No You Girls || 艺兴

t w e n t y o n e

t w e n t y o n e

The boys of EXO-M were all gathered in the dorm Minseok and Lu Han shared while in China. They had been instructed to gather their belongings because they would be returning to Korea, after spending only three of the fourteen scheduled days in the neighboring Asian country. Before doing as they were told, they all sat on the dorm beds together, visibly shaken by what they had seen earlier that day.

They had been at the game show, filming for three episodes which they would be guests in. The filming was going to take place over the course of two weeks in which the participants would have to take part in extreme challenges in order to accumulate points. Each challenge had a theme to it, and they had gotten to a challenge in which the members of EXO-M were supposed to be incarcerated and had to devise a plan to escape from jail together. All six members needed to make it out without getting caught in order to fulfill the challenge.

As they were being moved to their cell for the start of the challenge, Jongdae had managed to pick pocket one of the guards without getting caught. They were up against a team of actors and actresses who watched in awe as the six boys slipped out of their cell without much of a struggle.

By the time the other team got free, the members of EXO were almost near the exit. They were forced to retreat when they saw a crowd of police men by the entrance and the boys ran back further into the false jailhouse. Out of nowhere, the doors to each section started closing, starting from the one furthest from the exit. They dashed back in the direction of the exit together, but in the midst of everything, Tao ended up falling right as the door was closing. 

His leg was caught in between the automatic door which continued to exert pressure on his leg. Yifan returned for him and urged the other boys to continue without them. Though that was the last thing they wanted to do, they listened to their leader. 

Tao tried to stand up, to pull his leg from in between the closing automatic door. The door continued pushing to a close until there was a cracking sound heard and Tao let out a scream of pain. Yifan cursed loudly under his breath and pushed back against the door with all his strength, trying to help the subgoup's maknae to free himself. He was finally able to loosen up the door and Tao pulled his leg back, writhing on the ground in pain.

A worried EXO-M leader called out for help, but the others were gone and the commotion outside was too loud for anyone to hear them. He helped his friend get back on his feet and half-carried him out to the front of the building. Yifan didn't want to look at the damage, but he knew it was bad just from the cracking sound, and from the way Tao was crying out in pain. 

An ambulance arrived within minutes, but their managers from SM gave specific instructions to get him on a private plane back to Korea after stabilizing him. The rest of the members were worried sick, but were forced to continue filming for the show. The entire rest of the afternoon, the members couldn't concentrate, and ended up losing most of the remaining challenges. But that didn't matter to them anymore. What was most important then was how their group member was doing.

Yifan chewed on his lower lip in worry. 

"I really hope Tao's okay. It sounded really bad from what I heard when the metal door closed on his leg." He said to the other boys. Though he hadn't gotten a look at the damage out of fear that he could have started panicking, and he wanted to keep calm for Tao. 

Yixing's cellphone vibrated in his pocket and he brought it out to check the caller ID. 

Jagiya, the contact read.

Nodding to the rest of his group mates, Yixing excused himself from the room, saying, "I'm going to return to my room to pack up my things."

The other boys only nodded back, but remained speechless.