"i am very sorry, ten..."

ten turned around the best he could and let all his tears drip on the boy's shoulder.

"calm down... i hate seeing you like this..."

ten tried calming down for a second, but his mind didn't listen to him.

he needed comfort, he needed his tears to escape his eyes, he needed his best friend.

"ten... please... listen to me..."

the thai male cuddled ore into the boy's neck, weakness taking over his body every second passing. his limbs felt numb, his throat was sore, and his senses were fading.

the boy didn't hesitate to lift ten up and carry him to his car when he saw that ten had passed out. what the tail male needed right now was a good sleep, and a lot of care.

so, he drove them back to the apartment.

once he got out of the car, he picked ten up again, and didn't have another option that ringing the doorbell with his elbow to have the door opened.

the door got opened almost instantly, making two happy hybrids appear in the doorframe.

but their smiles disappeared at the sight they had in front of them.

"ten!" yuta exclaimed in shock. "what happened to ten...?"

"he is exhausted. he needs to sleep a lot."

"where is taeyong?" yuta asked next.

"well... he stayed at school a bit more..." sicheng replied, entering the house.

"is he coming back soon? someone needs to take care of ten..." yuta continued.

sicheng sighed. "i don't know. but don't worry, i am here..."

🦁

"sicheng... i need to tell you about something..." kun said, walking to sicheng's bed and lying next to his owner.

"what is it?" sicheng asked, softly caressing kun's dog ears.

"it's about yuta. and ten. and taeyong..." kun explained.

"tell me everything."

flashback

"kun?"

"yes?"

"do you also like your owner a lot?" yuta asked, his head adorably tilted to the side.

kun stopped playing with the ball he had in his hands, and he sat next to his hybrid friend.

"of course. sicheng is the one that taught me everything. i am so thankful of him!"

"yes, me too." yuta giggled. "i love how they take care of me."

"and i can tell you that they love taking care of you as well." kun replied with a smile.

"i don't want them to leave me." yuta pouted, his ears flattening on his head.

"they would never, yuta."

"yeah, but... i don't know... taeyong is more and more distant... he still takes care of me, but he goes to see the other guy... jaehyun... he does that very often... and he leaves ten alone. at first, ten and him couldn't separate. but now, it seems that there is jaehyun in the way."

kun sat closer to yuta, passing an arm around his slumped shoulders to lift his mood up.

"that's normal. humans have relationships... once, sicheng had a boyfriend, and because of the time they had to see each other, he couldn't see me as much as before. but then, i missed him, so his boyfriend and him separated, and sicheng became the same owner as before. that's why i adore him. he wants what's best for me."

"boyfriend..." yuta mumbled. "are ten and taeyong boyfriends?"

kun shook his head.

"i don't think so."

"oh, okay..."

"do you have another question for me?"

"it's not really a question, but i want to talk about my owners."

kun smiled at yuta's cuteness. "go on."

"see, i love when they cuddle next to me. when it is ten, the cuddles are soft and delicate, and he makes sure not to put too much pressure not to hurt me. he also drops small kisses everywhere on my face, and i love it so much... then it's a bit different with taeyong... he's more playful, and he often lifts me up and hold me as tight as he can. he also gives me pats when i ask them and this feeling is literally the best." yuta rambled. "i want to stay with them forever... i want to be showered in their love, and i want to feel this wired feeling in my stomach every single time they show me attention. i want that forever..."

kun's smile weakened as yuta's speech was going on, but yuta didn't notice it as he was too much engrossed in his monologue to realise it.

"yuta... do you love ten and taeyong?" kun asked seriously.

"of course, i love them so much!"

"no, but... do you..." he poked yuta's chest with his pointer finger. "...love them?"

yuta's eyes shone as he let himself fall on the backrest of the couch in a long sigh.

the lion hybrid brought his two hands to his heart, a big smile decorating his lips as he gasped in realisation.

"i do..."

end of flaskback

"so... he loves them." sicheng summed up.

"he does... a lot." kun nodded.

"damn..."

"what is it?"

"ten and taeyong are in a difficult situation at the moment. i didn't hear their whole fight, but it seemed violent. yuta loves them both, and now is obviously not the time to have him trying to do anything cute to either ten or taeyong judging by how they are stressed."

kun agreed with his owner.

"i'll try to help him." the hybrid told.

"great. keep that away from ten and taeyong for the moment." sicheng asked his dog hybrid. "i need to have a serious conversation with taeyong."