BROTHERS.
episode nine: save me, my princes!

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❝out of all of you idiots, why did i have to end up dressing like a girl?❞

  namjoon rapidly stood up from his chair, causing him to lift the table up and drop the glass cup he left on the very side of the table. a loud crash of the broken glass was audible to hear in the entire house, and then there was silence.

jin turned around to scold namjoon for breaking his second cup that morning, but namjoon couldn't care less about what his hyung was saying.

taehyung frowned and repeated what he said, "i said.. heehee isn't in her room."

"her favorite shoes are missing from the shoe rack too.." he added.

namjoon looked at taehyung before looking at jin with an anxious look. the two of them ran towards eunhee's room to confirm that she was in fact nowhere to be seen. on the other hand, the other four brothers were confused to what the whole tensed atmosphere was about.

jin ran to wake up their parents and inform them about their missing daughter. namjoon phoned soona, just in case she ran off to her house last night or something.

"that's impossible, she can't be missing. i was just with her last night..?" soona said, trying to recall her memory from the party.

"last night? where and what were you guys doing?"

"uhm..-promise you won't get mad?"

"soona, i don't care. i just want to know where my sister is at this point."

"well..-we went to saeri's house party to de-stress, and eunhee might've had s few drinks," she blurted out, "i don't remember a lot, but i remember her hanging out out with a bunch of motorcycle dudes."

namjoon cursed in his head, just thinking about what a bunch of scary looking motorcycle dudes from a gang could've done to their little sister.

"do you know how we can contact any of them?" he gritted his teeth and strengthened the grip on his phone. he ended the call after soona explained that she'd ask saeri for their contact information.

the kim family's house was a total disaster. their mother and father both called 911 to report their missing daughter. namjoon and soona were in charge of giving the information, as well as saeri and some of the people from seventeen.

they were currently all at the police station all seated in a waiting room. the seven brothers were sending deadly stares to the thirteen terrified-looking motorcycle guys eunhee was last seen with.

"you guys don't look like you ride motorcycles.." jimin eyed them from top to bottom, realizing that most of them seem like innocent people.

"you're right, they look like they should be riding tiny tricycles instead." yoongi snickered, he crossed his arms and started sorting out which of the thirteen he would beat up.

"y'know you might as well prepare your funeral today," seokjin shrugged, "like, invite your non-existent friends."

"do they ride tricycles too?"

seungkwan looked at jin, prepared to throw some hands, but joshua and seokmin stopped him.

"can you boys stop bickering! we're at a god damn police station right now." mr. kim quietly-shouted.

"unless you guys want to be arrested, then shut your mouths. bickering isn't going to help us find your sister.."

again, it was quiet.

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it has almost been a week since eunhee's disappearance, and the atmosphere inside the kim family's house has gotten more and more tense. no one had the determination to eat or sleep, and they only went out of the house to post up missing papers of eunhee—even though they hated doing it.

seokjin started blaming himself for everything, which made things worse between him and his brothers since he started distancing himself from them. he was afraid that he would hurt them too because of his careless mistake.

hoseok, taehyung, and jimin would cry in their beds all day, worrying that they would never get to hug or see their sisters smile ever again. what's worse was that the last thing that happened between her and her brothers was making her cry.

yoongi and namjoon, on the other hand, have tried to stay strong and lead the family and reassure them that the police will find her. however, they too were worried, and would bottle up their feelings and let it all out when everyone was asleep. they would cry into their pillow—letting the pillow be the only one to ever know that they were crying.

jungkook...

jungkook was something else.

he forced himself to personally look around the neighborhood or any other place she could've seemed help and stayed at. each day he would ask locals if they had seen her, he would skip school just so he could beg the police to keep searching for her. he was going insane—he couldn't sleep or eat, and he felt empty.

and that scared him.

he was currently resting at eunhee's favorite café, in hopes of her just magically appearing with a smile plastered on her face after seeing jungkook.

a ping from his phone buzzed. he brought out his phone and realized he got a text message from the group chat made for him and his brothers.

[1] new message! from bangtan soyeondumb

DANCE MONSTER:
guys.
we need to do something.
i cant stand it anymore.
i cant wait for the police to do nothing.

MUSCLE BUNNY:
me too
but what can we do?

