j.a.n.g.m.i • jayhoon

s.i.x.t.e.e.n

Niki collapsed onto the wooden
floor of his home once the car dropped him off. It was midnight, his mother wasn't home and his brother had to deal with gang related things. He was alone.

He wanted to help his mother, but she
refused to let him get a job because of
academics. She knew it would be too
much to balance and handle to the point Niki wouldn't want to go to
school

He wanted to be apart of Mortala with
Sun, but Jay won't allow him to. It was unsafe for him. Sun can handle all the guns, drugs, the smell because he's been working with it since Niki was in middle school. He tried to keep involved in Niki's life as much as he can, but he had to always be kept on his toes.

The only main figures in his life were
Jake and Jay. Jake, who always took him to school, made him lunch, and got him ready every morning. Jay, who always lectured him, willing to tutor if he needed help, and kept him in check.

Niki held his chest, shockwaves of
pain reminding him of the man. It was still painful, but he had to get up.

"Niki, do you realize what time
it is?" Sun's voice somewhat calmed Niki's heartbeat. "I was calling you all day! If you were going somewhere after school you need to tell me or mama first. Why are you on the floor?"

"Hyung" Niki coughs, "Hyung
please, help me."

"Are you okay?" His footsteps got closer as Niki's head rested against the
cold floor. Too exhausted to move."..
You didn't get jumped again, did you?"

A pair of arms scooped him up, and held him up. His brother, short and
pale despite being the older, he was
much smaller than the younger.

The only difference is Sun had the eyes of their father, narrow and soft. Niki looked more like their mother, and Sun looked too much like their absent father.

"Jay hyung" Niki winces," Jay hyung might be in danger."

"... What are you talking about?"

Sun sat him down on the couch, seeing Niki wince painfully before laying down on the couch.

"...Some douchebags snatched me
when I was walking from school," Niki wheezes, scrunching his face.
"Took me somewhere. Some bastard
made me talk."

Sun's s eyes widened before he got
up. ".. No, no. I swear I made sure you
were clean in all your identification files and there's no evidence you had
anything to do with the Mortala," he
says. "Someone kidnapped you? Who?
Did you get a name? Anything? A face? Tell me what happened."

".. I-I ratted Jay Hyung out," Niki says,".. I'm sorry, I was- I... I didn't want them to hurt mama! Mama can't know or be apart of this! They have all our information and address. They know about Mama, they-they'll-"

"Niki!" Sun shouted, "I told you what to do if you ever got in trouble because of us! Please just tell me you
have any kind of identification? Who
took you? The police?"

"... No," he shook his head, "a man, he knows about Jake and Jay. When I didn't tell him, he kicked me. Kept asking me about why and how I knew them.."

"... We have to tell them," Sun sighed, "...Someone's getting onto our track. We don't know their motives."

Niki started to drift off suddenly,
his eyelids fluttering ".. Sunoo hyung... " he says.

Sun looked over at Niki before pursing his lips. "... We're staying at
Teok's for the night. we'll come home
in the morning when Mama gets back.
If they know our address, we're not
safe anymore. You're not safe."

"...He said the Mortala was dead to
him," Niki trailed off ".. He-He's gonna kill us off like the other gangs, isn't he?"