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"Hyuck! Oh my god are you okay!", the worried face of Sicheng suddenly appeared in front of him. Donghyuck smiled slightly "Yeah I'm fine, don't worry...It was just a small headache."

"You literally passed out", Taeyong exclaimed stressed, after all he still cared a lot about the younger boy. Jaehyun grabbed Taeyong's hand, making the other calm down a bit.

"Okay, so what just happened?", Johnny wondered as he stared at Sicheng and Donghyuck confused and concerned.

Sicheng and Donghyuck made eye contact, the Chinese male asking the other if he could tell them. The younger nodded as he stood up by himself, politely refusing the hand Yuta offered to help him.

"Well, Donghyuck here lost his memory on the 11th of July.."

"What-"

"Be quiet", Sicheng cut the confused Doyoung off.

"Anyways, 5 other boys found him at the beach and took him in. They took care of Donghyuck the last few years, but they called him Haechan. They all knew that Donghyuck had a whole past that they weren't part of. And finally they decided to figure out who he used to be, already thinking it got something to do with you guys..well they got their answer when you guys came attacking the police station. As if that wasn't enough already you also decided to shoot our boss Kun", Sicheng glared at Doyoung who immediately protested.

"HE SHOT TAEIL!"

"No he did not. Now let me continue, okay neither of us", Sicheng gestured to himself and the boy who was timidly standing next to him, "Know what exactly went down the night Donghyuck lost...everything."

"It's a long and painful story", Taeyong muttered sadly.

"We got time", the gang members sighed and nodded. Everyone sat down on the ground, in some sort of failed circle.

"Well it was night, I was asleep", Jaehyun started after a rather long silence, "Until I heard screams coming from outside, I woke up and ran out of my house. Meeting the others who had heard the screams too, then we noticed it wasn't dark at all. The moon couldn't shine that bright and it obviously did not have a reddish glow."

Jaehyun stopped, it was like his voice didn't work while he was recalling the most horrible night of his life. Taeyong patted him on the back softly and started talking.

"The screams were getting louder, so we ran towards them. And there we saw a house on fire, your house on fire", the older looked at Donghyuck.

"The whole neighborhood was outside, but you weren't standing among them. So we asked an old man named Lee Sooman if he knew where you was. He told us that you were still trapped inside the house, of course we tried to get inside but they stopped us from doing so. Telling us that the fire brigade were on their way, but we didn't know how long they would take. Some tried to put out the fire by throwing buckets of water from the river onto your house, it did not work obviously."

Taeyong's teary eyes met with those of Jungwoo, the other boy nodded and started speaking. Voice soft and shaky.

"After what felt like a century you finally appeared, you weren't crying..no the shock was too big for that. We screamed at you, telling you to come outside and you listened to use like you always do. But before you could even reach the front door the ceiling fell on top of you. The entrance was blocked, we couldn't see you anymore..We didn't know if you were still alive."

"We honestly don't know how you got out there alive", Taeil whispered with tears already streaming down his face as Doyoung hugged him.

"Everything was on fucking fire, but when they told us you didn't make it...We didn't believe it. You were strong and smart, a stupid fire could 't be the cause of your dead. So we started searching everywhere, but there was no you. Eventually we gave up, still having a little bit of hope...but...it wasn't enough. We couldn't give our sadness and anger a place and so we started NCT 127. That's how it all began", Doyoung muttered as he too, started to cry.

Sicheng and Donghyuck listened and the younger boy finally burst out in tears, burying his face into Sicheng's neck.

None of them said a thing as they all cried with Donghyuck.

"Do you perhaps regained the memories of that night?", Johnny whispered, but Donghyuck shook his head. Oh how the latter wished he could remember, but at the same time he was afraid, terrified actually.

"WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK LUCAS?"

"WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS? I SAVED YOU!"

"HOW IS PUSHING ME IN FRONT OF A CAR SAVING ME?"

"WELL, I PUSHED YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE ABOUT TO FALL IN A HOLE AND BREAK SOMETHING! I DIDN'T MEAN TO PUSH YOU WITH SO MUCH FORCE!"

Two screaming voices were heard and Sicheng's head snapped up, almost dangerously fast. "Quick hide, they are our colleagues", the Chinese boy hissed.

All of the NCT 127 members opened their mouths, were could they possibly hide?

It was like Sicheng read their mind as he said: "I don't know, just...just think of something fast!" And so all of them hid behind trees, the slide or jumped into the bushes. Jungwoo was still wandering around though, as a child he was bad at hide and seek and look where it got him now.

"HYUCKIE, SICHENG!", the loud voice of Lucas thundered around the small playground. He suddenly saw a pale looking Jungwoo who was frozen in place. "Who's that?", the tall male wondered as he looked at the other two.

"Eh, we met him at the playground, but he has to go now", Sicheng hastily said.

"Ah okay", everyone sighed relieved and Jungwoo was about to walk away.

"WAIT!"

Everyone held their breathes in once again as Jungwoo stopped walking.  "I know you from somewhere..", Lucas mumbled as he stared at Jungwoo's cute face, trying to remember when he saw it before. At the end he gave up and shrugged, turning to his two friends after mumbling a small 'Never mind, nice to meet you'.

But before the giant could even open his mouth, Xiaojun appeared from behind him. "Where have you guys been?", he asked them angrily. You know they say that small people look cute when they're mad, but Xiaojun was actually terrifying.

No not really.

Sicheng smiled "I just wanted to talk to Hyuck and take him here."

Xiaojun rolled his eyes dramatically "Fine, but next time you better inform us. Now let's go home before Kun gives our dinner to Chenle and Jisung."

"No! He wouldn't!", Sicheng gasped as he grabbed Lucas and Xiaojun their hands and dragged them away from the gang members who were getting cramps from sitting in the same position for too long.

Donghyuck followed them, but kept quiet and stared at the ground. Thinking of the story that NCT 127 had just told him, trying to remember that evening.

"How did I survive?"