[ You wait for him to respond. Restless, your body shifts it's weight from your right to your left leg. You tap your foot on the ground, fidget with the hem of your shirt as you start to lose your patience.

"So..." Jungkook starts, like he did two minutes ago and stopped.

You notice him search his pockets only to pull his phone out of it and start texting.

"Wow, priorities," you comment sarcastically.]

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Justin Seagull:
can I just text you?

Justin Seagull:
it's hard to explain it to your face

You: wasn't hard to lie to my face tho 👀

You: go ahead I don't expect u
to be honest anyway

Justin Seagull:
I'll tell the truth I promise

You: ngl

You: love the way you lie 🤌

You: with full confidence 🤌

You: no cap at all 🤌

Justin Seagull: I swear
whatever I say will be the
truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth

You: I don't trust u

You: but sure

You: lemme hear your story

typing...

You: wait

You: before your start

You: I wanna know

You: how tf did
Jennie get involved

Justin Seagull: well...

Justin Seagull:
remember when you left your phone here?

You: I think so...

Justin Seagull:
she called before you came to pick it up

Justin Seagull: I received it

You: of course

You: like the criminal you are

You: perfect

Justin Seagull: 😭

Justin Seagull:
I am not a criminal 😭

You: you spammed you stalked.
You are a criminal

Justin Seagull:
let me explain then you can
conclude whatever you want to 😭

You: sure okay

Justin Seagull: so I told her everything
and asked her to keep my identity safe

You: just like that?

You: u told her stuff
and she believed u?

Justin Seagull: yes

You: I don't buy it

Justin Seagull:
namjoon was involved

You: I kinda buy it

You: no I mean

You: how

You: why was namjoon involved

Justin Seagull: coz u know

Justin Seagull:
Jennie kinda has a crush on him or something

You: WTF

You: WHO TOLD U THAT

Justin Seagull: you did

Justin Seagull:
U blurred things out in front of her
when I dropped u home

You: fuck

You: explains a lot
of things at home

Justin Seagull:
so I asked her to shush things
for me if I did the same for her and
kept quiet about the namjoon thing

You: so u made a deal?

You: like a criminal

You: convincing much?

Justin Seagull: stob it 😭

Justin Seagull: *stop

Justin Seagull: I'm not a criminal 😭

You: idk Man

You: jeon jungsus

Justin Seagull: 😭😭😭

You: one more thing

You: was the artist part true?

You: not like I'll believe
you if you said yes

["If you guys just wanna text, can I get my kitchen back?" Jin's voice replaces the typing sounds in the room.]

Justin Seagull: it's true

You: yeah right

Justin Seagull:
want me to sing you a song?

["guys?" Jin asks and gets ignored again. So he just carries on with his work. Ignoring your presence, he heads towards where his veggies lay on the chopping board. Jimin and Jennie leave for their chores as well.]

You: yes

You: do it

Justin Seagull:

[The kitchen, just like any other commercial kitchen, has a stainless steel counter in the middle which separates the room in two halves with a platform on each side. Jin was preparing something on one side of the kitchen while the two of you stood on opposite sides of the counter, leaning your elbows on it as you texted your time away.]

You: im waiting

[You hear a faint thud when jungkook keeps his phone on the counter in front of him. You pause for some seconds to look at him as his eyes stare down at his phone. You wait for him to hit a note or something but he picks his phone up again.]

Justin Seagull: I can't do it 😭

You: of course

Justin Seagull:
I'm sorry I'm shy 😭😭😭

You:

Justin Seagull: I'm not lying 😭

Justin Seagull:
Seriously if I sing rn, it's gonna
sound terrible then u won't believe me 😭

You: okay then. guess there's
nothing u can do to convince
me to trust anything that
comes out of your mouth

You: or phone

You: whatever

Justin Seagull: wait

Justin Seagull:
let me send u something
I've been working on lately

Justin Seagull:
it's not on my SoundCloud yet

Justin Seagull:
[audioFile - All of my life- Park won (cover)]

Justin Seagull:
you can check my SoundCloud,
it's not there [soundcloud link]

[you turn your phone's volume to the maximum and place your phone on the counter as the soothing piano melody fills the room.

[There should be a GIF or video here. Update the app now to see it.]

