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minho was smiling hesitantly at jeongin and chan as the younger held his hand tightly, staring at his eyes with concern and wariness.
the boy definitely looked better than when jeongin first found him thrown into that alley. however, he still seemed exhausted and torn apart. his face was swollen from the bruises and he had stitches just above his left eyebrow. the rest of his body was covered by some loose clothes changbin had probably dressed him with but the bandages in his arms were still obvious under his slightly see through sleeves.
other than that, minho looked fine. happy even.
"how are you feeling minho? are you in pain? did you take any painkillers?"
minho of course didn't respond but he did reach out for his notebook, only to be stopped by chan who softly placed his hand on top of minho's.
"it's okay, you can sign to me whatever you need to say and i'll interpret it."
jeongin's eyes widened at his words. "i didn't know you knew sign language!"
chan chuckled. "we're not good at it but we learned some in order to be able to communicate when there is no paper or pen available for minho to write on."
jeongin just "ohed" and remained quiet as he saw minho's trembling fingers moving and creating gestures with his hands that jeongin had no idea what they meant.
"uh i think he said that he can't take pills but his wounds don't hurt a lot?" chan raised an eyebrow as he tried to understand what minho was signing to him. "and he also asks why you're here."
jeongin sighed and turned to look at minho who just stared shyly at him with his swollen eyes. "i uhhh i was actually the one that found you... chan hyung and felix hyung came to pick you up and they asked me whether i wanted to go with them. that's how i ended up here heh"
minho bit his lip and looked down, his expression suddenly getting darker before he started to sign again. chan once again tried his best to understand what the signs meant.
"he apologizes for— wait. why are you apologizing minho? are you crazy? we both know what happened was not your fault!"
minho shook his head and continued to sign, this time looking like he was in a hurry, causing his signs to look sloppier than before.
"he's saying that he never wanted you to see him like that so he's sorry that you had to find him all beaten up in that alley..." chan exhaled deeply and looked at minho with a soft gaze. "minho... can you please tell me who did this to you? is it the one that has been hurting you all this time? and before you try to refuse that you've been hurt before, shut the fuck up. we're not blind, we've all seen the random bruises and scratches you appear with from time to time and your desperate but failed attempts to hide them from us by wearing hoods or masks."
minho looked like he was about to panic as he listened to what chan was saying. and jeongin reciprocated his expression.
"wait what! someone in the school is hurting you? is that where that bruise you had before came from too?"
minho just nodded in defeat knowing that there was no point in him hiding anymore. he'd been caught.
"i just don't know why you never told us anything. you know we could have scared these bastards away the very first time they started hurting you." chan muttered and the look he had on his face resembled regret, guilt, desperation.
minho shook his head and began signing again but this time he didn't seem to put a lot of effort into signing correctly. he had accepted his defeat.
"you don't want to tell us who does this to you?" chan asked quietly and minho nodded, bottom lip trembling slightly. "alright then. can you at least answer me this? did these people hurt you today? or was it someone else?"
minho held up two fingers. "so it was someone else. someone you did not recognize?"
the boy nodded again in response and chan sighed deeply. "okay. i'm going to let the boys know that you're safe. i'll bring you your phone so that you can catch up with jeongin."
minho nodded and smiled slightly and jeongin bowed to chan who just waved him off as he left the room. shortly after, chan came back and handed minho his phone and then left again and closed te door behind him, giving them privacy.
and that left the two boys alone.
minho turned on his phone and started typing at the notes app and then turned the device around, showing jeongin what he had written.
hi :)
jeongin giggled. "hey hyung. i missed you"
minho's smile faded away as he went back to type on his phone and then show it to the younger again.
i know... i'm sorry i vanished, i had my reasons.
"were these reasons the fact that you just wanted to protect me and thus disappeared for a while so that i wouldn't get hurt because of you?"
minho nodded hesitantly and typed again.
yea. i don't want you to get hurt jeongin. not because of me.
"i'm not gonna get hurt because of you minho. you're not dangerous or harmful no matter what other people believe. you're the softest cinnamon roll i know and you'd never hurt anyone on purpose."
minho blushed but the color on his cheeks vanished as quickly as it had appeared.
i wouldn't hurt you. but someone else would just so that they could indirectly hurt me.
jeongin placed his hand on minho's one carefully, ignoring the way the older boy's hand lightly twitched at the touch. "you're not responsible of me minho. even if i did get hurt that would be my fault. it wouldn't be your fault if i stayed with you despite the hundreds of time you've tried to push me away. it wouldn't be your fault if i got hurt because i decided not to leave you. that would be my fault. not yours. alright?"
minho seemed tentative at first but he eventually gave in and nodded, shaking his arms in defeat.
don't get too close tho. keep your safe distance from me okay? please.
jeongin smiled and minho reciprocated it. they were okay again.
"can i give you a hug? i promise i won't get too close to your wounds."
minho stared at jeongin for a moment before nodding slowly, still looking kind of unsure of what was going to happen. however, when jeongin's arms got wrapped protectively around him and pulled his body in a warm, safe embrace, minho melted and let his tense body fall on jeongin's one, his own arms hesitantly going on the boy's waist and holding him loosely.
"please don't disappear again." jeongin mumbled in his hair and minho just tightened his grip on his waist in response.
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hey! just wanted to let u know that i've posted many videos from skz's newark concert i attended on wednesday on my tiktok account so if you want to watch them, my username is "minhorizon"! i'm going to upload all the videos i took soon!
anyways, thank u for reading<3 have a wonderful day/night^^
