3rd Person’s POV

“Hello?” Lei asked cause the number that had called was anonymous.

(President.) this voice… it took a second before Lei could process who it is.

“KED UNNIE?!” she exclaimed, causing for Anika and Jeril to look at her and immediately approached where she’s sitting. It been 3 weeks since they had hear this voice.

(Yes, it’s me. Look, I won’t be calling for long. I’m just here to tell you something. I won’t be able to make it up after all, please go on without me.) Lei’s heart dropped…

“Wha--” but before she could even ask, Erika had already hanged up. “She hang up.”

“Did I hear it right when she said that we should go on without her?” Lei sadly nodded.

“Well, I guess we have to.” the two vocalist glared at their main dancer. “What? Graduation is in 5 days and we’re performing as a group, we need to practice as soon as possible.”

“But we’re not a complete group without Ked unnie.”

“My mom had already considered her absence, you know.”

“They’re going to let us debut as a three-member group, instead?”

“Her parents is powerful enough to excluded her out from all school activities immediately, so they were also able to make her leave our group even before our school year ended.”

“Damn it!” Lei slammed her phone down and ran her fingers through her hair fiercely.

“I guess there’s nothing we can do, we have to go on without her just like we promised.”

“Are you sure about that?” a deep manly voice interrupted, causing them to look back at the door of their practice room and was schocked to see the leader of the Bangtan Boys.

“RM oppa?!” Namjoon laughed as he opened the door widely, revealing all BTS members.

“We’re here to help you guys.” Jin said. “It’s our cousin who needs to be saved this time…”

“Dahyunnie and the TWICE girls wanted to be here but they have schedule so we’re going to be the one planning the mission ‘Saving Ked’ this time.” V stated with a peace sign.

“But we’re not supposed to help her.” Jeril interrupted. “She ordered us not to…”

“And are you seriously going to just sit here and listen to her?” Suga asked. “That’s your leader right there. I don’t care if she ordered you not to, you have to go save her…”

“Yeah, break the leader’s order for once.” JHope adviced. “It’s for a good cause, anyway.”

The girls stayed quiet and thought about all the times that their dear leader was there to help them. They reminisce all the memories they shared together and how Erika was always there for them no matter what the consequences she had to face after…

“We have to help her.”

“Yeah, we do.”

“Alright. Gather around, let’s start planning…” Jungkook said, clapping his hands and made the boys and girls sat around in circles on the floor. “What should we talk about first?"

"Her parents, ofcourse. They’re our enemy right now."

"From what I know in our family, we all love being challenges.”

"That’s right." Jin nodded in agreement to what Namjoon said. “Why don’t we challenge them to a bet consisting of Erika and the group?” the rest nodded in agreement.

“What do we have as a gamble?”

“Her own choice, a soloist or a group.”

“Isn’t that a risky one?” Lei asked Taehyung.

“It’s a risk we need to take right now, Lei.” the way she says her name reminded Lei of how Erika would. “And that’s the only way that their parents would actually agree to this bet.”

“Alright. But how are we going to know who wins?”

“We could do this during graduation and ask the crowd…”

“Sounds good.” Namjoon agreed. “Then, you guys practice a song that you already know and we’ll have Erika sing it on the spot. We’ll take care of her parents, so don’t worry.”

“Thank you so much.” Lei bowed to the guys and so did Anika and Jeril.

“Don’t thank us, we’re doing this for our own family member.” Jimin stated.

“Ked is already a part of our family, and a lot of other family, so I know we’ll be okay.” V assured them, smiling her rectangular smile. “Alright, mission SK is on progress now.”

Soon after that, the BTS members left. The girls stayed in the practice room to talk among each other about their performance, to finalize things before the big day.

“I think we should sing a TWICE song. We’ve already distributed their parts properly.”

“Yeah, and Ked unnie already memorized all of their dance steps so it’ll be easy.”

“But I want to sing something mellow, though. Like Say Yes or After Moon.”

“After Moon sounds great.” Lei agreed. “We can just perform two songs, one with dance and the other one without. How about Heart Shaker and After Moon?”

“Okay, I’m in.”

“Yeah, I also agree.”

“Good, mission SK starts.”

“Mission SK? Like, mission Son-Kim?” Jeril just had to ruin the moment. “I’m kidding.”

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