Taehyung no longer lived with Bangtan in their huge apartments in Seoul. He lived in an apartment back in Daegu, his home town, as well as Min Yoongi's. His line of work; a choreographer. Taehyung, though he wasn't a member of the Dance Line, is a very talented dancer. Now, he teaches teenagers how to dance.

He's also managed to learn sign language and teaches it to the kids in his dance class that want to learn it as well.

Currently, Bangtan Sonyeondan was on tour for Love Yourself: Her. Taehyung didn't exactly like looking at comments about Bangtan Sonyeondan having one less member, so he didn't.

Taehyung got out a notebook and a pencil and began writing; he wasn't writing a story nor some list. He began writing a song. He became pretty talented at writing songs after rooming with Namjoon for years, pretty talented at dancing after the punishment kiss with Hoseok and the two actually began hanging out more. And of course, with Yoongi also being from Daegu, the two were really close near the beginning which made him the Rap Line enthusiast he used to be.

He didn't yet have a title for his first song yet, but as he began to sing it, he realized he couldn't and lightly slapped himself. Idiot, you can't sing, remember? It hurt him to think those words, being able to hear his nonexistent voice in his head, but they were true and there was nothing he could do about it. There were tears in the boys eyes, but he blinked them away.

He did the only thing he could do, mouth the words.

"A sound of something breaking" just like my heart.

"I awake from sleep, a sound of unfamiliarity" the voice I can't hear.

"Try to cover my ears, but can't go to sleep" can't wake up from this never ending nightmare.

"The pain in my throat gets worse, try to cover it" trying to speak after I lost my dream.

"I don't have a voice, today I hear that sound again" I lost that voice, and the sound of silence drowns my ears.

Taehyung stopped after just that part, biting his bottom lip and running his fingers through his hair in frustration. His eyes watering up again, but he didn't stop this time. He allowed the tears to flow, the ones he's held back since his solo performance of Born Singer when he realized his voice was gone.

The worse part to him though, wasn't really his voice, even though it was his most valued asset and his dream.

But that he hadn't heard from anyone in Bangtan Sonyeondan since he had to leave five months ago.

I can't believe not even Chim has texted me, I always tell him everything, I'm not one to explain my emotions to anyone, and when I do it's to Chim, I'd like to call and hear his voice, but I'm unable to talk back.

Taehyung didn't realize more tears were falling from his eyes, he just sat at his desk and chose to mouth more words to his nameless song.

"It's ringing again, that sound" the sounds I don't hear from Bangtan.

"A crack again on this frozen lake, I dumped myself into this lake" the crack in my voice made my heart fall into the frozen darkness.

"I buried my voice for you" I worked hard on my vocals for Bangtan and ARMY.

"Over the winter lake I was thrown, a thick ice has formed" tossed away by BigHit, my hurt freezing a beautiful lake.

"In the dream I shortly went into, my agonizing phantom pain is still the same" we made it large, now I'm at rock bottom, the pain of that performance gets worse every day.

"Have I lost myself, or have I gained you" I have lost myself, but I've gained you, my students.

"I suddenly run to the lake, there's my face in it" running into the lake I was thrown.

"Please don't say anything, reach my hand out to cover the mouth" scared to hear ARMY's and haters opinions.

"But in the end, spring will come someday" a day when my happiness will be fully restored.

"The ice will melt and flow away" once that ice is gone, I'll be happy.

Taehyung stopped mouthing the words again and gently pinched himself. I have a bunch of students who look up to me, think highly of me because they're proud that even after I lost my dream I kept going.

Taehyung stood up and went into his bedroom, undressed, and got ready to take a shower. With a towel around his waist, he turned the hot water on and waited for a bit. A few moments later, he let the towel fall and got in the shower, not minding that his hair completely covered his face. He simply closed his eyes, his head tilted up, and let the hot water pour all over his body, relaxing himself. Taehyung had been at the studio since 8:30am and didn't leave until 9:30pm, only to come home to write and sing.

11:00pm

Taehyung had gotten out of the shower and dried himself off, his hair still wet and threw on a pair of pajama pants and went to bed.

In Seoul, South Korea, six boys were sitting in a circle around six phones.

"One of us needs to call." Jimin said, his legs closed together, his hands locked, feeling guilt course through his veins.

"It can't be me." Namjoon replied, his voice a mere whisper, his head facing the ground.

"Me either." Jungkook said, holding his arms around his legs, pretty much in a fetal position.

"I can't call him." Hoseok said, his right arm locked with Jimin's left arm for support. Not just for Jimin, but Hoseok as well.

"Just thinking about him- I just can't." Seokjin admitted, his voice cracking a bit as he stared down at the ground.

"All of you are scared." Yoongi stated obviously, sitting perfectly normal, staring at each member individually.

"Hyu-" Jungkook was about to defend them, but Yoongi wouldn't allow it.

"You aren't scared of what you're going to hear, you aren't scared of what he has to say or how he feels. You're scared of what you won't be able to hear." Yoongi said, a bit of rashness in his voice. No one said anything, which only proved he was right.

"But Hyung, you'd feel the same-" Namjoon tried defending them, but yet again, Yoongi wasn't going to take it.

"What? I'd feel the same way too? Guess what, I do. But unlike you five, I'm not scared. Because Tae is human like us, and something very terrible happened to him that's caused a ripple effect across us, Bangtan staff, and ARMY's. So if you're too scared to call him and have him message back his answers, fine. I'm going to talk to my Daegu Boy." Yoongi said, standing up and grabbing his phone, leaving the rest of Bangtan Sonyeondan in silence as he left their living room and headed to his room to go on his balcony.

12:00am

When he called Taehyung, he realized he didn't even know where he lived now. After a while of Taehyung not answering his phone, Yoongi noticed how late it was and figured he was asleep.

Just as he was about to put his phone down, there was an answer and a message popped up on his screen.

Tae Tae?

Yoongi Hyung? It's so nice to hear your voice.

Sorry it's been so long, how's everything going?

Yoongi lightly slapped himself, realizing that wasn't a good question to ask.

Not bad, I just wondered why I hadn't heard from any of you in 5 months.

We've just been busy is all, if you want the truth, everyone's been scared to tal- communicate with you.

They don't wanna be able to talk while I can't. Correct?

Yeah, but, I'm glad to finally hear from you, I was worried that- never mind that. I'm just glad to hear from you? Where do you live now? Not far right?

Actually Hyung, I live in Daegu. And what were you worried about? I heard a hitch in your voice.

Tae, don't take this in any bad way. But we have a lot of similarities that Bangtan doesn't always notice. Remember my song The Last?

Yeah, why?

You haven't attempted the 'The doctor asked me. Have you ever- I answered without hesitation. That I had done it before.'

No, no, no, I haven't done anything like that Hyung, I promise. Losing my voice hit hard, but I've managed, for the most part.

If there's anything I can do, just ask.

Just keep Bangtan and ARMY happy, that's all.

Tae, please remember something for me. No matter what, you're a member of Bangtan. And even if people say that's not true, then remember this. You're a Daegu Boy.

I love you, Hyung.

Just like that, the phone call ended and that was the last message that appeared on Yoongi's phone screen. "I love you too, Tae." Yoongi mumbled quietly, setting his phone down once he walked in from his balcony in his hotel room and laid down, going to sleep.

1:30am