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Hoseok didn’t go to the funeral and he’s glad. Namjoon had texted him about it the other day. “Do you wish you had gone?,” and Hoseok responded immediately. “Fuck no.”
Nevermind putting on a calm face and going through the ritual of the burial. It feels like an admission of failure to come back to Seoul. To see everyone he left behind four years ago. He had hoped he could avoid the entire post-death enterprise, avoid having to see his extended family. Avoid seeing Jungkook. But his mother told him to come for the reading, knowing full well that Hoseok would do anything she asked at twice the speed.
The night Minyoung called and told him the news, Hoseok drank a bottle of vodka in the empty bathtub of his Tokyo apartment. In his mind, he drafted a eulogy. It was succinct:
“Jung Jiwoon of Jejo Industries, youngest vice-chairman in Seoul’s history. A real son of a bitch.”
—OR: Jung Hoseok comes home after four years after his estranged father dies. Things he wants to avoid: feelings, his father’s manufacturing company, staying for longer than two weeks, family drama, letting his sister and mother mourn with him around, and, most importantly, his ex, Jeon Jungkook.