Four days.

Four fucking days.

Four whole fucking days.

Taehyung hadn't been in school for four whole days.

He didn't even want to see anyone.

Not even Jimin!

He was avoiding everyone.

It's not like the boys hadn't tried to visit.

Mr Kim was all; Taehyung doesn't want visitors.

They weren't visitors, they were his friends.

His phone was obviously unreachable and even if the call managed to get through, it always went to voicemail.

Why was Taehyung not answering his phone?

He wasn't even reading their text messages?

Everyone had sent over a dozen messages.

What was wrong?

Jungkook wondered what happened.

Was it what happened the other day in class that could be causing this?

It was all his fault.

If only he wasn't so stupid to do such things like that in class then maybe Taehyung would still have talked to him.

It still wasn't enough reason why he ignored every other person.

With a sigh, he walked to the homeroom, settling on his seat.

Taehyung was usually here by this time. Beside him. Now he didn't even know what happened to him.

He missed seeing Taehyung's smile whenever they saw each other.

Or him waving.

His presence in general.

He fucking missed Taehyung.

Jimin walked into the homeroom, looking around the classroom, his smile falling in realisation of Taehyung not being in school.

Some minutes later, Taehyung walked into the class, his head bowed.

He walked straight to Sarah's seat as he leaned down and whispered something to her.

Sarah seemed to perk up as she grabbed her books, walking to Taehyung and Jungkook's seat.

Taehyung settled his books on the seat between Sarah's minions, a sigh slipping through his lips.

He wanted to cry.

So fucking bad.

But he wasn't going to.

Not here.

And to say he looked horrible was an understatement.

He had red rings around his eyes, he looked worn out, his eyes were puffy.

His skin looked pale and he looked like he couldn't even survive the school day.

The teacher took it as a queue to step into the classroom at this very moment.

"morning class." he started as he introduced what they had to learn.

Jungkook couldn't concentrate on anything.

His eyes had been on his boyfriend the whole time. The longer he stared, he was able to make out a very familiar bruise.

Was that a hickey?

On the back of Taehyung's neck?

Now that he had finally made out what it was, he was able to see that it spread out on different parts of Taehyung's skin.

Taehyung could feel eyes boring into his skin, so he turned and to his luck, his eyes met with Jungkook's.

His lover.

He was so in love with this boy.

He quickly looked away, his eyes looking at Jimin who had been staring at him as well.

And he felt this weird and funny feeling again.

Jimin gasped, pointing his nose.

His nose was bleeding.

Again.

And this time, someone or rather, some people saw.

This was not good.

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The school day had ended as Taehyung got out of the infirmary.

He looked like shit.

Though that wasn't the word to describe how he looked but it was manageable.

His joints ached and walking was like a great deal.

He needed to get home, but he needed to drop his stuff at his locker.

After a little contemplation, he went for his locker.

A little walk wouldn't be so bad.

He could manage.

It's already like an hour after school. There was no one to ask him stuff he wasn't willing to answer.

As he dropped his books in his locker and grabbed his backpack.

The urgent need for his handkerchief came up so he coughed into it.

As he brought the hankey away from his mouth, he saw something which was becoming a regular sight for him.

Blood.

He sighed as he stuffed the hankey into his pocket, sniffing as he closed the door to his locker.

Behind the door were six other boys standing there, the person taking the lead being Jungkook.

"h-hey Tae." Jimin muttered lowly like he was gonna break if they used higher pitched sounds to talk to him.

"what do you guys want?" Taehyung asked as he crossed his arms into his backpack strap.

"answers."

"to what? I have better things to do right now. I don't want to spend time talking to people who wouldn't do anything for me."

As if on cue, everyone gasped as Taehyung rolled his eyes, earning himself a headache.

"we all know you're lying to us Tae." Jungkook said, tears filling his eyes.

Taehyung felt weak to those teary eyes that were looking at him.

"lying?" Taehyung scoffed, "I'm not fucking lying. Do I look like I'm fucking lying to all of you?"

"actually, yes." Namjoon replied.

"then get the fuck out of the cloud you're floating in 'cause I'm not."

"why do we even fucking bother? He's just a waste of time. Here we are trying to be good friends to you after you not talking to anyone of us and this is how you treat us? Fuck you Taehyung." Yoongi said angrily, Hoseok slapping his arm, signalling him to shut up.

"fuck you too. Fuck you all."

"Taehyung. If something is wrong, tell us, we could help. You don't have to push us away."

The words he kept telling everyone was breaking his walls.

He wasn't going to stop him though.

They had to stay away.

"help me? What do you think you can do for me? Huh? Tell me a bunch of everything will be fine? That's not helping. It won't."

Jungkook snapped.

"tell us what is wrong!" he yelled, "we won't know what is wrong if you do not tell us! Fucking tell us and stop pushing us away. Stop treating us like we're trash. Please."

Taehyung sighed as he began to walk away from the six boys.

Jungkook grabbed his hand, not seeming to let go.

That was surely going to leave a bruise.

No, Jungkook didn't grip him hard. It's just because of that.

"please Taehyung." Jungkook begged.

Taehyung looked at all them. Tears began to fall from his eyes as he sighed.

"I have fucking Niphoria. Happy? Niphoria. I'm fucking dying." with that, he pulled his hand away from Jungkook's as he ran out of their sight.

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Hi!

Wait before you say anything.

I know Niphoria doesn't exist.

I made it up.

I won't really say what it's about until the next chapter.

So buckle your seatbelts.

Were going for a ride.

I'm a bit late with the update ik.

But it's here now right?

Stay tuned (like a radio)

Happy JK day though!

He's no longer a baby!

We're all happy though!

Later!

Bai!

'peace out💟