SEVENTEEN

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Jihoon was numb, that was the only thing that he could use to describe it. He just couldn't feel anything at all in the moment. He just went through it all in a daze. He barely remembers leaving the apartment and going down to hail a cab to take him to the hospital. He's not even sure if he locked the apartment or not. But he just resigned to the fact that Seungcheol can yell at him for it later if he wants to. Barely remembers going out and just throwing some money that he had at the driver and bolted into the building. It wasn't that hard to find the rest of his group. They were the largest group that was gathered in the room. Looking at his new family wasn;t any easier than hearing them over the comm links right after Jun got shot was. He was able to pick out Seungcheol first, and their leader was sitting in a chair closest to the doors to where the ER was located. Jeonghan was sitting so close next to him that he was in his lap. His head was buried in Seungcheol's neck and Jihoon had a pretty good guess that he was crying. But the two of them still seemed to be the most composed out of all of them. Going through to make sure that everyone was here and that they were okay, and he found that only 4 of them were missing. Jun was obviously not there, and Joshua dn Seokmin were on call that night, so that meant that Seungkwan must have slipped off to scrub in with them. The two maknaes that were still left were right next to them. Hansol and Chan didn't look that much better than the two eldest but they seemed okay. Jihoon noticed that they were quieter than they normally were, but other than that they seemed unharmed. Next to them were Soonyoung and Wonwoo. Soonyoung was sitting right next to Chan and was holding the other in an one armed hug, trying to offer some sort of comfort. Wonwoo was sitting on his best friend's other side next to Mingyu and Minghao. And this was where things got bad. Mingyu himself seemed to be perfectly fine, not a hair was even out of place on his head. He seemed perfectly calm and collected. Which was nice since it seemed that Minghao was coming undone at the seams. Some random person wouldn't be able to tell this just by walking in and looking at him, but they all knew each other well enough to know the signs.

Jihoon knew that his dongsaeng was a ticking time bomb that he didn't want to be anywhere near at the moment. So he quickly walked over to where Seungcheol and Jeonghan were sitting, hoping to get some answers out of this. "Hyung?" Jihoon said softly as he approached the older males. He really wanted to know what was going on but at the same time he didn't want to startle them and make things worse than they actually are. He had hoped to keep his voice soft and even so he wouldn't scare them at all, but Jeonghan still jumped a little bit when he heard them. Seungcheol lifted his head up to see who was trying to talk to him. When he was able to make eye contact with Jihoon he saw relief wash through him. Thinking about it now, Jihoon guesses that Seungcheol must be really on edge since not all of his members were with him. And it probably didn't help that all of them weren't together when Jun got shot, and all of them just couldn't get in a car and go. Jihoon showing up now probably relieved a lot of the anxiety and stress that was swirling through his body at the moment. Though Seungcheol has gotten really good at having his poker face over the years, with help from Jeonghan. But he could tell that their leader was holding back his own inner turmoil, so as not to scare the rest of them. And that meant that things probably weren't going good, and that just freaked Jihoon out even more than before.

"Hey Jihoon-ah." Seungcheol greeted him quietly. "I didn't hear you come in, take a seat somewhere if you find one, we still haven't heard anything." Seungcheol told him. Jeonghan who was sitting on Seungcheol's lap made him move over so that Jihoon had a place to sit. He ended up sitting in between Seungcheol with Jeonghan on his lap and Hansol. Speaking of Jeonghan, he had turned himself in Suengcheol's lap so that he was facing Jihoon to where he could see him, while still being attached to Seungcheol at the hip. Now that Jihoon could get a decent look at his face he could definitely tell that his Hyung had been crying. He looked like someone had punched him in the face. But Jihoon knew that he had pulled him over to them to make sure that he was alright. It was typical of Jeonghan that even though he was suffering himself, he would put all of his issues on the back burner to make sure that everyone around him was alright. And even though Jihoon never tells him this enough, he does in fact love all of his Hyungs, and he's grateful that he has ones like Jeonghan, Seungcheol, and Joshua to take care of him. And he loved his younger members too but he would never admit that to any of them out loud. He may love those little brats but he knew that the minute that he tells anyone of them that he's a dead man.(metaphorically speaking of course.) He feels better about anything and everything when he's with his family. He just hopes that they are able to get through this bump in the road that life had thrown at them this time, because God, this is a big one. And the funny thing is that they don't even know the half of it yet.