~<*>~ Music in me: seventeen fan-fiction ~<*>~

Chapter 26

"What do you think about it?" Dino asks the black-haired male laying in the hospital bed. After Minho left yesterday evening, Dino has been panicking and he fell asleep before he knew it. So the brunette decided to go to his leader for some advice. Although Scoups won't answer, it feels good to Dino to inform his friend about everything that has happened.
"It's just so much the past few days", Dino mumbles while he gently squeezes Scoups' hand, "They are dead, Scoups. And the worst part is that we don't know who exactly yet. Wonwoo is slowly breaking down, he tries to hide it but I can see it. He's having a really hard time and guilt is eating him up from the inside. I honestly don't know what to do anymore. And now Minho..." Dino stops for a moment to take the black-haired male in. If the leader makes even the slightest movement, Dino has to notice. But to his dissapointment, his friend is laying still.
"You never liked Minho, I could tell. And I hate to say it to you, but you were right", Dino smiles when suddenly, he tilts his head confused. Is Scoups smiling or is Dino imagining it all? The brunette sighs and continues.
"I think he may be the spy. And I feel so stupid because I should've known. He's probably the one who poisoned Hoshi and it wouldn't have happened if I didn't bring him there. Minho may be the bad guy, but I was the one who made sure that he could do what he wanted to do. Does that make me the bad guy as well?" Dino sighs sad and looks down. His thoughts are racing and he really needs someone to comfort him. He can't just ask Wonwoo to give him a hug or something, that poor guy is in some shit himself too.
"The things that Stray kids have said to me haven't left my mind either", Dino admits softly. The words of that Australian guy still appear in Dino's head at all times.
"Did yo-" Dino presses his lips on a thin line, he's almost too scared to ask his friend this kind of question, "Did you really kill someone?" Dino hasn't doubted Scoups at the beginning, but when he saw his leader shoot Hyunjin down, it made him doubt. Scoups looked so cold-blooded, as if it didn't hurt him at all. Did he do that before? The brunette looks up and he can almost feel Scoups looking at him from behind his closed eyelids. Dino can already imagine how he would respond:
"Are you doubting me?"
And to be honest, Dino wouldn't be sure whether to believe him or not. Scoups surely is capable of killing someone.
Everyone is a killer when you push them hard enough. Dino can hear the Australian's voice in his head and he has to fight the urge to shout at him.
"You know what? I'll ask you when you wake up, because you are. Don't leave me down, Scoups", Dino closes off the subject.
"But anyways, give me a sign if I should stop investigate on Minho", Dino says hopefull. Knowing Scoups, Dino expects the black-haired male to protest and tell him that he doesn't want Dino to put himself in danger, so maybe Dino can finally get a sign from his friend. He waits and stares at the hand he's holding, but nothing happens.
"You seriously want me to do this?" Dino asks surprised. When he doesn't get a reaction to that too, he let's Scoups' hand fall down on the bed.
"Allright, if you say so." Dino hasn't finished his sentence yet or two cops walk inside the room. Dino looks at them confused and stands up. One of the cops is holding handcuffs, are they going to arrest Dino? But to the brunette's surprise, the cops walk over to Scoups' bed and cuff the black-haired leader to the bed itself.
"Excuse me!?" Dino asks shocked. One of the cops looks at him bored before going back to work.
"A little explanation would be nice", Dino scoffs and he crosses him arms in front of his body. A cop sighs and turns around to face the brunette.
"This man is guilty of murder", he says annoyed. Dino looks at him surprised and let's the information sink in for a minute.
"Who did he kill?" Dino asks softly, maybe this is his chance to find an answer to the question that has been wandering in his head for way too long.
"A guy named Hyunjin", the other one sighs, Dino can tell that they were not meant to share this information.
"Oh", the brunette says dissapointed. Ofcourse Scoups killed Hyunjin, but Dino hasn't thought of the fact that Scoups would've get arrested for that.
"Did he murder anyone else?" the cop asks curious based on Dino's reaction.
"No, ofcourse no-, Can you leave him be? His in a coma, Jesus!" Dino yells when the other cop cuffs the other wrist of Scoups to the other side of the bed.
"We are just doing our job", he defends himself.
"He's in a coma! He won't run away!" Dino shouts and the cop standing in front of him places his hand on Dino's shoulder to calm him down.
"Maybe he will when he wakes up and no one knows when that will be." Dino sighs while the cop tries to reason with him.
"Can you at least release one arm? It's not like he's able to run away with one hand cuffed either", Dino mumbles and to his surprise, the cop listens. Dino nods thankful and the cops leave. The brunette stares at Scoups sad, this means that the black-haired male will be in jail when he wakes up. A red-haired male walks in and stops his track shocked when he notices the handcuffs.
"What the hell happened in here?" Jeonghan asks surprised. Dino sighs and walks over to Jeonghan to explain.
"Scoups is arrested for the murder on Hyunjin", Dino pouts. Jeonghan stares at his leader in shock.
"Shit", he mumbles and only then the realization hits Dino that this is bad news for the group. Whether Scoups wakes up or not, he still won't be able to defend his group. They are going to have to fight Stray kids without him.
"I guess you're the leader now", Dino says softly and Jeonghan almost doesn't react.
"Oh how I hate this world sometimes", is the only thing that the red-haired male responds.