your eyes •yungi•

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MINGI

"oh my god, what happened after??" wooyoung said.

mingi shrugged, "we cleaned up, went to sleep, then in the morning he said that i should go."

mingis mind burned with the images of that night.

"damn.." seonghwa muttered.

"i mean, it hurt.. but i get it. i made him cheat on his girlfriend, but to be fair i mean she is an ass. why does yunho still stay with her??" mingi huffed.

"mingi where are you staying then?" wooyoung asked.

mingi stopped and stared at the sidewalk. he had ended up telling wooyoung, then seonghwa and hongjoong about what had happened at home. they told him to stop staying there, but at the end of the day mingi didn't want to disturb anyone so he ended up going back home.

"it's fine now." mingi hummed.

"mingi no it's not! he's a fucking rapist, i know it's your dad but fuck man." seonghwa snapped.

"hwa." wooyoung stared at him before seonghwa took a breath.

"mingi did it happen again?" wooyoung turned to him.

mingi didn't say anything, instead he stuffed his mouth with some of seonghwas gimbap.

seonghwa stood and pulled his phone out, then walked away.

"mingi, are you okay?" wooyoung asked.

mingi nodded, "i'm fine, really it's okay."

wooyoung shook his head.

"that's not true, don't lie to me mingi." wooyoung said.

mingi hated this, all of this. no he wasn't fine, but he didn't want people knowing that. who wanted to be friends or take care of the boy who gets touched by his dad every night when he thinks mingis sleeping?

who wants the boy who smokes and snorts to take away his problems?

no one.

wooyoung pulled mingi into a hug, and for a split second mingi almost fell apart.

"hongjoongs coming to get you. don't even bother saying no, you're gonna stay with him." seonghwa came back.

"schools not over?" mingi frowned.

"so what? mingi you need a break." seonghwa walked over and kneeled in front of him, then grabbed his shoulders.

"it's okay to not be okay mingi. so just go with hongjoong, eat some food, and be not okay."

mingis eyes slightly watered as he looked at seonghwa, then wooyoung and nodded.

hongjoong arrived ten minutes later, which was kind of concerning since he lived near his college campus that was damn near twenty minutes away.

"we'll come over later okay?" wooyoung hugged mingi.

mingi nodded, he went over and sat in the passenger seat of hongjoongs car then watched as he talked with woo and hwa.

wooyoung hugged hongjoong, then seonghwa and joong kissed before the two high schoolers walked into the school and hongjoong got into the car.

"i'm the only single one in our group." mingi laughed.

hongjoong snorted, "yeah, weird huh?"

"mhm, jongho and yeosang are still going strong right?" mingi said.

mingi and yeosang didn't really talk a lot, but they were still friends. jongho and yeosang were always with each other too, so it wasn't really a surprise when they started going out back in the summer of ninth grade.

"very strong, five years soon i'm pretty sure." hongjoong hummed, merging onto the highway.

"that's nice. you and seonghwa okay?" mingi asked.

hongjoong nodded, "well mostly. we had a small fight a few days ago."

mingi frowned, "what happened?"

hongjoong slightly laughed, "i was drinking and he told me not to when i have classes the next day and to save it for the weekends."

"how did he find out?"

"seonghwa is really spontaneous sometimes, he randomly comes over to my place ever since he got a key and even before that. i was watching some random show while drinking and he came over." hongjoong said.

mingi nodded.

"do you still drink like you used to.?" mingi asked.

hongjoong shook his head.

"i try not to. it's hard though, quitting a habit you've had for so long." hongjoong said, "i'm getting better though." he reassured.

"that's good." mingi smiled.

•

"so what's up?" hongjoong asked, they had arrived back at the olders apartment and were sitting on the couch smoking after eating some chicken.

"i don't know what to do anymore, joong-ah." mingi sighed, laying his head back onto the couch and squeezing his hands together in his lap.

"my life is shit right now, it's always been. but now it feels like i just made everything worse. what am i without yunho? if we stop being friends then what's the point?"

hongjoong clicked his tongue, "mingi-ya, don't say that."

"it's true. i'm not close with the group like everyone else is. sometimes i feel like things would be better off without me." mingi admitted, a slight tremble in his voice.

"mingi, the group loves you. we all do, you see how woo is with you and hwa and me. you just met them about a year ago, just give everyone time to come around, don't say things like that." hongjoong said, sitting closer to mingi and wrapping his arm around his shoulder.

mingis eyes burned, he couldn't cry. crying was for girls.

"mingi, it's okay to cry." hongjoong said softly.

and that broke mingi, because he was in sobs for the next hour.

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