lemonade and vodka
⚠️⚠️ TW : child abuse
please don't read if this makes you uncomfortable!!! ⚠️⚠️
faded blue lights illuminated the spare room in jeno's house, the room usually used for guests (that they never really had) or storage. for the week, however, it had been emptied so it could be used by the son of the lee family and his friends - as they'd planned to stay over for a short while due to their eldest omega being away
chenle had curled up in jisung's arms, his eyes lidded as he yawned quietly, the alpha running his fingers through his bedhead and nuzzling his nose into his neck, helping him awake
"jen honey are you and the others hungry? i'm gonna make some lunch" jeno's mum popped her head through his bedroom door, smiling as chenle turned to her with sparkly eyes
"do you want to come find something sweetie?" he nodded, springing to his feet before following the lady downstairs as the others said no, a skip in his step and fully conscious
"is injun doing okay?" donghyuck asked, laid flat on his stomach as he played a game on the console with jaemin
"mhm, you can tell he missed his cousin and auntie alot.. i'm glad he's happy" jeno nodded along
"he's so cute" the beta-omega pouted, kicking his feet "have you met his cousin and auntie?" he turned to jisung, who nodded
"a few times, i was there the first time he had seen them since being taken away and i don't think i'd ever seen him as happy" chenle smiled, laid on his chest
"taken away? were his birth parents not nice?" the youngest frowned
"not at all. i've talked with injunnie a while ago and he said that if you guys ever ask i'm free to tell you, but it's not nice to hear so if you wanna know you have to be sure"
when renjun had just turned three, his parents had become aggressive towards him both physically and verbally, calling him awful names and pushing him around, slapping and kicking him whenever he did anything wrong
it eventually grew into using anything they held in their hand, whether it be a book, a shoe, one of renjun's toys, even a knife when one or the other was cooking
he attended nursery covered in bruises, gashes and cuts, limping and whimpering whenever one of the nursery staff picked him up or held his hand
this lasted for almost a year, until the infamous lawyer husband-and-wife pair hosted a fancy dinner party for co-workers and business partners and their son had accidentally ran into one of the glass display cupboards, the mother going ballistic
she dragged the poor toddler into a separate room and beat him until he fell unconscious- to the brink of falling and never waking again
one of the guests, mrs seo, had followed the lady and video taped the behaviour with her phone and sent it to the police, the little boy being taken from mr and mrs huang two days later and put into the care system
he remained in adoption centres for the next year, moving every two or so months, until he ended up in seoul, south korea a few days before he turned five
