Where are you? [REVAMP] - HAECHAN

Chapter 10

The clock is ticking. Mark can hear the white noise that reminds him that Donghyuck is now getting farther away from him for every second that he spends with this stranger. He couldn't waste any more time.

"Who the fuck are you?" Mark came off strong, he was angered and was in dire need of truth to save his friend.

"Don't act so surprised, you know me" Opposite to Mark, that person is much calmer, answering his question like an old friend.

"I don't know you, who are you, and where the fuck is Donghyuck!" seeing Mark getting agitated, seems to have affected the person as well but not enough to make him flip, it was oddly calm still, or maybe it was the calm before the storm.

"Rest easy, he's here, always here with us" he reassured, looking him dead in the eyes to know what Mark is feeling.

"Then fuck, I want to see him, you're not Donghyuck dammit" The boy was frustrated, he was feeling all sorts of things, but most of it all was frustrated knowing that his friend is hurting and he couldn't do anything about it.

"Am I not your friend Mark? You are starting to break my heart" Mark looks at him in disbelief, the audacity of that person to say so.

"We have done so many things together, Mark. The tours, concerts, comebacks, practices, schedules, nobody knows the pain we shared, Mark. Only I knew, only Haechan knew" and Mark took a sharp intake of breath. So that's the person's name, the one that he has called countless, countless times.

"Haechan" he calls out the name.

The person smiles like he is finally being seen.

"Yes, hyung. It's me Haechan"

Fuck. He was cursing inside his head. He was in denial.

"I know you hyung. I know you so well, I can read you like the back of my hand. I was always there for you" Haechan wants him convinced, he saw the clashes of confusion from the look of his eyes. He was struggling to give in. He just needs a little push.

"Hyung, with all the time we have spent, isn't that enough for you to see me? This time, you need to let go" Hearing the last words, he hung his head low. He couldn't look him in the eyes anymore.

It hurts him. It hurts knowing that this person, Haechan, is the one who he will cry for when times get rough. He's the only one that he can see when his eyes are blurry with tears threatening to fall, the one he runs to escape from this world that has given him a tough time. He will run to him.

"Let go, hyung. Let go"

The words echo, should he do it? Once again, he looked into the eyes that seemed so desperate to be free.

And suddenly the wind blew a little bit stronger, and the curtains flew ahead, breaking the eye contact they both held for so long in that mere seconds.

"Hyung, you got to promise me"

A voice makes him recall, to the old days of him and Donghyuck spending a late night practice during the midsummer, the wind blew just like this, just enough to cool them both from the fiery spirit they both have on achieving their dream.

"What is it?"

"When we debut later on, I'm sure it will be a lot tougher, but during those hard times, I hope you don't forget that I'm always here"

Mark laughs at first and finds it cute how the younger one wants to take care of him.

"Of course, you will be here right by my side, like where on earth do you think you are going?" Mark asks bringing him over to his side, sitting next to each other.

"It just, we don't know what the future holds and I probably wouldn't be at your side anymore, but during those times just know I'm always here, just like this"

Mark just stares at the younger for a while before breaking a smile. Donghyuck, what I could do without you.

"I get it hyuck, I can always lean on you, yeah?" Mark put his head onto his shoulder, staring ahead at their reflection in the mirror in their practice room. Just two boys being so exhausted chasing after their dreams but it's comforting to know, they are not alone in this journey, they have each other.

"But only if you lean on me too" Mark continues and he feels a nod from Donghyuck as the younger rests his head against his.

After all these times, it has always been you Donghyuck.

"No"

The answer pierces through the silence. The desperate eyes that he was looking at turned to something else. It's raging.

"What do you mean, no?" Haechan asks, seething that his attempt failed.

"It wasn't you that was there for me, all these times, it was Donghyuck. For me, it was Donghyuck that I was leaning to, not you"

Haechan was stunned, for him, Mark was stupidly blind.

One that he couldn't help seeing anymore.

"Fuck you" he curses.

"Yeah, fuck you Mark. Do you want this the hard way? Sure, let's do that" Haechan was smirking, he couldn't care less anymore about whatever pain he was going to inflict.

"I give you the chance to have your closure nicely but you just have to blow it away. You deserve what's coming next" he continued and he could see Mark's eyes shaken.

The storm is finally here.

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Thank you for reading this far. The next chapter will be the second last chapter. I hope you can continue to enjoy it . 'Till then, see you!