PLAY ME A LOVE SONG PART 2

 TIME SKIP - SIX MONTHS LATER

Jeongguk was sitting at the Top Cafe inside Tower Records in Shibuya, Tokyo. He was busy promoting one of his writer’s novels when his friend Kim Seokjin called him.

“Jeonggukie!” Jin said gaily. “What’s up bro?” Jeongguk responded. “How are you doing? "Hanging on, busy with work. Hey I heard you called a radio station to seek advice?" Jeongguk asked his friend.

Seokjin is his boss's Kim Namjoon's best friend who eventually became very close with him, with the three years he had worked with the publishing company.

Well, Jeongguk thinks Namjoon likes him more than a best friend though. But Seokjin likes someone else. Ah. Bestfriends. "Word gets so fast. Who told you? Namjoon?" Seokjin asked Jeongguk.

"Yeah. Namjoon is actually interested in offering the radio program a chance to write about love problems. How long has the program started, hyung?" Jeongguk said as he sipped on the coffee he ordered.

"Yeah, that's great. I guess the program had been going for months already and yeah, I mean the DJ really helped me, but hey, the object of my affection is already taken unfortunately." Jin said frankly.

"Sounds interesting, how did you sign up?" Jeongguk asked curiously. "I will send you the link." Jin said. "I will ask Namjoon hyung if I can contact the program, pretend and ask for advice." Jeongguk said.

"How do they contact you?" Jeongguk asked. "They receive a lot of requests but the DJ I think chooses it, he emailed me." "Cool, do you need to talk to him?" "Yeah, it's how it works, Gukkie." Jin said. "Well, I called to ask you, how are you and Seojoon?"

"Oh, my Joonie? I am thinking of proposing to him soon after I clear some stuff." Jeongguk said loudly. "Wow, that's a big deal. Wait, are you sure you want to be with him? I mean wasn't he just a rebound?" Jin asked frankly.

"What do you mean, hyung?" Jeongguk felt shocked with his question. "Because when I met you, you were still hung-up on your ex. What was his name again?" Jin asked. "Cough*" Jeongguk suddenly swallowed the coffee in the wrong pipe.

"You okay?" "Yeah, listen, hyung, Eunwoo is here. We need to talk to Tower records for the release of his audio book." Jeongguk said. "Oh, is that so? Are you just avoiding my question?"

"No, hyung really." Jeongguk said as Eunwoo approached the counter to order. "Okay. I sent you the website." Jin said. "Thanks, hyung!" Jeongguk said as he ended the call.

Why was he bothered, all of a sudden with the question that Seokjin asked him. His ex. Ha. Kim Taehyung. His eternal buddy, his twin, his first love.

They were inseparable when they were in college. And then finally, they both felt something towards one another and they got together and then he broke up with him and left. He left without a word and he just heard he moved back to Daegu.

Jungkook frowned. Why would he be thinking of Taehyung when he was the one who dumped him. Well Taehyung was trying to explain when Jeongguk walked out.

And then there came Seojoon, Taehyung's closest classmate in uni and there were so alike that Jeongguk just fell. Eunwoo approached him and said, "So boss, what's the plan for today?"

–– "It's Friday and this is DJ V for Late Night Love Talk. We are currently having technical difficulty as our VOIP phone system is down so the caller for today will be moved on Monday."

"I wanna try something different today since it's going to be officially a year on Sunday for Late Night Love Talk with DJ V. But because I value my listeners, I would like to go through the grieving process."

Taehyung thought of this when he arrived at the station at 8 pm and found out that the phone system was down. It is something worthwhile to talk about, well that's what he thinks, when he himself has not undergone it after his breakup so many years ago.

"But before we begin with our show, it's Friday night and I offer you all something upbeat. It's Lady by Modjo. This is DJ V and you are listening to Late Night Love Talk with MBC Daegu."

After five commercials… "Welcome back to Late Night Love Talk with DJ V and tonight we'll be talking about the stages of grief. It's something different yes and maybe technical difficulties happen because there is a reason. There are five stages of grief. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. I remember watching a movie and I specifically remember a quote from one of its characters. Professor Perlman in the movie, Call Me By Your Name stated, "In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste! I am stating this because naturally, defensively, our body will be in denial when pain happens. It is difficult to make yourself think that we actually lost an important person in our life and it begins like that. Don't Speak by No Doubt is a classic song of pain, of denial. Thank you for tuning in with Late Night Love Talk with DJ V." Four radio advertisements later… "Welcome back. I am DJ V and you are currently listening to Late Night Love Talk. So we are currently discussing the stages of grief most especially with a breakup. We are now on the second stage which is anger. Well the word it self sounds dangerous but according to the website verywellmind.com and I quote. 'We are trying to adjust to a new reality and are likely experiencing extreme emotional discomfort. There is so much to process that anger may feel like it allows us an emotional outlet. Anger also tends to be the first thing we feel when starting to release emotions related to loss. This can leave us feeling isolated in our experience. It can also cause us to be perceived as unapproachable by others in moments when we could benefit from comfort, connection, and reassurance.' Well, we get angry maybe towards ourselves or the other because well it isbhard to adjust and it's an additonal stimuli that we need to manage and sometimes, we refuse to. We will take a short break aftee the next song, which is After The Love is Gone by Earth, Wind and Fire. This is DJ V and thank you for listening to Late Night Love Talk." After three commercials… "We are back and this is Late Night Love Talk with DJ V. Our topic tonight is very interesting, it's something that I am doing for the first time with our show and just to recap we are talking about the process of grief. We have talked about denial & then anger & now we talk about bargaining. Well as simple as it may sound, bargaining is something we do to make ourselves feel better. It's something we do because we feel helpless & as a way of coping, we bargain to take things back in control. It's saying something like, I will love again if the next person I am going to date will be like this or can do like that. We can't avoid doing things just to make ourselves feel better. And with feeling better sometimes we go around in circles. So the next song is Circles by Post Malone. This is DJ V and Late Night Love Talk will be back after the song and some commercials." After two commercials… T/W Depression "And we are back. I am DJ V with Late Night Love Talk and the next stage of grief is I think where we face our shadows and it's depression. This is the time when we stop complaining and when we start to see things clearly now. We just feel so raw and vulnerable and we experience pain in its most organic form. Although isolation is one of the facets of depression and is considered a natural process, we should make sure that we ask the help of our friends/loved ones. We practice self love & maybe talk to a counselor or seek therapy with the hopes of coming back stronger in the process. The song Fix You by Coldplay is one of those songs about a friend or a loved one who wanted to help someone by fixing the hurt they experience as they go through depression. Again, I am DJ V and I am glad to have you on our program Late Night Love Talk." "This is DJ V and we are at the last segment of our show Late Night Love Talk. And the last stage of grief that we will talk about is acceptance. Being sad or being regretful will still exist during this stage but there's a certain kind of peace. The word acceptance itself is defined by Cambridge dictionary as 'the fact of accepting a difficult or unpleasant situation.' There are no due dates or deadlines as we go through the grief process. We have to be careful too because we don't want to commit rebound just to make ourselves feel better because we tend to hurt another person in return. Elle Woods in Legally Blonde said, 'Most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself.' We have to trust ourselves that we are able to surpass this. We have to also be kind and forgiving to ourselves and in that, we experience the true acceptance. Thank you for tuning in Late Night Love Talk. This is your host DJ V and the last song for tonight's show is 134340 by BTS. Thank you and have a good night."