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As Jooyeon returned back to his room, sobbing freely with tears streaming down his cheeks, he immediately was comforted by Jungsu, who hugged him and hid his face in his shoulders. Jooyeon's hair was cut unevenly, also quite careless about his skin, as his face as well as his neck were full of scratches, bleeding massively; His face looked as if he was dipped in blood. All the blood was now stuck to Jungsu's everyday clothes, but that interested him the least at the moment. "Oh, baby.." he sighed with tears in his eyes, remembering the time of his first punishment.

Jungsu always has been an honorable student. The first year he spend here (he was fourteen back then), he was loved by all the teachers. As he turned fifteen, he fell in love with a fellow schoolmate, Gunil. And at the age of sixteen, their relationship got revealed as Gunil's former roommate snitched on them by taking a picture of them while they were secretly kissing. After the first two years of staying in the boarding school Jungsu was punished. He wasn't allowed to sleep for a whole week; Spending the whole week in isolation, he was forced to take off his clothes. It was winter back then, so spending a whole week in the basement, naked, wasn't really warm.

And everyday there would be someone entering the room, cutting deep inside his torso and then smudging their cigarettes inside the wound. Jungsu wanted to give up, he really wanted to. His mind gave up but his body didn't. They didn't bring him food, nothing. Just one small water bottle and it was supposed to hold out for that whole time. Ever since then, he had to take conversion therapy. It was horrible.

"You did it.. I'm here, baby, it's alright.." Jungsu whispered, his voice absolutely shaky. It hurt him so much to see his friend cry and suffer like that. Jiseok, who then entered the room, seemed to think about what happened, before he was able to understand the situation. And for the first time in weeks, he silently pleaded Jungsu to let go of the crying boy in order to hug him. Jooyeon was startled by the person that hugged him, as things were supposed to be awkward, yet it wasn't as bad. He was actually relieved subconsciously, yet he wasn't able to feel that right now; The only thing he felt was agonizing pain.

"It's okay.. You'll be okay.."

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