You are Our Habit

Chapter 4

The exact moment Minghao got in his room all those sounds and noises of the table became total silent. It's hard for them to pretend like nothing happened when actually something had happened. Minghao's shocked and terrified face didn't leave Mingyu's head. That's the first thing he shared with the members in a very low tone. Everyone got worried more.

S.coups said again in a very low tone so that no words could reach to Minghao's room, "As I said earlier, he's scared. He'll be more scared by seeing that envelope."

"Hyung.."

Vernon couldn't control himself so he just called him in his normal tone and everyone started hushing him down. He realised his mistake and continued to say what he wanted to say in a low voice,

"Hyung the Google says that if an Omega tries to hide their scent then their body compensates it with another organ by affecting that organ. Now that person will not understand which organ is at stakes until it's very late. There're many news of how this damaged someone's legs, someone's brain, someone's hands. Hyung  We've to stop Minghao hyung."

Everyone became dead silent.

S coups started shaking his head while looking at the table, "this is exactly why I told you all to be gentle with him, he is already bearing a lot of pain that we don't even know about."

Wonwoo, Seungkwan and Woozi had tears in their eyes. They're not at all the crying members of the group but when they had tears it meant the situation was way worse than anyone expected. The guilt of not knowing Minghao started killing all of them badly.

When Minghao came out of that room everyone again started to pretend that it's a normal day in Seventeen dorm, but not long after when they saw Minghao froze at the living room, they understood he saw the envelope. Dokeyom couldn't stop himself from giving some support to Minghao by hugging him from behind, which Minghao used to like a lot. But that shocking reaction made him stunned too. Now he understood why their leader told them to be very gentle, even one little wrong string could be the reason of huge damage. Luckily, Dino handled the situation quite well.

While Minghao was still busy messing the makhnae's hair, Jeonghan and S. Coups came in the living room.

"Minghao ya, do you have any schedule in the evening?" Jeonghan asked.

Minghao thought for a minute and said, "No hyung, I don't have any."

"Great, I don't have any either, so we'll watch a movie okay?" Jeonghan said excitedly.

"Okay" Minghao smiled.

"Why I'm always excluded from plans like this?" Dino said with a pout, still hugging Minghao tightly.

"Ya because you've to practice...you don't have a free evening like us." Jeonghan said.

"But I want to stay, with this hyung." Dino started pointing at Minghao.

"Now that you're hugging him you think you can take side?" Jeonghan started bickering.

S. Coups stopped both of them unless it'd continue for hours.

"Umm, I've to go to the company too, we've a meeting at the evening. Before that I wanted to say this, Minghao, I've told the company unless you approve we won't disclose the results to our fans. So Don't be worried."

S.coups said it so casually that most of them didn't even get the hint what he said, they didn't even expected him to say it so casually, then he proceeded to grab his phone which he left on the table of the living room.

Even in that fraction of seconds, Dino was able to feel that sudden shiver in Minghao's body exactly when Coups hyung mentioned the result. He hugged him more warmly by placing his head on his nape. The moment Dino had learned his Minghao hyung was in pain he couldn't think of letting him go. He wanted to always hold him to make him comfortable. He wouldn't be able to loose anyone.

At first like everyone else, Minghao also couldn't decipher what Coups hyung actually said but when his brain was able to figure it out it made him scared again. They all knew it, they all knew it already. He could feel the tears in his eyes, he could feel his body becoming numb, his hands turning cold and that he was unable to say anything. After a long try, when Coups hyung was almost out of the room, he managed to say,

"Hyung.."

That nervous, painful, sad Hyung broke everyone's heart. Everyone looked at Minghao and saw that painstricken face. They never thought he'd be in so much pain yet he was.

Coups stopped in his trail and turned back. Minghao was not even looking at him, he was looking at the floor and tears were running down from his eyes. Even though Dino was still hugging him from behind but that warmth was doing nothing to comfort him.

"I'm sorry....."

Jeonghan couldn't stop himself anymore, nor Dokeyom. Both came to hug Minghao and said, "what are you sorry for? It's not a crime to be an Omega."

They all started giving him warmth as much they could.

Then Coups came closer, placed his hands on Minghao's shoulder, made him look at him, "What are you sorry for?"

Minghao wasn't in the state to face Coups hyung and answer the question, his vision kept getting foggy with tears, but he still managed to say while fumbling a lot, "You....all...must be disgusted with me....our fans would be disgusted...."

Coups tightened his hold and said with a firm voice, "Minghao, you lived for so many years with us and you still think we'd find you disgusting just because you're an Omega?! You know, I've never seen a hardworking artist like you who maintains work at both country and never takes break. I've never seen a great dancer like you either. And most importantly you're a great person Xu Minghao. Your sub gender doesn't define your capabilities, your talent does. So stop being harsh on yourself. The only thing I need your sorry for is that you lied to us, you hid your own scent so that we could never tell, you hid your heat periods too. You never trusted us, for that I need sorry, not for this silly matters."

"I'm sorry hyung.....I'm really sorry...." Minghao fell on his knees crying. Dino, Jeonghan, Dk kept holding him, all of them are crying too.

"I thought, I'm the disgusting one....I thought all of you will just give me sympathy for my disgusting existence....our fans will hate us too.....I didn't want to do it Hyung, ....but I was very scared.....I'm very scared.....I ....I ....didn't want to dissapoint you....our company.....our dream.....ahhh"

Suddenly Minghao could feel the chest pain again, continuous crying probably had put some pressure on the chest. He placed one hand on his chest and tried to take breathes.

"Is it hurting? Are you okay Minghao ?" Jeonghan became concerned.

Minghao could only nod.

Wonwoo came in, sat in front of Minghao, and said, "Hao, we all love you no matter you're an Alpha, Omega or Beta. It doesn't matter. Even if you're a zombie we'd still love you. You and disgusting can't live in same sentence, no way. Please stop being harsh on yourself, we're always here for you, we'll always be there with you. We might be Alphas but we don't lack emotion either. We all saw a dream together right? We'll complete it together too, nothing can change that. We're family remember, and families always love each other."

All of them came for a group hug. Minghao was still holding his chest. But he felt warm, so warm that nothing crossed his mind. No worries, no bad thoughts, no judgement, no fear...nothing. It's a complete peace. The peace he always wanted, where he could be himself totally, where he felt free, he felt being himself again. Finally a weight lifted off from his chest. His members didn't hate him. His precious family would always be with him.

Under all the weights of the members, he somehow managed to reach his scent gland and rub it off. All of a sudden, a very refreshing like sea breeze, sweet, chocolate kinda scent filled up the dorm. Members, who were still hugging him, became very happy that finally they're able to give him the comfort he needed. Then they all started to inhale the most sweetest scent they ever smelled with tears in eyes.

But what everyone tried to ignore that moment that something in that room shifted just after the scent came in, all of their Alpha instincts started getting awakened, that Minghao had no knowledge of.