The Hidden Treasure

~33~

⚠️ WARNING⚠️:

This is warning for you who are squeamish or sensitive to blood or trauma.  If this bothers you in any way, please, don't read.  I'll alert you to when the bad part is over. (which isn't for another chapter maybe...so read at your own risk.  When I first posted the last two chapters I made a lot of readers cry, so that's why I am posting this warning.  My apologies to anyone I upset.)

Hyejin rushed to the hospital with her companion, Jinyoung.  The hospital was swarmed with reporters and news cameras.  She frowned and as they tried to push their way into the hospital, they heard so many questions being tossed around.  Was someone dead?  Who died?  Were the members okay?  Would they ever be able to perform again?  How could a company be so negligent?  Who would move up into their top spot? 

She tried to stop her ears to their voices but she still heard them.  It broke her heart.  The media were like vultures.  It made her both angry and sad.

She and Jinyoung rushed to the information desk but were quickly told that no one would be allowed back to the boys' areas unless they were family or from their company.  Since they were from neither group, they had no reason to be there. 

Hyejin was not about to be turned away completely, unless the boys themselves didn't want her there.  She pulled out her phone and sent a text.

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Jungkook felt Taehyung's phone vibrate in his pocket.  He wearily pulled it out and saw a text from Hyejin letting him know she was at the hospital and if she could come up.  If so, could someone come down and escort her.

"I know I am asking a lot right now and I'm sorry.  I just really need to be there for my friend." 

Jungkook sighed and rubbed his face.  He wouldn't be allowed to leave this waiting area without a manager.  Their managers didn't really know about Hyejin right now.  The whole group would be raked over the coals if the management found out the boys had been frequenting her shop and making friends with her without their knowledge and permission.  However, now was not a time to keep secrets.  He sighed again, looking around for Yoongi and J-Hope.  They would know what to do.

His eyes made their way slowly around the small waiting room and he saw the pair over in the corner, heads resting in their hands.  J-Hope was still very shaken after what he had witnessed.  Yoongi was just trying to keep calm until someone stronger could take the reins from him and allow him to properly process the incidents of the day.   Jungkook trudged over to them and handed Yoongi the phone. 

Yoongi read the message and sighed, rubbing his forehead.  "What can she do if she's here?  She'll just be emotional," he said, looking over to Hobi who was still trying to get his tears to stop.  "We have enough of that right now.  Plus we would have to tell our manager.  I'm not ready to face that wrath." 

He wearily handed the phone back to Jungkook and shook his head.  "I vote no." 

Jungkook understood Yoongi's reasoning but he also knew Hyejin was probably having a very hard time with this as well.  "What if I go talk to her?  Would that be okay?  I won't tell her anything I shouldn't."  He hadn't known Hyejin that long but he had a feeling she and Namjoon were special to each other somehow and if Namjoon could trust her, then he felt she was trustworthy for him also.