The mask / 2park

The worst experience ever

Jihoon woke up on the couch entangled with Woojin who was still asleep. Normally Woojin would wake up first, actually this was the first time Jihoon woke up before him. Jihoon looked over at the sleeping boy examining all the cuts and bruises, it looked worse in the light. He frowned looking at all the bandages covering Woojin feeling slightly angry at whoever caused him this pain. Woojin stirred stretching and eventually opening his eyes.

"You finally up?" Jihoon said smiling and brushing the hair out of Woojins eyes.

"...yeah...weird you woke up before me?" Woojin said sitting up and rubbing his eyes.

"Guess you were more tired than usual...by the way...were like really late to school," Jihoon said looking at his phone.

"Huh?!" Woojin said glancing at his phone.

"Just wear what you wore yesterday it's clean so go get dressed and we can ride the transit there." Jihoon said heading to his room and getting dressed.

"Ok!" Woojin said heading to the other room. "Where's my mask?"

"It's on the shelf or something," Jihoon yelled back to Woojin.

They got dressed and rode the transit to the stop at school and made it just in time for lunch.

"Where were you guys and what happened to you Woojin?" Daehwi asked looking at the strangely.

"I fell down some stairs walking to school and Jihoon happened to walk by so we were late and stuff." Woojin lied without hesitation as if he were thinking about it for awhile.

"Oh....ok?" Daehwi said before changing the subject and rambling excitedly like he always would.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom," Jihoon said getting up and heading towards the restroom. He weirdly felt eyes following him, after he washed his hands he turned around to see a tall dark haired male blocking the exit to the restroom.

"Um...your blocking the door," Jihoon awkwardly said to the male.

"Oh sorry, but while your here.....are you a friend of Woojins?" The male said a mysterious tone lingering in his voice.

"Y..yeah?" Jihoon said as he was suddenly slammed against the wall the male holding the collar of his shirt tightly.

"Im warning you to STOP being friends with him....or else..." the male said his eyes shaking with a sense of rage.

"What?" Jihoon said, "there no way thats gonna happen."

"Well...don't say I didn't warn you.." the male said pushing Jihoon and walking out of the bathroom.

Jihoon stood there speechless in the bathroom until the bell rang snapping him out of his confusion. He walked out of the bathroom and saw Woojin waiting near the cafeteria doors for him. 'There's no way that dude can actually do anything,' Jihoon thought as he walked towards Woojin, they headed to the library afterwards.

Jihoon didn't really think about the strange male again until Daehwi showed up to school a couple days later in crutches.

"Dude what happened?" Daniel said expressing everyone's concern. Well not Jinyoungs he already knew what happened.

"I was pushed down the stairs...by some tall dude with black hair..." Daehwi said, "I don't have any proof so I just told the doctors I fell...it was so weird and random like what did I even do?"

"Did he say anything?" Jihoon asked remembering the guy who approached him earlier.

"He said...um...'I warned him, this is just another warning'?" Daehwi said scratching the back of his head awkwardly, "I don't even understand what that means."

Jihoon stood there frozen in shock for a moment until the bell rang and he was pulled to class by Daehwi.

Jihoon sat silently in class thinking of what to do, if he still hung around Woojin his friends could get hurt and maybe even Woojin could get hurt. If he didn't he would be the one hurting and not his friends, so Jihoon made the hardest decision he had ever had to make.

As Jihoon and Woojin were walking to lunch Jihoon turned to Woojin a cold look appearing on his face.

"Jihoon? What's wrong?" Woojin said extremely confused.

"Whats wrong is....we shouldn't be friends anymore..." Jihoon said avoiding eye contact with Woojin.

"W..what?" Woojin asked his voice shaking.

"Your just too....complicated...I can't deal with it anymore.." Jihoon said trying to keep his voice from shaking while his eyes started tearing up.

"I...I.." Woojin stammered shocked by the sudden change.

"I'm sorry Woojin...just don't come near me anymore.." Jihoon said before walking away tears streaming down his face.

Woojin stood there in the empty hallway, shocked. He felt tears build up in his eyes before walking directly out of the school.

Jihoon pulled himself together before lunch and realized as he saw the table he normally sat at he couldn't stay friends with anyone so he sat across the cafeteria. The others boys glanced over at him but he didn't meet any of their eyes avoiding them at all costs.

At the table...

"Where's Woojin? I wanna tell him the new nickname I have for him, it's Bagutts! Get it? Like if you say park Woojin really fast-" Daehwi started excitedly saying before seeing Jihoon not avoid them stopped him.

"What's up with him?" Daewhi said sinking back into his seat.

"I dont know he completely ignored me earlier..." Daniel said his smile disappearing.

"Me too.." Ong said seeming to be in a deep thought process.

They sat in silence for the remainder of lunch before going through the rest of the day like normal.

Weeks went by, Woojin sat at his old spot by himself. Occasionally Jihoon and Woojin eyes would meet just for Woojin to look away. Jihoon missed the other boy so bad that it hurt, Woojin missed Jihoon as well. Woojin looked so much more tired his eyes were dark the way he walked had no confidence he wore dark clothing with long sleeves. Jihoon felt terrible, he did this to Woojin, now it was too late to go back.

"If you say so Jinnie, 2park forever?"

"2park forever"

Those words echoed through Jihoons mind constantly, what had he done?

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Ahem stream "side effects" STRAY KIDSSS. My baby Hyunjin fighting everyone while looking flawless 😔👊.