"Hey, Tae, do you think Jungkook's gonna like it?"

Jimin asked, shoving another handful of chips into his mouth. Yoongi cringed.

"Stop dirtying your clothes. Stop being so nasty, Jimin."

It was a usual thing between the oldest rapper and the youngest dancer. Yoongi like cleanliness, except for when it comes to cleaning his own room. Meanwhile Jimin likes to enjoy his life to the fullest in everything he does.

"What's your problem? Not like you're gonna wash my clothes."

Yoongi blankly stared at him. Jimin stared back until someone was heard clearing their throat.

"Excuse me, Jimin. You won't be washing the clothes either."

Seokjin looked at him with a dramatically serious expression.

"Then who will?"

Jimin asked bluntly, not interested one bit.

"The washing machine."

He said, laughing his signature windshield laugh. Namjoon clenched his fist hard, trying hard to prevent himself from face-palming.

"What? Was I suppose to lau-"

Hoseok got cut off by a glare from Yoongi and Namjoon.

"Guys-don't you think we're going a bit too far?"

Namjoon spoke up all of a sudden. Seokjin stared at him with a raised eyebrow and spoke.

"Weren't you the first one to agree?"

Namjoon clicked his tongue and shook his head.

"I never agreed to ignoring him for this."

The statement made his members laugh for some reason. He just felt something was wrong.

"Aww, you're just being soft for him. I know you can't ignore him for long but-imagine how happy he'll be when he gets the surprise?"

Seokjin said, patting his back. But the leader didn't seem convinced.

"But he'd called thousands of times. You know how he freaks out whenever we are out for longer than we said. Especially when you literally removed him from our group chat. What will he think?"

Seokjin groan at the younger and rolled his eyes.

"You're worrying too much. We're almost back to the dorm."

"Bu-"

Namjoon was about to argue back but Jimin cut him off.

"Really hyung. You're worrying too much. It's not like he'll die if we're not with him."

Jimin rolled his eyes and giggled, running forward while leaving everyone behind.

"Jungkook said he'll show me the lyrics he wrote. I'm so excited!"

He shouted. Jin chuckled at his childishness from behind.

"Jimin, I think you forgot that the keys to the front door are with me."

He laughed louder when he saw Jimin abruptly stop running, while his shoes screeched the on the road-like in a funny scene of a cartoon episode.

"Alright, alright. Enough playing around. We are he-Jungkook?!"

Jin gasped in surprise, on seeing their maknae seated on the cold floor above the staircase. He could be seen shivering clearly and his sobs were loud enough to send the others into panic mode.

"Jungkook? What happend?"

Hoseok walked forwards, holding the boy by his shoulder.

"Jungkook, I-"

Hoseok went completely silent after Jungkook looked up at him. Jimin's eye widen in shock when he glanced at the youngest member's face.

"Jungkook..."

His voice came out almost as a whisper. Jungkook looked at Hoseok with his red as blood eyes, his cheeks stained with tears and new once can be seen forming in his eyes. His face was all puffed up, for he had clearly cried for way too long.

Before Hoseok could say anything, Jungkook pulled him towards himself, hugging the older a tightly as possible. His knuckles turned white because of how tightly he was clutching Hoseok's shirt.

He broke down in the older's embrace. His sobs were loud, no matter how hard he tried to keep himself together. He couldn't stop crying. The more he cried, the more he was reminded of his childhood incident.

"Kook-ah, what's wrong?"

Hoseok hugged back the maknae's trembling body, and rocked him slowly, while the members gathered around. Hoseok passed Namjoon a glance and mouthed him to find a way to help.

Jungkook didn't stop crying. Neither did he replied.

"Jungkook, did someone hurt you? Are you okay?"

It only made Jungkook cry harder. He couldn't focus on what the members were saying as his brain replayed to him that incident of him being almost separated from his parents.

Him crying so much made it harder for him to breath. He was chocking in his own tears.

He was about to have another panic attack, and his deep and wheezy breath alerted the members about that.

"Kookie.. Kookie, breath. Try and listen to me."

He said, pulling him to his chest and took deep breaths, hoping it would help Jungkook to calm down too. He softly played with the younger's hair.

"I'm here. We all are here for you. No need to be scared of anything."

He whispered softly and lovingly in the younger's ear.

Jungkook gulped, closing his eyes as he listened to Hoseok's heartbeat. He tried following Hoseok and help to calm his breathing. He took deep and shaky breaths, but eventually felt himself getting better with Hoseok patting his head.

He could now also feel Taehyung gently rubbing his arm and the presence of his other band members.

He could no more hear the voices in his head, he could feel the warmth and comfort in their touch.

He sniffle softly, pulling out of the hug and looked down quietly.

"What happened kookie? What happened to make you so sad?"

Seokjin asked, softly ruffling the younger's hair.

"I-It's nothing.. I'm s-so sorry to worry you.."

His voice cracked at the end, as he forcefully wiped the tears off.

"It's not nothing. Just tell us. We won't say anything."

Yoongi said with an emotionless tone, but his eyes clearly showed worry for the younger.

"I-"

"Just tell it Jungkook. We are you family."

Namjoon showed Jungkook a comforting smile. The others nodded at him.

"Well, it's a-actually-"

"Aww, are you embarrassed??"

Jimin teased while poking his arms when he saw the younger's ears turn red. The maknae showed a cheeky, shy smile and looked down.

"I swear to god I'm not a coward but I-I have separation anxiety."

He said the last part in a very low voice, while fidgeting his fingers. He never wanted his members to know this. He didn't want to seem weak.

His ears turned even redder when the members silent stared at him.

"I-I..umm..we-"

He was cut off by a dozen of hands being wrapped around him. His members had squished him into a hug.

"Aigoo-our maknae. Why didn't you tell that to us before? We wouldn't have left you along."

Hoseok scolded in a silly voice.

"Yeah.. And it's nothing to be embarrassed of."

Namjoon said, while patting the boy's shoulder during the hug.

"I thought you all would make fun of me."

He said in a tiny voice, doing a pout that always manages to melt the members. Jimin was heard softly giggling to that.

"Aish.. Why would we make fun you, huh? We can understand if you sit and explain to us than push it away while thinking like that. We are not stupid.".

Yoongi tried sounding angry which he obviously didn't. He always had a spot spot for the maknaes and no matter what they did, he can never be angry with them.

"I'm sowwy."

Hoseok cooed at the maknae cuteness and hugged him tighter when the others let go of the hug.

"From now on, if you have any problem, talk to us, hmm? Doesn't matter how silly it is. Just talk to us."

Hoseok explained softly and he could feel Jungkook nod on his chest.

"Like we said, we are your family and we would never do anything to hurt you."

Namjoon spoke up again. Jungkook smiled, feeling so grateful to have gotten such a wonderful family, as his hyung. He knew they would never leave him for any reason... And he would do the same too...

"You are my family..."

Uwu our kookie (^-^)

1320 words..

I'm writing this while I'm sleepy so I didn't really put much effort to think of a good ending. Sorry for that. Hehe.

Anyways, I thought it would take me longer to write this but since I have time, I decided to complete it.

So Enjoy!

Byeeeeee!!