travellers || Woosan

14 | take me home

When Wooyoung has calmed down again sometime later, he finally realizes that he is in fact kneeling in some dead end corner of a shady part of his hometown while being hugged tightly by none other than Choi San.

In a way, it kind of startles him as soon as his mind is out of its overly emotional state. But in some very strange way, he does not want to pull away yet either. For one because it feels surprisingly nice to receive some amount of niceness from San and also because he is kind of scared to pull away and then having to face San as well. Very embarrassing thought to have to do so after they have just shared this exact moment with each other.

So he thinks about how to best do this instead while staying exactly where he is and soon after that, the decision is being made for him as San speaks up after noticing that Wooyoung has most definitely calmed down significantly and stopped crying.

"Wooyoung, why the fuck are you here?", he asks, using a much softer voice than he probably and usually would have. It sounds like he is only a little angry, but not necessarily at Wooyoung in particular. Right now, Wooyoung feels more like the situation itself is annoying San. But despite his exact choice of words to ask Wooyoung why he is here right now, San is still not letting go of him and he seems to have been at least a little worried about what happened earlier.

San himself of course knows that he was and still is a little worried. Sure, he might not like Wooyoung, but getting assaulted and touched like that earlier is something no one should ever have to experience. He can only imagine what Wooyoung must have felt like and the thought itself just hurts him so bad.

He was also not kidding about having alarmed the police earlier. Though he was twisting some things around a bit. He had taken pictures and sent them to a family friend who is working at the local police station. They have known San ever since he was a tiny little man and when San could tell him the exact names of the culprits and show him photo and video evidence of what they were trying to do to Wooyoung, they knew for sure that they would have to act fast. So the friend hid around some corners with some of their colleagues, to catch the culprits the moment they would leave Wooyoung and try to run off.

"I was looking for you.", Wooyoung somehow gets out, clearing his throat right after as he still sounded quite raspy from crying.

"You- what?!", San quickly and finally pulls away and looks into Wooyoung's eyes, his own widened in surprise. "Why the hell would you come all the way here to come looking for me?"

"Stop saying it like I came because I gave a shit. I didn't even know something was up until I came in for our mission and Seonghwa and Hongjoong were talking about how worried they are about you because you suddenly vanished.", Wooyoung answers, the backs of his hands now wiping his damp cheeks again, "So why the fuck do you not answer their messages? They are so incredibly worried and all over the place because they are scared that something really really bad has happened to you. Why are you not in class?"

San just gulps at that, honestly even starting to feel a little guilty about having worried Seonghwa and Hongjoong to an extend where they had to send Wooyoung out to find him. He actually cares about his Hyungs and he certainly did not want them to worry about him like that. He simply needed to get away.

"And why didn't they come here then? Just admit that you were the one worried about me.", San says and earns a slap against his chest in response. "Ah! You bitch-"

"I was also worried.", Wooyoung quietly admits, making San freeze and gulp in response. He was certainly not expecting to hear that from the younger and it makes him feel somewhat strange to be doing so now. "But Hongjoong and Seonghwa had to stay back because Seonghwa's parents are coming. So they sent me."