When they met, it was under the hot summer sun during summer school, and they were all part of a club at their middle school. The club was introduced by a new student that came in, who frowned at the thought that there wasn't a music club and mostly clubs for academics and sports. It made sense, the school didn't have much funding and focused on the academics and athletes more when it came to talents. But, with enough of bothering the principal and faculty, the student was able to finally get permission from a teacher to use one of the classrooms for the first club meeting. Seven boys came, each with their own intentions of entering the club. Min Yoongi wrote poetry, and although there wasn't a poetry club, lyrics are close enough to poetry. Kim Taehyung plays saxophone and wanted the space to play it. Kim Namjoon likes to rap, if given the chance he would love to perform his lyrics. Park Jimin isn't really musical, he's more of a dancer, but if possible he wondered if entering the music club will give them the stage he needs to perform. Jung Hoseok was forced to enter a club after his parents found out he streets dance, they forbid him to continue and told him to choose a club from school to be a part of and that would be his extracurricular that they would pick him up from everyday. Jeon Jungkook and Kim Seokjin were dragged into the club after promise there would be food when the flyer was given to them by the new student. Though, the new student didn't expect only boys to come.

"You're a girl" Namjoon remarks as the seven boys stand by the entrance of the empty classroom. She stops midway of blowing a balloon, letting it go in excitement as it flies around the room deflating with a loud farting sound to go with it.

"Oh my god, welcome to the music club!" She jumps up excitedly, standing in front of a semi-circle of desks with light snacks from the convenient store on them. There were balloons of different sizes around the classroom, streamers taped up, and a colorful banner behind her that read, "It's a Boy!"

"Who's pregnant?" Taehyung points up at the banner with a smile on his face, looking around and expecting a gender reveal. The young girl turns red from embarrassment, "sorry, they didn't have any other banners for me to buy, and this one just looks so colorful so I thought, why not" she shrugs. The young girl was shorter than most of them, though around the same height as Jungkook, Jimin, and Yoongi. She had dark brown hair that was usually always tied into two braids. She wore the usual school uniform, and judging by the schoolwork poking out of her bag, she was in her first year of middle school. She was in the same grade as Jungkook, Taehyung, and Jimin, a grade below from Namjoon and Hoseok, and two grades below from Yoongi and Seokjin who are in their last year of middle school.

"Though, I didn't think there'd be so many boys turning out. But I guess that makes sense, sorry if some of you were expecting girls to be here too," she scratches the back of her head awkwardly.

"Music isn't a gender thing, no worries" Namjoon waves off.

"Though it is odd its only us guys and one girl" Jin mutters.

"Oh yea, I guess I just don't have the greatest reputation among the female population..." she cringes, "a lot of them don't seem to like me, I am a bit of a klutz and a scatterbrain you could say." Yoongi's been silent for the most part, but he couldn't help the small smile that escapes from him in response to how adorable she was.

"Well, some of us don't have the best reputations either, so no worries" Hoseok responds.

"Yeah, I'm the worst student there is in this school" Jungkook admits with a shrug.

"Being a street dancer doesn't give off the best impression" Hoseok adds on with a blush on his smiley face. The young girl smiles at those responses, "well that makes me feel better." She bows her head, "hello, my name is Seon Yunhee, the creator of this club. Thank you for joining me! I hope we have lots of fun together." The eight of them exchange thoughtful glances and smiles before they get into club activities.

Of course, the club didn't last too long among them since Yoongi and Jin left for high school months later. Regardless they were all together outside of school all the time. They even made themselves a clubhouse calling it their den, and even coining the name Bangtan Sonyeondan, Bulletproof Boy-scouts since some of the boys were boy-scouts. Although, Yunhee wasn't a boy-scout or a boy at all, she liked the name because it made her feel like one of the boys. It was all childish games anyways, right?

Unfortunately, times and life wasn't always on their side. As they grew older, so did many things, like feelings, dark thoughts, doubts, insecurities, and even their sense of youth was reaching its end. As they moved onto high school and university, things were growing different. In Yunhee, Jungkook, Jimin, and Taehyung's 11th grade in high school, things took a turn. Namjoon and Hoseok were busy seniors, and Jin and Yoongi were well into their first year of university. It was getting the taste of adult life that possibly led to their downfall, the stress, the fear, it all piled up.

"Why don't you just get over yourself and start being more responsible" Yoongi scolds Taehyung, who furrows his brows in anger before snapping back.

"You're doing all this over nothing, just because I forgot to come to your stupid open mic doesn't mean you can treat me this way. I have a life too!"

