Chapter 12

We think we manage to get to the bottom of when the fan meeting was based on the hair colours that the boys have. One good thing about the constant changing and all the photographic documenting they do is it puts the fan meet into a 3 month window at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021, just a short while before they came to London and met Lori and I.

They had 2 fan meets, one in Busan and the other in Gangneung. My guess would be that the girls had met them at the latter of the 2 bearing in mind Ahnjong was married then and living in Seoul and Nari was training at the hospital also in Seoul. "Is there anything you can remember about that day that was odd, or unexpected?" I ask the pair who are sitting at the kitchen breakfast bar wracking their brains, heads in their hands. We have been sent copies of the pictures via email from Detective Choi to try and help jog their memories, that's how we figured out the colour combination of their hair. "Did either of them look familiar to you at any point?" Lori asks.

"To be fair we meet a lot of people on these things and everyone blurs into a single face after a while. I can't say that when we turned up at the hospital that I paid her too much attention. I was concentrating on you Aimee and then Jangmi" Namjoon replies. Yoongs is nodding his head in agreement. "I certainly did not look at Ahnjong and think I had met her before. She never said anything to me about being a fan or having met me. She has always kept her distance from me and dealt with you more baby" he says gesturing towards Lori.

I stand up and start walking around the breakfast bar, possibly making them all feel dizzy, but I don't care. It helps my brain piece things together. "Ok, so they were clearly fans, happily taking pictures with you at a fan meet. A few months later when you break from the band you come to England for about a 6 week period give or take. When you come back to Korea it's about a month before Lori is photographed with Yoongi and the statement is made a short time after that about you having the baby. A month or so later I arrive and another statement is released to say we are engaged Joonie. So that means that they could have been planning this since early 2022? But then, that doesn't explain Jangmi, they could have only been planning this for 6 months as we didn't release anything about the pregnancy until after I was 12 weeks". Yoongs and Joon both nod their heads in agreement with my reasoning, but Lori is shaking hers. "No, 8 months, I told Ahnjong as soon as you told me" Lori says looking annoyed at herself. She dips her head down on to the cold granite and I hear her start crying. "Don't get upset Lori, it really doesn't make a difference how long they have been planning this" I say trying to urge her to feel better.

"But what if me telling her about the baby tipped them over the edge and they started making plans then?" She says whilst wiping away the tears from her cheeks. Yoongi comes and places his arms around her and in the softest most loving voice tells her "They would have eventually found out when the statement was released anyway and if it bothered them that much they would have acted in the same way. 2 months would have made no difference. You cannot blame yourself".

Yoongi is 100% right. The timing makes no difference. It seems that the only reason they have acted now is because both their biases have met someone got married and had children. I think the aim of their game is to punish us all. We just need to be smarter than them now and figure out what they are going to do next.

Easier said than done though!