"Who was with you, Hyun Wook?!" Jungkook asked, his hands grabbing both of Hyun Wook's arms.

"Who are you talking about?!" Hyun Wook asked back, shoving away the tight grips. He looked around, shaking his head. "I'm all alone, don't you see?"

Jungkook looked behind Hyun Wook as he mumbled. "Someone... with long, silver hair... that looks like..."

"Stop imagining things! There's no way my sister would go silver," Hyun Wook sighed. "She hasn't come back yet. Kookie, everyone misses her. I miss her too."

"But I saw her with you! Don't tell me that was her ghost!" Jungkook screeched, shaking Hyun Wook's arm violently, like a kid demanding sweets.

"Seriously, stop it. You must be imagining things!" Hyun Wook made it clear, shaking the maknae back to snap him out of his imagination.

"Hyun Wook. Long time no see," suddenly Jin greeted, holding out his hand and Hyun Wook took it as the rest of the members began to gather around.

"Oh, everyone. When will you guys come to the shop?" Hyun Wook asked as he exchanged handshakes with the rest.

"We will when we're free again. These months really got us busy with work," Jin sighed, then he looked over to their maknae. "Jungkook ah, what are you- are you crying?"

With widened eyes, Jungkook touched his cheek, just to realize trails of tears. "What? No! No, I'm not! I got dust in my eyes!" he weakly laughed, sniffing as he wiped it away. "I... I better get in first. Need to wash my eyes."

After bowing down to Hyun Wook, Jungkook left them and quickly made his way to the agency's building.

All of them watched him rushing towards the building before they turned back to Hyun Wook.

"You understand him, right?" Hoseok said, scratching his head. "Your sister... hasn't come back yet?"

"Yup. Even never tell me anything about her coming back," Hyun Wook exhaled, only to notice that he was holding a plastic bag. "Uh... I guess I'll go now. It's Yoon Hee's meal I'm bringing here."

"Oh, okay. See you again, soon," Hoseok said, patting Hyun Wook's shoulder before he left the spot, and walked away.

"Won't know when we'll be seeing her. Jungkook must be missing her a lot."

**The next day**

"Sejin hyung, we'll be seeing her today, right?" Jin asked.

The manager looked over at him. "Who?"

"Park Kyung?"

"Ah... right. She'll meet us at the shooting location. And..." Sejin paused as he looked around before taking a left turn, entering the parking lot. "She's kinda sick today so she won't be talking much to you guys, as to... 'protect the artist'."

"Then why is she in today?" Namjoon suddenly asked, eyes stuck to his phone.

"I told you, she only had today because it's Sunday tomorrow, and you guys had no schedules on Sunday, then on Monday, she will take over."

"She should've just cancel-"

"No, I won't let her. Can you please give her a chance?"

With that, Namjoon grunted, right when Sejin parked the car at the parking lot provided by the shooting location, which was in a suburban area. One by one, they began to step out of the car, when suddenly someone approached them.

Wearing a long trench coat, with metallic hair tied up in a bun, hiding under a red beanie over her head, as she wore a black pair of sunglasses with a mask.

"Oh? Kyung ah!" Sejin called out, hugging the girl in excitement, getting weird looks from the members. "Boys, this is Park Kyung, a good friend of mine and she will replace me starting Monday."

The girl then bowed down to the boys, exchanging handshakes before turning back to the manager.

"How's your throat?" he asked, and after earning an 'okay' hand sign from her, he smiled. "Okay. Come with me."

*

"Hey," Taehyung called out in a whisper as he placed his plate on the table, and pulled out the chair next to Park Kyung, who was looking through the schedule list that Sejin had left behind with her.

Surprised, she bowed her head down and gave him a bit of space as she made sure her face mask was in the right place.

"Have you eaten?" Taehyung started to ask, as he poked one of the sausages he had when she nodded. "I hope you'll be fine soon. We won't be having it if you can't speak by Monday since you'll be our manager."

"I'll be fine," she finally spoke, but in a soft, croaky whisper, totally getting his attention.

"Oh, you can speak by whispering. Okay, got it," he chuckled, then he had some fries before he began to ask again. "You haven't put down your sunglasses too."

"Infection," she croaked, tapping on her glasses.

"Ah, your eyes become sensitive. I got it."

"Are you sure that you can work in such conditions? You should've just canceled this. It's completely useless," another voice suddenly interfered with their conversation.

Both of them turned around and Namjoon had just passed by behind them with a drink in his hand, and took a seat at the other side of the room, gazing at them.

"Namjoon hyung..." Taehyung hissed and was about to stand up when Park Kyung was quick enough to hold him down.

"It's okay, it's okay..." she whispered, patting his arm as he sat back down, but eyes still glaring at the leader.

"Kyung ah!" Yoongi suddenly called her out. She turned at him, and he was standing beside a big drawer cabinet in the green room. "You have thin arms, right? Can you reach behind this drawer?"

She was a bit confused, so she walked up to him when he stepped aside and explained.

"One of my rings went there. So please," he pleaded, pointing his finger to the back of the drawer.

She then rolled up her sleeve and began to slip her left arm easily behind the drawer, trying to reach for the lost ring. Yoongi was watching her attentively, but she wasn't paying any attention to him.

For about a minute or two, she pulled out her hand with the ring in between her fingers. She returned it back to him when she noticed a knowing smirk on his face.

"Thank you, friend," he muttered under his breath, before walking away.

She felt a bit weird, but then brushed it away as she walked back to her seat and looked back at the schedule list. Not long after that, Jungkook came kneeling on the floor beside her.

"Park Kyung-ssi. Do you know Hyun Wook?" he asked, and since she was still surprised by his sudden appearance there, she didn't respond to him. "Because I thought I saw you with him yesterday. By the sidewalk."

"Y-Yes. That was me. H-He went straight back to the café while I went somewhere else," she whispered, still with a hoarse voice.

"Ah... I see. So do you know... Hyun Ae noona as well?"

"N-No, sorry. I just knew Hyun Wook when he was still in college," she coughed out. Upon hearing this, Jungkook passed her a packet of cough drops to her.

"You better take this; it's good for your throat," Jungkook smiled, patting her shoulder as he stood up when she took the packet from him.

"Thank you," she smiled.

A few minutes later, Sejin finally came back and at the same time, BTS needed to resume their shooting, so one by one began to leave the green room.

Park Kyung decided to follow up with them later, and as they left the room, she quickly grabbed her water bottle.

When suddenly a hand grabbed her wrist from behind her.

She gasped, and instantly her eyes met Yoongi's cold ones.

"Y-Yes?" she mumbled, her voice was audibly shaking.

"Maybe you fooled the others," Yoongi muttered, then he pulled her closer to him, and took off her sunglasses as he smirked, "but not me."

The girl lost her tension, and let out a defeated sigh before he put the glasses back on her and laughed.

"I don't know why are you doing this, but we'll see how long you can keep this up."

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