"Soonyoung."

"Hmm?"

"If you were Mingyu right now, what would you feel?" Jihoon looks at Soonyoung who is sitting beside him at the dining table, waiting for Mingyu and Wonwoo to join them for dinner. Soonyoung looks up from his phone and gives his full attention to his omega.

"You want to understand Mingyu?"

It's not like he wants to understand Mingyu. But it's more like he wants to understand alpha in general. He saw how Mingyu's eyes changed when he heard that Soonyoung can smell Mingyu's omega now and sure thing he never saw that side of Kim Mingyu. He looked so mad and Jihoon didn't understand the reason why.

Why would he be mad at something he can't control?

"If you were the only one who could smell my pheromone and one day you lost that ability to be the only one who could do that? Are you going mad too?"

Soonyoung looks at his eyes for a while as if searching for something there, seems like he found it because he smiles. "Yes."

Jihoon frowns. "Why? You can't control something like that?"

"Ji, if you see me too close with another omegas, what do you feel?" Jihoon doesn't understand why Soonyoung is answering his question with another question. But he tries to be patient and answer the question.

"Depends. If you are too close and have unnecessary intimate physical contact with another omegas, I'm so gonna be mad at you." For real, why would his alpha do that?

"Ok, but what if I only sit side by side with an omega in the class. What do you feel?" Jihoon doesn't understand why Soonyoung keeps giving him questions.

"It's normal, isn't it? I should feel normal about it."

Soonyoung smiles and touches Jihoon's hand. He holds the hand and cares for it softly. "But we can't, Ji. We can't feel normal whenever we see our omega closes with another alpha."

"Huh?"

"The thing about alpha is, whenever we fall into an omega, our world is revolving around them. Our omega become our center of the world, everything that they do and feel is so important to us. We want to keep our omega from danger, so our protective demeanor comes out naturally. As our love grows deeper and deeper, our obsession is growing in that same direction as our loves. We have this sickly obsession with our omega and even though it's not good, we can't control it. That obsession easily turns into possessiveness."

Jihoon tries to understand Soonyoung's explanation and he still isn't sure if he can understand an alpha's feelings.

"We want to be with our omega, we want to always see them, touch them, talk to them. We want them to be for only ourselves. Our basic instinct can tell us to just lock our omega in our territory so other alpha can't see, talk, or touch them. That's the deepness of our possessiveness."

That's scary to be honest. If one day Soonyoung tries to lock him up in the apartment so Jihoon can't get out to the world again, he might consider breaking up with him.

"But we are also human, right? We know what is wrong and what is right. We know that it is wrong so we don't do what our instinct tells us to. But if something triggers our possessiveness for our omega, we can't really control ourselves. That's the hardest part of being an alpha."

Jihoon looks at Soonyoung's eyes and he can see the loving gaze there.

"So back to your question, in Mingyu's case he can't control why suddenly i can smell his omega's scent but he also can't control the possessiveness inside him. Wonwoo is his omega and he had the privilege to be the only one who could smell him. You know how great the omega's pheromone is affecting us right? And now it might be felt like he had shared part of what is his to other alphas."

Jihoon suddenly remembers how Soonyoung's act whenever he releases his pheromone. He looks away from Soonyoung's loving gaze.

"I believe Mingyu is going crazy upstairs. His mind is going crazy. I just hope he still can have some sense of not doing something that he will regret later."

Jihoon looks at his hand that is still in Soonyoung's hold. Soonyoung's explanation is crystal clear and the omega suddenly feels bad for the alphas.

"Soonyoung, if one day something triggers your possessiveness for me, don't press it by yourself, ok?" He looks at Soonyoung again and his face is serious. "Talk to me, so we can solve that together."

Soonyoung's gaze becomes sweeter and sweeter and Jihoon is just glad that a very loving and sweet alpha like Soonyoung is his mate. Even though sometimes he acted too silly for his liking, he still loves him nonetheless.

Soonyoung looks at his lips and he comes closer to kiss it, Jihoon is already closing his eyes when he hears someone walking down the stairs and when he opens up his eyes again he sees Soonyoung rolling his eyes in disappointment.

Jihoon throws his eyes to Mingyu and Wonwoo, he expects to see some tension between them because of this afternoon's event, but he sees none of it. They look so normal, still clingy by the way they walk hand in hand to the dining table, but from the expression on their face, everything looks so normal.

