CHAPTER XVII

Minseok's hopes for a calm next couple of weeks after Thanksgiving wasn't realistic at all. So much drama has broken out within the last two weeks and he can't handle it one bit on his own.

Kyungsoo and Jongin aren't doing too well anymore. Chanyeol and Baekhyun are in the middle of a fight (probably because of something having to do with Baekhyun's eyeliner collection). Junmyeon and Jongdae still aren't dating. Sehun and Zitao are in their still-new-couple adorable faze and everyone is annoyingly fawning over them. Yifan and Yixing are becoming close friends, allowing that asshole of a man back into their small circle. And then there's Minseok and Luhan, forever separated by time differences and a border between their countries all because ones an idol and the other is a normal man who works as a barista.

What a calm couple of weeks this has been...

"Xiumin!" Jongdae yelled as he entered their apartment. "Have you heard about D.O and Kai?!" He practically shrieked.

Minseok glanced up from the book he was reading while Jongdae sat himself down next to him on the couch. "No, I've been keeping myself busy with work and reading. What happened?"

"Kai, he cheated on Soo." Jongdae whispered.

With widened eyes, Minseok shut his book. "You're kidding..."

"Nope. It was with this Taemin kid to."

"Taemin?"

"Yeah." Jongdae nodded his head with a sad sigh. "He knew what he was doing and purposefully stole Kai away from Soo..."

The realization hit Minseok like a brick wall. He's heard that name multiple times since he first started working at the coffee shop with Kibum.

Taemin is Jonghyun's younger brother.

The little brother who's in love with dancing and is supposedly a perfect angel. The boy who's supposedly a human being with no faults. The boy who everyone sees as the one with his life planned out with not a single road bump in sight. And he helped Jongin cheat on Kyungsoo just like that.

A knock on their apartment door brought the two out of their silence. "Let me in dweebs." A familiar, pained voice called from outside.

Rushing, Jongdae quickly opened the door with Minseok following closely behind. Sehun just stood there with a bloodied lip and a slowly swelling black and blue bruise forming around his right eye. His clothes were slightly ripped and it seemed as though he had gotten mauled by a wolf.

"Shit Sehun, what happened?" Minseok asked concerned as he helped the boy over to the couch and sat him down gently.

With a small chuckle, Sehun rubbed the back of his head tiredly. "Sasaengs sure are some scary girls..." He mumbled.

Jongdae cursed under his breath. "Some stupid girls beat you up?"

"Wasn't some. More like I was jumped by a group of twenty and beat the shit out of."

Minseok quickly ran off to grab some first aid supplies and then wandered back into the living room. "What is it they wanted?"

Sehun gave him a bitter smile. "For me to leave Zitao and let him be with Luhan."

Minseok paused in his disinfecting of Sehun's wounds while staring directly into those cold eyes of his. "They'll be after me as well then..." He whispered while glancing over to Jongdae. "And you might not be safe since you live with me."

"What do you want me to do then Xiu? Move out?" Jongdae asked jokingly with a laugh.

Minseok grimaced as he went back to cleaning Sehun's cuts. "I'll leave so you should be fine."

"And where would you stay?"

"With me."

Both Minseok and Jongdae stared at Sehun for a moment before laughing slightly. "You live in a small single roomed apartment Sehun."

"And?"

"You can't be serious about me living with you."

"It would keep us both safe." Sehun said with a smirk. "Safety in numbers."

"He has a point." Jongdae piped up.

Minseok sighed. "I know he does, by what are you going to do about living here alone?"

Jongdae thought for a moment and then shrugged his shoulders. "Keep paying your side of the rent while living with Sehun. The landlords don't need to know about this." He then laughed with his famous dinosaur like smile.

"Then it's settled. You're moving in with me tonight Xiumin." Sehun said matter-of-factly once Minseok had finished with cleaning his wounds and bandaging him up.

Within hours, Minseok was walking side by side next to Sehun down the snow covered sidewalk in the middle of the night with a relatively big suitcase in hand trailing behind them. Sehun's right eye was already beginning to swell to an insane size and the discoloration was becoming more evident as the minutes passed by. Thankfully by the time they made it to his apartment, they could just go straight to bed.

First Jongin cheated on Kyungsoo and now Sehun and Minseok have to watch out for sasaengs before they're killed. Relationships are truly weird things. Either you'll be cheated on, abused, or criticized and sometimes even physically and mentally scarred all because of the person you chose to love.

This world is truly messed up.

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