BEHIND THE SCENES

chapter 17: enemies for life

<OST: eight - IU PROD. & ft. SUGA>

"Minnie-ya, are you able to contact Jieun-ssi?"

Minnie shook her head with a frown. "I've tried calling her more than 8 times, it seems like her phone is off or her connection is bad..."

"I called JK 18 times already-" Seokjin sighed exasperatedly as he held his phone up to his ear for the 19th time. "I don't know if they're together, but if you manage to contact her and he's with her, please call me - I'm gonna go out to look for him."

"Got it, oppa."

Seokjin burst out of the waiting room on the third floor, dashing down the hallway towards the lift. Him and the rest of the HMS team were waiting in the waiting room for over half an hour, but Jungkook had still yet to turn up. Seokjin had gone park the car, instructing Jungkook to go up and wait for him first, but little did he know that either he had lost his way... or something really bad had happened to him...

Seokjin just prayed that it was the latter.

"Hi, sorry-" Seokjin stopped by the front desk on the first floor. "Hi, sorry- did you see JK around?"

"He came through the front doors a while ago-" the lady said. "But I'm not sure exactly where he went..."

"It's alright, thank you!"

Seokjin ran around the lobby, stopping and asking almost everyone in sight, but to no avail. He crouched by the doors, burying his head in his hands. He was doomed, and he was so terrified that something had happened to Jungkook...

"Hey, excuse me?"

Seokjin looked up and there stood a young lady who looked like she was around his age. Usually, Seokjin would have gotten up with a dazzling smile to speak to her, but right now, Seokjin wasn't in the mood. Seokjin frowned. "Yes?"

"May I know where's Performance Hall 2?"

"Go find it yourself-" Seokjin groaned. "Do I look like I'm some tour guide or something?"

The lady was not having it. "Excuse you...?"

"I have enough of my own problems, can you just, I don't know-" Seokjin grunted. "Leave me alone?"

"Okay right, this ain't it-" The lady folded her arms and looked down at Seokjin with an upset expression on her face. "I was just asking where a place was, how does that warrant such a strong reaction from you? Are you really that rude, or are you just a downright terrible person by nature?"

Seokjin looked up slowly, a look of sudden recognition spreading across his face as he pointed at her. "Hold on a second- your voice-"

"Oh-" Byulyi froze, as she pointed at Seokjin, who was rising to his feet slowly. "You-"

"It's you, isn't it?" Seokjin gasped. "Jieun-ie's roommate who yelled at me over the phone? That's you, isn't it?"

"I- well- um-" Byulyi stammered, recalling that painfully embarrassing incident. "Yeah! It's me! So what?"

"What are you doing here?! Oh, I know- you're JK's anti-fan, aren't you!" Seokjin grabbed Byulyi by her shoulders, locking one arm behind her back and pinned her against the wall. "I knew it at once from the way you cursed him out over the phone that day! Tell me - what did you do to him?!"

"What the hell are you on about!" Byulyi yelled, grimacing and struggling to get herself out of Seokjin's grip. "What on earth are you doing to me?! You better let go of me before I start screaming!"

"JK just went missing and you appeared all of a sudden-" Seokjin tightened his grip on Byulyi. "This can be no coincidence - I'm gonna call the security guards on you soon, so you better hurry up and tell me where on earth did you hide Jungkook!"