REBOUND ✔️

🥥 forty nine

felix sighed as he stood from his seat, gathering his things and putting them into his bag. he glanced at a particular seat, a frown forming on his face. he hadn't seen hyunjin at college in two weeks, and he wasn't answering his calls or texts. the australian's mind was racing with worries and doubts, like 'did he not like it?', 'is he ignoring me?', 'what did i do wrong?'. felix couldn't stop the flow of negative thoughts that flooded his mind, making him even more anxious.

before leaving the room, he approached his tutor, who greeted him warmly. "ah mr lee, how are you finding your studies in korea?" he asked the student.

"it's good. i'm really enjoying it here," felix said with a smile, earning a nod and a smile back from his tutor, who then turned his attention to gathering all of his own supplies from his desk thag he needed for over the weekend, seeing as there would be no classes for the next two days. "sir, do you know why hyunjin hasn't been in class?" felix then asked, making the tutor stop in his tracks.

"mr hwang is in hospital at the moment. i wasn't told why he's there but— mr lee?" the tutor called out to felix as he rushed out of the door, racing down the halls as everyone stepped aside to let him through, not wanting to be taken out by him. as he reached the outside, felix took a moment to catch his breath, his hands resting on his knees as he took deep breaths.

"felix? you okay?" the australian looked up to where the familiar voice was coming from, seeing none other than han jisung. felix froze, not knowing whether to run away from the male or to sit and listen to him. but this wasn't a case of running away from jisung, he was running to hyunjin.

the australian turned tail and carried on towards the hospital, but only to be stopped by jisung's hand on his shoulder. "lix, where are you going? please i wanna talk, so let me drive you there," the older proposed, making felix sigh and nod, walking with him to his car and getting in the passenger side. jisung started up the engine and turned to felix. "where are you going?"

"the hospital," the blonde said, short and blunt, not sparing a glance at the driver as he tried to focus on things that passed outside the passenger window. felix tried his best to not think the worst of hyunjin's situation, but he was gone for so long that he couldn't help but think that it was extremely serious, and that hyunjin's life could be in danger.

jisung glanced over at felix several times, his face filled with concern and curiousity. "why are you headed to the hospital?" he asked in a soft tone, not wanting to come across as too pushy towards him as he then may not want to divulge his reasoning behind this particular journey.

"someone i love— someone i care about is there, and i want to make sure they're okay," felix said, having to stop himself from saying what he really thought. his statement made jisung sigh, keeping his eyes trained on the road and instead of on felix.

the older took a deep breath. "felix, i want you to know that i care about you, a lot. that night, you made me feel so special. you made me feel like no one else has made me feel before, and i hated seeing you run out like that," jisung said, unloading all the emotions he felt. he wanted felix to know everything. there was a long pause before he spoke again. "i broke up with chaeyoung," he then finally said, making felix stare at his with wide eyes.

"you broke up with her... for me?" he asked in disbelief, the act making him feel some kind of way, a hot flush rising to his cheeks as he watched jisung nod his head. in felix's eyes, their night together was nothing more than a drunken mistake, but to hear that jisung didn't think that made him review his thoughts on the matter. before he could answer jisung, the male had turned into the hospital carpark, and felix's mind had once again been filled with thoughts of hyunjin.

minho stared at the two with wide eyes, watching as felix quickly rushed into the room to be by hyunjin's bedside. "what happened? is he okay?" he questioned the other two in the room. felix then looked up at minho, who only held anger in his eyes. "did you do this to him?" the australian asked, also slightly angry at the thought that it could have been minho that hurt him, but the older didn't answer. instead he made his way to jisung, who started to back away, but it wasn't enough for the fist that hit him straight in the jaw.

"minho, what the fuck—"

"stay out of this felix!" minho shouted at him, stopping the blonde from moving towards him or speaking as the older pointed a finger at him. jisung took this opportunity to pick himself up off of the floor and make his own advance on minho, kicking him in the back. minho lost his balance and fell to the floor, and heard a laugh from jisung.

"wow minho, you've always been such a hothead. but what are you without your precious chaeyoung?" jisung kicked minho again, seungmin standing abruptly from his seat. "you're nothing without her—" without even seeing it coming, minho kicked up towards jisung, hitting his knee and pushing it slightly in the wrong direction. jisung then backed off, holding his knee, which gave minho all the time he needed to get back up to his feet.

the older swung another punch at jisung, ignoring seungmin telling him that it was enough. it was not enough. jisung had turned his whole life upside down by taking chaeyoung away from him, and by taking one of his best friends. so many things would not have happened this year if jisung hadn't of done what he did. minho grabbed the younger by his collar, pushing him up against the wall harshly.

hyunjin slowly stirred, his eyes fluttering open and closed again as he tried to adjust to the bright light of the room. as they finally opened properly, he was faced with he memory he had hoped to have buried in the back of his mind. the memory of his father holding him against the wall so many times he was numb to the pain it made him feel, yet somehow, seeing the two in his room made him see himself the weakest he had ever been, and his father holding him by the throat.

he felt his breathing quicken, hyperventilating as he heard his booming voice echo in his mind. "you're nothing", "you're worthless", "you are no son of mine.": it wouldn't stop, no matter how hard he tried to block the voice from his mind, it would never stop. he felt a hand on his shoulder, and he flinched away from the sudden contact, his hands finding their way to try and cover his ears, but even that didn't help.

"JUST STOP!" the blonde screamed, all eyes now on him, especially minho's. he glanced back at jisung, the cut on his lip oozing out blood and his eye starting to bruise. he dropped the hand he was about to hit him with, and then dropped jisung, ignoring the pain from his own bruised knuckles as he made his way over to the hospital bed.

"hyunjin, you're awake, i'm so glad you—"

"get out," the words came out as no more than a whisper, and minho had hoped he didn't say what he thought he had just said.

"what do you—"

"i said get out!" hyunjin exclaimed, tears pouring from his eyes as he stared up at minho helplessly. in that moment, the older didn't see sadness in hyunjin's eyes; he saw fear, and that scared minho even more. slowly, he backed away, not sparing a glance at the chaos he had caused and left the room without another word.

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I AM SO SORRY IT TOOK SO
LONG AGAIN!!!!!

also this is the second to last
chapter, how we all feeling?

i hope you are all having an
amazing day or night and that
life is treating you well <3