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Tae (cont'd **part 7**)

After calming down a bit, they sat in silence, just staring at each other. One, speechless because his once thought to be dead boyfriend, is actually alive. And the other, quiet, thinking what exactly did Jungkook dream about for him to be this distraught. Neither speaking, just blankly staring at each other with conflicting thoughts.

"Kookie," Tae finally spoke up and broke the awkward silence, "can you tell me exactly what you remember after we texted? I'm not trying to make you upset more, I-I," he exhaled, calming his breathing before continuing, "I just wanna know how..what got you to be this way".

Jungkook perked up, he didn't want to have to explain the whole terrifying and confusing ordeal. But he knew he had to explain to him why he was constantly saying he was dead. He let out a long sigh before saying anything.

"Okay. so you know after you texted me saying you were going to be late right?". Tae nodded his head 'yes'.

"Okay, so I guess about two hours had passed and I still haven't heard anything from you. I texted you repeatedly for about thirty minutes, but you never replied," Jungkook told him with a sad look starting to plaster over his face. Tae, on the other hand, had a confusing one. After Kook texted me he loved me, I texted back about an hour later saying I was almost finished and that I'll be home soon.

"Okay," Tae responded back, not really sure what to say back.

"Okay, well after not hearing from you, I decided to try and watch a movie to ease my nerves. Forgot which movie it was, but I know it was a comedy. I'll say about fifteen or so minutes later, I get a call from Jin hyung telling me that i need to get the hospital ASAP," Jungkook paused, looking at Tae and then looking down. He really didn't want to remind himself of the events that followed after he made it to the hospital, but he had to; It was only fair to Tae.

"After I arrived at the hospital, Jimin came and got me. We hugged and when i looked at him, I could tell that he has been crying. I was thinking that since he was crying, something must've happened to Yoongi,  so I asked him was everything okay, but all he said was "I'll let Jin hyung tell you everything". Okay now, here's the hard part," he said exhaling sharply, ''I met with the others. In a small waiting room, all of them were there, except YOU. I asked them were and that's when Jin said that were dead and I sorta kinda lost it?" Jungkook told him, the last part more of a question to himself. Tae was just sitting there, taking all of the information in. he really couldn't grasp the whole thing yet. Why would they call Jin and the others before calling him? What type of dream-no-NIGHTMARE, did Kookie have?

"Okay, so lemme know if i'm correct or not," Tae told him while taking a deep inhale and exhale, "you got worried about me since I wasn't responding back to you. Then decided to watch a movie to calm down, got a call from Jin, went down to the hospital, and that's when they told you I was dead? Correct?" Jungkook nodded his head in agreement.

"But wait, there's actually more," Jungkook told him. Tae looked up at him. More? Okay, maybe with this last bit of information, I'll finally come to a conclusion. He thought to himself.

"Okay then, continue."

"I guess after a good amount of time, I asked to let me see you. Like i wanted to see your body for myself. At first they were against it, but eventually they led me to the room where your body was. I'm not gonna lie, I was very afraid of actually seeing you. I thought this was just a prank you were pulling on me," he told the older, looking down at his feet.

"Kookie, why would I even play with you like that? That's mean and hurtful, you know I would NEVER do anything like that," Tae told him. Jungkook knew he was right but once he heard that he was dead, none of that mattered to him.

He continued, "I know. But let me finish. After I came in, pulled the sheet back and actually saw your face, I broke down. I couldn't handle it," he said, tears clouding his vision. Tae was to the least, shook. He didn't know how to respond to that.

"That's it?" he asked.

"Well, kinda," Jungkook said as he wiped his tears away, "I just kept asking to stop playing around and wake up and for you to at least give me a sign."

"And then what?"

"Well, that's basically around the time you showed up here." Tae laid his head against the couch, trying to put together everything Jungkook just told him.