HIDEOUT: LEE TAEYONG

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"jeno... renjun, i-" i paused, sighing heavily and letting my fingers run through my hair. "what are you guys doing here?" i asked, completely confused as the tall boy went up to grab my hand, squeezing it firmly with a small and weak smile. "noona, it's okay... just take a deep breath." jeno smiled, after seeing his eye smiles i couldn't help but grin back... it kind of healed me.

"the fuck did chan do to you?" renjun protectively said, continuously banging the door for me.

renjun and jeno, yukhei's small friends from the lower grade along with jaemin. they've always been friends since yukhei wanted to fit in to their squad, but never really succeeded because i guess no one wanted him... yet he still continued joining. renjun known for being the savage, smart and attractive boy in school, jeno known for being the hot sweetheart.

i still couldn't believe they were here, what were they even doing here?

"hyung~ stop or else we would get in trouble again." a boy with orange hair sighed, pulling the chinese boy away from the door as his other taller friend helped. "shut the fuck up chenle, we can't just do nothing! we've almost been here for two days! we need to get the fuck out of here!" ahh, typical renjun, high-tempered kid. he's the type to lose control easily which was unhealthy, he told us he would practice stopping it but i guess it didn't succeed.

i looked over at the boy with orange hair, blinking and studying his face, when our eyes connected, his cheeks turned extremely red, i could feel the his heat from here.

"chenle?" i spoke, my breath shaking.

"you know him?" jeno asked, making me nod aggressively.

"you're donghyuck's friends right, from sopa?" i expected the orange haired boy to respond, but instead, his taller friend did, which i assume was jisung. "you know donghyuck hyung? h-how, a- are they still alive? how are they doing?" jisung approached, i could tell he was shy since he dragged chenle with him.

"everyone thinks your dead, both of you...." i paused and smiled. "everyone misses you, especially donghyuck. i even thought you guys were gone after somin explained how she betrayed you two and hana- and... hana.." i paused. "where's hana?" i asked.

the two young boys looked at each other, fear and pain filling their eyes. "i'm... sorry noona, but she didn't make it. when we tried escaping the canteen, we left the school but she sacrificed her life to help both of us escape." i could hear chenle, i could hear how much he was struggling to say those words out, probably petrified that i would start blaming them for her death but i wouldn't do that.

i've already heard the "hana is dead" twice from them and from somin, honestly it didn't give me the severe pain again, instead it told me to be strong because that's what hana would have wanted me to be right now.

"it's okay." i let my hand rub against jisung's arm after seeing a tear escape from his eye. "don't cry, we just have to be strong for now because we need to make a plan to escape here." i said, turning around to face at jeno and renjun.

"but first, can i ask why all of you guys are here?"

"do we really need to fucking explain, i mean like let's just get the fuck out of here-"

"renjun, calm down." jeno sighed and approached me. "it's a long story noona, me and renjun were on duty to search food for the people in dwight but we got lost and they've captured us here... bonus for them since we're from dwight, there is also an issue going on between dulwich and our school and i think stray kids are gonna attack dwight soon." jeno explained making my eyes enlarge.

"what?! i thought they were attacking sopa, but dwight too? for fuck sake, uhh..." i sighed.

"don't worry, they're aware that we are here so they'll come soon!" jeno smiled. "i can't wait to see lucas hyung's reaction when he sees you~"

yukhei? jeno can't wait to see his reaction? "yukhei is alive?!" i exclaimed, the happiness inside me began to fill rapidly as i could feel it overflow.

"i wish that giant tree didn't survive." renjun sarcastically sighed, still trying to bang the door down.

"thank god." i whispered to myself, smiling and closing my eyes before exhaling.

knowing that he was alive after all, i felt confident and i had more hope inside me now.

"well, i guess taeyong will come after us too. he would notice how i just disappeared without saying anything." i smiled in satisfaction. "unless somin convinced him that i left because of him..." i grumbled.

"so somin, she's still fucking alive? she is a bitch." chenle pouted, stomping his foot on the floor, making renjun aggressively turn his head around to glare at him. "watch your fucking language chenle." he commanded.

"that wouldn't work." jeno rolled his eyes, annoyed.

"taeyong?! taeyong hyung is alive?" jisung spoke in a quiet tone, smiling slightly while bouncing on his spot. "what about jaehyun hyung? and um, yuta? is winwin hyung talking now? and.. is taeil doing okay?" i couldn't help but smile, just the fact that jisung was so precious to his hyungs made me melt into water.

"everyone is doing fine." i assured.

"but for now let's get out of here." i said.

"wait, noona i think you should get some rest okay?" jeno said, grabbing my hand and dragging me down the floor where a blanket and pillows were placed down. "no. i need to help." i said, insisting but the puppy eyes jeno gave me made me stay.

"we'll find a way out, you can wait here and we will wake you up... okay?" jeno said. "your face is still flawless even with those wounds and blood. anyways noona, get some rest."

"o...okay." i said, weakly smiling before my vision actually began to blur out.