Skaterboy ~ Minsung

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"Bye, Minho, we're going out for a while. Take care of Soonie." Mrs. Lee told her son, kissing his head.

Minho nodded his head, focusing on his child whom was playing with her new favorite toy, Jisung's beanie.

Felix buckled up his seat belt, telling his parents where to take him. The 3 started driving off, soon reaching their destination.

Outside the club stood the rest of their friends, awaiting Felix and his parents. Chan and Jeongin greeted their boyfriend with hugs, while the others bowed at the two grown ups.

"Is this it?" Mr. Lee asked.

The teenagers nodded their heads, following the man into the club. It reeked of alcohol and tobacco. The inside of the venue was dark red and brown themed. Hyunjin couldn't help but rubbing his own arms, uncomfortable.

"Hello, how may I help you? No-no, let me guess. You're all looking for an orgy. Look no further, I have just the person." The girl at the reception winked at Mr. Lee, going to grab a card.

"No! No, absolutely not. We're looking for someone. Han Jisung. He works here. Is he working right now?" Mr. Lee asked, sending the young, lightly dressed woman a glare.

"Oh, uuum. No he left 15 minutes ago." The woman answered, looking at her computer.

"Thank you." Mr. Lee answered, ushering everyone back outside the club.

"Dammit." Chan cursed, running a hand through his hair.

"What do we do now?" Jeongin asked.

"We split into two groups of 4, and look each way. He most likely lives nearby in one of the alley ways if I know him correctly." Hyunjin determined.

Everyone nodded, splitting up into two groups of 4. Mrs. and Mr. Lee, Felix and Hyunjin went one way, while the remaining Seungmin, Changbin, Chan and Jeongin went the other way.

The groups traveled in and out of dark alleys, searching every corner of them for their lost friend.

"You guys are sure he's living on the streets? He couldn't have just been saying that?" Mrs. Lee asked, looking behind a dumpster.

"We're sure. He looked like he hadn't eaten anything in days, and he definitely didn't have access to clean water or a shower. He looked like someone straight out of a Charles Dickens story." Hyunjin insisted.

"I thought I noticed something different about him when he collected his stuff, but I didn't think it was this bad." Mr. Lee wondered out loud.

"Dad, seriously. He's all skin and bones now, and his skin looks almost green. He's not human anymore." Felix said, giving his father the 'are you blind' expression.

Hyunjin's phone lit up with Jeongin's caller ID. He immediately picked it up, putting it to his ear.

"Innie?"

"Grab the car and come to the alley left for the Starbucks a couple blocks down from the club." Jeongin said before hanging up.

Hyunjin smiled, pocketing his phone.

"They found him."

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Changbin softly climbed into the dumpster, not caring that it smelled or that he was getting grease on his clothes.

He crouched down in front of the sleeping boy, placing his hand to his forehead.

"He's shivering." Chan muttered, watching the interaction.

"Check his boxes for some warmer clothes." Seungmin suggested.

By one wall of the dumpster stood all of Jisung's boxes lined up. They took up quite a lot of space, leaving Jisung with very little for himself to lay on.

In the corner laid some old food-wrappers from Jisung's meals and a bottle of not-so-clean water.

"How is he?" Hyunjin asked, jogging up to the group.

"Cold. And asleep." Changbin answered, wrapping a sweater around the freezing boy.

"Oh dear." Mrs. Lee gasped, covering her mouth with her hand.

"Let's take him home. He's gonna become sick if he keeps laying in the cold. Plus it's probably full of bacteria." Mr. Lee said.

Changbin softly shook Jisung's shoulder, waking the boy up from his light sleep.

"Wha- Binnie?" Jisung rasped, rubbing his eyes.

He immediately curled into the sweater laying over him, freezing cold.

"Come on. We're leaving." Changbin picked Jisung up, handing him over to Hyunjin whom quickly carried Jisung over to Mr. And Mrs. Lee's car, putting him into the warm and comfortable vehicle.

Chan, Changbin, Felix, Seungmin and Mr. Lee all grabbed a box each, carrying them over to the car, and loading it up.

Mr. Lee took off his jacket, wrapping it securely around Jisung whom was sitting in the back seat, still half asleep.

Hyunjin scooped Jisung up, settling the latter down on his lap to fit more people in the car. It might be illegal, but that was their least concern right now. All that mattered was to get Jisung back home and healthy again.

Chan, Changbin and Seungmin sat down next to Hyunjin, barely fitting in, while Felix and Jeongin climbed into their laps, using Chan and Seungmin's arms as seat belts.

Like that, with 9 people pressed into the 5 seats of the car, the group took off, quickly driving back home.

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Minho was sitting on the couch, cradling his child in his arms as he watched her sleep. The kitten purred softly, kneading the fabric of Jisung's beanie.

The front door was slammed open, startling the male, and awaking his kitten whom jumped away, hiding in the kitchen.

"Unpack his boxes in his room please, Hyunjin, will you help him clean up? Me and Mr. Lee will be making food for when everyone is finished." Minho's mom ordered everyone around.

Minho rushed into the hallway, just in time to see Hyunjin carrying Jisung's underweight and frail body up the stairs. The latter was tucked into Minho's father's jacket, looking to be asleep.

The rest of Minho's friends followed Hyunjin up the stairs, most of them carrying Jisung's belongings in the cardboard boxes Minho remembered to have packed a while back.

"W-What's going on?" Minho asked his parents as they walked past him into the kitchen.

"Jisung is moving back in." Mr. Lee simply said.

"B-"

"No. I don't wanna hear it. That boy has never done anything wrong. He's dangerously underfed, and by the looks of it we're lucky he isn't deadly sick. You shut up and suck up your little pity fest." Mrs. Lee scolded.

Minho nodded his head while gulping, picking up Soonie and bringing her back to the couch to calm her down.

Not longer than 30 minutes after, everyone except for Jisung came downstairs, looking more at peace.

"Where's Jisung?" Mrs. Lee asked.

"I put him into bed. He was very tired." Hyunjin answered.

"Very well. Thank you everyone, both for informing us about Jisung and for helping us tonight. Now let's eat."