Inked

Chapter 24 - Connection

We all left the hospital after a while since it got quiet late and we wanted Grail to rest. Jinyoung dropped me off at my apartment while I was still confused about what had happened ealier with G Dragon. He gave me a kiss on the check before he left. I could tell that he was worried about leaving me alone so I just faked a smile so that he leaves.

I laid in bed for a couple of hours unable to sleep. I needed some answers. It was 2am by now and I was still wide awake. He knew something and I wanted to know what caused him to react like that earlier. I grabbed my phone and ordered a taxi. Quickly I threw on some clothes and went downstairs to get inside my taxi.

"Where to?", the old man asked me and I just showed him the address.

"Oh that won't take long as the street are empty", he sang and started the engine. I took my phone out and texted A.J hoping that she would be awake. Within a minute she called me and sounded alerted.

"WHAT HAPPENED?ARE YOU OK?", she almost shouted at me.

" I am on my way to yours. Everything is ok but I need your help. Get dressed as I am arriving in 10 min", I said and hung up.

We just pulled up on the drive way as the head lights of the car revealed a fully dressed and nervous A.J. I paid the driver and got out. He revered the car and drove off.

"So what brings you here at 2.30am Naja?", A.J asked me half scolding half worried.

I grabbed her hand and looked at her.

"A.J I need answers. Please, I have to talk to G Dragon now", I begged her.

She was even more confused about that but then she seemed to make the right connection. Turning on her heels she went inside and came back out with keys. In the door frame a saw Jungkook rather sleepy and waving at her while rocking the baby to sleep.

We both got inside the car and she did not say anything for a while. Before I realised it we pulled up at the drive way of G Dragons house and were walking to his apartment. Instead of ringing A.J used keys. Seemed like she did do this often.

We entered his home and she pointed at the couch signalling me to take a seat. The flat seemed deserted but it could also be that he was asleep.

She vanished into one room along the corridor and came back out with a very sleepy and confused G Dragon.

" Why? Why are you here at 3am in the morning?", he asked her worried.

"Oppa sit down. We have a guest. We both want answers", she said seriously and that is when he realised my presence.

His worried face was replaced my a very confused one.

"Oppa you seem to know me. Tell me how?", I asked him while standing up.

He just laughed and looked at me: "Seems like I made a mistake as my JN was more clever".

That comment led to him getting scolded by A.J.

"Who is she?", A.J asked for me.

" Oh when I was a trainee she used to hang around the area alot. She was always in trouble since her so called parents did not care. We became friends as we both love music and she had an incredible voice. I even showed her all the things that I learned in class and she exceeded any talent I had seen. I really grew fond of her but... but the she disappeared. I looked everywhere but no one seemed to know where she went. I was devastated. We even started to compose together and we never finished our first song...", he said almost on the verge of crying.

A.J must have heard the story for the first time judging from her expression.

"Oppa you never mentioned this...", she said tearing up.

"Past scars that never healed. Somehow NJ you resemble her but I guess I was seeing ghosts", he said and walked around to the piano.

G Dragon started to play a verse and we listened in quiet until I hummed along unconsciously. He stopped playing and looked at me. In that moment a fragment of my memory came back and I saw us singing this song. Tears started to run down my cheek. How could I ever forget my first love.

"J Oppa?", I said to him and his eyes widened and he came over to me.

" I lost parts of my memory in a car accident on Christmas 10 years ago...I didn't know...", I started but he stopped me as he wrapped his arms around me and stroke my back.

"Welcome home", he said sobbing.

A.J just let us be and sat down on the couch. I remembered him and us. He made me fall for music even more and is the reason for me starting to produce music. That song was the start of me being here although I kind of erased the start. I didn't love him anymore but I did back then. I guess he already knew as he let go of me and smiled hurt in some way.

"Let's start fresh Naja. Let us become friends", he said as he led me to the couch and sat opposite to me. Now that my memory was back I could see alot of the little J in the one opposite to me. These eyes that were so deep and that smile that lighted up each bad day I had.

I nodded and we spend the rest of the night talking until I feel asleep on the couch.