dysthymia | zhong chenle

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❝ there's so many voices ❞

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the winds were light as hyejin and winwin made their way around to the nearest convenience store, both heads full of thoughts that bugged them with every step

they had sat down quietly, treating themselves to instant noodles with the ambience of the air conditioning in the background. both seemed plagued with worry, so it was hard to spark up a conversation

"we're going to TOP" winwin couldn't have broken the silence any harsher. hyejins chopsticks stuck into the bowl, the words only just processing in her head
"what?"

"we need somewhere to go hyejin, we cant keep wandering around stranded" winwin kept his head down, unable to look at her with that information

"what? when? why?" there were a million questions buzzing in her head

"after inhos caught. we cant stay around nct, we're putting ourselves in danger. you're on the blacklist of both Stone and Starship right now and inho is constantly out for your blood" winwin placed his chopsticks down "i don't want a repeat of all of this. even if Starship was caught, Cube can easily bail them out like last time. we cant give the court solid evidence that doesn't expose us; we're mafia gangs"

"why don't we all just give up now, inhos going to escape one way or another" she sucked her noodles, using food as a stress relief

"nct knows what they're doing and the worse that can happen is for nct to kill inho, but that doesn't change the fact that both starship and cube will go into a frenzy. they won't have a leader, and revenge is always something mafia gang seeks for"

it made sense, but hyejin refused to believe it

"i know how these gangs work, and trust me, all we can do is run away. we need to find somewhere safe after this chaos is over, and i know TOP is one of the most secrete gangs out ther-"

"why do we keep running away sicheng" she flashed her eyes up at him "i'm sick of it"

"we have no choice, understand that" his usual calm demeanour was bailing on him second by second as he stood up leaving one phrase that almost shattered her

"stay away from chenle, you'll need to eventually"

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"i swear to god i'm always treating your wounds" she uttered, unraveling the thick bandaging around his hand. chenle had barely spoken a word since he had the blade pushed into his hand, and the guilt kept crawling up to her every time to scene replayed

how the knife came dashing at her, only to be blocked by a hand that held the blade tightly as if pain was non existent.

"do you think hansol would've been the heir to starship if his dad was the founder? but then again, we have no proof to say the old man was the founder anyways...but why is starship handed over to inho? inho literally has no correlation to- oh wait, inho is...hansols sisters boyfriend- what?" thoughts whirled through her head, none of which making sense "shouldn't the right be handed to hansols sister when hansol died? not inho? they have no blood relation at all!"

"all the documents have inhos name stamped on it with little traces to the old man which is odd. if he's not related to starship...then who is he?" she was beginning to talk to herself at the lack of response "on the photo i had gotten, the family only consisted of the dad, the mum and the child which i assume is hansol. there is a rip in the image but it's diagonal, if anything, hansol would be sat in front of his dad, not right in the middle of the parents"