"Yoongi's right, we should've just told him we'd miss his performance. We're sorry hyung, it wasn't intentional, we got carried away--"

"You guys always get carried away" Namjoon annoyingly states back, erupting arguments among the seven boys. It was beginning to get like this, they weren't kids anymore, but they were also growing up, and growing up can mean pent up anger, emotions, and thoughts that can be lost in translation or never spoken. They were all scared, insecure, and some were confused, they were in huge chapters of their lives, and with enough emotion and tension like that can lead to constant arguments despite attempts to calm down.

"Hey, I brought the food--" Yunhee cuts off to see the seven of them yelling at one another in the den. Even she can see their group unfolding. At school, the boys would grow busy and flaky with their new interests and busy with school. In university life, Yoongi and Jin were always busy with work and classes. Meanwhile, Yunhee was in the middle. While the group was having their own conflicts, she was trying to figure out things on her own. Even on days when the group gets along, she would watch and sit silently.

"What's wrong?" Jimin asks her one day while they were sitting at the beach. She wore her cute yellow sundress, and some red sandals, but the vibrant outfit didn't match her demeanor. As she watches the rest of the group set up the volleyball net by the shoreline, she was watching with blank eyes and a small pitiful smile. When he asked her what's wrong, she would turn to him and just give a happy expression.

"Oh, nothing, just a little tired, that's all." He nods in understanding, turning back to watching their friends finish putting the net up.

If only he had asked her more that day.

If only they all had saw the way she was growing distant.

"Hey, what's with you nowadays? You almost missed Namjoon and Hoseok's graduation party" was the first thing said to her when she enters the den, wet from the rain outside and holding a soaking wet present with the wrapping paper now ruined.

"O-oh, sorry, I got caught up in something." Regardless, they went back to festivities and even opened up the present she brought.

"It's actually for all of us. They're special bracelets my mother got from her recent trip in Brazil. Locals say they bind everlasting friendship with these things, and the flower represents purity, innocence, and usually the bouquets of that flower represent friendship and thoughtfulness. I'm wearing mine" she held up her wrist to show the deep purple fabric with a wooden freesia flower on it.

"Wow, I haven't worn a friendship bracelet since we were in middle school when you made us make some for your birthday." It was a lighthearted joke from Taehyung, but for some reason it made her feel lonely to watch as they quickly thank her for the small present but don't think much about it. Perhaps the bracelets were a tad bit childish. It's moments like this where she felt stupid for trying to keep still in time with her friends, attempting to maintain something that was losing touch and not facing the hard truth:

Some friendships don't last forever.

Even on the day that Hoseok and Namjoon were getting ready to leave for university (Namjoon was headed international and Hoseok was leaving for a school in Busan) they didn't notice how out of it she was. They were joking around and hanging out for one last time at Namjoon's house when suddenly the question popped up.

"Taehyung and Jungkook already mentioned about what they wanna do for their career and how they're gonna plan it in senior year..." Yoongi turns to Yunhee, "what about you, Yunhee?" She was sitting silently, drinking her soda when the attention moved to her. Overtime, she grew to be less loud and clumsy, but that led to her to become more silent, keeping that same smile on her face despite how she really felt, and focusing more on others than her own problems. Now, they were asking her what she wanted to do with her life.

"Maybe, do something in music, become a performer, like I always wanted." There it was, some held looks that were pitiful, like they pitied the young girl for keeping her childish dreams intact, because they've all moved onto wanting careers that were more practical.

"Well, that's nice, don't you all think?" They nod while giving tight smiles, meanwhile, Jungkook gives her a hug from where he sat beside her, "I think it's very Yunhee of you." She didn't smile at that, very Yunhee of me? What exactly does that mean? It was then that later on during the small festivities, she got a text that would leave her tense for the next few minutes before telling her friends she needed to go. They didn't question her, however, Jin walks up to her by the door where she was placing her shoes on and began to speak to her.

"The boys and I think it would be best you look at all your options, sometimes music can be tough to pursue and we don't want you to have a hard time. You deserve to live a comfortable life." He didn't mean to hurt her, to have her stare back at him with disbelief and complete sadness.

"So, you don't think I'll make it?"

"W-wait, that's not what I said--"

"I gotta go, we'll talk later." She turns, quickly wiping at the tears on her waterline before rushing out of Namjoon's home and into the streets of Seoul. Jin would go back to the group and tell them how the conversation went.

"We weren't being bad friends, Yunhee is always a dreamer, but she tends to not think realistically," Yoongi explains.

"I feel bad she got upset" Jimin responds.

"It's alright, we can just apologize tomorrow."

But tomorrow never came.