• A U T H O R ' S P. O. V •

"G-Guys?" Jihyo shouted, her voice rising two octaves higher out of too much shock upon seeing their lost friends and librarian accompanied by other strangers they never met before, it was a good thing that the place was empty and only they were present, because a cafè is famously known as a place where you can relax and have peace, so if there were other people there, Jihyo's voice would surely be enough to break the quiet atmosphere.

In the midst of the on going chaos, Bambam wasted no time in dashing towards Lisa before giving her a bone-crushing hug to which the latter returned after recovering from shock upon the appearance of his missing bestfriend, and because he was too busy with his reunion with the girl, he became oblivious to the sharp glare another specific male was giving him.

Jungkook just stood there, helplessly watching the scene, and he suddenly found it hard to keep his promise with the royals, but fortunately Namjoon was able to read his mind. The older grabbed his dongsaeng's hand as soon as he saw it starting to transform into metal before giving him a knowing look. Jungkook was about to protest but in the end he only sighed, his change of attitude effectively returning his skin back to normal before the other mortals had the chance to see it.

The other boys silently snickered at this, with the exception of Jimin, Taehyung, and Yeonjun who on the contrary didn't even try to hide their laughs. Jungkook's glare transferred towards them but they were still enjoying themselves that they didn't notice it.

"But you disappeared!" Dahyun exclaimed with frantic eyes as soon as they inched closer to them, reffering to the once lost girls, "Where have you guys been?"

"It's a long story, Dubu." Nayeon smiled at them sheepishly before adding, "And it's a little hard to explain."

"Hard?" Jennie scoffed in disbelief, their attention immediately diverting to her, "That's an understatement, it's been the craziest months of my life."

"I know, Jen." Nayeon gave her a pointed look, silently reminding her that they should keep things as lowkey as possible, but as she was doing so she didn't the notice the shocked faces of her friends.

"When did you two become so close?" Mina muttered with a raised brow, they knew that Jennie had some sort of a reputation to keep at school, and they've never really interacted that much but now she suddenly finds her unnie and Jennie on a nickname basis.

"And why is Seulgi-ssi with you?" Chaeyoung- not the lost one- added.

"Like what she said," Jeongyeon pointed at Nayeon, "It's a long and crazy story." The girl put emphasis on specific words while glancing at Jennie who only grinned back at her, her charming gummy smile showing.

This once again baffled the others, they had so many questions but they decided to take it slow as they took note of some tired faces.

"Let's take a seat first." Jinyoung said to which the others agreed to.

After taking their own respective seats, Momo broke the silence that was engulfing them as she can't take the growing curiosity inside of her anymore, "Can you explain what happened?"

The enchancians looked at each other, mentally telling themselves to ready and sputter their rehearsed lies before looking back at the confused thirteen individuals.

As the other girls started to narrate their made up story, Namjoon discreetly looked at Jimin and started to talk to him telepathically. "Have you made eye contact with each one of them already?"

"Yeah, I already did." Jimin glanced back.

"Good, create your illusion now."

"Will do." The younger boy nodded before diverting his eyes and attention on the talking Jennie.

Jimin closed his eyes and felt his brow twitch as he started to concentrate. When he was already satisfied with the amount of focus he gathered in his mind, he began to visualize a medium-sized scar on the back of Jennie's head, and after a few seconds, a satisfied smile graced his face when he slowly opened his eyes to see an illusion of a scar appearing on the girl's head just in time for a specific part of their story.

". . .See this scar?" Jennie turned around and parted her hair to reveal a scar, the scene eliciting gasps from the others, "I got it from that accident, and since these three girls were the only ones there at that time outside, they accompanied me as I had no else to do so because my parents are abroad. It was a matter of life and death so we had no time to inform the school."

"After coming back here to Korea after the operation, well we somehow got close and I decided to transfer schools as my uncle was working there and he said he would become restless unless he gets to keep an eye on me, plus I wanted a new start as my image in school was starting to suffocate me." Jennie continued, "I'm sure you all already know that Lisa's aunt works as SOPA too, so to my luck, when I returned she already transferred there due to financial problems and well these three couldn't be separated no matter what you do,"

"And it all leads to here." Jennie smiled, her eyes closing so she didn't get to see the others' baffled faces.

"W-Well," Jihyo shook her head in order to grasp her composure, because of course she was still a little skeptical. "I'm so sorry for what happened to you."

"It's okay now, but thanks." Jennie nodded, the small smile still remaining as the only identity on her face.

After returning the girl's nod, Jihyo turned to look at the three.

"How about you guys?" She cocked a brow.