Jungkook cringes when he hears his voice and covers his ears with his hands. As he tries to bury his face in his arms, he notices Jin's gaze. He shifts his head to look at Jin and finds him looking at his dongsaeng with a soft smile on his face.

For a few seconds the two guys feel the lyrics as they look at each other and travel through their past. Jungkook returns him a genuine smile before rolling his eyes at him when Jin starts to wriggle his brows to tease him.

Jungkook tries to steal a glance at you, hoping for a reaction or just an update on your mood or perspective. The moment he lifts his head up, he buries it down back as he finds you already looking at him.

The song ends and the atmosphere gets replaced with the sound of crockery and silence.]

You: what if all of your work is
someone else's work and you've
uploaded it on SoundCloud without
their permission just so you
could justify your deeds? 👀

Justin Seagull: wtf 😭

Justin Seagull:
😭😭😭 no 😭😭😭

Justin Seagull:
you can search online,
you won't find my voice
anywhere else

You: what if it's your friend
who doesn't post them

Justin Seagull:
noooooo 😭

Justin Seagull:
Our voices match

You: it's difficult to recognize a
person by their singing voice when
you don't know much about their
speaking voice (coz they're basically
the same if the singer ain't using a
lot of falsettos and stuff)

You: and bitch you barely talk

Justin Seagull:
What do I do now 😭

You: sing 😌

Justin Seagull: I can't 😭

You: just the chorus then?

Justin Seagull: shsjdhjsnsndns

Justin Seagull: no plz :"""""")

You: just one line

Justin Seagull:
dhhdhdhsjsjejjejejdnndnndnnd

Justin Seagull:
u can ask jin, he knows I can sing

You: bruh u think I'll
believe him after all this?

You: I gotta see it to believe it

You: hello?

Justin Seagull:

You: just one line

You: plz 🥺

[jungkook clears his throat. Your ears perk up and you look at him. You could notice him trying to avoid eye contact.

"neomu himdeuro- that's it."

"Nooooo"

"you heard me. I'm done."

You purse your lips to conceal a giggle as you go back to the twenty first century medium of communication, texting.]

You: TWO WORDS?!?

Justin Seagull:

You: NOT FAIR

Justin Seagull:
u have the unreleased audio file,
seize that opportunity

You: for sure, I'm honored

You: so u were about to debut?

Justin Seagull: we did debut

You: right

You: a band

You: and then it just disappeared
from the internet?

You: every single photo or video?

Justin Seagull: yep

You: bro once u get something
on the internet, it never leaves

Justin Seagull:
believe me, in our case, it did

You: seriously, believing you
is the last thing you should
ask for right now

Justin Seagull: wow

Justin Seagull:
embarrassing myself some
seconds ago did not help at all?

You: bold of u to assume that'll
make up for the hundred lies
you tell per minute

Justin Seagull:

You: yes

You: I don't get it

You: how does a band vanish
from the internet??? U debuted
right?? Videos? Songs? Photos?
FanArts? Tweets?

Justin Seagull:
a lot of money was involved
in the whole thing

Justin Seagull: so many people
tried to ruin our image and succeeded

Justin Seagull: our company had
to remove our existence to survive
in the business

Justin Seagull:
and we kinda gave up ourselves too

[ The door creaks as yoongi enters.

"I'm actually surprised people come to a place named 'bulletproof,'" he pauses to give Jin a look, "for food and drinks," he adds incredulously as he makes his way towards a counter to carry on with his job. "I'm pretty sure they're only here for the memes," yoongi mumbles as he does the dishes.]

Justin Seagull: sometimes I wonder
how different things could have been if
we had fought just a little longer

Justin Seagull: just not payed attention
to things which weren't true and focused
on ourselves

Justin Seagull: maybe we'd have
gotten over our problems, found out a
way to make things work

You: five lives ruined just like that?

Justin Seagull: *seven

You: right

You: what happened

Justin Seagull: um

Justin Seagull: long story

You: you must've had fans

You: they can't just disappear

Justin Seagull: people move on

Justin Seagull:
plus we had just begun,
we had a very small fandom

Justin Seagull:
money solves a lot of problems

You: lowkey wanna believe
you but your ethos won't let me

Justin Seagull:
no problem I understand

You: can I at least know
the name of your band?

Justin Seagull: Bangtan Boys

You: why're you guys so
obsessed with bullets lmao

You: you have got to
be kidding me