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It’s freezing outside, the thick coat the only thing keeping Hoseok warm as he walks up to the door of their apartment. While breathing out a cloud of white air he shifts the box filled with Christmas decoration to his other hand to grab his keys. When stepping inside he is greeted with the warmth of the apartment that he and the other 6 bts members share. He smiles contently as he walks into the living room and drops the box next to the couch.
It’s quiet in the living room, seeing as the others are already asleep. Hoseok did his best to search out the right time to get his surprise ready. Tomorrow it’s Christmas and he wants to make the other guys happy with a nicely decorated living room and lots of presents.
He opens the box and starts pulling out all the contents he’ll need to dress up the giant tree standing in the room.
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Namjoon slowly opens his eyes. He wonders what time it is so he shifts to look at the alarm clock placed on his desk;
5:27 AM.
He sights as he gets up and walks towards his door, making sure to open it soundlessly as to not wake the other members.
When he walks across the living room on his way to the kitchen he sees a figure lying on the ground. What were they doing here? He walks closer to see who it is, when he kneels down in front of the person he figures it’s Hoseok. His chest is slowly rising and falling in a steady rhythm. A shiver goes through Namjoon’s spine as he notices how cold it is in the room.
He walks back to his room to get a blanket and throws it over the sleeping boy that’s surrounded by Christmas decoration. A smile makes his way up to his face as he looks at the well decorated living room.
He looks at the boy one more time, enjoying how the blue light that comes through the windows lights up his beautiful face and orange hair. His skinny body not taking up much space on the floor. Namjoon stands up and quickly decides to go back to his room to sleep the last few hours before the Christmas madness starts.
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It really was a madness.
At 8 AM Jungkook and Jimin went to wake everyone up with loud Christmas music. Yoongi just groaned in annoyance and turned around to sleep more, but the sound only seemed to get louder. After a while of trying to ignore the Christmas music he gave up and made his way to the living room.
Once there he meets Seokjin and on the floor there’s a sleeping Hoseok. Seokjin put his finger to his mouth as a gesture to be quiet, but the loud music in the hallway couldn’t be helped. Yoongi decides to shake Hoseok awake before the loud music reaches him.
“Hey Hoseok, wake up” he says while shaking him gently on his shoulder. His eyes slowly open and look at Yoongi in a questioning way. Yoongi just points to the hallway. Hoseok understood quickly as he heard the music coming closer, so he got up to sit on the couch sleepily.
“JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS~” Jimin and Jungkook happily jump towards the living room, followed by a more sleepy Teahyung and Namjoon. Once they were all there they decide to start with the Christmas breakfast.
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The table was ready and there was a lot of food on it, but also candles and Christmas lights. The mood was very lively as they all sat down around the table.
“Alright!! I’m so hungry!” Jimin said as he sat down between Namjoon and Seokjin.
“Thanks for the food!” said Hoseok who was quickly followed by the other members.
Taehyung ate to his hearts’ content, grateful that Hoseok prepared this all for them. He took a peek in the direction of his savior and saw to his surprise that he wasn’t eating that much. Hoseok had his plate filled with a small bun and an egg, and was looking at it like it just killed his parents.
His thoughts made him smile a bit. Maybe he just isn’t hungry, Taehyung thought, so he let him be.
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After breakfast Jungkook sat down on the couch. While waiting for the others to finish cleaning up he sees Hoseok excusing himself to the toilet. Jungkook shifts around a bit, then deciding he should find a game for them all to play once they’re done.
Everyone gathered around and Jungkook triumphantly held the box in his hand.
“How about playing black stories?” he said.
Jimin and Namjoon almost jumped a hole in the air of happiness, they loved that game.
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The whole game went by pretty good. Taehyung thinks the game is fun and scary too, but the latter doesn’t bother him. He glances to the side to see a more bothered person.
Hoseok was clutching a pillow to his chest and looked paler than usual. As Taehyung looked closer he could see him shaking a bit.
