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"We need to discuss everything that Jimin might have told us that could lead to us possibly finding him." Yoongi said as everyone sat in his living room struggling to think. "I know some of us have been keeping secrets."

"I'm sure everyone already understands the whole Jimin accident at the gym now." Namjoon said as he spoke up for his boyfriend. "And we all understand that he was at the gym due to his eating disorder."

"Wait he actually has an eating disorder again?"

Yoongi and Hoseok both looked at Jungkook and Taehyung  and they couldn't help but feel bad seeing how heartbroken they looked. Yoongi had mentioned he suspected Jimin to have an eating disorder a while back to Taehyung but due to how hectic everything had been recently he hadn't had time to let the younger know that he was correct.

"Yeah, that's the whole reason he ran away because he wouldn't eat his celery and Yoongi said he was going to punish him."

"Wait what punishment did you go with?" Taehyung said as he began to grow more concerned. "He can't handle punishments where he gets hurts."

"Funny story," Yoongi began receiving a glare from everyone else in the room. "Okay so maybe it's not a funny story."

"We forgot to make a punishment  list." Hoseok said causing the youngest two to glare at him. "After we found out about his eating disorder he slipped into little space and we realized we didn't have any rules or punishments for him. We were waiting until he slipped out of little space again to be able to set things up."

"And he only slipped out of little space after he slammed himself in the bathtub thinking that was his punishment." Yoongi muttered before glancing back at the younger two who seemed like they were about to be sick. He had finally put together that the old punishments must of been things he had gone through with his ex and the thought he was stuck with that guy now was infuriating. "There wasn't a time before that when he was out of little space."

"Well that's not true." Hoseok said as he could feel his boyfriend staring at him. "The night after we figured out about his eating disorder he woke up out of little space but when I tried to talk to him he told me to leave him alone. I heard him crying from his room so I ran in to help him and he was in little space again and he was just acting younger since he was more stressed. I think he was holding his phone then but I didn't check that."

"You didn't tell me he woke up out of little space."

"It didn't really seem relevant at the time." Hoseok said as he shrugged knowing his boyfriend was hurt he had kept that from him. "But if we're making assumptions I'm going to guess he saw the messages Taehyung sent him and the ones from his ex and he got so stressed and slipped even further in little space."

Yoongi simply nodded as he seemed to slightly move away from Hoseok causing the other to frown. The others could tense how atmosphere had gotten and all sighed.

"So that's it, right?" Taehyung said obviously nervous. "That's everything then."

"What about how you implied Jimin was a slut the other day?" Jin said as he looked at the other who seemed to freeze at his statement. "Did you guys make up?"

"You called Jimin a slut? I thought you were friends with him! Why on Earth would you-"

"It was a mistake!" Taehyung said as he cut off Yoongi who seemed to be fuming. "We've already made up for it anyways but I only implied it. He called me and said he was staying with some people for the night and I couldn't help but think that he was falling back into bad habits of sleeping with strangers. Which I've now realized was wrong since Namjoon and Jin are already in a relationship. I was just concerned and I messed up but I'm grateful that Jin and Namjoon were there for him, especially since he had that bruise on his cheek and his wrist was hurt."

"Wait, you didn't say he got hurt at the gym."

"Somebody was making fun of his hair color being pink." Namjoon said as he noticed how hurt Yoongi sounded. "They tried to start a fight with him and nobody helped but I stopped and he seemed to slip into little space because of that so I just brought him to stay the night at my house."

"But how come we didn't see a bruise on him or anything?" Yoongi asked the pain in his voice evident. "Hoseok and I literately hanged out with him on Saturday."

"Make up probably." Jin said as he looked around the room to see everyone's reactions. "After Jimin had the fight thing with Taehyung and was ignoring him and Jungkook we've been texting. I already looked through all the texts and didn't see anything that could even hint to him being kidnapped but if you want I can show them to you guys."

Taehyung gulped as he instincitvely leaned up against Jungkook. The younger knew that Taehyung was thinking how he had been replaced as a friend.

"Well you said yesterday how his old caregiver was the one who used to do harsh punishments on him so did Jimin message you about that?" Hoseok said as he looked at the older who nodded and pulled out his phone. "Did he say anything that even seems remotely suspicious?"

"He never messaged anything about an unknown number but he did talk about his ex, that Bon Hwa guy. He just said stuff about how he thought he never would be good enough for anyone and that Bon Hwa was his first caregiver relationship in high school. He hinted at that he never got over his eating disorder from then so I'd say he's struggled with calories since high school and he doesn't have an eating disorder again he just never got over it."

"Speaking of that,"  Hoseok said as he nudged Yoongi, "someone needs to apologize."

"I'm sorry, hyung. I was angry and didn't mean to call you what I did." Yoongi said as he hung his head thinking how he had yelled and called Jin a stupid bulimic high school student the other day. "I just felt hurt knowing that you were keeping things from me but I guess everyone was."

"So we got everything out of the way and we're still no where near closer finding Jimin, great."

"Well if the police can't help us find Bon Hwa how about we do it ourselves?"

"What?" Yoongi said as he looked at the youngest. "Jungkook, no offence but that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. We aren't some detectives that can magically solve a kidnapping case."

"But we can hire personal detectives to figure out where Bon Hwa lives!" Jungkook said as he loooked around the room seeing everyone actually considering his idea. "Yoongi hyung you're rich you can easily afford a detective or someone to help us find this guy."

"So you want to go against the police and hire a personal investigator so we can try to find Jimin ourselves?"

"If it means getting Jimin back safe then yes." Jungkook said as he looked at Hoseok serious. "Breaking the law is irrelevant if the law itself doesn't care about who they're supposed to be protecting."

I start school tomorrow! Which is going to be interesting since construction is still going on and the district promised it'd be over before August started. Basically since the beginning of 2018 we've had construction so there's been constant drilling sounds during classes and we've had to leave classrooms and have classes in the library and the gym. I'm not quite sure if it's legal to have a school be a construction zone during the school year since I personally think having to walk in hallways avoiding ladders and construction tools and random construction workers isn't really a safe environment for students. But it'll surely work out fine as nothing too bad has happened.