Lost In Translation

The One With the Soup

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~°~°~°~Hoseok's POV°~°~°~°

  "Hyung… what that guy was saying earlier…" I’m barely able to whisper the rest as the shock is still registering. 

  "You don't think…" I attempt to verbalize it again, but can't bring myself to vocalize my hypothesis.

  "That she's being abused?"  Jin hyung bluntly addresses the elephant in the room as we make our way back to the penthouse. 

  I nod quietly as I continue to process the information from earlier.

  "Yes, I do think that’s what's going on."  He continues.

  "Then why are we walking away hyung? Shouldn't we do something? I feel as if we are condoning it from turning our backs on her. I hate to know what that creep is doing to her right now."  I sigh trying to shake off the guilt that is beginning to cling to me.

  "We have to be smart about this Hoseok. Remember what Namjoon said yesterday, PDnim has Melody under his control. In order to be able to rescue her we have to take care of him first. Right now they are at least keeping her alive, we don't want them to put her at further risk. Which means we can't tell Yoongi about this. He will be purely reactionary, and possibly make matters worse."  Jin hyung explains as he opens the penthouse door. 

  "Follow my lead."  He whispers before facing Yoongi who has been patiently waiting for us on the couch. 

  "How was she? Did she like the noodles? Did you tell her that I helped?" Yoongi asks as his eyes light up as he sees us walk into the room, waiting to hear about her reaction.

  "She's doing fine. She wasn't able to eat the noodles because it wasn't on her diet plan."  Jin explains.

  "Diet plan? Why do they have her on a plan?" Yoongi asks.

  "It's just to help lose a few pounds like what we have done before. Nothing too strenuous. She said to tell you that she misses you too, and erm… she forgives you for that one-time you were drunk… Yeah that's right."  Jin stammers causing Yoongi to furrow his brows. 

  I can tell by his expression he knows Jin is hiding something.

  "She just wanted to make sure you weren't thinking she's been avoiding you all this time."  I cover giving Jin a 'what in the world are you talking about' glare. 

  'Of course she's already forgiven him you pabo!'

  "Oh."  Yoongi sighs relaxing back into the couch.

  "That makes more sense, she’s always so considerate. What else did she say? How's her training going? It's not too hard for her, right? I know she's skilled on her own, but we've been in the business for six years, and I still have issues keeping up." Relief dances across his face as he sighs with a small smile.

  I can't resist mentally squealing over the glazed over, love struck essence which is radiating from my dear hyung. Ahhhhh I just wish Jimin would finally get out of the picture, and then everything will fall into place! Except now PDnim is literally ruining everything as we speak. Will things ever calm down enough for my ship to sail?

***

 Ten o'clock quickly rolls around, and at nine fifty-nine I stand patiently at her door. After a few seconds another buff man exits the elevators heading towards my direction. 

"Are you the choreography aid?  Yong-Su told me you would be joining today. I see he was right when he called you scrawny. I guess you will do. I'm Gu Hyuk." He sighs as he digs into his pockets in search for keys.