"Hyung, you're really special to us," Tae whispered into Jin's ear. "We really wish you'd come back. We're all waiting here for you. We miss our hyung. Wake up, Jin. Please. Wake up."

Jungkook watched him apprehensively. "You think just telling him to wake up is going to work?"

Tae leaned back and looked over at Jungkook. "They say that people in comas can hear what's going on. Maybe he can hear me. And it's not just that." Tae furrowed his brows, looking down at Jin's face. "He needs to know that we want him back."

"Shouldn't Jin already know that? We're practically family. Of course we'd want him back."

"But maybe that's the problem, Kookie," Tae said, breaking it to him gently. "Maybe Jin doesn't know."

"What do you mean?"

Tae looked down. "We all feel a little lost sometimes. It can be easy to feel invisible, to forget how important you are. We all tease Jin a lot, mainly because we think that he'll understand that we're just joking, but if you take enough of that, sometimes you forget why it's funny, you know? You start to wonder if you really are the problem, if everyone is secretly frustrated with you or mad at you or talking about you as soon as you leave the room. I think we forget that just because Jin is our oldest hyung doesn't mean that he doesn't have feelings, that he isn't sensitive, that he isn't vulnerable."

Jungkook looked like he didn't know what to do. "But we were just joking..."

Tae nodded. "I know. But when was the last time we told Jin how pretty he looked or how good his cooking is or how much he's improved at dancing?"

Jungkook looked down.

"Exactly." Tae rubbed Kookie's back soothingly. "It's okay, I'm guilty too. We all teased him too much."

"You don't really think he went into a coma just because he couldn't take a joke, do you?" Jungkook asked, but he looked troubled, as though he were seriously considering it.

"I don't think so, but I know that Jin hasn't been happy lately, and instead of trying to help, we just asked why, and when we didn't get an answer, we just ignored it. Jin is always taking care of us, but who has been taking care of Jin?"

Jungkook looked on the verge of tears. Jin had helped him through...well, everything, from training to his debut to his first live performance to today. Without Jin, he would have been nothing.

Jungkook hesitated before pointing to Jin. "Is it okay...if I tell him something, too?"

Tae smiled and nodded, switching chairs with Jungkook. "Tell him whatever you want to."

Jungkook paused before putting his lips next to Jin's ear, and then he began to speak.