Straykids OS (Book)

scared little boy pt. 3

Ship: Hyunjin X Stray kids
Little Jinnie: Age before: 2-4 Age after: babyspace - 1 ½
Triggers/Warnings: trauma (thats why hes scared - makes sense, right?)

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When they got there, which turned out to be the kitchen, five other young men were sitting at the table, and when they saw him, they all looked at him with sparkling eyes. 

Hyunjin eyed the other five until he was pulled closer to the table by his hand. "Come on, let's eat, we'll go back to the living room later and we can talk there, okay?" Hyunjin nodded and let the still unknown man pull him to the table. While the seven fell into a simple conversation, Hyunjin felt like an intruder and was about to grab his things and flee. However, one of the others seemed to notice this immediately and pointed it out to the others, who all looked at him until Chan took everything in hand and started to build a conversation with Hyunjin, since Minho said that they would only do that in the living room, but right now it seemed to be the perfect opportunity to make Hyunjin feel a little more welcome. 

"Hyunjin? Would you like to tell us something about yourself? We'll tidy up in the meantime, so you can just sit on your chair and tell us what you think is important for us to know at the moment, okay?" Hyunjin looked at Chan for a while until he slowly nodded. He waited until they had collected the plates, however, as they make the most noise and when that was the case and the seven were all scattered around the kitchen and cleaning something else, Hyunjin started to speak. "Uhm... My name is Hwang Hyunjin, I... I'm 22 years old as of today..." Hyunjin's eyes immediately welled up with tears again when he remembered all of this, the others turned around immediately as they could only understand half of what Hyunjin said.

Minho and Chan looked at two of their boyfriends, who understood and ran towards the boy who was now crying quietly, one on the left, the other on the right, and they hugged him. "Shhh... Would you repeat what you just said, please..." asked one of the two, Hyunjin raised his head a little and looked the boy to his left in the eyes. "I turned 22 today..." The two of them immediately understood what he meant, but they didn't understand why he was saying that, but they quickly remembered where they found Hyunjin and so they simply hugged him.

"Would you like us to celebrate your birthday from today this weekend, hmm? We'd love to do that, but we need to know if you even want to, okay?" said the boy to Hyunjin's right. The others were now sitting at the table again and so Chan spoke up again. "Hyunjin, let's go to the living room, okay? We can all sit more comfortably there and then we can talk about it, okay?" Hyunjin just nodded and wiped the tears from his face, but you could still see all the pain, sadness and everything else that Hyunjin felt in his eyes. It broke the seven's hearts to see him like that. 

Yes, they don't know Hyunjin, but just from how they got to know Jinnie, Hyunjin seemed to be a loving person. Whoever hurt him like that and, above all, frightened him should be buried alive. When they arrived in the living room, the two boys from before sat down to the left and right of Hyunjin and hugged him. "Okay... if we understood correctly, it's your birthday today... I don't know if it's a good time to congratulate you now, but I agree with the two of them that we could celebrate it again if you wanted to..." Hyunjin, however, quickly shook his head.

He doesn't want to celebrate it ever again. How can he be happy on a day he should be happy, when he managed to save himself from death on that day? Just thinking about it made him start crying again and everyone was scared. Why is he crying when it's his birthday? And why doesn't he want to celebrate it again? Chan nodded in understanding and so Hyunjin tried to calm down and tell more about himself. 

"Uhm.. there is... there was a thing I did to deal with stress and everything.. I don't know if you know it, but I'm an age regressor..yeah.. that's it.." He said and lowered his head. "Hey, why did you say 'there was'?.. When we found you... you were in your headspace.. you were so scared that you hid behind your suitcases, but you came out of hiding when Channie's name was mentioned.." one of the other boys mumbled a little further away from Hyunjin. Chan looked at Hyunjin who was staring at him with wide eyes, but it wasn't a look he wanted to see. 

Hyunjin looked at him completely scared until he completely burst into tears and mumbled things that neither the others nor Chan himself understood. "Please... please don't lock m-me away... please... I... I-I can't do this a-again!" Minho stood up and picked Hyunjin up as he left the living room to talk to Hyunjin alone. When he arrived in one of the others' rooms, he sat down on the bed with the distraught boy and tried to calm him down. 

"Hyunie.. hey look at me.. look at me.. you have to calm down now, okay? Shhh... look at me.. listen to my voice and breathe in and out deeply, okay? Shhh.. it's all okay... shh... none of us are locking you up somewhere or anything. We found you in your headspace, yes, but you were incredibly cute. And the fact that you were attached to Chan isn't bad, how would Jinnie have known that we weren't a threat to him if he didn't knew Channie's name through big Hyunjin.. I promise you, everything is fine.." Hyunjin clung to Minho and started to calm down. 

"Shh.. do you want to tell me what happened? And why you haven't been in touch with Chan for so long?.. We want to understand, because we were very worried about you even though we didn't know you." Hyunjin looked at Minho with big eyes and then nodded slowly. "C-can we go back to the others? Please?.." Minho nodded with a gentle smile and stood up with Hyunjin in his arms and walked back downstairs to the living room, he sat down next to Chan with Hyunjin on his lap. 

However, before he could start talking, Hyunjin did so. He looked at Chan and said "I'm sorry.." he then looked at the others and repeated it until they understood what was going on. "I'm sorry.. I didn't want you to worry about me, especially since you don't even know me.. the reason why I couldn't get in touch for the last t-three years was..." 

tbc.

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Sorry not sorry! Please someone answer me!! Where are y'all going?! 

See ya in part 4 of 'scared little boy' 

Bye bye.

Tayla♡