Monsters

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(Minki's POV)

I let out a eat sigh. I felt so...tired today.

I looked over to the bedside table, debating if I wanted to pull open the drawer and see if it was in there.

I shoved myself up with what little strength I had, opening it up and looking at the orange bottle. It was empty.

I sighed again, laying back on my bed, having my new hearing aids in. I fiddled with them, surprised such a small piece of technology would be able to bring back one of the senses I thought I had lost forever.

I stared at the ceiling, pulling them out and letting myself hear the beautiful song that Yuta had been singing to me just last night. I smiled a little at the thought.

Yuta was really cool in my opinion.

Soon enough I was pulled from my thoughts by movement.

I looked over to see Taeyong standing in my doorway, staring at me before speaking. I just turned my eyes away, moving my, now slightly grown out, hair away from my ear to show I didn't have my aids in.

I think he got the hint and left me alone. I was thankful for that.

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(Taeyong's POV)

I was confused.

Why did Minki ignore me? He seemed so upset..

I went on a search for Chenle, knowing the young boy knew a lot more about Minki than I did.

When I finally came across the black and white haired boy he was sitting on the couch with Jisung, Winwin, Johnny and Mark. I tapped his shoulder.

He turned to me, smiling a little. "Oh hey hyung, what's up?" I frowned a little. "Can I talk to you for a second?" I saw the panic slowly settle in his eyes as he nodded, excusing himself from the conversation before we went up to his room.

He turned to me, a slight frown on his face. "What's up hyung? What's wrong? Did something happen?" I nodded my head, staring out his window. "Yeah, actually. Something with Minki."

He immediately got extremely worried. "With Minki? What's going on? Is he hurt?" He asked quickly, starting to pace around, trying to think of everything that could be wrong with his best friend.

"No no, it's nothing like that it's just...he ignored me earlier when I went into his room. He seemed so upset. Do you know why that is?" He froze on the spot, peaking my interest.

He kept pacing after a second, mumbling to himself. Something about meds that I didn't fully understand. He snapped his head up to me. "You said he ignored you right?" I nodded. He nodded back, tapping his chin. "That means he didn't have his aids in on purpose...did he look tired to you? Like more so then usual?" I nodded slowly, frowning. "Yes? What does this have to do with anything?"

He looked up, meeting my eyes before sighing. "I'm telling you this cause I trust you, and because you need to be in on this, but, Minki has really really bad depression. Ever since his family disowned him for his disability, which they could have easily helped him with, he got really upset. That's why he doesn't smile often. Why he'd put himself so harshly in harm's way. He doesn't care one ounce about himself, but, when he's on his meds, he feels a little more remorse. He's most likely run out of meds. We need to send people out to go get them, he can't go, he'll surely get himself killed in this state!"

It seemed like Chenle was panicking.

I placed my hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry Chenle. Just tell me the name of the medication and me and one of the boys will go and get it for him, we'll get a lot of it so that he doesn't have to worry about running out of it for a while." Chenle hugged me tightly. "Oh thank you hyung! He takes Sertraline, or also known as Zoloft." I nodded, pulling out of the hug and heading downstairs.

I walked up to Johnny and Mark, smiling a little at them. "Hey, do you guys mind coming with me on a little errand?" They both nodded happily, getting up and grabbing their weapons.

I announced to the rest of the house that we were taking off and stepped out of the house, checking that I actually knew where a pharmacy was nearby.

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I looked around in the back of the pharmacy for the medication that Chenle had told me, hoping they still had some here.

I let out a silent happy noise when I found it, filling up a little zip lock back with the pills before running back out to the boys who were standing watch.

I nodded at them, smiling a little as we headed back. Everything was going so amazing so far, and now Minki wouldn't have to feel so gross because of his thoughts.