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18 - Dancing With Your Ghost

<Rose Quartz HQ - Seokmin's Cabin>

"What is it?" Seungkwan paused after which he added, "Sir?"

Seokmin scoffed to himself. His previous behavior, which was influenced by those pills, had caused a lot of trouble, surely.

Seungkwan, Vernon, Jun and Minghao were sitting across the desk while Seokmin and Joshua were seated on the other side.

"I'll introduce first." Seokmin began, "He's Mr. Hong Joshua, a well known advocate. And hyung, he's Boo Seungkwan, Chwe Hansol or Vernon, Wen Junhui and Xu Minghao."

Everyone greeted each other.

"But what is happening?" Jun asked, "Si-"

"Please don't." Seokmin intervened, "Please, all of you, don't call me sir."

Minghao raised a brow, "What's wrong with you now?"

"Nothing. Everything is finally right with me." Seokmin looked down, "I know I've hurt you all a lot in the past few months. What scares me even more is the fact that I might not even remember all those incidents.

But, I'm genuinely very sorry for it. We all are a family-"

"Were." Vernon rectified, "We used a to be like a family, until Seungcheol hyung was arrested."

"And until he himself gave the statement that we were just his co-workers." Seungkwan added.

"And until you didn't set the boundaries between us." Minghao sighed, "That we're the investors with low shares and hence you're the boss."

"We really don't associate with the Choi's more than business, do we?" Jun averted his gaze with disappointment.

"The truth is much more different than all this." Seokmin muttered.

Seungkwan chuckled bitterly, "Both of you Choi brothers had asked- no warned us to stay out of your personal lives."

"After spending years with each other, filling each moment with promises, you were the ones who pushed us away." Minghao stated.

"It hurts." Jun muttered out, "It hurts to know that you guys never trusted us enough to share your problems."

"And now why do we have an advocate with us?" Vernon asked, "To probably split the business."

"Guys!" Joshua spoke up, politely, "Please, listen to us, once. I know that all those hurtful scars are of months, everything must have piled up since a long time.

But you need to know. Mr. Choi Seungcheol, still trusts you all and Seokmin's true self never looked down on you."

"Yeah?" Minghao raised a brow, "So were we dealing with a made-up Seokmin for the past months."

"Exactly." Joshua remarked.

"What?" Jun scrunched his brows, "Do you consider us stupid or something?"

"Not at all. I know it's a bit hard to digest-" And with that, Joshua explained everything to the other four, patiently.

"And about Seungcheol hyung, he claimed not to be associated with you to keep all of you away from this mess." Seokmin added, "He just couldn't keep away Hoshi hyung because he was way too stubborn."

"Exactly. He just didn't want your names to be associated with someone who is declared guilty in court." Joshua nodded, "No matter how innocent he actually is."

The four of them remained bewildered for a moment, everything was too much to digest.

"These are the laboratory reports of those pills and the other reports we had made with the help of Dr. Yoon and Dr. Lee." Joshua showed them all the documents.