The Rebels are Crazy - EXO fanfiction

22. Our Broken Family

Everyone is here.
There is a strangely familiar vibe going through the room. People are discussing things, nagging each other, and laughing with each other. Everything seems like how it used to be.
What made it even better is that Yixing just took me aside and told me that Suho remembers. Being the leader of the group, the group has had a great impact on his life. An impact that was apparently the trigger for his memories. You could see that he remembered. His eyes got wider and he was looking around in disbelieve. He seemed to not understand the situation anymore and I get that. We were threatened almost all the time and suddenly there is not threat anymore. It's quite confusing.
I'm sitting next to Sehun who has been awkwardly staring at his coffee for the past ten minutes. Suddenly he decides to speak up.
'Thank you,' he says.
'Hm?' I reply, not having heard his words clear enough.
'Thank you for bringing our family together again. They might not remember the old times, but I still love them like family,' he says with a smile.
'You remember?' I ask confused and a bit shocked.
'I do,' he replies and smiles. I barely ever see him smile. 'These people are so important to me. I have no one but them.' If he wouldn't have looked down, I might've seen a tear drop onto his cheek, but I didn't.
He remembered because he doesn't have anyone but this group. This whole thing might be harder than we thought. If the impact of the situation that triggers the old memories has to be life changing, than how do we reproduce those situations? It's almost impossible. We were just lucky with Suho and Sehun.

'Yixing, you aren't going home?' Chanyeol asks Yixing when we start to clean up. Everyone left, including Minseok and Luhan. Everyone but the beagle line.
'I'm helping Jihye clean up,' he says with a smile.
'Are you two together?' he asks. Yixing nods proudly. 'Good job. You two look cute together.'
'Thank you Chan,' I say with a smile on my face, but behind it is a frown. My head is running with ideas, but I haven't been with them at life changing moments. So what now?
'Don't strain yourself,' Yixing says when he sees the gears in my head turn through the look in my eyes.
'I just want all of this to be over,' I say and jump onto a table to sit on the edge, 'do you think there are others who remember?'
'Most likely.'

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'Two weeks without any progress,' I say with my hands in my hair our of frustration.
'Calm down Jihye. It's fine. Everything at it's time,' Minseok says, sitting on the couch at my apartment.
'How can you be so calm?' I ask him annoyed.
'Don't take it out on Minseok Jihye,' Suho says with a warning tone in his voice.
'And what are you going to do about it?' I snap at him. He doesn't move. 'That's what I thought.'
'We can't rush it Jihye,' Sehun says a bit annoyed. He doesn't like the situation either, but right now we are on different levels. I can't understand anyone right now.
'I know that!' They seem a bit shocked about me suddenly raising my voice. 'This is getting harder and harder each day. We can't keep pretending we don't know!' I yell at them.
'But what else can we do?' Minseok asks as he stands up to face me, 'Go up to them and be like: "hey, you have this thing called the 7th sense which you seem to have lost control over and actually, we're friends from before you lost your memory. That's right, you also lost your memory of every single horrible thing that happened to you." Do you think that would work Mali?' He has made is quite obvious where he stands with his words.
'I don't care what we do, but we can't keep doing this,' I say, referring to how we're just sitting around being sad about everything that is happening, 'They all lost control over their powers. Chanyeol almost burned down a forest, Jongin almost got a heart attack when he was suddenly in the cafe, and Jongdae,' my breath hitches, a tear rolls down my cheek, 'caused a thunderstorm that killed people!' My tears keep falling and I can't keep my voice from cracking, but I am raging with anger. Is this what the army wanted? That we all end up killing each other? Because that's what happening now.
Suho gets up from the couch and wraps his arms around me, pulling me into his chest to comfort me. Without saying a word, I push him off me.
'Why are you all so sorry for me? It was bound to happen eventually and it just happened to happen at a bad time,' I snap at him, raising my voice through my tears.
'Jihye, maybe you shouldn't go out for a while,' Minseok says, 'just to clear your head. It's a lot to lose someone you love.'
Something inside me snaps. I think it's my heart. It doesn't feel good at all. It feels like a wave of sadness is crashing down upon me with the power of a thousand wild horses. I feel my knees hit the ground. Defeated, I sit, staring at the wooden floor below me. It feels like I'm just staring into a void. There is nothing anymore. He's gone. He's gone forever.
'Floyd is gone,' I say as the realization that I tried so hard to push off hits me like a truck, and I look up at the three men in front of me, 'he's dead.'