"I've been calling him for three days now, he's not picking up." Hoseok says ending the call before it goes to voicemail. "Do you think he blocked me?"

"No, he's not answering me or Chim either." Yoongi says scrolling through all the calls that Jungkook hadn't answered.

"Maybe we should just go over." Jin says leaning on the counter next to Namjoon.

"Should we? He might be ignoring us for a reason." Hoseok says wrapping his arm around Taeil's waist.

"But didn't you guys say Taehyung left for inpatient treatment? It's possible that he hasn't done anything these past three days but wait for him to return." Taeil says leaning into Hoseok's side.

"Teal's right, maybe he hasn't moved out of bed since yesterday." Namjoon says.

"Yeah, I think Teal's right." Jin nods looks at the other four.

"Well, should Taeil and I go check on him?" Hoseok asks.

"No, Jimin and I will go." Yoongi says standing up from the table with Jimin.

"Joon and I should go, I'm his hyung." Jin says standing up straight.

"You and Joon aren't exactly on good terms with him. And Jimin is his oldest hyung." Yoongi argues.

    "I know, but we've known him longer." Jin argues back.

    "How about Jimin and Jin-hyung just go together?" Namjoon offers.

    "I wanna go!" Hoseok pipes up.

    "Then the three of you go." Yoongi says sitting back down.

    "Four of us. I'm not leaving my baby." Hobi says referring to Taeil.

    "Then stay here, Hobi. Yoongi will go with Jimin and Jin." Namjoon says.

    "Hyung." Jin and Jimin say in unison.

    "Come on, baby. Do I really have to call you hyung? I thought we were past that." Namjoon tsks and shakes his head.

    "Me and Jimin will be fine on our own." Yoongi says. "I think you guys should wait to see him when you're ready to apologize properly. Fair?"

    "Fair." The other three say with a pout on each of their faces like kids.

    "Just make sure to tell him to drink plenty of fluids, and to eat a lot whenever he's hungry. And tell him to make sure he washes his face and brushes his teeth~"

    "Jin, chill." Jimin says pulling a reluctant Yoongi to his feet.

    "You chill, Jimin." Jin shoots back.

    "I'm your hyung." Jimin reminds rolling his eyes. "How hard is it to remember that I'm older than you?"

    "You're too small to be my hyung." Jin teases.

    "And you're too big to be my dongsaeng." Jimin shoots back before being cut off by Namjoon.

    "Would you guys just go. And text us if you need us. And if Jungkook isn't well tell him to drink plenty of fluids and to brush his teeth~"

    "We get it! We'll tell him to brush his teeth!"

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Yoongi and Jimin get to Jungkook's house after about fifteen minutes.

They ring the doorbell for the third time before the door is pulled open and Jungkook stands there dressed in a pair of pajama bottoms and a oversized hoodie with a cat with bunny ears on the front.

In all honesty, he looks terrible.

Dark eyes, disheveled hair, and clothes that look like they haven't been changed in days, and the unmistakable smell of alcohol on his breath when it was barely even one in the afternoon.

"Hey, Kooks." Yoongi says first with a smile.

"I-I didn't~ I wasn't expecting you. W-Why are you here?" Jungkook says fiddling with the sleeves of his hoodie that was covering his hands and giving him sweater paws.

"We haven't heard from you in a while. We tried calling you and everything. What's going on?" Jimin asks in a worried tone.

"N-Nothing, nothing. You can come in. Sorry." Jungkook says a bit sluggishly as he turns and walks back into the house.

The house isn't as much of a mess as Jungkook is, in fact the house looks spotless like he had been cleaning all day.

"What've you been up to all day, Kooks?" Yoongi asks as they follow him in.

"Nothing." Jungkook says in the same dull tone he's been using as they sit across from each other on the couches. "Just...I don't know. Sorry. Nothing."

"Where's your phone, Jungkook? Everyone's been calling you?" Jimin says.

"Why?"

"Because we haven't heard from you. We were worried."

"Why?"

Jungkook's behavior is an immediate red flag to Yoongi and he knows something has to be wrong.

"What do you mean 'why'?" Jimin asks. "You're our friend, we were worried about you after not hearing from you and you not answering the phone."

"I'm sorry. Don't waste your time worrying about me. I'm fine." Jungkook says still fiddling around with his sleeves, his voice unconvincing.

Jimin looks at Yoongi who eyes Jungkook suspiciously.

"What's gotten into you, Jungkook?" Yoongi asks.

"I'm just tired." Jungkook says looking up at the two of them. "I'm tired, sorry."

"You don't have to apologize." Yoongi says. "Just answer your phone and let us know you're okay."

Jungkook nods. "Okay, I'm sorry you came all the way over."

"It's fine. How's Taehyung? Have you heard from him?" Jimin asks.

Jungkook shakes his head and looks back down at his sweater paws. "There's no um, not any um. They don't have the~ there aren't any visitation rights or phone privileges for him. I'm sure he's fine though. He should be okay."

Yoongi and Jimin both nod feeling sympathetic towards Jungkook and Taehyung.

"He'll be back before you know it." Jimin says trying to make him feel better.

"I hope so..." Jungkook says and trails off.

"Well, we just wanted to make sure you were okay. You seem like you want to be alone so, we'll leave you alone." Yoongi says standing with Jimin.

Jungkook stands as well. Please don't leave me alone again, I can't take being alone. "Okay, thank you for checking on me. I'll answer my phone from now on."

"Alright, make sure you brush your teeth and drink lots of liquids. Jin wanted me to relay those orders." Yoongi says with a chuckle.

Jin-hyung, he didn't come himself? Does he hate me? "Okay, thank you guys for coming." Jungkook says as he walks them to the door.

They say goodbye and Jungkook closes the door behind him and returns upstairs.

The bedroom isn't as clean as the downstairs part of the house.

There were different alcohol cans and bottles littering the desks and side tables from where Jungkook had drunk so much the last few days.

He had no choice but to drown out his thoughts with alcohol.

His thoughts were too loud in this quiet house and he couldn't handle hearing them all day so he'd just drink until he no longer herd them.

He just wanted his Taehyung.

Once he got his Tae back he'd be fine.

He wouldn't feel so useless because Taehyung needed him.

He wouldn't feel so weak because Taehyung needed him to be strong.

Once he got his Taehyung back in his arms, all these loud thoughts would hopefully go away.

Hopefully.

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