Midnight Star

12 . Unfold

Chan didn't like the idea of spending the night at Han and Changbin's place, not because he didn't like it, but because they always gathered at his place, for sleepovers, dinners and celebrating anything between them.. but now his home is 'hazardous' that's what they say... His home was once the safe space for him and his friends and now a home for his dreams... but it's all gone. And the worst part is that no explanation was given to him, just stay away for a day or two to make sure there's no leaks. His home is run over by police and men in hazmat suits...

Chan really wanted to believe it's a leak of some kind, not what Changbin and Han are saying, he doesn't want to believe that Hyunjin caused it...

They say he was hiding somekind of fireworks or light bomb and used... why?... they say he wanted to run away after, that's why he was wearing a white wig hoping to blend in the crowd and disappear... why?...

Why would Hyunjin do that?

Fake amnesia and destroy someone's home and work, why? He doesn't even know the boy, or does Hyunjin knows him and for some reason hates him... but again why would someone do all that, he took him to the police station, they took him to a hospital. It simply doesn't make sense...

Chan saw him fighting off nightmares, he saw him vulnerable and alone, he saw him lost and wanting to belong somewhere... Chan saw all that in Hyunjin and he believes it. Something isn't normal, it hasn't been since the boy walked out of the tree lines and into his life, he can feel it and just didn't want to believe it...

"Hey... you should sleep for a bit."
Han spoke gently getting Chan out of his thoughts, he sat beside him, Chan can tell how freaked out Han is and he won't blame him but he won't blame Hyunjin too..

"I know what I saw, Han. But I don't know what to believe"
Chan sighed and rested his back on the couch, he didn't wanted to sleep, he wanted to understand.

"We all know what happened... and we will find him and make pay for this... I don't know why you didn't make me report him."
Changbin spoke in anger coming to sit on a chair beside Chan.

"Because it doesn't matter."
"He destroyed your place."
"It's just windows and stuff that can be easily replaced."
"Keep telling yourself that... do you really not see the real damage."
"I KNOW"
Chan shouted and got up walking away from both of them..
"No one will come near my café again, I know that... it ended before it even started..."

There was silence for a while no one wanting to dare and break it

"I can't believe Felix really went after him... I know he's kindhearted but I didn't know he was that stupid..."
"Hey.."
Chan turned to Han stopping him from whatever he was rambling about, Felix wasn't stupid cause Chan too would have run after Hyunjin if he wasn't frozen in shock.
"I can't believe he turned off his phone too ... like what are we supposed to do now, that freak could hurt him if he caught up with him and we won't know... that freak..."
"Changbin stop calling him that... he won't hurt Felix.."
"Yea?!... like when you guys believed he can't do anything... look what happened now."
Chan turned away from them and looked out the window hoping to see Felix showing up

"That light... that explosive light... I saw it..."
"We all saw it Chan."
"No... I saw it before.."
Changbin confused got up and stood behind Chan
"What do you mean?"

Chan can say that he saw it in a dream the night before, the light was radiating from Hyunjin, just like what happened in reality, he saw it radiating out off Hyunjin in his bedroom. Hyunjin didn't use something to cause it but he was the cause of it... still doesn't make sense.

"When I went upstairs to get Hyunjin... I saw him standing by the window... that light... it was like..."
"Like what?" Han asked getting up besides them
"Like it was coming from him.."
"What?!"
"I know it doesn't make sense but I know what I saw.."
"You saw nothing... he was holding something most likely and you didn't notice it."
"He wasn't holding anything... he was standing by the window and that light was radiating from him... his hair was white and even his eyes seemed to be ... just white ... glowing.."
"So it's easy for you to believe that the boy is a walking explosive lantern than believing that he made all that up."