"Ugh damn i'm so hungry." Mingyu opens his mouth when he sees food in front of him.

"You cooked this, Ji?" He looks at Jihoon in an expectant manner.

Jihoon also tries to act normal. "Nope, too lazy. I asked the housekeeper to cook for us and they already left us this evening."

Wonwoo nods and takes a seat in front of Jihoon. "Smell goods."

This is weird. The way Mingyu looks at Soonyoung is also normal. Soonyoung on his side also tries to act as if nothing happens. So Jihoon also needs to do that.

Maybe Mingyu and Wonwoo already talked about it when they were in their room because they took so long to finally join them at the dining table.

They start their dinner peacefully until Soonyoung asks Mingyu to join him to do some dance covers of Soonyoung's favorite boy band's new song. Wonwoo is lit up by the information and now he digs this information to the core. His mate shares the story of Mingyu and he became the best dancer in the university in a very proud manner. Jihoon is only rolling his eyes.

While eating and chatting, Jihoon silently observes how Mingyu and Wonwoo act toward each other. There is no space between them and Mingyu keeps touching either Wonwoo's hands or waist. And in return, Wonwoo also secretly looks at his boyfriend.

"Ok! How about we play a game since what a trip without alcohol?"

Soonyoung is suggesting a truth or dare game but to make it more spicy, when someone is chosen to be the victim of the game, his partner needs to take a glass of wine before choosing which one between truth or dare. And when the chosen one doesn't do the "dare" or answer the "truth" his partner needs to drink one more glass.

"You only make a way for us to keep drinking." Jihoon comments on Soonyoung's game rule and Soonyoung only smiles sweetly at him.

"It sounds fun! I'm in." Wonwoo says excitedly while walking towards the kitchen bar to bring bottles of wine, Mingyu is following him in the behind to help him.

"We can spin this empty wine bottle on the table to pick the chosen one." Wonwoo suggests and both Soonyoung and Jihoon agree at the suggestion.

"Ok, let's go." Wonwoo places the empty wine bottle on the center of the table and spins it, after spinning for a while, the end of the bottle points on... Kwon Soonyoung.

"Ow? I was the one who suggested this game and why I'm first to be choosed!" Soonyoung tries to complain but Mingyu quickly gives Jihoon a glass of wine. Jihoon knows that Soonyoung doesn't like the idea of him drinking but he can't do anything because he was the one who suggested this game.

Jihoon gladly accepts the glass from Mingyu and drinks it right away. He likes beer more, but sometimes he adores the bitterness in wine after he drinks it. Soonyoung is looking at him while he is drinking his wine and Jihoon raises his eyebrow at him when he finishes it.

"Truth or dare?" He asks Soonyoung while smirking, somehow he knows that Soonyoung will choose 'truth'. There is Mingyu here, that man tends to have a very crazy idea if he chooses 'dare'.

"Truth."

Bingo.

Jihoon looks at Mingyu and Wonwoo who look at each other as if signaling who is the one who will ask the question. In the end, it's Mingyu. Of course, the naughty Kim Mingyu. Jihoon doesn't like the smile on his face right now.

"If you can cosplay something while having sex, what do you want Jihoon to be?"

This bastard, Mingyu!

"OI!" Jihoon looks at Mingyu as if he wants to kill him and the man only shrugs his shoulders and laughs while placing his hands on Wonwoo's shoulder. Wonwoo also looks at Jihoon's boyfriend in an anticipating manner.

Soonyoung looks flustered and Jihoon knows the man doesn't want to answer the question so Jihoon reaches for another glass of wine and almost drinks it but Soonyoung's careful voice interrupts him.

"Teacher."

There is a loud gasp on the other side of the table and Mingyu claps his hand in satisfaction. "I always know you have 'thing' for smart people!"

Jihoon can't believe what he heard and he really wants to know everything inside his boyfriend's head. He wants to know his boyfriend's wildest imagination of him. Soonyoung is looking anywhere but Jihoon and the way his ears are getting redder makes Jihoon wonder what he is thinking right now.

"Next!" Jihoon spins the empty wine bottle to continue the game.

This time the bottle chose Mingyu.

HA!

Time for revenge.

Wonwoo drinks his glass of wine while smiling as if he waits his turn to drink. "You like to drink, huh?" Mingyu asks this question to his boyfriend and his boyfriend only replies with a smile.

