BLUZ

Prologue III

Daehyun hurriedly ran out of the building and searched around, he then sighted Minsoo’s vehicle and rushed towards it just as the driver started driving away.

  “Wait a moment.” Minsoo told the driver before stepping out to meet Daehyun. Hope sprang into Daehyun’s eyes when Minsoo approached him.

  “What is it?” Minsoo slid his hands into his pocket and gaze him a bored stare. “Make it quick. I have somewhere to be.”

  “Did you mean it? What you said back there?” Daehyun asked in a murmur.

  “What do you think?” Minsoo then turned and entered the vehicle before the driver finally drove off.

  Daehyun was staring at the retreating figure of the car when Jiwon and Gunwoo ran up to him.

  “Let’s go back to the dorms, the main manager will soon start the routine checkup and things will get ugly if he found out we all sneaked out,” Gunwoo tried to reason with Daehyun.

  “No.” Daehyun pushed him away.

  “What’s your problem?!” Jiwon snapped. “Don’t you know we’re all in the same situation?! Do you think her death hurt you alone? She was also our friend too you know! Minsoo-hyung even has to do work regardless of the situation! What’s your deal, you selfish prick?!”

  “We’re not all in the same situation!” Daehyun yelled and clenched his fists.

  “At least you all had a childhood, life was cruel to me right from the start. . .” His tone descended a lot more. “I couldn’t even create enough memories to last me. . .”

  He then looked down at the ground. “I don’t even remember. . .”

  “I’m home.”

  A younger version of Daehyun who was seated on the rug reading a storybook, jumped up and flung himself at the tall figure by the doorway. “Hyung!”

  His elder brother laughed as he caught him. “Easy buddy.”

  When he pulled back from the hug the little Daehyun grinned at him. The sunlight was shining so bright from behind so his older brother’s face couldn’t be fully seen.

  Just his smile.

  “Won’t you let me come in first?” his brother chuckled. Daehyun laughed and held his brother’s hand and hopped by his side excitedly as he entered the house.

  “I can’t remember. . .” Daehyun looked at his left hand.

  “Aaaaahhhhh!” Daehyun screamed as the car behind slammed into theirs making the car to reel forward into a huge truck that carried fuel.

  When Daehyun opened his eyes, he saw he had a bruise on his forehead.

  “Daehyun-ah! Watch out!” his brother screamed as he pulled his overcoat and covered Daehyun with it before throwing himself on Daehyun.

  Then there was a huge bang and an explosion occurred because the fuel had leaked down to the floor and the fire that had begun because of the accident leapt up in huge flames.

  “What he looks like.” Daehyun completed then looked at his band mates again, his eyes filled with deep sorrow.

  Gunwoo sighed deeply.

In all honesty Daehyun has had so far, the hardest childhood out of all of them since he was an orphan right from an early age.

  “I get it,” Jiwon said with a fixed expression on Daehyun. “You must have gone through a lot, but it doesn’t make anyone’s pain lesser than yours!”