Seeing Through Another Screen

Chapter 3

Everything froze.

It was as if the time stopped. Jimin stared at the phone while Jungkook stared at him. Jewel had stopped crying and her mom had stopped hitting her. Both were looking at her phone. The screen was black but Jewel knew  what she heard. She wasn't crazy. She heard it. And so did her mother.

Jimin had started crying but now had dry tears on his cheeks. Jungkook could not believe what had just happened. He knew that they were both goners. Once the company found out what they did they would not be forgiven. It was one of the golden rules to never reveal the secret of the V-Live.

"WHAT THE HELL JIMIN!" Namjoon screamed as he barged into the room along with the rest of the members.

Jimin could not move. He was shocked at his own actions.  Jin went up to him and shook his shoulders violently.
"PARK JIMIN! You better explain what the hell you just did or I swear to god I will make you regret ever being born." Jin said as he glared daggers at his fellow member. 
"I-I- I don't know." Jimin whispered.
"It's not his fault. It was going to be either him or me. But it didn't matter because he beat me to it." The maknae stated.  The rest of the members could only stare at the youngest.
"Explain." Suga said.
Jungkook took a deep breath because he knew it was going to be a long story.
"It was a girl. An ARMY. Both Jimin-hyung and I have been watching her in our past v-lives. She as always sad hyung. She smiled but we could see that she was suffering by the look on her eyes. This time we saw her again. But she was getting beat up. By her own mother." Jungkook's eyes were started to well up in tears. " I wanted it to stop. She was crying so hard and screaming at that woman to stop. But she didn't. We had to stop her. We couldn't just do nothing while one of our precious fans got hurt. Hyung, you would have done the same thing if your were in our shoes."

 Jimin had started crying again at the memory of seeing an ARMY being harmed.

"She was young. I couldn't have let her get hurt any further. So I screamed. It was the only thing I could do for her."
Before any of the members could react a staff barged in.
"Your manager wants all of you in his office. Now." He stared at them coldly before leaving the room.
The boys all started at each other and knew that they were all thinking the same thing.

Shit. We are all screwed.

"What was that?"

Jewel could ask herself the same question. Her mother yanked her by the hair and pulled her up. 

"I asked you a question." 

Whimpering Jewel answered. "I don't know." Her mother looked at her with such hatred in her eyes that if looks could kill, Jewel would already be 6 feet under ground. "Did you record what I was doing to you? Are you planning to report us for hitting you? You, a dumb and selfish daughter who loves no one but herself? You worthless piece of trash. Let them take you. At least I won't deal with having a disgrace in our family." 

Jewel tried to stay strong through her mother's cruel words but she just couldn't. It hurt too much. Tears streamed down her face and her mother left the room. Sobbing Jewel grabbed her phone and opened the social media. And surely there was the video of Jimin and Jungkook's V-live trending on twitter.

"What was that all about?"

"Is Jimin ok?"

"I think fame has gone to their head so they're trying to create drama for attention."

"Wait did they read something bad?"

Questions were swirling all through social media. And Jewel was scared to know the answer.