Lovely

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A little stunned at the person in front of the door right now, Jeongguk stuttered and stepped back a little before hearing the girl slightly gasp, "uh... is Taehyung oppa here?" Seeing such a familiar face stare back into himself, the younger forgot how to answer and just stood there.

Massaging the back of her neck, the girl cocked her head and spoke, "I swear you talked earlier... you aren't mute are you?" Without getting a response she just sighed and swiftly walked towards their stairs. Feeling like he was frozen and unable to move, all the younger could do was watch her. He felt stuck until he heard her open Taehyung's bedroom door. Quickly he followed behind and ran up the stairs, what if I'd just let someone random in? She looks like me... no. She went into hyung room... oh no...

Scared and worried for his brother, the younger pushed open the olders door calling out, "hyun-..." The intruder was sitting on Taehyung's lap and kissing him. Jeongguk felt his chest ache heavily before slowly backing away. Running out of the house, he could here the other male shout, "get off me what the fuck! Jeongguk!"

Not even bothering to get into his car, the younger ran and ran. He ran until his lungs burned, till his throat hurts from the dryness. Feeling helpless, tears started to decorate his face quickly before he became a sobbing mess. He didn't even know where he was at this point, where did he run to? He didn't know. Pulling out his phone, he contemplated calling his friends but then again he could never let them see this current state of himself.

Jeongguk didn't know much people, unlike Taehyung he wasn't a social butterfly and only hung around his little friend group. Scrolling through his phone for a long while he weakly pressed Lee's number. As he sniffled he felt his legs about to buckle walked towards a near by bench cautiously. Cold...

The older on the other side of the call picked up quickly and spoke first, "hey what's up... Jeongguk...? are you ok?" You know how whenever someone asks you if you're ok, you end up feeling even worst? That's exactly how the boy felt. Breaking down at this point he whimpered into the call, "no, I'm not... hyung...I'm not ok..."  hearing the honest reply Lee immediately asked, " where are you Jeongguk? Send me your location."

Wiping his eyes harshly the younger sent over his location and softly sobbed, "...please...please.. come get me..."

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Hearing that the call suddenly ended, Lee panicked and quickly looked at the address, "...10 minutes away..." he slipped into his shoes and pulled his coat over himself before running out. Locking his door of course. He ran quickly and looked around furiously, I hope he stays at the same spot...

Finally when the locator showed that he was only a few meters he looked around, there.

Jogging over out of breath, Lee squatted down in front of the younger who sat on the bench with his head down. Using his hands, he lightly lifted Jeongguk's head up, "oh man... you have snot everywhere..." digging into his jacket pockets he had found the small packet of tissues, quickly he pulled one out and started wiping the boys face carefully, "you rubbed your face harshly didn't you?"

Instead of answering Jeongguk only looked into the olders eyes before crying again. He covered both eyes with the palms of his hands and whimpered quietly. Lee's heart was shattered at this point, just what the fuck is happening..? "Jeongguk, let's go to my place ok? You must be cold, here wear this."pulling his jacket off himself, he delicately wrapped it around the younger before standing up and reaching his hands out.

Jeongguk looked up at the older, palms still wet from his tears and started to wipe them onto his pants. Using the others reached out hands he tiredly pulled himself up and unexpectedly didn't let go. Lee cocked his head to the side and asked, "you want to keep holding my hands?" Sniffling the boy nodded and so the two walked back to the little apartment.

Once inside, Lee suddenly realizes, "hey guk... your palms were really warm, like maybe abnormally hot... come here let me touch your forehead."

The boy who was still sniffling to himself listened and walked in front of the older weakly, using his palm, Lee brushed the youngers hair up and felt his temperature, "lie down right now."