Namjoon's POV

The same dreary day again. I was roused by the new morning again. We all ventilated about last night's call again, and everyone except Jungkook and Jin got pissed again.

"Can we fucking stop brooding over that stupid call? Please?" Taehyung lamented rolling his eyes and grabbing the forehead in his palms as a gesture of irritation.

"Wow! Even after witnessing the freakish call last night, how can you be so sangfroid about it?" I tossed the words at him with a flabbergasted expression glued to my face.

Though it didn't seem like my words bothered him enough. Well, that's not really very much atypical, as Taehyung is the type of person who doesn't take interest in literally anything except his own matters. And specifically if that matter is bothering someone else, he ain't going to dig deeper into that. He believes everyone should know to defend themselves on their own.

I stared at Taehyung and suspired. I was at loss of words, but unexpectedly Jungkook chimed in out of the blue. He wasn't talking much since the morning, but now he did.

"What if it's one of us?" Jungkook suspected.

"What the heck?" Remained the only phrase I was able to listen coming from Jin.

"Yeah I mean, coherently, it's not unfeasible for one of us to do those things, right? As none except us and our families know that we're here, and our families wouldn't do such an outlandish thing, would they?" Jungkook laid out that rhetorical dispute.

"What if it's someone from this motel?" Jin asked again.

"I don't think so, none in this motel owns our- I mean Namjoon hyung's contact," Jungkook replied.

"A-are you certain?" I asked with a drubbing heart.

"Very much certain. I checked the register on entering this place, and I presume you all remember that I entered 15 minutes later? Yeah, I was contemplating the register.

I inspected all the titles of those who will be sojourning here for this month, then stashed the data in my memory as well as in my phone. And as this motel is at a really isolated place, with not being so monstrous, there aren't many people staying. So as far as I remember, Namjoon hyung is not amicable with any of those people," Jungkook answered.

"Do you keep records of whom Namjoon hyung is matey with and with whom he's not?" Jimin asked rolling his eyes clearly expressing he was not at all interested, he was rather very much vexed.

"Yeah, I do. It is a cop's primary obligation, to keep everyone secure. Well, if you still doubt me, then, Namjoon hyung can take my phone, go through the names and confirm himself if he knows them or not" Jungkook replied back to Jimin very boldly while handing me his phone

"Go ahead hyung, someone requires corroboration," he directed at me but he very definitely referred to Jimin.

I didn't dither a bit and seized his phone right away, scrolling all the names.

"No! I don't know a single one among them!" I admitted a little disgruntled while returning him his phone back.

"Good! Now are you satisfied?" He targetted his words to Jimin while keeping the phone back in his Wranglers.

Jimin rolled his eyes again.

Jungkook brushed aside Jimin's activities further, and turned back to us attempting to explicate his theory.

"So, as it is already proved that Namjoon hyung knows none who's currently residing in this motel, then it's pretty obvious that they don't have his contact. And if you say that his students or co-workers might have shared his number to anyone residing here then I must state that Namjoon hyung has two phones, hence two numbers. One is his private one for personal purposes and the other for only official purposes.

And none except us and our families knows his private number, so if it was anyone except us, he would have got the call in his another/official number.

Now except them who are the only people who knows we're here? It's our family, but our families ain't gonna creep Namjoon hyung every night like that. They have got nothing against him. Namjoon hyung have went on vacations many a time before and they have never bugged him during those peregrinations.

So it's also pretty obvious it's not them. Who's left? It's us, apart from the people residing here and our families, only we know that we're here, so it's one of us," he said.

Everyone stared at each other's face and we all looked very much stupid in each other's eyes, why didn't we think of this before?

"Great! What if I say you were the unknown caller?" Hoseok derided Jungkook with a smirk plastered on his oral commissure.

"And what if I say the same thing to you?" Jungkook replied, he indeed had the audacity to do so.

"That doesn't make sense Jungkook, Hoseok's voice is not as lulling as we heard it last night, right?" Jin commented.

