8th Member (BTS)

(Listen to the song while reading, its adds to the emotion)

Mae walked slowly back up to her room and flopped onto her bed face first. She hadn't eaten any of the food on the plate in fact, she couldn't remember the last time she had eaten a proper meal. She'd just find snacks in her room and munch on those instead of making something or joining the others for dinner. She was slightly happy to sit with them all but felt like she made the atmosphere extremely awkward, so she asked if she could leave to lessen the tenseness. Breaking her thoughts, her phone rang and the called ID read Hitman Bang. It'd been months since she last spoke to him and she felt bad but she couldn't bring herself to go to the entertainment building.

"Hello?" she asked, finally answering it after a short internal debate.

"Mae! It's good to hear you again, listen, I know some things aren't exactly perfect between you all but I need you all to come in so we can discuss the next comeback," he said.

"Alright, when do you want to meet?"

"Tomorrow, I've already told the others so don't worry about them."

"See you then, have a nice night."

He hung up after saying goodbye. Mae tossed her phone to the side, sighing for what seeemd like the millionth time. She was startled out of her dark thoughts when a light knock came on the door. Reluctantly pulling herself up, she made her way to the door where she was greeted by the face of Taehyung.

"Before you close the door in my face, I just would like to talk," he said, seeing how hesitant she was. Mae nodded shortly before opening the door wider, allowing access into the semi-dark room. As Taehyung entered, he took note in the fact that more harsh statements were hung on the wall and the convienient store bag sat on the desk, untouched.

"I know you probably hate me but I want to say that all the things Namjoon hyung said that day were all lies, in fact, I believed you. I've been worried sick about you these past months, heck, it feels like years since I last saw you genuinely happy and that hurts me a lot. We miss you, I miss you so much... and I know what's in that bag and also know you haven't touched them because you're scared. I'm glad you didn't take it that far, I know it's been months but at least out of all of us talk to me, I'm always going to be here no matter what. When you fall, I'll catch you. Even if you don't like it, I'm going to always be there for you because you're the most important person in my life, without you I wouldn't feel whole, without you I don't know if I would've had the confidence to stay in Bangtan, without you I wouldn't be who I am today. I just need you to do me a favor, please, please talk to me more, no matter the size of your struggles please talk with me. Sharing will take away some of the weight on your back and two people holding something is better then one."

For straightening me out

Taehyung had finished his speech and watched as Mae stared off into space, processing every single word he produced from his mouth. Was he really going to stick to that? How can he really be trusted? She finally looked up into his eyes, hers began to well up with tears as she finally made eye contact.

"Tae," she cried as she covered her face with both of her hands, "it's all my fault, they wouldn't be dead if I hadn't been born, they could've been living a great life in America if I wasn't born, if I wasn't in Bangtan you all would be better, if I didn't drag people down everyone's lives would've been much better. It's all my fault," Mae said, and at the last sentence she began hitting herself hoping to inflict some pain for all of her mistakes.

Taehyung grabbed both of her hands so she'd stop hurting herself before making the younger look into his eyes again, "Mae, none of those words you say are true, you are a great human being who deserves all of the fame she has given. You are more than cut for being in Bangtan and as for your parents, whatever they said or say is entirely irrelevant, what's important is to see the people around you, who support you through everything."

For waking me from being suffocated

"A-are you sure?" Mae asked, wiping her nose with a sweatshirt paw.

"Positive," Taehyung replied giving her his box smile that she loved so much.

"Thank you," she said, hugging him as if her life depended on it... and it sort of did to her.