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EVERYONE is silent, surprised that of all the ways Namjoon could have started off the conversation, it was a question directed toward them about their feelings.
Jimin tilts his head, eyebrows furrowing in soundless thought. "No one was mad at you at the time." He eventually starts out. "We were just... really worried."
"But when you left that day, why were you so angry with us?" Jungkook asks, tilting his head after pressing his lips together.
Namjoon looks away, his adam's apple bobbing up and down as he bites the inside of his cheek. "I wasn't... I wasn't completely angry at you guys. Things had just bottled up to the point I couldn't handle it any longer and I snapped. I'm sorry."
"Hyung," Jimin's eyes narrow in suspicion and slight irritation, expression becoming somber as he tries to figure out why the answer was too simple. Was he hiding something? "Why were you so frustrated? If it's something we did, then tell us so we can fix it. We couldn't even ease your burden because we still don't know the issue."
The words float in the air as if a sort of cue for the next person to start talking. To add onto Jimin's opinion or completely dissent it.
"No, I think I can already see the issue here."
Jin, who'd been leaning back against his hands sits forward, his palms reaching ahead to rest on his knees. "Clearly, the issue here is that something is holding you back from confiding in us with your problems."
The leader swallows thickly, clasping his hands together. "That's not the reason. It's because I don't want—"
"—to worry us? If that's what you were about to say, then I don't want to hear it, hyung." Jungkook intervenes, gripping the water bottle in his hands tightly.
A noise somewhere in between frustration and a scoff makes way past Namjoon's lips. The battle behind his eyes was as clear as day. The leader, who normally kept up of a collected front, was struggling to show any sort of vulnerability.
Taehyung had already found it difficult to get Namjoon to open up but the only reason he was successful was that he'd been persistent yet sweet and tenderhearted.
"In all honesty... I'm really offended, Namjoon." Yoongi chuckles bitterly, and all attention shifts toward the male despite Namjoon's efforts to want to speak. Taehyung gulps, realizing that things were about to get heated and if it didn't settle soon, they'd run into a big problem.
"We've all been living together for so long - I've been living with you for even longer - if you were struggling so much then why you didn't say a single thing? And yes, I get it, you don't want ARMY to worry—" Yoongi snorts. "—but us??"
