The receptionist felt a tap on her shoulder and looked up to see a nurse holding some papers.
"Hi, so the patient Jeon Jungkook, he said he wanted to see his friends, do you think we may be able to contact them?" She said.
"Oh, that group over there came in asking for him earlier, why don't you see if they are the ones he wants? But shouldn't we contact his parents first? It's the rule." The receptionist said, pointing to the rowdy group of boys sat in the waiting room.
"He's nearly 16 we can make an exception surely. He's an idol, his parents live in busan so they wouldn't get here for a few days. The least we can do for him is let him see his friends." The nurse said, and the receptionist just tilted her head.
"Well, you do whatever you think is right." The nurse nodded and wondered over to the group, interrupting their slightly heated conversation.
"Hi, do you happen to be the friends of Jeon Jungkook?" She asked, and they all froze, their faces lighting up.
"Yes! Yes! Please tell me me we can see him." Namjoon pleads.
"If you are seokjin, Namjoon, yoongi, hoseok, Jimin and taehyung, then yes."
"YES! Yes that's us!" Namjoon exclaimed again.
"Wait what about Yoongi and Hoseok? They're not back yet." Jimin pointed out. They all looked at each other trying to work out what to do.
"How about one of us waits here for them and then join you later as soon as they get back?" Namjoon suggests.
"I don't know if we'll be able to let you in unless you can prove you are who we think you are. I'd ask them to bring IDs with them if I were you." The nurse mentioned. Namjoon whipped out his phone and sent them a quick message saying that they're allowed to see kookie if they have ID, and to bring everyone's ID with them.
"We'll wait for them, if that's ok. What room is he in?" Namjoon asked.
"27B. I guess I'll see you lot there then." She said, giving a quick bow and heading back to Jungkooks room. The others all flopped down onto the waiting room chairs, feeling relief that they'll be able to see him. Namjoons phone pinged and he looked down to see a text from hobi- a simple thumbs up emoji.

About 10 minutes later hoseok and Yoongi arrived back, both looking clearly calmer and happier.
"You doing better now Yoongi?" Namjoon asked, standing up.
"Yeah, I'm ok now. I'm sorry I got mad at you hyung." Yoongi says, bowing his head respectfully to his only hyung in the group.
"I accept your apology, now let's go and see kookie. You brought our IDs right Hoseok?" Jin asks, and Hoseok nods, whipping them out of his bag and handing them to their respective owners.
"Ok let's go then." Namjoon said, and they all flood through the hallways on the hunt for jungkooks room.

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All the students of SOPA were crammed into a big hall, seated in rows, all muttering amongst themselves, exchanging theories as to why they had been ushered into this room in the first place. The headteacher walked out and tapped the microphone attached to the lecture podium to get the students attention before speaking.
"Sudents of SOPA, you have all been gathered here today, to inform you of an incident of disgusting and disgraceful behavior, towards a fellow student. On Monday, the student you all know as Park Jihoon, physically abused and beat, fellow student Jeon Jungkook in the hallway. It was a horrible violation of the school rules, and an absolute disgraceful act towards Jungkook. Jihoon has now been permanently excluded from the school. However I have also been informed that other people in this school has been treating Jungkook in a distasteful way, pushing him in the corridors or laughing at him as he walks past. This type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in this school. If I hear of this type of behavior happening again when... or if... he comes back, there will be immediate consequences. And the same goes for if you decide to bully other students, the same consequences will apply. I advise you all to think about your behavior moving forward, and I hope you can learn to understand why this type of behavior is extremely unacceptable.

As for Jungkook, I just want to show you what affect this amount of bullying and ridicule can do. I'm sure you all know Jungkook was absent for a few weeks before he came back yesterday. Well, everyone was told he was at hospital for a physical illness. But that's not true. He was in a mental hospital." Sniggers echoed through the hall as the students laughed at the thought of Jungkook in a mental hospital.
"It's not funny. He was happy before he came here. He was happy before you all came along and ridiculed him endlessly for things that weren't his fault. You hurt him so badly that he was driven to suicide. He was taken to a mental hospital, held there for several days. All. Because. Of you. I don't understand how that can be funny to you. If I hear any talk of you ridiculing this poor boy for his struggles, there will be consequences. That's all I have to say. I hope you all reflect on how you have treated Jungkook this year."

The headteacher walked off, leaving all the students in awkward silence.

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They line up outside Jungkooks room, showing their IDs one by one and entering the room. Their hearts break. Tubes connected to machines all linked to various different body parts. There were several tubes in his hands and arms, one going into his stomach, and one by his nose, giving him oxygen.
"So I've been made aware that you are close friends of Jungkooks, so I shall inform you of his condition. He came in with a lot of internal bleeding in the stomach area. It was tricky, I'll be honest. For now we have this tube to hopefully suck away any blood in his stomach or intestines, and we have tried our best to stop or at least slow the bleeding down, but unfortunately that's all we can do. I'll be honest, his chance of survival is not really 100%, but still, if he keeps improving he may get lucky. We'll see." The doctor says, informing the six of their maknaes condition. I think it's safe to say there wasn't a dry face in that room afterwards. All of them had tears rolling down their faces after hearing that there was a chance that he might not make it.

Jin walks over and kneels next to the bed, holding Jungkooks limo hand in his.
"My Kookie. I'm so, so sorry. I can't believe we let this happen to you. Please be the strong boy, ...the strong man we know. You can do that for us, right?" Jin says, his voice shaking.
"We didn't let it happen Jin. It was out of our control." Yoongi says, stood firmly in the corner with his hands held respectfully in front of him.
"No it's our fault! We're the ones who made him go back to that school!"
"It's a legal requirement that he goes to school. It's not our fault." Jin didn't respond, just going back to stroking the back of kookies hand with his thumb, being careful of the cannula.

"H-h-h-hyung?"

I hate to break the atmosphere with an a/n but I'm going to Canada today. Like I'm leaving the country today. How exciting. I don't know how the WiFi will be over there so I may not be able to update or write anything while I'm over there, so sorry if it takes a while. I'll also be going back to college, and will be basically going straight into mocks just a month or so after I get back so yeah that's fun. I'll try and keep up the updates but if I'm slow, you know why. 👍🏻
Ok. Thanks for reading!