ADRENALINE [THE BOYZ]

IX.

a guy was sitting on a rolling chair close to a tall bed that held a resting lady. his right hand held his side while the other one rested on his knee, head full of thoughts and completely lost in it. he was in a daze and anyone could identify his weird state easily.

"Are you done?" only when a voice was spoken to him, he joined reality again.

"huh?" he double-checked the door of his clinic to see a younger male looking at him with questioning eyes.

"treating her. are you done?" the male asked again but received his answer somewhat later than usual as if what he asked the other male wearing a long white lab coat was a difficult formula question, putting the younger male into suspiciousness.

"oh, yeah, she is better now but she needs time to rest." the male sat up and walked to his counter, and organized his used medical stuff that was sprawled all around the area.

"Okay..." the boy, still cautious about his older member's act, continued his trailed sentence, "dinner is ready, you should go eat." the male did not resist and just nodded while removing his lab coat, before leaving the patient to the younger male.

sunwoo made some way for the male to pass before entering the room and closing the door after himself. he walked up to the occupied bed while still glancing behind him from time to time, worried about something he couldn't put his finger on.

finally reaching the bed, he pulled out the two cuffs he was handed by juyeon and cuffed the female patient's hands to the bed before leaving her to rest and also joining the vast dining area filled up with all of his members except for a few.

"hey younghoon. did you check on sangyeon's condition?" jacob asked the male younger than him through the clicking sounds of plates and spoons, to which he nodded while placing food on his plate.

"his condition is getting better and is recovering. we will receive good results in no time." the boy offered a short tight smile to the older male to which he gave a soft smile in return for the relieving news.

"That's good news," the youngest one present, also nodded at the pleasing news.

the conversation went back and forth as they continued talking about what they'd been doing lately and what's the newest update about each member's mission as they all took turns in speaking.

finally, it was sunwoo's turn to tell the rest of his group about his latest mission. "let's all raise a toast." sunwoo stood up, grabbing everyone's attention with his voice and a glass filled with red wine in his raised hand, "we finally have a lead on what happened to sangyeon." sunwoo grinned widely at the astonished face the rest of the members were wearing except for a few members who already knew about everything.

soon, loud cheers and questions were thrown at him as he just chucked his drink down like water. the oldest in the dining area calmed down his members and asked sunwoo to explain what he meant.

sunwoo explained all of his planning and discovery of the girl in 5 minutes without going into unnecessary details. everyone listened carefully and soon everyone had another wave of shock at him saying they are holding the hostage captive. they went on asking about where she is now to which chanhee answered her whereabouts, "she is in the infirmary."

"I'm proud of you guys. really proud." jacob smiled brightly at the three main members responsible for the whole thing and they all grinned back proudly.

"We will continue interrogating her after dinner." Chanhee smiled proudly at the elders.

"Oh my god, can we join?" Eric asked, suddenly filled up with psychotic excitement.

"Sure," changmin chuckled at the youngest.

while the dinner table beamed with laughter, the little clinic had a suffocating girl in it, shuffling and pulling on the secured metals to set her free but to no use.

she harshly pulled on the cuffs as she tried to stand up with a bit of grumbling, but of course, she was pushed back to her back by gravity. panting heavily, Celine wanted nothing but to cry out loud to be set free. even when she had no energy, even when her throat was dry.

a little whimper made its way out of her lips as a lonely tear slid down her cheek. "no, this is not supposed to happen." she whispered to herself as more tears filled her eyes and made their way out. "no, no, no," she shook her head as she remembered where she was going to be if she was not caught. "charlotte. no." she whimpered as quietly as she could, shutting her eyes forcefully to delete any bad thought crossing her mind about charlotte.

a sudden swing of the door brought Celine to stillness. she opened her eyes wide open and quickly looked towards the door. "I brought you some food." the guy at the door let his words trail off at the sight he was seeing.

'Oh no,' was what he thought in his head.

Slowly, he walked up to the girl chained down on the hospital bed with a tray in his hands. After setting it aside, he looked at the wide-eyed girl.

"You.." She whispered in disbelief as she began recognizing him.

"Oh Jesus lord," whimpered a random guy out of pain as the cold bag of frozen beans gently touched his jaw.

"Motherfucker turned into a priest after a close call." The one on the other side of the room, seated on the cold floor and wrapping his ankle with a bandage, chuckled at the chubby form in a red T-shirt.

"Oh shut up Louis." He bit back at him as he gently dapped the cold material over his bruised areas.

"Still can't believe they got to us t like that." One in a black shirt chuckled bitterly as he put band-aids on his face, covering his wounds.

"I know, right? I thought we were in a strong gang everyone feared. But look what they did to my poor face." The chubby one groaned out of pain as he shook his head at the memory.

"Maybe we are not as cool as we think we are." The one in the black shirt, Chris, made a dumb statement that only fueled the leader's burning head that had to hear all of them bullshitting his gang.

"MAYBE IF YOU LOSE SOME FUCKING WEIGHT AND LEARN HOW TO RUN THEN MAYBE WE WOULDN'T HAVE FUCKED UP SO BAD." Finally, the leader in a white tank top screamed his thoughts and frustrations out at the three beings, muting them completely.

When he was met with quietness, which he's been longing for, he turned around and walked back and Fourth to find some sort of solution for his failed attempt at kidnapping his daughter. "Fucking slut slipped this time. I'll make sure she pays back that fucking bitch." He fisted his hands as his face turned tomato red out of anger.

"Exactly James! We'll get to them!" The guy in blue, Louis, shouted happily like a child.

The leader took a double look over his shoulder to make sure the sight of one of his grown-ass men did in fact act like a literal child. Once he was sure, he just looked in disbelief as the two other men also looked down at the seated guy on the floor with a wrapped ankle.

"This is awkward." The chubby guy sighed as he attempted to get up from his chair but his weight and gravity pulled him back on his butt, making the black-shirt guy laugh out loud.

"Oh god, what the fuck is this." The leader rested a palm over his forehead as he rethought every single decision he's made till now.