Stay Strong Seventeen

Mingyu

Mingyu kept reading them, letter after letter, again and again until he finally decided to pull away and put them aside. He took a deep breath trying to clear his head but everything was just so chaotic.

Mingyu has been receiving hate mail day after day for the last few weeks and usually he wouldn't care much about them but this patch was a bit special. He received them everyday at the same time and he received them at home ... his home, while living with Wonwoo, it is very private and intimat and he hated that. It's not like they have their home address shared for everyone to know where they live and Mingyu wondered how did this person found out about it.

But that was the least of his problems,

The letter specifically asked Mingyu in every foot note to keep this to himself or else someone will get hurt.

At first, it felt like a creepy stalker and usually could be taken cared of with one phone call to the authorities but this one ... this was one was different.

They included pictures of the other members and threatened to personally hurt them, pictures and screenshots from their own homes and personal schedules that were shared privately all the time ... Mingyu just wanted to make sure that this sicko couldn't hurt anyone before he could report him.

His heart was beating so fast today, he just got a new one and it had pictures ... all kind of pictures and not the cute fan type of pictures ... these were taken a few feet away from them, from their homes, their dressing room, their friends and family ... who the heck is this psychopath?

Mingyu couldn't believe what he was looking at and again, there was that note, say something and he'll hurt his members? « Remember this is our little secret ... you look so cute, can't wait to marry you » just so sickening really.

He felt his heart beating in his chest faster than ever. He put the papers away when Wonwoo came looking for him "They are waiting for us downstairs", right then when he was about to leave for a schedule today.

Mingyu trailed behind Wonwoo as they joined the others and started their day. The entire time, Mingyu was looking over his shoulders and tried to keep his eyes open for the others as well but there's just so much going on and so many of them around and he couldn't keep track of each and everyone ... he couldn't say anything either so this was basically mission impossible.

"Where's Chan?" Mingyu asked frantically looking around himself in the waiting room
"Just went to the washroom" Hoshi replied his eyes fixed on his phone

"How about Vernon and Joshua?" He asked again

"Filming content around the place" the older replied again

"Jun?"

Hoshi frowned finally looking up "On a zoom call with his managers in China ... he just told us and left, he's in the next room, Mingyu are you okay?"

Right, yeah he knew that but it was just overwhelming "Yeah ... of course I'm fine, I guess I wasn't listening"

Hoshi smiled and shrugged it off for now especially when Wonwoo heard the entire thing finding a spot next to his roommate "Is everything okay?" Wonwoo asked softly eyeing the younger

Mingyu nodded "I'm fine" looking up at the older with so much sadness in his eyes

"We can talk if you want"

Mingyu had this heavy feeling sitting over  his chest, yes he wanted to talk but he wasn't sure if it was safe enough ...
"Maybe later? I just want to finish as soon as possible and go home"

Wonwoo understood of course, there were those days where he wanted to simply wrap things up as quickly as possible and just go home.

His heart never stopped racing and they had to go on stage soon. Suddenly, he felt like he's about to suffocate, being on stage in front of all those people just made him feel so vulnerable, he felt naked with this psychopath out there somewhere, it could be anyone in the crowd or with the staff ... he was suddenly so self aware and just so terrified.