Tattoos . Soonhoon

14

The daily 'chore' of helping hoshi through his night terrors came back again, just that this time it was worse. Everyday, at least once, screams would be heard when he was asleep. But I didn't care. As long as I was at home, I would help him. 

"Ji"

"hm?"

I was in his room, helping him clean his wounds.

"Am I a b-big burden to everyone? Especially you?"

"No, why would you think so?"

His dark thoughts came back again. His insecurities...

"You guys always help me, and now because of me the media... And also my night terrors..."

"Shhhhh we already told you its fine."

"B-But even if you are sure, what if the rest of them only say that they are fine with it because I'm a part of the team but they don't actually think so..."

"We are 13, always 13 ok? We will be there for each other."

His insecurities were piling up day by day. It was unhealthy. The number of fans we had seemed to have lessened and although we try not to let him know about the news and the hate comments, he always had his ways to find out. Even though we reassure him that it was fine, he seemed to not think so.

"Ji, can you leave? I want to be alone."

"OK." I threw away the used bandages, put the medicine back on the rack and walked out of the room, closing the door softly behind me.

"Is he better?" Everyone asked when I walked back to the living room. I only shook my head.

"He has too many insecurities of us." I sighed as I sat down. I was not a fan of physical contact, but Jeonghan hyung's hand around my shoulder helped comfort me.

"Ji, he needs time. Let's give him the time he needs ok?"

I only nodded slightly.

~~~

It was 5 hours since Hoshi asked jihoon to leave him alone, and no one heard anything of him. The members and Samuel were sure worried, but they kept their distance as they wanted to respect his decisions. Suddenly screams were heard from the room.

"Hyung?" Dk knocked on the door, but no one answered. Slowly pushing open the door, he peeked in.

"Coups hyung! Woozi hyung! Samuel! Help!" He shouted, and the next moment, 12 other pairs of feet were heard running into the room.

"Its all my fault isn't it... Its all my fault... The fans are right I should leave them." Tears were streaming down his face as he said it. He was clearly still asleep, in some sort of nightmare or night terror. 

"Hyung, wake up wake up."

"Samuel, no, you shouldn't break him out of the night terror."

"Coups hyung, he will start harming himself if he continues... Last time he scratched red marks around his whole body for hours like some sort of self-harm... when he had something like this because I got badly injured by our father. And this time it may be worse."

No one knew what to do except to wait for him to break out of the night terror. He started thrashing around and scratched his left cheek, like what Samuel said he may do.

Silently, Jihoon climbed onto the bed and wrapped himself around the sleeping boy, letting a soft purple light illuminate them, before slipping the boy under the blanket and walking out.

"W-What was that-" Mingyu broke the silence as everyone's mouth were held agape at the smaller's actions.

"Soulmate healing, wonder how he can do it. Its so rare, only .1% of soulmates can do it."

"Muel, what are you rambling about?"

"Soulmate healing, the ability to heal their soulmate, whether emotionally mentally or physically. Only .1% of soulmates have it. Emotional healing is what hyung just did and it is the most rare out of them all. I wonder how he knew he could do it or how he did it in the first place."

"Wait... Samuel, so you are saying they are not normal soulmates but special ones?"

"Not special they just have a power. 1% of soulmates have powers, but emotional healing is probably the most rare."

Everyone just held their mouth agape at whatever Samuel just said.

"But if the bond between the soulmates are not strong enough, they may die from using it. But their bond should be strong enough after being together for so long. Also, it takes a lot of power so jihoon hyung probably passed out being his first time using it."

"How do you know so much? I feel offended I know you for 17 years and you just told me all this now."

"Channie hyung, its a secret. Technically I'm not sposed to tell but since it could help all of you so why not? Anyways, we should go check on jihoon hyung." Samuel stood up and walked to the room across, leaving 11 of his hyungs shocked. 

Seems like Samuel is much more than what he seemed.