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Chapter 8

I warned you in the last part, this is going to get violent.

It was a  long and sleepless night for Hyunjin.

The image of Woojin throwing up blood never left his mind nor the internet - people were saying that JYP should upgrade their security, so that something like this would never happen again, and the CEO released an apology saying that he would take care of it.

It was around 4 AM that Hyunjin just gave up and left his bed to go into the Living Room, where he found the already awake Minho surfing the web on his phone.

"Morning, Hyunjin," Minho greeted him, "are you okay?"

"Yeah," Hyunjin sank onto the sofa, resting his head on his hand.

Minho gave him a "You sure?"-look and the younger laughed. "Actually, I'm worried. I know Felix will be fine, but what about Woojin? He was in critical condition when he arrived at the hospital..."

Minho sighed and reached over to ruffle Hyunjins hair. "Chan got a call from one of the staff, he said that Woojin is stable, but he's still in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). You could visit him later, if you want to."

The dancer smiled. "Sure, I'll do that."

There was a moment of silence, until it was broken by the younger: "What are you doing?"

"I'm reading stuff on the internet. There are some news sites stating that Stray Kids' popularity is now larger than the one of our seniors GOT7. They say that in the V LIVE rankings, Stray Kids was ranked higher than GOT7 and even took Number 1 in a few places. Also, they said SK is better because they are younger and now introducing a new style, which GOT7 never even tried."

Hyunjin stared at Minho for a few seconds, his face already telling the latter all about his disbelief.

"No way!!", he blurted out, "we look up to GOT7 sunbae-nims so much, we don't want to be compared to them!"

Minho shook his head, silent. "This is how society works, Hyunjinie", he replied after a while, "I just hope GOT7 doesn't see it."

When Chan woke up, his room was empty. "Tomorrow night, I'll ask Seungmin to sleep in here. Minho always sleeps on the couch, and Seungmin must be lonely," he muttered to himself, not willing to admit, even to air, that he was feeling lonely.

He got up, sighing, and went into the living room, where found Hyunjin and Minho talking about a choreography Minho was making for the trainee evaluation.

".... more impact," Hyunjin was saying, "and that's what we want, right? Also, I just realized that this is the first time I am lecturing YOU."

"Well, shit happens." The two of them burst into laughter, and Chan cleared his throat to get their attention.

"Hello, Chan hyung, did you sleep well?" The boys sat up straight, fighting back the giggles trying to escape their mouths.
They were definitely sleep deprived.

"Want some coffee?", the leader asked.

"Always," the two said, getting up to help Chan with breakfast.

"How are you already awake, Hyunjinie? Usually we have to drag you out of bed unless you have school", the leader joked.

Hyunjin grinned: "I couldn't sleep, so I got up and chatted with Minho. I'm going to visit Woojin today, kay?"

Chan nodded.

They were heading towards the training room, when it happened.

A dark shadow appeared behind Chan, reaching out a hand to grab him.