"Neither is mine!" Jungkook defended himself, seeming a little aggrieved. Maybe because Jungkook surmised his best friend to have his back, but Jin supported Hoseok instead.

"I didn't say it was you, in fact I didn't say it was any of us. I only said it was not Hoseok!" Jin told realizing that Jungkook was hurt by his preceding words.

"Well, Mr. Jeon Jungkook, if you're logical enough then you should know that when Namjoon recieved that call last night, I was staying with you all. How the hell am I supposed to be present there and call him then say such illogical things at the same time?" Hoseok retaliated.

Jungkook didn't reply, probably he was trying to think of a possible explanation.

After few minutes, he spoke up "who was not there when he had the call?"

"Yoongi hyung and Jimin" replied Taehyung.

Jungkook glared at Yoongi hyung with narrowed lids and enquired "Was it you?"

"Amazing! So after all these, what you came up with is that I called him just to say him not to sleep?" Yoongi riposted ridiculing Jungkook's professionalism.

"Uh- Jungkook, hyung disappears from his house every night though, it's not anything out of the ordinary. If any incident is occurring at night, you should know that you won't find hyung there," I told him trying to defend my hyung.

"Where do you disappear every night? And why?" Jungkook catechized hyung again.

"I'm not going to answer. The only one who deserves to know is Taehyung, and he knows very well what's up with me," hyung replied as boldly as Jungkook.

"Why not? How long would it take for you to let the cat out of the bag?" Jungkook asked smiling derisively.

"It's my choice. I have my own reasons and about the cat, you need not worry about it being in my bag, it's kept there absolutely unharmed," hyung answered returning another smirk from his side.

"Should I consider you as a malefactor then? You're veiling things from a cop. It's legal for me to penalize you!" Jungkook threatened, pouring a teaspoon of saccharin in his insipid caffeine.

"Do whatever you want, I'm not going to divulge my secrets," hyung replied without any sign of terror, clearly expressing that his secret was his priority, not protection.

"Jungkook are you...?" I only said those words to him referring to something which only he was able to decode. So, he stopped messing with hyung and turned back to Taehyung.

"Why is it that only you know his secrets and not even his own brother? Correction, biological brother?" He asked Taehyung while taking a sip of coffee from his mug.

"If you're thinking that I'll let you know, then I'm sorry to disappoint you but I will not," Taehyung replied without averting his eyes from the phone.

"How dare-" Jungkook was going to tirade, but I horned in on and stopped him as I knew hyung wouldn't feel so secure and comfortable if we all suddenly start talking about his secret which he has managed to maintain as a sub rosa for all these years. I was well aware of the fact that Jungkook was doing it all for me but still my intuitions again said hyung and his secret had nothing to do with this matter.

"Jungkook stop it! If hyung wants to keep his secret between him and Taehyung, let him. It doesn't matter as long as it's not harming anyone," I told aggressively.

"Okay, if you say so." He followed my words, then turned to Jimin and queried him.

"Where were you last night?"

"In my room, sleeping, why?" Jimin shrugged.

"In such a moment of bedlam, you were sleeping peacefully. Isn't that really odd?" Jungkook razzed.

"Wha-? I was getting enormous calls since morning. I had to take care of a lot of things, got it? I was feeling very fatigued, so I decided to rest without anything bothering me at night or participating in anything. I even pleaded Hoseok hyung not to disturb me last night. I was genuinely tired!" Jimin answered in such a manner that it felt like he would have been pleased if he could beat Jungkook up at that point. Basically in short, his frustration was so clear.

"Okay okay! You don't have to overreact!" Jungkook chuntered emptying his mug.

"Namjoon, how about leaving this place? Let's go back to Seoul. I really don't feel very safe here," Jin urged clasping my hands.

"Shit! I shouldn't have invited Namjoon hyung in this trip. I should have came with my other chums instead" Taehyung abruptly mumbled under his breath but it was loud enough for us to hear.

