"Hello?" the voice said on the other line

"hey hyung"

"im sorry who is this?"

"oh sorry its me Jaemin"

"ahh, hey what's up!"

"nothing much, hey do you have your members contact info by any chance?"

"...why?"

"because uh" Jaemin didn't want to sound like a stalker, so he had to think of something quick. "research purposes"

"uhh sure I trust you, ill text you them"

"thanks!!" Jaemin hung up. He scanned through the list of numbers until he found the one labeled "HAECHAN". He Dailed the number. Ring Ring Ring.. no response. He tried again ring ring ring...

"Hello?"

Jaemin couldn't believe it, he did it. All he has to do is convince Haechan to re-join.. how would he do that though? this wasn't going to be as easy as he thought.

"Hello??"

"Hi sorry"

"Who is this?" His voice sounded very groggy. Like he just woke up from a nap

"Im a friend of Doyoung hyung, could we chat?"

"how can I be sure you're not another stalker?"

"umm, we could meet up somewhere of your choice?"

"hmm alright then. Tomorrow morning at 8:30 I'll send you the address of my apartment."

"okay thanks, I'm hanging up now"

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"Are you sure you're not going to get kidnapped?" Mars said. They were currently driving to the apartment, Jaemin brought mars along just to make sure he isn't giving Haechan the impression of a stalker. They reached the apartment and texted Haechan which room he was in. Once they reached the room Jaemin was about to knock.

"Are you sure if he even wants to be back in the group?" Mars asked quietly. Jaemin wasn't sure at all. Jaemin promised himself that he wouldn't push Haechan to talk about Dream but he had to get some Information. Jaemin knocked the door.

A man opened the door. He had dark brown hair with thick black eyeliner. he was wearing a grey fuzzy shirt and jeans. "who's the woman?" he asked with a straight face. "well you see, she's my soon-to-be wife and-" he was cutoff. "no offence but I was hoping it would be us two". Jaemin looked at him then mars. He handed her the cars keys "ill be home soon, sorry" Jaemin said. "its okay, good luck" she whispered.

Jaemin entered the apartment and it was smaller than Jaemin thought. Jaemin sat on the couch which was pretty dusty, Haechan brought Jaemin a drink and sat in-front of him on a tiny stool. The drink looked rotten its smelled pretty bad. "Don't worry its just vegetable juice" Haechan reassured "so what did you wanna talk about?". Jaemin didn't start right away about discussing about dream, he had to get some info about Haechan first. "Why did you go on hiatus?" Jaemin asked. "Mental health" Haechan responded. This definitely wouldn't be easy for Jaemin. "oh um.. ok". They sat in a awkward silence for a while until Haechan spoke up.

"Do you have a nickname?" He asked.

"oh um my friends call me nana, what about you?"

"my friends used to call me Hyuck"

"used to?"

"I rather not talk about it... anyways you wanna play fire Emblem with me?"

What?

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Na Jaemin who was longing for answer was watching Haechan play games on his mini box TV. What has his life come to.

"Welp im going to go shower, feel free to play the game or sit on the couch and stare at the tv" Haechan said