Oddinary// Hyunlix & Minsung FF// Editing

Chapter Forty Seven: Momma Lee

(OK so this is for Modestia_x thank you for your patience dear! Thank you for all the support too it means a lot to me! Ilysm! Here we go!)

I gripped Jin's knee hard. This drive was taking too long. I had questions I needed answers to desperately and my shaky breaths were simply getting worse.

"Lix, are you OK?" Jisung's voice was off in the distance as I kept staring forward and watching the tailights on Mom's car, with a gritty determination. If I took my eyes off of them for a second she may disappear.

"No." I admitted honestly. I couldn't bring myself to even entertain the idea that had entered my head, and I didn't want to worry them unnecessarily, but what if it was a valid concern? What if we thought we were being taken to safety, when in fact all that lay ahead was danger?

"What is it Felix? Tell me what's going on in your head." Leeknow demanded. He knew he could get it out of me. He was the only one who knew the things I did about the inner workings of Mr Lee's 'business' and he might get it.

"M-Min, I-"

"I don't want excuses Lix. You know that. Now tell me." He always did this. Even before all of this. When he was dealing to me, he would always demand to know how I was and what was going on. He had a way with my soul that few other people did.

My Dad had been the last person who had me like this.

"CLB. What was it he called her?" My voice was monotonous and dead. Just like my emotions. I turned to look at him, and Jisung's hand clapped loudly over his mouth, as the realisation dawned upon him.

"C-Cute Little Bunny." Leeknow's eyes were wider than I had ever seen them and I turned my head back to the front of the car, not daring to utter another word.

"S-So what does that mean for us?" Hyunjin asked quietly, clearly catching on to the weight of my thoughts.

"Either it's a coincidence, or we've just uncovered why Mom has been keeping her mouth shut about everything." Jisung breathed the words out and my eyes fell upon Hyunjin.

"We have to prepare for the worst." I muttered. I sucked my tongue loudly and glared at the car in front once more.

This had to be a coincidence. How could it be anything else? There was no way our mother was involved in this. Why would she be involved?

Her car pulled into the seedy, dimly lit car park, and I blinked up at the familiar dirty building in front of me. All my worst fears had been confirmed. The thought of this being a coincidence left my head, and my heart, for good.

It wasn't.

"Hyunjin. Turn around." My voice was low, but the urgency wasn't lost in my tone. My hand tightened around his leg, until my fingernails were digging into his muscle. He yelped. I felt my heart leap into my throat again.

"Wh-Why?" He asked.

"TURN THE FUCK AROUND!" Leeknow screamed as he launched his body forward and grabbed at the wheel. The screeching from the tyres was deafening, but not as deafening as my pounding heart in my ears. I slammed my hands to my head and began rocking gently as the voices screamed in my head.

"Fucking hell!" Hyunjin quickly regained control and sped out of the car park as more cars began following us.

She had set us up.

"Hold on to your hats boys." Hyunjin dropped the car into a lower gear and the engine screamed as he floored the pedal. He was trying to create space. Their cars may be bigger, his was faster. He quickly pushed it back into sixth and we were gaining more and more on them.

"It's ok Min. It's ok. You're safe. No one is gonna hurt you." Minho was wailing in the back seat and begging not to let them get us.

"Kill yourself. No one needs you. No one wants you. You couldn't save him, and you can't save them."

"L-Lix! STOP!" I hadn't realised my nails were clawing at my face as I begged the voices to stop screaming at me. I felt warm hands around mine and Jisung was holding me back.

"Where do I go?! What do I do?!" Hyunjin yelled next to me as the car sped around a corner and the back end kicked out slightly. He turned into it and regained control before continuing down the street.

"Jin, head to Jeongin's. He's the furthest away from here. Take all the back streets. They're still behind us!" Jisung screamed. I couldn't take this.

Leeknow's wailing, Jin and Jisung yelling and the sound of the engine screaming as we made our escape. The tyres created thick black smoke around us with every sharp, fast turn Hyunjin made.

"I-I'm gonna throw up." I whispered to no one in particular.

"Lix! You can't!" Hyunjin whined loudly as he pushed his hand through his hair. Jisung began frantically searching for something, anything, that would mean I wouldn't throw up in the car.

Jin rolled down the window and I stuck my head out. The bitter winter air bit at my cheeks and it wasn't helping. Numbness was taking over my face. The car rocked with every sharp turn Hyunjin made and my stomach felt every single force being exerted on my body as we went.

"They were going to take us back! She was gonna make us go back!" Leeknow wailed loudly from the back seat. Jisung focused his attention back on Minho and I was left, hanging out of the window with the weight of everything on my shoulders.

I gagged. I turned my head and tried to aim away from Jin's car but I didn't have much choice. My stomach emptied itself of every single thing I had eaten. It didn't help and even after I was done, I continued dry heaving painfully.

"Urrrgghhh." I whined loudly as the pain in my stomach radiated throughout my whole body, and my spinning head began pounding painfully. It was as though my brain was trying to explode out of my skull.

"Jeongin. It's me. We're coming over. Open your garage we have to hide the car. I don't have time to explain, but you have to help us!" Jisung said down the phone with all the urgency in his voice made perfectly clear.

"There's still one straggler." Hyunjin said as he slammed around another corner. My head rolled backwards and slammed into the window frame. I heard it, but I didn't feel it. I couldn't feel anything. For the first time since my fathers death, I felt truly light. As though nothing in the world mattered anymore. Because it didn't.

Mom was ready to sell mine and Minho's souls, and bodies, to protect her seedy little secret. I hadn't even considered how hard this information must be for Jisung, but he was busy looking after Min, and I doubted it had hit him yet.

Nothing in this world made sense anymore. Jeongin's house went speeding past us as Jin did everything he could to shake off this last car. He turned left, and right, and left and right, in a dizzying array of elaborate circles until we finally lost them down a side street.

The car whizzed into Jeongin's driveway and neatly into the open garage. Chris was waiting and tugged the door down as quickly as he could behind us, before walking up to the car.

"Aw mate, why is there vomit all down the side of the car?" He asked as he scrunched up his face. Then he saw us.

Leeknow, broken and sobbing, clinging to Jisung.
Jisung, panicked and fearful, doing everything he could to comfort Min.
Hyunjin, terrified and breathless, gripping hid steering wheel so tightly that his knuckles looked ready to pop.
Me, Completely still and dead inside. With half of my body draped out of the window.

"What happened?" He dared to ask us. None of us could even begin to find the words for the experience we had just been through.

How did we explain to one of our best best friends that the only people who were supposed to protect us in this world were out to destroy us?

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And I oop.

OMFG LONELY ST. TRAILER. I CRIED.

I'm so excited for Saturday I'm going to see BTS at the cinema!

Anyway.

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