4: First Therapy Session

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Chapter 4
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"Anyone missing out on today's wonderful therapy session?", Taehyung asked as he repositioned the clipboard in his lap.

He was one of the five therapists of Busans Clinic for Young Adults and Teenagers, specialized on group therapies. And he was good at doing so. Everyone loved him. He was filled with positivity, always there if you needed him and when he smiled at you everything bad seemed to be forgotten.

"No.", a few of the patients replied in sync. "No one's missing."

"Lovely! Let's begin." A joyful laugh escaped his box shaped mouth as he went through the attendance list. "So.", He said as he looked up, "Who wants to tell us what made them really, really happy today?"

A young woman, maybe in her early twenties, stood up and walked over into the middle of the chair circle. There was a bobble placed on the ground. She reached out for it and walked back to sit down again.

"Everyone! Soo-Young has the I'm-currently-speaking pompon! What do you want to tell us?" His voice was so clear, you could hear that he really just wanted to help all those lost souls. Whenever he spoke to those teenagers his voice was gentle yet passionate.

Soo-Young nodded and stared at her hands.

"I woke up this morning and took a shower. And right afterwards I went to the library."

Taehyung widened his eyes and clapped his hands twice before he blurted out in excitement. "Wow! That's great, Soo-Young! Really, really great! Any one else? Any one? What about you Jung...Jungkook?"

Jungkook immediately shook with his head. "N-No, there's nothing I could talk ab-"
He hesitated as the girl called Soo-Young handed him the I'm-currently-speaking pompon and cleared his throat.
"C'mon, Jungkook! Between you and me and the rest of us! We're all friends.", Taehyung said.

Jungkook gulped.

He always had been a nervous kind of guy. In school, at home, pretty much everywhere. He hated talking to an audience made of more than six or seven people. Especially people he had never seen nor talked to before so he really needed to gather all his courage to speak.

Jungkook simply just didn't like talking that much. He never really craved attention. All he ever wanted was to stay unnoticed, to vanish whenever someone noticed him. Because as soon as the people started to notice you, they'd judge you.

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