Shelter

Chapter 9

It was almost 7 pm by the time Changsub, Eunkwang and Hyunsik were back to their shared apartment.

As soon as they entered, Changsub first went to Sungjae's room to see what he was doing. He was sleeping. He let him be and went to the kitchen to check if he ate the food or not. He only ate a little portion and left the rest untouched. He went back to Sungjae's room to wake him up and get him to eat something. When he touched Sungjae to wake him up, his skin was burning.. he was so hot.

Changsub placed his palm on Sungjae's forehead to check the temperature and yes Sungjae had a fever. He was worried now and he was starting to feel guilty. He shouldn't have left him alone.. he should have stayed with him. Even if he was angry, Sungjae was injured and he needed some care.

He tried waking him again and this time Sungjae woke up but he seemed confused to see Changsub there. It took him a few moments to be back to reality and he remembered everything again and he went back to his panic mode. But why did his head hurt so much? He held his head in both his hands and groaned loudly.

Changsub had a concerned look on his face, all the anger from his morning long gone. and he asked in a very soothing tone to let Sungjae know that he can relax and there is no need to panic "How are you boy?"

"Hyung I am fine... I just wanna sleep please"

"First eat something Sungjae.. you didn't even eat your lunch properly."

" I'm not hungry.. please let me sleep..😭" he was in so much pain and seeing him pleading like this broke Changsub's heart.

"Please Sungjae .. eat just a Lil bit and take medicine and then sleep. I promise I won't disturb you after that. Did you take medicine after lunch?" he said caressing his face

"no...."

"why?? .. that's why now u have a fever," He said but made sure that he was still talking in a relaxed manner.

"I forgot it in my room in the hostel" Sungaje said with a very low voice

"then you should have called me"

"yeah I was about to but then I didn't coz I thought u would have to come all the way from office again"

"you're an idiot. You know that?" He said chuckling a bit "I would have at least told you where the medicines are in my room or I asked the security to bring some meds from the nearby pharmacy"

" I didn't think that far..."

"When do you ever use that brain of yours? Come on get up, eat a little bit .. I'll give you something for the fever. Do you have pain?"

" yeah.. it's hurting too much". He said pointing to his eyebrow, which was slit last night.

"let me see.." he tried to reach his face to remove the bandaid and check but Sungjae just leaned away...

"nooo.. don't touch it hyung.. it hurts too much"

"Let me check Sungjae.. you might catch an infection if this is not treated properly." He reached Sungjae's face ignoring his protests and slowly peeled the band-aid off his eyebrow.

He gasped after seeing it, the cut was so deep, it would definitely take 3 or 4 stitches to close the slit and it's going to leave a mark forever. How is Sungjae handling all the pain from last night? Why did the doctor in his school not stitch it immediately and most importantly why this kid didn't tell him about this injury?