"You know, I never expected to come home to see you" Jin says as he closes the door behind him, he looks over at Yoongi who is laying on the floor next to Taehyung who is still fast asleep.

"I would have never expected to be in this position either"  Yoongi says looking over at Jin, he then looks at the celling. 

"Jimin came to work as a last minute decision, he started stress cleaning" Jin says taking his shoes off and joining the two guys laying on his floor. 

"Good he deserves it" 

"You know, hes older than you, shouldn't you be more understanding of his actions, he isn't hurting anyone" 

"I know, I over react, I just I've had bad experience with people who drink alcohol alot and..."

"it's okay I understand"  Jin says not wanting Yoongi to visit any thoughts that would make him upset. 

They lay in silence looking at the celling, except for Taehyung who is still fast asleep. In Taehyung's dream he is walking with Hoseok on his side, Hoseok laughing about some joke he heard earlier. 

Taehyung hears everything clearly, the birds singing, the sounds of cars, the busy street, a arm links in his. Hoseok's arm.  He's dreaming but in his mind its reality. Hoseok smiles at Taehyug "you can hear me, right?" he asks and Taehyung rubs his hand on the back of his ear, no hearing aids, no nothing. "I can? I can" he says happily listening to his own voice. 

"What are you guys going we need to go clean the hallways" Ricky says throwing a cloth at them, it lands on Hoseok's face. Taehyung laughs, "bother him" Taehyung says pointing to Mark. "Its always his fault we have to clean almost every day" he adds.  

Outside of the dream world Jin is shaking Taehyung to wake up, "he's burning up, Yoongi can you go into my bathroom and get a towel from the closet and put it under cold water" Jin asks  and Yoongi rushes over. 

"If only you could hear me right now" Jin mumbles lightly slapping Taehyung's face. He runs his hands behind Taehyung's ear. "He even took out anything that would make him hear" 

Yoongi comes rushing back and puts the towel on Taehyung's forehead 

"The flu isnt going around school or anything" Yoongi says confused 

"we should call Jungkook" Yoongi adds, Jin puts his hand over Yoongi's stopping him from grabbing his phone. 

"What is he going to do call his mom for advice? I got this, you can trust Taehyung to stay here and get better" Jin says and Yoongi just nods taken aback by how strong Jin's words came out.

"You shouldnt miss so much school" Jin says as he pats the towel over Taehyung's head and then puts it down to his arms. 

"Yoongi?" Jin asks 

"Oh you were talking to me?" Yoongi says confused 

"No I was talking to the sick boy who is asleep" Jin says and Yoongi tries to hide how annoyed he's getting from that response. 

"I don't miss that much school" Yoongi huffs, he thinks about it and realizes when he's at school he sleeps and the fact that right at this time he should be in math class but he's happy he got out of that. 

"You should go, I can take care of him, tell Jungkook hes sick but not to worry about it" 

"Telling Jungkook he's sick is like telling him to stay out of school the rest of his life even after Taehyung gets better" Yoongi says a sentence thats half confusing but makes a lot more sense than Jin thought it would. 

"Just give an excuse say you saw him at the train station going to go visit his family or something" 

Yoongi nods before saying his goodbye and asking if Jin needed anything from the store for him or Taehyung, Jin says no and sends Yoongi off to tell Jungkook that Taehyung is taking a break when really Taehyung is asleep with a high fever.

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"How did you escape the restaurant without us seeing?" Namjoon asks and Yoongi feels like wrapping his hands around his neck and shaking him for turning this onto him. Jungkook's eyebrow goes up as he realizes that Yoongi suspiciously left them. 

"yeah you disappeared" Jungkook says, he takes a sip of his vanilla milkshake 

"I needed to use the bathroom and I think you guys forgot about me" Yoongi lies, everything was going well when he told them he got a hold of Taehyung, Jungkook said it was understandable that Taehyung chose to take a break since his new worst enemy is back. But Namjoon decided to cause suspicion on Yoongi. 

"I guess that could happen" Jungkook says before looking down at his drink, disregarding all thoughts. 

"I just wish he would've told me" he mumbles before sipping up all of his drink until the noises of him sucking the air come out of his straw.

"Jungkook? Jungkook" Namjoon says trying to get him to stop because its a loud annoying sound in a public space.

"We've lost him" Namjoon says half jokingly but all Yoongi can think about is Jin saying Taehyung's name over and over again like that and failing to get Taehyung to wake up.  

Jungkook finally snaps out of it and looks up to Namjoon. 

"Welcome back" Namjoon says with a smile and Yoongi starts fidgeting, how long until Taehyung comes back? He thinks to himself I don't know how long I can keep his location a secret.