Second Time Around

Chapter 9.

CHAN POV

Chan stopped the car in front of the brick building before taking a look in the rearview mirror at Min-Sun. He watched as her eyes gazed towards the building, the stress blanketing her body, the fatigue spread across her face and the way she bit her lip.

"Minnie? You okay?" Chan had put his hand on her knee causing her to jump and look at him with wide eyes before relaxing and nodding. He squeezed her knee before smiling and following Felix who got out of the car.  Chan watched Felix pop the trunk, grab the suitcase, set it on the ground before closing the trunk. Felix rolled the suitcase towards the house as Chan glanced towards the back of the car where Jeongin was holding the door open for Min-Sun to get out. She took her time getting out of the car before she followed behind Jeongin to the house.

Chan walked behind them trying to figure out if this was some sick prank or if someone was seriously messing with her. It had made Chan upset that someone had shaken her up to a point to make her physically cry.  

Chan closed the door behind him and turned to watch as Min-Sun struggled to take her shoes off. Felix took her suitcase into the living room and placed it near the wall near the television. Jeongin noticed Min-Sun struggling and after he took off his own shoes, he helped Min-Sun take off her shoes before putting out some slippers for her. Chan took his own shoes off before joining everyone in the living room.

Hyunjin and Seungmin were sitting on the couch watching everyone with a bewildered look.  When all three of the boys were leaving previously, they passed the duo as they were heading up to the house.  Lee Know must have shown up at some point after they left because he was sitting on the ground near the coffee table. They all looked at each other before their gaze finally settled on Min-Sun.

She looked worse than what she did in the car. Looking at her closer her complexion was pale, and it looked like her eyes were glazed over. Anyone could look at her and see that she wasn't doing well, not matter how hard she thought she was hiding it.

"Hey Min, do you want to go take a shower? I can make you something to drink after you are done." Chan tried pulling her attention towards him. Her eyes glanced up towards his and the cloudy look in them had his chest tightening. They had finally pulled her out of a state that she was stuck in for so many months on end, and now they were going to have to start all over again.

"Do you want to use Felix's room? Grab some clothes and Felix can show you where it is okay?" She nodded slowly showing she heard him before she went to her suitcase and slowly pulled out some clothes. Felix was right behind her putting his hand on her back to guide her to his room.

Chan watched them disappear before going into the kitchen to put some hot water on. When Chan came back in, Felix had returned to the living room and was sitting to the right of Lee Know on the floor. "She taking a shower?" He watched Felix shrug looking back over to his bedroom door. He looked up to the door as well hoping that she was taking a shower and that it could give her some kind of relief. He turned his gaze back to the guys and saw Jeongin took the a seat to the left of Lee Know on the floor and Chan took a seat on the chair next to the Jeongin.

"Is anyone gonna explain why Minnie looks like that? And why she brought a suitcase?" Seungmin was the first to ask the most obvious question. He looked between everyone wondering what happened to the bubbly girl they knew a couple days ago. He wasn't the only one, Chan could see the way Lee Know was looking at Felix's bedroom door and he couldn't miss the way Hyunjin's jaw tightened.

"Her house got broke into. They broke into her house and they destroyed a lot of stuff. There was a threatening note on her bedroom door too. She was scared to death and crying when we got there." Jeongin started explaining softly looking towards Min-Sun's suitcase. Anyone could tell how hard this had affected Joengin. He was acting like it was all going to be okay for Min-Sun's sake, but he was just as deeply affected by this as her.