"And what do you exactly mean by that?" Jin glowered at him, incensed.

"I mean that I shouldn't have taken Namjoon hyung with me. As he didn't want to come without you, you didn't want to come without your bezzie mate, this annoying cop, and he didn't want to leave our two close friends behind.

Now this is just leading to a snafu. I literally came on a vacation here to escape from my stress, but it's making me more stressed than ever." Taehyung said this literally ditching each of us, and without hesitating to express his disappointment for bringing me with him.

I'm not complaining though, it's very valid for him to be disappointed. All he wanted was to have some fun, but it was me who ruined it all. I had the call, none else did, so technically it was me who ruined his holiday.

I didn't have the courage to apologize, I don't know why but I just didn't, at least not infront of everyone. So I tacitly apologized to him in my mind and walked back into the room I was staying in.

In the evening

They were all still in the terrace, discussing about leaving this place. Jin was very much prepared to leave the place, Jimin wasn't really sure, Taehyung was gutted, hyung didn't comment anything, he only said he will follow whatever Taehyung will decide on. Hoseok was also a bit seethed, and lastly, Jungkook was highkey downhearted, not because his holiday will be ruined but because he didn't want to leave the place without solving the enigma.

To be very very honest I also wanted to know the final ending of those happenings, so I wasn't in the favor of leaving. Hence, majority didn't want to leave, therefore we stayed. I don't know what Taehyung thought about that, but I and Jungkook were chuffed because we wanted to solve the mystery and discover the end of everything. Jin just hoped that the end of this mystery won't be the end of any of us.

It was another night in that motel again. We waited for the call, but it didn't come. I didn't get any call that day, I don't know if that was a relief or something even more creepier.

Jungkook suddenly narrowed his lids, and I wasn't sure who he was going to bash this time. Unanticipatedly he attacked Jimin once more.

"So, today Jimin is with us and the call is suddenly not coming? Coincident or anything else?" Jungkook asked looking at me.

But Jimin shortly began clearing his throat, a more prominent word would be tease-coughing

"Jungkook, look at me if you want to talk to me."

"Sure, so as we're here that definitely means none of us could call him at the same time now. But the fact that we all were there except you last night as well, and the call still arrived. And today the only difference is you're sitting with us, should I take you as the anonymous caller then?" Jungkook asked leaning towards Jimin.

"Yeah, well, Namjoon hyung termed the call as prank call first night, didn't he? In fact we all did to an extent, and Jimin is very much known for his love for pranks," Taehyung added.

"My love for dozing is much more than my love for pranks Taehyung" he said slinging his phone towards Jungkook "Take a look if you still doubt me."

"Do you think I'm a fool? Do you really think I thought that if you was the caller you would have kept the same phone and same number?" Jungkook said in a prickly manner.

"I don't think that, but you are a buffoon. I don't know how did you even manage to get the job of a cop?" Jimin said heading out of the room with an essence of chagrin wrapping him.

Jungkook looked at me for a moment and then immediately looked away. I knew why he was looking at me, I was about to say something to him, but Hoseok interrupted.

"If the call ain't going to come, can we go back and sleep please?" He said.

I nodded. I really was feeling kind of culpable for ruining everyone's resting hours only because of a call. After we were assured that the call wasn't going to come, I instructed all of them to go back to their own rooms.

Once they all left, I myself lied down closing my eyes. That night I honestly slept peacefully. The call didn't come. And even though I was feeling really very much weak, maybe from the past two days' stress, but, yet I slept very peacefully for the rest of the night.

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Well, first of all very very very sorry for typos, spelling mistakes, or grammatical errors (once again English is not my first language), please consider them and forgive me, I gladly apologize for my inconveniences. But, I hope you're enjoying my story.

Secondly, I'm very sorry again, 'cuz most probably in the next episode a member is going to die. Sorry for killing him (but that's what the story is about). So, can you have a wild guess about the culprit? Let me know your thoughts in the comments! Love you all, stay safe!