Noona

Clarity

"Noona," Hoseok walks over to me with a frown on his face, "we might have a problem."

"What is it?" I ask, just as my little brother comes around the corner with a forming black eye and a fat lip. "Oh my god, what happened?!"

My answer comes in the form of Namjoon with a bruise of his own on his jawline and Charlotte running out behind him with tears streaking her cheeks.

"What the hell, guys?" I storm up to the boys and grab each of them by the ear.

The two of them both look torn between feeling sorry for hurting one another and wanting to do it again. Now it's pretty obvious to me what they were fighting over.

"It was my fault, Noona," Jungkook mutters, and I tug on his ear as punishment. "Aish! He hit me first though!"

So I tug on Namjoon's ear as well. "He confessed to my girlfriend! He's lucky he can still walk."

"Joonie, don't be upset with him," Charlotte says softly.

"Why shouldn't I be?" Namjoon grunts. "He's trying to steal my girl!"

"Don't yell at her!" Jungkook barks at him.

"Both of you, shut up!" I yank their ears again. "Am I going to have sit you two down like children and make you talk it out?"

"There's nothing to talk about, Noona." Jungkook pulls himself from my iron grip.

"You think you can just confess your feelings and everything will magically work out for you? We're going to have a baby, and you're—"

Everyone gasps, including Namjoon, at what he's just said, and a horribly uncomfortable silence falls on the group. I look nervously between Charlotte, Namjoon and the rest of the guys, unsure of what to do now that Namjoon has spilled their secret.

"Unnie, I think I need to handle this." Charlotte walks over to me and sighs. "I don't know enough Korean, though. I know it's probably really awkward, but can you translate for me?"

"Sure." I nod and release Namjoon's ear so that Charlotte can say her piece.

"Jungkook, you are such an important person to me. I care about you so much, and it hurts me so much to see you in pain because of me."

"She said you're really important to her," I tell him. "She cares about you so much that it hurts her to see you upset."

"I'm so sorry, but I can't be the person that you need me to be. You need someone to love you with their whole heart, and I can't do that."

"She's sorry—"

"I understood her." Jungkook glances at me and sighs. He steps toward Charlotte but keeps a respectful distance under Namjoon's gaze.

I look around at the rest of the boys, who seem to be thinking the same thing as me. We all slip out of the room leaving Charlotte, Jungkook, and Namjoon to talk things out.

"What are we going to do?" Taehyung frowns. "We have an interview today, and Jungkook looks like he picked a fight with John Cena."

He's not wrong. Even with a skilled makeup artist, Jungkook's left eye is completely swollen shut from the blow that Namjoon gave him.

"ARMY will definitely start asking questions that we can't answer if they see him in his condition." Jin lets out a heavy sigh, his full lips falling into a frown.

"Not if they don't see him," Yoongi mutters.

"We can't go without him." Taehyung pouts at him, but Yoongi shrugs.