Nayeon, Jeongyeon, and Tzuyu looked at each other, "I'm pretty sure you guys all know about Tzuyu's condition already," Nayeon paused and glanced at her friend's wide eyes, "At first she didn't want anybody else finding out that it was getting worse but we heard her that day when she disappeared to the bathroom, but fortunately you don't have to worry anymore as everything went well."

"Oh, I'm so sorry Tzu, we didn't know it was about that, don't worry you don't need to explain further because we understand that it's a sensitive topic, I'm just happy that everything's turning out well." Jihyo smiled at the younger.

Tzuyu reciprocated the action, but hers was a little stiff and uneasy as deep down she felt guilty for using her already cured illness as an excuse, but then again sometimes desperate situations call for desperate measures.

"Not to be rude though, but who are these people?" Bambam chimed in and gestured towards the enchancians.

"These are our friends and classmates from SOPA, we'll be joining the exchange student program." Chaeyoung explained.

"Woah, I've always wondered which school Seulgi-unnie came from, but I didn't expect SOPA." Dahyun chuckled.

"Quite a shocker, isn't?" Seulgi grinned before facing her fellow enchancians, "I believe you guys haven't introduced yourselves yet."

"These are the Chois, Yeonjun, Soobin, and Beomgyu."

The three young lads waved their hands with bright smiles as a sign of greeting, and while the others introduced their selves to the boys, Jihyo couldn't help but feel like she's seen one of them already, she just couldn't put a finger on who it is so she just decided to ignore it.

"That's Taehyun, my brother, and that one's Kai." Seulgi glanced at the two boys, mentally laughing at how they pretended to be siblings just for fun. If you ask Seulgi tough, she'll trade Daniel with Taehyun as he was way less hard headed, but of course she didn't mean it as deep down she knew she still loved her real brother.

"I didn't know you had a brother, unnie." Jihyo stated, "He must be kind and well-mannered like you."

Seulgi tried her best to not chortle at that, "Yeah, he really is."

"Anyways, these are my girls, Irene-unnie, Wendy, Joy, and Yeri."

"It's a pleasure to meet you guys." Seungwan spoke in behalf of the other girls.

"Now these boys, are Jin, Namjoon, Yoongi, Hoseok, Jimin, Taehyung, and lastly, Jungkook." Seulgi pointed at each one of the aforementioned boys.

Bambam raised a brow.

So the name is Jungkook. He thought. Now, Bambam would have paid it no special mind and think of him as simply one of their new friends, but it was a little hard especially after noting the looks he's been giving to her sister, may not be by blood, but definitely by choice, so he made a mental note to observe him more carefully to see if he was worthy enough for his bestfriend if he really had the intentions Bambam thinks he has.

Namjoon looked at Jungkook.

"The guy you attempted to kill was thinking about you, Kook."

Jungkook raised a brow, "Really? What did he say?"

"Apparently he's the brother-like figure, so you better suck it up and prove your worth."

Jungkook's view on the other male changed almost immediately. He straightened his posture and gulped under Bambam's scrutinized gaze.

After a few minutes of introductions and and simple talks which definitely included catching up, the group parted in their own separate ways with promises of seeing each other in the next two days.

Jennie smiled as they walked, "We're back."

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"Seulgi-unnie?" Sooyoung poked her head through her unnie's own hotel room to check on the older girl if she was fine.

"Yeah?" The latter looked up from unpacking her things, shooting the younger a curious look as a way of wordlessly asking why she was here, and by that one look, Sooyoung immediately understood.

"Nothing, just wanted to see if everything was okay." The girl shrugged.

Seulgi chuckled, "I'm not a kid anymore, Soo. Don't worry, I'm pretty sure I can handle myself."

"Alright then, have a good night, unnie." Sooyoung smiled one last time before closing the door.

"Goodnight, Soo." Seulgi grinned.

When the girl finally heard the click of the door closing, her innocent and charming eye smile quickly disappeared and was then replaced with a cynical smirk.

Now her expression, was the total and complete opposite of the usual friendly and trustworthy Kang Seulgi.

The girl looked down and shook her head in amusement, chuckling at the obvious fact that her next mission would surely be a piece of cake.

"It's really good to know that deceiving these idiots will be pretty easy."

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I love drama lol

Anyways, I can see a lot of you guys guessing who that mystery person is, and I gotta admit that it's amusing the hell out of me lmao

I guess the only thing I can say about that is the fact that I love my dancing machine so much ;)

Oh and sorry if there was any problems with this chapter, I swear I published this last night and others even commented but when I woke up it's not? I hate wattpad sometimes >:(

I'm spoiling you guys but I know that you deserve these updates haha I don't know why but something inside me just urged me to suddenly write more chapters for this book

Sorry for the typos if there's any :)

Luv y'all

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