VLIVE | j.jk

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BACK in jeongguk's hotel room vlive the comment section was going crazy. luckily before anything can go crazy, bts' lovely staff who always watching their vlive rushed into the hotel room and shut the vlive off.

they already asked the rest of bangtan if jeongguk had been in their rooms in a secret manner. thankfully all of them had been doing their own thing and had not watched the vlive.

they also searched the entire hotel room to make sure he hadn't left anywhere. but their minds were flooded with confusion. how they heck did he disappear. where is that boy?

there were a few who were even annoyed at him. they were tired of the bangtan boys' pranks and couldn't bother giving their all to searching for him. but in the back of their minds, they couldn't help but wonder: what if they missed a spot.

eventually every staff were regrouped in jeongguk's room. they were soon joined by bangtan's manager who decided to the tell the boys the bad news.

the room was in chaos.

"mr. kwon do you know what happened?" namjoon asked, pushing past the others and cornering the confused staff. his mind was going crazy with all the possibilities that come with "jeongguk's missing."

"namjoon i-i'm not sure but—"

the poor staff was interrupted by jimin's dramatic exclaim.

"gah! our maknae's gone! what are we going to do?"

"well—"

"yeah! you think aliens abducted him?" jin piped up, bumping into a yawning yoongi on his way to mr.kwon. "i always knew he was too precious for this world."

"jin, we're being serious and i don't think so—"

"no guys you got it all wrong. what if he was kidnapped? this is jeongguk we are talking about! about a good majority of our fans are kookie biased. they could have come in here, you know it's happened before. has the security guards set up a perimeter?" taehyung urged, giving equal eye contact to ever person in the room.

"being kidnapped is not to be joked about," jhope shook his head.

"i'm serious. why do you always think i'm trying to be stupid or something?" taehyung snapped, turning towards jhope with his cocked to the side.

"woah, tae calm down," yoongi stepped up, pulling taehyung aside.

"oh my gosh, this is what happens when you guys don't freaking listen. i'm trying to figure out what's going on and all of you keep being annoying. i'm sure mr. kwon has an explanation for all of this. so please listen up, kids," namjoon broke the chaos, with a slightly annoyed face.

there was silence for a moment and yoongi so desperately wanted to say i'm older than you, but kept to himself.

mr. kwon uncomfortably played with his fingers as all their attention turned to him. "so we don't exactly know what happened. he was just doing a vlive, he was saying some weird stuff and then he was gone. it looked like he went behind his camera before he disappeared. he didn't even leave the room and his phone is here."

"that is pretty confusing," namjoon nodded, rubbing the nape of his neck.

"what are we going to do about it?" yoongi asked, gently letting his grip of taehyung go after he had calmed down.

mr. kwon revealed the staff's plan to search around the neighborhood as the boys with their bodyguards looking once more in the hotel before taking any extreme measures. they were hoping that vlive had a malfunction and jeongguk had left through the middle of it so the audience couldn't see. but that was a stretch.

the group split into two, namjoon went with mr.kwon, and scanned through the hotel in its entirety.

but even then, no one could find jeongguk. no body but mia and the lost man himself knew that he wasn't even in the same state.

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when every corner of the hotel showed no sign of jeongguk, the manager was worried. they couldn't look for him in the streets because he didn't have his phone and they wouldn't know where to start. telling the media was out of the question. telling the rest of the company back home was definitely their way to go except the staff feared they'd lose their jobs. they imagined their boss yelling over the phone, "how could you lose one of the most important assets in bangtan?!"

the title : the golden maknae belonged to jeongguk. he could sing, dance, act, produce, choreograph, make people laugh. he was determined, considerate, caring, confident. he was strong, handsome, tall, flexible. but he was also...missing.

mr. bang was flabbergasted when he heard the news, convinced it was a joke. but thoughts of almost every possibility ran about his brain as he tried to focus on what to do next. it was like losing the best player on the team but the player is your son and you want what's best for him, you want him to be safe.

"notify the police but keep this low. don't let anything slip out. let's do this quietly, you hear?" mr. bang finally responded to the nervous mr.kwon. "i knew we should have put those tracking chips on them."

"um sir... we already discussed how unethical that would be um—"

"whatever! get him back now! who knows what could have happened to him?"

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