Chapter 56

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After eating in the cafeteria, Yoongi took Sun-Hee up to his Genius Lab studio. Sun-Hee put her things down and plopped herself onto the black leather couch as she looked around. "So this is where the magic of BTS songs happens."

Yoongi sat down next to her on the couch and put his arm around her. "Well, some of it happens here. Namjoon and Hobi do a lot of the work in their studios also." Then he looked at her. "How are you doing? Are you hanging in there?"

Sun-Hee nodded and rested her head on Yoongi's shoulder as he rubbed up and down on her arm. "I'm doing fine as long as you ignore the fact that I almost attacked someone in the cafeteria, a half hour ago."

Yoongi smiled, "I really wanted to see that. My money would have been on you. But everyone had to rush in to help and ruin all the fun." They both laughing at that. "If you are feeling up to it, I really want to sample your voice a bit today. All of us were impressed when you rapped with me at the hotel in Japan. I was hoping to explore your range, but only if you think that would be fun to do."

Sun-Hee gave Yoongi a surprised look, "Well, it sounds like a blast but I can tell you right now that you wont get anything usable from me. I could never carry a tune and I've only rapped along to songs I like. But I'd love to see you work. Maybe you could show me some simple parts of how you make a song."

Yoongi smiled and nodded, "Absolutely. Ok, the first thing I want is just you doing some rapping acapella, well see if we can get a couple different styles but it can be anything. If we could start with non-BTS songs that would be good."

"Oh, okay." As she thought about what song she could do, she realized that she was going to be rapping in front of Yoongi, one of the most talented rappers on the planet. Her cheeks got red and she brought her hands up to cover them.

Yoongi turned towards her and took her wrists and brought her hands down. He looked her in the eye. "Don't be nervous, I have no expectations, whatsoever. When I thought about what would be fun to do with you, I just couldn't stop thinking about sampling your voice. I've honestly wanted to do it since Japan. But I just want us to have a good time, I'm not worried about anything else."

Sun-Hee nodded. "Okay, if we are just having fun then I will start with the first rap I ever knew. This song was from way before I was born but my dad loved Will Smith and I learned the words when I was about 10 years old. I'll do the second chorus."

Yoongi nodded and brought her over to the chair in front of the microphone. "Just have fun."

Sun-Hee smiled, "Well that will be easy with this song."

Then, when Yoongi pushed the record button and nodded to her she started. "Okay, here's the situation, my parents went away on a week's vacation and they left the keys to the brand new Porsche. Would they mind? Hmm well, of course not. I'll just take it for a little spin, and maybe show it off to a couple of friends. I'll just cruise around the neighborhood. Well, maybe I shouldn't...Yeah, of course, I should..."

Yoongi smiled as he watched her rap. It was such a funny rap to do, perfectly her style. She was be-bopping in her chair as she sang. She also really put her personality into it in as she told the story. She always had such a feisty attitude which all of the men loved about her. This was a song with attitude which was perfect for her. Yoongi was also known for having an attitude when rapping. His mind was spinning with ideas of things they could do together. 

As he listened to her, Yoongi also smiled because she was good. She had such a pleasing tone and rhythm. Her flow was really good also. He just enjoyed listening to her.

She ended with, "Well parents are the same no matter time nor place. So to you other kids all across the land, take it from me, parents just don't understand."

Yoongi pushed a button on his mixer board. Yoongi had followed the story mostly, even though it was in English. They both laughed. "Well, you took the 'have fun' part to heart. I love it. That was awesome. Okay now we need something in a different style now." 

She did a couple more old songs trying to keep things fun. She got less than halfway through Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-A-Lot before they were both laughing so hard they had tears. She did a very short part of Informer by Snow, which is ridiculously fast but Yoongi knew she could do accents now. 

She did some more current songs then. Ciara's 1, 2, Step, "Automatic, supersonic, hypnotic, funky fresh, work my body, so melodic, this beat goes right through my chest..." And songs by Post Malone and Drake. They had a blast, Yoongi joined in and sang with her sometimes and recorded just her singing other times. He had learned that her pitch wasn't nearly as bad as she had claimed. She was able to hit simple pitch changes, but this was where she could do some practicing to improve. All her raps had been in English so Yoongi thought to himself that he needed to get some samples in Korean also.

Yoongi smiled at her, "Well, you have a gift. You are a naturally talented rapper."

Sun-Hee shook her head but smiled. "You are being too nice. I was just having fun."

Yoongi raised his eyebrows at her, "That was my professional opinion. Are you telling me that you don't think I'm qualified to identify a talented rap artist?"

Sun-Hee laughed and raised her eyebrow at him, "I think you are being nice, because it's me. And you have to be nice to Jungkook's soulmate."

Yoongi took her hands, "We are nice to you because we like you, not because you are Jungkook's soulmate. And when it comes to music, I'm not nice. I'm honest. You are talented." She still looked like she didn't believe him.

