"Klover...Klover..."

Klover let out a barely human groan as she turned her face so that her cheek pressed against the surface of her work desk. She had exhausted herself pulling a nearly all nighter with only a half a cup of iced coffee to keep her going. As she tried to fall back to sleep to let her tired brain rest, she felt someone gently grabbing her by the shoulder and shaking her again.

"Klover, wake up."

She knew that she couldn't ignore her best friend's voice so reluctantly opened her eyes. Lifting her head off the desk, Klover had to move a sluggish hand up to her face to yank away the paper that was stuck there. Klover heard her best friend laugh, and looked over at Calista's smiling face then. Even though Klover would never be a morning person, she appreciated being woken up by such a sweet and charismatic human being.

"We stayed up too late theorizing and you're gonna end up being late for work because of it."

Klover acknowledged what Calista said with a small nod of her head. The desk that she had fallen to sleep with her cheek against was strewn with notes that her and Calista had been putting together for the last couple of years. There were even some articles scattered in there that theorized where all the members of BTS had disappeared to. Klover caught the headline of one article sticking out from the rest of the pile.

'Three Years Later and Still No Sign.
Where In The World Are BTS?'

Klover and Calista were convinced that they hadn't all just up and disappeared without a trace on purpose. After all, they always expressed how much ARMY meant to them. Something unexplainable had to have happened to them and they were determined to figure out what. 

"I'll make it. I just will stop and get a coffee on the way in," said Klover as she stood up.

As she got up, Klover noticed that her laptop was still on, having been accidentally left plugged in all night. Klover paused momentarily to run her finger over the mousepad of the laptop to turn it on and noticed that it was still stuck on a webpage tab that she had opened the night before. Her and Calista had gone down the rabbit hole last night looking for new theories to the disappearance of BTS in fanfictions. They thought that - if the boys had been kidnapped or something - some demented lunatic might have crafted a story about it; a truth wrapped up in fiction.

Klover knew their latest attempt was really grasping at straws, but she really felt as if they were running out of options. After three years, there were only so many places to look. The thing was that neither of them wanted to give up. The boys had changed their lives for the better and - if something happened to them - Klover and Calista wanted to save them.

Just as Klover was about to shut the internet browser off and shut down her laptop she froze. Her eyes lingered on the cover of one of the most popular fanfictions of BTS on the Wattpad platform. As she looked at the jungle landscape that made up the story's cover, she noticed a very faint flicker of light through the dense foliage of vines. She stared at it for a moment as the tiny pinprick of light appeared and then disappeared followed by another. It was sporadic in nature, but Klover gasped as she realized what the light was communicating. It was flashing 'SOS'.

"Calista," said Klover as she turned to look at her nearby. "I think I've found that clue we've been looking for."

"What do you mean?"

Klover pointed at the screen where the 'SOS' signal was still being flashed on the e-book cover.

"It's probably a glitch from your laptop being left on for so long," started Calista before trailing off. She couldn't deny the steady pattern of 'SOS' over and over again. 

"What does this mean?" asked Calista in a shocked whisper as the two of them watched the 'SOS' being signaled over and over again.

"I'm not sure," said Klover, "But you wanna bet we're gonna find out."

- - -

To say it was hard for her to concentrate at work after seeing the 'SOS' signal on the e-book cover was an understatement. Sitting at her cubicle with a mostly gone cup of iced coffee beside her, Klover kept the Wattpad webpage open on her cell phone so she could still look at the e-book cover. Instead of working on the files that were being sent to her email what felt like every other second, she was too busy trying to piece the puzzle together. The 'SOS' signal had flashed for another hour after she left the apartment, so she hadn't been making it up. If this was BTS sending a message, was there a way to trace the origin?

"Are you daydreaming about your former boy band craze or do you actually plan on getting some work done today?"

Klover looked up from the cell phone sitting beside her on the desk. Peeking his head over the top of her cubicle like a unwanted pest was her annoying co-worker Atwood; his mahogany brown hair slightly askew as his matching eyes scanned her with a slight gleam to them. Atwood had been a thorn in Klover's side ever since elementary school. It started with him doing annoying things to catch her attention like throwing wads of paper at her back when the teacher wasn't looking or crowing about her looks on the playground like some sort of crow. As they progressed into middle school together, that was when the name calling started. Her mother tried to tell her that that was what boys did when they liked a girl and wanted to get their attention. There had been a brief span of time where Klover had entertained the idea of her and Atwood being an item - but when they got into high school - she knew that kind of thing would never pan out. They ran in two different circles and it was obvious to Klover that Atwood just liked toying with her because he thought getting a rise out of her was fun. She didn't know why the world was against her and pitting this thorn in her side man into her worklife as well. What were the odds of them getting jobs at the same office and having cubicles right next door to each other?

"I thought you were supposed to be working," continued Atwood as Klover quickly clicked the button on the side of her phone to shut off her screen, pocketing it.

"I thought you were supposed to be too, so why are you spying on me instead?"

He held up a small sheaf of papers over the top of the cubicle so that she could make brief eye contact with it.

"I got up to photocopy. Not my fault I'm tall."

"It's completely your fault that you're annoying though," muttered Klover under her breath.

It was clear that Atwood heard her as he let out a soft chuckle and put the papers down again.

"I take it you didn't bother watching that new BTS competition last night."

"No, I did not," said Klover.

"Ah shame. I think you would have liked it. You like K-POP."

"Now I just know you're doing this to be a jerk," said Klover as she got up from her desk to walk out of her cubicle and down the hall; Atwood trailing after her.

"Jerk?"

"Yes, jerk. You obviously know how much BTS means to me and then you have the audacity to ask me what you just did."

"They were a fad, Klover," he said. "I know that you hate to hear it - and I'm the last person you would want to hear it from - but it's true. They are gone and now they are replaced. Cycle of life when it comes to celebrities."

"Please photocopy and shut up," she said as she came to a stop in the hallway by the water cooler and photo copier. "Look, we've arrived at your destination."

"Next time I'll make sure I don't board miss ticked off air," commented Atwood with a smirk and eye roll. "I'm just trying to give you some practical advice so you don't get yourself fired."

"Well keep your advice to yourself," said Klover as she turned to start walking off towards the ladies' room.

"Suit yourself," said Atwood before turning to give his full attention to the photo copier. As it whirred to life and he put the papers in the tray, he started to crumble when it gave him an error message. "Of course this hunk of junk doesn't want to work again. Way to pass it your bad juju, Klover."

Klover stopped and turned from where she stood to look back at him.

"Dumb thing always has an error," continued Atwood as his eyes scanned the error message. "If there is an error once, it's bound to happen again."

"Wait. What did you just say?" asked Klover as a light bulb came on in her head.

"I said if an error happens once, it's bound to happen again," said Atwood who had his back to her as he got on his knees to yank out one of the printer drawers.

If that 'SOS' symbol was a sign from the members of BTS and they had somehow gotten into trouble, it was an error that was bound to repeat itself. She just had to get Calista to help her notice the pattern so they could find that glitch in the system to find the boys themselves.

"Atwood, you may be a jerk but sometimes your dumb mouth says smart things."

"If I didn't currently have my hands all up inside this machine, I'd give you a piece of my mind..." started Atwood.

His words met deaf ears though. As he turned to look behind him, he noticed that Klover had quickly disappeared.