✔️F I R E || BTS

삼십칠

"Kim Taehyung, or simply known as V as his stage name, was introduced as the seventh member of Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) that will debut soon as the first korean boy group formed from the label, Bighit Entertainment."

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"Sir!" One of the staffs came out rushing to Bighit's C.E.O office to find the C.E.O himself.

Sihyuk looked up. "Wazzup?" He then asked the worry-looked staff.

"Netizens went crazy about our news! They were attacking us now! And BTS themselves through online and offline!" The staff explained.

"Wait-What? W-what do you mean?" Sihyuk asked, confused as he has no idea what was going on and what was the staff was talking about.

"Come and see for yourself!" The staff commanded and motioned Sihyuk to the window who immediately obligated. The C.E.O was simply partly puzzled and partly curious about what was happening.

As soon as they looked down outside, they saw people staging a big rally outside their company, bringing large placards, signboards and handouts as they shouted the same line, "Remove Taehyung from the group."

The C.E.O then forcefully closed the curtains hanging from the full-sized glass windowpane. He then went back to his swivel chair, massaging his temples lightly. He knew this would happen but he didn't expected that this was alot worse than he thought it would be. This was just beyond his expectations.

"Sir?" The staff asked, striking up his eyebrow.

"Just let them be," Sihyuk simply said.

The staff was taken aback. "Wait! What did you just said sir?"

"I said, just let them be. If we'll entertain any of this, this will get too far. We won't let that happen. For the meantime, make sure BTS won't get harmed because of this. Do you understand?"

"Yes boss!"

~

Meanwhile, in Bangtan Dorm, Jungkook was uncharacteristically surfing down the net using his iPad, only to find the viral news about Bangtan Sonyeondan which was basically their group.

He stood up, went to Jimin who was reading a book, screamed at him making the poor man fell off from his bed. A loud thud was then heard.

"Oh my God Jungkook! Can you please don't always pop out and scream like that?! 감차기야!" He scolded Jungkook annoyedly, with a sharp sound in his voice.

"Oh, 미안해! It's just that... Have you looked at the news already?!" He apologized then asked immediately.

[REVIEW: 'Kamchagiya' means 'You startled me!' and 'mianhae' means 'I'm sorry.']

Jimin looked at him bewilderedly, raising an eyebrow. "아니요, 왜?" He replied.

[REVIEW: 'Aniyo' means 'no' and 'wae' means in english as 'why?']

Jungkook quickly handed Jimin his iPad and scrolled up the article news viewed on it. Jimin then instantaneously read the article. "See? They were slandering us! Especially hyung!" Jungkook half-yelled half-mutterred as he was pointing at the picture embodied on the news article. The last part of his sentence was pertaining to Taehyung.

Jimin just stared at Jungkook, contacting his eyes as he held both Jungkook's shoulders. "Jungkook, listen. We can't let Taehyung see any of this. D'you understand?"

The younger male just nodded. Jungkook was about to reply a word when suddenly, Jin and Hoseok barged in the room. "Did you see the news?" They both asked in unison.

"We did. Just now," the two younger latter replied with a dull tone on their voices and a 'meh' expression plastered on their faces.

"Did you see the news?!" Namjoon asked loudly, interrupting the session as he entered inadvertently.

"We did. Just now," the four boys replied monotonously in unison.

Yoongi also entered Jimin's room. But instead wearing a questioning look, he was wearing a blank and sleepy face. He yawned. "What's the fuss all about?" He asked as he laid down Jimin's white-coloured bed.

The five latter just let out a heavy sigh and faced each other. Then suddenly, there was an interruption again. It was a phone call from Namjoon's. The latter quickly picked it up.

"여보세요?" Namjoon called the caller. It was the staff who talked with Bang Sihyuk. "What's up?"

[REVIEW: 'Yeoboseyo' means 'hi/hello.' It is a word that can only be used in phone calls.]

"Namjoon-ah! Please keep safe. Netizens are everywhere and you all need to be careful. Do not go outside the dorm unless we say so. It's dangerous outside," the staff replied with a pang of worry on his voice.

"O-okay?..." Namjoon replied, looking on his members. "Well, we heard the news. Are you okay over there? People were rallying in front of the company, right?"

"Yeah. We're alright. We'll just going to stay up overnight today. All what matters is your safety. People don't know about your location so your safe, for now atleast," There was slight pause on the other line. "Okay, I have to go now. 안녕!"

Namjoon hung up the call then faced his members. "Alright guys. We need to keep safe for now. The company wants us stay in our dorm unless they'll say it is safe to go out."

Jungkook reacted, narrowing his eyes, "붜?! B-but-" The sentence was interrupted by Namjoon.

[REVIEW: 'Bwo' means 'what?']

"Look Jungkook, it's for our own good. I have a hunch that the company won't entertain any media right now. It might worsen the news."

"Alright, I get it. But what about Taehyung? We can't let him see this!" Jungkook said with worry. Jimin nodded, agreeing with the maknae.

"Well..."

~

Speaking of Taehyung, he can be found in the dorm's terrace, inhaling the sweet cold breeze with a big mug placed on the table.

People in the dorm might think that he didn't have a clue of what was happening in the nation right now but actually, he was the first one who knew about the news in the first place. He was introduced by Bighit Entertainment at 12AM KST and after that, he stayed up all night to watch the reactions of his fellow countrymen. There were some good reactions but mostly the reactions were bad. The medias were slandering him, some people roasted him with rude comments, even sent death threats to him and anything else. The group's newly made fans tried their best to prevent the issue to grow any bigger but even them were being bullied. He felt sorry about them.

Taehyung remained silent about this. He didn't told anyone, including his best friends Jimin and Jungkook. He was just silent. He knew that something like this would happen. It was expected and quite predicted. It didn't really surprised him. But he can't help himself but to feel sad. People didn't liked him because of his previous records. Because he was previously reported as an arsonist. But what could he do about it? It has been made. It has been done and he knew he can't go back through time to change everything.

He looked at his phone. There was a burning red-coloured flame danced on the screen. Fire still calmed him down. His therapy did help him in his situation because instead of burning something to calm him down, now he only needs a video of a dancing fire to make himself at peace.

"You can do this Taehyung... Things will turn up right some time... You can surpass this challenge... Be positive, okay?"

With that said, a single warm tear rushed down through his cheeks.

"You're gonna be okay, Tae..."