JIMOUT:
i want to help
but what can we even do..
my heart already hurts so much
i don't want to get my hopes up

J-HOE:
...

MUSCLE BUNNY:
hyung?

J-HOE:
does the police have any leads on anything??

MUSCLE BUNNY:
i checked in with them today
and they've confirmed that after
all the witness' statements

eunhee might've been kidnapped
the tricycle kids said that
she took a taxi to get home
but she never did..

J-HOE:
so.. you're saying that
the taxi driver is most likely the culprit

MUSCLE BUNNY:
that's the closest answer
we can get to finding eunhee.

LAMB SKEWER:
why don't we look for the taxi driver then?

JIMOUT:
won't the police be doing
that already?
plus, there's tons of taxi
companies out there

LAMB SKEWER:
have they tried tracking eunhee's phone?

MUSCLE BUNNY:
i've already asked them to do that
but it says that the phone had been disassembled so it isn't possible to track down

GUCCI-BOY:
this is making me sick
where's jin-hyung
why won't you talk to us anymore

i know you're reading these texts, hyung.

DANCE MONSTER:
^ yeah talk to us bro
we miss you as well <3

PINK PRINCESS:
i'm sorry

LAMB SKEWER:
for what
for being a dick and cutting us off?
yeah it's okay we forgive you!

PINK PRINCESS:
...

LAMB SKEWER:
chill it was a joke
i was trying to be funny to
lighten up the mood but
i don't think it's working

GUCCI-BOY:
there's still one thing i don't understand..

MUSCLE BUNNY:
hmm?

GUCCI-BOY:
why would someone want to kidnap or do harm to our sister?
i mean whoever this person is
they obviously know eunhee

DANCE MONSTER:
you can't know that for sure.

JIMOUT:
why would you think eunhee would know this person?

GUCCI-BOY:
think about it
how would a taxi driver
know the exact address of someone's house
and go through intersections just to pick them up

we all know that the taxi eunhee took was one of the local looking ones
so it couldn't have been uber

J-HOE:
so this person might've been invited to saeri's party

GUCCI-BOY:
they just didn't attend
until the very end

DANCE MONSTER:
when they made their move..

MUSCLE BUNNY:
the tricycle kids were outside the entire time
and they saw all the cars that passed by
but that was the first time they saw the taxi
when they saw eunhee exit the house to talk to them

JIMOUT:
our sister has never held
a grudge against anyone though
so i don't know who would
be willing to harm or scare her this badly,,

PINK PRINCESS:
maybe one of her past lovers..?

GUCCI-BOY:
looks like we're finally getting somewhere..

DANCE MONSTER:
alright
we're all going to meet up back home
in the dining room
we're going to make a plan.

jungkook logged out of his phone and put it back into his pockets. he decided to pay for his drink before leaving to run back to his home and meet up with his hyungs.

everyone had been patiently waiting for him at the dining table. surprisingly, even jin decided to appear for once.

white chart papers were scattered on the glass table with colorful markers, they were ready to find the kidnapper and snap their neck.

"alright, first." yoongi clapped, "we have to list our suspects." he took a red marker and wrote a list of eunhee's past lovers underneath the word suspects.

"oh sehun."

"kim wooseok."

"cha eunwoo."

"lee sungyeol."

"those are the only people i can think of," he crossed his arms like pondering on the writing of every name. "but which one out of these four would be more likely to be connected to this crime.."

"sehun was a straight up idiot, like us—so i'm pretty sure you can remove him from the list." namjoon stated, he took a red marker and crossed his name off.

"kim wooseok only had a crush on eunhee, but he gave up after the maknae line threatened him so.." hoseok crossed off wooseok's name as well.

"take him off as well."

"cha eunwoo used to be part of soona and eunhee's trio, but he just ditched the two of them after university started.."

jungkook crossed his name off the list, "i don't see why he would be a suspect."

yoongi put the marker down after he circled sungyeol's name, "sungyeol has an aggressive personality, i've seen him do certain things to girls. plus, we pissed him off with all our tricks the other day.. but would he really go that far to kidnap our sister?"

"if he liked our sister, why would he kidnap her?" jimin asked, confused by the question.

"don't you dare try to talk to my sister again, ya hear me?"

"ah.." yoongi remembered something he said, "it's because i threatened him that he couldn't see her anymore."

