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His patched face brought the attention of many people, as Sunoo and Niki were asked over a million times. "What happened??" The driver asked, concerned as Sunoo's father had asked the man to watch over the two boys, but he already got wrecked on the first day.
"We need to go to the hospital, the nurse said hyung needs stitches." The driver rushes to the hospital, blood staining the white cloth, as Sunoo grunts in anger. "I didn't even do anything to him, what is his actual problem."
Finally stitching Sunoo's face up, news traveled quickly to his father's ear, must be from the driver.
"What's wrong with your face."
"Nothing. Some guy at school had a problem with Niki, and he straight up punched me in the face. He held a gun too. He scratched me." Sunoo's eyes darken, anger about to take over him.
"What's the boy's name."
"Seokbin. Jung Seokbin. The blue tag boy." The father hangs up subsequently, Sunoo's eyes widen at realizing what he just did. Niki just takes the phone away, as Jungwon called.
Getting to the company, Sunoo rushed to put on a mask, not wanting more trouble. Especially from Heeseung. The practice room was loud with music, as everyone was waiting for the two.
"Quickly, we are waiting for you." Heeseung spoke, as Jungwon got to his feet, running to the older. "How's your face?" He reaches out for the mask, but got stopped. "Not now, hyung." Niki was serious, before they started practicing.
Finally after a few hours, the room was heating up. "You're still covered up, Sunoo ah. It's so hot, you should take it off-" "I'm fine." Sighing at the boy's stubbornness, Heeseung couldn't do anything about it. The practice was finally over, going back home.
Unconsciously, upon reaching home, Sunoo reaches to remove everything on his face. The hat and the mask comes off, showing off the ugly bandage. Uh oh.
"Yah! What's wrong with your face??" Heeseung runs over, after washing up. Everyone looks up to see Sunoo. Feeling embarrassed, he ignores them and walks into the bedroom quickly, locking the door.
"Let him be." Niki sighs loudly, continuing to eat his dinner. "He got hurt in school today. Some boy was armed in school, and got scratched in the face." The boys listen in worry, but got even more frustrated when they can't do anything at all.
As much as Sunoo did not want to get out of the room, he was hungry. Dragging his feet, he sat at the dining table. Jungwon gets up to hug the older, Sunoo just lays in his embrace. He could feel eyes on himself, as he ate. "What happened, Sunoo ah," Jake asks again, hoping the boy would open up.
Niki goes to get another bandage patch that the hospital gave them, "It's turning red again." Sunoo being Sunoo, could only oblige, stripping off the big plaster. The ugly green-purple bruise was very obvious, along with the 6 stitches on his face. The members wanted to lay their hands on Sunoo's cheek, but he just turns away, silently.
"I'm really ok, hyung. Don't worry." The bandage goes back on his face, as he walks away, exhausted from everything that happened.
The next day, Seokbin was not in school, putting Sunoo's mind at ease. Although he was masked up, people would stare, at the two golden boys. Classes finally came to an end, as they were eating silently, a boy showed up at the table, with a girl.
The two new faces sat down. "Hi, I'm Min hyuk, and this is my sister, Min Ah. You can call her Mina, for short." The Min siblings. Sunoo recollects that his father was friends with a man Min, and these should be his children. "We want to be good friends with you, not to get anything from you, but genuinely as friends. As four of us." Sunoo couldn't hide his smile, as he definitely loved being around nice people.
"Hi, I'm Sunoo, this is Niki." Niki just smiles back, still a little weary. "We heard what happened, are you alright?" Sunoo nods, appreciating him for his concern. The two Min Siblings then start to follow their new clique, that may seem to bring these 4 together against whatever that may come.
That day, after school, four of them were sitting on the rooftop, as Min Hyuk received a call.
"Guys, Seokbin is dead." Min Hyuk expresses his shock evidently, as Sunoo could not hold himself back. "W...what? H...he die...d?" Sunoo was beyond scared at this point, knowing how status and power is something everyone would try and covet, in modern society.
"Someone found his body beside the river near school."