Across The Boundary • Yoonmin

F.5; Take a Risk

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"Sshh. It's okay hyung, don't cry please .." His bestfriend said while comforting him, who is still crying his heart out ever since they arrived at the younger's house.

"Please hyung, you've been crying for hours - you need to rest, sleep. Please?"

He was still clutching Tae's clothes tight, all the while shaking his head in refusal.

He doesn't want to sleep 'cause he's afraid.

Afraid that if he sleeps and woke up, he'll be back there again on that torture house; getting beaten and his heart getting broken into pieces.

He continues to shake his head, but stops when Tae holds him firmly in place; aquamarine eyes peircing through his brown ones.

"Hyung, it's okay. I'm here. Nothing, especially, no one is going to hurt you anymore,"

He blinks multiple times at him, and lets out a breathy sob before nodding his head reluctantly.

Tae smiles and lifts him up from the couch they were sitting, before walking towards the younger's bedroom.

He pushes the door open with his foot, and made his way towards the bed; before He started tucking him.

"Don't cry okay? Get some rest," his bestfriend said.

Tae was about to walk away but stops when he thugs his sleeve weakly, and his bestfriend turns around.

He looks at him with pleading eyes, as he speaks up with a shaky and quivering voice.

"D-Don't leave me .."

His bestfriend smiles again and nods. He scooted away to give Tae some space, and scooted closer when the younger lays down beside him; basking in the warmth and safety that his bestfriend gave.

They stayed there for a minute, before he speaks up again.

"I-I'm scared .."

"Don't be hyung,"

"W-What if he comes back a-and - and, take me back with h-him?"

He suddenly feels suffocated when he heard his own words, and tried to stop another sob from escaping but failed.

He emits a sound like whimper, and scooted closer to his bestfriend who envelops him in a tight and comforting embrace.

"I won't let him, hyung. Remember, if he ever come back, don't come with him. You will stay here, okay hyung?"

He didn't say anything because he don't think he can even respond to that statement.

A part of him was happy that he was now out of that hellhole, but the other part of him couldn't help but feel guilty about leaving.

That man he left was his husband.

His other half.

The one he promised to be with forever.

He was tied to him, like a thread stitched tightly and strongly.

He loves him.

He has to go back.

"You will stay here. Ok Suga-hyung?"

His bestfriend's words ring in his ears, and he started to be torn apart between his decisions.

Should he stay?

Or should he -

"Suga-hyung," his bestfriend calls again with his deep, but gentle voice.

"Stay .."

His bestfriend told him to leave before but he never listened, so he ended up here.

Maybe it's because of his fear of taking risks that's why he end up here.

Always at the mercy and pity of anyone.

He had stayed and ended up here.

And he wants to go out.

So he decided to take a risk for the first time.

Even if that risk will result to a big consenquence.

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