"so..–we suspect that sungyeol could have done it, and he does have somewhat of a feasible reason. but now, how do we find him?" hoseok questioned.

"i guess we're gonna have to ask soona about that."

after taehyung's comment, everyone looked at namjoon in unison while he stared at everyone, scared of how sync everyone was.

namjoon called soona to meet her up at their house, and she was beyond excited. of course, she too was sad that her best friend was missing, but this was namjoon—she couldn't contain her happiness despite the tragedy.

soona arrived at their house, and quietly seated herself on one of the dining chairs around the table. she observed the massive papers on the wall, written with clues and their suspect.

"woah..–you guys are really into this, huh." soona realized that her statement sounded rude, especially during this situation with her missing best friend, and she immediately bowed her head and apologized.

"soona, i need you to tell us any places sungyeol could have taken eunhee to. for example, his home address? or his favorite hideout?" namjoon held her hand and looked into her eyes, pleading her answers, "we know that eunhee tells you everything, so we need you to help us out here."

in an instant, soona was captivated and given the determination to tell the brothers everything she knew and was capable of remembering.

"–hey hyung." namjoon and yoongi were interrogating soona, when jimin suddenly interrupted them, "now that we suspect sungyeol is the kidnapper.. how do we know that eunhee isn't the only one?"

he lifts up his phone and showed his hyungs the trending news from previous nights ago—just before eunhee disappeared.

"3 MISSING WOMAN, SKINNY AND PETITE, TEENS TO EARLY TWENTIES; GONE MISSING."

"i mean.. doesn't this description," jimin paused, "remind you of eunhee?"

yoongi dropped his marker on the floor and took a deep breath, "there's our pattern."

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"out of all of you idiots, why did i have to end up dressing like a girl?" yoongi cursed, as he looked at himself in a mirror.

he had a bob-cut and was dressed like your average high school girl—except her hair looked like dora, if dora was korean.

"because namjoon-hyung couldn't pull it off." jungkook reasoned, as he held in his laughter.

"what the fuck, but we have an actual girl here who could help us!" yoongi retorted as he pointed at soona.

"yoongs, we need you to calm down and just follow through with the plan." jin looked at him, before looking away and being quiet again on the couch.

"since he thinks you look like a vunrable school girl, he won't suspect anything weird."

yoongi looks through the bag he was prepared and provided with, "do you have a gun i can put in my bag?"

"bruh, we don't have enough money or privillage to own a gun." namjoon shook his head and waved his hands—he was against using violence.

"what about your girlfriend? she's a cop, maybe she can pull thru and bless us one." yoongi said, exposing namjoon if his secret relationship. he later realized that he said and cursed,

'oh shit. my bad.'

when soona heard this, her heart shattered into a million pieces, "w-what?" she stuttered.

"nothing, forget i said anything." yoongi tried to shrug it off, he knew soona had liked namjoon for quite a while now and even though he wanted a gun, he felt like sparing soona's feelings first.

"oh, okay." she said.

yoongi looked at the massive paper with their continuous plan of come home sisterbear! and took a deep breath.

"let's go save our princess."

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yoonji makes a cameo woo hoo !
btw the next upcoming chapters are already pre-written, and i'll publish them probably in a few days after this one is released

maybe once this chapter gets 30+ votes :)

(just a WARNING: the next chapter is about is a flashback and might get you a little or really emotional—especially the ending. you have been warned!)

now for some more questions / polls i'd like you guys to answer (since your opinions make a difference in my books) ☆彡 :

[1] do you think sungyeol is the only suspect?

(even though there hasn't been a lot of character development yet, take a wild guess! it may even be someone not even introduced yet.)

[2] what other sub-plots would you like to see in this book?

(ex. soona and namjoon's relationship, eunhee's never-ending dating cycles; you can suggest your own ideas!)

[3] do you listen to music while you read?

(just a random question since i was curious, but i personally don't. sometimes, i find it distracting to listen and visualize what i'm reading at the same time since i tend to visualize the artists singing the song and making me all soft with their smiles!)

[4] what kind of character development would you like to see within eunhee and the boys?

[5] would you like to see more bangtan soyeondumb texts included?

(i'll include them as fillers or a feature in some chapters that would be necessary to have them!)