Kapitel 33: BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS
Yoongi walked outside the practise hall without any plan where to go. He waited for the rest of BTS members outside the hall. While waiting, he put his earbud to his ears. Scrolling on the screen to find a nice song to listen. While selecting a song in his playlist, someone tapped on his shoulder. He turned around saw a physical that he was looking for all this time. He was too shocked that this person appeared right in front of him.
"Hey, missing me?" the guy asked, smilingly.
"St..Steve?" Yoongi stuttering.
Steve laughed, "Hahaha. Wow, you're so amazing! Still remember me? I'm such a lucky fan!"
Yoongi didn't know how to react to this situation as it happened so sudden. All this time, BTS searching for him, and now he appeared right in front of him as nothing happened? What kind of game he's playing now? Confused.
"Oh yeah, where are the others?" Steve asked while looking around.
Yoongi annoyed Steve acting like they know each other for so long when in fact they only met him once. Yoongi protective side came out. He asked him instead of answering to Steve, "Why? What do you want?" Yoongi's voice was firm and strong.
Steve smirked and laughed, "Hey, chill...just drop by to say hi since I'm around and know some people here. Just found out you guys are practising here. So I thought why not I just say hello. Who knows maybe you may need me in the future? I can help".
Listening to Steve makes him wondering even harder what is Steve's real intention coming all the way here? The security here is tight since a lot of high profile celebrities coming here. If he can freely roaming around here, it means Steve is not a normal person. He wanted to ask Steve about Jaejae hyung, but he unsure whether this is the right time to ask such situation. Steve made an unexpected move now. He needs to be careful not to fall into his trap. If he wants to meet BTS members, Yoongi refused to make it true. Yoongi hoped BTS members won't come out.
"I miss Yeontan," suddenly Yoongi heard BTS members talking from inside the hall room before all six of them appeared at the door. Damn. He needed to stop them from seeing Steve.
"Sorry, we're busy. Important business. Bye," Yoongi told Steve and run to BTS members to block BTS views.
"Ya! Let's go to the toilet first," Yoongi quickly diverted BTS members attention and pulled Jungkook's hand who was the nearest to him. Some members playing with their phones just followed them from behind without realising that Steve was just behind them.
However, Yoongi's attempt to avoid them meeting Steve failed as Steve quickly called them from behind. All of them turned around. Like Yoongi, they were shocked looking at Steve coming seeing them. None of them expects this to happen. All of them looked at both Steve and Seokjin as both of them shared the history of sleeping with each other. As Steve became closer, Hoseok who was already not in the mood because of the argument with Namjoon, stepped up to the front of the other members. He stood face to face with Steve who was smiling happily like he never did anything wrong to them.
"Hi, guys. It's been a while, right? How are you?" Steve asked, friendly.
Namjoon noticed the unpleasant situation quickly replied, "Yeah, we are good. Err, sorry but we need to go now". Namjoon quickly pulled Hoseok's hand. He needed to separate them first and tell the manager about this since he doesn't know what to do in this situation. Plus, Hoseok looked so emotional and sensitive state. Not to mention, Seokjin also was too surprised.
Hoseok looked angry. He pushed Namjoon's hand from touching him. He glared at Steve, sharped. He asked, "What do you want?".
Steve smiled, "Oh J-hope, I'm coming here to cheer you up. I heard you guys gonna perform here. I'm just nearby, so I just want to say hello".
Hoseok smirked, unbelieved with what he just heard, "What? Cheer up? You...".
Steve cut Hoseok's words and asked, "Seems like you guys on break. Come! Let me bring you guys to a nice private restaurant".
Steve invited them while pulling Seokjin's arm and locked to his. He sent Seokjin a naughty eye contact. Seokjin looked so disgusted and about to push Steve's hand, but Hoseok was faster, broke them apart harshly. Jimin came to the front and pushed Steve away from Seokjin.
"Do you want me to call the police?" Jimin pissed. He alarmed with the danger. He's not afraid to stand up for Seokjin. He straight away threatening Steve since he can read how evil Steve can be by just reading Steve's body language. To Jimin, Steve really up into something. No point he pretending to be nice and nothing happened before this. BTS members went through a lot because of this stupid incident involving him. So many blood, sweat and tears to the extent they almost disbanding.
Steve lost his smile as he almost stumbled down after being pushed by Jimin. He stared at Jimin sharped. "Hey, Jimin. Don't be so harsh with me. Don't get violent. If I get injured here, you guys gonna be over. I don't think you guys wanna mess around with someone like me".
After listening to it, Namjoon trying to defend BTS voiced out, "I'm sorry for what was just happening. I'm glad you are not hurt. But I think you well-known enough why we are acting like this, don't you?"
The corner of Steve's lip curved. He replied, "Why...? Do you afraid of our bed scene get leak...or you are afraid of that drug incident which no reporters have revealed who was the artist yet?"
Seokjin emotion escalated high. The wound in his heart opened up again. His heart feels burned as he recalled this incident. He wanted to throw all of it now since God gave him the chance to face this person again.
Seokjin responded sharply, "I'm not afraid about the drunk incident and we slept together. We already know you are gay. Everyone knows I'm a straight guy. It was just a pure mistake and our fan won't back off just because of that. I believe they will understand if I explained properly. And about the drug...I didn't do it! So I'm not afraid to fight back! You set me up and put the crime on me. You gonna pay the price! What I'm worried now is my members' safety. Because of you, we got into a fight. Because of you, we're almost disband. Now we're about to do comeback, you're appearing again? What kind of joke is this?! Tell me now. Who paid you to do this stupid act on me?! Why me?!".
