Cats & Groceries || Hyungwonho!

Chapter 18!

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Eight years ago.

It was there again, the humming sound inside his head, ticking him off as he tries to block his mothers words.

Hyungwon cant help but feel a little frustrated, more on the irrational side of himself. It was usually like this, for the past years of his life, his mom forcing hyungwon to wear a tie and coat, his mom forcing hyungwon to be polite and staple his mouth shut, his mom forcing hyungwon to act like he was the perfect son in this perfect family but in reality it contains a rebellious son,a submissive father and a deranged mother.

Hyungwon want none of it anymore.

"I told you I wont go to this stupid reunion. Changkyun needs me!" hyungwon shouted at the top of his lungs, busy wearing his jacket before picking up his backpack that contains his camera.

Miss Jaehyun was harshly pulling hyungwon, trying to make her child listen to her as sharp nails slowly digs into hyungwons skin "Hyungwon, You have to listen to me. Family First or your grandfathers wrath would turn loose. That is the protocol."

Hyungwon pulled his arm away, a slight throbbing could be felt as a small line blood of blood gushes out of hyungwons skin. "I dont care about the stupid protocol Mom! Im fifteen, let me be!"

Hyungwon then ran out of his room, leaving his strickened mom as she calls her husband.

"He wont go. Tell papa to teach him a lesson, will you? because apparently the Lim child was more important..."

Loud Bang of the door.

A stare at the mirror infront of the room.

Such tension she was building.

And with a evil snicker plastered in her mouth, she ended it with much more grace and abhor.

She cant wait for hyungwon to learn his lessons.

and the long pause have stopped, "...than us."

And hiding along the corridors of the Chae Residence, Mr. Namjoon heared it all.

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"Holy shit, Changkyun. You gotta see this!" Hyungwon excitedly shouted, as his tired feet dugged on the uneven ground.

Its been weeks since he thought of this very moment. Standing on top of this very mountain, just few steps of hurtling himself into his death and yet hyungwon didnt realize the beauty he could capture beneath his fingers.

And as changkyun came close with hyungwon, his hands immediately wrapping with hyungwon.

Hyungwon welcomed the heat of his palms as his feelings inside started to wreck havoc.  He felt happy, so happy. Overjoyed with way things are happening.

"Changkyun...you do know that I like you right?" hyungwon

"If I didnt like you back, do you think we'll be holding hands now?"

"So you like me back?"

Changkyun only gave hyungwon a kiss on the cheeks, just a playful one but something that made changkyun to be overjoyed with what he was done.

"Hyung, you're kinda a dumbo."

"Not a dumbo just taken aback...how bout you kiss me on the right cheek?"

Changkyun only gave hyungwon a little smack as he grabbed hyungwons camera and said, lets get back to work.

Hours have passed as the sun was now directly shining on them with changkyun sneaking some cheek kisses and hyungwon furiously blushing as he stole pictures of the significant other.

It was something that theyve done for the past hours. Flirting and being happy on their own cloud. Until changkyuns phone rang.

"Its dad." changkyun retorted when he saw hyungwons worried face in the distance. "Yep, Im with Hyungwon right now." Changkyun happily said not letting go of hyungwons stare.

Until his expression changed and turned into a dreadful one as he looks at hyungwon with such defensive almost as if hyungwon did something wrong.

"I-I'll go home." changkyun almost whispers and in that exact moment, hyungwon heared something that broke his heart more than he exepected.

They're supposed to be happy, changkyun why arent you happy.

Hyungwon was ready to speak up, mouth ready to blabber to make changkyun feel alright. To make things alright and yet changkyun cut him off, the bitterness and hurt evident as the younger boy bit his lips from crying.

"Dad's right... I shouldnt have involved myself with a Chae."

And with that changkyun with tears glistening in his eyes, let go of hyungwons stare to run away.

As hyungwon stared at the running figure, the tightening of heart to the point of him unable to move. He felt...he felt, hyungwon suddenly felt nothing other than the fact that he did something he never wanted to happen in the first place.

What have I done...this time?

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Mr. Namjoon have spent hours and hours of finding the child, the sky was beginning to turn gray as the sign of rain was coming so soon.

He was running out of time.

As he wills himself to not give up, shouting orders from his team to search the grounds. He himself went forward, even if the harsh cold wind almost made him tumble on the ground.

As sweat fans his face and back, Namjoon came to rest as he stops on the top of the mountain.

And then he heared the certain mumbles of a child on one of the trees. Looking up, Namjoon swears he heared his heart break for the child too.

There goes the fifteen year old child confused, broken and unfortunately looking beaten with all the tears and puffed up cheeks.

"Mr. Namjoon...I-I fu-fucking messed u-up. H-he...Cha-- Changkyun left me."

Namjoon only called his other men to stop the search and pick them up, telling the location in a calm voice he always does. Namjoon knows that the child was in a fragile state, probably still shocked and too broken to process things.

And so as Namjoon took the child down on the ground, hyungwon's weight immediately collapsing into his as he silently cries again. Namjoon didnt even contemplate to tell the child what happened.

The Lim went bankrupt in a snap of Master Chae's finger, his grandfather suddenly ordering all of them to move out of South Korea and all of this happened in the span of an hour.

Namjoon knows that Hyungwon couldnt bear to hear all of this. He was scared that the child would go to a depressive mode and even worse would finally go berserk and kill himself.

And so Namjoon only sat on the ground as the youngest chae, cried on his chest as if the younger was his child himself.

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"Mr. Chae? We have to stay in the motel for the night. Please

Hyungwon only nodded, cant even look in the eye for the man who hyungwon saw in his youthful age but now his hair was covered in white grey hairs and happy lines deeply carved into his skin.

Cant look at the man who saw him in his frail state of mind and saw him for who he was, even on the last time he ran away from his family.

"Lead the way, Mr. Namjoon. We'll closely follow you behind."

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I hate families with this kind of protocol. its real, and its sad that people have to suffer because of it.

Like i get it that family first and you have to think of them because theyre your same blood but like mygod.

anyway, ily