The Party That Killed || Hyunlix

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3rd person pov.
Seungmin closed his eyes, allowing the darkness to slowly surround him. With each breath, he felt his thoughts slipping away, his body becoming lighter. Soon, he found himself in a place he knew only from a hazy memory. It was a house. Old, full of dusty furniture, but warm. He smelled freshly baked bread and heard laughter. He looked towards the window – sharp light streamed through it. In the corner of the room, he noticed a boy.

He was younger, but it was Chan. Seungmin knew it, even despite the blurry details. In this vision, everything was distorted. The room he once knew now seemed foreign. Yet one thing remained unchanged – the parents, who looked at him with disappointment.

“Why aren’t you doing anything? Why aren’t you trying? You’re wasting every chance…” – his mother’s voice was dry and disappointing. Her face was sad, as if she had lost all hope. Seungmin saw endless reproach in her eyes.

He felt the pressure inside him rise. This was the moment when all the unspoken emotions began to accumulate. He saw Chan, his younger self, standing there, in the same room, but in a completely different reality. And that wasn’t the end. In the corner of the room stood someone else – a boy. Smaller, his face hidden in shadow, almost invisible. He didn’t say anything. He just stood there, as if he didn’t belong in this world. His presence was but a fleeting glimpse.

Seungmin felt something strange. This boy, whom he couldn’t see clearly but whose voice he recognized – the same voice he had heard in his memories, the one that caused him such great unease. He was someone Seungmin had never met, yet whose presence he felt distinctly. The voice reminded him of something important. Of the guilt that still lingered in Chan’s heart.

“Why aren’t you doing anything? Mom would be proud if you tried…” – these words echoed in Seungmin’s head. In that moment, he understood what was causing the emptiness in Chan’s heart. In that room, there was a silence filled with unease. In the stillness of this vision, in the dark corner, Seungmin realized that what he had never seen before was the truth. This boy couldn’t do anything, he had no chance. The parents, who had been disappointed in him, didn’t understand him. But it wasn’t his fault.

Then Seungmin felt a pang in his heart. It was like a tug of memories. Suddenly, everything became clear. The boy who stood in the corner was Chan’s brother. But this wasn’t just a memory of siblings. It was something hidden – a brother Chan had never met. In that moment, Seungmin felt as if time was shifting within this vision. The boy disappeared, his face still obscured, but it wasn’t by chance. It was deliberate, a decision that Chan’s parents couldn’t undo.

And then he felt everything change inside him. The boy, who was never mentioned in any of Chan’s stories, was gone. He was part of something no one wanted to reveal. Chan had a brother, a brother they had given up for adoption because they couldn’t accept him. When Seungmin saw this moment in the dream, he felt a pain as if something were ripping his heart out. Because in that moment, he knew that this was the reason why Chan couldn’t be happy. It was this boy, the one who had disappeared – he was the key to everything.

Seungmin woke up with a feeling that wouldn’t let him forget. He now knew that Chan had a brother – a brother who had been given up for adoption by his parents. And now, in reality, Seungmin felt like something intangible was holding him in this secret. He knew he had to tell Chan, that he wasn’t alone in this fight.

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3rd person pov.
Seungmin sat with the guys, still thinking about the dream that had shaken him so deeply. He rested his elbows on his knees, staring at his hands as if searching for the right words. Finally, he spoke softly: