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"Seventeen„

As Doyoung called yet another ambulance to their location, Taeil and Jeno ran to the young Chinese.

Jeno reached Renjun first and held his face. He almost cried at the sight of it. The older had cuts and bruises littered all across his face, like he'd been beaten up. 

"Oh my God, Renjun." Jeno held him close to his chest as they waited for an ambulance to arrive, all four of the gang members outside drenched by the harsh rain.

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Sicheng slowly awoke to the sound of beeping; a heart monitor. His stiches had been redone. He slowly sat up and looked around.

Yuta was asleep by his feet, again, so he kicked the older awake. When Yuta finally woke up, he glared at Sicheng, who just laughed. 

"Hey, what happened?" Sicheng place a hand against his wound.

"You woke up and started freaking out, I guess. Also, what did you mean by "it's Xiaojun?"'

Sicheng bit his lip, "Their real target is Dejun. The rest of us are just a mask to hide their real target."

"Why Dejun?" 

"He's your main interrogator, right?" 

"Yeah..."

"He once tortured two of their guys to death, on two different occasions, and tortured another until he went crazy. They want to get back at him."

Yuta pursed his lips and furrowed his brows. "I'm gonna tell Taeyong. Who are their men?" 

"I don't know, but their gang name is Red Bullet."

Yuta made a sound of realization, "Oh, yeah. I remember those bastards."

He hesitated for a moment, a fierce, one minute debate between his mind and heart before he leaned in and gave the younger a small peck on the forehead. Yuta squeaked out a "thanks" and ran out the door.

When Yuta entered the hallway, he was greeted by Jeno, Doyoung and Taeil. 

"What happened?" Yuta approached them.

"Renjun," was all Jeno could say.

Doyoung had an arm around Jeno's shoulders. "What about you?"

"Red Bullet. That's who's doing this." Taeil cursed under his breath and Yuta continued. "Their actual target is Dejun because he killed to of their men and tortured another into insanity."

"So what's the point of taking the rest of the China line?"

"It's to cover up their actual target."

"So their suffering for nothing?!" Jeno shouted and stood up. Taeil tried to hide himself from the people who were staring.

"Hey, I'm going to take you home. You have school tomorrow anyways." Yuta pulled Jeno's arm and dragged him to the elevator just a a nurse approached Doyoung and Taeil.

"He'll recover, the cuts are two small to be fatal, and the bites aren't too venomous." 

"Bites? What bites?" 

"The spider bites."

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"You can't keep doing this." Johnny said, referring to the constant arguments Donghyuck and Mark 

"You can't keep doing this!" Mark gestured to the handcuffs that linked him and the younger.

"I'll continue doing that until you two learn to get along and date!"

Donghyuck stopped in his tracks, "What was that last part?" He gave Johnny a sickeningly sweet smile.

Johnny laughed nervously and left the room. 

"You know, between the handcuffs and the cat ears you had on earlier, I'd say you're the kinkiest person I know." Donghyuck's words made Mark choke on nothing in particular.

"Don't say shit like that." Mark braced himself against his desk.

"Can't handle it?" The younger smirked lightly.

Mark rolled his eyes and sat on his bed. 

"Hey, where were you earlier?" The younger asked.

"Out, why? You worried or something?" 

Donghyuck didn't say anything and just laid on the bed. Mark had to manually rearrange their positions so that the both of them were comfortable. 

Whether he meant to or not, Donghyuck couldn't tell, he was busy being all flustered, Mark wrapped an arm around Donghyuck's waist. He brought the tanned boy closer to him and pressed his nose against the nape of the younger's neck. 

No one spoke for a while. There was a comfortable silence surrounding the two. 

"You know, they found Renjun. We can visit him after school tomorrow."

Donghyuck didn't say anything, but his sigh of relief and the way he leaned into Mark's chest was enough to tell what he was feeling. 

A few rooms down the hall, Jisung was attending to the wound on Chenle's head. Daegal was asleep on the youngest's bed. 

"Guess what?" Jisung asked as he finished putting a band-aid over the wound. It wasn't bleeding, it's just become a scab, but it's so that Chenle doesn't start picking at it.

"What?"

"They found Renjun Hyung." Jisung felt his heart melt when he saw how Chenle's eyes lit up. "Taeyong Hyung says we can visit him after school."

Chenle threw himself onto Jisung, hugging to the point where the younger had to tap out. "Listen, I love you too, but I need to breathe." Jisung laughed but Chenle only leaned in closer.

"You love me?" Chenle smirked.

Jisung flushed a bright red and removed himself from Chenle's tight grip. Or, at least, he tried. Chenle held on too tightly for him to escape.

"Don't try and run away, my dear." Chenle pulled the younger onto the bed with him, careful to not fall on Daegal. 

"Don't you think it's strange?" Sungchan laughed.

"What?" Jeno turned to him. He had just gotten back from the hospital, with Yuta.

"Up until a few weeks go, we were at each other's throats? We were ready to kill each other on sight and now, here we are. Sitting together on the same couch staring at a wall."

Jeno laughed at the younger's wording but nodded. "Yeah, I guess it is quite strange."

"Ahem," Taeyong cleared his throat. "I hope you two are aware of the fact that you have school tomorrow. Bed time, now." He jabbed a thumb at the staircase behind him and the two dragged themselves to their rooms.

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Chapter seventeen ✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧

Ngl... This isn't the best chapter •-• it's more of filler... Whoops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also... I've started another three books... Hlep... One's a demon au, tho 👀👀 another is a summer camp au, and the last is a predator and prey au.

Anygays, I hope you're having a good day and I hope you enjoyed your reading!!

-Scribbles
1.27.2021

PS here's a kiss ( ˘ ³˘)♥ and happy 127 day!!