Acceleration [Book 1]

23: Horrible Past Pt. 1

⊱⋅ ─ 23: HORRIBLE PAST PT. 1

Getting a fresh towel from the closet in his room, and getting extra clothes from his luggage, Jeongin peered over to Seungmin, lying on the bed, hair in front of his eyes and his eyes barely open, the younger male smiled at him and turned around.

"You wanna come along?" He asked, but sounded like he was suggesting, Seungmin nodded as he stretched his arms and yawned.

"Who else is coming?" Seungmin asked, his voice raspy and deeper than usual, his arm was reaching out as if expecting something to fill it up.

Smiling fondly at the adorable sight, Jeongin stepped away from the door and made his way to Seungmin, throwing his towel and clothes by the chair placed by the window that had its curtains covering the windows. The older male pulled him into a hug, mostly just half of his body, since he was still lying down and felt lazy to even sit up, making Jeongin chuckle once again at how adorable he looked at that moment.

"I'm going alone." Jeongin answered the older male, lying down beside him, tangling his legs with the older male's own.

"Alone?" Seungmin reuttered, shaking his head and pulling Jeongin closer, "I'm not having it if you're going to risk going somewhere without anyone, not after what happened with Yukhei and Ten." Seungmin added, it was true, leaving any one of them alone would lead into danger, and with that, there are a lot of painful and dark consequences, no one is having any of that.

The two males know perfectly well that the Chan they saw that beat Yukhei up to a stupor was not the Chan they know, it was different, a beast that surfaced to do its deed. Just the thought of the look at Chan's eyes in a manacing stare and his growls inhumanly scary, it just sent shivers down Jeongin's spine.

"About what happened earlier with Chan," Jeongin stirred, now lying on top of Seungmin, "you think he's going back to that state again?"

Not answering Jeongin's query, he just shrugged, and his brows met at the center as he fell deep in thought, "Something tells me that we shouldn't think about it," he replied, combing Jeongin's hair with his left hand, making the younger male hum, "but if it does happen, we know what to do, let's just hope that Chan tells Felix before it happens again."

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Chan poked around his vegetables on his plate, listening to his parents' conversation, who were sitting at the same table as him. His outfit suffocated him and seemed to be itching at parts he hoped that wouldn't gain any rashes later on. He shoved a piece of meat into his mouth as he found it under the pile of vegetables that he shoved around, followed by a stick of carrot, he looked up from his plate to meet his father's eyes. They expressed nothing in particular, not stern or soft, just neutral. It took a few seconds before Chan could swallow his food.

He gently placed his utensils down and sipped from his glass, "Why are we here?" Chan asked, softly and politely, "We never go to restaurants aside from the reasons of having occassions, and Hannah and Lucas aren't with us, why?" He added, placing his hands on his lap, clearing his throat immediately as he didn't get a response other than silence from his parents.

"Son," Mrs. Bang called Chan, reaching out her hand to take a gentle yet firm grasp on his arm, a comforting grip lingered there as she smiled dearly at Chan, "You're turning eighteen in a few months from now, we always see and admire that you work hard in your studies and see to it that your siblings are doing well."