Danger ✔️

Chapter 24

"Hyung I saw it with my own eyes! It's the same brooch she had in the picture!"

"Jungkook, she died in that cruise ship accident!"

"But her body was never been found!"

"It could've been eaten by fishes or sharks for all we know. Her names wasn't on the list of the survivals."

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May 3 2017; BTS Dorm; South Korea

"Hyung, can we talk?" Jungkook asks Jimin who was busy with his phone, looking at the pictures of him and Eun Byeol that was taken over the trip in Hawaii. Somehow, Jimin had managed to force the lass to take a selca with him, using the guilt card (Jin and Taehyung had sent their pictures with Eun Byeol on their group chat) to force her to agree.

Jungkook had caught what his hyung had been staring for the past hour, sporting a silly smile and deep blush. Is this what Taehyung hyung meant?

Jimin immediately press the sleep button of his phone, hiding it on his pocket before turning to the maknae, "Sure!" he agrees with his eye smile.

"I mean, alone. In my room." the maknae stated, roaming his eyes around the living room where the members all gathered up but doing their own thing.

It's the perfect time to talk to him because Eun Byeol volunteered to come with Jin to buy drinks on the café beside the building. He lost in a game and his punishment was to buy them coffee with his own money.

When they arrived at Jungkook's room, the maknae immediately push the door close and press the lock.

"Is it really that important?" Jimin chuckles after the Jungkook had locked the door.

"Hyung, remember that time where you lost the knife throwing game on hawaii last month? You owe me a wish right?"

"Uh-huh. Have you decide for your wish then?" Jimin asks. Jungkook became silent for a minute, having a mental battle with himself whether he will do this or not but after a moment of silence, Jungkook's conflicted look morph in one of determination.

"I want you to stay away with Eun Byeol." the maknae blurted out. At first, Jimin thought that he's just joking so he laugh. When Jungkook remained stoic, he knew that's he's serious.

"You know it's not possible. Eun Byeol is our friend--my friend and she works to protect us. I-I can't do that, Kookie. I'm sorry."

"Hyung, I know you like her, not as a friend but a woman. I can tell by how you look at her, smile at her and clings to her. But hyung you should stop because she's mine." Jungkook declared. I can tell because that's how I look at her too.

"She's not yours Jungkook. She's no one's property. She owns herself." Jimin argues, "I do like her but I can't own her because that's the reality. Even if she likes someone back, she will never be anyone's property because she's not an object."

"Hyung, you don't understand. Th-this is the first time I ever felt this kind of feeling. Much more than what I felt on Jiwon," Jungkook sighed, his eyes glistening of tears threatening to spill any moment,  "as cringey as it sounds but my heart starts pounding whenever she's around, like it wants to go out of my rib cage. Everything she does makes me breathless, even if she's just simply breathing.

"Hyung, I let Jiwon go to make you happy, now this is your time to make me feel the same. I sacrificed a lot for you, this is the only thing I ask for return. I don't want to ruin our brotherhood just because of a girl but Eun Byeol isn't just any girl, She's mine hyung. And I will do everything to claim what's mine." he finished. Jimin was left dumbfounded, staring at the space Jungkook once occupied. His fingers finds its way to his temple.

He felt annoyed, confused, happy. Those mix emotions didn't go well with each other but he finds himself smiling, "Our maknae grew up so fast. He's now claiming someone as his."

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May 4 2017; Big Hit Entertainment; Dance Practice Room

Eun Byeol was laughing really hard to Yoongi as he rap his part on 21st Century Girl while dancing foolishly. She didn't even know if their practicing or playing.

"Eun Byeol is turning red like a kimchi! Are you even breathing?" Hoseok asks while laughing and dancing at the same time.

"I can't help it! Yoongi is so funny!" Eun Byeol answers in between her laugh. She literally doubled on the floor when Namjoon suddenly trips on literally nothing and face plant on the cold floor. Even Hoseok and Jimin cannot help but to guffaw at their clumsy hyung.

"Byeol-ah!" Jungkook calls her before she can even recover from too much laughing. The maknae joined in goofy dance showdown, flailing his limbs everywhere then suddenly squat to twerk, Taehyung kicking the maknae as he twerk. Poor Eun Byeol cannot even breathe from laughing too much.

"Aaaah stop it! I can't see!" Jimin whined because his eyes literally disappears as he was laughing so much.

"You haven't even see Jin hyung dance and you're laughing so much!" Taehyung commented, "Where's Jin hyung anyway?" he yelled in between the loud music.

As if on cue, Jin came rushing in beaming with happiness as he yell in excitement, "Kids! Let's go home!"

"What? Why?" Namjoon asks.

With a huge smile plasters on his face and eyes glistering of joy, Seokjin raises his hand with 8 thin and rectangular papers on the air, waving it in front of the members all sharing a confused look, "Bang PD-nim was invited to try the newly opened Laser Tag Arena in Myeongdong with seven other staffs but they cannot go because they had a sudden meeting so he gave us the tickets instead in exchange of promising to bring Eun Byeol with us." he explains.

Moment of silence coated the whole dance practice room, not even a pindrop can be heard. Awkwardly, Jin added, "Well, he was about to give it to the trainees but they are under strict training so Bang PD-nim thinks that it will be better to give us the tickets for goodluck in the next country on our world tour."

As if the information sunk in on their mind just now, the members all cheer, some are even dancing in excitement.

"Let's go home and change!" Taehyung cheered, grabbing Eun Byeol's hand to pull her up and out of the dance practice room, oblivious to the death glare from a certain someone directed to him.