to make his way towards his sick friend, but Bambam stopped him with a shake of the head. "I'm fine", he said as his coughing started to die down.

"Listen Bambam, I know you really want to dance right now, but I think you should sit out today" Youngjae said with worry evident in his voice.

"What!? No! I said I'm fine so ju-"

Yugyeom set his hand on Bambam's shoulder, effectively calming him down. Bambam turned to Yugyeom with a strange expression. Yugyeom decided not to question the sad, but hopeful look in the older boy's eyes, deciding it had to be because of dancing and nothing else.

"I agree with Youngjae. You should sit out until you get better" Yugyeom said.

Bambam stared at Yugyeom for a second before sighing and leaning against the wall in defeat, "Fine".

"Okay! Let's get started then!" Youngjae said as soon as he was done setting up the pole.

Suddenly a loud ringing erupted in the dance room. Mark dug his phone out of his pocket, checked the caller id, and then got to his feet "Sorry guys, I have to take this. I'll be right back" he said before rushing out of the room.

Youngjae glared at the door his hyung just went through. How dare he leave just as they were starting. Now, he would have to wait for him to get back before he could show off his pole dancing skills.

"I wonder who that was?" Jinyoung mumbled in a distasteful tone.

Jaebum gave him a knowing look, "Maybe it was his parents or something."

"Right" Junior said sarcastically.

Youngjae watched the exchange feeling puzzled. What exactly was with everyone recently? Mark was clearly hiding something, Jinyoung was being bitchy, JB was acting weird, Bambam's been oddly dreary and sick, Jackson never came home last night, and Yugyeom... well... Yugyeom hasn't really done anything but sleep.

"Is there something going on that I don't know about?" Youngjae surprised himself by asking.

Jinyoung and Bambam's eyes widened at the questioned, neither wanting their secrets revealed. Jackson and Jaebum were less concerned, but worried for their friends. Yugyeom looked around the room cluelessly, not having anything to hide except for his bizarre dreams.

"What do you mean?" Bambam asked, feigning innocence.

Youngjae narrowed his eyes, "It feels like you guys have been keeping secrets from me."

"They're secrets for a reason. No one's supposed to know about them" Jinyoung snapped.

"Aren't we a family? Shouldn't we trust each other? I feel like we're all drifting apart..."

"I'm sorry you feel that way", Jinyoung said flatly.

Youngjae couldn't believe what he was hearing. Before he ended up in a fight with anyone, he turned around and stormed out of the room.

Walking down the hall, tears threatening to fall from his eyes, Youngjae continued to wonder what was going on with everyone. Jinyoung has always been a bit moody, but he's never acted like that before. And as mad as he should be at his bandmates, he wasn't. He was worried for them.

No one wanted to talk about their problems, and Youngjae knew that the problems had to be pretty big.

Before he could turn a corner in the hall, he heard Mark's voice coming from the other side. Stopping, Youngjae tried his best to eavesdrop. He felt bad for doing it, but if no one was going to give him answers, he would just find his own.

"I think Junior knows about us."

Youngjae barely managed to hear Mark's whispered words. It was quiet for a little while, probably because the person on the other end was talking, before Mark continued.

"The ring was out in the open. Someone had to have seen it! But the thing is, I think he's angry at me."

Youngjae listened to the phone call in wonder. He had no idea that Mark was dating someone, let alone engaged, assuming that's what the ring was for. He tried to make out the voice on the other end, but it was impossible from this far away.

Youngjae heard someone walking nearby, and heard Mark panic to end the call before anyone could hear.

"Listen, I have to go. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow On ASC" Mark rushed in a hushed voice before ending the call.

Youngjae quietly scurried down the hall and away from Mark before he could be discovered. Now he knew what Mark was hiding, sort of. If they were going to see his fiancee tomorrow on After School Club, then there were only a few girls that it could be. Youngjae couldn't think of a time where Mark talked to one of the random workers off set, so it could only be one person.

Park Jimin.  

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Author Note:

This chapter was written by me and my friend Lulu (AKA Ho su, Bacon Lover, Dae Jong, Jae Young, Jibooty, Bum Jae, Young Jin, or The Suga To Your Life).