the doll | 2min

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"going out? just the two of you? do you want me to come with you?" bombarded minho as seungmin asked for permission. they are all currently gathered up in the living room. seungmin scratched his non so itchy cheek, he was hesitated to look at him, "i..i want to know more about my mom.. me.. my true self.. can i?"

minho sighed, standing up from his seat and went closer to seungmin, bending his knees to the ground then smiled.

"how can i say no to that? but, you barely know them, you just met them yesterday. i know they are trustworthy people, but im just afraid you'd be a little.. uncomfortable.. i would say?"

seungmin went silent. he knows what minho meant, and it's a true that he just met th yesterday, but things they mentioned about him and his mother means that they knew each other for a long time, and somehow he feels safe around those people.

"i think.. i would be fine.. it's only for a day.." he said and mumbled as he about to finish talking. minho smiled, "alright, i'll let changbin know and will send you off." as he was about to get up, seungmin stopped him by the hand, "uh.. i think he might be outside by now.. he told me he would pick me up at 10am.." he said. minho then looked outside, indeed there parked a car outside his gateway, waiting. minho smiled while nodding his head to seungmin, "okay, i'll send you to him." he stood up and walked away. hyunjin watched as minho's face changed right after he turned around.

seungmin on the other hand was having a mixed feeling. he was nervous, curious, excited, scared and you call it. he was too busy to think about himself that he didn't notice minho had already went to the front door, calling out seungmin's name, "seung? let's go, changbin is waiting."

as they met with changbin, minho just caressed seungmin's head and reminded him to be careful, "call me if anything happens, take care of him. be back before night."

changbin looked at minho then nodded, "okay. thanks."

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"how are you seungmin?" changbin asked as he drove. seungmin fidgeted his hands, "..im fine. what about you?" he asked thet made changbin giggled, "feeling awkward? haha, reminds of our first meeting."

"first meeting? yesterday?" asked seungmin

"no. twenty years ago. when we were five. remember?"

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"hi! my name is changbin, what's yours?" asked the five year old changbin to the lonely boy playing alone with the sand. the latter looked up at the boy who just introduced himself. then turned his gaze back to the sand he was playing with, "hello.. my name is seungmin." he said, almost whispering.

changbin smiled and crouched down next to seungmin, "oh, so your name is samin? how are you samin? im happy because teacher gave me two stickers! what about you? did you get any?" he asked, showing his stickers on both of his hands.

"uh.." seungmin was too overwhelmed with changbin's questions, he got confused on how is he going to answer him, "im.."

"here! i give you one of mine! only this time! i worked hard for this," said changbin, sticking one og his stickers thats to seungmin's hand, "see you tomorrow sangman!" changbin waved his hands and ran away to his mom that just came to pick him up.

"my name is seungmin..."

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"seungmin.." seungmin said out of nowhere, "my name is seungmin.." he added. changbin was confused at first then burst out laughing, "oh yeah! i called you different names multiple times for almost a month and u scolded me for it!"

unknowingly, seungmin let out a small laugh, "i got so annoyed and worried you'd actually forget my name.." he said and stopped talking. he was shocked at himself, "i remembered?" he asked himself. weird. he thought. "i clearly remembered what happened, the feeling, the atmosphere.. i..remember.."

"ah!.." groaned seungmin, clutching his head, hitting it multiple times as it started to pound so badly, his vision started getting blurry, noises fading away as he tried to gain his focus back.

"then how am i gonna go back mom!?" asked seungmin, panicked.

"you have to burn it seungmin. you will be fine. trust me." his mom reassured, grabbing both of his shoulders and look his straight in the eye. seungmin broke down into tears uncontrollably, "but.. what about you?" he whispered, grabbing his mother's arms. she just smiled softly.

"you will be fine."

"seungmin? seungmin!" called changbin as seungmin wouldn't listen to his calls.

"you will find your way back. be strong my son. live." his mom said one last time before transferring seungmin into a crocheted doll that his mother made.

"i love you my little baby." his mom said, hugging the innocent doll and threw it far away from her house.

"get out you witch! we don't need someone like you in this world!" yelled the neighbors, throwing pebbles and fires into her house. she slowly stepped out of her house and was ambushed by the people. she cried silently as her house slowly collapsed, burned down.

"go to hell!" the people started pushing and hitting the poor woman.

"mom..minho.." mumbled seungmin with teary eyes before passing out.

"shit!" without hesitation, changbin did a u-turn and called minho.