Our journey of a lifetime.

Chapter 13

Liv
I stretched out and yawned but my body seemed constricted, although the light was painful I still opened my eyes instantly regretting it when pain shot through my head. "Ouch." I whined before sitting up straight, I wasn't in my bed. I wasn't in my apartment either. It took me a while to realise that a weight was holding my legs tightly in place, but what once felt like a large lump was now turning into a person. "Oh... you're awake." A deep voice came from the kitchen doorway, it was Suga; he was leaning against the door frame with two cups of coffee in his hands before he sighed. "Whatever happened last night scared AJ half to death, she got sick after you all passed out and it took me a while to get her to leave you're side. Whatever did happen better have been worth Jungkook socking Jimin." I shrugged, I can't even remember what happened but all I know is that it was Jungkook who was drunk and got angry at Jimin who was also drunk and just swung at him. But nobody told anyone else it was Jungkook who hit him. "Who told you it was Jungkook who hit him?" I asked, curious as to how he knew but he just chuckled before starting to head up the stairs. "His knuckles are bruised and cut so I just put two and two together." That was all he said as he disappeared with the cups and the amazingly strong smell of ground coffee beans that should belong to a Starbucks, too caught up in the scent I forgot to actually look who it was who was leaning against my legs restricting me to only the couch but it was no shock that it was Jungkook with his legs over me and V who was leaning on my foot which had started to become numb. I sighed and left them to sleep as I sat silently waiting for whatever miracle came and woke them up, to my luck a grumpy AJ almost stumbled down the stairs with a blanket wrapped around her head like a cloak from Star Wars as Suga followed close behind her. "Cover your ears." He muttered and I did as I was told only moments before AJ came into the main room with some sort of pan and a spoon in her hand, she smacked them together making loud bangs as the boys shot up from their sleep. "Wake the hell up! You make me sick from worry and think you can all just sleep soundly while your hyung is awake voluntarily for once in his life? You scared me to death!" She yelled over her banging until Jin grabbed the pot from her and told her to calm down, she grumbled before saying something about going back to the apartment to change clothes from the things she had on. "I'll drive you." Namjoon stated before being a victim of a distasteful glare from my unnie. "You think you should drive with a hangover?" She snapped before leaving the dorm with her shoes in her hand throwing the blanket at Namjoon. It will take some time for her to forgive us but she would come round eventually, she worries too much.

"So... is she going to come back or what?" Namjoon asked and I shrugged, it had only been an hour so she probably went for a walk to cool off or something. Jimin was now downstairs and his lip looked horrible but a lot better than it did yesterday. Jungkook's hand had gone back to its original colour and there was only a sliver of awkwardness in the atmosphere as Jin told his lame jokes to lighten the mood. His stupid humour was starting to get less effective when a phone went off, we all searched the room to see AJ's phone ringing and it was from Moonbin so I answered it instead. "Where are you guys? Nobody has seen anyone except for AJ at all this morning and she left the building by herself, why didn't she have her phone? Anything could happen to her." He yelled and I explained everything except for the part when Jungkook punched Jimin in the face and he told me to get to work and he'll keep an eye out for her, he hung up and I sighed as the slight pit of worry in my stomach started to grow. "She'll be back... she won't get hurt." I muttered to myself and as if someone read my mind she walked through the door taking her shoes off and threw a bag at me. "You guys probably won't want to eat a big breakfast so I got some snack bars from the apartment instead. Now get to work." She stated before grabbing a bar herself and picking up her shoes again, she slipped them on while we all just stared at her. "I'm going to the main studio if you need me." She continues without turning around as she left the room, the rest of us in an uncomfortable silence. She's not a cold person so I guess she'll forgive everyone within a few hours and we'll carry on like nothing has happened. "Guys." Suga broke the silence as everyone looked at him, he was probably going to tell them what he told me this morning but I listened anyway. "She cares about you, not just Liv but everyone in this room. It may not seem like it but she thinks of you all as family to her, I don't know what you know about her past but I know she had a rough time from the lyric sheet she gave to me. She's just worried about you all and the fact that she doesn't even know it was Jungkook who punched Jimin makes things worse." His voice was low and he seemed down as we listened for whatever he was about to say next. "If I didn't know that it was Jungkook who punched Jimin then I'd be in her state too, you guys are like brothers to me and if anyone messes with my family then they pay the price. She thinks the world of you guys and so do I." He stood up and carried his now empty cup into the kitchen before heading up the stairs as we all exchanged glances. "He's right, we're a family so we should start acting like one." Namjoon announced earning nods from everyone, as if on queue Suga came down the stairs with a bag and handed it to me. "There's some clothes in there that AJ went and got for you last night, she knew you'd need them this morning so I took her back to the apartment to grab extras." He stated and I thanked him before Jungkook showed me where one of the bathrooms were. I quickly changed and waited for the rest of the guys to get ready before we all split off into groups, I took AJ's phone with me as I knew that the dance studio was past the music studio so I could drop it off on my way past. As I picked it up the light turned on and her background lit up, it was of her and her family. She was really close with her mother but I can't exactly the remember when they saw each other since she moved out when she was sixteen, I sighed as I stared at the image before it quickly faded and it became clear that AJ missed home as well as her mother. She was home sick and the strong bond between her and her mother was slowly fraying string by string.