Mission | Seventeen au

A split second

The 12 teenagers gather around in the dining room, foods readied in the middle of table with them taking their seats around it. They didn't utter any words as they settle down and serving the foods quietly. As all of them had their shares, S.coups began to ask. "So Jihoon. What is it you want to tell us?"

The stares from the others makes him uneasy, thinking again for the umpteenth time if  it was the right choice or not. He shook his head mentally ignoring the thoughts and exhale lowly. "I want to tell you what me and Hoshi talked about that night."

Those words sunk into their brains as Jeonghan blinks before asking. "Is it ok? Like is he ok with it?"

"I..don't know about him but I don't want to see him suffering like that. And I'm sure you guys are hella curious. Plus, he told you himself that we talked about his life so that's that."

Jihoon explains, softening his eyes into the words and smiling lightly at the end struck the others in the heart. They give up. He was damn cute for his own sake. They nodded among themselves and look towards Jihoon again, signaling him an ok to continue.

"So well... he said he had never felt the warmth of a family. I asked him why and it was pretty hard to get the answer out of him until he said that he was cast aside. Something about him having it and people calling him freak and such. I don't really understand what he was talking about. He said that his parent still had the tiniest bit of care as they still give him food until 4 but then when he was 5, his parents completely forgot about him. They didn't give him food nor even bet an eye on him all because another child was born."

The room was silence, only a few creaking from the chairs and sniffles from majority of the members. "Th-then what happened?" Minghao gather himself some strength to ask despite the tears that's wetting his cheeks.

Jihoon sigh at that and avert his eyes towards his water in hand. "He said a lot of awful things happened and it hurts really bad with a painful smile. Then he went upstairs leaving me behind here." He explains again, not feeling that hungry anymore. He don't seem to want to tell the others about other things like that constant dreams and his roommate's body, full of scars.

All the other boys regain their composure as they wipe the last strand of tears on their face.

"Did he told you about that it he was referring to?", Wonwoo who didn't cry but looked a bit worried asked, wanting a hint to the most myterious member's in their team.

The question brought a certain black hair to look up and shook his head. Sigh was heard from Wonwoo as the latter tried to crack his skull open for some information.

Little did they know, a single bright red eye looking towards his comrade's distressed face.

When Jihoon was about to open his mouth to add something, a loud thud was heard upstairs startling them. Jihoon hurriedly leave his place mouthing 'just stay here' and went upstairs, heading to the only place occupied with someone. He pushes open the door only to see a back of a certain someone who's clenching his shirt and breathing heavily. Jihoon walk over to Hoshi and offer him some help but was replied with a "m...med..s..", voice trembling and obviously in need of air.

Jihoon pace towards the table just beside the window and took the pills in hand, handing it to Hoshi. What actually suprises Jihoon was not the amount of pills he took but the flashes of bright sapphire eyes making contact with his own purplish one. However, the contact only lasted for less than a quarter of one mere second when the brunette gulps down the pills, 5 pills again with eyes completely closed and his breathing calm itself down.

Just, that mere second of eye contact makes something flip in Jihoon's stomach but he ignores it saying that maybe it was just him not eating dinner yet.

Jihoon took this chance to walk closer to the older, kneeling down on one knee and move his hand slowly towards the latter's face. When his skin make contact with the other's, Hoshi flinch totally paled as he didn't notice the younger before touching him. He had not activated his powers yet as his body weakened after coughing so many blood. That's why he didn't noticed the younger brushing his cheek with that slender finger of him. He didn't have the strength to move his body as well.

Jihoon's tumb which had been caressing the older's cheek had gone up towards the eyes, not pressing hard but gently. The boy's eyes had change to dark again, completely different from the one he saw earlier.

"Hey Hoshi." Jihoon says with voice deeper and huskier than ever, lowering it by a couple of octave. Hoshi stare at Jihoon's eyes. Really, if he didn't knew better than to love someone, his heart would have knock on his chest signalling it beating faster than ever. He was captuvated by the younger's eyes. His purple eyes that seems like it can cut through his defenses, knowing everything about him especially all his secrets that he had been keeping in check in the bottom of his heart.

Jihoon who he had seen as cold and not caring about the world actually looking at him at the moment with eyes full of curiousity, missing the flames that was hidden by other's eyes.

"Why did your eyes bright up a moment ago?" 

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Ayyy this is hard to write when you just don't have the idea.