Yoongi wanted her to record some lines for a few specific projects he was working on. These parts were in Korean. He gave her direction and had her record each several times. He learned that she was coachable as well. She rapped in Korean almost as well as she had in English. 

Then, they had fun recording the two of them doing some BTS songs together. Their voices sounded so good together. Yoongi had always thought Taehyung's and Jimin's voices sounded good together because of the differences between them, they had contrast. His and Sun-Hee's voices sounded good together for the same reason.

There was a knock at Yoongi's door and Jungkook and Namjoon were there. "Let's go you two. What is taking you so long?" They were used to Yoongi staying late in his studio, often sleeping over, even. But they thought for sure Sun-Hee would be done by now.

Yoongi and Sun-Hee looked at the clock and were surprised at how late it was. "I guess we lost track of time." Sun-Hee stood up and grabbed her things.

They grabbed take-out on the way home. At the apartment, everyone except Sun-Hee had several beers with dinner. 

Yoongi turned on Karaoke, which they were all surprised about, he didn't usually initiate Karaoke. But he had so much fun singing with Sun-Hee that he hadn't wanted it to end. They all had so much fun singing and laughing together. At first Sun-Hee just watched, then she started dancing with their songs. Finally she joined in and sang along also. They all had a very fun rowdy night.

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Sun-Hee woke up the next day smashed between Tae and Jungkook. She went down to her apartment to take a shower and get ready for the day while the others got ready for work. Then she had a bite to eat. Namjoon had told her he would be down to her apartment after he got ready and ate breakfast.

When Namjoon came down he was carrying a few books and notebooks and a pencil case.

"You look like you are ready to go to school." Sun-Hee teased.

Namjoon smiled at her showing his dimples. "Actually you are going to school, missy." He gave her a good morning hug. "I'm going to teach you Hangul. You need to learn to read and write in Korean. I figured since you can't go to college this quarter you could spend your time learning something useful until you can go back."

Sun-Hee smiled at Namjoon. "What a great idea! Thank you so much for taking the time to teach me!"

They sat down together at Sun-Hee's desk. The first thing Namjoon did was break a pencil. He held it in his hands with a shocked look like 'How did that even happen?'  Sun-Hee just laughed and took the broken pieces from him and threw them in the wastepaper basket next to her.

Namjoon carefully gave her a new pencil and some paper. He explained that Korean was an alphabet type of writing system similar to English. It wasn't a character type writing system like Japanese or Chinese. This would make learning to read and write much easier because she didn't have to learn different characters for each different word. And since she already spoke Korean, learning to read and write would be even easier for her.

He taught her the fourteen consonants and ten vowel symbols. She practiced writing them out. It turned out that the stroke order was really important. There was also a special way the letters went together called blocking. She was just beginning to learn about blocking when there was a knock on her door.

Sun-Hee jumped up and ran to the door, opening it without looking through the peephole. Standing there were two South Korean policemen and one police woman. Sun-Hee was startled by this. "Yes?"

"Are you Anderson, Sun-Hee?" One of the officers asked.

"Yes." Sun Hee confirmed.

The officers stepped into her apartment. A big male officer looked at her and held out a paper, "We are here to arrest you for laws you have broken in the United States. We have a warrant for your arrest. You will be taken to the Seoul Yongsan Police Station and held for tonight. Tomorrow you will be extradited to the United States."

Sometime during this speech Namjoon came running over to the door. When they finished talking he tried to stand in front of Sun-Hee. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. This has to be a mistake. You can't mean to arrest Sun-Hee." The officer handed Namjoon a paper that clearly showed a mug shot of Sun-Hee from the United States. She looked terrible in the picture with bruises and cuts on her face but Namjoon could tell it was her.

Namjoon turned to Sun-Hee showing her the paper with questioning eyes. All she said was, "It's him. He's found me." 

She was surprisingly calm. If she had known about what was coming she would have predicted a full-on panic attack. But as the officer came around Namjoon and started putting handcuffs on Sun-Hee, she was breathing fine.

Namjoon however was freaking out. "You can't do this. You can't just come into someone's home and arrest them for nothing! You don't know what she did! This is a lie! Have you even checked it out or do you just do what you are told? This is a mistake! Let go of her!" One of the officers had to physically restrain Namjoon. The officer grabbed Namjoon's arm and twisted it behind his back and shoved him against the wall. Namjoon tried to fight a bit but he knew if he was arrested too then no one would know to go help Sun-Hee.

It turns out that they have something similar to the Miranda Rights in Korea because as they were putting Sun-Hee in handcuffs the female officer said, "You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future. You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law."

Namjoon's face was shoved against the wall but he said, "Sun-Hee, I'll call the others, we will come get you! I promise!" He felt so helpless as he watched the officers walk away with her. 


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