“Leader!” Chanyeol with his mouth agape, rushed over from the stairs, kneeled on the ground and watched Junymeon helplessly. Jongin too, dashed over and lifted the leader’s head to rest on his thighs, attempting to stop the blood from escaping his chest with his palm, a piece of shattered glass was pierced into Junymeon’s right ribs while all he did was pant heavily without a word.
“Leader! Leader you can’t die!” Chanyeol cried as he watched Junmyeon’s breath grew weaker. “I, I .. why .. would I be the leader?”
Baekhyun was rendered speechless.
Jongin silently lifted his head to look at Baekhyun, then at us, Chanyeol gave Baekhyun a strong push as his tears fell, “what have you done!” In that instant, Baekhyun started sobbing too, shaking his head in disbelief.
Yixing squatted down and held Baekhyun’s shoulders, “Take your time to speak, what happened.”
“I came out in search for water” He looked helplessly at Yixing.
“I know, subsequently?”
“I walked to the sides of the sofa and discovered a person …... wearing a hat, standing just beside the mirror with a knife…... and also a torch…..” Baekhyun stuttered ceaselessly. “He looked at me, held the knife beside his face and approached me ….” Baekhyun spoke and started crying.
“Then…. then…. he reached his hand out to me….. so I pushed him…..” he said, “he fell backwards and the mirror shattered.”
“And you murdered him” Tao asked
“No! No! I didn’t want to! I didn’t want to!” he looked frantically at everyone, “he laid on the ground with a muffled voice and said something I couldn’t even grasp hold of …” Baekhyun’s eyes took much difficulty to recall all that happened in the dark, “then, then, he crawled towards me and grabbed my hand ….....”
No one uttered a single word, it was pretty clear what happened after that. Baekhyun had picked up a piece of the shattered mirror and slashed him all over.
“Leader …....” Sehun and Kyungsoo crowded over, we didn’t move forward, giving them their space.
However, Junmyeon’s breaths became more rapid, he had long lost the ability to speak and just continued shaking his head. He scanned and searched through the crowd and suddenly grabbed onto Jongin’s hands, as though wanting to utter something. Eventually, a tear drop fell, and the breathing stopped.
Those were probably reluctant tears because as I observed, there was no knife on the ground, just a screwdriver.
Luhan picked up the screwdriver and a screw which had fallen from the broken mirror, he looked at Baekhyun, “the knife you were talking about was probably this.”
“Before heading upstairs today, Junmyeon told me his suspicions about a hearing device from beneath this mirror.” Luhan continued, “he didn’t inform us and came down to check alone.”
“And why didn’t you inform us?” Jongin lifted his vengeance filled eyes, Luhan was lost for words.
“How would Luhan know he was coming down, you can’t simply push the blame to someone else!” Tao’s tone was still that of someone who did not think before speaking.
“It was him who suggested not turning on the lights, which led to the misunderstanding by Baekhyun!”
“Hey, bro!” Tao said as he fidgeted with his sleeves, “everything was Baekhyun's doing, there is no point in blaming us, in the end it’s just Baekhyun who doesn’t trust us, he thinks that we would be out to kill in the middle of the night!”
“That’s not it …..” Baekhyun said as he sobbed, I thought that was the psychotic man ….....”
“Baekhyun’s innocence and flaws is nothing worth your judgements” Chanyeol looked at the ground instead of Tao, “leader would forgive him, as long as it wasn’t intentional.”
