Minchan: Fighting The Storms With You

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"I can help you to see Minho." Seungmin said.

I looked at him with surprise. 

"What do you mean?"

"When we were still close... Minho used to sneak out of the mansion. I never went with him. But I have a little idea as he used to brag about it a lot. I think I can figure it out if we go there."

"Let's go today."

"No...not at night...Let's go at noon."

"Why?"

"Haven't you noticed? Minho...when he talks about any interaction with the monster...its always at night? If we go at night, we will have to face him. If we go in the morning...that also leaves a chance of facing him...so noon is the perfect time."

I nodded.

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So the next day, at noon, we went to the mansion. The mansion had wall around it.

We obviously couldn't go through the main gate. Seungmin took me to a place where he had previously  waited for Minho to come.

That place had a few stones and was a little high, making it possible for us to jump over the wall.

On the other side, we were met with a little jungle type area- there were trees and weeds and huge grass all around. No one surely didn't come there.

Right after that jungle portion there was the Mansion. It was a two story building.

Seungmin told me to follow him. We went towards the only window from the second floor. Now the question was how the hell were we supposed to get to the second floor.

"Man...when he bragged about it...i thought he was just making it up." Seungmin broke the silence and started to look around.

"Didn't he say how he did it?"

"Here..." He pointed at a tree. The tree was kind of short and had a lot of branches. And one of its branches reached to the window.

"You can climb, right?" Seungmin asked.

I nodded.

So we climbed the tree. He was the first one to do it. The window was luckily open. I climbed in after him.

The window didn't led to Minho's room. It was a study room. Seungmin leaded the way. We got out of the room and were now in the corridor.

"Do you have any idea where his room is?" I whispered.

"No but its on the second floor."

So we walked quietly through the corridor. And checked all the rooms one by one. None of them were Minho's.

Then we stopped in front of a quite big door. The door was bigger than the others. And there was another one like this one, but on the complete opposite side of the corridor. We opened the door.

But it was empty.

Something told me that the other one must have him. So I rushed to the other side of the corridor. Seungmin was behind me.

"That must be Mr.Lee's room. I saw some clothes and other stuff..." he said.

Now, we were standing in front of the other door. It was locked from outside.

I turned the knob slowly and opened the door.

The first thing that came into my vision was a bed and a half naked body laying there motionless.

I went closer and gasped. Seungmin let out a long sigh.

Minho was laying wearing a oversized shirt that was not his. His legs were tied together with something that looked like a sock. His hands were tied together with a neck tie. His eyes were covered with silk black fold.

Most of his legs were naked and they were filled with bruises. They were of different colours- pink, purple and blue. There were marks of teeth and hands. His cheeks had signs of tear that were now dry. His lips were swollen.    

He was laying motionless, taking deep breaths.

I went into the bed and slowly touched his cheek. He stirred up suddenly and started to tremble. He then sat up.

I reached for him.

"Minho it's me...Chan..."

And tears started to roll down. He said nothing.

I started to untie the fold, the necktie and the sock.

He said nothing. He was in a daze, tears kept falling but he said nothing.

Seungmin handed me some clothes. I carried Minho to the bathroom that was attached to his room. I took a wet towel and cleaned him up as much as possible. I tried to help him wearing the clothes. But he shook his head. So I left him in the bathroom and came out.

"So how do you wanna take him out? Can he climb down?" Seungmin asked. 

I nodded.

Minho came out. His face was expressionless.

"Minho, you are getting out of here with us." Seungmin said.

Minho nodded. Then he just followed us. 

He climbed down the tree, he jumped over the wall, all by himself. It was hard for him. But we noticed how he flinched whenever any of us touched him to help.

Then he just followed us to the car.

Again, expressionless.

He sat on the back seat. Before we could reach home, I saw him fall asleep.