“Hoseok-hyung, are you okay?” He asks with a concerned tone. Hoseok jumped a bit at the sudden question and smiled in his direction.
“Of course! Just a bit freaked out by the scary stories.”
Taehyung notices the slight dark circles under his eyes and decides not to mention it. He picks up the next card and reads it out loud.
“A woman buys a new pair of red high heels. Hours later, she dies” he looks at Seokjin who’s sitting next to him. “She… walked up the stairs and one of her heels broke so she fell down and died?” Seokjin tried, Taehyung shook his head after reading the back of the card.
Next up was Jimin. “Her heels were too high so she tripped and fell?”
“That’s almost the same thing, next!”
Jungkook was silent for a few seconds, thinking about what could possibly be the answer.
“Do you need a hint?” Taehyung asks.
“Yes please”
“Let’s say that she did not kill herself.” That didn’t make it much easier, but at least it helped a bit.
“How about the colour of the heels offended a person so they attacked her?”
“We’re getting closer now” Taehyung says and nods to Hoseok
“Was she shot with a gun?”
“Yes”
The next person was Namjoon, he was fidgeting with the edge of his sweater while carefully thinking about what else could be added to the answer. “She got shot because a fight happened and she couldn’t run away fast enough?”
Taehyung shook his head slowly “you’re going in the wrong direction”
Hoseok’s eyes lit up with an idea. “It wasn’t in a shooting was it? Could it be family or someone close to her?”
“Very close, close to the answer I mean.”
Yoongi’s turn it was. “Was it her husband?”
Taehyung nodded and gave the turn to Seokjin with an evil grin on his face
It was Seokjin’s turn again, and he smiled happily. “Did her man shoot her because she had heels on?”
“Yes”
“Was the man a shoot person thingy?” Jimin tried.
Teahyung laughed at the funny description before replying “no, he’s not a ‘shoot person thingy’. I’ll give you a hint, there is an apple involved.”
Jungkook jumped up “I KNOW I KNOW! The husband tried to do the apple on head shoot trick but missed because she had heels on!”
“Yes!” Taehyung threw his card in the air and smiled. “The woman’s husband was a magician, so he did the magic trick with shooting the apple on her head, but he miscalculated her height because she had heels on.”
“Wow…” Everyone was speechless while Jungkook was celebrating his win for this round.
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After the game everyone went to their rooms for a bit before opening the presents under the tree. Yoongi had decided to go to the toilet. On his way there he bumps into a very tired looking Hoseok.
“Oh hey, sorry hyung, I didn’t see you.” Hoseok apologizes.
Yoongi just shook his head. “It’s okay, what are you doing here anyway?”
Hoseok looks at the ground like he’s asking himself what he really is doing here. His orange hair bouncing back as he looked up
“Ah, I was just looking for my charger?” he said uncertainly.
Yoongi nodded again eying Hoseok suspiciously, since when had he become so jumpy?
“A-anyways, I’ll just go look in my room, bye hyung!” Hoseok said before disappearing in the direction of his and Jimin’s room.
Yoongi didn’t seem like the caring person, but this was certainly suspicious enough for him to care.
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When Seokjin was preparing snacks in the kitchen Yoongi popped up behind him.
“Jin-hyung?”
Named person turned around, surprised to see Yoongi behind him. “What is it Yoongi-ah?”
“Do you think Hoseok has been behaving weirdly recently?”
Seokjin put up a thinking face, as if recalling the past few weeks and comparing them.
“Now that you mention it, he does seem a bit more distant lately”
Yoongi nods. “I just saw him on my way to the toilet and he looked very jumpy, but please don’t tell anyone I’m worried about him. I don’t want the others worrying about him too.”
“I know and I won’t tell anyone, let’s just keep our eyes out for now, alright?”
“Alright”
And with that Seokjin returned to making his snacks, and Yoongi went back to his room.
Or at least he tried.
On the way to his room he heard sobbing coming from a certain room in the hallway.