Runaways Seventeen fanfic (Jihan, Soonhoon, Minhui, Meanie, Verkwan, Chancheol)

DK's past

Seokmin sighed deeply and looked down, trying to think things through before explaining them to Minhyuk. He didn't want to go off on Minhyuk about his past and make it sound like he was rambling. "Seokmin...you okay?" Minhyuk asks with a concerned expression on his face. 

Seokmin got out of thought and stuttered while looking up at Minhyuk "h-huh, oh yeah...I'm fine." Seokmin awkwardly chuckles while rubbing the back of his neck. 

Seokmin sighed once he started to explain "I...kind of grew up in a family who had high expectations for me." 

"Isn't that everyone's family though?" Minhyuk questions like it was no big deal.

"I know, my parents treated me nice and all. They were always there for me when I needed a shoulder to cry on, or if I needed help in something." 

"Then why did you run away and how did you get to this place?" Minhyuk question in curiosity. 

"I'm getting to that part" Seokmin says in another sigh, looking down into his lap. It was hard talking to someone about it since Minhyuk was the first person he's ever told other then Seungcheol. 

"The thing is, my parents were amazing. They had their good times and their bad times but they were nice people. We were pretty poor though. Well, to other people we didn't look poor but I knew we were. My parents would always reassure me that we had everything in the word, but when they thought I was asleep I could hear them yelling at each other about how much money my father had wasted on something, or I would find old bills in what we were in debt to." 

"Other people thought we were pretty rich considering we lived in a house, I had two other siblings and I went to a private school. I wanted the best for my family so I tried doing my best in school."

"I got the best grades out of my whole class, I was the student all the teachers liked because I gave school my all. I was in extra curricular activities and I was the best player on the baseball team I was on." Seokmin explains, trying not to sound like he was gloating about himself. 

"So basically to everyone else you looked like the stereotypical rich, smart kid?" Minhyuk questions and Seokmin nodded meaning he was right. 

"Except I wasn't rich and the only motivation I had to do so well was because of the horrible financial situation my parents were keeping from me behind my back." 

"You were nothing like how you are now then. I never would have thought you played sports and dude, you're barley passing our class...what happened to you?" Minhyuk asks, surprised with what Seokmin had said about himself. In fact, he couldn't really believe it either.

"Nothing much happened, I just don't care about these things anymore. I never had any friends back then because I was too focused on school work and studying, doing extra curricular activities or practising for baseball that I didn't have a social life." 

"No one in my class liked me because they thought I was a teachers pet, they also didn't like me I guess because I got the best grades. I got close to one hundred percent on everything I handed in so they always questioned if I cheated on things or something along those lines since I was so close to the teachers." 

"Because of this I had a lot of people who hated me. I could hear them talking about me behind my back at lunch or on a free study period while I would be studying or doing extra credit worksheets. I could hear them all and it made me really depressed. It made me even more depressed knowing I had no one to talk to considering I had no friends." 

"A couple guys...the guys who beat you and me up, they were the guys who usually always asked me for money at lunch or they would pick on me calling me a teachers pet the most. They bullied me the most, thinking I always thought I was higher then everyone else when I really didn't."