chapter thirteen

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The flight back to Seoul was very chaotic. People were yelling, being pushed, throwing things. And then there was Soobin who was on the verge of passing out.

"Soobiiiiiiiiin. CHOI SOOBIN!"

"AISH!"

Yeonjun was all up in Soobin's face with furrowed brows, "What's wrong with you?"

"Oh- uhm..just tired. It's nothing."

"You should've gone to sleep when I told you to." Yeonjun crossed his arms and playfully glared at him, still really close to his face. There was a bright red hue on Soobin's cheeks but Yeonjun played it off as him being really tired.

"I-I did go to sleep it's just my body is...uhm..it's not used to going to sleep so late..and...uh..you're really close can you back up?" He mumbled the last part but loud enough for Yeonjun to hear.

"Oh- my bad." He stepped back and Soobin let out the breath he didn't even know he was holding.

"But it's just my body isn't used to staying up that late, so I'm really tired. It's a battle between my sleep schedule and my anxiety." He said with a shrug and pout.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. If you need help you can always talk to me." Yeonjun said as he patted the taller's head.

"Oh- thank you, Yeonjun-hyung!"

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Beomgyu and Kai had gotten on the bus after saying goodbye to Hyunjin, and then were soon on their way to Kai's house. Beomgyu was calm and just went on his phone, meanwhile Kai's leg was bouncing and he was fidgeting a lot. It's safe to say he was still worried.

Beomgyu grabbed his hand and held onto it tight in an attempt to calm him down.

"It's okay, don't worry."

Kai nodded and put his head on the older's shoulder and soon drifted off into dreamland. Beomgyu kept holding onto his hand and scrolled through his Instagram. Beomgyu sighed as he saw all the notifications coming through.

Every single one of them was just them questioning his disappearance and then him just appearing out of the blue. Fair, I guess. But why did he have to constantly have to be reminded about what he's going to face when his parents find out? If they didn't know already, at least.

Thirty minutes had passed and they were finally at their destination.

"Huening-ah, wake up. We're here." Beomgyu started shaking Kai to wake up. The younger groaned as he got up.

"Huh? Oh- yeah." He looked around and the tiredness that was there immediately turned into urgency as he rushed out the bus with Beomgyu slowly following him.

"The room number was 17...room 17...THERE IT IS!"

The two stood in front of a room with the label '17' which was apparently the apartment his family was staying at.

'Why do I feel like I've been to this place before?' Beomgyu thought, but he just shrugged it off. Probably just deja vu.

Kai was hesitating to knock on the door, and he soon started shaking.

"What if there's something behind this door that I don't want to see? Oh god what if they got killed?"

Beomgyu put his hand on the other's shoulder and gave him a look of reassurance.

"You can do it, c'mon!"

"R-Right.." Kai nodded and knocked on the door. Would someone even answer the door?

Just then, the door opened and revealed a girl with blondeish-brownish hair.

"OH MY GOD HYUKA!" The girl immediately gave him a hug and Kai let out the breath he didn't even know he was holding. He cried into her shoulder and hugged her back.

"You made me worried.."

"ME?! You're the one that disappeared for two months! Mom was worried sick about you and dad couldn't do anything about it since he's in China right now. WE should've been the ones worried for you."

"I-It's just that..when I tried calling you, you didn't answer and when I was told about the sinkhole panicked and- and-" The tears just continued rolling through his face as he tries speaking through his sobs.

"Shh, it's okay. I'm here now! The sinkhole knocked out everyone's signal for a few days so that's why I couldn't pick up your call." She said as she patted the other's back to calm him down.

"Now you have to explain why you disappeared for two months!"

"Oh- uh..yeah that."

"Well come inside, come inside! I don't want you standing out here. Your friend can come in too." She said as she motioned the two of them to come inside and she walked in.

"C'mon Beomgyu-hyung. My sister doesn't like waiting." Kai said and he soon walked inside the apartment as well.

"R-Right, sorry." Beomgyu walked into the apartment as well and shut the door behind him. He looked around the apartment and something about it gave him an uneasy feeling.

It felt like he had been here before.

'I swear I've been in that kitchen before..' Beomgyu thought, but he just shrugged it off.

"Let me do a short introduction. I'm Lea Navvab, Kai's older sister. If you need to know more about me, feel free to ask me any questions. NOW KAI YOU HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO!" Lea said all in one breath.

"The thing is...I don't even remember myself" Kai said with a frustrated sigh, "From what I've heard, I was the one that started the fire at the school, I was the one that tried killing those people. But I don't remember any of it. It doesn't seem like something I would do. I KNOW it's something I wouldn't do, but the personality disorder..it makes it hard knowing what's fake and true.."

Tears started forming in his eyes again after reminding himself about the disorder. When Kai got diagnosed, he would continuously lie to himself saying that he doesn't have a disorder, that's he's perfectly fine and that he's just the same Hueningkai. Cuddly, cute, plushie loving Kai Kamal Huening.

But that was before the accident had happened, and that was what led Kai to his breaking point.

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