You Never Walk Alone

Chapter 17: Hope?

"Hey, Hosu hyung, how about you come over to play today?" Hoseok suggested.

"Yeah sure." Hosu nodded, it had been a week since he moved to Seoul and made friends with the Baeks, and he thought of them as very good friends, still he hadn't been to their house because he was busy with moving-in stuff.

They walked home together, like they usually would, and then Hosu quickly changed his uniform, informed his mother that he was at the Baeks and then ran over to their house.

He knocked on the door and immediately it was opened by a housekeeper, who called for either one of the boys to come and take Hosu inside, Jimin came running and started dragging Hosu along with him to his brothers' and his room, Hosu greeted the other four boys and then looked around the room, he was amazed by the room's size, there were a lot of games to play, but they were stashed away in a corner and had a very visible layer of dust on them.

"Why do all your games look untouched?" Hosu asked.

"Oh...uh... well, we just don't like them so..." Namjoon replied.

Hosu nodded, and then they all began playing games and having fun.

"Let's play UNO!" Jin suggested.

"Okay, hyung, I'll bring the cards." Hoseok said and went to get the cards, "Hyung! The drawer is stuck again!" He complained.

"Ugh, not again." Jin groaned, moving to get up.

"Hyung, if you don't mind, I'll go and help Hoseok out." Hosu offered.

"Really? Thanks bro." Jin laughed, the other boys in the room cringed.

"Don't ever talk like that again, it doesn't suit you, hyung." Jungkook spoke.

Hosu chuckled and then left to help Hoseok out, after the twelve-year-old got the UNO cards, the slightly older boy shut the drawer with a little bit extra force, making a photo frame kept on the bedside drawer -that he failed to see- fall, he quickly picked it up, and froze with widened eyes as he peered at the picture, it had eight people, all of which Hosu recognised as, Mrs.Baek, Jin, Hoseok, Namjoon, Jimin, Jungkook and-

"It's...uh...a family photo from six years ago." Hoseok began explaining, "These two boys are-"

"Yoongi and Taehyung." Hosu breathed out, cutting off Hoseok.

The Baeks' eyes went wide, "Y-you k-know them?!" Jungkook exclaimed.

"Yeah...Yoongi was my best friend back where I used to live." Hosu answered.

"Where did you live?!" Jimin asked frantically.

"Daegu.'" The thirteen-year-old replied.

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"H-hyung...I-I'm c-cold..." Taehyung spoke with clattering teeth, it was freezing outside but sadly, the two had no means of warmth, the abandoned house they lived in had no windows -all of them were broken- and it had some big holes in the roof, and since they had ran away from The Master's house with nothing but two sets of clothes, they did not have a blanket or anything to use as one.

"I know Taehyung-ah, but we can't do anything." Yoongi sighed.

The eleven-year-old scooted closer to his older brother and hugged him tightly, and that's how the two boys slept, hugging each other like koalas to try and save themselves from the unforgiving cold.

They didn't know what they'd do if it snowed, and judging by the weather and the small bits of weather reports they'd heard on their way back from school, it would snow soon.

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Surprise, surprise, the next morning, when they woke up, they were covered and surrounded by snow. Still, they got up and rushed to their school, only to sit in the principal's office for thirty minutes because they hadn't paid their monthly fee, they were getting a permanent suspension.

The boys walked back to the abandoned house in a saddened mood, only to reach their and find a crane stationed there, the house was getting dis-assembled. The two sighed, quickly grabbed their stuff and then wandering around the city, they found a small shed like thing near the river they could live in.

Their life just kept getting worst and they were sure they weren't strong enough to handle any worse situations.

A/N:

Yuh this is really short but I just had a swimming competition and my older sis' birthday is like tomorrow so consider this a filler chapter. I'll try writing some longer chapters.

-Echo