Promise. [Woosan] // [Ateez]

Fourteen

Seonghwa had already sent san back to his room when Hongjoong suddenly opened the door.

The room was pitch black and he didn't want to risk waking up the other two. So, he quietly stepped into the room walking down to his bunk as he sat up against the wall grabbing his laptop and placing it into his lap.

Hongjoong had managed to stop the tears on his way back to their room, as he didn't want to worry any of the others or cause any commotion.

Hongjoong sat there as he reached for his earphones that were placed on the end of his bed, placing them on his head as he played the sample he had been working on over and over again at a dangerously loud volume.

Meanwhile Seonghwa was laying on the top bunk with Yeosang sleeping next to him, as his head lay on his stomach. He couldn't sleep either, the past couple of days he had been so worried about Yeosang's mental health and now that Wooyoung was acting up as well his stress only seem to become worse.

Of course he didn't need to, he didn't need to worry or stress about the members, but he loved the all the kids and he knew that as eldest he had to be there for them and be the motherly figure to worry and comfort them. No one had to tell Seonghwa to do it, it just felt right. So when he started to hear Hongjoong furiously type into his laptop he started to worry, keeping a close eye on the leader.

Hongjoong had never be one to lean on another, defiantly never one to share his feelings to someone else. It wasn't because he didn't want to, it was because he felt the constant pressure not to. Afterall he was the leader and he's supposed to comfort the members when they need it, be the one who takes care of them and leads them. But sometimes he did fall apart, whether is was in the bathroom during practise or late at night in the studio. Hongjoong made sure to keep his burdens far away from the members, but tonight he couldn't control the anger and sadness he felt. As a leader he wants the members to trust his and rely on him but the fact that Wooyoung couldn't tell Hongjoong his hardships, left the boy questioning what he had done to lose that trust.

Hongjoong had planned to go to sleep but he knew that if he stopped for one minute, he would suddenly start to think at all the possible reasons on why Wooyoung couldn't tell Hongjoong his troubles, making excuses up for himself, blaming himself. And after what happened earlier, he was sure that he didn't want to cry again.

Seonghwa was getting desperately tired and he wanted to sleep so badly but just the fact that Hongjoong was still up made him want to wait till he went to bed.

"H-"He softly said as he was then cut off by a loud sigh.

"Ahhh" Hongjoong let out, as he pushed his laptop aside throwing his headphones off his bed.

He banged his head back onto the wall as he took deep breaths trying to calm himself down before he made himself even angrier.

But a flood of emotions hit him, everything that he had pushed aside for the past 3 months had suddenly all came back to him at once.

Seonghwa lifted his head as he carefully listened to any other subtle movements that the younger made. But he heard nothing.

After a while Seonghwa decided that Hongjoong had just fallen asleep after waiting several minutes to check, he would have peeked over the edge, but he didn't want to have to move Yeosang head.

He slowly shut his eyes and he relaxed back into the pillow placing his other hand on top of Yeosang's head, running his fingers through his soft hair.

He felt the sleep catch up on him until he heard a sudden movement from underneath.

Hongjoong let out a heavy sigh as he felt tears fill his eyes once again, but this time he was going to head straight for the bathroom, not wanting to disturb anyone.