SEVENTEEN

Chapter 2

Poor Seungcheol didn't know how right he was when he said that it was going to be a long night. Between the three of them they must of gotten only about 1 hour of sleep each. Jeonghan had spent pretty much the whole night puking his guts out in the bathroom. Joshua and Seungcheol tried to take turns taking care of him in shifts since Joshua had classes the next morning and Seungcheol, Woozi and Hoshi had to meet with their next client that afternoon. Though neither would leave the other alone in case they needed help with Jeonghan. And poor Jeonghan had spent the whole entire night either throwing up and suffering from massive bouts of nausea or from strong waves of diaherra. Needless to say that he didn't have a very pleasant night to say the least. Though he had finally passed out from exhaustion at around 5 AM, leaving Joshua and Seungcheol about 2 hours before one of them had to get up to start his day. So once Jeonghan was down for the count, the two of them flopped down onto the bed on either side of him and went to sleep. With how their luck was going they were going to need all of the sleep that they could get if they were planning on doing anything productive the next day. Finally after a long night of sickness finally all three of them could sleep.

The sudden shrill noise of the alarm clock was what woke them up that morning. The sound was loud and peiricing and if Seungcheol didn't turn that stupid thing off that he bought cheap at a yard sale 3 years ago and it woke Jeonghan up, he was going to kill him. As time went on the thing just kept going and it got to the point that Joshua couldn't stand it anymore and lobbed one of his pillows at Seungcheol's head. "Huh, what?" Seungcheol said kind of loudly. "Shh. You're going to wake Hannie up, turn off your stupid alarm." Joshua whispered shouted at him. His boyfriend shook his head and moved to turn off the alarm so as not to wake up their other lover. "Sorry." He said as he finally got the alarm to turn off. Joshua sighed and moved to look at his phone that he had laid on the nightstand. His phone told him that it was about 7:15, he dropped back down onto the bed in exhaustion. He hadn't had any sleep last night with how sick Jeonghan was, and he dreaded going to school today with what little energy that he has.

"Hey." Seungcheol called as he tried to get his attention. "Hmm." Joshua answered him. "If you feel tired enough you can stay home from school and rest nobody will blame you for it." "I know that nobody will blame me for it, but I do know for a fact that Hannie will feel gulity that I had to miss class because I was so tired from taking care of him." He stated a matter of factly. And Seungcheol knew that he was right about that. If him and Joshua stayed home to rest Jeonghan would feel gulity, and if they went and left the apartment he would feel bad. It was a loose, loose, situation. So they had no choice but to just go on with their regular life and hoped that they got back before he woke up so they wouldn't have to combat against another mental breakdown like they had last night."What time do you have to be in class?" Seungcheol asked. "9:30, I just have a lecture and then shadowing at the hospital until 7." Joshua told him. "What about you?" He asked as he began to move to get out of bed so that he could get ready for his day. "I just have the meeting with the client and then I guess me Jihoonie and Sooyoungie have to start planning out the job from there." Seungcheol said as he rolled over to face Joshua and cuddled Jeonghan some more. Joshua hummed in agreement as he began to buzz around their bedroom to get ready. He vanished into the bathroom for about 15 minutes before coming back out dressed in his hospital scrubs. "Ok, well I'm gone, have a good day and I'll see you two later and call me if he gets worse or anyone needs anything ok? I love you." Joshua said as he leant down to place a chaste kiss on Seungcheol's lips. He moved over and placed a soft one on Jeonghan's forehead. "He's still a bit warm." Joshua commented in a worried tone. "Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it throughout the day." Seungcheol told him. "Now go, if you wait any longer you're going to be late." And with that Joshua disappeared out the door.

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Once Joshua was able to will himself to leave the room he walked out into the kitchen. There he was greeted by the only other two members who should be awake at this hour. He was met with them and he was surprised to see Mingyu there as well, along with Wonwoo. "Good Morning." Joshua greeted as he walked into the kitchen. "Morning Hyung!" They all chorused back in unison. "How'd you sleep last night Hyung?" Seokmin asked him as he sat down next to him at the island in the middle of the room. It was Mingyu's favorite thing about the kitchen at this new place. When he saw it he about tackled Minghao to the floor screaming "Look Hao! We have so much more counter space now!" Minghao had just rolled his eyes at his best friend's antics and told him to get off of him. Mingyu replied and then went to go tackle Hansol to tell him all about it next. Joshua smiled to himself at the fond memory of one of his many little brother figures. "Um, Hyung?" He heard Mingyu's voice asked timidly. And that was what brought him out of his stupor that he was in from the lack of sleep. Mingyu in all of the time that he has ever known him, has never sounded so timid and quiet. "Yes, Gyu-ah, what it is, what's wrong?" He questioned. "Oh, No! Hyung don't worry nothing's wrong with me, I'm ok. I was just checking on Jeonghan, he seemed really upset last night and I didn't get the chance to ask before I went to bed." Mingyu confessed to him. Well, that took a lot of stress and pressure off of Joshua's shoulders since there wasn't actually anything wrong that he would of had to fix before leaving. "Well, as you all know Hannie kind of had a hard time last night after you all got back from your job, he wasn't really acting like himself." Joshua told them all. "Did you and Seungcheol-Hyung figure out what was wrong and make up with him?" Seungkwan asked him. "Yes, we did Kwanie, as it turns out Hannie's sick." He was met with a whole collective gasp from the rest of them as response. For you see even though Jeonghan is one of the members with less stamina and he gets tired really easily, he doesn't get sick like ever. A couple of years back Soonyoung had joked that it was because he slept so much that all of the germs found him to be such a pointless target for them to go after. That comment earned him a smack on the head from both Wonwoo and Jihoon. So, needless to say, when Jeonghan gets sick, he gets SICK. "Oh my gosh!" Seokmin said. And everyone could tell that by his tone that he was very worried about his Hyung. "Yes, I know that it's surprising, and that you are all worried about him, but please for the sake of ours and everyone else's sanity leave him alone." Joshua had told them. He knew what would happen once he left for the day. When him, Seungkwan and Seokmin would leave the other 8 members that were left in the apartment that weren't either sick or on sick duty would descend on them in their bedroom and not leave the two of them alone all day. Now don't get him wrong, Joshua knew that all of his younger brothers loved their Hyungs, especially their Jeonghan-Hyung, but when he gets sick, Jeonghan is almost completely un-functionable. He can't help it, that's just how he is when he's sick and he gets overwhelmed very easily, and having 8 frantic members circling him constantly would freak him out. So Joshua sort of had to lay down the ground rules for when he's gone.