8th Member (BTS)

Prepare to have tissues handy in case your tears start falling because there's a possibility in that happening. Also, I recommend listening to when the party's over by Billie Eilish while reading this, I was listening to it while writing this and ooooh man, the feels. Enjoy. This also doesn't relate to the Save Me series none of the other writings relate to it unless I let you know.

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"You've got to tell her, we're not doing your dirty work Lynn," Yoongi said sternly.

"But-" Lynn started but was cut off by Namjoon.

"No, she's been excited about this for months since you promised her and since you believe you have something more important then you're going to be the one to tell her," Namjoon said, his voice laced with anger.

"Why don't I just tell her outside? So we can... have some privacy?" Lynn said in a questioning tone.

Jungkook was getting fed up with her, "no, you're going to grow up and you're going to be the one to break the news, none of us are. You are her mother and she needs to hear it from you, not us."

"But-"

"I'm here!" Mae said excitedly as she carried her bag down the stairs. She looked up and smiled at everyone, she was excited to be finally going on a trip with her mom, she'd been wanting to do it for the longest time and when her mom called her she was over the moon excited. Everyone took note in the fact that there was a spark of happiness in her eyes and it broke the boys' hearts to see and know what would happen.

"Mae, um... sweetie, I know... I know how excited you were to go on this trip... just the two of us, but..." Lynn paused.

"But what? Mom?" Her smile was slightly faultering and her aura lost it's light.

"I think we need to push it back... a few months, I just got called in to do a deal in Osaka but the thing is... I don't know how long it'll take or how long I'll be there. I'm sorry but I think I'll have to cancel this trip... again" Lynn said, not making eye contact.

"Oh... yeah that's fine, yeah don't worry about it, I-I understand," Mae said. The others, except Lynn, could hear her voice crack slightly and Mae moved her line of vision down to the floor as if it was the most facinating thing ever. Her shoulders slumped and she ran her hand through her hair, like she does when she doesn't know what to do.

"I'm really sorry sweetie," Lynn said sending her a small smile.

"Yeah, no it's fine... you don't- you don't need to worry. Have a good trip Lynn," Mae answered, using her mother's name.

"Bye sweetie," Lynn said before walking to the door, before she left she sent Mae one last smile before walking out the door. The seven moved their attention to the girl who had her eyes glued on the closed door.

"Heh, I guess that means a free week to do whatever, right?" Mae said trying to lighten her mood.

"Mae, it's okay to be upset," Yoongi said.

"Upset? Who? Me? No, I'm not upset... it's-it's totally fine, I'm fine. Yeah, I'm good, I'm just, I'm just going to take my stuff up and throw away the gift I got," Mae said sounding as if she was trying to convince herself more than the others.

"Mae you know it's ok-" Taehyung started but was cut off.

"I'M FINE! Everything is okay," Mae said, she was breathing heavily and her eyes glazed over in tears, " I mean, I didn't need her on my first days of school, I didn't need her when I played my first concert on the piano, I didn't need her when graduated high school, I didn't need her when I first styled my hair, I didn't need her when I attended my first concert. I can live a perfectly fine life without her. I mean, I basically raised myself so why would I need her anyway? She's... she's nothing to me... Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to unpack my things because I don't need these in here anyway." Mae walked away and up the stairs, dragging her bag along with her. Jungkook followed her up and watched as she ripped open the bag and took out a Givenchy perfume box and threw it in her trashcan. Before he could enter, she closed the door.

Mae walked over to her bag that held all of her clothes and began to pick through them before she stopped and just stood over it, staring at all of the neatly folded clothing. Before she could take on article of clothing out, she dropped herself onto the floor, crying.

The seven heard the loud thump followed by crying and their hearts broke. Walking up the stairs, they heard Mae repeatedly saying 'I don't need her' over and over to herself. Eventually her anger got the best of her, she picked up the picture of herself and her mother and threw it against the wall, shattering the frame and tearing the picture. Taehyung opened the door hesitantly and saw Mae standing over the frame, breathing heavily, tears rolling down her face, picking up the broken frame. Taehyung walked over and picked up the small girl in his arms moving her away from the mess.

"We can clean that later, right now, we're going to have a movie night, just the eight of us and we're going to watch whatever you want, how does that sound?" Taehyung said as he walked out of the room. Mae just nodded and wrapped her arms around his neck and continued to cry.

Taehyung looked over at Jin who was staring at the two of them, all of their hearts hurt to see the young girl in such a state but Jin was most saddened by it because he treated Mae as if she was his child and seeing his child in pain gave him pain.

'Can you clean up the glass?' Taehyung mouthed to Jin, who nodded and walked to get the dust pan.

This was a struggle for Mae, she always made plans with Lynn and every single time they were cancelled. Something about this time, set her off and Mae knew she'd never want to see Lynn's face anymore.