Party of Eight

Daredevil

Italics used when English is being spoken.

Late November 2019

This winter was their last one in Korea before they'd be moving at the end of the school year.

Hyunjin was 16 now. It was mid Winter, but not too cold.

The triplets were 13.5.

They had a few days off of school and decided to go to the skate park.

Felix was trying to show off what tricks he could do, but Hyunjin was getting nervous just watching him.

"Yah! Felix... Slow down. You're losing your balance." He called.

Felix kept going, insisting he was going to do a flip next.

"And break your neck? I don't think so." Hyunjin yelled, running up to Felix, pulling him off his board and confiscating it.

"Hey! Give it back!"

"No. You're not doing flips."

"Why?!"

"Because I said so."

"Ugh. Fine. I won't do a flip then."

"Are you going to be careful?"

"Yeah!"

Hyunjin gave Felix his board back, thinking he actually would be careful now.

But it was only a few minutes later and next thing he heard was Felix's scream.

He immediately ran over to Felix.
He had tried to jump a ramp while spinning his board, but failed and skidded across the pavement, scraping his knee and elbow.

"Yah! I told you to stop that!" Hyunjin yelled while going to examine Felix.

Felix tried to stand back up, wincing in pain.

Jisung and Seungmin ran over too.

"Let's go home." Hyunjin said.

"I'm fine. It'll be okay in a second..." Felix said.

"Stop talking. We're going home." Said Hyunjin, who was obviously in a bossy mood.

Seungmin and Jisung glanced at each other in silent understanding that they should not make him any more angry.

Felix stood up, cringing. "Agh!" He winced.

"Just get on my back." Hyunjin said, pulling Felix onto him. "Grab the boards."

"Ok." Seungmin responded, grabbing Felix's and Hyunjin's skateboards.

It was a fairly short walk home normally, but with a person on your back, it felt much longer.

Once Felix's pain subsided, Hyunjin put him down, making him walk the rest of the way.

They got into the elevator and went up to their floor.

"Go get Minho hyung" Hyunjin said to Jisung, as they entered the apartment.

Jisung quickly ran to get Minho. "Hyung. Felix fell at the park. He cut his knee and it's bleeding..."

Minho got up, not at all surprised. Felix was always doing stupid stuff.

If anything, Minho was annoyed. "What did you do now?" He said as he made eye contact with Felix.

Felix kept his mouth shut, knowing that explaining would actually make things worse.

"Come in the bathroom. We'll need to wash that." Minho said, pointing at Felix's knee. "And that" he added, noticing his elbow was also skinned.