"Be careful, Mingyu. Wonwoo likes drinking but he easily gets drunk. Good for your advantage though, he clings a lot if he's tipsy." Soonyoung warns Mingyu and Wonwoo quickly says no.

"I'm not!"

"How do you know that? Have you seen it before?" Mingyu's eyes are starting to get darker and Jihoon doesn't want this night to have another alpha tension between Mingyu and Soonyoung. He gets enough of it.

Soonyoung nods. "On prom night in our high school days."

"Ok, choose one, truth or dare, Mingyu?" Jihoon tries to distract the alphas and it works. Mingyu sighs and moves his body closer to Wonwoo as if he can't get any closer.

"Dare."

Typical Mingyu.

Jihoon has an idea.

"Mingyu, I command you to kiss..." The way his eyes lit up, Jihoon knows that Mingyu is expecting him to say his omega's name. They are people who can easily kiss each other in public and Jihoon doesn't want to give Mingyu an easy challenge. He wants revenge so he says this name instead.

"Soonyoung."

His alpha's name.

Soonyoung looks at him in disbelief and Jihoon only smiles sweetly at him. This is so fun! Jihoon is fine with Soonyoung kissing Mingyu. They both hate it so much, that's why it can be fun.

"What the hell?! NO!" Mingyu first reacts to the command and Wonwoo laughs hard beside him.

Wonwoo lifts his hands in the air and gives Jihoon a high touch. "Good job, Jihoon-ah."

This time Mingyu looks at his omega's face in a shocking manner. "Babe, why are you liking the idea of me kissing another guy?"

"Because you hate the idea of kissing Soonyoung."

That's it. Wonwoo's way of thinking is just the same as Jihoon.

"Ew.. this is disgusting." Soonyoung exclaims and Mingyu throws a hand at him.

"I also don't want it!"

Wonwoo looks at the bickering duo and smiles, he reaches for another glass of wine and knows what he should do next because there is no way his alpha wants to kiss another alpha even though it's only for a game. Mingyu looks at Wonwoo's direction and sighs.

He stands up and reaches for Soonyoung's collar, he makes the other alphas stand up too and it flashes so fast but Jihoon sees them kissing! It's not a kiss but more like... a peck, but the reaction after it is so huge.

Both Soonyoung and Mingyu shout cursing words so loudly while wiping their mouths roughly. "Oh my God, I can't believe I kissed Soonyoung! DAMN IT!"

"Your mouth tastes disgusting, Mingyu!" Soonyoungs shouts loudly.

Wonwoo laughs so hard until his face turns red, he seems to like this game so much. Jihoon is also laughing hard because this is too hilarious.

"NEXT!" Mingyu spins the bottle of wine and this time it directs at Jihoon.

Oh shit.

There is a fire in Mingyu's eyes and Jihoon is frightened to guess what is in Mingyu's mind right now.

"Truth or dare you little one?" He asks Jihoon eagerly after Soonyoung drinks his wine. Jihoon is confused. If he chooses truth, this bastard might ask about his and Soonyoung's private sex life and he doesn't really want to talk about it, but if he chooses dare... he's afraid he can't handle Mingyu's crazy idea.

But there is no chance of him asking Jihoon to kiss Wonwoo. He won't challenge him to do that, he wants Wonwoo's lips just for him and Jihoon knows it. So.. he chooses dare.

"Dare."

Mingyu claps his hand again in satisfaction. "Baby." Mingyu looks at Wonwoo and Jihoon cringes at the pet name. "You want Jihoon to do something?"

Wonwoo only shakes his head prettily and Jihoon comes to realize how different he and Wonwoo act in front of their lovers, in public . Mingyu's eyes are back at him and Jihoon knows he regrets choosing dare.

He just knows it.

"Sit in Soonyoung's lap for an hour and whenever you call him, call him 'Love' ."

What the hell?

Jihoon looks at Mingyu angrily, he can't believe what he heard before. Mingyu definitely knows that Jihoon hates skinship, in public . He doesn't mind if he and Soonyoung are in private, he also has his clingy sides. But in public? Meh. Nope. They are so different about this.

He doesn't want to do that. But his heart hurts when he sees Soonyoung looking down and already searches for his wine. He almost drinks it right away without asking Jihoon if he wants to do the challenge or not.

Soonyoung looks down and for once Jihoon starts to think, if he hurts Soonyoung all this time by acting this way?

