Turns out that a fainting psychologist wasn't the most exhilarating part of Jeongguk's day.

He entered his apartment to find it in a complete mess. It was littered with numerous boxes, suitcases and new furniture and it was pushing his OCD to it's limit.

"What the actual hell?!"

The intruders had heard him, Jeongguk heard them before he saw them, "Ah!Jeongguk-ah, you're back already?"

Jeongguk looked up (or down in Jimin's case) to see 2 people whom he used to think of as best-friends.

"Jimin-hyung? Tae-hyung? What are you guys doing here? Especially with all those stuff?", he gestured towards the to-be assembled bunk beds.

"Well, we thought that we'd move in", Taehyung said happily.

Jeongguk was confused- but moreover he was overwhelmed with emotions, he didn't know if he wanted to cry or let loose his anger.

"Jeongguk-ah?", Jimin's concerned soft voice interrupted his thought process.

Jeongguk had made up his mind, and his single syllable answer escaped his lips, - "No".

"No? What do you mean by 'no' ?", Taehyung asked air-quoting the 'no'.

"It means that the both of you can't move in, do you guys think that you can leave me and waltz back into my life as you please?", Jeongguk's voice was rising, "Do you think that I'm that easy?".

In the corner of his mind he knew that he was being unrealistic. He knew that the disband meant that they were meant to go separate ways. A part of him wanted to laugh at how he sounded, he felt like their ex-girlfriend who was mad because they left. But all these thoughts were clouded by his loneliness,the loud voices in his empty head, his desperation and the numbness he felt from within. The voices inside his head were chanting that his friends would never understand him as a continuous mantra.

"Jeongguk-ah, we're sorry. We don't know what else to do, we know we messed up and this is the only thing we could think of, we shouldn't have left, we should've known, we should've done a lot of things, Kook.", Jimin was openly crying now.

"But we didn't, in the rush of starting life again we got caught up and we were excited and curious but in the middle of it all we forgot who we really were, a family. When Namjoon hyung told us about you we felt so horrible, we were so disgusted with ourselves and I don't want to feel like that anymore, please Kook-ah. Let us fix our mistakes, please."

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1 Year and 6 Months Ago

Jeongguk was over the moon, his hyungs were coming home for Christmas.

It had been almost 6 months after the disband and he had tried to enjoy this newfound freedom, tried being the key word.

Anything he did, he was reminded of his hyungs. He tried to travel, to read more, to learn new things, but in everything he felt the absence of Namjoon's understanding, Jin's love, Yoongi's wit, Hobi's optimism, Jimin's smiles and Tae's play-fullness.

Now, however he finally had something to look forward to. He learned to cook 13 new dishes just for them, he decorated his new apartment, bought gifts and set up the new Christmas tree, all just for them. He planned the conversations he would have with them. He was sure that they had all missed each other just as he had, perhaps they had, but their new lives were just as exciting to them as their old one; and Jeongguk failed to notice that.

So, when one by one, each of his hyungs filled Jeongguk's ears with excuses to why they couldn't meet up, a piece of Jeongguk broke. And that was the beginning to the new Jeongguk, a man who lost his mask.

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Jeongguk left the apartment, slamming the door as he went; after the little fiasco, only to return a couple of hours later to find his hyungs by the doorstep waiting for him. They seemed to have packed their bags and ready to leave, again Jeongguk thought. However, his assumptions turned out to be wrong when they shifted all their things to the flat opposite to his.

"What?", Taehyung asked when he saw Jeongguk staring at them, the laughter lacing his voice was unmistakable.

"We needed a place to live and conveniently there was a place free right here"

Jeongguk could swear that there was a family living there the other day.