Seventeen: Unexpected Family

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no one said a word.

no one moved.

no one breathed.

it wa slike the air in the room was suddenly sucked away and the tension could but cut by the smallest movement.

a sudden shuffle and a couple of groans is the only thing that knocked everyone back into their senses.

Minghao.

Minghao was shuffling awake and taking in the brightness of the room. All at once everything began to hurt again. When he awoke, he didn't see the hospital room, with his loving friends waiting for him to greet them. Instead, Minghao saw the janitors closet. He saw Seokmin and Seungkwan dead, in the corner of the room. He saw blood, fear, and pain. He saw Yejun standing in front of him, and all at once chaos broke out.

"n-no! Please! Please don't hurt me anymore! Please i didn't do anything!"

Minghao was jerking around, trying to free himself. Sobbing.

"Why'd you hurt Minnie and Kwan! Just hurt me! don't touch them you crazy bitch!"

At this point Jihoon and Soonyoung we're rushing out of the room trying to find a doctor, while everyone else tried their best to calm down minghao. Jun tried reaching for his arm but the minute their skin made contact Minghao burst into more tears, beginning to shake.

"junhui! junhui please, please help me. It hurts, joshua please help, it hurts so much!"

As jun heard Minghao call out for him, he began to cry as well. Jun had never felt so helpless in his entire 17 years of living. He wanted to hold Minghao, and tell him he was right there with him, that he would never ever leave his side again.

But he couldn't.

Jun broke down, falling onto his knees as he cried at the scene before him.

Seokmin and Seungkwan had to be taken out of the room, starting to feel suffocated by being reminded of the past events. When the doctor finally arrived, she had to give minghao anesthesia for him to sleep. She explained that he didn't really wake up but was having a nightmare. She told us that he was going to have these quite often, and shouldn't be left alone to much, especially when it came to sleep. The boys thanked the doctor and suddenly, the atmosphere had become even more suffocating. Some of the boys were mixed, some knew exactly what they wanted.

"when we were in the closet;"

Everyone's heads turned to Seokmin, he glanced down at the bright red marks on his wrists, feeling like he was going to cry even thinking about it.

"at first we thought it was Mark just pulling something. But when Yejun came in, immediately it was like Minghao knew she was after him."

Jun held his breath

"Any other circumstance and Minghao would have fought back, but we-we were just so exhausted from crying and fighting"

Seokmin began to cry as he boyfriend made his way over, gently kissing his boyfriends head to comfort him.

"she tied me and Seungkwan up in a corner."

"and she hit Minghao in the shoulder with a bat"

"Minghao didn't let out a noise and he toyed with her, claiming she was weak and all of this was pointless. All she did afterwards, was-beat him"

Seungkwan held tightly to his boyfriends sleeve as the visions replayed in his head, vernon quietly whispered soothing words into his ear to keep him calm.

"she would yell things like, "this is for your dead family", "for taking jun" Minghao never cried, he held back. But on the last hit she nailed him right in the head, minghao wobbleld and you could tell she hit him so hard he couldn't see. He squinted his eyes at me and seungkwan. Seungkwan was crying and screaming, and all I could do was watch. watch, as he called out for Jun to save him, as she hit him in the head again. The way his body hit the ground, and the blood"

Seokmin choked on his words.

The other boys in the room were all in tears.
Wonwoo caressing Chan's back to keep him from crying too hard.

"after-afterward was the worst part"

Seokmin looked up. he looked right at Minghao. He knew Minghao wouldn't want them to know, but he couldn't not tell them.

"she, she"

Knowing what was coming next, Seungkwan used his hands to close his ears, tears flowing quickly down his face. Vernon, instinctively put his hands over seungkwans attempting to block out as much noise as possible while gently holding him against his chest.

"she raped him"

to Jun he felt like a failure. He failed to protect Minghao, he failed to protect someone so important to him

"i begged, and pleaded. i asked her to do it to me, for it to be me. and for her to not touch minghao."

Suddenly Joshua couldn't stop his tears as he thought about how brave his boyfriend was to try and protect hao.

a couple of minutes of silence followed, The only sounds heard were the sniffles and sobs coming from everyone in the room

The sound of shuffling and a chair squeak filled the room as all eyes turned to Jun.

Jun only looked at Seokmin, who earlier had returned after looking for Jeonghan, but failed to find him.

"i'm in"

everyone looked at Jun.

Seokmin looked carefully at Jun, the only thing he could find in his eyes were revenge, pain, and anger.
Seokmin almost couldn't stop the smirk from forming on his face.

almost

Seokmin stood and walked over to Jun, wrapping his arm around his shoulder and facing the rest of the boys. Wiping his tears away and using his pain to ignite his anger.

"last call, anyone else coming"