protect → hwang hyunjin [황 현진]

F I V E

Jeongin shuffled in his school uniform as he sat on the rooftop of his school's building, feet tapping on the floor.

"Hey, Jeongin." He turned to Seungmin as the older boy sat down next to him. "You seem distant lately. Everything alright?"

"Yeah." Jeongin breathed out, giving a weak smile to the boy next to him. "Just.. thinking about things."

"Things like what?"

Jeongin kept his mouth shut, not sure how to answer the older boy. Seungmin got the message and placed his hand on the younger boy's shoulder. "I don't know what's going on, but if things get hard you can always talk to me, alright?"

Jeongin nodded as they heard the bell ring inside the building, signalling the end of lunch break. "We should head in."

The two boys got up and walked back inside the building, on their way to their next class. Jeongin shuffled uncomfortably in his school uniform; every little thing seemed to bother him these days.

Seungmin placed his hand on Jeongin's shoulder before they both took a seat next to each other as their teacher entered the classroom and began his teaching.

Jeongin wasn't listening though, instead looking out the window on his right as he let his thoughts take over.

Something was wrong, right?

Something had to be wrong.

But Jeongin's head couldn't come up with another answer, no matter how stupid, as to what was going on.

"This class is boring." He heard someone behind him huff and he turned to Lee Felix, they boy who was rated the cutest in their grade.

Jeongin couldn't see it, though, and Felix's deep voice defied whatever point his face was trying to get across.

Felix caught the younger boy staring and flashed him an awkward smile before leaning forward to whisper. "Hey. What was your name again?"

Jeongin just turned back to face the front of the class, hearing the boy sigh behind him. "Why does everyone do that to me?"

Jeongin just went back to being drowned in his thoughts, not noticing how quickly time has passed until the bell rang again and the teacher stopped, assigning them their homework before leaving.

Jeongin watched as the students got up from their seats to go and chat with one another as he placed his head down on the table, eyelids dropping as his exhausted form plunged into deep slumber.

Jeongin saw it all over again, vivid like the blue sky on a clear day. The panic he felt when he received that call from the hospital when they found Hyunjin's body and how he felt dazed and watched his world turn when Hyunjin's heart stopped beating.

He remembers it clearly, how his vision blurred and his body failed to support him as he felt his head slam against the cold marble floor.

He didn't know how long he was out for but he did know that when he eventually woke up, he was soaked in a puddle of sweat as he tried to bury himself in the sheets of the school's emergency room bed.

The emergency room?

He immediately sat up, feeling the blood rush away from his head making him feel dazed.

"Woah, calm down there." He turned to Felix as the said boy tried to push Jeongin back down to lay on the bed. "You weren't waking up so a couple of students and I rushed you here."

"Jeongin!" Seungmin came in as soon as the australian boy ended his sentence, a drink in hand as he rushed to the younger boy. "How are you feeling? Are you alright? Should I call someone to pick you up? Maybe Hyunjin or Chan? School's already over."

"No, I'm fin- wait, school ended?" Jeongin spun his head to the window that the weak sun shone it's light through as it set.

"My mom will kill me." Felix chimed in, giving the two boys a sheepish smile. "And I have the second round of my auditions in less than a week and I should be practising."

Jeongin yawned, ignoring the unimportant information that spilled out of the boy's mouth as he got up and grabbed his backpack that was with Seungmin. "I need to head home; I'm exhausted."

"And you just woke up." Seungmin pointed out, one hand on his hip as he followed the younger boy out of the room, Felix not far behind. "For real, man, what's up with you?"

"Do any of you happen to own a really expensive black car with a rich looking man leaning over it because there's one right there." The australian boy nudged the two forward and they stepped off the curb as Jeongin looked up, eyes falling on Chan, the boy he's been trying to avoid.

"Jeongin, can we talk?"

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I love Woojin ㅠㅠ that bby better be ok or i'll swim to korea

I hope you're doing okay baby ♡♡ :'(