BTS: HYYH The Notes (Complete ENG)

Jungkook

25 June Year 20

I stroked the piano keys with my fingertip and smudged the dust. I pressed the key, but the sound that came out was different than the sound of hyung's playing. It had been ten days since hyung hadn't come to school. Today, the rumor had gone around that he had been expelled. Namjoon hyung and Hoseok hyung didn't say anything, and I was too afraid to ask. On that day two weeks ago, only hyung and I had been there in the hideout classroom when the teacher opened the door and came in. It was a visiting day for the class parents. I didn't want to be in the classroom, so I went thoughtlessly to the hideout. Hyung didn't even look at me and kept playing the piano, and I put two desks together and closed my eyes like I was pretending to sleep. Hyung and the piano seemed slightly different, but also seemed so much like one and the same that I couldn't separate them. While I listened to hyung's playing, I somehow wanted to cry.

Since I felt tears threatening to flow I rolled over, and the door suddenly slammed open and the piano sound came to a stop. I was slapped across the face, stumbled backwards and ultimately fell. As I crouched to withstand the violence, suddenly the voice stopped. When I lifted my head, I saw hyung standing over me, pushing at the teacher's shoulder. Over hyung's shoulder, I saw the teacher's shocking expression.

I pressed the piano key. It was a mimicry of the song hyung used to play. Had hyung really been expelled? Would he never come back? Hyung always said it was ordinary for him to get beaten up a little. If I hadn't been there, would hyung not have had to stand up to the teacher? If I hadn't been there, would hyung still be here, playing the piano?