HIDEOUT: LEE TAEYONG

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soyoung

"why the fuck would you do that soyoung?" i know i wasn't suppose to be scared, i know i wasn't suppose to feel like that when it's a kid yelling at his noona. i had to defend myself, but i couldn't help but stare at jaehyun who was helplessly sitting on the floor with his back leaning against the wall, his friend sicheng treating the injury he got.... got from me. "hey answer me!" donghyuck screamed.

everyone was circled around, like always screaming at me after i did something wrong.

it has always been me, always me just like before.... when i first got here, when donghyuck got harmed because of me and now jaehyun.

"donghyuck stop yelling." taeyong glowered at him.

"why aren't you answering me? why did you do it!"

"donghyuck stop."

"he's gonna bleed, like a lot and you can tell right now!" donghyuck paused, glancing at his hyung and pointed a finger at him. "can you see? look at him!"

i looked at him. his lips turning purple, skin turning pale as he laid his head on the wall, breathing heavily as if he couldn't. he looked just exactly like donghyuck, that time he got the stab on his stomach.

"he is as pale as snow and breathless as a human with no air." he screamed. "he's is loosing a lot of blood!" he continued.

"donghyuck i said stop yelling." taeyong stepped forward, blocking me away from the youngest.

"i fucking won't taeyong, just stop trying prevent me!"

"i said stop!"

"and soyoung, if he bleeds to death.." he paused.

"don't you fucking dare speak another word." taeyong gave him a last warning.

donghyuck sneered at taeyong. "then his death is on your hands!" he finished with the deadliest glare, specifically giving it to me as it never stopped. i felt the fear wrap around my heart, like choking me and not letting me go. right until taeyong had decided to push him roughly on the floor, the satisfaction drawing on taeyong's face when he noticed how donghyuck gradually got frightened.

"hyung~ stop." jungwoo spoke, his puppy eyes popping off as he immediately kneeled down to help friend.

"i think we all should just chill out, let's not make enough more noises before the remaining walkers out there will barge down the door." taeil spoke as everyone noticed that maybe the oldest, not the leader but the oldest should be in charge at the moment. he was never really respected as the oldest, now everyone is obliging his suggestion.... of course not the stubborn ones.

"didn't you see what soyoung did to jaehyun oppa?! she cut of his wrist, obviously because she knew that he will bleed to death!" dahye sided on donghyuck, but it didn't seem like donghyuck fully agreed to what she said. he knew i didn't mean to.... kill him.

"just shut the fuck up dahye." donghyuck cussed.

"please i didn't mean to.." i spoke out, finally talking after spacing out. "please, i just tried helping." i couldn't believe it, i couldn't believe i was letting them see a tear roll down my cheek as the others followed like stream. my eyes began to turn watery, a thick layer of glossy tears on top of my eyeballs, roughly chewing on my lower lip to prevent the tears from gushing out. "i didn't want him to die, i was just trying to help."

"tried helping by slicing off his arm?" donghyuck cocked an eyebrow, shaking my head and seemed so disgusted at me.

"look what you did donghyuck." taeyong spat, his eyes flowing down once he had the sight of me with tears inside my eyes. "just shut the fuck up donghyuck and get out of the room before i get tinnitus." he gestured him to shoo off but of course he didn't oblige, instead he scoffed it off.

taeyong protectively stood by me, his fingertips touching my palms as his fingers intertwined with mine, squeezing it and making sure to made me feel secured and protected and he successfully did. with every touch from him, everything from him, even his presence make me feel as secured as... yukhei's bracelet.

"stop trying to protect girlfriend all the time! it's getting on my nerves." donghyuck spat, giving taeyong another glare that he never felt threatened of.

"and it's official!" mark added with a bubbly chuckle. "not the timing mark." johnny sternly said and nudging him.

"so can we kick her out before she starts chopping everyone's arm off." somin gritted her teeth, squinting her eyes to me as if i was the one who did something wrong when obviously it was the opposite, not me but she made the mistake. complete pathetic bitch.

"hey hey, i saw everything back there and stop acting as if you weren't that cause of this." somin suddenly felt attacked and offended, especially because it came from sicheng. can you imagine, sicheng talking like that.... or even talking? yesh, thank goodness he is on my side.

"what? what did she do?" donghyuck stood up from the floor, pushing away jungwoo who tried to help him. "from what i saw, she pushed the walker on jaehyun which why he got the bite." taeil explained, somin scoffing and glaring at oldest which caused him to fearfully hide behind yuta.

"i did not-"

"what the fuck were you even doing there? you were just putting everyone in danger!" yuta spoke with deep fury boiling deep in his system.

"at least i am not the one who chops people's arm."

"frankly," doyoung paused, stepping away from the shadows and slowly approached me as he stood by my side, not until taeyong sneakily pulled me away from him. "chopping off his arm is a good idea." he finished.

"okay we all know you dislike him but not now-"

"shut up." doyoung glared at taeyong. "if you think about it, the virus on jaehyun's wrist won't proceed in his system since it got hacked off... so he won't turn into one which means soyoung has saved jaehyun's life.." he was satisfied with his words, also satisfied after the others had perceived his small theory that could possibly be right.

"soyoung saved jaehyun's life, unlike you." doyoung paused and lazered his eyes at donghyuck. "you did nothing but yell and make a lady upset, that's shame on you you fucking rat." as much as i hate their violent conversation, i was quite relieved after doyoung pushed donghyuck on his position.

i felt absolutely relieved after hearing doyoung because that's exactly what i thought of. the only way to save jaehyun was to hack off his wrist so the virus wouldn't continue in his body to the point where he turns into one of them, but i was too scared to tell them about it... i thought they would think i'm some type of crazy bitch, luckily doyoung could tell to everyone and it seemed like they were slowly trusting what he said... trusting me.

"chop chop your bitten hand off and you won't turn into one!" i could hear yukhei when i was out there. i learnt it from yukhei, during that period when he had turned so anxious about the apocalypse and i, don't giving a fuck, he continuously gave me tips of how to survive and i felt so guilty for not listening to what he said. luckily i listened for once, if i didn't i wouldn't have saved jaehyun.... yet we're still unsure if it actually worked.

he felt guilty, i could see donghyuck wasn't feeling very well after all the yellings. honestly as much as donghyuck gets mad at me, i wouldn't blame him.... i can't do anything to make him trust me. instead of pissing him even more, i should try to gradually make him trust me as a friend and as a new member of this hideout.

donghyuck was just being protective, especially to his hyung.

"we... we still don't know if that worked." donghyuck stammered, glaring both at me and doyoung before he decided to turn around sit beside jaehyun who was quietly closing his eyes.

i pursed my lips and looked at taeyong, the fear he saw inside my eyes caused him to immediately pull me closer to his body.

i really hope jaehyun doesn't die....