The Secret | HyungWonho

04.

Hello~! I'm back again! :D

But, just to set a head's up, I might be gone until the end of November, because heck, the Fanmeet here in the Philippines is getting close, and I'm also busy with work-related stuff, but I'll find a way to sort things out. :D

For the meantime, I hope you find this part of the story interesting. Let me know how it will go for you.

Also, I accept suggestions by messaging me or writing me comments. It helps, tbh. :D

Enjoy! :D

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"Hyungwon." Minhyuk had called.

Hyungwon had been sitting on a bench in the park, waiting for his two best friends. He hadn't expected Minhyuk to come early, knowing that the other was a sleepyhead, and that the time that they had adjusted was too early for Minhyuk, since it was a weekend.

"Oh. Hello, Minhyuk. Just arrived?" Hyungwon asked, smiling at his other best friend. Minhyuk blushed at Hyungwon's smile, quickly looking away from Hyungwon, who was at the time staring at him.

"Well... yes." Minhyuk had responded. Hyungwon smiled at Minhyuk's shy response, but he shook it off. However, what Hyungwon couldn't help notice was Minhyuk's awkwardness towards him. He wasn't usually like this, especially when he was with him and Hoseok.

"Hey, Minhyuk... are you okay?" Hyungwon had asked. Minhyuk didn't respond. Instead, he sat near Hyungwon, closing the distance between the two of them. Hyungwon was surprised, which Minhyuk used to be an opportunity for him to close the distance between the two of them. He went closer, closer...

"Hyungwon... I like you. I do. Can we be... more than friends?" Minhyuk asked, his face feeling the heat Hyungwon's breath. Due to his experience, Hyungwon was getting nervous with the distance between the two of them. He was used to physical contact with his best friends, but this type of contact was unusually close for him, even though it was Minhyuk.

He began pushing Minhyuk away, placing distance between the two of them again. As Minhyuk had expected, he was being pushed away, but he acted quickly, closing the distance between the two of them again. Being stronger than Hyungwon, he was able to succeed in closing the distance, placing a kiss on Hyungwon's cheek.

Hyungwon felt himself no different from the man he despised. Being in a public place, he felt eyes looking at him, eyeing him, judging him. He felt useless, unwanted in society, weak. He wanted to be free from the situation he was in right now.

I need to be free...

Hyungwon pushed Minhyuk hard, putting all his strength in one go. Minhyuk fell, sitting on the floor. He took this opportunity to escape. He began running away, far from the other. Shortly after, however, he felt Minhyuk chasing him.

"Hyungwon! Wait!" Minhyuk had shouted, but Hyungwon did not pay attention. He continued running, looking straight ahead. He saw the pedestrian lane in front of him, but saw that the green light was blinking, signalling that it was almost going red. Hyungwon sped off, making sure that he would reach the other side. As he was crossing, he saw that the light had turned orange, and as soon as he was on the other side, he saw that the light was red.

I was safe.

However, as he looked at the road from where he came from. He saw Minhyuk, still running, as if he had no intention of stopping. Hyungwon had seen the red light, but Minhyuk continued running, eyes fixed at him, only him.

"Minhyuk, stop!" Hyungwon had called.

...but it was too late.

The next thing that Hyungwon had seen was a bloody Minhyuk lying on the road as the black car sped off, leaving the crime scene. Hyungwon started moving towards Minhyuk's body, each step getting heavier as he got nearer towards Minhyuk's lifeless body.

To Hyungwon's horror, Minhyuk had suddenly moved his head, eyes staring directly at him, anger evident in his gaze.

"It was all your fault!" Minhyuk shouted. Hyungwon stepped back, but felt that he had stepped on another foot. He turned and saw his mother, throwing angry stares at him as well.

"It was all your fault!" his mother had also shouted. Shortly after, a lot of people had approached and began shouting the same thing, as if a chant.

It's all your fault!

Hyungwon began to see that the people were approaching them, forming a very large circle around them. Hyungwon began putting his hands to his ears, blocking his sense of hearing. But it didn't help, he still heard the people shouting, chanting, blaming him.

It's all your fault!

Hyungwon began to feel his world closing in. He felt all the anger directed at him, throwing daggers at him, shortly killing him. The cries of the people started to deafen him, but it was as if all the noise in the world had disappeared, only the chants of the people flooding his ears.

It's all your fault!

"Ah!" Hyungwon had sat up from his bed, panting. It was another nightmare, he thought. Hyungwon felt his whole body shaking. He wanted to stand up, but he couldn't. It was as if the weight of what has happened in the past came back.

And I was to blame for it...

Everyone knew it was an accident. Even Hoseok, who knew the whole story, believed it was an accident. But for Hyungwon, it wasn't an accident. It was something he was guilty for, a murder that had to be covered as an accident. A chapter that they have torn off the pages of his own book.

A secret.