✔️F I R E || BTS

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PRESS CONFERENCE DAY
8:15 AM

Taehyung, together with his groupmates, was currently riding on a black van, wearing a formal black outfit suited for male idols. It was finally the day they'll clarify every controversies concerning about their group.

Taehyung was a bit nervous, though his face shows the opposite as he wore his famous blank face.

"Tae? Can you please pass me that bottle of water? My throat's hella drying," Jin said particularly to Taehyung.

As told, he passed the bottle of water to Jin but as he about to hand it to the eldest's hand, he let go of it thinking he already passed the said bottle. A small thud was heard on the van's floor.

"What the-?!"

That was Jin's initial reaction.

"Sorry," Taehyung plainly apologized. He picked up the bottle from the floor and handed it over again to Jin.

Jin quickly uncapped the bottle and drink the water in it. However, Taehyung was back on his blank face again. Jimin noticed his bestfriend's unusual silence. He took the advantage on talking to him while everyone was busy minding their own businesses.

"You okay Tae?" Jimin asked.

Taehyung didn't answer so Jimin had to call him again. "Tae?"

The latter was taken aback from staring into space. "Y-y-yeah?... Are you talking to me?..." He asked cluelessly.

Jimin had a hint about Taehyung's feeling at this moment. But still, he nevermind that and had to ask again. "You okay?"

Taehyung replied a single heavy sigh. "I don't know chim... I..." He trailed off. "I just... I just don't know..."

Jimin showed a reassuring smile. "It's okay Tae. We're here. I know you're nervous but we can do this. Not just you but the whole BTS. We are all in this together."

Taehyung took several seconds before he replied, "Yeah. You're right about that. I just can't help being incredibly nervous about the questions the medias would ask us. I know it's not gonna be easy given the controversies roaming around the country."

"Yeah... Wait!" Jimin widened his eyes. "So you knew?!"

Taehyung widened his eyes too, realizing that he just spilled about knowing everything that his hyungs were trying to hide. He scratched his nape in half embarassment.

"Uh... Yeah? I think..." he replied as he laughed awkwardly.

Jimin overreacted as he covered his mouth using his both hands, forming an 'o' shape on his mouth. "Oh. My. God."

Taehyung laughed awkwardly again. Jimin shrugged his thoughts off and patted his bestfriend's shoulder. "Don't worry Tae. Whatever might happen, we are still friends. We are BTS. No one can break us together. Okay?" He reassured. Determination was evident in the way he looked at the younger latter.

Even though he's shook, he smiled anyway. "Yeah yeah. I guess, you're right."

"Do not just guess. It's a 99.9999% fact!" Jimin just whined.

Taehyung just laughed.

Few moments later, the van finally arrived at the area where the press conference will be held. As the young latters peeked outside through the van's windows, all they could see was alot of media workers carrying familiar devices.

"Woah. So many people," Jungkook commented under his breath. Little did he know, Jin heard him too. Jin just nodded in agreement.

Confused, Yoongi couldn't help himself from speaking his thoughts out loud. "Hmm... I wonder... For a small group like us coming from a small company would have so many medias attending in this press-con. Why would they make such a fuss?"

With that statement, Taehyung felt stabbed. He thought that the statement Yoongi has just said was supposed to be particularly intended for him. He didn't know if Yoongi did that on purpose to make him feel guilty or if Yoongi just said that out of both curiosity and confusion. If the answer was neither of the choices, he still definitely would think that he was the cause why people were so intrigued and would do anything to interview them. After all, he was previously known as the country's famous arsonist.

Namjoon slightly spanked the back of Yoongi's head as he spoke, "Don't you dare speak like that. Let's just be thankful that they attended. If they weren't, this press-con wouldn't be called as one if they didn't appeared. Am I right, Yoongi?"

Yoongi silenced. The car door opened up and Jin was the first one to go down from the van. As the media workers noticed him, they crowded them. Thanks for the guards provided from the company, those workers were  being stopped temporarily.

The next one to go down was Namjoon. Next was Yoongi, then Hoseok, then Jungkook, and then Jimin. The last one to go down was Taehyung. His face was stuck on the red carpet, he doesn't want to look up. Gladly, there's no any haters that would throw garbages at them or any thing like those seen in various movies.

Every workers in each media wanted to talk them, well, more specifically to Taehyung. BTS nevermind those questions as they continued to walk and went to a big platform where a long-sized table was placed. That was for them. They stood first and projected to the cameras everywhere. Alot of flashes can be seen that it almost blinded Yoongi who was whining inside.

As soon as BTS felt it's the end for them to smile at those cameras, they all sat on the chairs, waiting for the hosts to start the press-con.

"Good morning everyone! Welcome to Bighit Entertainment first press conference!"