Chapter Eight: Hoseok's Conundrum

Hoseok is walking home with Yoongi, he is still holding the cake, while his lazy friend is still eating his lollipop.

"Hoseok."

"Yeah, hyung?"

"Whenever you exchange the Snickers Bar, you always got the same cake," Yoongi says. "Do you eat the cake?"

"Of course, hyung. Don't want good cake come to waste," Hoseok replies grabbing some frosting with his forefinger and putting it in his mouth.

He wipes his finger on Yoongi's cheek.

"Yah! Hoseok!" Wiping his face with his handkerchief.

Hoseok just laughs.

"What the heck did you do that for?" Yoongi asks.

"Nothing," Hoseok says and runs away.

"Yah!" Yoongi shouts.

"That is your stop!" Hoseok shouts back.

"Oh yeah."

Hoseok laughs and runs away, didn't say goodbye to his friend.

"Phew, good thing that this cake didn't fall off while I was running," Hoseok mutters.

"Look at this horse, always bringing the same cake."

Hoseok jumps and turns around. "J-Jonghyun-hyung?" he stutters and notices a boy standing behind JR, not doing anything.

"That's not my name, horse. You know that I'm JR," JR says. "Are you celebrating something? Why didn't you invite me?"

Hoseok didn't answer and JR keeps teasing him, "Is it your mother's birthday? Oh yeah, you don't have a mom."

Hoseok eyes are watering. Beomgyu is walking home from Soobin's house and spots Hoseok being picked on by JR and some boy. Beomgyu quickly runs towards Hoseok to save his butt.

But the boy stops Beomgyu from stepping an another step to Hoseok.

"What are you doing? I need to help Hoseok-hyung," Beomgyu complains.

"I'll handle JR-hyung," the boy says. "The name's Hwang Minhyun. I'm friends with JR-hyung, but I'm not a bully, trust me," Minhyun assures.

"I'm not sure that I trust you, but please help my hyung from that predicament, Minhyun-hyung," Beomgyu says.

"JR-hyung, you don't want to get into trouble, do you?" Minhyun asks.

JR glances at Minhyun, "No."

"Come on, let's go," Minhyun said and they walk away.

"Hoseok-hyung, are you alright?" Beomgyu asks, running to him.

Tears from Hoseok eyes, rolls down when he made eye contact with Beomgyu.

"Come on, let's go home," Beomgyu says. Hoseok just nod and they walk home together.

"Hyung. Won't you get diabetes by eating too much cake?" Beomgyu jokes.

Hoseok didn't answer. Beomgyu nudges him and says, "I'm just messing with you, hyung. Don't take it seriously."

Hoseok just smiles a little and Beomgyu notices.

"Oh come on hyung. You can smile better than that," Beomgyu says.

Hoseok smiles his heart smile.

"Oh my God! My heart is- Oh my God!" Beomgyu says.

"Yah!" Hoseok says and smacks Beomgyu in the head.

"What did you do that for?" Beomgyu asks rubbing his head.

They laughed and head home.

"Beomgyu?"

"Yes hyung?"

"Wanna know why I always bring this cake with me and why is there tons of chocolate bars in the fridge?" Hoseok asks.

"Actually, I was wondering about that," Beomgyu says.

They reach their destination, heads inside their house and into the living room.

"If you are not comfortable sharing it, hyung. It's okay with me," Beomgyu says, sitting down on the couch.

"It's fine, Ggyu. You're the first one to know," Hoseok says, setting the cake on the coffee table and went to sit at the end of the couch.

"Your friends doesn't know about it, hyung?"

"Not really."

"Why not?"

"I don't want them to worried about me."

"Ohh."

"Since, when I was 5 years old. Oh boy." Hoseok says looking down.

"It's okay that you won't continue, hyung."

"No! I can do this. During that age, my mother and I went to an amusement park. I loved amusement park, but now, thinking of it, I don't." Beomgyu nods.

"My mother bought me a Snickers Bar and we went to a carousel. My mother said that I have to count one to ten, because we are playing hide and seek. I was so excited at that time, I loved playing that game."

Tears starts to roll down on Hoseok's eyes.

"Hyung."

Hoseok wipes his tears with the back of his hand and continues, "When I opened my eyes, I started to look for my mom, but she was never there. She left me."

Hoseok's tears are flowing nonstop, Beomgyu scoots over to him and hugs him.

Hoseok is suffering from depression. Whenever that Hoseok is home alone, when Beomgyu is hanging out with his friends, he tends to torture himself and still smiles, pretending that never happened.

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