Is Soonyoung thinking that Jihoon ates touching him in public? It's not that he hates touching his alpha, it just... he doesn't prefer to do it in public.

Ugh.

Jihoon moves his body and he knows he gives his mate full surprise when his butt touches his lap. Soonyoung looks at him in disbelief and Jihoon kisses his lips short to assure him that he doesn't hate the idea of them touching in public at all. "Don't drink your wine, love."

Soonyoung is shocked, Jihoon is deadly embarrassed. He wants to die and his heart beats so crazily inside his ribcage.

Mingyu is shouting again like an annoying kid in your neighborhood and Wonwoo claps his hands happily.

"I NEED TO RECORD THIS! THIS IS AMAZING!" That annoying kid is still shouting and starts to search for his phone and Jihoon gives him a deadly stare.

Don't you dare.

Mingyu puts down his phone again and Wonwoo in his side continues the game and this time, as if the world is fair to them, it lands on Wonwoo, the only one who hasn't picked up yet.

Mingyu drinks his wine easily.

"Truth or dare?" If Soonyoung is a computer, he is still in his not responding mode because of what Jihoon did before so Jihoon takes the wheel to ask for the lovebirds in front of them.

"Truth." Wonwoo is afraid of the 'dare', Jihoon nods knowingly.

"Ok, truth. Tell me, when is your first kiss and who is that?" Somehow Jihoon knew that Wonwoo's first sex was Mingyu from the way Wonwoo prepared his heat poorly till Mingyu needed to call him to ask. But he wasn't sure about his first kiss, so he asked that. He wants to see Mingyu's reaction to it.

Mingyu looks so interested in it because his body's direction is full on Wonwoo's side right now, ignoring Jihoon who is still sitting on Soonyoung's lap and Soonyoung who is still not responding.

"Ugh." Wonwoo looks flustered.

"Don't tell your first kiss also with Mingyu?" Jihoon asks in disbelief. How lucky that bastard Mingyu is if that's the case! Even Jihoon's first sex and first kiss wasn't with Soonyoung.

"No." Wonwoo looks at Mingyu rather conflicted about how to tell this. "It was my roommate in Germany and it happened a year ago."

"Tell me more about that." Mingyu asks, totally ignoring the existence of Soonyoung and Jihoon here.

Jihoon loves to see the drama, hehe.

"His name is Daniel, we were drinking together in our place, and I was drunk.." Wonwoo looks at Mingyu, feeling nervous from his own story. "So I kissed him."

"I told you, he gets so clingy when he is drunk." Soonyoung is finally speaking up again.

"Is he an alpha?" Mingyu asks more.

"Yes, but he doesn't know that I'm an omega." Wonwoo explains and Mingyu only nods.

"Ok."

Mingyu looks at Jihoon and shouts, "Ok! Next round!"

Jihoon kinda gets disappointed that Mingyu only reacted that way, he wants to see more. Now, he feels evil in his own way.

The game continues and there are so many weird challenges and too private truths that are spilled on the table. After this, they four hold on to each other's weaknesses, Jihoon makes a mental note to always be friends with Mingyu and Wonwoo because he spilled too much this night. This is crazy, five bottles of wine are already gone and they were all tipsy except for Wonwoo. Whenever Mingyu was picked, Mingyu drank the wine right away, forbade his boyfriend to take another glass. Jihoon knows that he doesn't want Wonwoo's drunk side shown in front of him and Soonyoung. That protective bastard!

"Ugh, it's gone." Soonyoung looks at his glass and shows disappointment at the lack of alcohol on their table.

"Where is the wine's storage, Soonyoung? I can take it." Wonwoo offers himself to look for another batch of alcohol.

"Below this house, there is a basement to store old and good wine. You can take another two bottles." Soonyoung points at the stair to take Wonwoo to the basement and Wonwoo nods.

Before he goes, Mingyu holds his arm and asks if he wants Mingyu to accompany him to the basement. But Wonwoo refuses, saying he can do it himself, he won't be tripped on the stairs since he ain't drunk yet like three other people in this house.

Jihoon is now clinged into Soonyoung's body and is too drunk to notice that Wonwoo isn't coming back yet from the basement.

And thirty minutes have passed.

***

[Trigger warning : this part might not suits all of you, mention of panic attack, kidnaping, murder, hallucination and graphic description of heavy topic]

***

They are all wasted.

