chapter 10
apocalypse IIIt was already dark as the nightsky veiled down. The small group of survivors was getting restless as one of their members still hadn't showed up since the evening.
"Relax. He ran off before but he came back eventually." Rain tried to calmed the worried members even when he himself was worrying over the missing boy.
It was true though, that Mir had been running off on his own from the group a few times already. The boy never told any of them where he went off to. Not to anyone except Byunghee.
It was a few nights before, when Byunghee was staying up, guarding their camp when he heard whimpering from Mir's tent. The boy was struggling in his sleep and Byunghee decided it was best to woke the boy up. Mir immediately lunged towards Byunghee, burying his tear-stained face into Byunghee's warm chest. The older let the younger took some time to calm down before he asked the boy. "I dream of Hyuk. And I've been seeing him. A lot." Byunghee was more than concern. Mir still couldn't get over Sanghyuk's death and it was taking a toll on Mir. And now, worry was not enough to describe his feeling when he realized Mir had run off again from them and still hadn't come back to them.
Joon paced around nervously. "But, he should be back already!" He exclaimed. His eyes directed to the forest.
As if reading the mind of the worried boy, Seungho grabbed Joon's arm. "Don't be reckless."
Joon huffed. "There's nowhere else he could be except in that forest."
Onew jumped off the RV. "Yeah, but the forest isn't small of an area." He reasoned. "We can't wait for him any longer. We need to keep moving at the first ray of sunrise." Onew added.
Byunghee felt like his blood rushed to his head. Was Onew suggesting them to leave Mir behind? Byunghee sat up, fists clenching on his sides, ready to punch the unsuspecting boy when a sound of skin slapping reached his ears.
"How could you say something like that?" Taemin shouted. Anger glistened in his glassy eyes. His hand was still in the air after it made contact with Onew's cheek. Onew was clearly dumbfounded. "Don't you remember who save you?" The small boy hissed as he bared his teeth.
The others were all shocked by Taemin's anger. They never saw the youngest acting that way. "Minnie, calm down." Minho cut in and pulled the already sobbing boy away from Onew.
Byunghee eyed Onew who was looking down shamefully. He couldn't deny that he was a little bit happy that Taemin slapped that rude boy, so he wouldn't end up beating the crap out of that boy.
"Guys..." Rain's voice cut in, attracting the others' attention. The oldest in the group gestured to a direction.
They could saw smoke coming up from the forest into the sky. There were people there beside them. "Maybe they've seen Mir." Jonghyun concluded and started that way followed by Minho.
"Key, Taemin, Onew, Sanghyun and Seungho stay here in case Mir come back." Rain ordered.
"No!" Seungho retorted, grabbing his armor. "I'm going too." He too wanted to find Mir. A hand on his shoulder stopped him.
"They need you. Take care of them for us." Byunghee gave Seungho a look and Seungho looked around him. Taemin was still sobbing in Key's embrace. Sanghyun was curled into a ball on the road probably scared to death by Mir's missing. Onew was still hanging his head low. Yeah... He was needed here.
Seungho nodded to Byunghee who nodded back and rushed into the forest together with Joon and Rain. "Find him, for me. For us all." He muttered as he watched his friends dissapeared into the darkness.
-My older sister said something to me out of the blue,
Sis : you really like MBLAQ to the bone...
Me : huh?
Sis : you sleep last night and I was blasting lots of music k-pop and english to your ears but you didn't even move. But you ACTUALLY REACT when MBLAQ's song Monalisa started playing on my phone.
Me : ......
-so, I do love MBLAQ. But I didn't expect I love MBLAQ to that level. To even react to their songs in my sleep? Woah... honestly, I'm quite amused by myself-
*ps : I need to lower the MBLAQ dosage to get them out of my system (><)
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