HIDEOUT: LEE TAEYONG

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soyoung

i wake as if it's an emergency, as if sleeping had become a dangerous thing. my heart beated fast and there was a buzzing in my brain and together they were as panic with jump-leads.

"soyoung!" an echoing voice vibrated inside my ears. "soyoung wake up, we need to go!" he rehashed and for his sake, i at long last let my eyes ripple open, even though i needed to keep dozing 'cause my vitality was still on 0%, i awoken, it felt like it was a very big emergency. when my eyes were open, i expected to see chenle, jisung, jeno or renjun.... but never na jaemin.

"noona!" he smiled brightly, grabbing my hand and helping me to sit properly.

"we need to go." i was unable to hear him under the substantial discharges playing inside the room. i noticed that i was still inside the room where jeno tucked me to bed, yet i never expected to wake up and see a lot of people battling and taking shots at one another. "what's going on nana?!" i shouted, squeezing my palms against my ear.

jaemin didn't answer, he was just trying to tell me to stand up and run but i couldn't hear him at all. "noona! we! have! to! go!" he screamed, trying to sound as blare as possible so i would be able to hear him but couldn't.

the next thing he did was wrap his arms around my stomach and attempted to lift me up, unluckily i might be too heavy for him, and plus, he had a big rifle on his back.

after noticing that what he wanted was for me to stand up and run, i did but not until he left me and shouted at someone else. "fuck it, sorry noona yukhei's going to take care of you." he turned his heel and left me, dropping me down the floor and ran to help the others to aim at the enemies.

before i could even get myself up, i felt somebody's solid arms fold over me and i was briskly carried up like a bride. "you big baby!" typical yukhei, shouting directly in my ears with his profound and bubbly voice, blazing a splendid grin along. "i thought you were dead! hehe." he delicately laughed before surging out of the room.

my arms folded over his neck as we went through the unfilled and dim hallwa, he proceeded to blabble about how he got out however what i truly needed right noow was something i've desired for when i found out he was gone, when i went out with a bat to attempt to search for him, i truly needed it right now."yukhei...s-stop, stop!" my voice increased.

he stopped his tracks and deliberately put me down. "what's wrong? we have to get out of here right now, i couldn't believe it at first when renjun said you were here too! we were suppose to get out together, but chan's crew came and began to fire at us so it all became a chaos! but i also heard sopa was here, then we all got worried because it's three schools against each other but it turns out that even sopa is against dulwich so it was easier for us now! yet it's still so hard because chan has a lot of people and they are very strong, but i think we can handle it and now taeyong is asking me to bring you out so he could take you back home safely and after that we would settle how things will work out, because guess what! i guess taeyong agreed with dwight and sopa being good friends again since you are friends with them, and you are friends with me and we are all just happy that we are at the same page-"

"shut up yukhei!" i yelled, my eyes turning watery as finally flung myself on him. "just please be quiet..." i murmured with a strangled sob.

it was here where he understood that right now, all i ever wanted was an embrace from him, who wouldn't? i've been away from him without knowing that he was still alive. obviously yukhei is a bubbly and bright person that he would just be merry to discover that his best friend is alive rather than being emotional which i was at this moment.

i buried my face into the crook of yukhei's neck and we stood there like that for a while, i wracked with the force of unvoiced cries and yukhei holding him, heart aching for his best friend.

"i thought you died yukhei... i really thought you were gone! b-but you just left for food for us and you never came back! i missed you so much, your face, your voice, your company, even your stupidity and-" i was cut off my yukhei's warm deep chuckles, unfortunately he pulled away and broke the hug, i needed it to keep on going however it didn't.

"it's okay soyoung, i am here now~ i also missed you a lot, i honestly went back to my house but you weren't there so i had to go back to dwight. now don't cry, because i'm here now~" he cooed, wiping away the tears on my cheek. "i know you've missed me, but i really think it's time for us to go out because taeyong is waiting." he awkwardly chuckled.

"the boy was very impatient when he gave me an obligation."

"taeyong.... taeyong, came for me?"

"yes." yukhei answered quickly, observing at how quiet and stiff i was.

honestly, i kind of regretted saying that everything we had was an infatuation. i knew that taeyong always kept up with me, and i never knew. i really like him, i wish he realized that what i said was wrong because he knows more about our relationship, about us because he was there without i knew.

"shall we go?" yukhei quiered, i briefly stared at him before pulling him into a quick embrace and backing away again. "yeah let's go."

before me and yukhei could exit dulwich school, he suddenly collapsed on the floor after a blast gunfire was leased in the air. i promptly halted my tracks and pivoted, seeing yukhei on the floor with a pool of blood encompassing him, my eyes amplifying and i was going to run my way to him, but someone called after my name.

"soyoung-ah! get out of there!" it was a voice coming from outside, i saw doyoung behind the doors with his hand gesturing me to follow him.

"doyoung- i...... i can't leave him." i answered, not faltering to get further away from doyoung and briskly leaning down to snatch yukhei's hands immovably. "hey, uh... hey yukhei keep it together alright?" i murmured, watching him flicker his eyes rapidly while attempting to observe the bullet wound on his leg. "what just happened?" he breathed.

"it's alright yukhei, just stand up for me okay?" i frantically wrapped his arm over my neck, attempting to pull him up however the more i move his body, the more the pain strikes him firmer and i could tell he was gradually seeing dull spots blurring in his sight, at some point or another he would pass out. "hey, yukhei i need you to use your legs to help yourself up? i'm here okay-"

"soyoung baby, if you don't want your friend to get hurt again you need to come with me." by somebody calling me babe, i definitely knew who it was and as opposed to obliging, i sticked nearer to yukhei. a sigh got away from hyunjin's lips, watching me hold onto yukhei's arm as i tried dragging him away.

"kya! hyung! this was not part of the plan, chan said to not kill anyone!" felix screamed, his baby hands covering his face as his lips were slightly ajar. "i didn't kill him, i just shot him..." hyunjin pursed his lips together once he saw felix glaring at him. "and he will bleed to death-"

"fine fine, if you don't want him dead take him with you." hyunjin hissed before moving toward me. he wrapped his arms over my stomach and started to pull me away, i began to scream and tried reaching for yukhei, however felix had just hauled him away. "get the fuck off me, fucking let me go you fucking fucker!" i shrieked, pushing and hitting hyunjin all over his body and he didn't do anything, but sent me a smile.

"felix, please take care of him.. i- please, i beg you." i saw the pain inside felix's eyes, but knowing how pure and kind-hearted the boy was, i knew i could trust him, even he looks harmless.

"i... i will." he replied before hyunjin could effortlessly lift me up, my hip laying against his shoulder