Monsta X: The Clan Pt. 2

8: I Can Make It

"I can make it now"

"I can make it"

Wonho:

I was running out of ideas. 

I had tried just about everything that I had, used everything that I knew, yet none of it had worked. 

I just wasn't sure how to run the program on the machine and set it off at the right time.

If I was wrong about this, if I screwed up or made one small mistake, then it'd be over for all of us. Not just this venture, but our lives; we might die if we screw up. This machine could kill us.

This wasn't a game.

There were no more second chances after this one.

So I didn't settle for "maybe's" for "what if's". If a piece had a slight problem, a tiny dent, it wasn't used and that was that. 

The only reason why this process was taking so long was because of how meticulous I was being.

The others were trying to rush me, meanwhile. They were begging for me to get it down quickly, and I knew that I should try to finish it fast. I knew that Hyungwon, Shownu, and Minhyuk might be in danger, I knew that they were waiting for me for long.

But how could I not be careful, when their lives were in my hands?

All I needed was the flowers, to power the machine and get it running, and a way to start up the flowers, a way for a machine to ignite at the exact time the flower's power was at it's highest.

And I just didn't know how to do it.

I sighed deeply and stared at my phone, wondering if I should I call the others for help. Sometimes they had out of the box ideas which I never thought would work, despite them having no knowledge of mechanics.

Still, it was unlikely that they'd even pick up. I couldn't contact Shownu, Hyungwon, and Minhyuk, for obvious reasons, and I'm sure Jooheon's busy doing whatever he needs to do. Kihyun's out getting the flowers so that just leaves Changkyun. 

I sighed again. I didn't want to ask Changkyun, he was never a help at all and always seemed to avoid me anyways after that incident with Minhyuk and the church. I'm almost certain that he blamed me for burning down the building, just because the coward doesn't wanna blame himself.

Then again, I did the same thing, when we first got released from the prison. We just flat-out ignored each other, each not wanting to see the other. We reminded each other over everything wrong that we did that night, how we messed everything up. 

It was hard to accept that part of this was our faults, was my fault. I reluctantly will say that I never liked blaming myself, never liked looking at myself in a bad way. But it was necessary, at this point. I couldn't hide away from myself any longer.

That's why I was the one that had reached out to Changkyun first. If anything our experience was something that we shared together, something that we could bond over, something that connected us. The others weren't there. We were the only ones that knew the feelings there that night.

Yet he kept on pushing away. 

No matter how many text messages I sent, no matter how many times I knocked on his door or asked him to go somewhere with me, he always refused. The only time that he bothered to even look at me or be in the same room as me was when it came to this machine.

I guess he cared more about Hyungwon, Shownu, and Minhyuk, than me.

"That lazy idiot is probably at home," I thought bitterly. "Playing that stupid teddy bear game that he's been addicted to lately and-"

"Wait."

I sat up straight, in surprise at the sudden revelation.

The teddy bear game.

Practically running towards my machine, I tripped over a bunch of tools but quickly picked myself up, trying to remember every possible detail of that stupid teddy bear game. I didn't even remember the name but I tried, I tried to picture every past memory I have of me yelling at Changkyun as he played it, painful as it was.

I found a way. 

I found a way to make the machine work like it was supposed to.

Throwing the tarp off the machine, I analyzed it, mind now rushing with thoughts, as I imagined which part would go where, what pieces I would need, what I needed to build.

Now running to my work table, I threw on my strange pair of glasses, which had one red lens and one blue, almost like 3-D movie glasses. I started building my parts, now energized with a rush of adrenaline.

I would be able to save them.

That was all I could think of.

And who knew that Changkyun, out of all people, would be able to help me. That'd mean I'd need his help to complete the project, to activate it in the first place. I hesitated. Did I want his help in the first place?

I knew I needed it.

It was time that we all put our differences and disagreements aside.

To help ourselves.

And to save them.

I nervously grabbed my phone and sent a quick text to Changkyun, asking him to come over. With luck, he would respond and not ignore me, as he usually did.

Suddenly, the machine seemed like it'd be finished in the span of a few weeks, maybe even days. Maybe even today.

Suddenly, we didn't have to wait anymore.

I reached out for my tools to measure my new parts, now excited at the idea.

A/N

Unedited. Timestamp 1:26-1:31

Confused about which side Jooheon's on? Don't worry, you kinda should be. More details will be revealed soon! This chapter's a bit short, sorry about that :(

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