Wonwoo laughs at the chaotic moments he just experienced before. It was a mess but he loves it. He loves the dynamic of his friends and his boyfriend. It feels like these four are made to be each other's companions. It fits perfectly and they make a great picture together.

Wonwoo is glad that he came back to this country and met them.

He walks downstairs to the colder and darker side of this house. He rarely went to the basement, he doesn't even know if his parent's big house has a basement. He is finally on the lower side of this house and he sees a wood's door not too far from the end of the staircase. He walks there carefully and opens the door.

The cold air hits him like no other and he tightens his knitted cardigan. And is this supposed to be this dark in the basement? There is still a light but it's so dimly lit but he can see a lot of wine placed in a rack and he carefully picks which wine to choose so he walks farther into the room.

The air was weird, it's cold but also humid, the air giving him uneasy feelings. He doesn't notice that he walks until the very end of the racks until he sees the more spacious area of this room to place some boxes.

Wonwoo's instinct tells him to quickly leave this room because suddenly he feels dizzy. He randomly picks two bottles of wine that were placed at the end of the rack and starts to walk away when suddenly he hears a very familiar sound.

TUK TUK TUK

CLANGGG

Wonwoo drops the bottle of wine on his hands and falls down. He doesn't know if the glass shards are hurting his body or not because he suddenly feels numb.

TUK TUK TUK

The humidity and the coldness choke him and the sounds that are produced by something repeatedly knocking on the other things makes him can't breathe. His world suddenly spinning and he feels so cold and terrified by something he can't really understand what.

"He will kill us this time, Hyung!"

"No, he won't. I will protect you no matter what."

TUK TUK TUK

"He is there...... right behind this door."

What is this?

What is this time?

There are three little kids panicking about something and the fear in their eyes is so vivid. Wonwoo somehow knows the feelings and it's terrifying him so bad right now.

The three little kids...

Isn't it him, his brother, and a little kid that he saw in the forest before?

TUK TUK TUK

The sounds are getting louder and Wonwoo is shaking. Wonwoo wants to run from this place but it feels like he is locked up by someone here so he can't run away. He tries to think logically but his body freezes. He looks everywhere to search for the source of the sounds.

When he finally finds it, it's only the sound of branches knocking on the glass window from the wind. He looks at the window, the only source of light in this place and...

He cries.

"It's been so long since we saw the light, we are all gonna die in this cold basement."

It was his twin brother's voice.

"Why aren't they saving us? It's been seven days, we only survived from dog's foods that man gave us and tap water that tastes like hell."

"We can't wait for our parents to save us, we need to save ourself, one more day we're here we gonna lost him."

It was his voice and Wonwoo wonders who is this little kid that Wonwoo tries his very best to save.

"How is his condition?" His brother asked him again.

"He isn't awake from his sleep, last night he got convulsions from the high fever. I'm so worried about him, Wonho."

"And you aren't worrying about us? You should worry about yourself too, your wounds aren't looking too great."

What wounds?

"The motive of our kidnaper isn't money but revenge. If he wanted money, he wouldn't torture us this bad. Our parents and this child's parents will kill him if they see our current state. And the fact he locked us for seven days already in the middle of nowhere, he wants to torture us so badly and ruins everyone's life. We need to get out of here but we don't even know where we are right now."

Wonwoo hearts drop.

From his long lost memories... Was he and his brother getting kidnaped before?

"You're right. We were kidnapped in the cold and dark basement for a total of ten days."

Wonwoo opens his eyes in shock when he hears his brother's voice. This time, it's not from his mind. It sounds so clearly behind him. He looks back and his body freezes in his spot when he sees Wonho there... looking at him, coldly.

Older version of Wonho.

Wonho's face is the same as his face.

He looks at Wonho's body and he can't breathe, suddenly the world is trying to drown him. His head is so hurt but the pain in his heart can kill him anytime soon. It is so painful he doesn't know how to be alive anymore at this sight of his older twin brother.

"Wonho." He calls for his brother with tears in his eyes.

His brother still looks at him coldly as if he hates his little brother so much.

"Why do you leave me alone, brother? The man wasn't the one who killed me."

Wonwoo feels a loud pang on his chest and he sees only the darkness in front of him.

It's me.

"You are the one who killed me."

Wonwoo opens his eyes in horror, the pain on Wonho's eyes are so vivid to his memories and he wants to scream at how terrified he is right now. He is terrified to finally understand that maybe... his brother didn't die because of natural illness but maybe he contributed something to his death.

