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seonghwa eventually woke up the sleeping boy after he finished bathing him, hongjoong had managed to find some of his old clothes because he was petite much like him
mingi was really tall so he was out of the choices and wooyoung liked holding on to his clothes, even the old ones and hongjoong was not in the mood to hear him throw a tantrum again.
seonghwa didn't use a blow dryer for his hair because again, it might scare him so he had "peaches" in between his legs, sitting on the floor, munching on an apple while he let seonghwa dry his hair.
hongjoong came downstairs along with a first aid kit so he can patch up the cut on his nose and knuckles, as well as some grazes on his knees
"okay peaches, hyung is gonna clean up your cuts," hongjoong sits in front of him on the floor, he wipes away the juices from the apple that had dribbled all over his chin before pushing his hair away from his face
"oh, he has a birthmark hwa." he points out, smiling because it might help in terms of identifying him
"this is going to sting a bit but hyung has to do it so it won't get worse." he explains even though the only response he got was a head tilt. seonghwa was brushing out the tangles in his hair just as hongjoong dabbed the cut with a disinfectant causing the young boy to whimper and clammer up into seonghwa's lap, growling at hongjoong who was more dumbfounded than scared
"i'll try to do it joong, he seems a little skittish." he rubs his back to calm him down while hongjoong nods, putting the kit on the small table next to where seonghwa is sitting
"i'll go prepare a room for him until we can take him to town tomorrow." seonghwa nods as he maneuvers the boy to on the space next to him "they're coming home by the way, they said they got sidetracked when jongho made yunho stop the car so they can get a bunch of watermelons."
"ah, don't growl at me as you did with joong." seonghwa warns as he takes the cotton pad in between in his fingers "hold hyung's hand." he offers, the latter seemed hesitant but he didn't feel threatened.
slowly he puts his hand on top of seonghwa's, squeezing it when his wounds stung from being cleaned but it was eased up when seonghwa blew cold air on to it "you're okay, just hold my hand."
it didn't take long and seonghwa was putting bandaids over his cuts, ruffling his hair once they finished
"hyungs! we're home!"
a deep foreign voice made him snap his head up before clambering back into seonghwa's arms, mingi was the first one to enter the house, letting out a gasp as he made eye contact with the unknown boy who was wrapped around seonghwa
yunho was behind him, complaining that he had not helped him with the groceries but as soon as he sees his hyung engulfed in the arms of an unknown boy he cuts off his complaining and he drops the bags
"what the fuck? hyung who is that?" san questions, grabbing jongho who was minding his own business and using him as a shield as the brown haired boy was looking at them as if he was ready to attack
"shh, peaches, it's okay, they won't do any harm." seonghwa ruffles his hair again, slowly detangling himself from him, leaving him on the couch with his knees pulled up to his chest as he started to feel nervous around the new faces surrounding him.
"we have no idea who this is-" seonghwa starts but he backs away when he sees the boy leap off the couch, heavy footsteps echoing through the room as he runs towards wooyoung who had just gotten inside
"y-youngie!" they hear the boy stutter, the first word he's ever said the whole day "fuck! yeosang?!" wooyoung immediately tightens his hold upon realizing who it was
"joong! get in here please!" seonghwa calls the oldest sibling "you said you didn't know him." seonghwa whispers as he points at wooyoung who was on the floor crying as he hugged him
"i literally have no idea who that is, mingi, do you know?" the tallest of the sibling didn't give a reaction, it had been months since the last time he's seen yeosang.
"youngie," they see him pull away from wooyoung and he wipes away his tears "no cry." he says, lips slowly forming into a pout before wooyoung cups his face
"youngie is happy to see you again! where did yeo yeo go?" he questions, pressing a kiss to his forehead, ignoring all the stares they were getting "woods." was all that came out of his mouth before wooyoung peppers his face with kisses
"don't ever leave again, promise youngie." they all watch as he nuzzles his nose on wooyoung's jaw, they were confused about the action but wooyoung was comforted as it was his friend's way of promising.
"yeo yeo, go to the room, youngie will be with you later." he kisses the crown of his head again before letting him run off upstairs to his bedroom, he just sighs in relief as he stayed glued to the floor
"kim wooyoung, you have 10 seconds to explain who was that and how you know him!" his oldest brother demands, he stands up from the floor and plopped into the couch "where did you find him hyung?" he asks, he was far too euphoric to see that his brother was a tad mad "answer me first, kim wooyoung." hongjoong pressed
"he's my friend hyung, i met him before college started." he bites his lip "where does he live and where is his family?" seonghwa asks, curious as to who could have hurt him so much that he was acting like that
"nowhere hyung, he has no family, i'm his family." he says truthfully "he was- mingi i'm sorry," hongjoong raises a brow up as he turns to look at his other brother who looked scared
"i snuck him in here after i saw him eating some of the fruits in the garden, he didn't talk nor understand me but he knew that he could trust me, i hid him from you that summer, he was stowed away in my room,"
hongjoong couldn't believe what he was hearing, he was starting to connect the dots, how wooyoung would somehow take almost double the amount of food in his room, forbidding anyone to come up, and mostly just cooping himself up there
"mingi hyung found out but i made him swear not to tell you." his voice cracks as he avoids eye contact with his older brothers "but when i had to leave, he was under mingi's care and he managed to sneak out of the house and this is the first time i've seen him in months hyung! please don't send him away, i'm all he has." he begs as hot tears streak down his cheeks
hongjoong sighs, kneeling in front of his youngest brother to wipe his tears away "you could have told me woo, you know how mom and dad raised us, i would have accepted him in our home and he never would have gotten lost." wooyoung just wails, uncaring that there were other people in the room
"he can stay, we were just worried about how we found him and that he didn't talk nor tell us his name." he hushes the crying boy before asking him what his name is "yeosang, i gave him that name because he didn't have one before."