Steve laughed, "Hey Jin, I told you I came here to cheer for you guys. What makes you overthinking like this? I only know about the drug and drunk incident. I don't know anything about BTS safety, fought and got beaten by other people whatsoever as you claimed. Stop playing the victim and blame me when you were the one who made mistakes".
"Wait! I only told you we got into a fight. I didn't tell you we got bitten by other people. I was referring to the BTS group fight. How do you know we got beaten by a gang?" Seokjin quicked to notice Steve mistake.
Steve quiet, he got caught. How can he be so careless and slipped tongue like this? He quickly think how he can cover up this mistake. All BTS members looked at Steve, waiting for an explanation from him. Deep down, all BTS members lowkey impressed with Seokjin quick-witted to notice.
"I'm just assumed. Who would think you're referring to group fight when you just gave a general sentence," Steve tried to hide his lie.
To BTS, his slow response just confirmed that he knew what was going on in BTS. Steve didn't need to hide the fact with his toxic tongue anymore. Seokjin walked forward slowly and arrogantly towards Steve. The other members followed him from behind. All of their eyes expressing a strong bad guy vibes. Like they were about to eat Steve alive. Seeing BTS gang up against Steve, made Steve's leg shaking a little. He gulped. Steve tried to control his expression. He looked at Seokjin's eyes like he never intended to avoid that scary eye contact.
Seokjin moved his face to Steve's left ear and whispered, "Even a poisonous demon like you can't kill me with your poison. Drink that sweet poison by yourself. Finish it with your hand. Because I won't follow you even I can't escape. I don't mind if it's painful".
Although he was whispering, his low voice enough to make all of them heard it clearly. He locked eyes with Steve again and smirked. A real war was about to start since both of them already met eyes to eyes now. He didn't intend to back off but fight back. Seokjin realised the feeling he had now is a strong and deep grudge against the person in front of him now.
Steve can't say anything. He now knew Seokjin was getting strong and smart enough to fight him back. He saw and felt the fire burned in his eyes. Not only Jin, but other members too. He underestimated their teamwork and connection. He knew well enough why Seokjin called him poisonous demon. Because all his sweet lies were exposed. He originally wanted to make them weak and shaking again by reappeared. But his moves was wrong. Although BTS members seemed like running away at first, when the whole team united, they can go wild and left him slightly intimidated.
Other BTS members knew all Seokjin wanted was their support. That's why they gang up and walked closely behind Seokjin just now. They live together long enough to understand his body language and tonality. They knew when Seokjin suddenly spoke confidently without any fears just like this, they just can tell that he needed their support without even speak.
"So, what weird plan in your head now?" Taehyung asked. He asked same question that everyone were thinking.
Steve ignored Taehyung question, and instead asked, "Let say I knew everything. What are going to do? How you can prove that I'm on the bad side now?"
"Do you know Jaejae?" Jungkook asked a sudden question.
Steve's face changed. His eyes started shaking. He wondered how BTS knew about the name that become his weakness? But he played innocent. He asked, "Who's Jaejae? Do I really need to know who is he?".
Yoongi a bit tempered raised his voice, "Cut the crap! Stop the acting, please. We knew about it already".
Steve still pretending did not know who's Steve. Why he felt like being bullied by BTS now? Why this table suddenly turned around?
Jungkook cannot wait to his late respond. He asked again, "Okay, seems like it's a difficult question for you. Okay, lemme ask a simple question. Hyunjae and Jaejae are the same person, right?"
Steve taken aback. He shocked that BTS knew about Hyunjae and Jaejae. He refused to answer because all these time the identity of the mastermind was anonymous to BTS.
Jimin asked as he annoyed at Steve quiet mouth, "Why you didn't speak? Can we assume they are the same person?"
"No!" Steve shouted. He needs to protect his lover.
BTS surprised with his sudden shout. He just shifted from sneaky to serious man. What did he mean by no?
Looking at BTS expression waiting for his explanation, Steve explained, "Okay, I admit I know Jaejae. But I don't know who is Hyunjae. I don't know how you know him, but Jaejae is my boyfriend".
BTS confused. Is their assumption wrong? Hyunjae and Jaejae are two different person? Did Steve just lied again? But his intonation like he's saying the truth. Are they a twin? Hyunjae was Big Hit former staff and Jaejae is Steve's boyfriend. So what is the difference between these two person?
"Don't lie to us, Steve!" Seokjin shouted.
Steve glared, "I didn't!".
At the right time, BTS manager and their translator came together. Sejin was taken aback. He asked, "What is...".
Namjoon pulled Sejin's aside and quickly informed Sejin briefly. Sejin walked towards them who were still glaring to each other. Sejin asked Steve, "Would you mind to spend a little time with me?"
Steve replied, "Sorry I'm busy". When Steve about to leave Namjoon grabbed his shoulder harshly.
"If you didn't follow, you just proved that you're wrong and did a crime. We will lodge a police report and let the law judge this instead of settle this quietly with you," Namjoon told Steve.
Steve sighed before he said okay and followed Namjoon. Namjoon on the other hand told the rest of BTS members to let the manager discussed with Steve. They need to concentrate on their comeback. Black Swan and ON were a difficult performance that they still need to practice harder. The manager also didn't want BTS to think too much about this issue. They went to a separate direction.
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