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... Hey, hyung. I hope your studies go well. We haven't talked in a few weeks. I... Yoongi-hyung is fine. Not fine, but the doctors say he'll live. He'll have burn scars over most of his left side, but as long as they won't get infected his recovery should be no problem. Oh, uhm... Yoongi-hyung was in a fire today. His apartment burned down. I got him out before it was too late. Not sure if that's good though. The firefighters say evidence shows he probably started the fire himself, so who knows if it wasn't a suicide attempt. Maybe you could call and talk to him? Maybe he listens to you. Or not. I... hope you're well over there. I miss you...
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They arrested Namjoon-hyung today. For vandalism. You know his job at the gas station? One of the customers complained to his boss that hyung wasn't nice enough and the asshole fired hyung. Hyung went back at night and sprayed the whole front of the store. It's just a list of all the shitty things the owner did and said but hyung made it really cool and pretty. The police didn't like it though. I asked ... my parents for the money to bail him out. I had to agree to some stuff and make some promises, but I got the money. That's good, right? Can you call Namjoon-hyung and talk to him? I think he really misses you but doesn't want to bother you.
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Hobi-hyung, Tae-hyung and I went to visit Jiminie-hyung yesterday. He was horrible. His parents paid the doctors to prescribe him another medication. That’s the fourth one now. They haven't visited him once since you left for the US and I don't remember when they visited him the last time before that. I try to visit him at least once a week. Don't tell anyone but I'm eating his medication when I visit. He's doing a lot better when he doesn't take all those pills. I tried just taking them with me and throw them away at home, but the nurse noticed after a couple weeks and always searches me since then. It's just once or twice a week so it shouldn't be too bad, right? You should call Jiminie-hyung, I'm sure it would make him very happy to hear from you.
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Hobi-hyung got admitted to the hospital again. He fell asleep while walking up the stairs and broke his leg while falling down. I tried cushioning his fall. I was still at the bottom of the stairs and tried catching him. Maybe I prevented his head from getting seriously injured? I don't know, I couldn't do much. They'll keep him in the hospital for a day or two, but then he'll be able to leave again. Please send him a get well message? He always smiles so bright when he gets your messages.
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I don't know what the others told you about the situation, but Tae-hyung is on trial today. His father survived and the attorney said that the verdict shouldn't be too severe because they can claim self-defense. With a bit of luck hyung might only have to pay a fine and do social work. I hope it will be like this. I told hyung I would ask my parents for the money. I'm also ... paying the attorney. He's an old friend of my parents who's always liked me a lot. He's good and he agreed to help for a ... discounted ... price. And it's the only thing I can do to help Tae-hyung. If you call him in the next two hours, you'll catch him before the trial. Wish him luck, yeah?
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Hey, hyung... It's been over half a year since we last talked face to face. I don't know if I did something and you are ignoring me on purpose or, maybe you got a new phone and won't even hear my voice mails, but if I did something I'm sorry. I miss you guys. I haven't talked to the others in a couple weeks as well. It's difficult to... It's difficult. But I miss you all. I think the others are well though, at least I hope so. I think I've been annoying them a bit, you know? That’s why I distanced myself from them. I want them to like me after all. The past few years have been difficult, long before you left, you know? But it's okay, as long as you guys are fine it's okay. I... wanted to hear your voice, I guess? It's been so long. But it's okay, it will be okay soon. Everything is gonna be okay. Just... call the others? I don't know how far you've been in touch, if at all, but I know that they miss you. You're our precious hyung, after all. I hope your studies go well and that you're happy wherever you are.
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"Hello?"
"Namjoon, it's Jin."
"Hyung? It's been a while."
"Yeah, I know. I'm sorry that I disappeared like this. We can talk about it later. I'm actually calling because of Jungkook."
"...Jungkook?"
"Yes, yes. He's been leaving me voice mails, but the last one sounded a bit weird. I tried to call him, but his phone has been turned off. I tried since yesterday morning. Do you know where he is?"
"I’m at his funeral."
"Whose funeral?"
"Jungkook's"
"...what?"
"I'm at Jungkook’s funeral. The others are, too. He jumped from a roof three days ago."
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"Hyung?"
"Yeah, I'm... I'm still here. He... jumped?"
"Yes. He left a letter. Apologized for being a bad friend. For not doing more for us."
"But he did so much?"
"What?"
"The voice mails he left me every other week. He tried to keep me up to date, you know? Told me what was going on with all of you. That he asked his parents for money to bail you out. The lawyer he organized for Tae. That kind of stuff. I got a new phone when I got here and totally forgot to charge my old one. I just remembered yesterday and listened to maybe 15 voice mails he left me over the past six months."
"They found his diary, hyung. He never asked his parents for the money. They didn't even have enough money for his school. He told them he had gotten a job to pay for school."
"A job?"
"It was a lie. He... he sold his body, hyung. He prostituted himself to pay for school. And then he quit school because he needed the money for other things. For my bail money. For Hobi's hospital stay. Hobi’s parents didn't have enough money to pay for another one. Hobi didn't know. He thought his parents had paid. And Yoongi thought his health insurance covered his stay as well as the new apartment Jungkook found him afterwards. The money was barely enough for Yoongi-hyung’s hospital stay. Jungkook paid the first couple rents from his own money. He paid Tae's fine as well, and he even paid the lawyer with sex. Jungkook wrote in his diary how easy it was to make that deal with the lawyer because he had violated him a couple years go and knew that he was-... That he was a g-good lay. He even swallowed Jiminie's pills without his knowledge. Jiminie thought he threw them away at home. Those pills could have been harmful for him and he didn't even care!"
"But... I don't understand? Why did he do that? Why didn't he say something? Anything?"
"Did we ever actually listen to him, hyung? He was our Maknae, did everything for us, and didn't complain once. Shouldn't we have noticed something? He pulled Yoongi out of a burning house, caught Hoseok whenever he had a narcoleptic attack, got hurt multiple times helping us and never said a word. We... we didn't even notice that no one had talked to him for weeks until his parents called us to see where he is. We- we just forgot about him! We left him alone and forgot about him and now we will never be able to apologize and tell him how good of a friend he is and that we love him!"
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"H-hyung? Hyung, are you there? ..."
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