"no! he started it!" wooyoung whined.
"i don't care who started it. your brother was already upset and in need of both of your help, so do you think that it was at all acceptable to fight? and in front of wooyoung's new friend, too?" seonghwa lectured.
while wooyoung crossed his arms and tapped his foot angrily, yunho was staring at the ground in shame, feeling horrible for hitting his brother.
"both of you are grounded for a few days. i want you both to go apologize to yeosang, then go to your rooms and think about this. you can apologize to each other later." seonghwa continued, earning a sigh from wooyoung, while yunho still stayed silent.
"go, yunho. apologize first."
yunho nodded and walked into yeosang's room. he saw his younger brother laying in his bed, with his blanket covering everything but his eyes and hair, facing away from yunho.
"hey, um... yeosang..." yunho started, muttering his words and rubbing the back of his head.
yeosang simply shook his head in acknowledgment.
yunho stood with his knees pressed up against the bed frame, slowly leaning over to look at his brother. yeosang's face was red, with tears still glossed over his puffy eyes. he squeezed his own hands tightly as he felt his heart breaking. yunho felt terrible for everything, internally blaming the whole situation on himself.
"hey.. i just wanted to say.. i'm..." yunho paused as he felt a few tears of his own escape his eyes. "i'm really sorry for yelling at you and scaring you like that. all i want is for you to be healthy and happy. i don't like to see you upset... i'm really sorry." yunho managed to mutter out.
yeosang didn't move a muscle. yunho wiped eyes and tried his best to calm down despite how guilty and gross he felt.
once he left, wooyoung came in.
"yeosang, i am sorry if i hurt your feelings. but i'm not sorry for trying to help you. i just want what's best for you, i'm sorry if my tone made you feel bad."
the older still didn't move at all. wooyoung shrugged and left quickly, barely feeling bad for the situation.
meanwhile, while wooyoung talked to yeosang, seonghwa watched as yunho came out of the room in tears. every thought of trying to be disciplinary fell completely out of his head, and he jumped up, acting in his motherly ways, which were much more fit for him than punishing his children.
the parent somehow picked up the nearly fourteen year old and hugged his tightly, stroking his hair and walking to yunho's room to sit on the bed.
he kept the hug going while he spoke.
"thank you for saying sorry. i can tell you really meant it. i understand being the oldest is hard, i know. my oldest sibling went through just what you went through. i know it's hard, because you act like the third parent, you take care of them at school when dad and i can't. and hey.." seonghwa pulled away the hug, standing yunho on the ground and patting his shoulder.
"dad and i really appreciate it. we are so grateful for you doing this, and we're so proud of you. don't even forget that. okay? i love you. stay in here for a couple minutes, i'll call you out when it's time."
seonghwa then ruffled yunho's hair, causing the child to finally smile, followed by the parent standing up and leaving the room.
once he was in the hallway, he found wooyoung standing there, waiting for him.
"hey, mom, can i talk to you? it's about yeosang..."
"sure, go ahead." seonghwa responded and sat down against the wall, letting his feet press against the wall on the other side of the hallway. wooyoung then sat down as well, only a door's length away from seonghwa.
"so you know how we were talking about yeosang being upset about beomseok, and told you barely anything else?" "yeah?" "well, the entire reason everyone was so upset was because.. while i was with renji, i think yunho was looking for yeosang, because yesterday.. yeosang didn't eat his lunch at all, and he skipped dinner too. we thought we saw him eat breakfast this morning, but the more i think about it, i realize he was just staring at a bowl of cereal and not doing anything with it. and so you can see why yunho was really desperate to find yeosang and make sure he ate, because yunho always gets worried about us eating, even when we have eaten plenty. but yeosang was fighting him and fought us over it, he seems really upset... i think this beomseok thing is really doing something to him. and it's not good. he hasn't eaten anything since yesterday morning, so now i'm really worried about him. and we didn't tell you because i know that only you know this level of seriousness... when i was basically yelling at him, yeosang got really upset.. worse than i've ever seen him upset before. he was yelling out, signing so aggressively i could barely make out what he was saying, and then he started trying to talk—or, more like yell. he kept saying 'no.' he even said 'i miss,' but he couldn't continue it because he got too frustrated and couldn't do anything else. it really scared me... i've never seen him like that. can you talk to him? i'm bad at talking about things like that.. but i know you can talk to him." wooyoung explained in the best detail he could tell it in.
seonghwa, processing every word, understood the seriousness of the situation. it'd become a thing that yeosang would only try to talk if he was overly upset or freaking out. so it had to be serious.
seonghwa sighed, standing up and walking as quietly as possible into yeosang's room.
he walked up to the bed, sat on the edge, and rubbing yeosang's back through the blanket. "hey honey... is everything alright? i know you may not be in the mood to tell me, but i really think i deserve to know. it'll be okay, you can tell me anything at all. i just wanna know what's going on, so that i can find a way to help."
yeosang finally moved to the other side of the bed and sat up, so that seonghwa had room to sit down comfortably on the bed.
'mom, i heard you and wooyoung talking outside. i'm sorry. i'm sorry for worrying yunho and wooyoung, and for worrying you, and for being too caught up on one boy, and not taking care of myself. i'm sorry.'
his hands moved slowly, a few small tears running down his expressionless face as he signed.
sorry there's some stuff going on in my personal life and i needed to get some angst out to kind of feel better about it. anyways i love you all so so so so much let's all pray we get red yeosang this comeback amen hallelujah <3