"What did I do to you?" He asks again, trembling .

His brother laughs at him, mockingly. "Is it that easy for you? All this time, you run from your guiltiness by forgetting my existence."

Wonwoo looks below and he really can't bear the pain on his chest right now, it really feels like he is drowning and he can't breathe. He also can't move his body, is this how it feels to be punished by someone?

The way his body reacts and his heart feels, Wonwoo knows they remember. But his mind, a very vital part of his body, doesn't remember clearly what happened to his and Wonho's past. It all scattered like messy puzzle pieces.

"Wonho..."

Wonwoo looks at Wonho in sorrow and pain.

"Where is your leg?"

Wonho doesn't answer his question again, he becomes quiet and Wonwoo can see how his face becomes paler and paler. How his eyes turn dark and there is bloodshot from his eyes and Wonwoo's cant hold it anymore.

He can't move his body so all he can do is just scream.

Somebody, somebody please save me.

Somebody please take this pain, I can't bear it anymore.

I can't breathe, it's so hard to breathe.

I'm gonna die...

"WONWOO!"

From his blurry eyes he sees someone is running toward him, his face is so worried and he looks like he sees death already by his brown eyes that now lands on Wonwoo's eyes.

Those familiar brown eyes.

Does the little kid who was kidnapped with him and Wonho also have the same brown eyes?

He smelled those sweet notes of pear, and bergamot with dark and intense woody notes, the same scent that came from that little kid he saved before. Oh! So the kid is already growing up. He is here in front of him.

He is alive.

Wonwoo cries getting harder but in some weird ways, now he can finally breathe again.

The kid is saved.

The kid is alive.

"Kid, you're alive." Wonwoo tries to reach for this kid's face and he smiles.

"Your fever has gone down, right?"

And the next thing, everything turns dark.

He may follow Wonho's step into the afterlife to repent of his sin to his brother, there .

***

It felt like Mingyu was facing death himself.

It terrified him.

When he came down to the basement and saw Wonwoo on the cold floor kneeling helplessly with his hands full of blood (seemed like he was hurt by the bottle wine's shards around him), Mingyu felt like he was facing death. He was so panicked and terrified by the idea of Wonwoo getting hurt.

But when he looked at his eyes and saw how empty it was, it was hurting him more than anything.

Wonwoo looked at him but he couldn't remember him as if he was long gone in his own maze and couldn't get back to him. It was almost the same as what happened to him in the forest, but this time it was way deeper and Wonwoo was gone farther.

Mingyu tried to call him again and again but he gave him no response and Mingyu was so afraid, he hugged him tight, but Wonwoo still couldn't respond to him.

When he hugged his omega, Mingyu noticed that the man wasn't breathing and Mingyu's world suddenly turned cold.

What was bothering his omega? What did he remember? What was he seeing?

He wanted to know all of it so Wonwoo didn't need to bear the pain alone.

He was in so much pain. He looked like he was dying.

Mingyu looked at his eyes again, begging him to start breathing. When his eyes landed on Mingyu's eyes there was something shifting in him and he was finally breathing again.

"Kid, you're alive."

What?

"Your fever has gone down, right?"

What is he talking about?

Wonwoo reaches to his cheek and smiles. His smiles were so different from any other smiles that Mingyu had seen from him before. It was full of relieveness and gratitude. As if he was thanking someone for being alive.

"Wonwoo?"

The next thing, Wonwoo collapsed into his embrace.

Mingyu lifted his body and brought him to their room, he was so panicked and couldn't think straight. Soonyoung and Jihoon had already wasted on the dining room so they didn't notice something happened to Wonwoo in the basement, but Mingyu noticed that. Because his omega hadn't come back for so long, that made him look up for him in the basement and found him in this state.

Right now, Wonwoo is lying on their bed. Mingyu was already taking care of his wounds on his hand. His face is still showing him the pain but Mingyu doesn't know what to do to remove it. Should he call Wonwoo's doctor? Is he this sick? Mingyu is dead worried and he can't breathe properly when he sees Wonwoo is in pain.

Mingyu moves his body from the bed to search for his phone when suddenly he feels someone grab his hands so tight and when he looks back he sees Wonwoo is crying in his sleep.

"Don't go."

Wonwoo calls for him in his sleep and his lover's voice is so weak, Mingyu's heart aching when he hears that.

