Minho is not used to sleeping away from home, especially if he does not have his stuffed animal to fall asleep. While he had just found the right position, his bladder called him to order «always the same" he thought.

He came out of the room, but before heading to the bathroom, he decided to go and check that jisung was sleeping properly. He then heard moans of pain as if someone was trying to hold back his tears. The door being also open he allowed himself to enter, the vision tore his heart.
He saw jisung from behind and without a top applying something to his wounds. Minho who knew that jisung was quite thin did not expect to be able to almost see the bones of his back under all these bruises.

He decided to manifest his presence by knocking lightly on the door
- jisung are you okay?

Hearing him jisung quickly put on his sweater hoping that the eldest is seen nothing of his body bruised by the mistreatment he was receiving and wiped the tears from his cheeks.
He turned to the colorful still in the doorframe,
"Don't worry, you'll go to sleep,"
he said with a smile that sounded terribly false.

Minho gently approached the bed and put it in front of jisung.
- Look me in the eyes and tell me that you are fine, I see it that you suffer in silence, I have been watching you all day, Minho wiped the tear that ran down the cheek of the brown.

The latter put his face in his hands and burst into tears,
- I can no longer bear to be beaten and belittled for what I am. My body makes me suffer not only physically, mentally I am on the edge of the abyss, He ends his sentence between two sobs.
Minho satdown next to the brunette and hugged him. The youngest buried his face in his friend's neck.

- I swear that from today no one in this damn school will get their hands on you. I will pick you up to go to class, Felix will be with you during classes and the rest of the time you will be with me and guys okay, not for a moment we will leave you alone. That way you won't endure any more physical pain, as for the mind it's the same with guys we'll teach you again to have confidence in yourself and to appreciate yourself

Jisung nodded on his elder's neck, clutching him as if he were his lifeline.
" At least I would be safe at school now, I would like to be safe in the presence of my parents too," he thought, but he did not prefer to tell Minho that some of the injuries were made by his father's hand and his mother's words.

-  Minho, would you please sleep with me? If you don't mind, jisung whispered still clinging to the older one.
- No worries just let me go to the bathroom before I die from holding me back from peeing, the brown laughed, but before sleeping let me apply the soothing cream to your back, I guess that's what you put on your abdomen before I arrived.

Jisung hesitated for a moment, but he was really in pain and knew that Minho wasn't there to mock then
- okay anyway I'm not a
contortionist.

Minho broke away from the younger one and walked out for a moment.
Coming back jisung had not moved a place still facing the window sitting at the edge of his bed. Minho got on the bed behind the brunette.

- Jisung you have to remove your sweater so that I apply the cream.

The brunette wanted to disappear at this moment, he breathed, nodded, and removed his sweater while hiding his torso even though minho could not see it.
The latter took the cream in one hand and warmed it before applying it as gently as possible. Jisung twitched when Minho's hand touched his skin unaccustomed to gentle, non-violent physical contact.
Minho burned inwardly with rage, why was Jisung suffering so much violence because of a false friend and bad people.

"I'm done, you can get dressed," he said, turning around.
- Thank you very much said the brunette after putting his sweater back on.

Minho smiled at him and put himself under the duvet and opened his arms to invite the youngest to join him. Jisung snuggled once again in the arms of his friend who, as this morning, was stroking his hair, something that quickly soothe the youngest.

"Good night little squirrel," Minho said, kissing the younger one on the skull.
- Good night, Minho said Jisung who already drowsy had not paid attention to the last gesture of his elder.