How to save someone from themselves

The end of peace 2/2

The morning had passed calmly yet filled with tension.

Some of the members had noted down the feeling as relieve bringing agony.

They didn't know why they felt that way. They guessed either it would be resolved or the feeling would go away.

None of hem realising that at the end of the day, everything would become clear to one of them.

The day continued in the same sense until around noon when they were getting ready for the shooting of the MV for one of their new songs.

A certain comment catching their attention causing all of them to frown.

Minghao looked ill, his skin was too pale to be healthy and the other members were growing more concerned the longer everything went on.

Now that they truly looked for once, not a passing glance, not a tired gaze, but a truly calculating look. They realised how terrible Minghao really looked.

His eyes and cheeks were sunken in, he had huge bags under his eyes, his skin was a really pale almost grey colour and now that Minghao wasn't wearing an oversized hoodie, they could see how thin his wrists really were. The members that were studying their fellow performer took in a shocked gasp, his wrists looked so fragile, as if the tiniest touch could fracture it.

They didn't understand what was happening, but some of them had an idea.

Woozi still remembered the time that Jeonghan had dragged him, Seungcheol, Mingyu, Hoshi and Joshua to an empty recording room and forced them to sit down.

He had called it "Meeting bringing Minghao back to his senses".

It hadn't been long into their discussion before Mingyu had spoken up.

"Eating disorders."

"What?" Seungcheol blinked in confusion not understanding why Mingyu had suddenly interrupted his rant.

"The symptoms they're all the same as for people with eating disorders. Some of my friends from the modelling world also had them. They often didn't eat or began purging to lose weight quickly and efficiently."

"You don't think Minghao would do that do you?" Jisoo's voice was filled with disbelief, he couldn't believe their youngest chinese member would do that, more like he didn't want to believe that Minghao would even consider that.

Woozi hated to think that one of his friends would do that to himself, but he couldn't deny the possibility of that being the case.

"It is a possibility ... yet we can't think of it as the only possibility. The reason of Minghao's recent behavior can also be something else." The disbelief was also clear in Jeonghan's voice.

They'd developed a lot of other theories but somehow the eating disorder one stayed stuck in Woozi's head.

Now that he thought about it, it really could be the reason for the change of behavior.

He wanted to approach Minghao, he really did, but he didn't know how.

It was at moments like these that he realised how not all members were close with everyone.

He vowed that once everything was over he'd insist on having more bonding time so none of the members will ever be able to go on a destructive path like the one Minghao seemed to be taking.

The rest of the shooting he spent with keeping a close eye on their troubled member.

He frowned when he saw Minghao's step falter, he'd have to make sure to drag the younger to his bed and force him to sleep after the shooting for he knew the stumble wasn't because of lack of practise. He recognised legs giving out any time. They all had a lot of experience with those.