Serendipity 2 JHope and Jimin

Part 33

Jimin

Her story was unbelievable. Heejoon of all people. And she had hid this, and held it inside for three years, concentrating solely on all of us. I held tight to Yoongi's hand as she recited the whole thing. As horrific as the whole thing had been to hear, I didn't really think about my own experience that night as I was out of it the whole time and really didn't remember anything, but the thought that I had been there, in the room, while she endured that was killing me. Why didn't I wake up? I could have helped her. I felt like the old weak Jimin again.

I watched Namjoon out of the corner of my eye and he seemed to sink lower and lower in the chair the more she spoke. Everyone else was sitting open mouthed and looked stunned. Bedside me I felt Yoongi become more and more tense, and his grip on my hand was tightening. When she was done nobody moved or said a word. We just sat there trying to understand what she had just said. Namjoon was sitting with his head in his hands, JK was pacing back and forth behind us, Tae had tears, Jin was shaking his head back and forth as if to clear it, and Yoongi's face was white with anger. Hoseok had heard the story earlier so I guessed he was already over the initial shock, but even he was crying silently holding on to her.

I slowly disentangled my bruised hand from Yoongi's and went over to her, sitting on the floor at her feet, I wrapped my arms around her legs and put my head on her knee. I just wanted her to know that I was there really.

"You did what you had to do, I would have done the same thing"

Slowly the others all rose and joined us, Yoongi pulled us both to our feet and then we were all embracing her. Nobody said anything, we didn't need to, we just needed to hold her and reassure her that it was ok. There was only one person missing, and he still hadn't looked up or moved at all.

"Namjoon?" she said it almost desperately

He just shook his head and continued to look at the floor.

"There's more" Hoseok spoke into the silence "Yoonjae is back"

If we looked shocked before now we were totally stunned.

"He's been threatening and bribing her for months"

"What does he want from her?" Yoongi asked gritted teeth

"Us"

"Us?

"Yes, well BTS and BigHit at least"

Hoseok explained to us that Yoonjae had wanted Sasa to sign over BigHit and BTS to JYP Entertainment if she wanted him to keep her secret. He didn't want anything but the satisfaction of seeing Sasa lose the people she loved most in the world. Us.

"But it's over, now right?" I asked them all begging them to say yes with my eyes "You've told us now, so he has nothing left to bribe you with."

"Would you have done it Sasa?" Namjoon spoke for the first time

"Done what?"

"Would you have signed the contract?"

"I.....I had......I wanted...."

She stumbled over her words

"It's a simple question, just a yes or a no will do, so I'll ask you again"

"Would you have signed that contract Sasa? Would you have signed us all over to the devil to save your own skin"?

"Namjoon, I had a....."

"ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION"

"YES" she yelled back

"That's what I thought" and he got up and headed for the door.

She tried calling him back, but he ignored her and kept going. Yoongi came over and took my hand. As the tears started down my cheeks again. He led me to his room and sat down on the bed next to me.

"Are you OK?"

"Not really. How about you?"

"I'm...I don't really know what I'm feeling right now" he rubbed the back of his neck "I'm sad, and pissed off, and hurt.... Mostly hurt I think"

"Hurt?"

"Yeah, like Namjoon said, she was willing to sell us all to the devil to protect her secret"

"I don't believe she would have done it"

"Jimin you clearly heard her say she would"

"I also clearly heard her trying to tell him that there was more to it"

I knew Sasa well enough to know that she had had something planned. There was no way she would have done it. She knew how much the other agencies where disliked by all of us, but particularly Namjoon and Yoongi, who had experienced it before. She would give up everything she had to protect us from that. I was going to tell Yoongi my thoughts on it, but when I looked over at him again he was sound asleep. I took off his shoes and covered him up with a blanket before I lightly kissed his forehead and went back to my own room to get some sleep myself. It had been a long day.

JHope

We had another awards ceremony the next night and it was a special one for Yoongi as he was nominated for an award as a producer. I wasn't sure that Sasa would attend, or Namjoon for that matter, but they both did. Jin and JK had gone looking for him after he left the house last night and found him in his studio downstairs pouring over some paperwork with a pile of file folders in front of him. He had been on the phone to Jackson Wang, but none of us could figure out why.

I cornered him in the kitchen after lunch when everyone had left

"Everything Ok?" I asked him

"Yep I'm fine"

"Namjoon you don't have to put on a brave face for me"

"I'm really not" and he was smiling

"What are you up to then?"

"What makes you think I'm up to something?" and this time the smile was more of a smirk "Gotta run Hobi, work to do see you tonight" and he left whistling

Ok now I was just confused. I expected heartbreak, anger, sadness but happiness and joking around wasn't even on the list. He was definitely up to something. And it was definitely something that was making him very, very happy, the man was whistling for heavens sake. I didn't have time right then to chase him and get any more out of him, we had a rehearsal for tonight's performance and I didn't want to ask him in front of the others. But I was determined to talk him later.

By the time we dressed and been down to hair and makeup that night I was doing my best to let out my inner JHope and hype everyone up a little. We had to perform as well so we needed to be at out best. When we arrived and took our seats, Yoongi insisted that Sasa sat with us. I guessed it was because after hearing her story he wanted her as far away form JYP as possible, I also think she was his strength sometimes. He would never in a million years admit that he was nervous about his nomination as a producer, and maybe having her on one side and Jimin on the other helped.

Our performance that night was brilliant I'm not sure if we were all so worked up over the events of the last twenty-four hours that it was nervous energy, or whether it was for Sasa, so we could show the world that we were still here, that we were united and strong, and they couldn't hurt us, or maybe it was a little of both. We cleaned up that night with awards too, we won three awards including artist of the year, and when Yoongi won his award you would think we had all won. We jumped up and down and clapped him on the back and hugged him, I thought Jimin was going to cry but he held it in in front of the cameras and instead contented himself with a proud smile, he couldn't have stopped if he wanted to. By the time we got home we were all exhausted and went straight to bed. I lay in the dark thinking about everything that had happened and slowly drifted off to sleep with a small smile on my face.