Cloaked Heart | Yeonbin

Chapter Twenty-Five

"It's my fault that Soobin and Yeonjun hyung are fighting isn't it?"

Beomgyu and Taehyun turned to stare at the younger boy with wide eyes. No one could blame Huening Kai. After all, it wasn't his fault that Yeonjun and Soobin were in this state. They didn't want their maknae to feel guilty for something that he didn't cause. It wasn't right.

"Of course it's not your fault," Beomgyu sighed, making his way over to wrap an arm around the younger.

The raven-haired boy sniffled, his head slightly bowed as he lifted his hand up to wipe the tears that were falling from his eyes. Even though the other members didn't blame him, he couldn't say the same for himself. If he hadn't run away from his problems, Yeonjun and Soobin wouldn't be fighting and arguing all the time. If he hadn't run away from his problems, their staff wouldn't be stressed trying to search for him instead of focusing on planning their upcoming fansign event. He was the problem and refused to see it differently.

"Then..then why is everything going wrong?" Huening Kai cried, covering his face with his hands in sheer embarrassment that he was bawling like a baby.

"Huening Kai," Taehyun softly called out, pulling Huening Kai's hands away from his face and forcing the younger boy to make eye contact with him. "We're going to sort this out and everything will be fine. We're going to protect you from this ever happening again."

"And Soobin and Yeonjun hyung were having problems from the start so please don't think it's about you. Okay?" Beomgyu added, trying to reassure Huening Kai.

Huening Kai slowly nodded, his vision blurry with tears as he chewed on his bottom lip. 

"Don't walk away from me Soobin," Yeonjun hissed, reaching out to grab Soobin's arm and spin him back around.

"Hyung stop it," Soobin grunted, pulling his wrist away. "I don't wanna talk about this anymore! I told you I'm done with this. Whatever this is."

Yeonjun scoffed, throwing him an incredulous look almost as if he couldn't believe what Soobin was saying. "Whatever this is?"

To hear these words come out of Soobin was like someone countlessly stabbing Yeonjun's heart. He had sacrificed so many things just to make this relationship work but to hear that Soobin felt otherwise made Yeonjun angry. He thought that they loved each other and people who love each other wouldn't give up so easily.

"Yeah whatever this is," Soobin blankly said, shrugging whilst folding his arms.

Yeonjun was quiet for a moment as he examined the younger with narrowed eyes. "So all this time, you didn't really have feelings for me?"

Soobin averted Yeonjun's gaze, taken aback by the sudden question. He didn't know how to answer so he stayed silent, not wanting to hurt the older anymore. He didn't want to fight about this. Yeonjun was making this harder for him than it should be. All he had to do was to let Soobin go and they could carry on with their lives. 

"Answer me Soobin!" Yeonjun exclaimed, his bottom lip trembling as his eyes glistened with tears.

"I'm sorry," Soobin whispered, squeezing his eyes shut before turning around and walking away leaving Yeonjun to stare after him with a pained expression.

As soon as he was a further distance away from the older, Soobin burst into tears as he brought his hand up to cover his mouth. He didn't want to do this but he had no choice. These feelings that he had for Yeonjun was going to ruin them. Ruin everything that they had worked hard for. All those times he would practice like there was no tomorrow after school or even on the weekends, it was for him to debut. To have a chance to debut and he finally did with four other people. Four other people that he cherished and was supposed to protect as the leader. 

Deeply inhaling, he wiped the tears away with the back of his hand before fixing his hair and walking back over to Beomgyu, Taehyun and Huening Kai who their backs to him. He was going to be strong and survive this.

"What's happened?" Soobin worriedly asked, noticing that Beomgyu and Taehyun were cradling their maknae. 

"Nothing hyung. I'm fine just a little tired," Huening Kai lied, slightly pulling away from the pair. He didn't want Soobin to worry about him.

Beomgyu and Taehyun shared a knowing look before moving away to give Huening Kai some space to breathe.

Beomgyu frowned, staring at Soobin who was looking down at the floor. "Where's Yeonjun hyung?"

The mention of his name made Soobin flicker his gaze up at Beomgyu, unsure of what to say. "He's-"

"I'm here," Yeonjun said, appearing from the corner. 

Everyone turned to stare at him including Soobin who tried not to make it obvious. Yeonjun's eyes were puffy and slightly red but a smile still made its way on his face as he stared back at the others. "Are we going in or what? Everyone's waiting for us."

Beomgyu instantly knew that something had happened between them but chose not to say anything in fear of making the situation worse so instead, he firmly nodded. "Yeah, let's go in."

"So Huening Kai, in your own words please inform us what happened," the police officer said, sitting down in front of Huening Kai.

"I.." Huening Kai hesitated, turning around to stare his members and the staff who were giving him a look of encouragement to continue before he turned back around at the police officer. "I was going for a walk when I was kidnapped by this boy who looked about my age. His name was Sunwoo and he took me to his house where I met his older adoptive sister Jennie. I found out that she was being abused by Sunwoo. She helped me escape by distracting Sunwoo."

The police officer nodded, writing all of this down on his notepad. "So, where would you say this was? What part of Seoul?"

"Um, I don't remember," Huening Kai stammered, squeezing his eyes shut as he tried to rack his brain for anything but nothing seemed to come in mind. 

"It's okay just take your time," he reassured, comforting Huening Kai.

"That's all I remember sorry," Huening Kai said, sheepishly staring down at his lap.

"That's fine," the police officer smiled, standing up.

"So you're going to find that boy and arrest him for attempted kidnap?" Jaehyuk, their manager, angrily inquired, his arms folded as he stared at the police officer.

"What about Jennie? She didn't do anything so please don't arrest her," Huening Kai pleaded.

"I'm sorry but she's gonna have to be brought in for questioning once we find them," the police officer apologetically said.

"Thank you sir for your help. I'll show you the way out," Jaehyuk said, leading the police officer out of the meeting room.

"You did your best," Taehyun comforted, placing a hand on Huening Kai's shoulder. "I'm sure Jennie will be fine."

"I hope so hyung," Huening Kai whispered, leaning into Taehyun's touch.

Beomgyu took this opportunity to push Soobin back so only he could hear what he was about to ask. "What happened with you and Yeonjun hyung?"

Soobin blinked at him. "Nothing."

Beomgyu frowned, annoyed. "Why do both of you look like you've been crying then?"

"Just drop it Beomgyu please. Things aren't gonna get better if you keep bringing up the past," Soobin snapped before making his way back over to Huening Kai and the others.

Beomgyu stared after him in confusion. Something definitely happened and he was going to find out.

AN:

Oooooh what's gonna happen to Sunwoo and Jennie! Are you guys curious? Hehehe anyways sorry that there's not much TaeGyu in this chapter I was mainly focusing on Huening Kai and Yeonbin but next chapter there's definitely going to be more TaeGyu so don't worry! 

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed! 

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