Cloaked Heart | Yeonbin

Chapter Twenty-Four

"HYUNGS," HUENING KAI quietly spoke, nervously chewing on his bottom lips as he stopped in his tracks from where he was trailing behind the other members. Everyone stopped to turn and stare at him. He couldn't keep this a secret anymore, it was hurting him knowing that he could save Jennie but instead he had chosen to stay quiet. Sunwoo was a dangerous person and he didn't want Jennie to be in danger even if he barely knew her. It wasn't right that he kept silent about this.

"Huening Kai, what's wrong?" Soobin worriedly asked, frowning at the younger boy whose head was bowed.

"I.." Huening Kai started, not sure of how to come out with it. "I was kidnapped by a saesang fan. A dangerous saesang fan."

It took a while for everyone to process Huening Kai's words as he could feel everyone's eyes on him even if he couldn't find the strength to look at them.

"What? How? Why?" Beomgyu spluttered, tensing up at the word 'saesang.'

Huening Kai rocked back and forth on his converses whilst playing with the hem of his sleeves. 

Taehyun stepped forward, his fists clenched by his sides as he stared at Huening Kai. "You need to tell us everything," he marched over to the younger and grabbed onto his arm causing Huening Kai to lift his head up. "Everything."

Yeonjun could feel his heart racing faster as he rushed down the hallway in search of the others. He had thought they had probably went in without him until he saw them huddled around Huening Kai. Immediately, he could feel how tense the atmosphere was once he walked over to them. All the attention was on him as he sheepishly scratched the back of his neck.

"What's going on?" Yeonjun asked, noticing the weird expressions on everyone's faces. It felt like he had interrupted something serious.

"Huening Kai didn't just go missing. He was kidnapped by a saesang fan," Taehyun blurted out, carefully wording the last part. 

Yeonjun slightly frowned, his hand dropping to his side as he worriedly stared at Huening Kai. Despite their differences and the fact that they weren't on good terms, he still cared about the younger and would do anything to protect him. To hear that a saesang fan had taken advantage of their maknae caused his blood to boil. "Why didn't you tell us the full story?"

Huening Kai let out a noise of frustration as he ran a hand through his hair. "I was scared. Scared of Sunwoo coming back for me if I said anything. At the same time, I wanted to protect Jennie unnie but I was afraid."

"Wait Sunwoo? Jennie? Huening Kai..who are all these people?" Soobin asked, puzzled at these unfamiliar names coming out of their maknae's mouth.

"Sunwoo was the boy that kidnapped me and he took me to his house where I met his older adoptive sister Jennie. Jennie is being abused by Sunwoo and it's just the two of them. She saved me. She put her life at risk and helped me escape," Huening Kai explained, out of breath as he watched his members reactions.

Yeonjun clenched his fists in anger. "Who is this Sunwoo boy? Where does he live? I'm gonna-"

"No you're not gonna do anything hyung. This Sunwoo boy can be a crazy person and who knows what he would do," Taehyun, being the calm and collected person he was, said causing Yeonjun to roll his eyes.

Soobin nodded, hesitating slightly. "I agree. We shouldn't do anything stupid. Not until we've had this meeting. Everyone needs to know that Huening Kai's okay now."

"I can't believe you guys we're gonna go in without me," Yeonjun grumbled, sulking.

"Maybe if you weren't too busy trying to fix things then-"

"Guys please. Let's not do this now especially when Huening Kai could potentially be in danger," Beomgyu tiredly sighed, already fed up of them constantly arguing.

Once Soobin and Yeonjun calmed down, Huening Kai slowly piped up. "There's something else as well."

"What is it?" Soobin inquired, expectantly staring at the raven-haired boy.

Huening Kai grimaced. "I kind of promised that we would help Jennie."

"Whoa. Hold on. We don't even know this girl," Yeonjun scoffed, his tone full of disbelief at the fact that Huening Kai would promise to help an abused girl when in reality there wasn't anything they could do. They were idols. They weren't supposed to get themselves into things like this.

"I'm not gonna let a girl keep being abused," Huening Kai scowled, annoyed that Yeonjun was acting as if he didn't care.

"Huening Kai's right. We can't keep quiet about this," Taehyun said, staring at Yeonjun.

"I'm not saying we keep quiet about it. We just.." Yeonjun stopped, not knowing what else to say.

"We just what?" Soobin persisted, raising an eyebrow at the older.

"I..I don't know anymore," Yeonjun's gaze slowly flickered to the floor. It felt as though whenever he tried to fix things, he would just end up making things worse and ruining things. As the oldest member, he sometimes felt useless and it pained him—not being able to do anything to help.

"I think we should tell management. They will do their best to help," Beomgyu suggested, after a while of keeping quiet.

"You guys go ahead," Yeonjun grabbed onto Soobin's wrist and pulled him aside, "I need to talk to you."

"I don't have time for this hyung," Soobin annoyedly grunted, yanking his wrist away from Yeonjun's before folding his arms.

Soobin's cold behaviour towards him made Yeonjun feel upset that he caused the younger to be this way towards him. 

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for not understanding you. Not understanding your feelings I mean," Yeonjun stammered, shaking his head at his mistake.

"Sometimes I just feel like I'm all alone when I need you the most and it hurts because I want us to be together but at the same time I'm not sure anymore especially with everything going on. This girl and this saesang fan. Huening Kai being traumatized. The fans. Us being idols," Soobin sadly said, tears beginning to build up in his eyes as he bit down on his bottom lip—willing himself not to cry.

"We can work something out Soobin but please don't give up on us. Please. I love you and I won't stop loving you even if it means people finding out about us. I don't care. Please Soobin," Yeonjun pleaded, bursting out into a sob as he reached over for Soobin's hand but Soobin pulled his hand away from Yeonjun's reach.

"See this is what I mean. We both want different things. I don't want people to find out about us. I won't let people find out about us and to do that we shouldn't be together especially since we're just rookies and this could damage us. I can't do this anymore Yeonjun. Please try to understand and don't make this any harder for me than it already is," Soobin shook his head, squeezing his eyes shut.

"Don't you think this is hard for me too?" Yeonjun snapped, causing Soobin to flinch at Yeonjun's harsh tone.

Soobin's eyes fluttered open as he tearily stared at the older. "Sometimes doing the right thing hurts."

AN:

Sorry if this chapter is all over the place! I wasn't sure on how to continue on from the last chapter lol but I hope you guys enjoyed it!!

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