"I'm not going anywhere, baby. I'm here."

All night, Mingyu is only lying down beside Wonwoo and observing how his face changes in his sleep. It's already 4AM and he is still showing the same pain and sorrow in his sleep. What does his omega bear in his heart until he can break this much?

"Baby, what is in your heart that makes you suffer this much?" Mingyu cries while still holding onto Wonwoo's hand. "Can you just give the pain to me, I want to take all your pain and sorrow. All your saddest days and your hurtful memories."

Mingyu's mind is going back to what happened in that damn bathroom this afternoon and his heart breaks more.

"Coming back to me, please. I promise I won't hurt you again."

Wonwoo opens his eyes when the sun is already up in the sky, it's almost their time to go home. He called Soonyoung and Jihoon to wait for them because Wonwoo is sick and they have visited their room repeatedly since this morning to check up on their friend.

"You didn't sleep last night." It's the first thing he says when he looks at Mingyu and somehow his care for him breaks his heart more. How can someone who is sleeping with so much pain worries about his lack of sleep the moment he opens up his eyes.

"Wonwoo, what is it? What are you feeling right now? Do you want to share it with me?" Mingyu wants to ask this in the forest but he held himself because Wonwoo looked like he didn't want to tell him anything. But this time, he needs to ask.

Wonwoo gives him a faint smile.

He doesn't want to tell.

"Is it something from your past that keeps haunting you?"

Wonwoo looks at him and the pain on his eyes are back so Mingyu shuts his mouth. He knows the answer without him answering it.

Wonwoo is suffering from something from his past that he isn't ready to tell him yet.

So what can Mingyu do?

All he can do is wait for him to open up because he can't ever force Wonwoo to do anything.

Mingyu pulls Wonwoo into another hug and this time Wonwoo is hugging him back.

"I'm always here for you whenever you are ready to talk about it."

The wayback road is way quieter than before. Considering Wonwoo's condition, all of them keep silent and Soonyoung just drives his car peacefully. Wonwoo on the other hand keeps looking out of the window in the back seat with Mingyu that is always holding his hand.

Wonwoo looks so lost in his thoughts and Mingyu really wants to know what is on his mind.

Soonyoung and Jihoon drive him and Wonwoo back to their apartment's building and Mingyu is confused when he sees a lot of men in suits waiting for them in front of their building.

"Who are they?" Jihoon is voicing his thoughts. He just asks it without really expecting an answer.

"They are my parent's men." To his surprise, Wonwoo answers that question.

"You know them?" Mingyu asks.

Wonwoo releases his hand from Mingyu's grip and nods. "I do."

He looks different, Wonwoo who is like his ray of sunshine suddenly feels so cold. His eyes show him nothing and Mingyu really hates to see that. This makes him realize that he still doesn't know everything about Jeon Wonwoo.

"Should we drive back?" Soonyoung asks Wonwoo with a worried voice. "You two can stay in our apartment for a while."

Wonwoo shakes his head. "No."

Then his omega opens his door and steps outside to the men who are waiting for him. Mingyu follows him and quickly walks side by side with him.

"Jeon Wonwoo, your mother commands us to bring you home." One of the men talks directly to Wonwoo when they see him walk to them.

Wonwoo smiles bitterly and before Mingyu can't comprehend what is happening, Wonwoo pulls him close and kisses his lips, the kiss is so deep and this kiss is breaking his heart for the reasons he doesn't know.

Mingyu knows there are so many eyes surrounding them right now, most of them are shocked by how Mingyu and Wonwoo just easily kiss in front of them. But Mingyu doesn't care, he just wants to feel Wonwoo because somehow, in his heart, it tells him that Wonwoo is saying goodbye to him with this kiss.

Wonwoo pulls out from the kiss and his eyes look at him with so many feelings he tries to tell him in a very short time.

"Mingyu, I love you." Wonwoo reaches to his cheek and smiles. He smiles so beautifully Mingyu wants to save it in his heart forever.

"That's the only thing that is true."

Mingyu doesn't understand the meaning behind Wonwoo's words. It is so fast happening in front of him how Wonwoo is walking away from him with those men surrounding him. He gives his last look to Mingyu before going inside one of his fancy cars.

Wonwoo disappears from him and Mingyu's heart breaks once again.

That time, Kim Mingyu doesn't know that it will be the last time he sees Jeon Wonwoo.

To be continued