Acceleration [Book 1]

03: Humiliation

⊱⋅ ─ 03: HUMILIATION

"Seungmin, patch Cobra now," Chan said as he helped Minho walk to a spot where they can take care of his injuries.

The older male gently placed Minho down on the dusty pavement as Seungmin took out a few antiseptics and bandages from his satchel. Jisung was making a fuss about Minho getting hurt, jumping from here to there like a chipmunk that forgot where he put his acorns, although, to Felix, it seemed adorable.

"You could have just let me do it to you so that all I can do is beat you up," Chan said seriously as he dabbed a piece of damp cloth over Minho's wound by the shoulder, the raven haired male hissing in pain in the process.

Felix watched as Seungmin and Chan were tending to Minho's wounds and bruises, he looked like he was being hit with a whip the night before and it wasn't a pretty sight.

Minho's wounds were bright red, the blood all dried up with dirt mixed up in it, the bruises were all black and a shade of dark green, and the fact that Minho had a dark ring on his left eye and his lip was blown up with a wound and a bruise circled around it, it made Felix's stomach churn, sickly, he felt like he was about to throw up not until a siren echoed throughout the area and a scream of a male that would send your hair on the nape stick up, it wasn't a scream of pain or anger, it was a scream of delight and power.

Felix and the others turned their heads to a direction and realized it was another batch of men on different cars, dressed fancily, their hairs fixed and pushed back, "Move aside for the Gamblers, mate," Chan said as he stood up to watch the scene with the others, leaving Seungmin to finish up on aiding Minho.

"Gamblers?" Felix uttered in a mix of confusion and question in his tone and expression.

"They're the guys that bet their money on the racers, they're the heirs to the people with the highest status in the whole country," Hyunjin butted in, standing beside the freckled boy as they watched the Gamblers make their way to their rightful area, "and if whoever the top three winners are, they get the amount of money the Gamblers have decided to give to them."

Felix didn't know the mechanics and so, but at least his teammates are helping him understand slowly instead of giving all of the information all at once at the same time, that would be horridly overbearing, and it might give him a headache before he could process the words and information in his brain.

"Alright, get your representatives behind the starting line," A brunette said through a megaphone, "two from each team by status, don't forget!"

Chan turned his head about the area as if he was in search of something and his face started to become serious and semi-irritable at the same time, "Where's that best friend of yours, Hyunjin?" He exclaimed as he couldn't find the said male with a snicker.

"Darn, I forgot he's gonna run for tonight!" Hyunjin exclaimed and looked around along with Chan, as the two males were looking for their said representative, Felix was about to leave until Chan grabbed him by the arm, making him unable to leave the area at this point.

Felix looked up at Chan, irritated as he was prying his arm away from the older male's grasp, and that's when he stopped as Chan spoke, "You're gonna have to run if you need the money," Felix's face morphed from irritation to confusion, and his confused features morphed into shock and fear, "but never be one of the last ones," Chan said, authority and warning in his tone, "You saw Minho's state, so don't mess things up." Chan's grip on the younger lad's arm loosened and he left Felix there in shock, frozen in place.

"Representatives, stand behind the line in ten minutes!" The same tall brunette announced, this time, he was on top of a three-story apartment building, lads that came to watch hurried to clear up the street as they heard the sound of roaring engines and the echoing sounds of horns from cars and motors.