I'm Not Cold; Just Scared

~~\(T_T) Chapter 43 (T_T)/~~ <Out of the ordinary>

"Jinyoung hyung!" Daehwi cried.

"Lee Daehwi" Jisung warned.

"Jisung hyung" someone spoke. "Don't you think you're doing something wrong here?"

"What do you mean I'm doing something wrong? He's caused too much trouble. Do you think I'll willingly let him in so that he'll cause more trouble?"

"Have you actually considered what Daehwi wanted? It's his life, isn't it?"

Jinyoung turned. The one who had spoken was Sungwoon, who was now glaring at Jisung. "Do you think, by forcing Jinyoung to leave, you'll make Daehwi happy?"

"I'm making sure he won't get hurt later on. He's too young to understand now" Jisung replied.

"Hyung please, he's not a seven year old. He's eighteen. You should let him make his own decisions."

"Decisions that'll end up hurting him in the near future!"

"Decisions that'll make him happy, hyung. You...you weren't there all those nights when I was woken up by Daehwi's nightmares were you?"

"Hyung..." Daehwi mumbled, going red. Damn, Sungwoon had promised not to tell anyone! At this rate he might as well get a megaphone and announce it for the world to hear.

Meanwhile Jinyoung's eyes widened. Nightmares?

"He would keep going on about how worse he's become without Jinyoung. You remember how happy he was back when they were together, right? Now that Jinyoung is here, don't you think the least you could do is actually listen to his story?"

Jisung stayed quiet.

"He's right, hyung." Seongwu spoke up. "I mean, come on, Daehwi's not stupid. If Jinyoung didn't have a proper explanation, he wouldn't have brought him here."

The oldest looked at Ong, then at his boyfriend who was still glaring at him, then at Jinyoung and Daehwi.

"Fine. If you really have a story that's worth listening to, if you have a proper explanation as to where you went that day, then tell it in front of all of us" He said.

Jinyoung felt his social anxiety running around in crazed circles. He suddenly felt so nervous, panic running up and down his veins. Daehwi looked at him, silently encouraging him.

Hyung, tell them. Tell them what you told me.

"That day, when the photos and everything started spreading, I wanted to make sure Daehwi didn't see them without being near someone who could calm him down" He began, gulping. "I kept calling you, Jisung hyung, but you never answered"

"I didn't answer? Stop lying. If any of you kids had called while at school, I would've answered immediately"

"Yah hyung, you didn't have your phone with you that day!" Ong exclaimed, hitting his forehead as it all came back to him.

"I didn't?" Jisung asked, puzzled. "But we were going through all the pictures on my phone because yours was broken."

"That wasn't my phone! That was Hwi's, you were using your phone in the shower and got it wet and it stopped working, can't you remember?!"

"Oh..." Jisung trailed off, feeling somewhat embarrassed. "Okay then, I didn't answer the phone. Where did you run off to after that?"

So Jinyoung explained the entire story to them. How his mother had dragged him away and forced him to break up with the boy, how she set him up with a girl he barely knew, how he had lost himself over the past year, how he had met Seonho and finally decided to come back to Seoul again.