The Odd Doctor Out | A Drama | S. 5

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San had always known Mingi to be a bright, smiley kind of person. Even though he was a few years younger than him, he'd not always felt the difference, and very quickly, he'd become drawn to the way he was so unapologetically himself. Everyone knew Mingi. He was the guy who had transferred to their school mid semester and came out as gay on day one.

He'd been so starstruck with how incredibly brave he was, and since he'd only really told a few people about his own situation, he'd looked up to him. It didn't matter that he was younger. A quiet part of himself was happy when by chance, Mingi had been placed in his composite year class, and not only that, but he caught his bus, too. Making friends had never been easier.

He'd thought they were really close, the two of them and Seonghwa from the grade above. They were the most unorthodox group potentially in the entire school—the two gay guys and the straight senior that no one understood why he hung out with them, but still. They had fun, and he had really come to cherish their new friendships.

He wondered how he could have been so fucking dumb to have completely not realised that Mingi's erratic absences and vague explanations were hiding a sinister truth. He'd been doing it for months!

It started with a nasty looking bruise on his forearm that had been exposed when they were changing for sports class—just a bump against the vanity 🙄. He'd have had to be travelling at great speed for his bathroom counter to bless him with those shades of black and blue.

But he'd let it go—thought nothing else of it. Raised an eyebrow but believed him wholesomely anyway.

Then came another day off—an important one too. He'd missed their mathematics exam and incurred a fail, and the only explanation he had given, was that he'd missed the bus.

A part of him back then had wondered whether he had been scared to take the exam after he'd only recently transferred midterm...

But then he had cancelled on him and Seonghwa over the weekends, and then came the realisation that he never seemed to have any lunch to eat, and totally by accident, Seonghwa had discovered he had a job at a café alongside his school commitments...

God, looking back, it was all so fucking clear now. The job... Paying for his scarce lunches and his tuition—and no doubt saving up for the phone he hadn't had when he'd first transferred to their school—all the times he'd been pulled into the office... More than the average kid...

The bruises, the cancelling, the vagueness...

Leaning against his bedroom's door frame, he was staring into his room where his friend was sitting on the edge of his bed next to his mom, letting her dab ointment onto his lip and cheek, looking timid and embarrassed and all things he wasn't used to seeing on his smiley, happy friend.

A lot had happened in the hours since he'd brought Mingi home with him. Shy introductions, a trip to the doctor's office, a family dinner wherein it seemed Mingi had eaten the first real meal he'd had in years... Mingi had only had a two minute shower, but even when they'd insisted it was okay for him to take longer, the brunette had claimed he already felt bad, for he'd taken longer than he did at home... Apparently they had no hot water there...