The Lost Boy (Wanna One's Daehwi)

Lost....

             

Daehwi pulls his ragged shirt as he shivers in the snow, his barefoot feet are freezing. Wanna One decided to take a vacation somewhere they're not too well-known and that place just happens to be in winter. While playing with his members he somehow got separated and kidnapped, but he's lucky to be able to escape. His clothes got torn and dirty, plus he lost his shoes while running through the snow in the process and now he's wondering around what seemed like a small town. His body is getting colder with each passing second. He didn't have any money with him, the kidnappers took all his belonging that was with him except for a box of matches.

His members are surely panicking about his whereabouts but even he himself couldn't tell where he was. Clutching his small thin frame body, he tried to walk through the cold heavy winter, asking one person after another for directions and where he was but nobody responded to him thinking he is a beggar that's going to ask for money, they walk away once seeing him inch nearer. Even when he approaches a police officer, the man just ignores him and tells him off. Daehwi was in loss of words of their behavior, not a single person recognizes him and nobody is willing or bother to help him.

 Scared, tired, hungry and cold, Daehwi sat down a small corner on the streets curling into a small ball. He wanted to be in his member's warm embrace, he wants Jinyoung, Jihoon, Minhyun and Jisung's hugs, he wants to hear jokes from Seongwoo, Woojin and Daniel, he wants to play with Guanling, Sungwoo and Jaehwan, he wants to be on stage with them, he wants to go home.

Tears drips down his face, the snow is raining down even heavier. Daehwi pull on his ragged clothes. A few kids laugh at him and threw rocks, he lost his voice to tell them off so he uses all the strength he's left with and runs away from them. Not clearly looking where he was running, he nearly got hit by a car. "HEY WATCH WHERE YOU'RE RUNNING BRAT!!" the driver yelled at him and drives away. He cried harder, the seventeen-year-old keeps walking and found another corner, this time in front of a house. He sat there until he hears a familiar tune playing, he peeks inside the window and saw a group of boys watching TV together.

 It was Wanna One's Music bank stage from a few months ago, he watches them having fun and eating food. He wouldn't want to bother them so he adverts his gaze and sat on the cold hard pavement. Remembering he had matches, he opens the box and lit up a match, then suddenly he saw that he's in a room decorated with holiday decorations and there was delicious food on the table. He tried to reach for the food but his hands got burn from touching the match.

Wanting to see more, he lit up another match. This time he is in a hall, a hall with everyone from Produce 101 Season 2. They seem to be having a sort of party. He saw his friends, Seonho, Dongho, Minki and many others waving at him. He cried, he missed them so much "Guys!! You're here!" But before he could run to them, the match burns out and everything disappear. He quickly lit another match, but this time he's in Wanna One's dorm, His members and himself are on the couch watching a movie.

 The coldness is still there but he feels warm inside seeing their faces, trying to hug the Minhyun who was next to him in tears, he got burn again from the small fire. Daehwi is getting tired and overwhelmed, but choose to lit his forth match. He sees his mother and breaks down into tears, his mother hugs him and showed him the person that made his heart beat fast, it was his father. "Dad!! Please stay......I'm scared...Don't leave me again" He runs to his father's open arms hugging him tightly "Daehwi I missed you...I'm so proud of you......Don't worry......you're safe with me now......I'll never leave you alone again" he says to him "Daehwi.... ...You've done well dear.......Rest well love" he hears his mother says.

Suddenly, the coldness vanished, he wasn't hungry anymore, his heart felt at ease. He floats off the ground with his father. His mother waving sadly at them with a sad smile, He even saw his Wanna One members crying while waving at him. "Daehwi!! You're always a part of us!!" "Remember us!!" They shouted and he smiled back at them.

Eventually the snowing stopped, a figure of a young boy lies on the pavement path motionless and covered with snow. A smile was on his lips, and four burned out matches by his side.

"Fans around the globe mourn over the death of a young 17-year-old male K-pop idol, Lee Daehwi"