❝𝐁𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄❞

18 || Anger and Worry

The next day Hongjoong woke up to the alarm's annoying sounds. For some reason he didn't want to get up. He was excited for today as well as scared and worried. But these feelings weren't the reason for him not wanting to get up.

He was actually a morning person and never had problems getting up but since the Seonghwa incident, so much has happened that he probably was really really tired leading his body, asking for more rest. He closed his eyes for a second and tried to get the sleep that second could offer him before getting up immediately.

His cracked his knuckles stretching out his sour muscles and then getting up going towards the bathroom. Brushing his teeth and then going in the shower Hongjoong came out after a proper 20 minutes. When he went towards to laundry area and was about to put his clothes in the washing machine he saw something.

Seeing it lying on the counter where all the laundry stuff was, Hongjoong just dropped his clothes in the washing machine, not interested in giving his eyes the chance to look anywhere other than the item. He almost forgot about this since he didn't pay much attention to it in the first place that night. He was in enough hurry to get back to Seonghwa's unconscious self.

He picked it up, the packet was a little destroyed because of the water showing its power to the material with no guard against it. But comparing it to how it was that night it was fully dry now. He opened it to find it almost half finished.

He was a little disappointed to find something so dangerous with Seonghwa but then he couldn't say anything about it. Seonghwa never had anyone to look after him, to see if he was happy or alright or not, to let him stop from getting in these dangerous habits. But now, he'll try his best to do that for him.

Stuffing the object in his pocket, Hongjoong went out of the laundry area to get to the kitchen area. He made a coffee and normal cheese sandwich for breakfast. After 15 minutes he was out of his house for school.

He walked looking around like usual but his mind still had the worry and so it wasn't a much enjoyed walk to school. His feet finally stopped for some time when his eyes caught the school gates in his vision. Taking a breath in he finally dragged his feet in.

He straight went to his locker this time. Looking at his schedule he took the things needed out from his locker putting them in his bag while keeping some unnecessary ones in. Locking it, he was about to leave from there when he felt a weight at his shoulder. Turning his face to find the owner of the arm, to which the weight on his tiny shoulder belonged to, his eyes saw Jongho.

Jongho smiled but looked serious as well. "Hey, Hongjoong!" He said to him with the same face. "Hey, Jongho! You alone today?" Hongjoong smiled hesitantly not sure if it was right or wrong of him to smile. "Ah, no the others are already here but I wanna talk to you about something so I just made an excuse since they don't know you are already here." Jongho said quietly not wanting to let any other person listen.

"Ah, okay what is it?" Hongjoong asked in a low voice. He actually had a slight idea of what it could be but his innerself wasn't sure about it. He waited for Jongho to speak. "Hongjoong, Yunho told me you know about him liking Mingi, and so I wanted to warn you. Please try to stay away from Mingi a little. Yunho gets hurt. I know it's Mingi who does everything but at least you can try to keep him away." Jongho's words showed true concern both for Yunho and Him.

"Mingi is a good guy but when it comes to relationships he is never serious Hongjoong. I feel so bad for Yunho sometimes but then he doesn't let us say anything either." Jongho continued, his face looked so sad. He understood though, cause he feels the same and seeing Yunho is such a nice person, he doesn't deserve all this.

"Jongho don't worry! I'll try my best to keep Mingi away from me." Hongjoong just said that for the time since he wasn't fully sure about why the other's included 'when it comes to relationships he is never serious'. He was about to ask when he heard someone from behind. "Hey, Jongho! Hongjoong!" It was YeoSang.