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"You didn't have to make us dinner, hyung."

"Well I figured since I was over here already I might as well make something." Jin responded as he began to place the plates around the table already having finished making the spaghetti. "Besides I'm sure you've missed my cooking."

"Has Jiminie been asleep this entire time?"

"On and off, he fell asleep a while ago after we were coloring with him." The older said smiling as he thought how Jiminie and Namjoon were both in the living room napping. "Now I need to talk to you guys about him."

"What about?"

"To start helping him eat more. He's going to need to start a weight restoration phase and you two need to make sure that you're there for him. He needs to eat small snacks every couple of hours to help his body adapt to becoming healthy again. For him I'd advise you to mainly stick with celery as that seems to be the only thing he'll willingly eat when he's hungry but I did get him to eat an apple earlier."

"An apple?" Yoongi said staring at the older confused. "How did you get him to do that? We had to bribe him to even think of eating celery last night!"

"You just have to be really patient and caring towards him. Although he did manage to eat that I'd stick with only celery or other vegetables for the rest of today since I don't want him to struggle with refeeding syndrome from eating too much. Now have you guys seen him eat any big meals since knowing him?"

"We went to a restaurant for a date a couple weeks ago and he ate just fine then. So has he developed the body issues recently then? His friends said that he had issues like this in the past so maybe something brought them up again?"

"I don't think that's it." Jin mumbled trying to think of a way to explain it. Jimin had messaged him and he knew that he had been struggling with this from the time with his past boyfriend but he couldn't just say that Jimin told him that. He was supposed to pretend this was the first time he met the little and that made explaining things a bit more difficult. "I'm assuming that after that date he went home alone? He probably ended up puking everything back up to prevent ingesting anymore calories. If I had to guess I'd say that he probably is thinking of joining a gym to get rid of calories quicker."

"He did mention wanting to join my dance class." Hoseok said as he looked at his plate of food no longer hungry. "I thought it was because he loved dancing not due to him wanting to lose weight."

"Don't blame yourself for not noticing."  Yoongi said as he grabbed onto Hoseok's hand and smiled at the younger. "I didn't either, but we're going to get him the help he needs."

"Speaking of help he probably should see a dietitian and a therapist to help him get back on track." Jin said as he thought about what they would need to do to properly help the younger. "He needs help but doesn't need to feel pitied, that'll just make things worse."

"Every time we try to help him he takes it as pity though."

"Well not to be rude but you probably were treating him like he was made of glass." Jin said awkwardly laughing at how the other two seemed offended by that. "Personally when Namjoon figured out how I was skipping meals in high school he would always try to direct the conversation away from food to a point where it offended me. It made it seem like he thought less of me just because I was skipping meals and that hurt. I'm not saying you should validate him wanting to eat less and tell him he looks as ugly as he thinks but don't treat him like a broken doll just because of what he's been through. That's why most people don't get help from their friends or lovers."

"So you want us to act like everything's fine?"

"Well, no, just make sure he feels comfortable at all times. He's going to feel really bombarded with everything after he slips out of little space so I'm sure he's going to feel stressed then too. Just approach things with a slow pace and make sure you establish rules and everything and how we're going to help him."

"Dada!" Jiminie said muffled from his pacifier as Namjoon carried him into the kitchen. Jin couldn't help but smile seeing how caring his boyfriend was and Yoongi and Hoseok were happy to see Jiminie smiling. "Miss you and Hobi!"

"We missed you too, baby." Yoongi said smiling as he grabbed onto the younger from Namjoon. "Were you good for Jin and  Namjoon?"

"Mhmm extwa good for Jiji and Joonie!"

"And I think that it's time for us to leave!" Jin said as he got up and walked to his boyfriend. "I'm sure you two will have enough leftovers of pasta for a couple days and Jiminie has plenty of celery in the fridge although he did promise to be a brave boy and try out some other things as well right?"

"Yeah!" The little said nodding his head as he smiled at Jin. "Will be as bwave and pwetty as Jiji!"

Jin couldn't help but laugh at what the little had said and his infectious laugh caused everyone else too. 

"Well hope you guys get along well with everything." Namjoon said as he grabbed his boyfriends hand and started walking out. "Text us if you need anything!"

Hi sorry if you find this chapter boring but I wanted to actually talk about the process of recovering from an eating disorder. Of course the process is different for each person but eating small vegetables/fruits every couple of hours and seeing a therapist/dietitian is pretty common. Eating disorders aren't things to be romanticized and if you or someone you know has one please go visit a doctor or a therapist and get back to being able to control your life without obsessing about calories.