Tattoos . Soonhoon

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On Day 7, soonyoung finally woke up. Tears were shed, hearts were mended and broken, relief was evident. He was, undoubtedly, angry at Samuel at first. But looking back, his dongsaeng had helped him through thick and thin, so he could not stay angry. Not saying Samuel didn't do anything wrong. 

One thing was sure though, everyone held absolute hate towards his dad.

Fast forward 10 days, and you see Samuel, Chan, and soonyoung who is on a wheelchair outside a bungalow, with police officers surrounding the place, but giving the 3 boys enough space to do what they wanted, wait screw that, needed.

"Ding!" Chan rang the doorbell. The sound echoed through the empty building. Groaning, a man stood at walked to the door, shocked at the presence of the 3 boys at his doorstep.

"I never knew you would come huh, after all that fiasco about your tattoo and the accident." He knew what would hurt soonyoung and it did strike a chord in him, but soonyoung didn't show it.

"Oh and I see you brought Samuel and oh hello chan." 

"Stop all this bullshit. You were behind me getting injured weren't you." Soonyoung sneered.

"Oh was I? Has a little birdy told you? But who was actually the one who did it huh. Do you know, it was your lovely dongsaeng here."

"But he admitted it. He tried to stop me from performing, tried to make me realise what you forced him to do, helped lessened my injury too. And I'm glad I got hurt instead of him or Chan because I wouldn't want them to get injured. So compared to him, you are nothing especially what you put us through when we were younger."

"Oh but do you know that he could have stopped it."

"But if I did, you would possibly kill them won't you? And as if you didn't send your men to make sure I would do the job." Samuel retorted.

The man was shocked at his son's statement.

"I'm may be dense, but not stupid. You didn't trust me. You had all right to not trust me, but that only means that I could not have stopped it."

"Turn in."

"I WILL NEVER!"

A policeman suddenly came from behind and cuffed him, bringing the thrashing and cursing man into the vehicle.

The trio then walked back to their car and drove back to the dorms.

~~~

"Soons?"

"Yes ji?"

"You sure you fine with telling them?"

"I already said I am ji."

"But your face shows otherwise hosh."

"Tell me, you can back out before we go live no one will blame you."

"I-I'm scared j-ji b-but I-I know I gotta do it."

"Don't be scared ok, all of us will stay with you. We are here for you."

We walked back to the room where the other 11 were sitting according to age. I was placed in the center instead of on the 5th spot.

"Say the name, Seventeen! Hello we are Seventeen!"

"Today, hoshi is here for a vlive with all of us! We are still not performing for the time being, but we will have this vlive as we feel that we have to give carats some sort of explanation for all the things that happened recently. Can we let hoshi explain his situation to us now?"

Everyone looked at me concernedly but encouragingly. I took a deep breath before starting.

"I saw the news circulating about what happened to me. I am currently recovering, but I cannot perform for at least 3 months, as my leg needs to heal. I was unconscious for a week, and suffered from severe traumatic brain injury. We knew who was the culprit, and action has been done, but we do not want to reveal this information to the public we hope you understand."

I slowly peeled of the silicone on my face. My heart was beating fast against my ribs, but Joshua and Jun hyung who were beside me put their arm around me to help me feel better.

"Regarding the tattoo, Yes, my soulmate tattoo is on my left cheek. I have been wearing this silicone cover on my face whenever I was on camera for the past few years. I know you may feel hurt that I have been deceiving you, and for that I am truly sorry. I was abused by my dad when the tattoo appeared, and was only free from the abusing when I became a trainee. There are layers of scars on my left cheek. You cannot see it from here but its from all the abuse. I was also abused before I turned 15, just not constantly on my left cheek."

"You may think it has been what 7 years already, but the emotional hurt left behind is much worse. Memories, trauma, all this haunt me everyday. So if you think it is ok to leave all those comments, you have not been through what me and my younger brother been through."

Tears were falling, but I continued to let them fall, wetting a spot on my hoodie.

"We are not making soonyoung leave the group, neither does pledis plan to. We shall stay as 13 brothers, forever and ever." 

"This has been seventeen, Thank you."

Once the camera went off, I totally broke down. I do not know what happened after that, but I felt myself drifting off to a restless sleep after that.

On twitter, pledis_17 twitted.

Regarding our artist, Kwon Soonyoung, or better known by his stage name hoshi, leader of performance team and seventeen member, he is not leaving, and will not leave the group.

As what vocal team leader woozi said earlier today in their vlive, seventeen shall forever stay as 13, forever and ever. 

As fans, if you really feel cheated, you can always leave the fandom, but please do not post hate comments as this affects the emotional state of all 13 members a lot and they are going through tough times now.

We hope that you will continue giving the 13 of them your love and support.

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