SEVENTEEN

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

           Jihoon was pretty sure that he was getting ready to lose his mind. It had been a couple of hours since the others had left the hospital, and it just left the three of them alone in the room with Jun. Seungkwan comes in every once in a while to pop his head in and check Jun's vitals, and then of them. None of them had talked to each other in over an hour. Jihoon was sitting on one side of the bed, holding Jun's hand, while Minghao and Mingyu were on the other side of the bed together. Minghao had Jun's other hand while Mingyu had his arms wrapped around the younger male's shoulders. Jihoon, like the rest of them at the moment was worried about Jun, so far it seemed like he was going to make it and everything was going to be okay. But, since he was currently the eldest in the room at the moment until either Jun wakes up or someone else comes in, he's in charge of the children. He was in fact worried about Minghao. He's pretty sure that the kid hasn't said a word in almost 3 days at this point, or close to it. And if he has it hasn't been directed to him. He was worried about the younger, Hao was the one to find Jun first, and Jihoon can only imagine how traumatic that must have been for him.  

               Minghao was already a quiet and introverted person to begin with. He can be loud and aggressive when he wants to be thought. And you can almost always count on him to speak his mind and stand up for those he trusts. And it's very hard to earn that man's trust, so the only people that fall into that category are the members. But he is by no means saying that Minghao is a horrible or cold person. That's not his point in this whole thing. What he's trying to get at is that Minghao is a nice kid with a heart of gold, who's very hard to get to know. Jihoon suspects that he would be more open to the people around him if it weren't for the fact that society had screwed the kid over. No one should have had to go through what Minghao and Jun had to go through when they were growing up. Jihoon's own childhood was no fairy tale but he'd gladly take it over their's or exchange it with them if it meant giving his friends a better life. It was also part of the reason that Minghao and Jun were so close. When they had first encountered Minghao a couple of years back, Jun was part of the reason that they were able to convince him to join. Minghao had remembered Jun from their agency days in China. He knew that Jun and MingMing, who was his partner for missions at the time had vanished while on a mission in Korea and everyone thought that they were dead. He was very skeptical at first, but eventually they were able to convince him to join.    

                   And those two have been almost inseparable ever since. The only other one that Minghao acts like that around is Mingyu. Those two may fight like cats and dogs, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to see the chemistry that they have going. Or as Jihoon likes to call it, sexaul tension, but Seungcehol says that it's not appropriate to say that stuff out loud in front of the 'children.' But Jihoon wouldn't put it past Tom and Jerry to end up in bed together at some point. Though he was strictly forbidden and so was Jeonghan from meddling in their friend's love lives. And if Jun wasn't laying the hospital bed before him, out cold and clinging onto life, he would be over on the other side of the bed bashing dome skulls in. Now wasn't the time though for stuff like that and he was too busy worrying about his crush surviving through the night again. At the moment he was busy kicking himself for not working up the nerve to confess to Jun before they went on that mission. He should have listened to Soonyoung and Seungcheol and just gone up to him and said it. At then if something were to happen, Jun would know and Jihoon would know how he felt. And now it was bugging him that he may never know the truth and he may never get the chance to tell him that ever.    

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