Stay Strong Seventeen

Minghao

The airport was too crowded it almost suffocated everyone inside. The air too hot and thick and nobody knows exactly how this happened or why there was so many people but they couldn't complain either. People loved them here and it's just their way to show their love.

Seventeen walked through the crowd in a straight line. Bodyguards pushing people left and right trying to get them through without any harm while people were screaming and following them everywhere.

Minghao looked around, he tried to pass through the crowd and for a second, he thought that Joshua was behind him but he suddenly disappeared. His heart skipped a beat but kept going anyways following the guard in front of him.

Out of nowhere, someone approached him getting too close to his personal space surpassing the guard who was right in front of him. Minghao smiled, there was nothing else he could do at this point with her phone in his face. He nodded still smiling and focused on getting to the car as soon as possible.
She reached out to touch him ... if you don't know yet, that's a big No No

He still didn't react or say anything

She tucked on his jacket and he turned to face her nothing but a smile on his face as she started saying something.

The guard finally noticed and she pulled Minghao even closer to her seeing now that the bodyguard was on his way to her .
The big muscular guy got in between Minghao and the girl and ended up harshly pulling them apart

And she just wouldn't let let go
She wouldn't let go ... wtf ?

Minghao had enough, he tried to detach himself from her grip gently but the bodyguard suddenly started yelling at her and the girl was still hanging on to him like dear life.

"Please let go" Minghao calmly said before another security guard got there detaching the saesang away from Minghao with too much force.
The Saesang, in a last chance to grip onto Minghao, pulled him even harder towards her and Minghao felt a bit of a strain on his right side ribs until finally the bodyguard detached them from each other and quickly walked him to the parking area.

Minghao didn't think much about that tingling sensation and walked over to the bus.

"Freaking finally" he breathed in deeply looking for a place to sit among his members

He heaved in deep breaths "What happened are you okay?" He heard Hoshi ask and he flopped to his seat

"Saesang" he said and sighed suddenly wrapping a hand around his right side ribs and hissed

"WTF did they hurt you?" Seungcheol yelled from a few seats down

"I'm fine, she was harshly pulling me and the bodyguards were trying to detach her away and I got caught in between"

"A bruise?" Jeonghan asked from behind him and Minghao nodded "Most probably ... I'm fine though nothing serious I'm sure"

Jeonghan nodded patting Minghao's head from where he was sitting right behind him while Seungcheol looked mad. He glanced over the window as he waited for Joshua to finally arrive, he was pushed behind and the bodyguards recommended that they wait for a bit longer before they move again.

Joshua finally got in and the boy was panting too, sweat clearly forming on his forehead "Shua are we good?" Seungcheol asked and the boy nodded. Yes, he was okay just needed a second to catch his breaths and so did Minghao.

Once they got to the hotel, they quickly washed up and they were on their way again to check the area and the stage where they will be performing in a couple of days. Everyone seemed to be doing fine forgetting about what happened at the airport earlier. They were too used to it to keep thinking about it.
Minghao kept feeling that pinch on his right rib for a while. At first, it felt just like a muscle strain but as time went by, they were now back to the hotel, he laid down on the bed only to hiss loudly. He closed his eyes hearing Jun asking him what's wrong or if something happened.

Minghao sighed "I think it's more than just a bruise"
Speaking in Mandarin, his confort language, he sounded stressed out and in pain.
Jun run to his side on the bed "What do you mean what is it?"

"This morning at the airport when I got pushed around remember?"

"Yeah" Jun remembers of course "Show me where it hurts"

Minghao hissed again as Jun helped him reveal the painful truth he's been hiding all day under his baggy shirt.
He gasped "Hao it looks like you've been beaten up"

"I saw it in the shower I don't know Jun, it hurts and I can't move"

"Let me get the others, you probably will need an Xray" he sighed helping the younger find a more comfortable position before he run to tell Seungcheol and the manager.

He was soon taken to the hospital where he spent a few hours uncomfortably getting tested.
Seungcheol sighed in relief while sitting by Minghao's bed "I'm glad it's just a bad bruise Hao, I'm so sorry"

Minghao shook his head "No it's ... nobody's fault" he wasn't allowed to participate in the practice for the next two days until his bruise gets better but two days were too little for a complete recovery. So they decided to wait and see if he could dance or sit out during the performances.

Things were silent for a while, all what they could do for him right now was to give him pain killers, apply ointments and ask him to rest and not to strain his muscles.
He sighed trying to get some sleep, it was already dark outside and almost 9pm when they got back. He simply laid down and tried to rest but everyone knew just how frustrating it is.
To get injured right before a big day and by a fan or ... a so called fan was even more difficult to go through.
How can he perform for the same people who hurt him?

Jun sat by his side comforting him softly, Jeonghan too but Minghao didn't want to be pampered or to be taken cared of, he just wanted to slip somewhere dark and sleep it off. He wants to forget about it and just get better before the show in two days.