signed | choi seungcheol

➢thirty

-Jiyeon-

Before I could respond any further, I felt a hand tug at me. I turned around to see Seungcheol glaring at the lady before him, "You better not do something selfish."

"Oh look at this boy," she scoffed, "Know your matters kid. How dare you do a DNA test on me without my permission?"

"So?" he smirked, "Why does it matter to you? It's our business." She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, "Stop playing dumb. You know that it was matching. You kids better play in your own playground. You never know what's going to happen next."

"We aren't trespassing your playground," he told her, "You are trespassing ours. We'll be armed next time you attack. I didn't even do a DNA test, you just admitted who you are to me" She just lets out a cackle before mumbling, "Kids." and walking away. Seungcheol turned to me, "You okay?"

"Yeah," I nodded and then I look down to see something sticking out of his pocket. I pulled it out to see a recorder, he grabs it from me and presses the stop button as I looked at him, "Smart ass."

"Right?" he laughed, "I caught her saying it all. I watched a whole ton of dramas to know what to do next." (in Korea, it is legal to record a conversation if you yourself are part of the party being recorded. so yeah, hes not doing illegal shit) I furrowed my eyebrows, "Dramas? You should be practicing and not wasting your time on those."

"We should get back now, the others are waiting," he smiled as he pulled me to the car, "They'll feel better when they find out about the conversation." I smiled back as I jumped into the car, "But you have to remember to make copies of it into all of our devices, just in case she finds out. We have to be careful about her brother too, he might be able to hack into our systems."

"Right," he groaned, "He somehow got my phone number so we have to be extra careful not to leave anything out. It's a matter of life and death now." I sighed as I looked into my hand, "What if we give up. What will happen?"

"What?" he asked, "Give up? We shouldn't, if we don't beat them now we may never beat them ever in the future. She tried to kill you last time, if I didn't push you away it would've been really bad."

"Right." but something still felt wrong.

xxxxxx

When we showed the boys the recording they looked a little better afterwards but went back to the sad state they were in. But luckily, within two days, Jihoon woke up and he looked okay besides the physical wounds he had.

The doctor said he's fine and would be able to leave the hospital in a week but he won't be able to perform for awhile because there is a threat the wounds could open because of the width. I sighed, Lee Jungsoo, he was right. No performing on stage.

We couldn't help but feel endangered. I thought for a really long time about whether we should stop or not because there was so many lives at risk.

Suddenly I hear Mingyu yelp as he rushed for the tv remote to turn the news louder even though Jihoon was sleeping. I looked up at the tv along with everyone else to see the news playing.

They were already updated on the news. A reporter came out to explain there is a ruckus going around, "The boy group, Seventeen, have told their fans about an imposter and fans are enraged and have been demanding answers from local police stations. Pledis have yet to release an official statement about the alleged imposter A and her brother B who has served jail time before. This was KBS entertainment flash news, reporter Lee JaeIn. We will be back in half an hour" (idk how sk news works)

"Oh god," I heard someone groan from behind me, I turned around to see Joshua sitting there, looking nowhere as if to be thinking about how we are to get out of the situation.

"I'll take fault," I blurted out loud as everyone's attention shifted over to me, I cleared my throat before continuing, "This is my personal problem. I should deal with it myself."

Soonyoung sat up from the chair he was sitting on and interjected, "No. This is our problem too."

"Yeah," Vernon agreed, "If Seungcheol was really hit by that lady then we should help too!" I bit on my bottom lip as I gestured Seungcheol over, "Show them the text."

And Seungcheol did. I watched as I got different reactions from all the members. All of them became hesitant for a moment.

"Don't we have evidence?" Chan asked quietly. I frowned at him, "Its not strong enough as evidence. We need to catch him doing something. Plus this room could be bugged right now, he might know our next step."

"But we can't give up," Seungcheol interrupted, "We have to make it through. Or else its just neglecting our duties. We should do this not just for Jiyeon and us but for everyone else. We never know what he might pull next."

"Right," Jihoon mumbled as we all turn towards his direction, he yawns for a moment before continuing, "Its hard to create a plan. So we either do it some how super secretly or do it super quickly."

"Yeah but that's another thing," Mingyu murmured as he read what his phone displayed, "Right now we need to go for a meeting. Lets hurry before he gets even more angry." Everyone agreed with him and we quickly got out of the hospital, leaving Jihoon there to rest.

We were about to all get into the car when I felt a tug on my shirt, "What is it? Just hurry and get-" I gasped as I turned around to see Soonyoung pulled away. I jumped out of the car as the others followed but we lost him when he turned in a corner somewhere.

[play TRACK 6]

Then suddenly we heard a loud scream of pain from behind one of the machines and a man, dressed in all black from head to toe, dashing away with a baseball in his hand. We ran over to see Soonyoung in pain, grabbing on to his knee, trying to stop the pain. Without a word, we quickly picked him up as he continued to cry out in agony.

When we got back into the building, he was immediately sent to a doctor. Leaving us outside just standing there. I felt a tug on my shirt again as I quickly turned around for safety measures, just incase something would happen again. Without even saying anything, Seungcheol passed me his phone and I read the message.

Whoops, I guess I did it again. Better watch out next time you bunch of idiots.