Everyone came home around six that night, more wasted and stoned than before.  Zelo was on the floor next to Kai, who was basically in a coma at this point.

“Hey, blueberry.”

Zelo slid his gaze up to meet Baekhyun, “I hate college.”

“That bad, huh?” he asked, plopping down next to the blonde.  “What happened?”

“All of you, that’s what happened,” Zelo hissed.

“You need to lighten up, tomato,” Chanyeol chided.  “I’ll share some of my happiness with you!”

“No!” the whole dorm shrilled, which included comatose Kai.

Taemin seemed to appear out from under the couch, his arms coiled around Zelo, “Protect the innocence!”

Zelo watched him slither back under the couch; at this point he thought he was on drugs.  He wondered how he was going to survive this week.  He wondered how he was going to get through his classes if he couldn’t find them.  He wondered if he was even going to go somewhere after this.

Zelo silently wept.

“Is pancake broken?”

Sometime later, Zelo found him in his bed, “What the ?” he gasped.

Clothes check.

He breathed in relief.

Zelo looked to Taemin’s bed and saw it was empty, “What time is it?” he sighed.  He dug through his pockets and found his phone; it was ten thirty at night, and he saw he had ten missed calls from his mom.

.

He was already planning to move to Mexico and change his name to Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramirez.  No one would know.

As Zelo was throwing his clothes into his suitcase, the bedroom door burst open and Taemin fell in.  The blonde wasn’t fazed anymore at this point anymore.

“There’s an angry dude who looks like a lady on our front lawn,” Taemin commented.  “He’s yelling for some JunHong dude.”

“That’s me,” Zelo sighed angrily.  “Who is it?”

“Dunno, some short guy with brownish black hair,” Taemin answered.

“JunHong!”

Taemin winced at the shrill yell.

“Mom?” Zelo squeaked.  He quickly looked at his phone; nope, it was still Monday.

Taemin laughed, “You’re so ed!”

Zelo peaked outside his room and heard Chanyeol’s loud voice.

“Yea, mashed potatoes lives with Taemin.  Where’s his room you say?  Up here!”

Zelo broke out into a sweat, “Taemin!”

“What?” Taemin groaned from the floor.

“Block the door for as long as you can,” Zelo begged as he slammed the door shut and locked it.

Taemin whined as Zelo dragged him across the floor and shoved him against the door, “What’s in it for me?”

Zelo emptied his pockets and threw a Snickers bar and a five dollar bill at him, “Good enough?”

Taemin already ate the candy bar, “This won’t buy my undivided loyalty.”

Zelo fled to the window and ripped back the curtain to find that the window was nailed shut.  He turned to Taemin with a pale face, “Why?”

Taemin laughed before growing serious, “Kris broke up with Tao for an hour and within that hour, the master of 85 killer techniques went psycho.  The whole place was under a lockdown; there were even prison bars.  Most of them are off now, except for Minho’s window of course, he thinks falling out of a second story window into a thorn bush won’t hurt him.”

  A fist went through the bedroom door.

Taemin looked up, “Taemin, out.”

Zelo looked down and Taemin was gone, “ you!”

JiYoung’s face appeared in the hole, “Why didn’t you answer your phone?” he hissed.

“Hi mom,” Zelo whimpered, cowering in the corner.  Could he still get child protection even though he was in college?

The door flew off its hinges.

“I thought something happened to you!” his mother screeched.  “I thought you were taken to Cuba as a slave!”

Zelo shook his head, “I was asleep!  I swear!”

“You better not be lying to me,” his mom hissed.  “So God help your three-fourths of a dead body be saved if you are.”

Zelo shook his head, “No umma!”

Chanyeol walked by.

Zelo had hope.

“Dude, is that your mom?”

“Yes?”

“She’s hot.”

Hope was burning in Hell right now, but it’ll take your waiting number.

JiYoung whipped around and slapped Chanyeol, “I’m not a woman!”

Chanyeol had blood coming out of his mouth, “Ten outta ten; would bang.”

“What did you just say, you lil ?”

Zelo heard Baekhyun before he saw him, “Can…can you guys save me first before you fight?”

“You’re not going anywhere!” JiYoung shouted.  He glared at the two college students behind him, “And just who are you two?”

“Waffle’s friends,” Chanyeol smiled.

JiYoung raised an eyebrow, “Waffle?”

“Yea!  That’s his name isn’t it?” Chanyeol smiled.

JiYoung looked back to his son, “What is he even going on about?”

“Don’t ask,” Zelo sighed.  “It’s been a little over twenty-four hours and I gave up.”

“We’ll just leave you to your family,” Baekhyun said and quickly left the hall, dragging his boyfriend with him.

Zelo shot them a betrayed look, but quickly schooled his expression when his mom looked back at him.

“Are you doing drugs?” JiYoung asked.

“No, Mom, I swear!   I’ll be right back with you, but I’ve really got to use the bathroom,” Zelo whined.

JiYoung studied his son’s face for a second, “Five minutes.”

Zelo bolted past the shorter.  He didn’t break his sprint as he shut the door and locked it and even put the chair under the knob for good measure.  He saw that there was a window above the toilet and thank god it wasn’t nailed shut.  He ripped the window up and saw that there were two bushes under it; good enough.

He threw himself out like the building was burning down.

“Ouch, !” Zelo wheezed.  He coughed and rolled out of the bushes. He took a few steps and told himself that he could walk, then he knew he was just fine.  Zelo heard a car coming down the road and saw the blonde orange swirl hair in the driver’s seat.  He flung himself out into the road, wincing at the shrill break stop that Bang had come to.

“What in the ever loving  do you think you’re doing?!” Bang shouted.  He got out of the car, “You’re the innocent kid from earlier?  Marshmallow, right?”

“Zelo!” he whimpered.  “Please tell me you know of safety!”

Bang scoffed, “You’re in up town, there isn’t any place called safe.”

“Is your place safe?” Zelo asked quickly.

“Hell no, do you know how bad that would look if I took a college kid, nevertheless, a freshmen back to my place?  Me, a college professor?” Bang snapped.  “Get back to your fraternity kid, or wherever you’re staying.”

“I’m trying to escape my psychopathic mother, thank you!” Zelo cried.  “If he gets me, I’m ed!”

“He?” Bang asked.

“Yea, I’m adopted by a gay couple, problem?” Zelo snapped.  “If you do, you are the biggest douche bag ever!  You constantly see kids of the same gender going at it on desks!”

Bang snorted, “I never said that.  I’m just mildly surprised that you call him mom.”

“Well it was either that or daddy, and I’m not into that kind of ,” Zelo replied, grimacing.

“Valid point,” Bang nodded.  He sighed and rested his arms on top of the car door, “Where do you need to go?”

“I just need to hide somewhere until tomorrow,” Zelo told him. 

Bang stared at him for a long moment before letting out a defeated sigh, “Get in, Kid, you can hang at my place, but only this one time, got it?  And if you breathe a word about this to anyone, I will make your life hell.”

“Sir, yessir!” Zelo said quickly and got into his car.

Bang grumbled to himself, “Kid’s gonna be the death of me, and I just met’em.”

Kris didn't leave EXO; you're all crazy. -soulmate is crying for 92459274 years-

This is soulmate...Kris is my bias and I did cry...forever.