For the next 3 weeks you visit Jongin every day. You bring him chicken (that guy seriously loves chicken), you sit and chat with him, telling him stories from your home as best as you can. Jongin also helps you improve your Korean so between those daily lessons, your own study and 3 times a week at Mr Kim's office you finally feel comfortable speaking and understanding. Thankfully you'd always been a quick study when it came to languages.

You kept your neighbours up to date on how Jongin was doing. You mainly texted Yixing and Minseok since you still hadn't properly met any of the others yet.

M - Hey, how is he doing today?

Y/N - Wasn't a great day. He went to the physiotherapists and he wasn't cleared for dancing so he's been beating himself up about that.

M - . Are you with him now?

Y/N - Just ran out to grab his favourite chicken for him. Just arriving back at the apartment now.

M - Chicken will help. Will you stick around for a bit?

Y/N - Yeah, I'm going to keep him company. Any suggestions to lift his spirits?

M - Hmmm. He does love Hirano Nora. Maybe play some clips of her comedy?

Y/N - Good idea. Thanks so much!

M - No problem. Thank you again for looking after him. If you need more suggestions let me know and I'll ask the guys if they have any ideas. Gotta run to a fansign now.

Y/N - Will do. Thanks :)

The chicken and comedy definitely helped but as the night wore on you could see in Jongin's eyes that he wasn't doing well.

'Hey, don't frown. Today was a setback but you'll be cleared to dance again soon enough.'

He sighed loudly 'I know, I am just not used to doing nothing especially during a comeback. I feel like I'm letting the group down and worse that I'm letting the fans down.'

'Do you really think the fans benefit if you push yourself and come back too soon and injure yourself on stage? The guys are worried for you and want you to rest. They miss you.'

'No... you're right. I just don't know what to do until I am cleared to dance again. I feel lost.'

You chatted for a little while longer, pushing him to voice all of his worries and guilt in the hopes that it might lift a bit of the darkness clouding over him. By the end of your chat he seemed a little brighter but you could tell he would keep fluctuating back and forth between these moods. Around 11:00pm he excused himself for bed so you gave him a quick hug and bid him a good night before heading back to your apartment.

Y/N - I'm going to need another suggestion. His mood still wasn't great when I left.

M - Did he talk about his moods at all? He won't tell us much.

Y/N - Yeah a bit. He feels guilty like he's letting you and EXO-L down.

M - He's not! He needs to take care of himself so that he can come back stronger. Our fans understand. Ah, he must be in a bad place...

Y/N - He fluctuates between the lows and being his normal self. I'm just not sure what else I can do...

M has seen this message

You let out a frustrated sigh. Minseok had seen the message but after 10 minutes still hadn't responded. You decided to try Yixing.

Y/N - Hey, is Minseok busy?

Y - Uhhh let me check.

Y - He's on the phone. Did you need something?

Y/N - He was giving me suggestions for cheering Jongin up but then he just stopped answering me.

Y - Hmm hang on.

Y - He's talking to Jongin's mother. He said he'll get back to you soon.

Y/N - Thanks :)

Y/N - How's the tour going?

Y - Really well. Sehun, Minseok & I are covering any of Jongin's solos as best as we can. The fans have given us so many gifts for him I'm pretty sure we need to buy another suitcase to get them all home!

Y/N - I'm sure you guys are doing a great job. Haha he'll love that!

You laid down on your bed and waiting for Minseok to finish his phone call and get back to you. About 10 minutes later you got your answer.

M - Please tell me you'll be home at 6pm tomorrow

Y/N - Yeah why?

M - Jongin's mother is coming by with his dogs.

Y/N - OMG, is this what you were organising?

M - Kyungsoo suggested it so I made the call. If this doesn't lift his spirits, nothing will. It's a surprise though so they are going to meet you downstairs then you'll take them up to the apartment ok?

Y/N - Ok ^_^

M - I have to go. Baekhyun is messing with my room. Goodnight!

Y/N - Night!

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'So did it work?' Minseok enquired.

'He was so happy. All he's done since they left is talk about his mum and dogs.' You weren't exaggerating. It had been just over 24hrs since you had brought Jongin's mother up to the apartment and he had not shut up about it yet.

Minseok laughed. 'Good, I'll have to let Kyungsoo know his idea worked. Hopefully this gets him through the next 4 days, then we'll be back.'

'Does that mean that I'll actually get to meet everyone in soon then?'

'Haha, yes. It's probably overdue isn't it? Maybe give us a day after we get back then we'll all meet up. How's that sound?'

You smiled, glad that you were finally going to meet the other guys. You'd only been spending half of your days in their home so you would be glad to no longer feel like an intruder. 'That sounds great,' you glanced up at the clock and cursed under your breath.

'What did you just say?' A surprised voice came from the other end of the phoneline.

'Oh sorry Minseok. I just realised I'm late for my language study in town. I have to run.'

This time laughter was all you could hear 'It's ok, I was just making sure you weren't cursing at the idea of meeting everyone. I'll let you go, can you remind Jongin to skype us tonight? We all miss him.'

'Will do, bye!'

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