You are Our Habit

Chapter 3

[Minghao's POV]

Minghao didn't want to come back this early. He wanted to spend more time in practice room. He didn't want to face his members at all, atleast not today. But it's his manager who made him comeback to the dorm forcefully as he needed some rest too. Though for Minghao rest in dorm meant another hideout of his true identity. He tried to be as normal as possible but he could still feel the nervousness in his stomach, he could feel the shivers in his fingers and foots. By taking a deep breath, he came out from the car. Probably till now, the members already know the result and all of them got shocked. They might have felt so disgusted and dissapointed after seeing that Minghao was the only Omega in their group. They're probably waiting now on the couch to talk. Minghao started sweating. The scent was not disclosed right? he started checking for a while, the manager could clearly see how nervous and panicked Minghao was. Manager hyung went up to Minghao and put his one arm on his shoulder to calm him down. He's an Omega too, he's the only one who understood Minghao the most here. Minghao calmed down a little bit and finally entered the dorm after bidding the manager a final goodbye. He started walking in baby steps and saw the living room was empty. Nobody was on the couch. He left a sigh, probably the test result didn't come yet or they didn't get a chance to check it. He started hoping this two options to be true, exactly then Mingyu was going to the kitchen and stopped in between his track to look at him. Minghao frozed at his spot. Even though there's no reason to be afraid this much but Minghao couldn't help his overthinking brain. Mingyu looked at him from up to down and with a kind of surprised look said, "when did you come? We didn't get any sound. Btw, now that you're here, will you be eating lunch with us?"

Somehow with all those casual words, Minghao's fear melted away like an ice in super speed. He smiled awkwardly and said, "No I've eaten already with Manager hyung"

Mingyu shrugging his shoulder said "Okay" and went to the kitchen to probably grab something.

Minghao slapped himself for getting scared at such little things, he needed to maintain his composure to handle more tough situations now. He couldn't be a scared cat all the time. He proceeded towards his room when he saw all the members were gathered up at the table, some were bickering, some were whinning, some were busy eating, some doing gossips ....an everyday thing of Seventeen dorm. A smile came to Minghao's face, this is his family, his everything, he said in his head. He could never think of letting them down. He'd protect them even at his own cost.

Jeonghan saw Minghao standing there lost in his thought, he yelled,

"Minghao ya come eat."

Minghao got snapped back from his thoughts and said "I've eaten hyung, you all eat. I'll go wash up."

Mingyu came back from the kitchen with a bowl and said with a smirk "do you want me to wash up with you?"

"I'd better wash up with your Dad." Minghao gave his savage reply that made everyone clap at the table.

After closing the door of his room Minghao fell on his knees. He started gasping for air. His chest started aching again. For couple of days he's feeling this pain. It's said that if an Omega tried to hide their scent then the body would compensate it by affecting some other body part. It seemed that Minghao's body had chosen his heart in this scenario. Many times manager hyung told him to stop this hiding process as in long run it'd affect Minghao a lot, he might even die from it. But he just couldn't come up to the point where he himself could accept his true identity either. He, himself, felt disgusted with his own self how could his members be able to accept him.

Slowly by holding the bed, he got up and went to the washroom. When he came back the whole room filled up with a sweet refreshing scent, Minghao's original scent, that can make any Alpha go crazy but now it's mixed up with little distress smell as his pain was there. He hurriedly put on some chemical scent on his scent gland and immediately the scent got replaced by the strong smell of the chemical one. While rubbing it on his scent gland Minghao felt his chest hurting again. The pain was increasing but he needed to control it. After a while the pain started sliding down, maintaining his cool composure Minghao put on the comfy pjs and came out of the room. He went to have some water in the kitchen.

He was moving aimlessly while sipping the water from the bottle in the living room. It's empty still. Members were mostly at the table till now. While Minghao planned to sit on the couch to watch some Netflix, suddenly he saw the envelope, from the same hospital they gave blood, so the result indeed came. His legs started shaking again. Did the members not check it yet? Or was it something else? Thousands of thoughts started storming in his brain with fear engraved in it. Suddenly a hand came to his waist while hugging him from behind, it's not at all an unusual thing for him. But today it made him almost jump in terror as if it's ghost. Dokeyom got shocked too because millions of time he had hugged Hao like this, never ever he reacted like that. He removed his hands and made Hao stand infront of him while looking at his face he said,
"Hao is anything wrong? Are you sick?"

Minghao got so embarrassed with his behavior that he couldn't even look at Dk, he got surprised with his own behavior too. Somehow he managed to say, "I'm fine. Don't worry."

"Then why did you jump like that as if I'm a ghost?" asked Dokeyom.

"Probably you're a ghost." a savage reply came from makhnae Dino, that made Minghao laugh a little.

While Dino came behind Minghao and hugged him from back exactly like Dokeyom and there's no response like that before, rather Minghao extended his hand to ruffle the hair of the makhnae and squeezed his cheeks.

Dino said with an evil victory smile & smirk to Dk, "See, you get the love only if you give the love".

There came another round of small laughter sounds from members.