𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 ➢ 𝘣𝘢𝘦𝘬𝘩𝘺𝘶𝘯

𝙵𝚕𝚒𝚙 𝚂𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝙾𝚏 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚢.

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I was scooped into the arms of Sehun and carried to a car.
By this time I was so exhausted that I had passed out in his arms. I could some sort of sniffing, as if someone was crying. I wasn't sure who.

What a beautiful man...

"Penny, wake up." Sehun's deep monotonous voice said calmly. I was carried into the familiar place I call home.
Yet, it seemed so strange.
Welcoming, but uncomfortable for me to be there. It was where I was taken, after all.

Baekhyun was to my left while Sehun carried me up the stairs to my room. The red carpet seemed so comforting to me.
"Baekhyun." I called out for my husband and he immediately came to me, asking me.
"What's the matter?"

I started to cry so I couldn't voice my answer. I was bought into our bedroom and gently placed upon the mattress.
Baekhyun pulled the covers over me and kissed me on the crown of my head.
I began to drift off and it felt a relief to now I wouldn't be waking up to Hell.

"I'll get Lay." Sehun said.
"No. She needs rest before any treatment, and make sure she has food when she wakes up.
I have somewhere to be."
Sehun watched Baekhyun walk out the door and then turned to face me. My eyes were closing now and he smiled a little, before I drifted away into the sleep I had needed for days.

I awoke to the sound of the door opening, Minseok walked in. His head was low.
That was unusual.
"Penny? Are you awake?"
He asked and I stirred and made some nose to give confirmation that I was.
"I'm... so sorry."

"For what?"

"I wish we had found you sooner." He had now knelt down by the side of my bed and was holding my hand that was bruised from where I had hit Jiyong over and over again.

"Please don't touch me."
I had somehow found it harder to talk to these men. I had always seen them as soft and caring, and I still do.
Touching was another thing.

I - first hand - had seen what a man could do. It put me on edge around them because of my recent experiences.

"Minseokie, you need to realise that none of this was you're fault and there was nothing you could do. I knew you would come and you did.
That's all that matters."
"But look at you. You weigh half of what you did before.
Did he starve you?"
I nodded my head, trying lot to get too worked up about it.
I was home and safe now but it all lingered in the back of my mind. I looked around the room and noticed Sehun was missing from it.

"Where's Sehun?"
"He went to get you some food. He'll be back soon, I promise."
I nodded before - in perfect timing - Sehun walked through my door. He smiled a little before holding up a bag from McDonalds.

"You got 20 chicken nuggets?! For just me?!"
I almost screamed, mine and Sehun's thing was we would go and get McDonald's together and eat it on the bonnet of his car while we watched the stars.

Sound romantic?
It normally ends up in us throwing fries at each other.
So, not really.
He threw me the bag and I ate it briskly. I was so hungry.
I knew what this would result in, me throwing up. But I honestly couldn't care less right now, I was starving.

"Penny, you'll be sick."
I glared at him before slowing down and actually chewing.
He laughed at my denial of orders but following them anyway. I liked Sehun bluntness, he kept it real. It was usual to find people like that. But some more than others. Baekhyun was sarcastic.
Sehun and Minseok: blunt.
Suho and Chen were bossy as Hell. Chanyeol and Lay were soft. As for Jongin and Kyungsoo: they were just plain cold most of the time.

There was a knock at the door causing me too look up.
Minseok opened it and it was Lay with his little doctors bag. He smiled.
I threw my food to the side and attempted to get up to see him, but I was so weak I fell.
Sehun came to pick me up but his hands, the way they felt.

"Don't touch me!" I screamed.
Sehun pulled his hands away and Lay corrugated his brows.
He came over to me and I helped my self up, he held his hands out in case I fell.

I did, but back onto the bed.
I felt I was becoming unconscious again out of exhaustion. Lay pulled out medical instruments and began to relax with that beautiful voice of his. His hands grazed over my arm, I remembered.

I remember how he pulled me up and hoisted me onto the sofa. He proceeded to kiss me.
Over and over and he left no place unmarked by his lips.
Baekhyun couldn't see my body for ages until the hickeys had disappeared. I know he had seen some on my neck. But I'm sure what he would be thinking would be murdering Jiyong.

And honestly: it's the first time I would think about harming someone myself.
But I wouldn't do it. I couldn't face that man without having a panic attack. His very face is going to give me nightmares.

I flinched and pushed him away with as much force as I could muster from my malnourished body.
"Try to refrain from touching her. It seems it's effects her."
Lay said once I had pushed him it did absolutely nothing to him. Reminding me - once again - of how weak I was.

"No sh*t."
Sehun said bluntly and Lay turned around to glare.
"I wanted Baekhyun, I want to be in his arms. Where is he?"

"I'm right here, my love."
He said as he walked through the door, his eyes were red.

He had cried.
Byun Baekhyun has cried.
Over me.

"Leave us."