1 year.
1 girl.
And the 7 men who own her heart.
When she applied for the job, she thought she'd just be teaching in South Korea and getting a fresh start. Little did she know, she'd be signing up to shred her soul into seven little pieces.
Best ra...
The police are at the apartment when we step in, but that doesn't stop the other six members from rushing up to smother me in anxious hugs and relieved kisses. I try my best to reassure them that I'm ok, but I know it will take more than words. I have to show them I am, even if it's the farthest thing from the truth.
"Let's let her rest," Namjoon insists, pointedly looking at Manager Sejin. The larger man nods and tells the police that the boys and I will be in touch soon. Then he walks them out, insisting they continue their conversation down at the station.
"Did you call Jigaemae-hyung?" Jin asks Yoongi while ushering me to the couch.
Yoongi shakes his head. "Not yet. I just wanted to get her home. I will now." He pulls out his cell and starts to tap out a message and I force myself to look up at the other members, my gaze touching each one of their anguished ones.
"What about Jigaemae?"
"He's been out..." Taehyung begins to explain, swallowing thickly. His big, beautiful brown eyes are rimmed red and puffy. "Looking for you. We thought...we thought..." He begins to choke on his words as tears stream down his face. I hold my arms open for him, needing to soothe his aching soul, and he drops to the floor in front of me and buries his face in my lap.
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"We thought someone took you," Hoseok finishes for Taehyung, his voice raw. "My sister called and she was so scared. She found your phone in the toilet and she didn't know what happened. You were just...gone."
I nod. "I'm so sorry, Hobi. I'll talk to Jiwoo and apologize. I can't...I don't know what to say. I'm just so sorry for scaring you all like that."
"We know, jagi," Jimin says softly. He sits on the floor in front of me as well and begins to rub his best friend's back to calm him, despite fighting back his own emotion. "We thought we lost you and we didn't know what else to do. We all tried to go out and search for you as much as we could, but then the manager hyungs told us we needed to come back and talk to the police."
"But Yoongi hyung stayed out because he felt you were lost out there," Jungkook adds. "Noona...were you... Were you trying to run away?"
I shake my head out of reflex. "Not from you, I promise. Just from..."
"Just from what?" Jin urges from beside me.
"From...everything."
He nods and then looks down at his hands. The silence that follows is deafening but I don't know what else to say. There are no words to make this right.
Namjoon is the first to break the ice. "The company had the video removed in minutes. It's gone. And anyone who shared it can be prosecuted. I don't know how the American legal stuff works but we can sue," he states. I know he's trying to sound hopeful but I shake my head.
"We can't sue everyone, Joonie. I'm just glad that it's gone. I want to be done with it all and if we jump into lawsuits, it will never die. I'll never have peace."
