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"I'm sorry." was all you could say.

Being sorry wasn't enough and you knew that. Hoseok didn't give any reaction or response as he just stared inside the room yoongi was in. he had nothing more to say to you either.

Even though he said he doesn't believe you could do something like this. His mind told him otherwise, therefore he did suspect you and that's why he called someone he should as a wise man would.

"Jin?" Taehyung mumbled with an amused look on his face.

Game was getting intense.

"Oh that moron as well." taehyung grimaced when he saw the man he despises walking behind Jin.

"Officer Jin here." the said male spoke and all you could do was look at them with a look no one could describe.

Were you gonna get arrest?

For a crime you didn't do or at the exact same time did?

"Jeon Jungkook at your service" Jungkook gave a carefree smile, not having the slightest idea of the happenings.

after all, He always smiled. No matter what the situation was. but when he gets to know you did something like this, will this smile still be the same?

"Who called them?" you mumbled absently.

"I did" hoseok retorted, now facing the police.

You looked at him with tearful eyes. You knew he would call them but why it hurts you? You did nothing wrong so why you were scared?

"Oh Y/N! and taehyung..." Jungkook smiled at you but once his eyes fell on the scowling taehyung, his smile faded.

You didn't answer. You wondered how was he smiling in a situation like this?

Jungkook saw your reaction. He saw how you bite down on your lower lip, controlling the tears before you looked away.

he wondered why you looked so bothered. all he knew was that a man named hoseok contacted them regarding a purposed cylinder blast.

"Hello, I called you guys." Hoseok said while walking to them.

No smile, no hug, no sunny vibes. Everything was destroyed.

"good evening mr jung, what's the matter?" Jin glanced around the corridor until his eyes fell on the two familiar faces.

"Mr. kim and Ms.Y/N?" he arched a brow in surprise.

you panicked and faced down for God knows what reason. but then you felt taehyung rubbing the side of your arm, standing very close to you. you slowly looked at him noticing he was already facing the front.

You felt relieved.

"Nice to see you again officer" Taehyung smiled. Jin nodded with a smile before focusing on hoseok again.

Hoseok told him about everything, leaving the part where he believes you are the one who did this that shocked you because you for real thought he called the police to arrest you.

did he still consider you as his friend? you hoped so.

"Can we talk with the victim?" Jin asked after hearing the whole matter.

"And we gotta have a talk with you as well Ms.Y/N" Jin said after he heard you were the last person to go inside the kitchen before the blast.

You nodded confidently. Of course you blamed yourself for the blast but at least you were confident to show you're not what hoseok thinks.

after taking the permission from the doctor, Jin and hoseok entered the room again. you were about to go in too when Jungkook stopped you by calling your name.

"Yes?" You replied dully. His smile really didn't help you to have a good image on him that moment.

what you didn't know was that he smiled whenever the situation was suffocating and serious just to lift up the mood. it might seem odd and disrespectful but the man believes in positivity just like hoseok.

"I'm sorry to hear what you had to go through."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean Your friend's condition. It must be hard for you" hah if only he knew what was going through you actually.

"I think you should say this to hoseok, not me" your answer was rude. But Jungkook shrugged it off with the same smile.

You rolled your eyes at him seeing him smiling again.

"What?" He chuckled.

"What are you so happy about? Yoongi almost died and here you're smiling and giggling. are you heartless?" you said before turning around to enter the room.

but he was fast enough to grab your wrist, stopping you on your tracks resulting you to turn your head to look at his hand that grabbed yours. the warmth his hand radiated to yours made you hesitated.

"smiling is a sign of strength. it helps you to face hard times without falling apart and lets you grow stronger so I think you should smile, you need it right now, don't you?" you didn't get him at first but after a few seconds it hits you.

"Don't tell me-"

"I know someone blamed you for this incident, right?"

"H-how did you know?"

"smile y/n. don't let them see your weak side. hmm maybe not smile because they might think you went crazy" he chuckled before continuing, "at least have some confidence in yourself. you told me once that you don't care about what others think of you and that you don't need to prove yourself, remember? so be strong yeah?"

it flattered you knowing he pays attention to what you say and actually remembers your words. moreover he didn't suspect you.

He didn't give you the judging eyes as everyone did except Taehyung.

He proved he was different.

"I will" you smiled through the tears building in your eyes. however,

What you didn't see was someone looking at you both with anger in his eyes.

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"Hello Mr Min. How are you doing?" Jin asked while taking a seat beside Yoongi's bed.

Yoongi's eyes widened seeing the police. Poor man was already so terrified and now it just worsened.

"W-what a-are they doing h-here?!" Yoongi sat with much difficulties, enlarged eyes glistening with fear.

Hoseok rushed to him, holding his hand that was alright, rubbing circles on the palm to ease the man.

"Don't worry, they're here to just ask you few questions"

"No! I don't wanna answer anything! Leave! Leave me alone!" Yoongi screamed, shaking his head as no aggressively.

"calm down please. we will get over with it soon" Jin said, trying to calm the man.

"But I don't want to! Leave me!"

Yoongi's sudden outburst made Jungkook kinda wary. What was yoongi so afraid of? Why was he panicking so much?

It's not like he did anything.

after a good amount of time of convincing the panicked man, he finally agreed. even though he just wanted to run away from everything.

Guilt. His heart was filled with guilt.

"So Yoongi... When you entered the kitchen, didn't you smell the gas or anything?"

"I did but I was in a hurry so I didn't pay attention to it. but when I was about to turn on the stove I noticed the pipe of the gas cylinder was unplugged, but before I could prevent myself from turning on the stove– it was already too late" Jungkook wrote down yoongi's statement.

"So that means someone unplugged it earlier already" Jungkook spoke making the whole room nod.

"did you saw something odd? like someone entering or leaving the kitchen?" Jin interrogated and yoongi shook his head.

"No, and I was in hurry so I really didn't notice anything suspicious."

"Isn't it a little weird... You entered the kitchen but by then the gas was all over the place, yet you didn't smell it?" Jungkook asked, yoongi gulped while looking down at his plastered hand.

"I-I was in hurry as I said." Jungkook somehow didn't buy it.

"Okay... Do you have suspect on anyone? Who can do this?" Jin asked and this time yoongi slowly raised his head looking straight at you.

Your breath hitched in your throat seeing yoongi staring at you like that.

He wasn't thinking about you...was he?

Jungkook's eyes trailed at the direction yoongi was staring at and he was surprised noticing it was you who yoongi was looking at.

You were the last one to go there. For that reason did he suspect you? Or maybe he had other reasons in his head?

Beads of sweat formed on yoongi's forehead, his eyes never leaving you. With trembling lips he said the same thing you feared he would.

Friends huh? You never really had them.

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