Hearing the loud heart wrenching scream of Namjoon, even Mr Kim felt bad for a moment. But he was quick to change the look of guilt on his face back to the stern one.

"Stop crying this very instant if you don't want me to hit you right there again," he spoke to Namjoon in a very calm voice.

Afraid of more beatings, he stopped making any noises but the tears were still flowing involuntarily from his eyes due to the pain.

Mr Kim waited for good two minutes and once he was sure Namjoon was all good to proceed he continued, "Namjoon don't think that you live in an ideal world, people will always hurt you where you are the most vulnerable. You have two choices, either continue being pathetic and cry about it like you just did or stay reseliant and not let it affect you. The stronger you appear to the world, the difficult it will be for them to hurt you. Remember, always the weakest are the prey and the strongest are the hunters."

His words bought a lot of conflicting thoughts in Namjoon's mind. He was relating his words not just to the current situation but also with what has been happening with him and Jin. Each and everytime he was letting Jin hurt him at his vulnerable points, leaving him crying and Jin enjoying like nothing happened.

'I won't let Jin hyung effect me anymore, I will become the strongest, not the weak Namjoon.' thought Namjoon in his mind, but as if his thoughts were apparant to Mr Kim, he spoke "Don't think so high of yourself mister, it will still take you a lot of time to come out your bubble of Mr Kin  or whatever his name is,"

Namjoon looked at him with flushed face wondering how the older was so good at reading his thoughts, it was as if he had a love hate relationship with him. He hated him a lot for all the torture he inflicted over his poor body, but he also loved him a lot for understanding him without saying even a word and caring for him. Just his way of caring was a lot different from others.

For instance, " Now go and get your bandage changesd, your doctor is sitting in the lounge." said Mr Kim, and the next moment Namjoon was out of his sight.

Like this a week passed away, with Namjoon getting a lot of beatings but also some most valueable piece of advice, which he thought to apply within him and Jin and create boundaries, but whom are we even talking about. Namjoon himself knew that he won't be able to do so for an hour.

'Ahhhh I can't wait to meet hyung, but he must have been so worried. I was gone for a whole week, without any notice neither I had my phone. First I will say sorry to him for that and then hug him so tight.  I wonder how many messages and calls I will have from hyung... Ahhh it will feel so nice." thought Namjoon, mentally screaming in happiness and making scenarios of what all he would do with Jin to compensate for the past week.

On reaching his home, Namjoon freshened up quickly, cooked something for himself and once he was all over the couch in a cozy blanket and the hot meal, he opened his phone.

As soon as his mobile data was on, he could hear the notifications for good 5 minutes. But his eyes searched for just one person, which was no where found in the vast sea of worried messages.

He even had a message from Hoseok asking about his whereabouts but not from Jin, not even a single message from his Jin hyung!

Namjoon started crying the next moment, forgetting all the advices he thought to apply in their relationship. He didn't care anymore about being so pathetic or vulnerable or weak. He just wanted to cry it out and get rid of the pain in his chest.

"Wh-why hyung... Why am I so pathetic, what did I do to you for you to suddenly hate me so much... I tired to change everything ab-about me just so you would enjoy my company... But y-you never seen to acknowledge it all. Pl-please don't leave me... I-I don't have anyone... Pl-please..." cried out Namjoon, he was slowly getting frustrated, he wanted to stop crying but at the same time he didn't wanted to. Failing to hold in his frustration, he started picking at his hands and managed to stiffle his cries.

Like every time, he again started thinking of execuses as to why Jin wouldn't have messaged him.

" Um hyung might have thought that I am angry with him, as I hadn't replied to his previous message. So maybe that's why he didn't message at all to give me space. And dumb me, I know hyung hates being left on seen so much. I shouldn't have done that.... I will just go to him home, and apologise for that... Yeah I will go there, I am sure he must have missed me a lot." Namjoon consoled himself with all the fake delusions and slowly pulled up his body from the warmth of the couch and after locking his house left for Jin's.

Since he had the key, he didn't bother enough to ring the bell. He could hear the voice of faint laughter, which kept on getting louder as he came closer.
Once he was at the kitchen, he saw the most adorable sight. Hosoek was sitting on the counter, and his forehead had a very tiny bandage, and Jin was feeding him a soup, which he assumed Jin only made since he was wearing the apron.

But soon the feeling was replaced by jealousy, Jin didn't feed him like this anymore, neither he would cook for him. Namjoon recalled once his hands were aching really bad because of the big amounts of assignments he wrote, so to relive some pain he asked Jin to feed him instead. But the latter denied harshly saying he has other works to do and can't bother to waste time to feed two people.

Now seeing Hosoek and Jin like that, was another hit on his wounded heart.

Hosoek's attention diverted to the lost male standing there all clueless.
He jumped down from the counter and ran to Namjoon and hugged him.

Before Namjoon could manage to say anything, Hoseok was checking all over his face and hands for any sort of harm or injuries. The faded marks of the punishments not coming in his sight.

"Joon! Where were you since the past week? I was so worried, you wouldn't pick up your call, neither open the door nor answer any messages. Are you okay?" rantes Hosoek in worry, Namjoon's heart swelled in pride. He never considered Hosoek this close to him, but here the guy was getting so worried about him. And then their was his hyung, who most probably didn't even know that Namjoon was not there for a week since it was pretty evident from his face.

Another thought came up in Namjoon's mind, 'Maybe that is why Hyung loves Hoseok more than me. He is so pure and lovely, looking out for everyone. And then there is me, a selfish bastard. Maybe I should start being more open regarding my affection and love towards hyung and then he will like me too.'

His thoughts were broken mid way by Hosoek shaking him, Jin was still quiet standing a far.

"Where are you lost now. Tell me!" screamed Hoseok but there was no annoyance in his voice.

"Ah stop screaming, and my uncle came suddenly so I was with him. He took me with him for a week." replied Namjoon.

"Oh, that's good, did you had a good time with him?" asked Hosoek, he didn't know about this uncle of Namjoon, but Jin knew about everything. Namjoon was waiting for even the slightest action of worry or care from Jin's side but nothing came.

"Hm yea, I enjoyed there." replied Namjoon. " Anyways I will leave, take care Hoseok." said Namjoon referring to his injury, and without saying a word to Jin he left. The walk till the gate was the most difficult, with each step, he just wanted to run back and cry in his hyung's arms.
But his hyung didn't care about him, and he had to accept the fact!

Few days passed and there was no message from Jin, Namjoon wanted some attention from Jin so bad. He couldn't understand how just some months changed his life so much, didn't his hyung feel anything for him anymore. How could he be so fine knowing how his uncle was. Wasn't he getting the urge to just pamper him after the painful week.
It was exactly two weeks now, with minimal contact between Jin and Namjoon, it wasn't Namjoon who didn't want to talk rather because of Jin's semester exams going on.

Today was the day when Namjoon was supposed to get his college, he had given up on the hope of Jin being there for him as he checked if he got accepted in the best university or not.
But to his horror, his and Jin's college were the same.

Though he was happy, but he remembered how Jin had once mentioned that if they were ever in the same college,  Namjoon shouldn't tell anyone about him knowing Jin.
He couldn't afford Jin hating him more.

'Should I just look for some other university? But then uncle will kill me... Arghh what do I do.'

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