Sticky End

seventeen

Luhan was confined in the hospital for one month. Their mother came from China to care for him but because of the expenses she needed to get back to China to get back to work and help Sehun pay for the bills, so she once again left Luhan in Sehun's hands.

            'Don't blame yourself Sehun, no one wanted this to happen' it kept on repeating in his head. The last thing their mother said before she left. Just how could he not blame himself? He thought...

It has been days since Luhan came home from the hospital, and unfortunately they haven't had any normal conversation since the incident happened. Sehun felt his heart break bit by bit seeing his hyung in that state. He wanted to do anything; he wanted to do everything just to make him forget, but he was powerless. He was lost and puzzled. What could he possibly do to make Luhan forget everything?

During the day, Sehun would do his best to talk his hyung to eat breakfast even just a single toast. It was hard, but he had to go to work and leave Luhan alone... and before he could say farewell, Luhan would just lock himself inside his bedroom. He'll be in there until Sehun comes back home. At dinner, it would always be persuading his hyung to eat.

Luhan was normal, as how he could manage to be, in the morning. The real problem is during the night, more specifically midnight, when Luhan would scream in pain from a nightmare. Sehun would run to him as quickly as possible to help him calm down.

'D-Don't come near me!!' Luhan sobbed, 'PLEASE! DON'T!'

'Hyung, it's me! Don't be afraid, it's only me... Sehun' He tried to grab hold of Luhan, but he started to cry a lot more loudly and as he gripped Sehun's arms tightly he started to beat him.

'LEAVE ME ALONE!!' he cried painfully, and Sehun, having too many bruise that had lingering pains, had to wait right beside his hyung's bed for him to calm. It can't be helped, he thought. He needed to endure everything... and it wasn't the bruise that pained him, but the thought that he couldn't get near his hyung, not even a brush of his skin to his, without Luhan starting to panic.

'Luhan's state is going bad to worse', his doctor told Sehun when he was still confined. A hospital confine isn't helping him recover, so he decided to send Luhan home.

'Due to the high amount of electricity his body had endured for more than a couple of minutes, there was a change in the circulation of blood flow of the brain. The signals that come from the brain to the eyes have been disturbed.

'And to make it worse, those drugs, the ones that have been used on him, are causing a major role in this. They've ruptured his mind, entirely...

 'He's gone under psychiatric tests and as I concurred, he's having hallucinations, recaps of the scene that night, from trauma. If you need any help, call me immediately. If having him home isn't helping either, I'll think of another way'

It went on for weeks and Sehun had gone back to the hospital for a couple of times, because Luhan needed more dose of his medicine to keep him relaxed at night.

'If nothing changes in Luhan for two more weeks I'll think of another way, Sehun' Doctor Lee, Luhan's doctor, said as he reported about how his hyung was doing.

'I'll do my best to help him doc' Sehun spoke weakly, tired from another sleepless night from watching over his hyung.

'I'll drop by when I can to check on him personally. Let me call you when I do so'

Sehun nodded and thanked the doctor, before leaving his office Sehun took a quick glance at the wall clock to find out that it was already quarter to three. He had been thirteen minutes late for his appointment with his own doctor.