The day had come for Chan's visit to Felix and over the last two days, Minho has completely filled two pages of his diary. It seemed that when he forgot about his situation and just moved on with 'normal' life, information seemed to come to him more readily.
The doorbell went and Minho opened it to reveal a boy who certainly wasn't Chan. Felix wasn't downstairs yet so Minho panicked slightly and the boy just smiled sadly, "hi don't worry I'm from unite but I think we all need to have a talk."
Minho's heart dropped into his stomach as they walked into the lounge. He and the boy sat down and the boy began talking straight away, "Chan hyung has had to leave the country."
"What? What no, no, what do you mean? Surely not?" Minho began to panic and he heard a crash upstairs which only suggested that Felix had heard the boy's words too. The younger boy came rushing down the stairs at an unbelievable pace but he seemed to falter and his expression changed as soon as he locked eyes with the boy from unite.
"I-" Felix spoke and Minho confusedly looked between Felix and the boy to see that the boy had the same wide eyed expression.
"Ch, Changbin hyung?" Felix asked quietly and he stared at the boy in front of him who reacted almost immediately.
"Felix? Oh my god, Felix?" they rushed towards each other and Minho still hadn't quite figured out what was happening until both boys embraced and began to cry.
"Changbin hyung, I- I- I love you," Felix blurted out from beneath his sobs and they both hugged tightly but kept pulling back and staring at the others face simply to make sure that what they were seeing was real.
"I remember our anniversary," Changbin began struggling to fight his words through his cries, "a- and," he coughed a bit, "you fell into the fountain at the restaurant and we got kicked out," he cried and Felix giggled through his tears.
"And you had an argument with the manager because you'd paid for some drinks and we never got them," Felix finished off the story and Minho felt such warmth in his heart at watching the situation between the two unfold that tears began to spring into his eyes as well.
It was almost as if they had forgotten that anything else in the world existed and Minho could hardly blame them. The lengths that they had gone to to be together in the first place, the lengths they had gone to to find each other and what it meant now that they had was enormous.
Minho couldn't be prouder.
When he zoned back in from his teary daze he noticed the two boys staring at him, "what?" he asked them causing them both to giggle uncontrollably.
"Why are you crying?" Felix laughed and Minho began to giggle too.
"It's emotional and I'm just so happy for you, both of you," he smiled and Felix rushed over to give him a hug.
"Binnie hyung! This is Minho hyung he's my not real real brother," Felix introduced Minho and the two other boys stood up immediately and greeted each other.
"I take it you're not leaving without him?" Changbin asked with a bright smile on his face.
"Never." Felix spoke firmly.
"Well, we better get to getting his memories on the database," Changbin grinned as he took out his laptop and Felix's smile faltered for a second as he recalled the reason why Changbin was here in the first place.
"Binnie hyung, what happened to Chan hyung?" Felix asked and Changbin looked saddened by the question.
"Sit down and I'll explain it to you," Changbin spoke and the two boys did as he asked.
"It was last night and everyone was just sleeping, Chan hyung was cuddling with Woojin hyung watching some film and then he got a message from the boss of Unite telling him to leave the country there and then, turns out one of the new memory wiped kids had told the doctors about him or something accidentally, you know what Chan's like he didn't blame the kid but the kid was supposed to be taken immediately to have his memory wiped again and the police were gonna come for Chan and Woojin the next morning so they all had to leave last night," tears of sadness collected in Felix's eyes upon hearing this and Changbin looked as if his hurt had doubled upon seeing the younger upset, "he's gone off to Australia you know?" Changbin brushed a tear on Felix's cheek away with his finger, "I'm sure they'll be really happy there, we'll see him again Lix when we go, all of us will," he spoke determinedly.
"Thank you hyung," Felix spoke and rested his head on Changbin's shoulder while the boy pulled out his laptop and Minho pulled out his diary.
"Minho hyung, your matches went down to 93 over the last couple of days already? Woah, you've only been out for 2 weeks?" Changbin asked with his eyes wide in pure surprise, "that's amazing??" he told Minho who smiled grateful for the positivity.
"Okay what have you remembered this week?"
"Well," Minho spoke as he opened up his notebook, "the year 2000 stuck out and I saw a TV show where the main character's family name was Han and I don't know but I couldn't stop thinking about this character and their family name so maybe that's something and I remembered the animal quokka even though I can't remember what that is and I remembered the colour red and-" Minho was cut off by Changbin.
"Okay hyung slow down I need to write all of this in," Changbin laughed and Minho smiled softly, "you're sure Chan hyung only saw you two days ago?" the shortest boy spoke and Minho nodded, "how have you remembered so much stuff, I've never seen anyone like you."
"Changbin hyung, how long have you been out?" Felix asked.
"I've been out for two and a half months now," the boy smiled in reply, "why? Haven't you been out that long?" he countered.
"No, I've only been out for a month and a week," Felix furrowed his brow.
"It happens like that sometimes Lix, some people take a lot longer to wake up," Changbin explained and Minho didn't like this idea.
"So that means my lover might not even have woken up yet?" Minho asked and Changbin shook his head.
"What happened with Lix and I is unusual," the boy explained, "usually people are only let out a few days or at most a week apart, the speed at which you wake up depends on how good your memory is," Changbin spoke.
"You always had a bad memory," Felix laughed at Changbin before realising what he'd said, "woah, how did I remember that?"
Changbin smiled with adoration down at the Australian, "you do keep remembering little things and then at some point you'll remember so much that it'll feel like this never happened, Chan hyung and Woojin hyung could remember pretty much everything."
"Really?" Minho asked with hope in his eyes, "I thought you lost everything forever?"
"No, of course not," Changbin spoke, "the serum is only a suppressant, it's impossible to wipe your entire memory forever without damaging your brain," he explained, "but anyway is there anything else you need to add hyung?"
"Chocolate cake," Minho replied and Changbin laughed, "okay chocolate cake has been added."
They waited for a few second in silence and Minho's number of matches began to calculate and they all took a deep breath when it appeared. "110," Changbin breathed in shock, "and you've been out for two weeks?"
"That's insane, I was on 1087 after my second week," Felix laughed and Changbin grabbed his hand and squeezed it.
"That doesn't matter now," Minho heard his voice but it faded into the background.
There was 110 people on that database that matched with him and one of them was highly likely to be the boy he risked everything for. He had to find him, for himself, for his lover, for Felix, for Changbin, for Chan and for anyone who had risked anything for him. He had to.
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