The sun brings me comfort

Chapter 10: Downfall

[TW: Child abuse, mentions of blood]

If any of these warnings make you uncomfortable than rather skip it, your health comes first💜

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Something was wrong, something was really wrong and he could feel his heart sink as each hour passed. His father had not returned when he said he would and he had been gone for about 12 days instead of one week but it wasn't the thing that made his whole body thrum in nerves.

It was the fact that he had not seen either of the three boys who crawled into his heart and since it was nearly time for the sun to set he knew they weren't coming again. He understood they had their own lives outside and that they probably had chosen to stay in their house instead of visiting him but he remembered Jungkook making plans for what they could do the next day which was the day before the present day.

Jimin and Taehyung also said they were going to see him probably a bit later by 10 minutes but they never appeared. It made him scared no matter how hard he tried to see reason in it and he knew that they were probably more than okay but it didn't lift the weight of his chest.

He didn't even care about the fact that he had not eaten in two days and that his water supply was also finished, all he cared about was if his friends were okay. His biggest fear was that they were finally caught seeing him and that they got punishment but he prayed and hoped it wasn't that.

Mang was tightly clutched in his arms as he stared at the window pressing his lips into a thin line. Something in his gut told him that his hope was supposed to decay into fallen hope that changes to fear but he tried to push it back as much as he could.

His friends needed to be okay, they were his comfort, his own personal sunshine and without them he feared that the darkness would overpower him completely making him blend into the dark grey walls.

"I'm scared Mang...." He swallowed the lump down in his throat but couldn't stop the burn starting in his eyes before his vision clouded. The first tears already clung to his lashline and he knew it was inevitable to stop the cracking in his chest before he finally let the cries and tears out.

He felt so....afraid and lonely which was a terrible combination to his state. He was scared about how long it would truly take for his father to return and if it meant that he was doing okay or not. So many things could be wrong and there was not a single thing Hobi could do to make sure any of them were okay which made a small sob tear out of his throat.

"Please be okay" He sobbed softly before he crawled back onto his mattress on the other side of the small room. He placed Mang down under the mattress where his beanie was before he crawled into himself only knowing how to find comfort by hugging himself. Hugging Mang only made him think of the boys and it hurt him more, plus he also didn't want to cover his soft plushy toy in snot and tears, it was better to protect the small plushy from seeing him at his weakest.

"Please be okay...." He whispered pressing his forehead into his knees before the sobs racked his body which made him lose almost all his energy.

Please....please please please....just one more wish

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It was like like fate had warned him that his small bubble of happiness filled with secrets was going to crash down. His nightmare was awful and it was his greatest fear of losing all three of his friends and he could see the blurry faces of people looming over the three young lifeless bodies as he was chained to something making him unable to hold them or try to save them from the fate he brought upon them.