Sticky End

sixteen

            The sounds of the IV dripping and sounds of machines beeping accompanied Luhan in his hospital room, and Sehun felt it was too deafening. His fist clenched as he sat beside his hyung who was lying down at the hospital bed, sleeping. He was asleep, but Sehun could see how much his hyung had suffered.

            His head was bandaged all over; his pretty flawless face was covered with bandages, plasters and bruise. His leg was in a cast, even his right arm was. Numerous stitches that weren't visible were on his back.

            Sehun gritted his teeth from utter frustration and pain. Just when he had decided, just when he was so sure of it, just when he was about to see his hyung and patch things up with him this happens.

            It was as if someone wanted this, as if he was being punished. He couldn't help but feel guilty over what happened to Luhan. Sehun thought that if he just waited, if he didn't leave him, if he just tried to put a little more force in taking him back then maybe this wouldn't have happened.

             Luhan was molested and experimented on by a group of drugged medicine students. The information was only known to him when he turned his cell phone on while he was in their apartment. He couldn't help it. Upon knowing what has happened to Luhan, he rushed to the hospital to where he was... and there Sehun found Xiumin.

            A punch right in the face was what Sehun greeted Xiumin and it didn't even feel enough for both of them.

            'W-What the hell did you do? Why did you let this happen?!' Sehun shouted

            No words came out from Xiumin for he was drowning in his own sorrows. There was none to blame for this other than him. It was his fault, it was his entire fault. That night, Luhan should've been with him... but he threw him out.  Xiumin felt that he deserved being rejected, he felt that he wasn't good for Luhan anymore... and that feeling broke his soul into millions of pieces.

'I... I threw him out' Xiumin started as his tears started to show up. 'I threw him out because he rejected me...' his hands hid his face as he sobbed

            'I'm not good enough and I will never be... now I understand that I can't be with him even though I want to...' He knelt down in front of Sehun as he continued to sob

            'So please... take good care of Luhan... I beg you... You're the only one he needs'

He was the first one to have known about the incident. The morning of the twenty fifth he tried his best to look for Luhan and he wanted to apologize for his stupid actions. But before he got out of his apartment, the telephone rang and to his surprise it was the police, informing him about the man he was about to look for.

            As soon as he heard what the police said, he quickly rushed to the hospital... where he broke down. The sight of Luhan was enough to kill him... but the doctors had to tell him everything that Luhan had gone into. That was when he realized how foolish he was to think that Luhan would be better off with him rather than to be with Sehun...

            The scene of Xiumin pleading lasted in Sehun's mind no matter how many hours have passed by him. Unanswered thoughts filled his head, 'What did he mean that hyung rejected him?', 'What happened to them?', 'Did he loved hyung too?' It was painful to think over and over, curiosity was eating him from the inside out. Just what happened to them?

            A week slowly passed, and it was after New Year's when Luhan finally awoke. But with Luhan waking up, it only meant a harder life for him. Upon waking up, and upon seeing his brother, Sehun... he couldn't help but cry hard. He was ashamed, he was hurt, and he was broken.