travellers || Woosan

27 | fin : will

"... and really, that is why I wanted to apologize to all of you. I swear and promise with utmost sincerity that I did not know about all of this being a scam. I care too much about each one of you to purposely trick you like this and I hope you'll somehow be able to believe me when I say that I want to end all of this just as much as you do."

Seonghwa's head is hung in shame, the young man looking like he is close to crying from the amount of guilt that has been consuming him ever since finding out about his parents having tricked all his precious travellers into helping their selfish course. He is currently standing in front of them all, in their shared dorm. Hongjoong sits on the couch with Yeosang, San and Wooyoung both on the ground, at the foot of the piece of furniture.

"Seonghwa, you... why are you apologizing to us?", Yeosang asks his best friend. The two youngest members of the group simply nodding along to his questions as if wanting to indicate that they have just asked themselves the same thing. They were all called here by Hongjoong and Seonghwa, just to be let inside and then have Seonghwa hold some rather long speech about how he really did not know about anything his parents had been planning at all. He had trusted them blindly, which then ended up being one of his biggest mistakes to probably ever make in his entire life. He knows he regrets never questioning anything. He knows he will always regret that.

But the boys know very well that he would not purposely want to hurt them. Ever. They all know how much he has always cared about each and every single one of them.

Yet Seonghwa seems to be almost overwhelmed by his best friend's question, not at all knowing what to answer. He stammers some attempts of a response, his brain still working on making up the type of answer he wants to give to begin with. But before he can process anything enough to get out a proper sentence, Wooyoung is the first to get up on his feet and approach him. He wordlessly pulls Seonghwa into a tight hug, shutting him up altogether and gliding his hands over his back in an attempt at calming him down entirely. The older seems just a little taken aback, but hesitantly returns the hug just as tightly.

"We know you wouldn't purposely hurt us, so don't worry about us, please. We will be fine.", he tells him and Seonghwa just quietly nods into his shoulder.

San is the next one to get up, approaching the two and joining the hug as well. Yeosang follows up and Hongjoong simply smiles at the sight, happy to see that their boys are just as little angry as he thought they would be. He knew they would not be mad at Seonghwa. How could they even? It has been evident with each one of them, just how important they have always thought Seonghwa to be to them.

Once they break apart, they decide to actually talk about how to put an end to everything once and for all. They talk and talk until Wooyoung is the one to bring up a very important detail, once they talk about how they could ever secretly split up in ways that would not raise too much suspicion with Mr and Mrs Park. Luckily, Wooyoung had asked because he already had an answer ready as well.

"What?", Yeosang asks in disbelief.

"You heard me.", the youngest says, "Since this was all a scam to begin with, why don't we just ask the rest of the boys for help? Hiding all this from Yunho has been incredibly hard to begin with and maybe it does not matter much to Seonghwa and Hongjoong, but you two should understand me. You have had to hide this from Jongho and Mingi as well all this time. Have you never thought about telling them about Aurora? Your abilities?"

The discussion that follows is not really a discussion. Because it does not take the group long at all to finally decide on what to do and call their three friends. Seonghwa makes it very clear to them that without their travellers, his parents could not do shit, which in return, clears the stage for them to call the others and sit them down on the couch to then proceed to explain to them what has been going on. It takes longer than expected, has them staring back at their friends wide eyed, has them throwing question after question at them until pretty much every single thing that could have been asked, is being answered as well.