It had been 24 hours since Jongwoon had locked himself up in the practice room. He refused to come out, or at least they thought he did as he didn't respond to them when they asked something through the door. And even though Kyuhyun could have easily picked the lock, they had decided it was better to just leave him for now. He had suffered yet another great loss, so it was understandable that he wanted to be alone.

As the hours grew longer, however, many started to worry and would occasionally just stand at the other side of the door talking to him; hoping for any reply or respond. It never came.

Jungsu hadn't been much different. He seemed to blame himself for the things that had happened, even though Kyuhyun wasn't sure why. It had been Heechul who dragged them towards the front yard, after Changmin had mentioned Jongwoon's parental home, to begin with, not Jungsu.

Heechul had also tried to tell Jungsu that he did nothing wrong, that if Jongwoon had to blame anyone it should be him instead for not thinking properly, but Jungsu didn't want to listen and just waved it away. He soon retreated to his own office and hadn't been seen for quite a while now too.

Changmin had joined all of them several hours later, finding out only then what had happened after they had left his practice. When they told him about the house being burned down, he looked utterly worried and decided without hesitation to stay the night. Every hour he would walk up to the practice room door and would talk to Jongwoon for at least fifteen minutes, hoping for anything in return.

"Ya," he eventually said defeatedly, after yet another fifteen minutes of talking about all kinds of stuff from their past. His worry started to set in and he really needed a reply, any reply, to make sure he at least didn't do anything stupid. "I will let Kyuhyun open this door if you won't at least let us know you are okay in there."

He motioned for Kyuhyun, who had been eyeing Changmin for a while, to come on over and help out. Kyuhyun instantly sprung up and walked up towards him.

"We are going to open the door, okay?" Changmin said loud enough for Jongwoon to hear, before nodding at Kyuhyun to start doing his thing. But as Kyuhyun reached out to the lock with his usual tool in hand, something suddenly was thrown from the inside against the door, indicating that Jongwoon was at least still alive.

"Fair enough," Changmin mumbled, nearly looking disappointed that they didn't have a reason to go inside, but also relieved that there was a sign of life. "Next time," he said to Kyuhyun, placing his hand on an even more disappointed looking Kyuhyun's shoulder and smiling encouragingly before walking away. He hadn't missed out on the worried look on Kyuhyun's face that had been there ever since he had arrived.

Kyuhyun sighed and returned to his spot on the couch closest to the door. He didn't know why, but sitting close to it felt good. Whenever he walked too far away or lost sight of the door, his stomach would act up and he would feel an emotion he had never felt before. Was this what people meant when they worried over someone? If they did, it wasn't a feeling Kyuhyun wanted to experience ever in his life again. 

As he sat down, his eyes instantly automatically locked on the door again. He wasn't even sure why he was being like this, but he couldn't get his mind to focus on other things even if he tried.

A sudden plate filled with food that Donghee had just made for the Civiltry members was pushed into Kyuhyun hands, and he looked up in surprise.

"You need to eat eventually," Henry said, taking place next to Kyuhyun. Kyuhyun temporarily looked at Henry blankly, who softly smiled back at him, and didn't know what to say. He hadn't expected Henry to ever talk to him again in the first place.

Hyukjae and Donghae sat down on the other side of Kyuhyun and placed their own well-filled plates of food on their laps. Kyuhyun looked at their food and at his own plate and gulped - he couldn't help but feel nauseous at the mere sight of it.

Hyukjae and Donghae instantly hungrily attacked their plates, stuffing food in their mouths as if their lives depended on it, and occasionally even feeding each other because 'you need to taste this, it's delicious!'. Henry took a few small, but tasteful, bites before looking at Kyuhyun - who by now was just playing with his food by stabbing his chopsticks into it and wishing for the food to just evaporate by looking at it, so he didn't need to eat it.

"Eat," he said sternly, "You haven't eaten for one and a half days now," he looked somewhat worried, and Kyuhyun started to feel upset and couldn't help but wonder why he hadn't thought about Henry and his feelings when Jongwoon started to kiss him. Henry was, after all, extremely important to him; how could he have thrown it all away without at least thinking about their friendship and considering if the kiss was worth it?

"I'm really not hungry," he mumbled in reply, avoiding Henry's eyes, looking everywhere but into them, and occasionally glancing over to the practice room's door worriedly - something Henry didn't fail to notice.

"It's okay to worry, I worry too," he said, a sad smile present on his face, " But not eating isn't going to solve anything," he added sternly, after recomposing himself and continued to eat while simultaneously encouraging Kyuhyun to do the same.

Reluctantly, Kyuhyun took a small bite because he didn't want to disappoint Henry, and instantly regretted swallowing it after chewing on it briefly. " I can't-" he started, but stopped to suppress his gag reflex.

Henry couldn't help but feel sorry for Kyuhyun. Despite the things that had happened, and despite that he was quite upset with him, he still cared about him. And even though the issues that had arisen between them had seemed insurmountable the day before, today his anger seemed to subdue and made room for worry instead. Kyuhyun looked like a mess - and Henry really didn't want Kyuhyun to feel the way that he did.

"You like him, don't you?" he suddenly asked, not looking forward to the rather predictable answer, but he just needed to hear it from Kyuhyun himself. Hyukjae and Donghae instantly stopped stuffing food in each other's faces and looked at Kyuhyun both anxiously and expectantly. They worried for Henry but also were curious to see if Kibum had been right when he said Jongwoon might just like Kyuhyun and vice versa.

"I really didn't, I-"  Kyuhyun started, panic arising in the pit of his stomach. This had been the question he had dreaded ever since him and Jongwoon had kissed. How could he properly explain this, without hurting Henry in the process?

"You didn't, but now you do," Henry stated matter-of-factly. And after Kyuhyun mumbled a nearly inaudible 'I think so,' Henry merely nodded in reply and looked away; his hunger for food having instantly disappeared.

"We are going to open the door, okay?" Jongwoon could hear Changmin say from the other side of the door. He had been talking for quite a while about things they had done in the past - fun things, mostly - and Jongwoon appreciated his efforts. He had missed Changmin tremendously, but he just couldn't face him anymore. The things that had happened made him ashamed, and the guilt he felt towards his old friend was too much for him to overcome.

And it should have been enough of a reason for Changmin to never talk to him again too.

And despite that he really longed for Changmin's presence while feeling the way he currently did, it would be selfish to let Kyuhyun open that door. He didn't deserve Changmin, and he kne